Many discos that cater mainly to Chinese have table minimums. That is, each table has a different minimum purchase to sit there and you must purchase at least that much as soon as you sit down. They won't trust that you will eventually purchase enough over the course of the evening. Some even have the price of the table on a tent card sitting on the table. You can try and get around this sales tactic by saying you want to just have a look around (wo yao xian kan kan) and hope that they forget about you.
Box Town (BOX糖果酒吧), 118 Xidazhi Jie (西大直街118号). Large complex newly opened by owners of the original Box club, a Harbin legend which closed in 2008. In addition to a cozy lounge/pub, Box Town also includes a sizeable disco playing a wide variety of western dance and pop music. Lounge area offers pool, darts, and foosball. English speaking bar staff and cocktails for around 20RMB. Quickly becoming the most popular spot for expats and and younger Chinese clubgoers. Safe, clean, and very lively although somewhat difficult to find. On the fourth floor of the Ha1 Te4 building. Enter through the elevator in back. �
Babyface, Youzheng Jie and Hongjun Jie intersection (南岗区邮政街和红军街交口). The newest addition to Harbin's club scene its nothing like its sister in Beijing or Shanghai, seems to have lost its popularity to Tanghui, lots of rich people. Not much dancing.A Long Island is ¥40. �
Kiss Disco, 150 Dongdazhi Jie (东大直街150号). The biggest disco in Harbin, can fit a couple thousand people, lots of young people. If you enter, you will be the only foreigner. Can be fun but there is a Chinese mafia presence here. Wednesday is ladies night and it is packed.Expensive drinks, beers are ¥25+. �
SOS Club (唐会国际俱乐部), 110 Zhongshan Lu (中山路111号). Currently the most popular disco with the Chinese. Plays Hip Hop. �
Banana, Basement, Sino-way Hotel, Hongjun Street, Nangang District (南岗区红军街华融饭店地下一层; Nángǎngqū Hóngjūnjiē Huàróngfàndiàn Dìxiàyīcéng). Expensive, smallish, and pushy waiters that make you buy expensive drinks. Overall, not fun. �
Blues: the longstanding expat hangout of Harbin
Blue's (布鲁斯酒吧), 100 Diduan Jie (地段街100号). Dirty, crowded, and dangerous. Everything that is Harbin, Russians, Mongolians, Turks, Canadians, Brazilians, Koreans. Frequent staging ground for fights between Koreans and Mongolians or Russians fighting with Russians. The staff has also been known to get involved in fights or start them. Friday nights 10:30PM and afterward get really crazy when about 80% of Harbin's foreign newcomers head out to Blue's to party. Also, at 11PM you can buy a bottle of Vodka for �10, but it is devil water from Anhui has made many people go nuts and dance on the pole for hours. During the week it is full of Chinese. �
CoCo Club, Changjiang Street and Yushan Street intersection (长江路与玉山路交汇处). Newly opened flashy disco. Packed on weekends. �
New Las Vegas (新拉斯维加斯迪吧), (In Fushun Tiantian Hotel (福顺天天大酒店) out in the development district (Kaifaqu)). It is not big but not small, lots of dancing, drinks are expensive, lots of flashing lights, usually dead after 11:30PM. �
No. One Disco, (In Pearl River Hotel (珠江路珠江宾馆; Zhujiang Bingguan)). Another big flashy disco as big as Kiss, lots of go-go dancers who are also prostitutes. Pushy bartenders who charge you 50 Yuan to sit at the bar or 200 to sit at a table. Better to be avoided unless you can speak Chinese or are with a group of Chinese people. The staff can go from Pushy to Assault mode in a blink. �
Jinhao Disco (金豪迪吧), 161 Heping (Lu 和平路161号). One of the oldest discos in Harbin, kind of run-down now, frequent bar fights. As the cab drivers say, "Don't go there, that's where the poor people go." �
Yes (夜斯), (Near Blues). Yet another flashy disco with pounding techno; it's okay. �
哈尔滨麦莎慢摇酒吧俱乐部, (道里区兆麟街21号). A large club with lots of singing and performances. Mostly tables but there are people dancing.
Dijie Manyao Bar (帝街慢摇吧), 2 Manzhouli Jie (满洲里街2号). Another bar with scantily clad dancers. �
Camp David (大为营). Looks like a giant castle, used to be the expat hangout in Harbin before Blues. Full of people nonetheless. �
Guang Zai, (Near Yiman Street). Frequented mostly by young people. Atmosphere is good. �
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