Nightclub Query

bear1

Hey everyone,

I've searched the forum a bit and I can't find the answer to a few particular questions.
On the 28th of March, myself and a few lads are flying into Dublin for the weekend. We are meeting some friends of ours there and one of them is 20 years old.
Now he's after telling me that Coppers on a weekend don't accept under 21s (what ****e) so it's coming to a point of actually finding both a club that:

1) accepts under 21s (the rest of us are much older) and

2) that stays open till around 3am and is generally good craic, music etc.

Anyone have any tips?

PeteK*

Try it at least.. it's likely you'll get him in.

bear1

PeteK* wrote: »

Try it at least.. it's likely you'll get him in.

Cheers, I was thinking the same.

sugarman wrote: »

Just chance it, theres normally so many in que they dont bother check everyone on the weekend. Just dont be drunk or messing about and you should be good.

If not theres 3/4 other clubs all next to Coppers to try.. Diceys ..Everleigh Gardens etc etc.. you'll get in somewhere and theyre all much the same.

Sound advice there, thanks
As you say they are similar, do you mean theme wise as well as closing time wise?
I read Coppers is the only place in Dublin that stays open the longest.

melekalikimaka

leggs is open later, Krysal is also open later

bear1

melekalikimaka wrote: »

leggs is open later, Krysal is also open later

Thanks, I googled Leggs, no website unfortunately so hard to get many details.
Krystal from what I can see is more of a beer garden than a club?

hfallada

Try Coopers. I have gotten in some nights without being IDed. I imagine if your friend is with a older group the bouncers wouldnt look twice. Bouncers are more concerned with people who are twisted and its coopers so expect a lot of them

Sugar Free

bear1 wrote: »

Thanks, I googled Leggs, no website unfortunately so hard to get many details.
Krystal from what I can see is more of a beer garden than a club?

Diceys is the beer garden part, Krystal is up above it. Same complex as such, just different venues and clientele.

bear1

Sound out everyone, thanks a lot for the help and advice

bear1

sugarman wrote: »

Wheres Coopers?;)

No one knows, last I heard he jumped out of a plane in the 70s... didn't know he was in Dublin

liffeylite

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well the latest any place will be until is 2am.

that's rubbish. pretty much every club or late bar will open well past 2 at the weekend in Dublin.

Try any of the following, all open past 2AM. if youre struggling for places to end up in Dublin, you just aren't looking!

Dance/mainstream clubs:
Coppers
Everleigh Garden
D2
Leggs
Dandelion
Club M
Madison
Lillies
ALT
Twisted pepper
Academy
Alchemy
Lafayette
21's
Arlington
Fitszimmons
buskers
Morgan
howl at the Moon
Café en seine
37 Dawson street
Palace

Indie/rock Clubs:
Whelans
Workmans Club
Gypsy Rose
Fibbers
Button factory
Rira
Sweenys mongrel
4 Dame Lane
Underground
Grand Social

Plus the black door on Harcourt street for live piano bar music.
Peruke for cool laid back tunes in a novel setting.
Faat Bhaat for the gogo bar.
lost society for cool tunes in am old Georgian building
House on leeson street for more of the same but with a really cool garden
Buck Whaleys for z list celebrity spotting
Sams bar for late cocktails
Dice Bar in Smithfield for late night chilled tunes with some amazing characters to boot
Izakaya for the Japanese late sake bar etc etc...

Soundman

Just as a correction to the above post, on the 28th-29th March, The Button Factory (from 11pm for a club) would be House music and not Indie/Rock.

bear1

I was thinking the 2am closing time was a bit strange, even in Galway they stay open longer.
Again, many thanks for the list much appreciated

melekalikimaka

Mr.S wrote: »

At the weekend a lot of clubs would stay open till 4, with 3-3:30 being the norm.

but bar wrapping up a hour before then, maybe he means serving til that late?

Mr Simpson

Legally, bars are supposed to have last orders at 2.30am. *I think* the law allows for 30 minutes drinking up time. The reality is quite different though, Coppers were still letting people in at 3.30 last friday.

Offside

melekalikimaka wrote: »

but bar wrapping up a hour before then, maybe he means serving til that late?

Licencing laws just don't seem to be enforced here anymore. I left Krystal on Saturday at about 4.30 and they were still serving no bother :P

melekalikimaka

Offside wrote: »

Licencing laws just don't seem to be enforced here anymore. I left Krystal on Saturday at about 4.30 and they were still serving no bother :P

the laws have certain loopholes, that these clubs exploit. no laws being broken

Mr Simpson

melekalikimaka wrote: »

the laws have certain loopholes, that these clubs exploit. no laws being broken

The theatre licence loophole was gotten rid of a number of years ago. If they serve after 2.30, they are breaking the law.

melekalikimaka

Mr Simpson wrote: »

The theatre licence loophole was gotten rid of a number of years ago. If they serve after 2.30, they are breaking the law.

there are other loopholes

Mr Simpson

melekalikimaka wrote: »

there are other loopholes

Genuine question, what are they? I know the intoxicating liquor act pretty well and I can't think of any exception to the licence that would allow them to serve past 2.30 (except if they were residents of a hotel)

arybvtcw0eolkf

Mr Simpson wrote: »

Genuine question, what are they? I know the intoxicating liquor act pretty well and I can't think of any exception to the licence that would allow them to serve past 2.30 (except if they were residents of a hotel)

I'm wondering the same thing, I work on the door on a club. We stop serving bang on 02:30

I've never heard of any loop holes.

melekalikimaka

hotels can serve later, upstairs in kyrstal is laid out in an unusual way have you noticed, beds, showers etc?

Lovely Bloke

If you're not in the know then you don't know, and he is hardly going to rat to some bouncer is he?

Mr Simpson

melekalikimaka wrote: »

hotels can serve later, upstairs in kyrstal is laid out in an unusual way have you noticed, beds, showers etc?

Hotels can serve RESIDENTS later, not normal punters

bear1

So, if I understand correctly - In Coppers they can serve late as there is a hotel above them as is the same with Krystal as I see there is a hotel located above them also?
If there is no hotel, i.e. Alchemy then they must stop at 2.30 and the club closed by 3am?

Mr Simpson

bear1 wrote: »

So, if I understand correctly - In Coppers they can serve late as there is a hotel above them as is the same with Krystal as I see there is a hotel located above them also?
If there is no hotel, i.e. Alchemy then they must stop at 2.30 and the club closed by 3am?

Nope. Coppers and Krystle etc, serve late because it suits them. The hotel licence only allows them to serve residents after 2.30am.

bear1

Mr Simpson wrote: »

Nope. Coppers and Krystle etc, serve late because it suits them. The hotel licence only allows them to serve residents after 2.30am.

Right... feck it anyway we'll just get plastered and see what happens

SantryRed

Lads, shush or we won't be able to get a later drink after hours anymore. Our licensing laws are ridiculous as they are.

aaabbbb

bear1 wrote: »

So, if I understand correctly - In Coppers they can serve late as there is a hotel above them as is the same with Krystal as I see there is a hotel located above them also?
If there is no hotel, i.e. Alchemy then they must stop at 2.30 and the club closed by 3am?

I think Achelmy is in a hotel too as far as I remember It just doesn't seem to suit them to serve late

hfallada

As far as I know coppers goes to the courts on a regularly asking for a late permit and they have to pay a fee for it. Its nothing to do with their licence but the fact they are buying special permits to open late

Mr Simpson

hfallada wrote: »

As far as I know coppers goes to the courts on a regularly asking for a late permit and they have to pay a fee for it. Its nothing to do with their licence but the fact they are buying special permits to open late

That late licence extends your closing time from 11.30/12.30 to 2.30, no later

shauna4444

Hey everyone do you know is it over 20s or 18s on friday night in everleigh garden thanks xx