90b Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG - Capacity for 660 clubbers

   All the nightclubs in Bath suffer from one significant and inescapable problem. Bath is a city just twelve miles from Bristol, a home to the largest nightclubs in the south west. Any truly discerning Bath clubber can hop on the train and find themselves in the centre of a truly exciting night out. If your ever in need of some people watching time, just go to the train station on a Friday night and check out the clubbing gear of the Friday night commuters. Consequently nightclubs in Bath are left to fill the cheap thrill void. That need to go out, but without the hassle of actually making a proper effort. Needless to say most night club owners don't really make this effort either.

   With that nice big caveat out of the way its on to explaining why Cadillacs might even be good. Like most things which look a bit cheap this nightclub fills a very important hole in many people's lives the need for a cheap thrill. Forget about waiting in a queue, unless its stupendously busy you can walk right in. Smile nicely at the uncommunicative burger eating bouncers, hand over a few quid and walk into the largest club in Bath. 80's chic drips from every wall and fitting, you will delight at the mirrored walls, black ceiling, dodgy carpet. The stainless steel pole work will thrill your very soul, and the voluminous leather couches will sooth your weary bones.

   The sub-basement club has two bars, well stocked with staff and beer, ensuring prompt service. Toilet facilities are reasonably sized, although by no means large they are at least not grotty. The dance floor is mercifully sunken below floor level ensuring proper separation of dancers from pissed up boozers. A properly sprung wooden floor will provide ample opportunity for the more outrageous moves, and buttock level mirrors fulfill the dual function of checking your own grove, and checking the ass of any nice ladies shaking their stuff in your vicinity. A substantial and capable sound system compliments the average lighting, complete with the usual selection of lights that sparkle and shine. On Friday and Saturday nights the DJ's will be pumping out the usual cheesy mix of inoffensive music that would make even your Gran get down and boogie. As long as your not a musical snob, you will be hard pressed not to dance at least once in the evening, once you have imbibed a couple of beers it may be hard to remove you from the dancefloor.

   The cleontelle and attendance at Cadillac's can be a little bit variable. On occasional nights you may find the club inexplicably half empty, but you can usually be gaurenteed reasonable entry levels, and the place is frequently full. The social mix on all nights is quite varied. There are occasional unconfirmed sightings of pissed up over 40's women, usually by themselves and occasionally in groups but always stalking younger pray. The majority of attendance is made up from the 17-22 crowd of single women and men, with a sprinkling of squadies, and during university term time a strong mix of students. The club has a traditional reputation as a source of young and easy girls, the reality doesn't disagree, but to be fair attendance extends far beyond the usual meat market fare. The women in Bath outnumber the men, and this club rarely bucks this trend.

   In summary, don't be put off by the dated looks, dodgy doormen or the fact its located in an out of the way part of the city centre. This club has been around since the early 1980's, always pulls a decent and decerning crowd of people through its doors, and is the largest venue in the city. (unless you count the pub and the club of O'Neals as a single entity). Refreshingly, whilst all clubs in Bath operate a zero tolerance policy to drugs, this is one of the few places that actually manages to successfully enforce the policy.