Riverwalk Wins Coveted Nightlife Award
As any San Antonian knows, the Riverwalk is world-famous for its nightlife, reflecting the good-natured and fun-loving culture that permeates downtown and stops somewhere before Alamo Heights. Visit The Riverwalk staff were pleased to accept the 2009 Best Nightlife Award from the San Antonio Visitor Guide, since CVB staff didn’t return phone calls when asked to attend.
Beating out Houston, Dallas and of course Austin, this award reflects the deep diversity of nightlife in the Riverwalk area, and despite complaints of nepotism from knee-deep-in-drugs Austinites, this was not influenced by the fact that Visit The Riverwalk’s publisher, RiverPress, also owns the San Antonio Visitor Guide.
Top 5 Riverwalk Nightlife:
- Coyote Fugly: after making it through the atrocious movie, visitors like nothing more than to see where it all started at the Riverwalk’s most popular bar! Get insulted by slightly-less-than-averagely-attractive women with attitudes firmly wedged between hardcore man-hater and persistent migraine, and make friends with people you’d normally try to leave the state to avoid!
- Cul Jizzum’s Jazz Landing: still ranked number one by jazz enthusiasts, Cul Jizzum’s recently added a nightclub that takes the music up a notch after 10pm. Between Jizzum’s and Polyesther’s, there’s enough bass to shake the beak of a riverduck at 50 feet, and there’s enough white powder to make it look like it’s snowing in 100 degree weather.
- Pat O’Brain’s: the only people who love Pat O’s more than tourists are Vice Squad officers, who love to give underaged drinkers a run for their money – quite literally – before a good beating that reminds tourists to come back when you’re old enough. Described as “all in good fun” by Enforcement Officers, most drinkers here are nervous enough to forget they’ve heard American Pie for the fifth time in two hours.
- The Riverboat Club: the newest and hottest attraction on the river, sending boatloads of 20-strong groups of clubbers on 30-minute cruises where the loudest hard-core Mex-Techno is blasted non-stop. Guaranteed to cause deafness, the boat’s bouncer throws out anyone who looks like trouble, and unlike any other nightclub, drowning is all part of the experience in this brand new Riverwalk adventure!
- Hurl Out The Moon: another all-time Riverwalk favorite, renowned for the fact that the coke isn’t ‘diet’, if you know what I mean! Musicians hammer out the tunes while rowdy visitors make the piss-drunk decision between finding a bathroom and seeing if anyone will notice if they do it in their pants. Dark stains and Jello shots all round!
