Zanzibar, Stafford

Was good on student nights and very cheap if you drink the right stuff. Usually full of 16 year old stafford school kids which is not that cool. However its usually a good night out. Not much noticeable trouble which is good and its easy to get to on the train. You can stumble out to the kebab shops too! However it is the only proper night club in stafford so you have to go.

when i went it was full of teens it was cheap for drinks but not good for a safe ngiht out

Zanzibar has now shut down - supposedly for refurbishment. It will be no great loss if the place does not reopen. Cheap drinks would be my only positive comment. When I went Zanzibar was dirty, with horrible toilets, terrible music and a strange 2 level dance floor that was like a death trap due to the floor being covered in drinks/glass/dirt. I would not recommend going here unless you are very drunk and are with a decent group of people.

The Zanzibar in Stafford is terrible. The entrance isnt at all welcoming, the paint is peeling off the MDF sign, theres gum all over the tiled floor, and now (because they dont have a proper smoking area) half of the front is sectioned off for people to come out and smoke. The inside is just as bad, the floor is dirty and sticky and everything looks old. I heard a few months ago that it was going to get refurbished but theres still no sign of that happening. The drinks are quite cheap, which is super, because there is no way you could stay in there unless if you got super drunk.
I have had one or 2 good nights in there but that was due to the people I was with, not the venue of the party.

It is the biggest club in Stafford…but size isnt everything.

Zanzibar is and has been the biggest nightclub in Stafford for a while. It has some competition, namely from Chicago Rock Cafe (Now Love2Love) just round the corner, but its sheer size compared to the town means that it won’t go out of business anytime soon.

However, this also means it doesn’t have to spend grand amounts of money on décor either. The carpets are generally sticky along with bars and tables. But the clientèle don’t care, and nor did I up to point. But trying to dance (I use the term dance loosely!) on a sticky floor where your feet don’t move easily isn’t very comfortable.

Prices are very favourable with Friday Nights being a 99p special night with drinks at 99p. On Tuesdays, its Student night and drinks are weirdly more expensive at £1.25.

Toilets have attendants and could do with a refit, but it isn’t too bad for the lads.

Zanzibar is going through a refit soon and changing its name to Escapade; which is probably to counter the refit and re-branding of Chicago Rock round the corner, its only real competition.

This place isn’t excellent, but it isn’t somewhere to avoid like the plague either. Worth a try to make up your own mind, but I give it 3 stars.