“We have the largest capacity in Europe,” says the owner, Henry Bastelica, estimating the floor space at around 2,000m2. “About 4,000 people can party here.”
To woo them, the club flies in big names from the international DJ circuit, including Roger Sanchez, Dirty Soundsystem and Erick Morillo. (“He flies in a private plane ... and costs 40,000 euros,” says Bastelica of Morillo). The vast VIP area, he adds, has served the designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, the supermodel Laetitia Casta, the soccer star Zinedine Zidane and “all the biggest French actors.”
But Bastelica is quick to crush any comparisons with France’s flashier resorts.
“Celebrities go to St-Tropez and get snapped to death by paparazzi,” he says with a disdainful shake of the head. “Here no one will bother them. Here they don’t even need a bodyguard.”
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