Best nightclubs Berlin

A nightclub in Kreuzberg rather hip-hop (something rather rare in Berlin). There is also electro and commercial music. It's an original club - somewhere between the bar and the nightclub - in an old swimming pool. By the way, the bar is in a tiled pool if you look closely. The clientele is young, wealthy and tireless, and the atmosphere is relaxed. The inner courtyard allows you to get some fresh air for a moment and also serves as a Biergarten, where even barbecue evenings are organised in the summer.

Built on the Spree, it is a real political approach that Kater Blau proposes, in response to the projects of Mediaspree (a large building complex that modernizes the district and dislodges all the mythical clubs). Kater Blau has established itself as an institution of Berlin's nightlife. With a programme that is always at the cutting edge of the best on the electro scene, the club itself has a dazzling outdoor space right on the waterfront! A victim of its own success, the queue is often long, so you have to be patient.

If there's one alternative Berlin venue, somewhere between a squat and a club, that's resisting the city's political and land pressures, it's the Golden Gate. Here, since time immemorial (at least before the big clubs that made Berlin's reputation), the Golden Gate has been an unmissable alternative venue in Mitte. Outside on the terrace, inside it's a good sound system for cutting-edge minimal. A small dance floor, a chilling room next door, cheap drinks. In short, a concentrate of real Berlin. It's an unusual place, under the S-Bahn.

The Treasure is a survivor who has moved many times during his long career, which began in the 1990s. The former legendary temple of techno now resides in a former thermal power station on Köpenicker Straße and now mainly welcomes students from Berlin and its suburbs for 100% techno, minimal or house nights. If it is less hype than the Berghain, its DJs are good and its space is absolutely impressive, especially the very large room with its industrial style and its mythical tunnel.