Karlovy Lázně

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Karlovy Lázně is a five story disco club in Prague, Czech Republic and the largest club in Central Europe.

Lázně, for short, is situated 50 meters from the eastern end of the Charles Bridge on the bank of the Vltava River. An entrance fee of 120 Koruna (roughly $5) allows access to five stories of varying music.

The basement level contains internet access, foos ball tables, a full fledged bar with dance floor, and rap/R&B being the music theme. Various nooks and crannies pervade this floor. The street level floor, and the main entrance into Lázně features another bar, various drinking tables, and a balcony looking onto the basement dance floor. One floor up, in the Kaleidoskop Room, a large assortment of mostly teenagers bounce around to electronica. On the next level, it's a mixture of top 20, mainstream dance hits, and retro that pushes the envelope all the way back to the 1950s. In general, this level offers the greatest variety of individuals visiting Lázně - featuring laid back tourists, young suave locals, and a surprising number of the adult crowd above 30. The next level sports another trance and techno extravaganza, just in case you skipped the nearly identical electronica Kaleidoskop Room. On top, the Chill Out Room houses another redundant level of trance and techno music. However, the level lacks a serious dance floor and visitors instead relax on comfortable couches and bean bags. To be sure you get your drinking buzz on, every level of Lazne features at least one bar, or in some cases, like the Retro floor, two.

Seeing as Lázně is the largest club in Prague, and supposedly Central Europe, the club is jam packed on the weekends with an assortment of tourists and locals, guaranteeing an interesting, if not necessarily great experience. The variety of floors and music accompaniment sweeping the club ensures that Lázně maintains a far more diverse and exotic crowd than any other club in Prague.

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