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Cancun Night Life Vacations and Luxury Travel Packages

Nightlife in Cancún is intense and goes on until dawn in its many discotheques and nightclubs. You'll find all kinds of music there as well as the finest Mexican and imported drinks. The bars are very entertaining and the waiters make sure there's always a lively atmosphere.

The nightlife in Cancun runs from exhilerating to downright exhausting. If you like to rock out, then Cancun will blow your socks off! For those who like pop and electronic music, The City, El Alebrije and La Boom are great options.If you like to dance to the beat of Latin rhythms, we recommend the Cocobongo, in the Plaza Forum.  For hot live music, The Hard Rock Café, Dady Rock, or El Bulldog. The Mango Tango on Kukulkan Boulevard, has fun Latin and Caribbean music.

Boats offering dinner with music and a free bar cruise around the bay and Laguna Nichupté. Want to try something cool, you can take a cruise on a replica of a Spanish galleon, where you'll be waited on by pirates and served good cuisine, with an open bar and exciting dancing.

There are also other boats that offer romantic night tours and dinner on the Caribbean Sea.

• OPEN: 9:30 p.m. to 4 a.m.
• CLOSED: Sunday

One of Cancun's leading nightclubs for dancing to the best salsa and merengue rhythms. The musicians usually hail from Cuba or the Dominican Republic.

• OPEN: 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
• CLOSED: Monday

This dance hall is especially popular with locals for its authentic salsa bands and ambiance.

Good rock 'n roll, live concerts, and what's billed as an "exotic" jacuzzi are featured in this branch of a popular Mexico City nightclub.

• OPEN: 6:30 p.m.
• Daily departures

This dinner cruise takes place aboard a Mississippi-style river boat. The admission price includes dinner, open bar (domestic wines), live music, dancing and games.

• OPEN: 7 p.m. Note: A show of Afro Caribbean dances and songs is performed at 9 p.m.
• CLOSED: Sunday

This folk ballet showcases the authentic music and dance traditions of different regions of Mexico. A "must see" while in Cancun.

• OPEN: 6:30 p.m.
• Daily departures

A double-decker boat, with a capacity for 400, offering a five-hour cruise, with a buffet dinner, open bar, Afro-Caribbean dancing, limbo contest, and games.

• OPEN: Noon to 2 a.m.
• Open daily

After dinner, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., there's dancing on the pier to pop and disco music.

• OPEN: Open from 9 p.m.

Resembling a Caribbean beachfront cabaña, this nightclub features reggae bands from Jamaica.

• OPEN: Noon to 2 a.m.

Forty monitors and a giant screen for watching sporting events, plus live DJ and dance floor. Also pool tables.

• OPEN: Tequila bar open from noon, terrace bar open from 6 p.m.; disco open from 9 p.m.

Rated by Billboard as the "No. 1 club in Latinoamerica" this complex can host up to 2,000 revelers. Dance music; occasional stage shows.

• OPEN: Sunset Cruise departs 6 p.m. in winter/5 p.m. in summer, moonlight cruise leaves 9 p.m./8 p.m.
• Daily departures

This Spanish-style galleon offers a choice of two 3-hour lobster-dinner cruises around the lagoon. Dinner includes charcoal-grilled lobster or steak, open bar (domestic drinks), table service.

• Open from 9:30 p.m.

A spacious disco with tiered seating overlooking the dance floor, a dazzling laser show and the latest tunes. Popular with the young set, and lots of fun.

A restaurant-bar featuring rock bands from 11 p.m. Popular with the young set.

• OPEN: 11 to 2 a.m.
• Open daily

Huge bar, big dance floor, and wall to wall rock memorabilia. Rock bands play from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., except Wednesday.

• OPEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

A lobby bar featuringlive jazz nightly.

This nightspot features a cavernous disco and separate bar, Tequila Boom, where live rock bands play. Open-air dining area serves pizza.

NOTE: Cover charge (men only) includes domestic drinks

The hotel's cozy lobby bar offers live flamenco music nightly.

• OPEN: 8 p.m.
• Open daily

A folkloric dinner-show. Pre-performance welcome cocktail at 6:30 p.m.

• Open until 2 a.m.

This lively New Orleans-style restaurant-bar features a view of the lagoon, hefty drinks, and great piano players-usually two at a time. Large cocktail menu. Live music from 7 p.m.

• OPEN: Open 1 p.m. to 2 a.m.
• Open daily

A late-night party place as well as a popular restaurant, with nightly conga lines that often spill out into the street.

• OPEN: 6:30 p.m.
• Daily departures

A five-hour pirate-theme dinner cruise that takes passengers to a "treasure island" for a buffet dinner, disco dancing, casino games using doubloons, and a karaoke sing-along.

• OPEN: 11 to 1 a.m.
• Open daily

A restaurant-bar and boutique with a glamorous yet casual Hollywood atmosphere. New Studio Planet Hollywood for disco dancing.

• Open from 7 p.m.

A palm-thatched bar offering live music, karaoke singing.

This popular bohemian-style restaurant-bar features jazz, funk and blues bands Thursday to Sunday evenings from 10:30 p.m.

NOTE: Small cover charge

• OPEN: Noon to 3 a.m.
• Open daily

This popular restaurant is part of a nationwide chain known for its tasty food and frat party atmosphere. Late night dancing and reggae bands.

An attractive venue for tropical cocktails and snacks with a view of the Caribbean. Also, the hotel's lobby bar has a pool table, dart board and live music nightly.

• OPEN: 5 p.m. to 2 a.m.
• Open daily

Elegant piano bar with live music 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.

• OPEN: 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

A video and sports bar with a giant screen TV for watching sporting events, and a pool table.

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