Salsa in Bodrum – Turkey

Recently some people were looking for places to go salsa dancing in Bodrum, Turkey.

Bodrum is a pretty popular tourist destination but we couldn’t find any information about salsa clubs there.

Luckily a turkish salsero had just been to Bodrum and was able to recommend some clubs.

So, in an effort to make more information about salsa dancing in Bodrum available online for other salseros who plan to go to Bodrum I decided to post the information here as well.

There are 4 places in Bodrum to go salsa dancing that he knows off.

First, there is Filika. It is a place where they play salsa, bachata, cha cha. The downside is that it is very hot and that the owner doesn’t do anything to change it as he is not a dancer. This one should be easy to find as it is at the beginning of the ‘bars street’. Filika is not at street level but it is one floor up. That said, the music can always be heard on the street so just taking a walk at the bars street is enough to find Filika.

The second place is near the end of the same street. the name is “Addres bar”. Here they also have tango but there are 2 or 3 nights of salsa as well. He is pretty sure that Friday is a salsa night but doesn’t dare say anything about the other nights. This bar is very close to White House Disco which is apparently very well known.

The third place is at the end of the same street as well. It is at the back of Halikarnas Disco and it is called ‘Halikarnas pier cafe & bar’. Halikarnas disco is apparently known all throughout Turkey so anybody in Bodrum should be able to point you towards it. It has live latin music (a Cuban band) every night except Monday. Most of the people there are apparently not dancers though, they just come to listen to the music.

The last place is a bit out of the center. It is in an area called ‘Bitez’, about 5km (about 3 miles) from the center of Bodrum. In Bitez you can find “Manuela Hotel” and in the bar of this hotel they also have live cuban music on Wednesdays.