Don't stop: The clubs able to stay open all weekend long

There's not much more disheartening than the music petering out and lights illuminating the club. There's always that nudging feeling that you could go on for so much longer, but you'll have to settle for someone's living room rather than a revelry-fueled dancefloor. Not every time, though. There's plenty of clubs with extended opening hours, allowed to roll on and on. We've profiled some of the best below.

This is one of the key venues part of Amsterdam 2.0. There was a brief downer in the Dutch capital after Studio 80 and Trouw closed, but the city bounced back with a spate of new openings. Multi-milllion euro venture Shelter was one of those - launching in the week of the Amsterdam Dance Event in October 2016 - and quickly became one of the most popular spots for ravers. As with Trouw and Studio 80 before it, it can stay open for as long as it likes thanks to Amsterdam's status as a 24-hour city. As the name suggests, the 800-capacity club is underground, the entrance a set of steps that are hidden by a hatch outside of opening hours. "We are literally underground, so that’s one of the coolest features for sure,” Milan Van Ooijen told us last year. Inside, the walls are sleek, a mostly concrete finish give it a modernistic edge and a Funktion One Soundsystem ensures the music is delivered in the crispest form possible. As well as hosting its own nights throughout the year, it opens its doors for Dekmantel Festival in August. Get on that plane to Amsterdam and take Shelter.

Concrete's been a leading house and techno club since 2011, hosting the likes of Bicep, Ben Klock, Nina Kraviz and Steffi in its time, so it's only right it gets to keep the dancefloor open for "as long as the public can dance". The freedom to do so was activated in March, the Port de la Rapée barge club celebrating the new licence with the 28-hour Samedimanche party. That'll happen each month thanks to the Parisian authorities wiping away the original 7am lock-off, with The Black Madonna, DJ Harvey, Optimo and Sadar Bahar lined up for the next one on April 22. Hope you've got the stamina.

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Another Amsterdam selection, RADION's 24-hour permit came into play in May 2015. This allows the 1000-capacity club to "continue programming a diversity of cultural disciplines" across Fridays and Saturdays mainly, with the odd midweek or Sunday party rolling on until 7 or 8am. Upcoming midweekers include the Mood x Our Society Kingsnight Special with Tamo Sumo, Lakuti and a Strictly Rhythm showcase with Kenny Dope and Todd Terry for Kingsday celebrations. Located near the Nieuw Sloten neighbourhood, the venue was previously the Academic Centre of Dentistry. From the outside, the building looks nothing more than a brutalist warehouse, but inside it's a hazy, neon-lit five-star rave den. Or a "scalar field in higher-dimensional spacetimes", according to the definition of 'radion'. Whichever you prefer.

24-hour licences are a rare thing on the West Coast of the United States, but Halcyon SF is flying the flag for doing marathon parties properly. It opened at the end of last year and it already counts the likes of Joseph Capriati, Nicole Moudaber and Kevin Saunderson as DJs to have played there. Halcyon - a converted early 1900s SOMA brick and steel-beamed warehouse - is a saviour in a city where bars have to stop selling alcohol at 2am. Mixmag made the trip a few months ago and came to one conclusion: the good vibes are at a maximum.

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An obvious choice, but Berghain's the boss when it comes to weekend-long partying. The Berlin techno temple's parties just go on and on and on. Friday parties usually fizzle out on Saturday afternoon, but Klubnacht - the regular Saturday night party - rolls through until Monday morning with ease. Don't be thinking you're stuck in the former power plant if you want to stay until Monday, though. You can roll in and out as you please, allowing you to get that brief rejuvenation before the final push. "No re-entry" isn't something you hear from the doormen here and the raving experience is all the better for it.

Trouw closing upset a lot of people, but De School opening made those tears disappear. The team behind Trouw are responsible for the club situated in the bicycle storage area of an old school in the west of Amsterdam, opening it in January 2016. It toasted its first Amsterdam Dance Event in style last year, keeping things going for 36 hours with Dixon, Job Jobse, Lena Willikens, Four Tet and Tom Trago all passing through. You won't see any photos of it in full club mode, so you'll have to get yourself there for a true insight of what it's like. Or if you just fancy chilling, it's open seven-days-a-week, operating as a restaurant, café, exhibition space and more.

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