DSTRKT Club Berlin (former Anomalie) — Restaurant in Berlin

This club was recommended to me by another Irish person myself and this other Irish person both have the same taste in music, so I was expecting this club to be like an Irish nightclub. Myself and my friend are Irish and we came to Berlin for his birthday and to experience Berlin. The nightclubs in Ireland are very different. The nightclubs in Ireland play songs with actual words that you can sing and dance to. The people can actually dance. You can use your phone to take videos and photos to remember the night and look back at the memories in years to come. Berlin nightclubs are nothing like that, you cannot take any photos or videos. Instead you can live in the moment which is a great idea. The reason behind no photos and videos is a lot of people do illegal things in Berlin clubs and they are afraid that you will send photos or videos to the police. The only way to enjoy Techno music is if you’re under the influence and a lot of people do not like to put illegal substances into their bodies so therefore they cannot truly enjoy Techno music. You can only enjoy Techno music with illegal substances in your body. It is just Techno music no words just noise. The people dance with no movement but I like dancing with a bit more movement. These people dance like zombies out of call of duty. Maybe these are side effects of the illegal substances they put into their body or maybe they just can’t dance. What really put a sour taste in my mouth was I was going up to buy a drink and choosing Apple Pay using my phone to buy the drink and some random person comes up and grabs my phone saying no photos. I was respecting the clubs wishes with no photos or videos. I was just simply trying to pay for a drink. The way this man, this random man came up and grabbed my phone was very rude and an invasion of my privacy. So if you go there be prepared to have your phone grabbed and taken off you if you want to go and buy a drink. So if you do chose to go here make sure that you are into Techno music, Techno music only no words of any kind are played in these kind of nightclubs. If you have any amazing cracking dance moves do not use them on the German dance floor because they move quite stiffly, and with little to no movement at all. And lastly be prepared for random people to come up and grab your phone unprovoked. Also the people walk around half naked, but this was not an inappropriate nightclub it was just a normal Berlin nightclub. A girl was walking around with just jeans and nipple covers on. I understand the Germans are liberal but that’s a bit much now. This is a nightclub not a strip club. It was meant to be a normal techno Berlin night club but remember I thought it would be an Irish nightclub because it got recommended to me by another...

Went with a group of friends, super excited about the Boiler Room (3rd weekend). Unfortunately, the music was not what we hoped for, at all...

So what was off? 1) We saw 9 different DJs during that night, and while some of them had some good moments, the music was mostly all noisy and boring treble and repetition ruling the room. Almost all the DJs through the night (we were there from 2-6 am, thanks to good company lasted that long) played highly minimal techno, with barely any bass drops, no storytelling, just repetitive noise that got so intense it felt like someone is drilling into your skull. I'm serious, same rhythms were often just played for 7-10 mins in a row, then a little variation and another boring shallow thing for the next 10 mins. I felt they totally underestimated the crowd - it just felt lazy. It was also visible in the room, people just weren't so engaged - trying to enjoy but very little actual expression of joy (e.g. not much whistling or cheering for the DJ which I usually see at great techno parties in Berlin).

2. The corridors were so full of people it was almost impossible to move. They let in way too many people. Uncomfortable and unsafe - hot, sweaty, no space to dance, people literally stuck in those narrow corridors. Basically no chilling and resting room. Toilet super small and more crowded than anywhere I‘ve been in Berlin.

The event price was not worth it (from 22 to 33€) - even if it had been a lot less, I wouldn't go again because of the poor music and uncomfortable environment that resulted from crowding. Not the type of techno I've learned to enjoy in Berlin.

The club itself looked really cool (door design etc.), the staff was polite (though incredibly slow at the bar). It was just too little to make up for all of the above.

We went to Mensch Meier and turned the night around

Music was good. However you sell more tickets than you have a capacity. There is not enough toilets (please, you can not count outside toilets, as a choice in winter time). One of your three dancefloors, should be turn into bathroom, with more cabins and safe, two-way traffic path. In your current toilet, there is too narrow entry-exit door. It is unsafe and unpractical, considerating amount of people you are letting inside. You could turn your current toilet into resting space, you are lacking it at the present set up. Bar at the main room was understuffed, hence aprox 1/4 of length was blocked with crates of beers. Creating clusters of people at the back of the dancfloor, trying to order drinks. Wordrobs outside without any heaters or even side planks, to shelter people from a cold, are quite cruel move. Last thing anyone wants, after freezing in the line is to wait in another line, outside, just to give coat away. If you would put some heaters there, people would undress before aproaching counter. Probably whole process would be swifter. You should have awarness teams. Also you should check ID before letting people in. I havent seen so many “fresh kids” in one club at once, in really long time. They have no clue yet how to behave. It was annoying but also quite dangerous. Pushing each other everywhere. I witness girl being pushed by some young fella to the wall, when she asked him to stop, he called her “cringy”. It was disturbing mix of lack of self-awarness & arogance. Maybe if there would be people around, from awarness team at least some of thoes people would tone down. Concluding, it was my second party in your club and last one. First was Ismus and today Boiler Room. Both external parties. However some things you, as a club, have power over. And pretty much same things were problem last time I...