Babylon
Babylon is an underground club near the old port that opens after midnight and runs until dawn. The space is stripped-back: one dark room with a good sound system, minimal decoration, and a focus on music rather than scene. The door opens around 00:30, and the floor fills slowly through the early hours, peaking between 03:00 and 05:00. The music program rotates across the week with resident DJs and occasional bookings from Athens and Berlin circuit names. House, disco, and techno dominate the schedule depending on the night. Drinks are priced in line with the rest of Chora rather than the beach club markup, which gives Babylon a following among locals and industry workers who want to continue the night after their own shifts end. Cover charges appear only for booked international names; most nights are free entry. The room has no VIP area, no tables, no bottle service in any meaningful sense. It's a club for people who want to dance without the performative layer of the island's more famous venues. The sound system is the one significant investment, and it shows.
What to Expect
A dark, low-ceilinged room that feels closer to a Berlin basement than a Mykonos club. Strobe lighting, a packed floor by 03:00, and a crowd focused on the music rather than the social scene.
Dark, intense, and focused. A reprieve from the performative nightlife elsewhere on the island.
House, disco, techno, and occasional acid house depending on the night. Resident DJs plus guest bookings.
Casual clubwear. Less upscale than the beach clubs; sneakers and T-shirts are fine.
Dedicated dancers and music heads who want a post-club destination running until sunrise.
Cards accepted at the bar; cash useful at the door for cover on booking nights.
Price Range
Cover 0-25 EUR depending on DJ booking; beer 8-10 EUR, cocktail 15-20 EUR
Cover ~$0-28, beer ~$9-11, cocktail ~$17-22
Hours
Thu-Sun 00:30-06:00 in peak season. Closed Monday through Wednesday outside July and August. Closed winter.
Insider Tip
Show up after 02:00 if you want the peak crowd; arriving at opening means an empty room for an hour. Check the lineup online before going since the music program dictates the energy. Cash is still easier at the door when there's a cover.
Full Review
Babylon operates as the late-night release valve for Chora's club scene. When the mainstream venues around the old port start to slow down around 03:00, Babylon is just hitting its stride. The entrance sits on a quiet lane near the port, marked by little more than a door and a bouncer. Inside, a short hallway opens into one main room that holds maybe 150 people at capacity.
The room is built around the sound system. Monitors hang from the ceiling, subs sit behind the DJ booth, and the whole space has been tuned to take heavy bass without distortion. Lighting is minimal: strobes, a few moving heads, and haze. The design choice is deliberate. This is a space meant for dancing, and everything else has been pared away.
Programming shifts across the season. Resident DJs hold weeknights when the club opens, playing deeper house and disco. Weekends bring guest bookings, with Athens-based producers and occasional European touring DJs appearing on Friday and Saturday. The music identity leans harder and darker than what you'll hear at Scorpios or Cavo Paradiso, closer to the underground lineage that runs through Berlin and Tbilisi than the Mediterranean house mainstream.
The crowd reflects the music. Locals who work in the industry show up after their shifts end. International dancers who've researched the lineup find their way in. Tourists looking for the generic Mykonos party experience tend to bounce off Babylon's lack of scene and head back to the more polished venues. Drink prices are reasonable by island standards, and there's no bottle service hustle. Come for the music, leave at sunrise.
The contrast with Cavo Paradiso, the island's biggest club on the clifftop to the west, is worth understanding. Cavo Paradiso operates as a full-production open-air nightclub with capacity in the thousands, booked international headliners, and high-ticket events. Babylon operates as a small, committed underground room running late. Both have their place, and serious dancers on a long Mykonos trip end up at both across different nights, using Cavo Paradiso for the headliner experiences and Babylon for the 04:00-to-sunrise extension that follows.
The Neighborhood
Babylon sits near the old port in Chora, a few minutes from Jackie O' and the waterfront bars. The area is dense with nightlife venues of various formats, from cocktail bars to dance floors, but Babylon occupies the after-hours slot.
Getting There
Walk from anywhere in Mykonos Town; the old town is compact and pedestrian-only. Taxis drop at the Fabrika bus station; from there the walk takes ten minutes through the lanes. The entrance is easy to miss, so look for the bouncer rather than signage.
Where to stay in Mykonos
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