If your New Year resolution was to get out more, Cartagena's booming party scene will help you clock up those clubbing hours like there's no tomorrow. While Cartagena's compact size can't compete with mega clubs of Las Vegas or New York or even the nightlife offering in the Colombian capital of Bogota, it makes up for any cosmopolitan shortcomings with a sexier style and spirit to dancing the night away.
Music here is serious business and the salsa beats, booty bass and hipster house make for a heady cocktail of going out options to try out whilst you're passing through.
You only live once, you might as well get dressed up and paint the town red…. Serving up a sensational mix of sensory delights in a beautiful old shoe store, Alquimico, brings some serious style to Cartagena's burgeoning nightlife scene.
This long-forgotten Republican ruin was given a new lease of life by owner, Jean Trinh, who converted it into the city's nocturnal epicentre. For years, Colombians have been using their amazing fruits almost exclusively for their fruit juices, and drinking their liquor straight.
It took Trinh to ask what happens if you let local fruits to mix with rum for a few months? Why, fabulous cocktails of course. Don't come here if you simply want to down aguardiente shots and formulaic cocktails until the early hours of the morning, because Alquimico turns drinking into a fine art. Sofia Vegara's been here, so what other reason do you need to the fanciest bar in Cartagena. With a winning cocktail list, a great sound system that rips through the whoops and screams of the jubilant crowd and a glittery dose the opulence Latinos love so much and do so well, La Jugada is a well-accomplished starlet on the Cartagena nightclub circuit.
