Cloudland

Cloudland is beautiful, stunning on the outside and beautiful on the inside. Always great for a dance or function. I wouldn’t recommend on a student budget because the drinks price are abit above normal and they are strict on dress code.

A huge club with a big room and dancefloor.
A lot of people and high prices. It’s good to go there but not the perfect place to spend time with friends. High volume of music and dress code. Can’t go here to chilling
Une boîte classe et cher. Un des centres de la vie nocturne de la Valley.
Tenue correct exigée, volume sonore très important er prix en consequence.
A faire une fois

What can I say about Cloudland? This is my FAVORITE club venue in all of Brisbane. Cloudland is the epitome of a classy club. It’s unlike all of the nearby clubs or bars. There are so many levels, all gorgeous in their own right. I had a formal on the top levels and have partied in the lower levels other nights. It gets packed on the weekends by business suits. It is classier so it has a dress code, but sometimes it’s not so strict. The ambience is amazing, definitely check it out during the day or night to see. I have taken so many photos of the interior because it’s so stunning. The drink prices are respectable for being a nice bar/​club and taste great as well. The service is quick because there is so many clubbers they have to be. I have also had to ask for their service when I cut my finger on glass trying to help them and they were quite nice and punctual about helping me through the chaos. There’s private booths to rent out so you can get more privacy from the dancefloor. The music is the current mainstream pop so bring your girls or mates and get to dancing to the very best of the moment. Basically, I have nothing bad to say about Cloudland (other than the cover charge can get pricey but go earlier and spend your full night there, you won’t regret it!). Definitely hope this lasts throughout the years in Brisbane, it deserves it.

Cloudland seems to be one of those institutions in Brisbane that is known far a wide, but it wasn’t until I was driving past it one day that I suddenly realised that I have been there years ago. Basically some work colleagues took me here for dinner when I was in Brisbane for work once (I don’t get to travel for work all that much) and that first experience literally blew my mind away. This place was simply all class. In fact I spent that first time wandering around checking it out and wishing that there was something like this back in Adelaide. Hey, as far as I’m aware, there isn’t anything like this place in Melbourne. Anyway, upon returning to Brisbane for a holiday this place was certainly on my to visit list, and once again the set up literally leaves me enthralled. I especially love the bar on the second floor — it is simply really cool. Okay, I can’t speak for this place as a night-​club, but it is still worth checking out.

This place just blew my mind away!!!
How often do you step into a 19^th century ballroom fully equipped with the modern bar? I don’t think it’s that often.
I came here on a wed night for a free swing dancing class at 8pm that was followed by a live music performance of swing music and some great dancers going out to the dance floor to show of their funky moves!
The place is gorgeous with its spiral staircases, multiple mirrors and sparkly chandeliers! If you’re thinking of doing a photoshoot on style or film a movie scene this venue is absolutely your choice:)

The most spectacular looking venue in Brisbane. It’s only down side is that it’s possibly too big for a bar and could be converted into a club setting. That aside it’s cool, classy and a great pre club hangout.

I very recently had my wedding here. I have been a bar patron a handful of times and have always been impressed by the atmosphere and service. From an events point of view it exceeded all expectations.
Our event manager, Jenni was a consummate professional. She organised everything to a tee. The service staff on the night were perfect, all smiles, sirs and ma’ams. The food was very good, not perfect but it never can be when cooking for 100. I was still very impressed!
The wedding package made life so easy! Jenni organised for all equipment to come through so we didn’t need to think about it. Also, beautiful centrepieces which complimented the gorgeous venue were included which saved us a decent amount of money.
The compliments on the venue, service and food flowed, I know I couldn’t have chosen a better venue. The best day if my life was stress free and memorable for all the right reasons.

The sights of Cloudland are quite attractive, and the interiors are quite pretty, but the drinks are more expensive than what its worth. When this place becomes a club for dancing, it’s not too bad, but it’s still not comparable to the dance scene I’m used to.
I’ve never had the food, but it is the place for «going out» and is a bit dressier than the other laid back lounges and underground bars.

Cloudland has been sent to bring Brisbane out of the age of small town pubs and into the era of being a capitol city.
It is expensive but its also targeted at 30yr old+ demographic and includes a great restaurant and good bar.
I have been to several private functions up stairs and they have all been exceptional. Great staff and catering has been awesome.
Not the place for hipsters but defiantly worth a look if you want to do a bit of networking and not get thrown up on at a teenager club.
5 stars

Bartender put simple syrup in my Manhattan. Unforgivable. I asked him what the clear stuff was and he told me; I guess my look said it all so he offered to let me taste it and make it again. It still didn’t taste good; I’m pretty sure he used white sweet vermouth… not as bad as adding simple syrup, but still, poor. I wasn’t up for rejecting two Manhattans in a row so I drank it.
A star for the cool décor though. Open ceiling makes me think I’m in the Great Hall at Hogwarts or something.

I have been to Cloudland approximately four times in my life and two out of those visits, I have been served the worst Gin and Tonic of my life! On both those occasions, they made them with soda water rather than tonic water– it makes a huuuuge difference, trust me. Pretty shocking considering how swanky the place is, you would think they would know how to make it right (heck, the RG’s does). Rant aside, Cloudland is a beautiful spacious bar and restaurant situated in the heart of the Valley.
It used to be that you had to line up for ages to get in but nowadays, the queue is pretty short. I am unsure how to describe the place apart from «very groovy” — there are wall hangings, water fountains, «bubble-​like» ornaments, and «pod-​like» seats. There is a showy staircase that will bring you to a second bar and lounge area. On a pleasant summery night, if you look up, you will be able to see the sky– the place becomes roofless.
A huge part of the appeal of Cloudland is its décor, otherwise it would just be another lounge bar… that can not make a good Gin and Tonic.

My one major beef with Cloudland stems from a visit to celebrate my sister’s birthday. Now, Cloudland is a restaurant as well as a bar. We visited with high hopes for the food and had booked a large table for a group, a month or so in advance.
We showed up at the designated time for dinner and were told that the table wasn’t ready yet. (Indeed the tables were packed.) In the end, the time taken for our table to be «ready for seating» stretched to a whopping one hour and forty-​five minutes. The wait was annoyingly sprinkled with dismissive, «It’ll be ready very shortly» comments from snappy wait staff while we stood and leaned against the wall nearby, waiting to be seated and bringing back rounds of drinks from the packed bar. We asked one staff member at one point if we could sit at a nearby, deserted table instead, and were told no even though no one claimed the table for the duration of the time I was there. The bottle of champagne we were given to make up for the wait didn’t go far towards assuaging anyone’s frustration.
The food drew mixed reactions from some (the portions were mostly tiny, offending a few) whereas my steak was delicious with the right amount of sauce and toppings. The cocktails were also good; however, the terrible service and the staff’s refusal to acknowledge our almost two-​hour long wait for a reserved table cannot but taint my opinion.

The vertical gardens, retractable roof, sparkling glass and water, and staircases that make up the levels of Cloudland certainly are beautiful. When it first opened, the scuplted iron façade with it’s hanging balls of greenery and shimmering, lighted waterfall were a sight to behold. After two and a half years, the greenery on the outside has shriveled somewhat and the glass and metal is less shiny, but the inside is still breathtaking. With so many levels, and seating arrangements from pod-​like booths hovering above the water, carpeted benches sunken into the floor, and bar stools at the bar made of glass, Cloudland is definitely a playground.
With such hype and excitement surrounding its inception, Cloudland had some high expectations to live up to, and the building and interior certainly did. The drinks and prices, however, never quite hit the mark for me and while I’ll go there occasionally for one overpriced drink and a gaze up through the cavernous space and mezzanines to the sky, I never stay long. The drinks are pretty average and the prices pretty above average. Cloudland can also be full of people who think they’re being sophisticated but are actually drunken bogans so I’d avoid it at peak times like late on Friday and Saturday nights.
Cloudland is the definitely the beauty and not the brains, but a little bit of beauty and opulence can be nice for a while, even if only for one drink.

If you do enjoy going and out and like the club scene then Cloudland is a place you should definitely go to at some point. It is quite pricy so unfortunately i cant make every weekend a Cloudland weekend. I always walked passed and thought that the outside was quite cool and on the weekends always saw lines of people waiting to get. When you go inside however its much more impressive and everything hits you at once. I think a lot of thought went into creating the interior and it payed off because ive not been to a club with an inside quite like Cloudlands.
I think that cloud land does stand out as being different from any where else in Brisbane when it comes to a place to go for a night out. I think i have found a new venue for celebrating occasions.

You can’t deny Cloudland has WOW factor in spades. It is undeniably an architectural triumph of sorts, with it’s indoor water features, creative use of glass and stadium style retractable roof. But what does it offer for the ‘person on the street’ in their quest to have a good old fashioned good night out?
The first struggle for your average guy is getting past the velvet rope, which is as thick as a bouncer’s neck if you know what I’m saying. I must confess I’ve only really fronted up to Cloudland’s door twice, and I enjoy a 50% success rate. The first time was with friends on a Thursday night when we spontaneously decided to make a beeline for the then new club. While I wasn’t specifically denied entry my friends, including a couple of lovely ladies, were told they were too casually dressed to be allowed entry. I was a little surprised by this because in my experience, most pretty women could get away with wearing a hessian sack and still have door staff more than keen to let them in.
Needless to say the second time I was successful, but that was largely by virtue of the fact that I scored an invite to their birthday celebration through a publication I was working for at the time. It was impressive taking in the various levels and the Vaudevillian excesses therein (they had hired a couple of clowns to you know, be annoying, as well as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who sang a predictable ‘Happy birthday’) but I couldn’t really see myself rushing to go back to spend a day’s wage on a couple of drinks.
The clientele seemed to be largely middle-​aged and a couple of bright young things with pointy shoes and smirks. People didn’t really seem to dance much either to the ambient house that played almost sub-​audibly beneath the conversational hum. That said I think they were having fun and I believe I also experienced some degree of fun, but maybe that was just altitude sickness…

Let’s get this out of the way. My experiences at Cloudland have been more or less terrible — but that’s not to say it’s a terrible place. Cloudland is designed to impress people of a specific demographic. I, unfortunately, do not fit within their target audience.
My gripe, you ask? Well let’s first say that I don’t earn enough money to buy the mediocre scotch they’ve got on order. $ 15 for Johnny Walker Black, which is a pretty bland whiskey, is excessive. The pricing point for their normal patrons seems to cater for those with more money than taste. The music is some pretty horrible stuff too. Very dance /​house music orientated and incredibly loud. It’s amazing they haven’t taken into account how hollow interiors echo sound, the top floor must have to scream just to order some champagne. I must have overheard about twenty people specifically order ‘French Champagne’ — Yeah, not the normal American champagne stuff, thanks. That’s like asking for Scotland scotch whiskey.
Cloudloud, it rubbed me up the wrong way. The extravagance, the over-​done interior decorations and the solution to a problem that no one had. It –does– look nice, though but that’s not enough for this young bar fly.

I guess I don’t really view Cloudland as a club you go to, it’s more like an interactive show piece. It’s basically an adults interpretation of the Mad Hatters Tea Party, and every brick and piece of furniture is designed to shock and awe patrons. I would DEFINITELY advise against entering under the influence of any hallucinogens, unless you have a minder and a clear exit strategy.
The entrance is dominated by the giant grand stair case and, of course, the famous opening roof. There are multiple ‘private’ areas in the venue, each with their own flavour, but my biggest gripe is that the music is so insanely loud you have to scream to be heard. It does help create the illusion of being one of the hip, beautiful crowd, however it gets a bit old after a while.
I went to Cloudland after a work party, and thankfully there were lots of drunk sales reps available to buy drinks on the company credit cards. I say thankfully as you could easily blow a mortgage payment on a nights drinking at Cloudland. There are four levels of bars, and a fine dining style restaurant, and it’s all so exquisite that you forget it also comes with an exquisite price tag.
The whole experience is beautifully created and managed, designed to whisk you in, make you feel like one of the beautiful people and empty your pockets on the way out. And I for one am happy to pay for that privilege. Cloudland is an adults play ground in the childs sand pit that the Valley seems to have become.

My friend was having a birthday celebration on a Friday night after work. I thought yay! My first Friday night in the city for the first time in years after having 2 babies close together. My clubbing days are back for a one night revival! As I drove around looking for a park (my car ended up being towed that night, so it was quite the expensive town revival night for me) about 2 blocks away… my friend and I walked it with our cool heels on to Cloudland. You can’t really say ‘where is it’ because it is massive. It is colourful. It is something you wouldn’t usually see in the valley around the corner from The Empire and The Press Club… back in my day anyway.
So there is a bouncer, bless him, he knew what to do… card us 30 something year olds. Good man… ah I feel young again. In we walk… to an outdoor lounge and bar area… the music was blasting… we felt hip again (secret yay). The drinks are a little on the expensive end and the music was a bit loud, so loud we couldn’t really talk to each other, more like yelled… unsuccessfully. More like chinese whisper… I guess some people like that. Cool folk like that damnit. It was really getting packed with people after work… there was a DJ… the atmosphere was pretty awesome. I looked up at the multitude of levels, the sky! Ahh the sky, in a building in the valley… they definetely wanted to be the coolest cats in town when they thought of designing a place like this.
The food was really good, I had the steak, everything came on time, the waiters were pretty efficient, and when we excused ourselves to go to the ladies room, we were in there for a good 30 minutes. There were cool cubicles (I had trouble actually finding them they were so cool the doors blended into the design) and when I looked up after washing my hands I saw a guy??? Apparently the men’s room paralled the ladies… so I said ‘Ah. oh hello’ and quickly moved back behind the barrier. Groovy no?
So definetely worth a check out, if not for the music and atmosphere, the incredible architectural design that went into it. Definetely a cool place to be a cool cat. Maybe a little too hip for plain old me.
Oh… and my friend almost fell on the glassy staircase… but it was a very pretty glassy staircase!

Once upon a time, when I first became old enough to flash my magic ID card that allowed me entry into nightclubs, I thoroughly enjoyed all the glitz and not so glamour that came with it. Refusing to enter any establishment that wasn’t packed to bursting with patrons and timing our arrival so that it would be so, the art of elbowing space hogs on the dance floor was a wanted skill. Sticky floors were always a cause for laughter and the smell of dried alcohol on various surfaces was a constant reminder that it was the weekend.
Then I grew up. Now the idea of fighting for my right to sway on the dance floor among a pack of sweaty strangers wearing dangerously sharp heels does not seem so enticing. My friends and I retired from the weekly nightclub scene and only rarely ventured out as we came to the realisation that once you’re over 21, ‘clubbing’ is not all it’s cracked up to be.
My friends convinced me that we should have a girl’s night at Cloudland, and I must admit I was far less than enthusiastic however, I was very pleasantly surprised. First of all, Cloudland is huge. With one main lofty room, a sweeping staircase to one side and a mezzanine floor, there is actually space to move and breathe, something I have grown to treasure. I believe there are more floors, but only these two are for general use.
The interior design is lovely; it’s certainly a classier place than some I used to frequent. I celebrated my 25^th birthday there and we were lucky enough to snag a semi-​enclosed area full of comfortable seats overlooking the floor below.
Drinks are a little on the pricey side, although entry is free. Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact prices (a sign of the good times I have had there?), but while drinks may be a bit more expensive than some other places, the prices certainly aren’t scary enough to send you running. They also do lunch and dinner on certain days.
If you’re like me and would prefer a more relaxed, less stuffy nightlife experience, I highly recommend Cloudland.

Cloudland was, apparently, the name of a famous dance call and drinking place in Brisbane for many decades. It’s now gone, but this incredible bar, just opened in March 2009, has taken its name.
Cloudland’s design is a staggering mix of glittering scale and tropical style. Look up several floors past the retractable roof to the stars. Check out the shiny glass bar that swoops and swirls around. Grab a table for a reasonably priced steak or seafood meal. Buy an expensive cocktail. Chatter at the bar or dance away upstairs.
Cloudland is immense, and is obviously trying to cater to the super-​flash crowd. There’s as much wood and greenery as mirrors and tiles. There’s also a moving, mechanical Christ. Check the pics.
This would not be my regular hangout; I prefer low-​key and small and grotty to über-​swish. But the meal I had was very good, and less pricey than most restaurants. And if you like grand places, and modern over-​the-​top design, and to see and be seen, then Cloudland’s your place.