Floripa Clubs -
Go Floripa can boldly state, without fear of being completely wrong, that the best clubs in Brazil, perhaps even in South America, are in Santa Catarina.
There is no other place that has so many clubs ticking so many of the boxes that the best clubs need to have ticked. It begins with the music of course. To have the best music, you need to have the best DJ’s. The best DJ’s in the world come to South America for huge events such as Skolbeats in São Paulo, Reveillon in Rio, Carnaval in Salvador and Creamfields in Buenos Aires. Names such as Fat Boy Slim, Sander Kleinenberg, Pete Tong and Dubfire from Deep Dish have all made the journey for Summer in 2008/09. There is little point in travelling thousands of miles just for one gig, so they generally squeeze in a bit of a warm-up a night or two before. More often than not, they visit clubs such as Warung, on Praia Brava in Itajaíi, and El Divino, P12 and now Pacha close to Jurerê Internacional in Florianópolis.
Perhaps they come here because the atmosphere on the way to and inside these places is more relaxed than Rio, less shady than Salvador. Perhaps the people who make the journey from Curitiba, Porto Alegre and even São Paulo provide a more cosmopolitan crowd than clubs in Buenos Aires with porteños all seeming to hide their insecurities behind sunglasses while dancing in the same ´treading grapes´ style.
Being sited out of the cities, the clubs have scenery of beaches, jungle-covered mountains and lagoons that those of São Paulo can never hope to match. There is nothing like being able to see the sea while dancing in a club.
One of the best clubs in Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America, perhaps even the world, doesn´t have this vista do mar though. Green Valley is set down the mountainous backroads on the interior side of the motorway from Balneário Camboriu, 90 minutes drive from Floripa. Tribaltech is another great Camboriu club.
These are all clubs as clubbing intended, party places full of party people and a banging atmosphere for dancing through the dawn and beyond for all the big nights. The real beauty of Santa Catarina clubbing though, the one aspect of visiting these clubs, the one memory that will stay with most people forever, is not the beauty of the setting. The beauty is definitely on the inside too for all of these clubs. Go Floripa will put any of these clubs alongside those of Ibiza, St Tropez, Miami Beach or any place that you care to name in the world, and we are confident that the staggering amount of painfully beautiful girls that fill the dancefloor and float past every few seconds will be more than you can see anywhere else on the planet. Welcome to Clubbing in Santa Catarina.
Many of these clubs are not so easy to get to unless you have your own transport. Out in the wilds, close to beaches where buses don’t reach and taxis can be very expensive and hard to find for the way back. Luckily for visitors to Florianópolis, there is a way! Go Floripa has plenty of experience of taking visiting gringoes to such clubs! We can make recommendations, organise tickets and transport, and leave you to do nothing but be blown away by the whole experience. You will be impressed. Be warned though: Santa Catarina Clubbing has been known to destroy the odd visitor. Real Life may never be the same again afterwards.
Back on the island, the three most easily accessible and popular clubs for visitors are probably El Divino Lounge on the Beira Mar Norte road, plus Confraria das Artes and Circuit in Lagoa da Conceição. All have a mix of nights, with electronic music plus various shades of hip-hop and baile funk from DJ’s and live acts. All these clubs are open more regularly during the summer, and also through the winter too, unlike the super clubs.
If you haven’t got access to such places, there are many other options as well as the huge house clubs, although sometimes aimed at slightly different crowd. Many of them are frequented by young Brazilians hoping to meet somebody new, rather than just dance. The floors are generally filled by people chatting and drinking, with a little bit of dancing too.
Around Lagoa da Conceição there are many other options, with Avenida das Rendeiras having places such as John Bull Pub, Café del Sol and Chico´s with regular younger crowds. Jinga is somewhere between a bar and a club, with an older crowd for the samba bands. This is not the same as Carnaval samba, more of the kind where people dance together in couples. Both are called Samba, so we have no real way to differentiate them. Couples Samba perhaps?
At Joaquina Beach, Kahuna overlooks the corner of the beach but the fantastic setting is spoiled by it being quite remote from other places, and possibly explains why this club in particular seems to change name regularly. As Dunas sits across the road from the Joaquina dunes. It can be busy midweek too, with samba and forró nights bringing in regular numbers. A little closer to town is the off-road Green Park, a larger place half-hidden in the trees on the Joaquina road. It plays host to different types of music, with reggae and rock bands and electronic music on the occasional nights when it opens, usually Saturdays.
Another club opening more frequently every year is The Week, set on the shores of the lagoa next to Praia Mole Eco Village.
In the city, the options are not as extensive as you might at first think. Cosmopolita and Concorde attract slightly different people, with the latter being one of Floripa’s most long-standing and popular gay clubs.
Around Jurerê and Canasvieiras, the superclubs have competition in the likes of Life, which generally has electronic music plus live acts too, while Cafe de la Musique and Taiko are options for daytime and night-time beach clubs in Jurerê Internacional. Mynt Lounge in the huge resort complex at Costão do Santinho is another seasonal club on the north-east of the island while beach bars such as Pirata and Carpe Diem on Praia Brava have the occasional night event.
As well as such regular nights, there are always flyers and posters advertising one-off nights. If beach parties are your idea of a great night, look out for the word Lual. This generally signifies a full moon event on the sand, with any kind of music including samba, reggae, electronic music and rock bands, often on the same night.
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