Buying Alcohol Past 11:00pmBefore 11 you can pick up alcoholic drinks wherever you want but afterwards the shops will be closed. So, make sure you pick up all your necessities for the night to come earlier in the day!
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Buying Alcohol Past 11:00pmBefore 11 you can pick up alcoholic drinks wherever you want but afterwards the shops will be closed. So, make sure you pick up all your necessities for the night to come earlier in the day!
Bringing your own drinks is cheap and it is fun too. Unfortunately they overdid it on a regular basis, so that Botellónes are banned in most cites and federal countries of spain. Also in Barcelona the consume of alcohol in public (streets, parks, beaches) is prohibited and fined.
Buying Alcohol Past 11:00pmBefore 11 you can pick up alcoholic drinks wherever you want but afterwards the shops will be closed. So, make sure you pick up all your necessities for the night to come earlier in the day!
Useful information for nightlife: Remember that nightlife starts at around 10 pm for bars, midnight or 1 am for discos. The bars close around 2:00 on weekdays and 3:00 on weekends. Clubs and discos open around midnight and rarely close before 6 or 7 in the morning ... ;-) Check our page Barcelona Nightlife for tickets.
While most clubs in the city start opening around 10 pm, they won't start getting busy with locals until well past midnight. The only exception is Barcelona's beach clubs which start getting busier early since they usually attract more tourists than locals.
What time does nightlife start in Barcelona? Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city and popular tourist destination, meaning there's no set rule for when to go out. Restaurants and bars typically welcome customers from 8pm, while clubs tend to open at midnight and get busy around 1am, continuing until 6am.
The street Las Ramblas is not a shop. It's open 24 hrs a day every day. However, since it's a touristy area, some of the shops there are open on Sunday. But a lot of them actually close on Sunday or open for a limited amount of hours.
Tipping in Spain works differently: The customer actually has the option to not leave any tip at all. However, restaurants expect a 10% tip on each bill—although it's not a formal rule, and that percentage is much lower than tipping practices in other countries.
For serious offences, this can mean three to six months in prison, community service, or a suspension of your licence. If you're just over the limit, you're more likely to get a fine, which can be as much as 600 EUR or 1000 EUR if you're more than double the limit.
Alcohol Sale and ConsumptionAccording to the Law on Drug Addiction and Other Addictive Behaviours, people in Madrid are forbidden from selling or consuming alcohol on the street, except in outdoor cafés and bars and at tables placed by the doors of bars.