Clubs

Clubs - will stay open until 7am in 2010 but the bars close at 5.30am. The aim is for you all to be able to take a bus or a train home instead of driving!

Leave the car at home - a new, improved night bus service runs till 2.30am and the normal day buses start at 5.30am

The Palm Beach Summer Club opens its doors every night at midnight from 2 July till 21 August. A number of DJ celebrities are booked including Roger Sanchez, David Morales and Felix da Housecat. The club can take 1500 people and is billed as a mixture of the Miami and New York club scene style. Entry costs from 25 euros, drinks extra. Reservations: 04 97 06 36 90

During the day the Palm Beach Pool club (private beach) holds pool parties. English DJ Carl Cox played here during the film festival to wild scenes around the pool and on the beach among the 1500 jetsetters attending.

The top "club" is Bâoli at Port Pier Canto on the Boulevard de la Croisette, where you can dance in the open air.

Celebrities frequent the place which boasts an ultra swish restaurant. Guests enter through huge Balinese temple-like doors and discover a haven of sofas, lamps, candle-lit tables and a veranda facing a garden of palm trees. Expect a menu that includes noodles and spicy beef dishes as well as potent cocktails.

After dining retire to the lounge or drop a star name - Naomi Campbell will do - and try to get access to the VIP room. Bâoli is exorbitantly priced - expect to pay at least 75 euros pp for dinner - but then you pay for luxury and style. Doors open 8pm, music hots up from midnight. Dress - chic and glamorous. Be warned - it is very exclusive and difficult to get in. Reservations: 04 93 43 03 43

The Palais Club at the Palais des Festivals opens its doors every night at 11pm. Its style is Ibiza meets Cannes

- trendy and glamorous.

An indoor/outdoor venue, the lighting and sound quality are superb. Expect big names from the international club scene to be spinning those disques. Entry from 25 euros, without drinks. Reservations: 04 92 99 33 33.

Les Marches is a new venue for 2010. It opens its doors at 7pm for drinks and tapas on the apero terrace with views over the old port and Le Suquet. From midnight the club atmosphere takes over. There are two resident DJs. Entry is free and drinks cost 15 euros. Find it at Casino Croisette, jetee Albert-Edouard.

The Carre d'Or area in the heart of Cannes is packed with bars, restaurants and clubs. Many start out the evening as bars and restaurants turning disco club later in the evening. As this area has many residents most venues close about two or three in the morning. Some, however, stay open until 5am such as Sparkling-For you and le Dadada.

Top gay club is Night, 52 rue Jean-Jaures, which opens 9.30pm everyday. Entrance free except Saturday when it's 10 euros to get in. Reservations: 04 93 39 20 50

Hot and sexy at L'Anonyme, 48 bd Carnot, open Thursday to Sunday from 10.30pm. Entry free for single women, 30€-50€ for couples and 50€-70€ for solo men. A disco it is but elsewhere you will find the place is dedicated to the pleasures of the body - including an S&M room. Trousers for women banned - dress code...sexy, of course. Reservations: 04 93 68 20 25

Bookings taken (0629400920) for the BayClub at Royal Casino in La Napoule.

Only open Saturdays (11pm till late), it has 70s deco with disco, motown, pop and 80s music.

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