The four Arena clubs are still packing them in every week with a huge variety of punters. The USP is that you pay once, get your hand stamped and can then switch between all...

Looking a tad jaded, Bucaro's white leather sofas and pouffes still manage to pull a crowd of glamour pusses, who stalk their prey from the mezzanine. There's chill-out and...

The centre of Barcelona is strangely devoid of glamorous nightspots, or at least it was until Buda came along. The place has lots of throne-style furniture and gilded...

City Hall ain't big, but it is popular. The music is mixed, from deep house to electro rock, and there's an older post-(pre-?) work crowd joining the young, tanned and skinny...

Maybe it's the name or maybe it's the location, but most of the Catwalk queue seems to think they're headed straight for the VIP room - that's crisp white collars and gold for...

Make your way past the flash restaurant upstairs - we're talking white sofas swinging from the ceiling - and down on to the brick-walled, loud dancefloor. With no entry charge...

Distrito Diagonal attracts a slightly older crowd with an easygoing atmosphere. The venue's bathed in red light, there are sounds from nu jazz to deep house and plenty of...

Small, grungy and loud, Dr Astin has been hammering out the house and techno beats for years. Its no-pretension, watering-hole-plus-dancefloor formula attracts neighbourhood...

If you have a Porsche and a model girlfriend, this is where you meet your peers. Housed in a converted mansion, Elephant is as elegant and hi-design as its customers. The big...

For a club on La Rambla, Fellini draws a remarkably mixed and local crowd to its two floors of tech-house and the Red Room, where you might find rock, '80s or hip hop. The...

Gusto doesn't fall in line with the neighbourhood's favoured shabby-chic aesthetic - it opts instead for a minimalist look, with sleek furnishings and a high-design interior...

KGB is a cavern-like space that was, in its heyday, the rock 'n' roll disco barn capital of the city and 'un after' where Sidecar heads would bolt at 6am on the weekend. It...

La Macarena is smaller than your apartment but has big-club pretensions in the best sense: the music is excellent - minimal electro selected by resident DJs and the occasional...

Gorgeous, glamorous, popular (with the young, hair-gel-and-heels brigade), La Terrrazza is a nightclub that Hollywood might dream of. Wander through the night-time silence of...