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Night Life on Hydra
There are a couple good bars, and as you will find throughout Greece, the bars are mostly expensive in comparison to what you will pay in the restaurants and the cafeneons where the locals usually drink. But in Hydra the locals drink in the cafes and bars and you won't find many traditional cafeneons, at least not in the port. The bar drinks are about what you would pay in New York City, the music is too loud and very un-Greek so if you came for the conversation your best bet is to get a drink and move outdoors where there are plenty of tables and chairs for this very purpose.
The best bar in my opinion is the Pirate, right in the port close to the monastery and just before the gold shops. Owned by Takis who makes such great drinks that after a couple I could not help but notice hat I did not care how loud the music was or that I couldn't hear half of what my friends were saying to me. I was content to half listen and look at the young people around me having a wonderful time, and wonder to myself if they could actually hear what they were saying to each other. After one more drink I didn't care and was dancing happily.
 There is also the famous Disco Heaven above the town that gets pretty wild in the summertime. As a matter of fact most of the bars get pretty wild in the summertime. Night life-wise Hydra is similar to Mykonos, a smaller version of the most famous island. It's just a matter of choosing where you want to party if that is what you came for. There is no shortage of bars and discos, whose clientele include super and not so super-models and varying species of Euro-trash mixed in with some very genuine people. If you want to party you will have fun here, no doubt about it.
If you are not the partying type, after dinner, go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of wine or a couple bottles of beer and walk around the port and up the hill until you get to the small fort that overlooks the mainland. If you want to go for a midnight swim, there are diving platforms down below and the sea is lit by phosphorus. But there are benches by the cannons and nobody cares if you drink there if you are mature about it. Or just head back to the cafes where the people watching continues til late and they will stay open as long as there is someone to serve
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