Manchester Nightlife

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Travel facts

Currency: £ GBP.

Visas:
Generally tourists from Europe, USA and the Commonwealth do not require Visas for UK holidays. Check out: www.ukvisas.gov.uk
Getting there:
Flights into Manchester are serviced by busses to the centre (Picadilly)
Getting around:
Manchester , "Trams". Buy a Day saver Card which is also valid for Manchester buses.
For Tickets:www.gmpte.com
Tipping:
10-15% is normal in cabs and restaurants (where a service charge is usually included in your bill).

Clubs

Emporia
Emporia Tube: Metrolink G-Mex/City Centre buses/ Deansgate rail
Emporia, 2B Whitworth Street West M1 5WZ 0161 236 8833
A stylish dance venue run by club promoters-turned-operators, Emporia is the latest in a succession of ventures to call this space home, and seems to have finally ushered in a degree of stability. As it`s situated a stagger away from the bars of Deansgate Locks, promoters can enforce the club`s strict dress code with confidence. Inside, find VIP wannabes getting down to funky house sounds.
Paparazzi,
Paparazzi Metrolink Shudehill/City Centre buses/ Victoria rail
Paparazzi, Printworks, Withy Grove M4 2BS 0161 832 1234
Enter the slick and salubrious Paparazzi via a discrete door on its scene-setting red carpet and descend into the split-level club below. Even on student nights this place is super stylish, it`s worth making the effort to dress up before heading out, and gives you a better chance of talking your way past the velvet rope into the mezzanine VIP
Pure
Pure Metrolink Shudehill/City Centre buses/Victoria rail
Pure, Printworks, Withy Grove M4 2BS 0161 819 7770
A 2,500-capacity mega club from the people behind London`s Heaven, Pure was piloted in the Printworks site in 2006 after its former tenants, the venture Lucid, failed to make it work. They started by stripping out the clutter (a bowling alley, restaurants) and installing a £300,000 Funktion One sound system, with local radio DJs now taking the helm for commercial house sessions at weekends.
Music Box
Music Box
Music Box, 65 Oxford Street M1 6QF 0161 236 9971 < Metrolink St Peter?s Square/City Centre buses/Oxford Road rail
A landmark 800-capacity sweaty basement club that?s most celebrated leftfield eclectic dance sessions call home: Mr Scruff?s Keep it Unreal and the Unabombers? Electric Chair being the most famed nights. Serious clubbers of all stripes should find something to their liking here, with drum ?n? bass, hip hop and house sessions on monthly rotation. Live music events take place during the week