Most guests looking for a night out head for the Bayerische Spielbank Casino, Wittelsbacherstrasse 17 (tel. 08651/95800), which offers roulette, American roulette, blackjack, and 50 types of slot machines. You must show your passport if you plan to do any gaming. It's open daily 3pm to 2am; admission is 2.50€ ($4). Men must wear jackets and ties. The theater, also located here at the Kurgastzentrum, site of the casino, is a setting for operas, operettas, plays, ballets, musicals, symphonies, folkloric evenings, and chamber-music recitals. The tourism office keeps a complete list of events and ticket prices. When weather permits, performances are staged in an open-air pavilion. Tickets are 15€ to 40€ ($24-$64).
If you want to hang out with the locals, go to the Axel Bar, a woodsy bar in the Steigenberger Axelmannstein Hotel, Salzburgerstrasse 2-6 (tel. 08651/7770). Here you can dance to rather sedate disco music interspersed with folk tunes. Good old-fashioned Bavarian beer is the order of the evening at everybody's favorite beer hall, Burgerbräu, Waaggasse (tel. 08651/6080).
