Good Luck
Hidden away down underneath Cuba Mall in the basement of a building. Good Luck can be difficult to spot. With a low roof and dim lighting, it is a cozy place for a winter drink. Also good in summer, it can be a little dark and hot in the warmer summer months.
Establishment
S&M's Cocktail lounge
Wellington's only gay bar currently operating is small but packed on weekends especially. Two floors with the lower floor being a sweaty dance floor.
Kitty O'Shea's
Popular, with regular live Irish music.
The Matterhorn
The Matterhorn has been a popular Wellington Bar for many years.
Havana Bar
Havana Bar is attached to the popular Havana Coffee Works. Near the top of Cuba St in an old Wellington character house, it is a nice place to listen to some jazz or just relax out in the outside courtyard bar.
Medusa
The home of New Zealand's underground and emerging metal and hardcore artists.Formerly known as Valve and Hole In The Wall.
Blend Bar
Fringe Bar
Gay friendly, live entertainment, karaoke, comedy, all night bar
Imerst
NZ's largest gay/lesbian venue, split over three floors - Closed until August 2008
Coyotes
Chow & Motel Bar
A combination restaurant/bar and cocktail lounge in one connected unit. Chow is a restaurant & bar serving Asian fusion food, cocktails and Sake. Motel Bar is behind Chow with its main entrance in Forresters Lane. According to worldsbestbars.com it is 5th best bar in the world.
Wellington has a bustling nightlife, concentrated along Courtenay Place, one of the major streets running from the CBD. It runs through Te Aro and ends in Mt Victoria. The nightlife causes this street to have the highest population density in all of New Zealand on Friday and Saturday nights. In most establishments, drinks are remarkably affordable ~$6, and entrance charges are either nonexistent or minimal. In some of the better clubs reasonable dress standards apply, however in the day the mood is usually extremely causal, with flip-flop Called Jandals in New Zealand and even bare feet occasionally accepted a common Kiwi choice on hotter days. Cuba Mall also features some cool and more alternative bars.
Away from Courtenay Place in the CBD district Lambton Quay there are many after work bars frequented by office workers, however this area becomes deserted in the later hours, and thus these establishments usually do not provide all night partying.