How's the nightlife and entertainment in and around Granada, Nicaragua?
John-Marc Gallagher - GPS Real Estate
Granada, Nicaragua is a pretty hopping little community. The nightlife is more directed towards the younger crowds. There are too many restaurants to even list and on the weekends many of them have live music. There are a couple of sports bars that stay open until 4 AM or 5 AM and there is a bar on the lake called I Love Weekends, which is a huge beach bar where thousands of young people from Granada and Managua show up to party and dance. Sometimes, they have...Granada, Nicaragua is a pretty hopping little community. The nightlife is more directed towards the younger crowds. There are too many restaurants to even list and on the weekends many of them have live music. There are a couple of sports bars that stay open until 4 AM or 5 AM and there is a bar on the lake called I Love Weekends, which is a huge beach bar where thousands of young people from Granada and Managua show up to party and dance. Sometimes, they have themed events where you wear costumes or you wear headdresses, makeup. On weekends I Love Weekends throws what I believe they would call in the States “raves”. Oddly enough, unlike most of the rest of the Latino world, with a few exceptions (some of which I just mentioned), Granada folds up its streets 11 PM or midnight. There are bars and restaurants open until 2 AM, 3 AM or 4 AM, but it gets very quiet in Granada after 11 PM or midnight.
I’ve visited many Latin countries where people don’t even go out to dinner until 10 PM or 11 PM at night. In Granada, in contrast, the city becomes quiet just after 11 PM or midnight. For the most part, all the excitement in Granada happens between 6 PM and 11 PM. There are literally hundreds of restaurants and bars in Granada, but only a handful that stay open past midnight.
The dinner hour here in Granada, Nicaragua is 7 PM to 9 PM and by 10 PM or 11 PM, most places have just the stragglers remaining. It’s an interesting phenomenon. You would think that Granada, Nicaragua would follow the pattern of other Latin countries, especially where it’s hot, where people have a siesta and come out at 9 PM or 10 PM like they do in other places, but they don’t. It’s odd. The sun goes down at 6 PM, the bars fill up at 7 PM, everything is done by 9 PM or 10 PM and by midnight, in general, the party’s over.
In Granada, Nicaragua, it’s a very Bohemian lifestyle. I would not consider it cosmopolitan, like, for example, Montreal. In Granada, it’s shorts and tee shirts. Even though the city of Granada is a cultural, colonial city and there are a lot of art galleries and artists here, it is very laid back.
Posted August 8, 2014
Carlos Roman Gutierrez Solis - Casa Granada Properties
Granada, Nicaragua is a colonial city, 
so the nightlife is very basic. They tried to open a disco bar in the center of the Granada, but it didn’t work. There is a place by the lake [Lake Nicaragua] called The Weekend, opened by a very good businessman from Holland that is doing well, but it is the only one now in Granada with international ideas. The rest of the places in Granada are very basic; very “old school”; speakers, an open space, and then,...
so the nightlife is very basic. They tried to open a disco bar in the center of the Granada, but it didn’t work. There is a place by the lake [Lake Nicaragua] called The Weekend, opened by a very good businessman from Holland that is doing well, but it is the only one now in Granada with international ideas. The rest of the places in Granada are very basic; very “old school”; speakers, an open space, and then,... Granada, Nicaragua is a colonial city, so the nightlife is very basic. They tried to open a disco bar in the center of the Granada, but it didn’t work. There is a place by the lake [Lake Nicaragua] called The Weekend, opened by a very good businessman from Holland that is doing well, but it is the only one now in Granada with international ideas. The rest of the places in Granada are very basic; very “old school”; speakers, an open space, and then, that’s it. There’s not any organized or specified area in Granada where people have a lot of entertainment or nightlife options.
We have a movie theater in Granada, but it shows movies in Spanish (with English subtitles).
In Managua, 45 minutes away by car, we have lots of good places to go for entertainment.
so the nightlife is very basic. They tried to open a disco bar in the center of the Granada, but it didn’t work. There is a place by the lake [Lake Nicaragua] called The Weekend, opened by a very good businessman from Holland that is doing well, but it is the only one now in Granada with international ideas. The rest of the places in Granada are very basic; very “old school”; speakers, an open space, and then, that’s it. There’s not any organized or specified area in Granada where people have a lot of entertainment or nightlife options.We have a movie theater in Granada, but it shows movies in Spanish (with English subtitles).
In Managua, 45 minutes away by car, we have lots of good places to go for entertainment.
Posted August 13, 2014