LORELEY - DD REVIEW

Loreley is worth finding but challenging to find – at least if you are geographically impaired like me and I had printed out the accurate discodamaged map. I still had to wander up and down Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse several times until I found it. 

First off, it's Alexander Platz where they have been building since god knows when and they don't bother to maintain the street signs. So finding Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse is pure guess work. Then, confusingly, there's a tram and bus station on the street. They have prominent signs saying MemhardStrasse?*! The very dark entrance (pictured) is sort of in a pillar in the middle of the pavement. Said pillar supports MacDonalds and Kaisers and is in front of a seedy straight cocktail bar called OASE. When I asked the doorman there, "Wo ist Club Loreley?", he just acted dumb. It was five metres away - behind me. I was nearly crying. At last I did find it and it was worth it.

The door has a tiny sign on it saying Loreley. How about garish neon, chaps? You go downstairs to the cash desk and coat check and the rest of the club. It was the Cityboy night and the music was sort of retro and rocky but very dance-able, and the dance floor slowly filled from 12.30 to 3. The crowd were young (20s) and fashionably, but not expensively, dressed and they were friendly. There's a medium size dance floor with a bar, a little chill out area branching off it, where they were doing some haircut thing that night and a smoker lounge which was quite deserted. The smokers were puffing away wherever they wanted – as is normal in Berlin clubs. There was also a performers room with a very smart roulette table in it, but punters weren't allowed there.

Bottom line: Good night out, after you find it.

Facts:

Where	Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 11, Berlin-Mitte. Map
When	Fridays from 23:00
Web	http://www.loreley.li/
Attracts	youngish (20s) fashionable crowd
Quantity	350 max - 150 normally and that's quite full
Darkroom	No
Dance	Yes