Clubs in san juan puerto rico: Best Nightlife in San Juan

A Guide to San Juan Nightlife (2022 Updated)

The culture in Puerto Rico is multicultural: a vibrant mix of Spanish, African and Indian origins.

The capital city San Juan offers tourists many amazing experiences and fun activities. 

The city has not only lovely beaches and day activities that should not be missed, but also an energetic nightlife that should not be missed too.

You can not be bored at any time of the day or the night in San Juan, so start making your plans for a visit to this beautiful and unique destination.

Do not know where to start.

Here is a short guide to San Juan nightlife:

Contents

• Embrace the glowing nature
• Experience the quaint and charming Old San Juan
• Enjoy fine-dining across the city
• Lounge in style at opulent and unusual spots
• Hit the dancefloor at nightclubs

Embrace the glowing nature

Only five bioluminescent bays are found in the world and three of them are in Puerto Rico.

A visit to the bays is a must if you plan to tour this gorgeous country.

Laguna Granda is the nearest to San Juan.

Several tour operators offer an unforgettable adventure: sailing the bioluminescent bay on a kayak.

The journey starts at sunset and continues while the night sky appears.

In the dark, the glowing organisms in the water light up when they sense movements in the water. 

Put your hand in the water and make a fist and open it, and you will see a spark because of the organism’s behaviour.

Visiting Laguna Granda is a mind-blowing experience.

Be adventurous and enjoy the natural nightlife of Puerto Rico.

A bay at a sunset

Experience the quaint and charming Old San Juan

San Juan is divided into Old San Juan and New San Juan, both offering a different nightlife experience.

However, we recommended to check out the way more charming Old San Juan.

Wander around the squares and cobbled streets and take a short break in one of the cafes, bars or restaurants.

Go to the main square, the Plaza de Armes, and see the statues and the fountains.

If you visit Old San Juan on a weekend, you will be a part of a huge open-air party.

On the weekends South Fortaleza Street and Paseo de la Princesa are full of street food vendors and numerous bands playing live music.

This is, without doubt, one of the most popular places in Puerto Rico, so it is not surprising at all that it is often called the heart of Puerto Rico.  

Old San Juan

Enjoy fine-dining across the city

In San Juan, you can find many fine-dining restaurants and taste exquisite dishes.

The Puerto Rican dishes are an innovative mix of the Spanish, African and Indian cuisines.

Here are a few restaurants worth a visit: 

• Perla;
• Marmalade Restaurant & Wine Bar;
• Santaella;
• 1919 Restaurant;

Each of these restaurants offers unique flavours and dishes made from local ingredients, as well as breathtaking views of the ocean.

A boat on the ocean

Lounge in style at opulent and unusual spots

Visit one of the many bars and lounges in San Juan, and sample excellent cocktails while enjoying the relaxed ambience.

We recommend these places:

• The Lobby Lounge at The Ritz Carlton, the most opulent lounge in San Juan;
• La Factoria, a popular cocktail bar;
• Cinema Bar 1950, a trendy bar that shows international films;
• El Bar Bero, a cool bar with a unique decor of a barbershop;
• Casa Cortes Chocobar, where you can enjoy drinks and sweet treats in one place;

Cocktails

Hit the dancefloor at nightclubs

San Juan is the hometown of many music artists who have had a huge influence on Puerto Rican culture.

As a result, there are plenty of dance clubs across San Juan dedicated to partying.

Dancing is an excellent way of developing new social relationships, so head over to one of the many nightclubs in San Juan where you can dance some salsa, merengue, flamenco, cha-cha or reggaeton.

Here is a list of the most popular nightclubs in San Juan:

• La Placita de Santurce;
• Latin Roots;
• Triana Tapas and Flamenco;
• Club Bravo;
• Oceano;
• Funky Buddha;

People at a club

Nightlife in San Juan | Fodor’s Travel

From Thursday through Sunday it’s as if there’s a celebration going on nearly everywhere in San Juan. Be sure you dress to party, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights; Puerto Ricans have flair, and both men and women love getting dressed up to go out. Bars are usually casual, but if you have on jeans, sneakers, and a T-shi

From Thursday through Sunday it’s as if there’s a celebration going on nearly everywhere in San Juan. Be sure you dress to party, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights; Puerto Ricans have flair, and both men and women love getting dressed up to go out. Bars are usu

From Thursday through Sunday it’s as if there’s a celebration going on nearly everywhere in San Juan. Be sure you dress

From Thursday through Sunday it’s as if there’s a celebration going on nearly everywhere in San Juan. Be sure you dress to party, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights; Puerto Ricans have flair, and both men and women love getting dressed up to go out. Bars are usually casual, but if you have on jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt, you may be refused entry at nightclubs and discos.

Well-dressed visitors and locals alike often mingle in the lobby bars of large hotels, many of which feature bands in the evening. Some hotels also have clubs with shows and/or dancing; the cover generally starts at $10. Casino rules have been relaxed, injecting life into what was once a conservative hotel-gaming scene, but you still won’t be allowed in wearing a tank top or shorts. There are more games, plus such gambling perks as free drinks and live music.

In Old San Juan, Calle San Sebastián is lined with bars and restaurants. Salsa music blaring from jukeboxes in cut-rate pool halls competes with mellow Latin jazz in top-flight nightspots. The young and the beautiful often socialize in Plaza San José. Mid-January sees the Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, one of the Caribbean’s best street parties.

Young professionals as well as a slightly older bohemian crowd fill Santurce, San Juan’s historical downtown area, until the wee hours. The revitalized Plaza del Mercado (Calle Dos Hermanos at Calle Capital) has structures—many painted in bright colors—dating from the 1930s or earlier. On weekend nights the area’s streets are closed to vehicular traffic. You can wander from dive bars to trendy nightspots and sway to music that pours from countless open-air establishments and the marketplace’s front plaza.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Part 2 — Teletype

Travel Notes, Day 16

Artwork by Conor Harrington “San Juan II Fight Club”

Today I’ll show you San Juan from an unusual side. Tourists coming to the capital of Puerto Rico usually do not leave the old city. But in vain. Not far from the Sagrado Corazon metro station, there is a whole area that street artists have chosen. Here you can find the works of the most famous masters of street art. And yes, there is a subway in San Juan). So I killed two birds with one stone: I looked at beauty and rode the subway. nine0005

Immediately the second work from the Conor Harrington series. A very cool artist.

I talked about him in a post about London street art.

01. The terminus of the San Juan Metro. On the wall is the work “La Virgen De La Discordia” by Chilean street artist INTI

at ground level, and two underground.

03. Underground platform. Everything is decorated very simply and coldly.

04. Trains run very rarely.

05. By the way, until 1947 there was a tram in San Juan…

06. Let’s get back to street art.

07. Here is the work of the great Belgian graffiti artist Peter ROA. He draws huge monochrome animals.

Again, I have already shown you his work in the Gambia. Read more in this report.

08. Here comes the Chinese DALeast:

You will not confuse the style of this artist with anything else. All the heroes of his works are assembled from metal shavings.

Do you remember when I showed you his work in London?

or here:

But his coolest work is in Namibia:

09. Unknown to me artist

10. This is some kind of garbage, the children probably played around)

11. Many buildings in this area are abandoned. Yes, there are many, in appearance more than half are abandoned. So for street artists here expanse. nine0005

12. Cool car. I always wanted to be a gangster and drive such a car.

13. Not a bad job, if you know who the author is, write in the comments.

14. And about this one too.

15. In general, San Juan looks like this …

16. Or so …

17. Or so – in the business center.

18. But basically – so. Looks like Detroit. Lots of wastelands and abandoned buildings.

19. Tourists do not go further than the old city.

20. He is really very good. If you go to San Juan, be sure to take a hotel in the old city. nine0005

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24. A lawn in an old Spanish fort)

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26. Puerto Rico also has very good coffee. A great espresso costs $1.35

27. Some urban details. At each intersection there is a ramp for the disabled, it is painted blue

28. It looks unusually nice in the old town.

29. A very beautiful urn and posts in the center.

30. Grid and… Crocs. Many asked what I wear). Of course, in Crocs, the best travel shoes. nine0005

31. Benches.

I arrive at the airport in the evening, but my plane is not there… hm

I see that all flights are canceled or heavily delayed. Reading the news: “More than 2,000 flights canceled and over 6,000 delayed in the US as of 7:30 pm New York time January 2nd.” That’s it . .. Almost all airlines have lost their schedules. I was still lucky, I flew out with a three-hour delay, but I could have stayed in Puerto Rico for one more day.

Hello from the Virgin Islands. Tomorrow we will continue;)

Total trip:
Day 1: San Francisco, USA
Day 2: Carmel Valley, USA
Day 3: Apple, Facebook, Google, USA
Day 4: 17-mile road, sunset in SF, USA
Day 5: Bermuda
Day 6: Bahamas
Day 7: Bahamas
Day 8: Cayman Islands
Day 9: Jamaica
Day 10: Trinidad and Tobago and Aruba prostitutes
Day 11: Aruba, Baneiro and Curaçao
Day 12 : Road to the Dominican Republic
Day 13: Dominican Republic Part 1
Day 14: New Year in the Dominican Republic
Day 15: San Juan, Puerto Rico Part 1
Day 16: San Juan, Puerto Rico Part 2
Day 17: Virgin Islands – offshore capital of the world
Day 18: U.S. Virgin Islands
Day 19: Saint Martin and Anguilla
Day 20: St. Barthélemy, Millionaire Island
Day 21: Saba
Day 22: St. Eustatius
Day 23: Antigua and Barbuda
Day 24: St. Kitts and Nevis – new home for $300,000
Day 25: Montserrat, abandoned country
Day 26: Dominica
Day 27: Guadeloupe
Day 28: Last day in Antigua and Barbuda
Day 29: Haiti
Day 30: Turks and Caicos
Day 31: Miami

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8.00 / 10 – Very good!

” the location is great. close to everything. ” – Emanuel

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8.80 / 10 – Excellent!

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