Hola Everybody. I need your advice and assistance please! here is my desperate plea: Me and my friends are arriving in Madrid Mar 16 for three nights only. My time in Madrid is short. My problem is this , we want to do the "Must Sees" while we are there. This applies to day and evening activites. We are young and looking for things that are off the beaten path. Remember we are only here for 3 nights. Also what is the ebst way to get to Ibezia? Thank you all who help me. Love you !
BESOTE!

Hi!

Just tree nights ... of the beaten path ...
At night:
The most tipical pub's zone is Huertas. You'll find there loads of bars until 3a.m. or 4a.m.
Another tipical pub's zone is "La Avenida de Brasil" near "El Bernabeu" or "The congress palace".
And the third zone with loads of bars is Malasa�a. In this last zone music and people is more "radical". You should go and see is the kind of bars/music like you.
There is another zone with loads of gay bars and gay people in the streets, is called Chueca.

After bars are closed you'll have to go to a Disco. It also depends of what you like (and the money you have). In atocha is Kapital, near la Puerta del sol are "La Joy Slava" and "Palacio Gaviria", near Alonso Mart�nez are "Pach�" and "But".

And during the day:
Eat tapas and tapas in La cava Baja, la cava alta, la plaza mayor, huertas, etc.
I also recommend you to visit some tipical places: Cibeles, Plaza Mayor, Sol, Almudena, Palacio Real, Puerta de Alcal�, El Retiro.

Bye!

Thank you sooo much for your help. I am very excited. I cant wait. We like all kinds of music and want to see some crazy stuff too. I heard of a bar that has 3 floors. Are any of the ones you mentioned "it"? Thanks again.

Hello!

Now I can't recall a BAR that has 3 floor but I can recall that Kapital (the disco located in Atocha) has 5 floor and in each one there is a different kind of music. There's long, long time ago that I haven't been in Kapital and I scarcely can recall how it is.

For the day:

-Museums: Prado, Thyssen and Contemporary Art in the Old "Hospital Provincial"; off the beaten path: "Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando", Madrid second Art Museum, and you can never find any one visiting it.

-The Royal Palace

-The Monasterio de las Descalzas

-and everything Totx said

-off the beaten path: if you are not afraid, visit La Corrala, and Lavapies neighbourhood. They can be dangerous for foreigners, but you'd see real Madrilenian people mixed up with inmigrants, in an old, typical district; quite interesting!

(if you think nobody is going to know you're foreigners, you're dammed wrong - I don't know how, we, Spaniards, can know it)


-For the night:

-if you want to go out like Madrilenians, avoid Joy Eslava and Palacio Gaviria, and go to any other places recommended by totx (I specially like Huertas)

-special advice for non-Madrilenians: in Madrid almost every place is free b4 3.00 or 3.30 AM. After that, almost evey place charge a cover entrance fee. So, we usually move from one place to another before 3.00 (we visit from a couple of places to maybe more than eight), and then choose a place to stay in after 3.00 (if you enter the place before 3.00, you don't pay the fee, and you can be there till they close around 6.00). Kapital (this six floor disco) always charge a fee (around 12-15 euros - one of the most expensives places in Madrid. Don't enter a place if they try to charge over 20 euros - they are trying to get extra money because you're foreigners).

If I were you, I would spend the first night in Huertas, and then I would ask some people (SOME, ask more than one) for the best places to go the nights after. You may get to know some interesting things (parties, etc.)