I was shocked to discover that the Double 6 club is gone, as too is Déjà vu. The two kingpins of entertainment on the Seminyak side of Kuta, both gone in a year.
Double 6 was legendary around the world. It opened at 6pm and closed at 6am (hence the name) and the nightclub had a huge pool and a bungy tower in the middle of it. An entry fee kept the riffraff out, and the drinks and fun flowed like water. It first opened in 1987 and had a 15,000 watts sound system that you could hear halfway across Bali. They would even let you ride a motorbike off the bungy tower. The place was like that.
And now its gone. The photograph shows the wall of a construction site where people once partied all night long.
Vale Double 6. I had a ball with you.
A burnt out Double 6 sign.... (years before it closed)
Me looking half dead, leaving the club at dawn.
To the left of the traditional Balinese tower you can see the illuminated bunjee tower at 66. You could see it for miles......
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