{"id":598823,"date":"2026-09-13T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T06:34:12","slug":"wellingtons-circus-bar-to-close-after-almost-nine-years-final-day-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598823\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington\u2019s Circus Bar to close after almost nine years, final day announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Circus Bar has been a fixture in Wellington\u2019s nightlife scene for many years, offering a welcome respite to towngoers with its inclusive atmosphere, arcade and bar games, PlayStations and unlimited free popcorn from a machine at the bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Past and present attendees of the themed bar and nightclub shared their shock and sadness upon hearing of its closure in the comments, with one describing it as \u201ca true, tragic loss for Wellington\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNO OMG so many memories and a broken finger,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis will always be the place I had my first kiss. RIP,\u201d a third said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The announcement was also shared on Reddit\u2019s Wellington subreddit, where the bar joined the discussion to thank people for their \u201clove and support over the years\u201d, adding it had been \u201ca pleasure and an honour looking after you all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">One user reminisced about often finishing their night out at Circus \u201cwith some popcorn and PS2\u2033, with another noting that \u201cit was the best way to party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A third Redditor described the news as \u201csad\u201d, saying \u201ctheir free popcorn was such an iconic part of a night out in Welly as a student\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circus Bar has been a fixture in Wellington\u2019s nightlife scene for many years, offering a welcome respite to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,15408,696,17181,1853,80094,651,17163,5972,380,17247,5904,4975,6489,76352,11692,111,139,37968,69,135295,10903,9631,24994,145,61,52,15900,1530],"class_list":["post-598823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-after","tag-almost","tag-announced","tag-bar","tag-central","tag-circus","tag-close","tag-closure","tag-day","tag-decade","tag-drinks","tag-final","tag-free","tag-games","tag-haunt","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nine","tag-nz","tag-popcorn","tag-popular","tag-student","tag-sudden","tag-technology","tag-to","tag-wellington","tag-wellingtons","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}