The Bongo Club Reviews

First visit. Good venue, quite cozy. Spent most of the night upstairs. Bars easy to access. Outside area excellent. Bouncers no problem at all. Friendly atmosphere. Had a really fun night!

The schedule written in Google is incorrect, you will not find a party in the morning at the Bongo Club

The new Bongo club in the Cowgate is a great venue with a large room down stairs, a smaller one upstairs and a nice smoking area out the back. It is really well laid out and good place to go for a dance.

Some of the best tunes in town, great venue, great staff

Two levels with different music to chose from, easy to get lost but have always had a great time here. Right in the city!

Don t know why there re so many negative reviews! Absolutely banging drum and bass, friendly staff. Will defo come back

Type of music makes me bored, sorry, but how you can dance to that? People around looked like they have taken something more than alcohol.. Honestly, if you like typical club music, with one you can have real fun, don't go there.

A fun place to go. Set back under the bridge over the Cowgate, the club has two floors, plus a spacious outdoor section at the back. Occupying the old vaults under the Edinburgh central library, it's both a testament to, and a beneficiary of, Edinburgh's storied and idiosyncratic city architecture.

Particularly fun during the Edinburgh Festival, when it becomes the 'Underbelly' festival venue, complete with comedy venues and extra space.

Boring music and the crowd are the rudest people I've ever come across the amount of pushing and shoving is disgusting.

Hey I'm biased but the coolest music, staff and punters in town.

For people who know thier music , friendly safe and some of Scotland biggest sound systems regularly loading in for some bass heavy nights

The worst place in Edinburgh. Xenophobic and racist

This place is great, obviously it depends what music you're into, and which night you're at. The first half of the night it's usually dead, so a good time to go if you want to throw some crazy shapes, second half of the night it gets pretty packed.

Like others said not for everyone but if you know what you're looking for, the bongo club does it the best, dark, loud, bass and underground music.

Cool little club, gets pretty sweaty but a lot of good nights on and bouncers and staff are usually cool too :)

Good atmosphere, good people. My choice for a night in the Cowgate.

Came from Poland to see your drum and bass event and make some interview's. Get no entrance from security without rison. Thanks for a great night bongo monks...

I come from Poland, live in Inverness at present. I can honestly say that it has been the worst party in my life. Music was horrible, people seemed to be all drugged. Prices are pretty good. It's nice and dark inside but I'm sorry, I couldn't have fun there. Any amount of alcohol wouldn't help. Don't go. I won't come back.

Matthew, the security guy accused my friend being too drunk when she had only one drink. This is unacceptable discrimination. If the club is too full why not to say so.. Very bad attitude. Do not recommend. Don't go there. .

Great fringe venue with a multitude of bars and enough entertainment in the various rooms to keep you going.

If you like cheese and chart - go somewhere else. If you like super cheap drink and buying Grey Goose by the bottle - go somewhere else. If you like toilet attendents, VIP tables and plastic people who know nothing about music - go somewhere else.

But, if you want to hear true underground, roots music, with friendly staff who are on the same level as yourself, surrounding yourself with people who know a thing or two about music and culture, then the Bongo is place to go.

Not too big but not too small. Great soundsystem and a very chilled vibe.
One of the last independent venues in town! Support your scene.

100% the best club in Edinburgh. so much dancing and very cool music

once I was, a club like a club but the concert was great

Full of uni kids and if you love music good luck listening to the music here. Terrible soundsystem and acoustics, sounded like a giant fart. Music could've been good if I couldve heard it. Ashame because it's a cool little venue with a good bar but left after just a couple of hours.

This place used to rock. And yes, that was right... Used to..
Before... It was dirty and charming, you know, that kind of charm these places have.

Now is a new and worse version of the last one, high prices and crappy staff. Don't even try to go in there in summer!

Sad.. Sad...

The best nights I've had in Edinburgh have been at the Bongo Club. Established venue to say the least, it holds a place in many hearts - a place where many memories lie!

The poor Bongo have had a tough few years, ousted from their two previous locations. It retains its spirit though, and has moved up in the world each time.

Now in the space known during August as the Underbelly, tucked away beneath Central Library where nobody can easily find it, they continue to be one of the few venues suitable for smaller live music events, as well as hosting a bunch of eccentric club nights. Not the most inspirational space, but the content tends to make up for it. And it's nice to have an outdoor/indoor beer garden that isn't on the street.

Careful of the cameras - they're in some unexpected places. Ladies, best not to rearrange yourselves in the toilets...

security are on point and sadly one of the last standing underground venues in town