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One of Palma’s top clubs and located along the waterfront, this huge place specializes in loud house music. As with nightlife venues all over Spain, the action doesn’t get going until about 1am – so don’t arrive early and be considered hopelessly naïve or desperate! It’s a mixed crowd at all times, though there are regular gay-themed nights (“Pacha Loca”) in season.

Palma’s other huge nightlife venue is popular with a younger crowd, from teens to 20-somethings. The décor is all very modern, with lots of stainless steel in evidence, and the light show and sound system are, of course, up-to-the-minute, the music ranging from house to top-40. Sunday night is Gay Night.

Located just above all the hubbub of Plaça Gomila, this idiosyncratic, friendly little place will remind you of a gypsy encampment. Expect live ethnic music most nights, and an eclectic range of non-Spanish foods – Middle Eastern finger foods and other exotic treats. It isn’t remote, but it feels that way.

The Las Vegas-style casino-cum-nightclub is a chance to be tempted by both fate and some lavish buffets. Various shows borrow from Cirque de Soleil, using circus performers and other athletically endowed artists. It’s fine to bring the children.

Keep an eye out for this club’s posters all around the port – they’re particularly original and collectible, the work of Jorge Bascones. The vivacious young woman who runs the spacious place is very talented at dreaming up new theme nights that manage to appeal to just about everyone in town – at least to all those who enjoy bop-ping the night away.

An Irish pub that makes you feel instantly welcome and at home. The very friendly and outgoing staff are part of the magic, but the setting itself is also very attractive, with patio seating right in the centre of the port action, and a warm, cosy series of rooms inside – not to mention the classic bar, where you can just hang and chat with your new-found friends.

After you’ve revved up at Port de Pollença’s pubs, then strolled around the promenades and central square to check out the endless stream of attractive young people, this is the place to make for next. Nothing unusual about it, but it’s the disco of choice for the 20-something cognoscenti – at least for the moment – who come here to dance till dawn, go back to the hotel for 40 winks, then hit the beach (see Mulligan’s, Port de Pollença).

This is a well-run club with an exciting range of rooms and areas for full-on partying, having a quiet drink with friends, or even taking a nighttime dip in a pool fit for an emperor. It’s a beautiful and inviting place, run with an unerring sense of style and good taste – it’s glitzy, of course, but never tacky. The location is a bit off the beaten track, but it’s worth whatever it takes to get there.

This little street, quiet and unassuming by day, turns into the hub of the resort at night. Innumerable tiny music-drinks-dance venues open up, and the young, beautiful, and restless turn out in droves to partake of the varied pleasures – all of them decked out in their best mylar and polyester finery. It’s a stirring sight, and the air positively vibrates with all the pumping beats that emanate from every doorway.

Carrer Assumpció is Portocolom’s premier nightlife street, lined with pubs and clubs. Holding pride of place at its centre is the Beez-Neez, a large, friendly British pub that is the resort’s most consistently popular place just to hang out, lift a pint, launch some darts or watch Sky TV (see Bar Els Tamarells, Portocolom).