Pattaya Nightlife News and Reviews

On Soi Buakhaow Players Lounge, previously Booze Lounge, has closed ( BUSINESS FOR SALE ). Update: The bar re-opened with a party on 19th September

After a closure and refurbishment of several months Kiss A-GoGo on Soi LK Metro has finally reopened.

The façade covers both units and the entrance to the Blue Moon guesthouse has been reduced to a bare minimum.

The inside has become a bit more spacious and everything has been completely refitted, even the toilets which are still in the left rear corner and still mixed. The bar counter has been moved to the rear and in the middle is now a central stage with a number of chrome poles. On the right-hand side is still bench seating, now with one low table without chrome poles and two high tables with two chrome poles each.

On the central stage four dancers in big white tops and skimpy red pleated skirts were moving, going on and off stage one at a time. Most of them were wearing strings, but two were bottomless and happy to show their private parts.

On the low table one naked girl at a time was performing. On each of the high tables one naked girl at a time was dancing in a short transparent red skirt.

Most girls were average, which is not too bad nowadays, some fatties and several huge natural racks.

The music was palatable, albeit not precisely rock and roll.

The lighting was more than satisfactory.

There was a steady flow of customers coming in.

Bottled Heineken 130 baht now, up from 115 baht.

Las Vegas III A-GoGo has been dark on Soi Yamato (Soi 13/1) since the 9th July. There is also prominent for sale sign for the building, which may have been posted prior to the bar closure.

There's a sign in the bar redirecting customers to the sister bar P Ying a few doors down the same soi.

Presumably this closure is a consequence of the recent police action to prevent GoGo bars from opening before 6pm.

There are 3 GoGos on Soi Yamato in the Las Vegas chain which also includes Las Vegas II at the 2nd Rd end of the soi. The bars have occasionally closed temporarily probably at times of a lack of girls, at which time it is best to concentrate the available girls in the bars staying open. But this time round the police action may have worsened the situation.

These are niche bars that have relied on afternoon trade for a long time. Soi LK Metro and Walking Street are infinitely more lively than the sois 13, so as soon as they open they grab all the trade going.

I stopped by the GoGos on Soi Post Office (Soi 13/2) in the late afternoon and early evening to see how they were coping. If you look carefully you will surely find somewhere to have a beer and catch a little dancing, but the necessarily unadvertised opening means that there is a lack of customers... and the lack of customers leads to a lack of girls... and of course the lack of girls further contributes to a lack of customers.

Even by the official opening time of 6 O'clock custom didn't pick up much.

Miami A-GoGo was trying quite hard with plenty of girls should there be a sudden in rush of customers, but Nevada was pretty minimal. A friendly girl reckoned that it was much better the day before, but I have heard such a claim a little too often to let go of my pinch of salt.

I'm not sure what these bars could do to compensate for the loss of afternoons, perhaps by livening up their evening offerings. I rather guess that the only hope is an arrangement with the authorities to resume normal opening.

In the meantime there are 78 bars calling themselves GoGos in Pattaya.

Last night the new Beach Club on Soi Happy off Walking Street had indeed closed.

On Soi 15 the builders are in at Sapphire Club A-GoGo and it looks as if it is still far from ready.

On lower Soi Khao Noi Old Hounds Lounge has closed, not really a surprise.

In front of Sugar Baby A-GoGo on Walking Street the recruiting for Annabelles A-GoGo has started. To be honest, I do not see the point of having a different name if there is no separate entrance.

Upstairs from Walking Street, where Tiger Club A-GoGo and the short-lived tomboy club used to be, Dclub , the longest bar in Thailand , has opened.

It is indeed very long and looks rather empty. On the left-hand side is a long white counter with white bar stools and the DJ in the middle.

On the right-hand side are some black high round tables with black bar stools. At the rear is lounge seating.

There were some fully dressed dancers.

Loud house something music and disturbing laser beams.

Immediate paying, no check bins . BEWARE: there is also a drink menu entirely in Thai with prices in two-digit Thai numerals, varying from 40 to 90 baht.

Bottled Heineken (for non-Thais) 150 baht, promotion 89 baht.

Beach Club is located next door to Happy A-GoGo a few paces off Walking Street.

The bar has closed for a few days until 28th July for renovation. Presumably to sort out its widely criticised seating layout.

In the meantime the dancers have moved to Happy.

Whilst Beach Club is closed there are just 80 bars calling themselves GoGos in Pattaya.

Update: Very Happy

23rd July 2016. Thanks to Dave

Beach club was closed on Friday night as noted. The girls were in Happy, which made it very Happy for me. There were so many. Girls they were leaving the Stage 3 at a time. There were a lot of real beauties.

Sapphire closed to

Sapphire club is also closed. The bar is making the final building works to extended the bar into the space vacated by Smile Rock Girls GoGo which closed a while back.

So just for a day or two, the GoGo count falls below 80 to 79.

I was in Baccara last week and a Dancer I know called Bang said that the coyote dancers had gone from Happy . Oo I ventured back their last night, and I'm glad to say she was right,.

It was really rocking last night and it was hard to find a seat. All the topless and Bikini dancers were back, and the showgirls were on form. So a good night was had.

I popped into Peppermint on Tuesday night, there were a lot of very attractive Girls,

NO Coyote Dancers and some vey nice Showgirls. They are much more revealing than Baccara and Happy, they openly show their Pussies.

Unfortunately not many punters there to enjoy the show, there were only about 15-20.

Montana Bar and Lounge on Regional Land Road has reopened under the same management, but is now an open-fronted bar with furniture and a pool table on the terrace.

Inside nothing seems to have changed. There were three or four girls only and one other customer.

One of the girls was Ae, a not so young spinner with minimal English, a perfect body and a clean-shaven beaver. To be honest I prefer a more mature girl with the body of a 20-years-old to a young fatty with the body of a 40-years-old. That being said, Ae, who had started only some weeks ago, was very enthusiastic and still genuinely horny.

Montana still rents out rooms and has ST rooms upstairs (included in the 400 baht barfine).

Bottled Heineken still 99 baht, lady drinks (cola on the rocks ) 130 baht.

I stopped by Miami A-GoGo on Soi Post Office during the afternoon just before Pattaya police ordered an end to afternoon GoGos. It seems that GoGos are now not allowed to open until 6pm.

There were 8 girls in the bar of which 3 were dancing in bikinis or topless. There were a couple of horrors, and a couple of decent girls.

But despite limited assets, the bar was doing quite nicely thank you. The staff were proactively getting the girls to sit with, (or on), the customers, and the girls attentions were seemingly going down well. There was a steady flow of customers, and each would end up staying for a couple of drinks and a couple of lady drinks. (I didn't see many barfines being paid though).

The staff were doing a good job keeping things ticking over. There was a cheap draft beer and lady drinks were 130 Baht.

It seems a bit of a shame that the authorities have felt it necessary to snuff the afternoon GoGos on Soi Post Office and Soi Yamato. I think they stand no chance if they can only open after 6pm.

Their modest offerings probably only work during the hours when Walking Street GoGos are not yet open. The brutal truth is that these GoGos do not really compare with those on Walking Street and these are only a short stroll away. Soi Post Office/Yamato GoGos simply will not be able to compete with Walking Street during evening hours.

Normally with police crackdowns one can be sure that they will prove short lived, however a similar prohibition on Soi LK Metro GoGos opening in the afternoon has more or less become permanent.

I enjoyed my afternoon visit and feel sad that niche markets should be suffocated by arbitrary decisions by the authorities. They are not doing any harm to anybody by opening in the afternoons.

On Thursday Pattaya authorities invited barkeeps to a big meeting. Police chief Col. Apichai Krobpetc told those attending that new zones had been set out, one of which came with 4am closing.

Zone 1 covers entertainment venues on Walking Street and Beach Road that can now officially close at 4am with all other bars and clubs in Sin City falling into Zone 2 that must close by 2am.

The police chief stressed that the new closing times would be strictly enforced and any of Pattaya's 800 pubs and clubs found to be flouting the rules would be prosecuted and shutdown for five years.

On Soho Square, off Walking Street, The Champion (Champion 2) has closed.

Champion originally closed on Walking Street in March 2016 and spawned two new bars, The Champion on Soho Square, and Champion A-GoGo on Soi Lucky Star. This latter venue continues.

So there are no 81 bars around Pattaya claiming to be GoGos.

And by way of circular news, Ishi reports that Amethyst A-GoGo, which has just closed on Soi LK Metro, is now planning on relocating to the Walking Street venue that was the original location of Champion (or possibly the upstairs bar where Guugle was).

On Walking Street the Russian bar Red Square has also closed, not a big loss for most farangs I think.

Meanwhile n Jomtien Passion Gentlemen's Club has reopened, but they do not offer ST rooms at the moment. The large (muddy) car park is no longer available

On Walking Street G-Spot Pattaya has opened, right of Sugar Baby A-GoGo.

The interior is rather traditional for a gogo.On both sides is comfortable red plush single-tier seating. There are two stages with chrome poles around and chrome gym rings in the middle. Behind the first stage is small counter with some bar stools.

On the first stage were teams of eight to ten mediocre, double-topped and double-bottomed coyotes. Some of them were wearing a pleated skirt and white boots.

On the second stage were teams of eight to ten topless and naked dancers. Most of them were shapeless, some looked ready to drop .

Two nights after the opening, shortly before midnight, there were fewer than ten customers and nobody stayed long.

I did not see any interaction between girls and punters.

The lighting was adequate. The music was the usual crap.

Bottled Heineken 155 baht, draught beer 90 baht (after happy hour I guess).

Amethyst A-GoGo and show bar on Soi LK Metro closed after business on 5th July 2016. The bar is has now posted a prominent for sale sign.

This leaves 82 bars around Pattaya claiming to be GoGos.

Bee Bar on Soi 6 is under new management and has been renamed Bee Corner Bar

The bar has been converted to an open bar. It seems to have been taken over by the people who previously had the popular Soi 6 Corner Bar on the opposite corner, before the building was redeveloped into an empty space.

G-Spot Pattaya opened as planned on 5th July on Walking Street by Sugarbaby.

The GoGo is a sister bar to Dollhouse and Club Electric Blue on Soi 15.

Early reports note that bar offers a decent amount of nudity. Draft beer is 65 Baht whilst lady drinks are 165 Baht.

There are now 83 bars around Pattaya claiming to be GoGos.

There is a notice on the door saying that the bar is closed fro renovations and will reopen on 1st September 2016.

Perhaps the final nail for table dancing style GoGos.

So there are now 82 bars around Pattaya claiming to be GoGos. Soon to be more though.

Klein Heidelberg is a German restaurant on the right-hand side of Naklua Soi 18, not far from Naklua Road.

Before it was invaded by McDonald's et al. some decades ago, Heidelberg was a very picturesque city in Western Germany. It is home to the oldest university in Germany and the previous Thai king Ananda Mahidol (Rama XIII) was born there.

It is praised by the song Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren (I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg) and Elvis Presley's Wooden Heart was based on the traditional student song Muß i' denn .

In Mannheim, a stone's throw from Heidelberg, Karl (or Carl) Benz built the first motor car and his more marketing-minded wife Bertha and their sons undertook the first ever long-distance motor car trip, from Mannheim via Heidelberg to Pforzheim.

Note that in many languages the word for petrol is derived from the surname Benz ("Benzin" in German, "benzine" in Dutch and even เบนซิน = "bensin" in Thai), but in those days they had to rely on solvents for cleaning sold in pharmacies. Even today in petrol stations in Thailand if you want pure petrol, not gasohol, ask for "bensin".

Do not confuse Klein (Little) Heidelberg in Naklua with Alt (Old) Heidelberg on Beach Road near Walking Street, which is a disaster.

Klein Heidelberg is very spacious and open fronted with nice wooden tables and (a bit strange) wooden swivel chairs.

The only inconvenience are the countless passing buses with budget Chinese who are shipped to and from a tourist trap somewhere towards the end of Soi 18.

The "small" Flädlesuppe (beef consommé with pancake stripes) with a slice of German quality bread at 75 baht and the Kaßler (slightly smoked, slightly brined, steamed pork loin) with Sauerkraut (fermented white cabbage) and mashed potatoes at 245 baht were excellent.

As usual in German restaurants the portions were very generous. The "small" soup was bigger than what you get at many places. I wonder what their "big" soup looks like.

They sell Chang and (BEWARE: cloudy) Weihenstephaner Hefeweißbier on draught. They also sell bottled Warsteiner (a bit too sweet to my taste) and German spirits.

Klein Heidelberg appears to be popular within the German community.

It is one of the scarce remaining German restaurants in Greater Pattaya that still offer original quality food.

Bottled Heineken 95 baht.

Yesterday (29th June) at around 3pm the Kinnaree Place was closed by police. A local reader reported:

When I walked by today, I saw that it was opened as usual, but a little bit after in the afternoon many police officers came back in numbers and ordered the premises to close the doors again. It doesn't look good for their 4th of July party !

As written by Pattaya One, many bars are currently ordered by the Chonburi Governor to be checked and maybe closed for 5 years if there is any problem. I Don't know if this is related. Anyway, it's not good news for the cleaners, waiters, cashiers, taxi drivers, (and a lot of others...) making a living from it.

Update: Kinnaree continues

1st July 2016.

An additional snippet of news about the police raid is that customers were asked to leave a little before the police arrived and were not subjected to police hassle.

The bar re-opened the following day, although a little subdued with about 20 freelancers in attendance at mid afternoon.

Update: Police raids at late night discos

2nd July 2016. From Pattaya Addicts

For several nights in a row, police have been arriving in late night venues like Insomnia, Flexx, JP Bar, etc. and forcing them to close. It's been happening around 4:30am. The police don't hassle anyone, but it seems like they just want the fun to stop. They just prop the doors open, turn on the lights and everyone leaves.