Afrobar Catania — Restaurant in Catania

There are cleaner clubs in East Africa. Fact.

And yet this place—this club—somehow manages to redefine the word "filthy."

Think: a bathroom that feels less like plumbing and more like a crime scene. Vomit as design motif. Carnage as fragrance.

No one with an actual brain for business would operate this way. Women feel forced not to drink not because of the price of cocktails, but because using the toilet feels like volunteering for a trauma study. Absolutely disgusting.

Here’s the tragic math: hire full-time bathroom attendants, add a veneer of hygiene, maybe even elegance → liquor sales up 40%. Instantly.

Instead, we get failure disguised as nightlife.

Maybe it’s not even a choice.

Maybe the club’s bathroom is just mirroring the city itself.

Catania pumps its raw sewage out into the sea barely a few hundred meters away, like a civic shrug as they are fined by the European Community €13.7 million every six months until Catania / Italy actually upgrades its wastewater treatment.

You swim, you drink, you dance: everything already carries the smell of waste baked into its DNA.

So the club operator... Maybe he thinks filth is authenticity. A theme. “Why clean the toilets,” he wonders, “when the ocean itself is a toilet?”

But this is where the logic collapses: people don’t want authenticity when it comes to human excrement. They want denial. A thin scented candle of denial. And the absence of that denial kills sales, kills reputation.

The bathroom isn’t a metaphor. It’s just a bathroom.

And for this capacity is the reason no one’s drinking.

Management should be...

This is the worse establishment in the region, we were very poorly received and forced to take a sun bed for 25 euros each. We arrived at 4 pm and just wanted to eat and have a few beers, so we didn't take the sun bed as we want to stay for one hour. We spent 60 euros on food and drinks and when we went for a swim in the sea, we were told that we couldn't swim IN THE SEA if we didn't take a sunbed. This is the worse experience possible, the waiters were rude and the beer was warm. The bathroom had no toilet paper and was super smelly. I recommend staying away from this place, there are many better options and you will be treated...

BEWARE ROBBERS WAITING OUTSIDE

We were two tourists that left a bit early to get an Uber. A man was talking to us saying that he can call us a taxi. After a bit we got sketched out so we went away from him. A car pulled up in front of us asking for directions. My friend walked up to the car and was showing the passenger his maps on his phone. Passenger grabbed the phone and wouldn’t let go. We both wrestled the phone out of his hands. Passenger got out and driver flashed a HUGE PISTOL. We gave up our phones.

Other than that the sound system is great and vibes are good just be very careful.

CALL UBER BEFORE U...