5 Best Nightlife in Ville Nouvelle, Tangier and the Mediterranean

Sitting at the far point of Tanja Marina Bay, this nightclub (an import from Marrakesh) can hold up to 1,500 revelers. The light show is high-tech, the music---dance, R&B, Latin---from the resident DJs is loud, drinks are expensive, and the party doesn’t really get going until after midnight. They also have a neighboring tapas restaurant, Sky 5, with great views over the water.

This renovated apartment turned bar-cum-restaurant with pink walls and an impressive collection of memorabilia from the last 20-odd years gives you the feeling that you are behind the scenes of the myth of the city. Karim, the bar's owner, has great taste in blues and jazz and lived in America for ten years. The low-lit outpost occupies the building on the corner across from the Rembrandt hotel, where Boulevard Pasteur ends. Though the tapas can be a bit pricey, an adjoining restaurant is also a decent option for dinner.

A favorite of weekending Spaniards, local professionals, and hip twentysomethings, the dance floor here gets steamier and steamier as the night goes on. The music is typical, somewhat bland Mediterranean House with some flashbacks to the 1980s, whose pop stars line the walls after your descent down a funhouse-like mirrored entrance and stairway. There's a happy hour every Monday night from 11 pm to 1 am.

A late-night libation at the Tangerinn Pub in El Muniria hotel, a vestige of the former International Zone, is the opportunity for literary nostalgia. After all, your bar stool may have supported the likes of William Burroughs (who wrote Naked Lunch in what was formerly Room 9), Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. They probably wouldn’t recognize it today, though; on weekends it teems with beer-drinking expats and young Moroccans, and techno blasts from the speakers. The hotel itself has seen better days and is not the best option for a good night's sleep.