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Edinburgh Live
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Dayna McAlpine

Edinburgh nightclub The Hive's dance floors unrecognisable after turning into lockdown bar

Edinburgh nightclub The Hive has shared images online of the changes they've made to the venue during lockdown - and former emos like ourselves can't believe the transformation.

The infamous experience of a night out (wow, remember nights out?) at the Hive changed completely during lockdown after the Edinburgh nightclub turned their two legendary dance floors into bar spaces where punters can have a sit down drink.

But forget getting your face painted, spilling jugs of technicolour cocktails and inevitably losing a mate in the vast space - as the cheap and cheerful nightclub is a dance-free zone due to Scotland's coronavirus lockdown rules.

Nightclubs in Scotland are not allowed to open even in Level 0 of lockdown so the city's discotheques have had to adapt and find new ways to operate.

The Hive couldn't look more different these days (Facebook)

The dance-floors where we once sweated ourselves senseless during freshers are now home to several tables separated by Covid health-and-safety-friendly plastic partitions.

Artificial grass lines the floors and the walls are now covered in fake flowers and fairy lights making the space seem cosy and unrecognisable from its former Hive-til-Five days.

The 'cocktail bar' room past the second dance-floor has proper leather lined booths and new light fittings have been installed to brighten the place up into a fully-functioning pub.

The nightclub is even showing the Euros next week and dish out free nachos to every single table that book in between Monday - Thursdays from 4pm to 6pm.

Hive is now open seven nights a week and have tables for 'two, four and six guests'.

You can book a table at the transformed 'Hive Bar' here.

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