The following reviews are those that I come across on the web, in guide books, from contributors and of course from my own visits. Reviewers may be unreasonably harsh and bar owners may present a rosy picture of their bars...so don't take everything at face value...go and see for yourself.

If anyone would like to add a review or information please email Dave at webmaster@pattayagogos.com

There are now 81 bars listed as operating GoGos with girls dancing in bikinis or less

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19-69 Club

Naklua Road

Renamed from Kittens, closed summer 2006

Soi Pattayaland 1

Closed, now Sawadee Boys

A

Air Port Club

Walking Street

From 3pm

New for 2008 from the people that brought you Nui's 2, Pinky Girl, Hot Girls and New Star. Opened 1st Sep 2008

Feb 10 Key								Takeaway: -showgirl to 12 1000 -showgirl after 12 700 -topless dancer 700 -bikini dancer 600 Short times limited to 1 hour
Pint £2.00
	to 8pm	55				165	130-250
from 8pm		85	130	95

Beware of the very expensive lady drinks

  Review from Malcolm, January 2010: 20 Baht notes

125 Baht for bottle of Singha but with the amount of naked flesh around, well worth it, and no hassle at all for lady drinks.

OK if you're near the Jacuzzi or bed/stage at the back you will get a tip pot rattled at you, keep a few 20 Baht notes in your wallet for these occasions.

  Review from Materialsman, Oct 2009: 10/10

I  have read on Forums that Airport is too loud, too expensive, too small, but f**k me sideways, they are doing something right, and those stewardess uniforms are something else, I love the way they appear to have a sort of colour ranking with the uniforms, from the beautiful blue of the stunning Hello girls and some service girls, there are also white uniforms, red ones, and I even spotted one lady in a black suited get up, very, very sexy in my view, and I am known amongst my peers as an incorrigible pervert of the highest order, with a known predilection for schoolgirl uniforms, but this stewardess concept done Airport Club style blows that right out of the water, even the naked Jacuzzi girls maintain tiny parts of the uniform.

The Club was absolutely chockers, virtually standing room only, and I had to make my way back to the Jacuzzi areas before I could squeeze myself onto a stool. If you think being trodden on is a potential hazard in the Iron Club, then you wouldn't like Airport one bit! It was so compressed in there wedged between the wall and the first Jacuzzi, it was almost uncomfortable, but I didn't give a flying f**k, there were so many naked girls squeezing past me that I managed to cop a feel of more naked, tight ass in an hour than a Catholic Priest gets in a lifetime! I feel I have to mention one of the Jacuzzi girls, simply the largest pair of natural tits on a Thai girl I have seen in years.

The girls here last night were just simply awesome, the dancers, the show girls, the service girls, Hello girls and all, if you can just block out the awful, loud car alarm music played in there, it's the hottest joint in town, and I wouldn't hesitate to bring a newbie into here for his first taste of life Pattaya style, I think it would be enough to make him faint, even the Pope would have a ball here right now, I just wish I had more time to be a regular visitor here.

Another girl on the platform next to the Jacuzzi was rubbing her pussy up rigorously again a chrome pole, there were wet foam truncheons being smacked against naked flesh with reckless abandon, there were gorgeous, skimpy uniform clad girls gyrating on stage, total bacchanalia, if I die, please place my ashes in an urn on the window shelf right here opposite the Jacuzzi's, so I can enjoy the deliciously decadent, debauched scene for all eternity. There is really no other option available to me than to give this place a 10/10 based on last night.

  Review June 2009: Business Class

The bar must be doing something right as it is very busy during a very low season.

The bar is closest in feel to What's Up. It has half the bar devoted to gogo dancing on a small set of stages and then at the back of the bar it has a water feature and play stage with girls doing a continuous naughty show. And in common with What's Up it has the Thai run potential to be a bit overly ruthless on the quest for money.

The gogo dancers were mostly bikini clad with an odd one taking her top off. The prettier girls were assigned to the fun stages at the back and were generally having fun with the customers willing to feedback the fun.

The service staff make a mark with their fetching air stewardess uniforms which definitely add a unique atmosphere to the bar.

  Review from Materialsman, Dec 2008: Peak Season

I was stuck in the only available space in the Club, well away from the bathtub and Jacuzzi action, and right under a speaker close to the Club entrance, nursing my 120 baht bottle of Heineken.

I will certainly be returning once the Christmas and New Year Bar Fine wallet gouging levels are over, so, like a News of the World reporter, after really enjoying the company, I made my excuses and left.

  Review from Pattaya Addicts, Sept 2008: Uniforms

This place has some service girls in great "air hostess" style uniforms.

  Review from Oukiva, Sept 2008: Sky High Prices

I returned last night to Air Port Club.

Surprise : Coke is now 95 baht :))

I suppose they made a try during first days but had too many complaints about this price. Good that they changed :)

Yesterday there were many many Japanese guys and many many people smoking. The aeration/aircon is not correct or strong enough. Really smoky inside. but nice and fun girls, so we stayed.

  Review from Oukiva, Sept 2008: Sky High Prices

I visited Air Port Club last night. Yes it could be successful.
Everything one likes in a gogo...except...

Coke or Soft drinks at 110 baht ! :(

Until now I think the most expensive was 100 Baht
in Super Baby and Super Girls

110 Baht for a glass with little Coke and lot of water/ice!

Some girls seem to alternate between Air Port Club and Playgirls upstairs. But the end result is that Playgirls ends up with poor girls compared with the very nice ladies at Air Port Club.

All Girls

Soi Pattayaland 2

Closed in 2007. Then Popcorn but that is closed too

Closed in October 2005, now Lollipop A-GoGo, see below

Angels A-GoGo

Walking Street

Small bar opened July 19th 2006 but closed in July 2008.  Converted to a restaurant but now closed.

Angelwitch Rock Dancers

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm
Shows 10pm to 1am

Reports of a discriminatory 300 Baht entry charge (inc 1 drink)

Professional and erotic shows with expensive drinks. Opened in January 2006. Keep an eye on your tabs.

Oct 09 Key							Takeaway: -showgirls 1000 after 1am only -dancers 800
Pint £3.30
		145-150	125-150	125-145	170	150

  Reader review Dec 2009: Hassle all the time

There are many girls and a show, but drinks are quite expensive (juice or soft drink 150 Baht).

The worst of all is the staff, who hassle all the time asking you to order more drinks. It's not a place I would recommend.

Bar fine 800. Lady 2000 one hour. If you want the lady all the night, get ready to pay 3000 up. There are many places much better than these one.

  Review from Pattaya-Addicts, November 2009: Hassle

Although the shows are noted as high quality the bar is currently taking a persistent knock on the Pattaya forums for hassle.

Complaints include a minimum drinking speed for customers and continuous drinks hassle from the staff.

Drinks are expensive and the girls quote short and long term rates to match.

  Review from BiLLYiSaKiD, May 2009: Homecoming

I first discovered Angelwitch in April of 2008 with a couple US Marine buddies. Even with the high prices we were addicted from the start! We even saw a lot of couples there…

We ended up there every night and I went home with the same hot lil’ cutie every time. And I thought I was a true butterfly! Not with this one. Mamasan always made her wait for me… Now that’s service!

…When I managed to make it back to Pattaya in August, my little darling was no longer working there but mamasan was and she made damn sure that I had my pick of any girl on stage. She even offered to call my original girl back just for me. I declined of course and took full advantage of mama’s kind offer and walked out with a different girl every couple of nights. With mama as a friend and as long as I took care of the girls, no hard feelings. Not even so much as a dirty look… Admittedly that freedom to butterfly was paid for in smiles, tips and ping pong balls!

Because my first drink was always with the head mamasan or the staff my friends and I were always well taken care of… I’ll always make a point to drop in to Angelwitch for a little “Home Coming” whenever I’m in Pattaya.

Strong Points:

• Very Friendly Staff
• Clean!
• Best Sexy Shows…
• Best Dressed/Almost Dressed Dancers
• Date Friendly

Weak Points:

• Expensive
• Not the prettiest or best dancers

  Review from Pattaya Talk, April 2009: Great Shows

Still providing great choreographed shows although short on customer/girl interaction and lacking much in the way of eroticism.

A good place to take a girl if you’ve already barfined and you can stomach the sky-high drink prices.

  Review Nov 2008: Popular

I'm no longer a regular visitor to the bar due to the very expensive drinks.

The shows are worth the money for those that like choreographed shows. In fact the shows are about the best in town.  I also find it a very good place to go with visitors who may not like the mongering bars that I prefer.

However most of the time I am in participation mode rather than watching mode, so paying extra for shows doesn't appeal.

But there are an awful lot of visitors in town who prefer watching over participating, so the bar does deservedly very well indeed.

  Review by Don, Feb 2008: Quick Quick

I've had a couple of bad experiences at Angelwitch.

First was in September when I ordered a coke, which was about the price of a beer, and was hustled out of the bar by the waitresses for not ordering another quickly enough. I though this may have been because of my choice of beverage and that I’d be given more time with a beer.

The experience was enough to keep me away from the place until last night, when my date asked if we could return. Unarguably they have a great show and their fill dancers between the shows are very attractive now – as they tended to be drab in the past.

But drinks are very expensive, and the waitresses were hovering as we watched the show. I believe the couple next to us were harassed out of the bar, but I kept a firm hand on my beer throughout to avoid waitresses picking up the bottle – this didn’t stop one waitress from getting up on her toes & peering in to it. Finally, although neither of us had finished our drinks, we were told we had to reorder for the new show or go. So we chugged our drinks in anger and left. We never did see a full show and I expect the time we were allowed with our drinks was about 20 minutes.

I do not come to Thailand to be angered, but these guys succeeded twice in 2 short visits. I’d recommend to all others to stay away unless they enjoy being treated like crap.

Closed.

B

Babe Watch

Walking Street: Soi 16

Opened November 2005, closed in July 2006. Now Black & White which closed too.

Baby Boom A-GoGo

Soi connecting Soi Buakhao and Soi XZyte

From 8pm

Opened on 15th November 2009

Feb 10 Key							Takeaway: dancers 500 service 600 Room:
	49	100	80	90+		100

  Review February 2010: Surprised

I was well surprised on my visit to the bar. Rather than few older girls reported my previous visitors, the bar was full pretty girls. There were about 20 dancers and perhaps 15 of them would get a job anywhere on Walking Street.

I rather suspect that there was something temporary going on as it was left to the older girls to go and ply their trade and sit with the customers.

The small bar is well laid out with comfortable seating mostly with a good view of the side stage.

There were 6 dancers at a time on stage wearing a bikini or half according to their wishes. The music was a little loud and selected for the benefit of the dancers rather than the customers.

With cheap drinks, surely the recipe to attract a few customers from Soi Buakhao. It will be interesting to see if the current attractive dancing troupe can be maintained.

  Review from Ishi, November 2009: Early Days

I saw 10 dancers in the bar. 4 of them were dancing on the stage. Most of them wore  bikinis, but a few of them were topless.

A Jacuzzi has been built  on the upper floor. But the Jacuzzi and show time will have to wait until there are enough dancers.

Baby Dolls A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

www.babydollspattaya.com

Opened October 2006, changed hands in Feb 2007, March 2007 and May 2008. It is now one of most noted interactive gogos

July 09 Key								Takeaway: -festivities 1000-1500 -showgirls 700 -service 500 -dancers 600 -all after 1:30 am 300
Pint £1.50
	to 10:00	45			60	150	120
from 10:00		65	115	85	95

  Review by jj, July 2009: Most naughty to most demure

Baby Dolls continues to enjoy its place among the top tier of Pattaya haunts. The bar has it all and gets it all right! From most naughty to most demure -- even the service staff -- are friendly and attractive. If she sees you without a lady, Mamasan comes over to ensure that all is well. Plenty of action everywhere one looks. If there can be any complaint whatsoever it is that the electrical system seems bit dodgy. On two consecutive visits, the power has failed but within 10 minutes the fault was located and music and a/c restored. .

  Review July 2008: Better Than Ever

The bar is very good as outlined in previous reviews. Unfortunately for the high season months it was a bit too good. I gave the bar a miss for a few months simply because it was hard to find a seat, let alone a girl to take care of you.

However the low season has depleted the excess customers and again there is a good chance to take part in some of the almost legendary entertainment.

There are touch feely shows on the play mat, the Jacuzzi and also on part of the main stage. There is also more traditional gogo dancing on the central stage and a few table dancing stages.

The service is friendly but sometimes a little stretched by the amount of customers.

The drinks prices are very reasonable.

There are plenty of pretty girls on hand but maybe not quite the top selection in Pattaya, as maybe the interactivity is a little too much for many girls.

  News May 2008: Under New Management

The bar has changed hands and Ricky is the new frontman.

  Review by Serigala, Jan 2008: The Only Place in Town

Having read other reviews about Baby Dolls my wife and I thought we’d have to check it out.

The other reviews were spot on for the liveliness, lots of nakedness, interactivity and downright good fun.

The only place we stayed for more than one drink.
The only place that we ST’d a girl.
The only place that we could say we were welcomed and looked after by the mamasan, service girls and dancers.
The only place we felt they wanted us to be there, and to stay.
The only place where the smile was the norm, and not the exception.

Coupled with reasonably priced beer and happy hour until 10pm, we gave this place top marks and first on the list when we visit Pattaya again.

  News Nov 2007: Captain Sensible

Manager Gary has accepted a good overseas job offer and has now finished work at Baby Dolls.

  Review by Johnny, Nov 2007: Best in Pattaya

Baby Dolls is hands down the best GoGo in Pattaya right now. Full nudity seems to be encouraged, perhaps possible because of the off-Walking Street location. 'Anything goes' at this place. Non-stop shower/hot tub and separate bed (pad) show is really hot. Up close seats, and girls happy to have you help with baby oil, soap, nipple caressing, etc.

This place is a really great time. MamaSang is top notch, happy to buy you a drink if you have bought plenty yourself and she will IMMEDIATELY correct any problem and make it right. For instance one shy show girl wasn't giving a good performance so MamaSang yelled at her to get wet and encouraged a customer to rub her entire body down with soap.

  Review by eyebee, Nov 2007: Hidden Gem Revealed

At the moment Baby Dolls is totally rocking. Loads of girls, with a lot of nudity and naughtiness.

The customer base has picked up too. Up till now its been Pattaya's hidden gem. I guess I'll have to share it with others now.

New manager, Gary, seems like a good egg.

Baccara A-GoGo

Walking Street

The Pattaya branch of the noted Soi Cowboy GoGo opened 17th December 2009. Ownership connections with Peppermint, Happy and Beach Club

Jan 10 Key								Takeaway: 600
Pint £1.90
	to 9:30	59*		59	59	140	105
from 9:30		59*	120	100	95-120

  Review February 2010: Bar Psychology

Baccara must be one of the most focused bar designs in Pattaya. The downstairs floor is totally dominated by the large central stage sporting a dozen girls with plenty of space for more.

On one side of the plush bar there is tiered comfortable seating overlooking the auditorium stage. The bar goes one step further than most, by providing ring side armchairs. Inevitably these are facing the stage and this adds to the domineering focus of the dancing stage.

There were a dozen dancers on stage either topless or bikini clad depending n the wishes of the girl. They were surely above average and were putting more effort into their dancing than most bars. The music was dance friendly and set quite loud but sensibly not as loud as some.

There is an upstairs bar area where the dance floor is transparent and located directly above the downstairs stage. Presumably if you are sitting around the main stage you can look up to the upper floor dancers and see that they are wearing less than their downstairs sisters. I couldn't see anything of note from the side seats though.

The wait staff is male and they are dressed in striking polo shirts. Presumably not intended, but this is very reminiscent of bouncers and security staff at Farangland venues. The fact that these guys tend to circulate around the stage whilst serving, gives the impression of them patrolling and guarding the girls.

The whole bar design reminded me so much of the places back home where I really would rather not be. With unattainable pretty girls hiding behind glass or else guarded by bouncers ready to slap you down should you make any attempt to get near the dancers.

Of course this is simply not the reality at Baccara. The girls are as friendly and approachable as you would expect. And the guys really are there just to serve you a drink.

Maybe just me, but I didn't really enjoy being reminded of the restricted fun allowed in strip bars back home.

  Review by Ishi, December 2009: Happy Prices

Baccara A-GoGo had a soft opening on 17th December with an opening party to be held on 18th December.

The stage of the 1st floor is almost the same as Happy in Pattaya. Bikinis or topless and the uniforms are changed daily

And the 2nd floor is almost the same as Baccara in Bangkok. The dancers are topless with short white shirts and mini skirts. And most of them don't put on under pants.

The stage of the 2nd floor is made of glass, so it's possible to see the dancers from the 1st floor. There are a lot of sofas for the customers like Bangkok.

The number of the dancers are much less than those of Bangkok. 1st floor:11, 2nd floor:7.

All prices (including Happy Hour, Bar Fine and so on) are the same as Happy Group.

Baccarat began shows on 18 Dec. The show girls are from Beach Club. I watched 2 shows  one is naked dancers and the other is topless dancers.

Beach Club

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

Table Dancing with ownership connections to Peppermint & Happy. 20 Baht tips are the order of the day

Jan 10 Key								Takeaway: 600
Pint £1.90
	to 9:30	59*		59	59	150	105
from 9:30		59*	120	100	95-120

*small glass

  Review from materialsman, October 2009: A solid 9/10

I really like the Beach Club, although I seldom look at the dancing girls displaying their freshly shaven havens, not because I am shy or favour the bushy bush look, I actually do prefer a bald or trimmed pussy, it's just that I think this place has some of the most beautiful hostesses in town so my gaze is always diverted to them, plus you can actually sit quite comfortably on the sofas and enjoy the beer without being hassled if that's what you prefer.

There was some pretty fine looking girls dancing in actual fact, and although the Bar was fairly busy, it doesn't seem to be popular amongst the locals doing their nightly crawls, no problem with that, all the better for me, a solid 9/10 in my humble opinion!

  Review from materialsman, July 2009: Hostesses

Into Beach Club, stepping through the curtain about 9 p.m. and perhaps because it was a Friday night, quite a reasonable crowd in there.

I am not a lover of the table dancing type places, but certainly this place doesn't seem to be on many Board Members nightly perambulations, in fact I did a search for reviews and got pretty much nothing by way of a recent reviews of the place. Now, being a shy sort of chap, I find it hard to look the girls in the ahem, eye so to speak, in this place, and frankly I have never seen much eye candy up on the tables to make it worthwhile, what I have always found however, is that the place has some of the most beautiful and smartly dressed hostesses in Pattaya, and sure enough within about ten minutes we were hit upon by two beauties, one that grabbed me was a real honey, and the one with my friend was gorgeous, slim, sort of back combed hair, loosely modeled on Amy Winehouse, except without the skanky tattoos and heavy drug problem, an assumption confirmed when one of her songs was played on the sound system, that fact in itself must make the Beach Club kind of unique.

  Review Jan 2009: Never Changing

I have been popping by Beach Club for 4 years and I am sure that just about nothing has changed. Maybe there is now a little less emphasis on a 20 Baht tip for the girl to squat down. Presumably the novelty has worn off somewhat.

The bar is always popular, the girls are consistently attractive and there are always plenty in attendance.

Maybe the draft beer has gone up 5 Baht in the 4 years which shows consistency in attractive pricing.

And for some reason I consistently fail to find any girl showing much interest in your reviewer.

I guess it is more a bar for watching than playing but the management of the bar consistently know what's best to get the customers in.

Truely a Pattaya success story.

  Review April 2008: Watching

The bar always seems popular. There are plenty of pretty girls who dance on a pretty long circuit. Most girls are knickerless under skirts with open blouse. Some wear more and some wear less.

A few customers were being looked after by the girls, but mostly this seems to be  bar for watching rather than interacting.

Small beer glasses mean that the 55 Baht draft price tag is not quite the bargain it appears. But nothing to complain about.

Tips are the usual order of the day to get a closer look at the dancer. But saying that I didn't spot too many customers with a fistful of 20's to give out.

Always good to see a popular but I left it for those that were enjoying and moved on to a more interactive bar.

  Review from polleke, Oct 2007: Party time

When I entered at 1am, I found myself in the middle of a party. There were lots of girls most of them average but a few pretty ones also. They are all topless with skirts with nothing underneath. Some dance naked.

Got into a talk with one of the more beautiful and energetic girls and apparently one of the popular girls.

The more beautiful girls can make more money on tips, lady drinks and ST than LT so that is not a popular option. It's all about money.

  Review, Feb 2007: Legs all the way to the Ceiling

The second dancer on the circuit to entertain at my table was a beauty. She was incredibly long legged and had the flattest tummy I have seen for a while.

All I could dream about was that she could dance at an altitude where I could smile and make eye contact. Unfortunately it was simply too uncomfortable on the neck to do more than glance at her dancing way above my head so I sat back and watched the dancers on distant tables instead.

Scanning the rest of the bar, there was one guy having a lot of close up and personal fun with one of the girls. But my beauty had just started on what looks like a very long dance circuit. My dreamworld, long legged, potential partner for the evening would surely age another day before being able to get back to my side.

So I surveyed the scene for a while revealing plenty of good looking girls many of whom were dancing topless. There was an all male service staff and a whole host of hostesses doing nothing but occupy seats.

Good to see many pretty girls but I do prefer to view girls at eye level so I quickly moved on to a less lofty venue.

Beavers

Walking Street
(towards Beach Road end)

From 7:30pm

www.beaverspattaya.com

Table dancing venue opened October 8th 2005. Table dancing with a little pressure for tips but the girls are naughty in return. Ownership connections with Misty's

Mar 10 key											Takeaway: 600 Room:
	to 9:00pm									120
from 9:00pm		55*		110		110		125

*small glass

  Review by Rick G, March 2010: Draught Free

Beavers is one of the few table dancing clubs that seems to work in my experience. I usually have some fun there, so I thought this might be a good place to refuel before continuing my evenings exploration.

There were about a dozen girls, two or three good looking girls, and about 7 or 8 customers. The uniform is an attractive red satin outfit, with a short pleated skirt and a bikini top, rather clumsy platform boots and knee length white stockings. The girls wore no panties but none were topless.

Draft Beer Bt 55, Lady drinks Bt 120, Bar Fine Bt 600.

  Review Feb 2010: A Short Break

The bar closed for a few days last week reportedly for a bit of rework. But if that was the reason, I couldn't spot anything that had changed.

There was a good crowd in the bar and 6 of the tables were being used for dancing. Unfortunately there were not really enough spare girls left over to look after the amount of customers in the bar.

The girls were dancing 2 songs at each table making a dance stint of 12 songs. Ludicrously long for anyone waiting for a girl to finish.

This was probably not a major issue though, as there weren't really that many girls that would inspire such a marathon wait.

Still, the girls were friendly enough and the customers seemed to be enjoying themselves. So I left them to it.

  Review May 2009: Dance Marathon

The bar is consistent in its pros & cons.

The plus side is that the bar employs good looking girls who are generally hands on friendly.

The negative side is that the girls have a marathon dance roster of 2 songs on each of the 6 tables in the cycle.

The table dancing girls also angle for a 20 Baht tip to squat down for a close up show. But I find this a little passé and keep my tips for those giving good attention at my stool.

The bar employs quite a lot of girls for a small bar so it always seems lively.

  Review Dec 2008: Always Worth a Try

It took me a long time to work out how to get the best out of the bar. It can be good fun but there are several pitfalls to avoid.

What makes the bar is that the girls are hands on, friendly and generally good fun. The downside is the overly long dance stints couple with the inconsistency of numbers inherent in a small bar.

So what do is first of all is do a quick scan of the bar. If it is barfined out, and there are few girls in attendance then a U turn is in order. Try again another day as the girls will spend all their time dancing.

If there are sufficient girls, then I choose the table at the back left of the bar which is the last on the dance rota. Choosing the girl from this table enables a decent amount of time before she has to go dance again.

And the chances are then good for a memorable visit to the bar.

  Review May 2008: Plenty on Show

I have read a few good write ups of Beavers of late saying that there surely are some naughty girls in attendance.

I have always been a bit sceptical though as I have missed out on the fun in several visits and not even seen much naughty stuff going down with other customers.

But a recent visit pleasantly confirmed some of the rumours.  I was well looked after by a very friendly and hands on girl.

Not quite an ideal bar though, as there are a few fundamental flaws. Firstly the bar is too small for any comfortable seating. Secondly the dancing stint is too long, and when your lady go dance, it is a cue to move on to the next bar. Thirdly I am simply not keen on table dancing. It gives me a crick in the neck and I find it somewhat undignified to stare up at a girl.

Update:

It has been pointed out to me that maybe I should have cast my gaze downwards. I would then have spotted the mirrored tables and perhaps also the inspiration for the name of the bar.

  Review Aug 2007: Cramped

The opens earlier than the 8pm norm so can be quite useful if waiting for 8pm.

It always seems hard to run a small gogo as there is not much flexibility should a lot of girls get bar fined. I have been in a couple of times when the remaining girls are near continuously dancing.

The bar gets a little cramped if there are a lot of customers as all the tables seem just a little to close to each other for the amount of stools dotted around.

Long dancing stints and small glasses of beer are other faults of the bar.

On the positive side there are several colourful characters on the staff and I have seem a few customers get some good personal attention. I've never been one of the lucky few though.

Bentley's

2nd Road

 Bentley's

Opened in October 2005 with Pool & GoGo, By Sept 2006, that bar had reverted to a pool hall. Entry now moved to bar reviews page

Betty Boum

Pattaya Soi 13/3 (Soi Pattayaland 1)

From 7pm

A new GoGo for the new year of 2009. The venue was previously Spicy Girls A-GoGo. The bar has ownership connections with the Eden/Harley Bar.

Feb 10 Key							Takeaway: Room:
£1.30
	65	120	90	2 for 1 on Thai whisky 120		150

  Review from Fredrik, Nov 2009: Moon

They have 10 freelancing girls that are supposed to work there... but being Thailand.. there aren't many at any one time

The boss says that this will soon improve. He also says that he is opening a new bar in Jomtien soon.

The best dancer is a short girl with the nickname - Moon - Really nice girl in many ways. she is the youngest in the bar at 25. And the rest need a 10 week course of dancing lessons too.

The DJ is open to requests and they have got more music than just Dance tunes!

  Review Aug 2009: Pleasant Low Key Gogo

This unobtrusive bar has lasted a few months despite the difficulties of running a small scale gogo.

On the positive side it is an attractive modern looking gogo. It seems to have quite a few staff for a small operation, with bar staff, a cashier and a DJ. The DJ plays mostly dance music but a few Arabic tunes had crept in on my last visit.

There were just 6 or 7 dancers with 3 of them dancing at a time strictly bikini clad. 2 or 3 of them were pretty enough to take away. They do a short dancing stint which is always a big plus for me. I am sure it would make the bar a bit more appealing were the girls to take off their tops.

There was a reasonably price draft beer available although not advertised by the welcome signs. It is always worth advertising a reasonable draft beer price as I am sure I am not the only one in assuming that if there are no signs, then the drinks are most likely expensive.

Anyway I was pleasantly entertained by one of the girls, and I found myself staying for a fair few drinks.

A Pleasant little low key gogo

  Review Feb 2009: 100 Baht Bottled

The bar has reduced their drinks prices But not by quite enough to tempt me. There is no draft beer but bottled beer has been reduced by 10 Baht to 100. There is a 2 for 1 offer on Thai spirits too.

There were also a few more dancers in the mid range between First and Las Vegas. The dancers were again bikini clad and seemed generally demure. The bar looks very smart but 100 Baht bottled beer is not really good value for the entertainment.

  Review Jan 2009: Ambitious

Interesting how this bar got its name, given that it is one letter away from the Soi 6 gogo Betty Boup which in itself is not exactly a common name for a bar.

The single unit bar is nicely decorated with a central stage, bench seating on one side and stools on the other. The owners have even invested in an upper gantry stage accessed by rather a difficult looking ladder. Lets hope the upper tier ladies don't get too mao.

No such danger at the moment, the bar is well understaffed with just 5 dancers and a couple of hostesses. There were 2 or 3 dancers on stage wearing a rather unrevealing bikini. The dancers were attractive, one particularly so.

The bar has a DJ and some lighting bits and pieces to match.

The bar looks pretty ambitious and as drinks to match its ambition rather than its reality. There is no draft beer and bottled beer is rather high at 110 Baht.

For the moment the entertainment is simply not worth it. But at least there are signs of ambition that they may one day justify the high end prices. In the meantime they need a few more girls wearing a few less clothes and sporting a few less inhibitions in customer relations.

Betty Boup Dance Club

Pattaya Soi 6 (Soi Yodsak)
(Beach Road end)

Dancing from 3pm

A surprisingly traditional gogo bar where you don't have to select a girl before entering. Converted to gogo on October 1st 2006

Sep 09 Key						Takeaway: 700 Room: 300 All in package: 1000
Pint £1.30
	60	90-95	75	85-125	100

  Review September 2009: Ideal Location

This bar continues to get my regular trade as a good place to pop into when a stroll down Soi 6 has failed to provide a tempting enough distraction.

The bar provides a reasonably priced draft beer served cold in a decent sized glass.

There's usually a fair few girls acting as lap warmers and the lady drink prices are reasonable too.

The dancing is a bit of an after thought, but really this does not matter much if you have a nice girl on your lap.

The bar seems to do well in terms of the number of customers. I am always a bit surprised that other dancing bars don't try and copy the essential model, ie that you can find a girl on the inside rather than selecting one at the door.

  Review April 2009: Nearly Traditional

The bar is still going strong providing a venue on Soi 6 where you can go in without selecting a girl out front. Especially good on those days when there doesn't seem anyone who quite fits the bill, but you really would like a cold beer.

Betty Boup is more or less a traditional gogo except that maybe the girls are angling for short time rather than long time.

There are generally 4 or 5 girls on the stage in gogo skirts and bikini top. The girls have recently proved forgetful in terms of knickers.

The beer and drinks are priced at a friendly level.

So given that most of the gogo elements are good, and that the girls can be quite hands on, fun should be assured. But in reality it is very much up to how you click with the girl on your lap. Some girls can be a bit pushy and some can give up a bit quick if a rapid short time is not on the cards. But somehow that is the Soi 6 rub. One simply has to enjoy the moment and if it doesn't work, then you can look forward to the next try.

  Review Nov 2008: End of the Run

Betty Boup does me proud as somewhere to pull up for a beer, should no-one else attract my attention when running the Soi 6 gauntlet.

But somehow it rarely captures me to stay for very long. The bar seems jam packed with pretty girls, but somehow they always find a few oldies to offer to 'take care' of me.

If you don't succeed in finding a suitable girl to 'take care' then the entertainment is pretty minimal. Just 4 or 5 girls shuffling and overdressed in bikinis.

The bar is basically sound, the drinks are reasonable and there isn't any undue hassle. If only the pretty girls would jump on my lap, then I would think it was the best bar in North Pattaya.

  Review March 2008: Wide Range of Girls

Betty Boup always seems to have a fair few customers so it must be doing something right.

The bar is basically a short time bar. But the method of selecting a girl is far superior to the Soi 6 norm of momentary glance as you walk past. At Betty Boup you can relax a little before making up your mind. You can have a drink and a look around with out committing. And even watch the dancing.

The girls are generally fun on your lap, but of course are pretty quick to suggest retiring upstairs.

There's a wide range of girls in the bar, both in looks and outlook.

I've had a very mixed bag of good times and not so good in the bar but it is always worth a return visit.

  Review July 2007: Lady Drink Hassle

In the interests of balance, the bar was discussed on the Pattaya forums and the consensus was that there are way too many pushy ladies in the bar. As I know at least one very pushy girl who fits the bill, then I feel this should be recorded.

  Review June 2007: Couch Dancing

The mix of gogo and short time seems to be working well and the bar is now very popular.

Popularity always brings in the girls so there must now be about 30 girls at the bar. And of course there are a fair few that are well pretty.

The dancing on stage is pretty coy and bikinis are the rule, although a little audience encourage may shed a few inhibitions. The girl dance for a reasonably short stint of 3 or 4 songs. Sometimes, maybe when there are enough girls, those with lady drinks get excused dancing.

The real selling point of course is the soi 6 couch dancing. Plenty of intimate fun for all.

My only quibble to date is the one of the girls gets the Thai Anxiety award for the most unreasonable lady drink hassle in all of Pattaya.

Re-opened as Shark A-GoGo, see below

BJ Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Opened as a GoGo in November 2008. Previously a coyote bar. Closed in November 2009.

Black & White: X Zone 2 A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

GoGo opened in March 2009 in the venue that was Taboo, and before that Babewatch. Closed in May 2009 and is now Club Sin City A-GoGo, see below

Blue Angel A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 7
(near 2nd Road)

Small gogo bar opened in June 2007. Sold and renamed at the beginning of 2008 to Sexy A-GoGo see below

The Blue Lagoon A-GoGo

Centre Condo, Pattaya Tai

Opened in February 2006. Changed hands and became Wet 'n' Wild A-GoGo in May 2007. Note that the name has now been transferred to the Beach Road venue

Blue Lagoon A-GoGo

Best Friend Complex
Beach Road

Opened Jan 2007. Recently enlivened with Jacuzzi shows and naked table dancing. Billed as a Bikini Fun Pub, then Blue Lagoon 2 but eventually named itself as if the original Blue Lagoon A-GoGo. Closed in November 2009 and the bar has been demolished.

See Club Boesché below

Broadway Club

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Opened in July 2006 closed in August 2006 but re-opened in September 2006 and closed again in March 2007. The venue was previously Las Vegas City & Jacuzzi A-GoGo.

Bubbles

Soi Pattayaland 2

Started life as Bubbles and changed its name to Crystal. Crystal Girls closed in Feb 2007 and became Crystal Boys. Planned to re-open in 2008 as Bubbles (with girls) but didn't happen. Now Bubbles Boys.

Byblos GoGo Bar

Walking Street: Soi Diamond
(corner of Pratamnak Road)

Coyote dancing on the ground floor. There is a gogo bar with a bells & whistles show on the first floor and there is another on the 2nd floor. Not sure whether this is just overflow when busy.

Sep 09 Key						Takeaway: -festivities 1500 -showgirls 700 -dancers 600 Room: 1000 (inc barfine) All In: 2000
Pint £1.50
	65				120

  Review February 2010: A Little Bit Different

At first glance the downstairs bar operates pretty much as per most Walking Street GoGos. There is a small dancing area in the middle of the bar were a few girls dance in the usual range of attire.

The remainder of the girls circulate amongst the customers in the comfortable seating arranged in bays. And hands on fun is definitely available at this bar.

There is usually a mix of girls with a similar range to nearby bars.

But there seems to be a different set of rules with regards to interactions with the girls and tipping.

No doubt down to attracting more Asian customers than farangs, due to its Pratamnak Road location. Perhaps understandably, the bar has adapted to these changing needs.

My impression is that one has to be very quick to buy a lady drink, lest you get categorised as a time waster.

Having made the upfront investment, things return pretty much to the usual pattern for a while with the girls being good fun. However after an unspecified while, I got asked for some outlandish requests for hundreds of Baht tips. No problems in refusing these requests but time to leave anyway.

Anyway a pleasant enough couple of visits, but not on my regular circuit.

  News June 2009: Re-opened

The bar re-opened on 27th June

  News June 2009: Closed

The bar is reported to have closed. As yet unclear whether this is down to lack of trade or maybe a police closure. The target audience for bells & whistles shows though has been hard hit by economic, political and flu woes.

Some of the ByBlos girls are now to be found at Club Boesché

  Review June 2009: Pretty Girls

I heard rumours that some of the girls that had previously moved on from Coyotee's A-GoGo had ended up in By-Blos. And indeed, the downstairs bar is now boasting 10 or so very pretty girls. I can't say I recognised any of them though.

They also have made a good improvement in that some of the girls now dance naked.

I was also intrigued by the booth that was curtained off, surely looks a promising idea.

I would have stayed longer but the girls didn't seem to be overly interested in customers and the 65 Baht draft beer was a bit off. But interesting enough to schedule in another visit.

  Review December 2008: Bells and More Bells

I was ushered in to the ground floor bar with half a dozen coyote dancers. I am afraid I associate excess clothes with an excess of prices and an excess of unfriendly attitude, so I back pedalled and opted to go upstairs.

I did note that it seems strange to have different styles of entertainment on different floors when none of the staff pointed out available options. I didn't spot any signs suggesting that there was a gogo upstairs either. One presumes that the welcome staff think they know best where to guide people.

Upstairs the bar was well into a bells and whistles shows And if you like that sort of thing, then this bar seems to do the complete works with every variation on the theme that I have seen to date. It was interminable with not a single act being anywhere near sexy.

There were dancers waiting in the wings but the tedium of the show predictably got to me first.

Draft beer was a reasonable 65 Baht and the service was good. No hassle from the girls either.

  News Dec 2008: Beer

Welcome staff are now have a sign showing 55 Baht draft beer during a late happy hour

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, June 2008: Bye Bye Byblos

It seems that the bar hasn't proved a long term hit with Pattaya farangs and the bar is now targeting customers using touts on 2nd Road. This tends to attract a more Middle Eastern/South Asian customer base than the Walking Street norm.

The bar has also opted for bells and whistles shows

And just to complete the transformation to inanity, the draft beer is now set at 90 Baht and bottled beer is 140 Baht.

Bye Bye Byblos

C

Carousel GoGo Club

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

 Carousel GoGo Club

Eternally middling and smallish but expensive gogo with a large revolving stage.

Sep 08 Key							Takeaway: -festivities 2000 -dancers 1000 until midnight
Pint £2.40
	to 10:00	75*	75	75	75	120+
from 10:00		75*	125		90-125

*small glass

  News November 2009: Treadmill

The decline seems to be continuing at Carousel with very little in the way of entertainment.

The bar organises the girls into two dancing shifts with quite a few girls on stage at a time. About half the girls were topless and the rest were bikini clad. Perhaps a little below the Walking Street mean, but there are still a few attractive girls.

The problems are more to do with a lack lustre atmosphere and girls that rarely show much interest in the customers.

Perhaps the bar could replace the male wait staff with girls, there may then be a little chance of interaction with the customers.

But in the meantime the bar seems to lack ideas.

  News May 2009: New Management

Reported as under new management. The bar has introduced the Prosecco line of imported Italian wines in a can. Apparently well known throughout continental Europe,

  Review April 2009: Still Around

One of the more conservative gogos in Pattaya that has stood the test of time, although I am not entirely sure why.

The circular stage slowly rotates with half a dozen dancers onboard. Most girls were bikini clad and a couple were topless. Probably an average team for Walking Street which means that you will always find a few to fit the bill.

The bar has shows but I somehow I missed them this time round. Without the shows, the bar is a bit forgettable. Basically sound but with little negatives such as male service staff, not quite enough comfortable seating and not quite enough customers for atmosphere.

I was a little set in my ways and had more or less decided on a quick visit as soon as I ordered my beer. With the benefit of hindsight I think I should have stayed a little longer to have fun with a perky slip of a girl who breezed my way. She caught me being a bit of a Mr Grumpy.

  Review from Pattaya Secrets Oct 2008: Lady Cocktail Scam

Went in last night and it seems to have improved. A lot of new faces in the line-up since my visit.

Bought a couple of lady drinks and only got ripped-off for one cocktail.

  Review Oct 2008: No Progress

The bar does not seem to have progressed in the long time since my last visit.

It is never a good start to a visit to be shown to the uncomfortable stools because the dancers are occupying all the available bench seating.

This doesn't improve much when my drinks order is taken by male service staff.

Hardly a bargain draft beer either at 75 Baht for a small glass.

The girls are organised into 3 dancing shift. 2 sets of gogo dancers and a team of about 4 pretty girls that do the show. The show is sexy, but nothing that puts the bar above the competition. The gogo dancing is also pretty standard topless fare.

I didn't spot any of the girls circulating amongst the customers when waiting to dance. This was leaving a rather listless atmosphere amongst the few lonely looking customers.

Seems about time to get a Jacuzzi installed and to employ a few lively lap dancers.

  Review Nov 2007: Small Glasses

A brief visit to check out any changes brought about by a new manager. I detected that the dancing girls may have become a little more animated than usual.

But the only real change I noted, was that draft beer had increased in price from 65 Baht to 75 Baht. This actually makes for a very expensive beer as the glasses are very small.

This puts the bar in the top ten in Pattaya in terms of expensive beer but it certainly isn't top ten material in terms of shows, girls or sexiness. It is a middling bar, living on past glories and is simply poor value when charging premium prices.

But that does not mean you won't find an attractive girl here, there are a few around the bar. The dancing girls operate in two teams with maybe 8 on the stage at one time. The dancing is punctuated by pleasantly erotic shows.

Minor gripes are the male service staff and the lack of comfortable seating being exasperated by the resting girls claiming a lot of it.

Casnovy A-GoGo

Walking Street
(Beach Road end)

Large table dancing venue with loud dance music. Opened on 26th October 2007.

Dec 09 Key							Takeaway: -Showgirls 1000 -Dancers 600
Pint  £1.50
	ended					110
from 8pm		60	130	95	130

  Review February 2010: Consistent

The bar was one of the market leaders in setting up a loud and lively environment inside and a large team of very attractive welcome girls outside. The same spirit is now most popularly exploited by Airport and Iron Club but Casnovy is still pretty good.

The bar employs way too many dancers, hostesses and wait staff for the amount of customers but it gives the bar an illusion of being continually busy, even when it's not.

The bar usually has about a dozen dancers on the go spread across the 3 rows of stages. The less inhibited girls generally stay on the centre stage. The dancing is punctuated by naked shows that are not really so different from the standard dancing.

I've usually found some good, attractive and friendly company from amongst the dancers but it is not really a 100% guaranteed deal.

The draft beer is cheap and served in bigger glasses than most bars.

Usually this all adds up to a good time.

  Review June 2009: With a Little Help from my Friends

I had read a couple of forum postings that Casnovy had declined a little. The bar still seemed to be doing fine to me but saying that the dancers that I know there were nowhere to be seen.

But all was not lost, I know service girls there too, and I was soon set up with an attractive replacement. She proved good company and so I had a good session.

The bar has plenty of girls both dancing and on hostess duty. Chatting to my service friend it seems that service staff aren't allowed to sit with customers. I thought this was a bit strange as there well enough servers to cover for a couple staff taking time out to sit with the customers.

Beer prices are reasonable and the music wasn't quite so loud as during previous visits.

So still on my list of gogos well worth a visit.

  Review Jan 2009: Upward Path

The mix of very loud music, a massive staff and reasonable drinks prices put Casnovy on the top tier, especially over the busy season. The bar seems very lively at the moment.

Maybe they have so many staff and girls that it would still seem lively with no customers.

The pattern is table dancing on the 2 side rows of tables and dancers alternating with naked showgirls on the central stage.

Perhaps the music volume is set a bit high for a long visit but it is an integral part of the bars atmosphere, so it is surely here to stay. I did meet one girl who left the bar as it made her ears ache though.

I've sometimes thought that the showgirls are a little fussy about sitting with customers but after getting to know them I get well looked after now.

And you still get the cheeriest good bye in all of Pattaya's bars.

  Review Sept 2008: Hearty Good Byes

There have been a few good words mentioned about the bar of late so I stopped by to have a look.

The drinks prices were fine and the service was good. Plenty of staff on hand to keep things ticking over efficiently.

Strangely nothing much had changed since my last visit. There were an awful lot of dancers on the tables at once, 15 I think. They were dancing 6 songs, 2 on each row of tables.

There were quite a range of girls and some were pretty. But only one took her top off.

None of the girls seemed to making much effort on schmoozing front and the pretty ones would vanish to the upstairs changing room after they had done their stint.

As before as soon as I gave up on the less than friendly girls, every staff member I passed on the way out gave me a cheery good bye. Pity they cant get the same enthusiasm to rub off on the dancing girls.

  Review, Jan 2007: Welcome...

Casnovy A-GoGo is pulling out all the stops to welcome customers to the bar. Patrons are greeted by an avenue of red gowned lovelies all programmed to say a few words of welcome.

The cheery doorman is equally welcoming as he passes you on to the gracious service staff who see you to your seat. Orders are then taken efficiently and promptly.

But having received your drink then you are on your own... literally! All the spare dancing girls were huddled in the corner whilst the customers were sitting on their lonesome.

Not a big issue, sometimes things click, and sometimes they don't. On this occasion the spare girls were hiding and the dancing girls weren't catching the eye.

So after downing the drink I decided to make a rapid departure.

Suddenly the staff return to hospitality mode. In the space of the short walk to the door, I was sought out by 2 mamasangs wishing me well. The door man was equally effusive with his thanks and the gauntlet of girls in red all chimed in with a friendly wave good bye.

The best welcome in Walking street and the most heartfelt good byes, but so little effort to provide reasons to stay.

They have turned the music volume down a bit though. The bar is surely worth another visit

  Review from eyebee Oct 2007: Not at all Bad

I popped in to Casnovy (stupid name!), and it was not at all bad. Some lookers, and a lot knickerless and topless dancing.

Looks a lot like the Beach Club, but with a central stage as well. But as others have noted the music was LOUD. Won't be a regular hang-out for me, but will go once in a while.

Soi Day-Night
(off Pattaya Tai by TukCom)

At a glance there appears to be girls waiting but the location rather suggests otherwise.

  Review by Ray, Feb 2008: Decoys

I had a closer look on my way past last night and the best guess I can come up with is that it's a ladyboy club with a couple of girl decoys, which I couldn't begin to explain. Perhaps its for comparison purposes?

They are definitely mostly ladyboys but at least a couple of the talent must be girls, they're just too short and ordinary looking to be boys.

Catz A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

Opened in November 2005. Small but well run bar where both the girls and the management ensure a good welcome. Catz renamed to ToyZ A-GoGo in January 2010, see below

Champagne A-GoGo

Soi LK Metropole off Soi Diana Inn

Mon-Sat: from 7pm
Sun: from 4pm

www.champagne-a-gogo.com

Opened in August 2005. Nearly all available girls are dancing continuously. Best bet for some female companionship is to chat to a service girl.

British owned. The pool table is free. There is a free Sunday barbecue from 5:00pm.

Free pizza on Wednesday and Friday. From 7pm to 9pm every day some drinks are 2 for 1. A good point is that one gets the second drink after finishing the first,  they don't come together. 2 for 1 does not apply to draft beer though.

Dec 09 Key							Takeaway: -cannot take coyote before 11pm -800 coyote after 11pm -600 dancer before 1am -350 dancer after 1am Room: Fan 400 inc barfine
Pint £1.70
	to 9:00	60	65	60	2 for 1	120
from 9:00		60	90	60

  Review Sept 2009: Flat

This is one of the least friendly gogos in Pattaya, at least for me. The girls don't seem to take any interest in the customers with the occasional exception of obvious previous acquaintances. Presumably its the way the locals like it...which they seem to do.

The bar has a central stage that was recently cut down in size, About half a dozen girls dance topless or in a bikini.

There's a naked play mat but it has limited visibility and I have never particularly watched what goes on there.

There are also a few tables designated for uninspired coyote dancing. Can't quite see the point of overdressed dancing in a gogo myself, but it no doubt adds to the variety.

The most luck I've had for a bit of interaction is with the service girls. There are quite a few of them and they can spend a little bit of time with customers if plied with a drink.

  Review March 2009: Poor Ratios

This is gogo that maybe best reviewed by somebody else. I consistently find nothing to keep me amused whilst noting that the bar seems to be quite popular.

I guess the difference is that I like to chat and play with the girls whereas the majority of customers are content to watch.

There are several options for watching, there are overdressed coyote dancers on the side tables and there are a fair few dancers on the main stage generally topless or bikini clad. Perhaps about average as dancing teams go, but that always means there are a few that pass muster. They dance more songs than is comfortable to wait for you (should you be lucky enough to get a girl in the first place)

There are also a couple of show stages that are a little more worth watching.

Thinking about it, for me there really is just one problem with the bar, there are too many girls set to dancing and not enough making an effort for lady drinks and bar fines.

  Review from Materialsman, Nov 2008: Uncle Festus

When we walked in I glanced down to the bottom left, and there was what appeared to be a very large LCD screen showing a sort of British soft porn movie involving an Uncle Festus lookalike cavorting naked in a bathtub with two naked Thai girls and a sex toy fashioned out of pipe lagging, it was only when I got closer I realized that it was actually a live spontaneous show. The reason I had assumed it was British soft porn was the fact that no matter how hard the girls were trying to instill some life into Festers flaccid member, it was to no avail, perhaps he needed ‘Thing’ to give him another helping hand? Actually, I do have some sympathy with the guy, sympathy which he later lost incidentally, as public sex is not for everyone. So we settled in to watch the action on stage, but also with a morbid and perverse curiosity to view what was happening in the shower behind us.

After we had ordered a couple of Heinekens I noticed an LED display saying buy one get one free on bottled beers between 8-9 p.m., sadly we were in there at 9:30, no big deal as I am not a Cheap Charlie, but I thought I should mention it as it is a pretty good deal.

As for the girls on stage, a pretty mixed bunch of perhaps twenty five girls ranging from naked to bikini clad, youngish to fairly grizzled old pros, a lot of the girls seemed bizarrely to be wearing a single stocking, what’s that all about? Perhaps Heather Mills McCartney was having a garage sale of her lingerie collection before she moved out of Paul’s place??

In keeping with the Addams family theme, one of the mamasans, quite a big strong lady, appeared to be a cross between Morticia and Grandmama Addams, quite scary! Whilst the other mamasan was really quite a pleasant looking lady, nice body if I may say so, looked damn good in tight jeans. Whilst enjoying my second beer in there, I can report that luckily the two girls in the shower had finally tired of trying to inspire Uncle Festus into more salacious activities, and they had all returned thankfully fully dressed to the main auditorium, unfortunately Uncle Festus had retained the piece of wet pipe lagging and proceeded to act out his BDSM fantasies by incessantly whipping any naked flesh that come into his view, I know that these toys do not hurt anyway near as much as it sounds like when making good contact with flesh, but the constant repetitive sound of him administering a damn good thrashing to the ladies whilst standing directly next to me hastened our exit, before I was obliged to tale the bloody thing off of him and stuff it right where the sun doesn’t shine! On second thoughts, it was a good job I didn’t do so, he probably would have enjoyed it!

I must also make a mention of one other guy in there, sadly in a wheelchair with a disability, think of Steven Hawkins, yet he was having an absolute whale of a time, swigging beer and Tequilas, he had one of the best looking girls in there keeping him company, plus the mamasans were taking good care of him, and he had a huge grin on his face, good luck to you mate, after all, isn’t it moments like that that make Pattaya such a special place for us all?

  Review June 2008: Building Back Up

The 30 day closure a couple of months ago hit the bar rather hard. Obviously the closure itself hurt but then it was followed by a quiet month whilst the bar gathered back the girls and the customers.

There are now about 15-20 girls in attendance with about 7 dancing at any one time. About half the dancers were topless and the rest bikini clad. The girls were fairly average with a couple of pretty girls. I made a quick exit when approached by a near 50 year old dancer though.

There were a fair few customers but it is not yet quite back to the levels before the closure.

Drinks prices are reasonable and music is fairly restrained. The dance rota of 7 songs is way too long if you are waiting for your girl to 'go dance'. It then becomes a cue to go and have a look at Oasis just around the corner.

It is a fairly relaxed bar, perhaps targeting local residents rather than those on a flying visit.

  Comment from Pattaya Addicts, May 2008: Not Fizzing

It's open but is not like before. Very few girls. No nudes, girls being painted or showers.

Sign girl told me they where shut down for 30 days because of nudity and do not have nude shows.

Champion A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 8pm

Thai run gogo noted for rock music and entertainment from long stay dancers

Nov 09 Key							Takeaway: - 600 until 2am - 300 after 2am
£1.20
	to 9pm	45	50	45	110-120	105
from 9pm		50	105	55	110-120

  Review March 2010: Old Times and Old Timers

First, the good news.  There was a very pretty girl showing her all in a Jacuzzi, recently installed in the centre of the main stage.

Secondly, the bad news. The rest. To be fair though, this is the same as always and regular customers will have gotten used to it by now.

The girls are generally below average but that doesn't mean that it's bad, the Walking Street average is pretty high. Most of the girls dance naked in Champion, but somehow this is not the highlight of the bar.

But being a regular, then I can be quite forgiving, particularly as the beer is cheap and the girls are friendly.

The toilet has needed an upgrade for as long as I can remember and now the aircon seems to be added to the knackered list.

But I still enjoyed the visit though, the downsides don't really matter much if one has enjoyable company.

  Review July 2009: Lots of Dancers

The summer low season seemed to have taken its toll a bit and the very cheap beer was no longer packing in the customers.

There were some attractive girls dancing but there weren't really enough girls in the bar to cover the large number they now have dancing at any one time. At the end of their spell they only have a couple of songs before have to mount the stage for another dance stint. The poor ratio of hostessing girls to dancing girls is always a cue for me to leave pronto. But if you like to watch, and don't want to be pestered by the girls then perhaps it is OK.

The toilets could do with a refurb.

I always have a soft spot for the bar, as I fondly recall the old days when it was the best hands-on bar in town. Now I just stay long enough to reminisce old times before it is time to move on to the latest best hands-on bars in Pattaya

  Review January 2009: Busy

The cheap beer policy and a recent refurb seem to be working well for the bar and it has been busy for the last few months.

Table dancing stages have been added in amongst the bench seating along the sides of the bar. The central stage has been slimmed down and is also a bit more stylish now.

There is a lot of emphasis on dancing nude. and just for tradition the bar have also retained the TVs showing blue movies. The music is still oldie farang friendly.

The bar has always been notable for ladies who been around awhile, and true to form, many familiar faces were still in attendance. However the popularity of the bar has allowed them to supplement their dancers with a fair amount of pretty girls.

I rather suspect that the girls get a good deal from the bar as they do tend to stay a long time.

The bar is well run with good service and no undue hassle. So it is good to see that they have established a good customer base. So much so that they have recently been able to increase their main draft beer price up to 50 Baht. Still amongst the best in town.

I still hanker after the long lost old days though, the bar used to be one of the seediest and naughtiest in town.

  News from pattayasecrets.com Nov 2008: Side Stages

Meanwhile Champion A-GoGo on Walking Street have also been having ideas. The main stage has been altered slightly and some new wide tables fitted. Looks like its going for table dancing on the sides.

  Review June 2008: Still Cheap Beer

The bar often seems to have more custom than I would have predicted from the entertainment on offer.

It is quite a large bar to just rely on basic gogo dancing. There are no shows, Jacuzzis, soft stages or anything of the like.

The girls are generally on the mature side, but this is not a dictate, just the average. There are still a few girls that are easy on the eye.

Of course the very cheap draft beer must help a bit in getting customers through the door. Also a large proportion of the dancers are naked, which helps too.

Although the bar is Thai owned, there is no undue hassle from either the girls or staff.

In fact it is quite a pleasant bar to have a quick drink in. It could be rather a good bar if they could only attract a few more young ladies. (And maybe improve the loo too).

  Review Nov 2007: Cheap Beer

The bar has never recovered from the facelift a year ago. The rather dingy back area used to be a haven for the touchy feely stuff but this has now been replaced by a second dancing stage.

The old petting area used to be fun and one would forgive the fact that the dancing crew are a little beyond their sell by date.

But now the bar struggles basically because it retains the below average line up of girls but has not retained the fun.

Otherwise there does not seem much wrong with bar. There is farang friendly rock music, girls that dance in birthday suits and the cheapest draft in Walking Street (40 Baht for a decent sized glass).

But they really really really need to get a few more attractive girls on stage.

Renamed as We Are No 1, see below

Circus A-GoGo

Walking Street

Closed in January 2006. Became Angels A-GoGo but now set to be an Indian restaurant.

Classroom A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 13/4 (Soi Pattayaland 2)

The dancers follow a coyote dress code rather than gogo wear, so the bar is listed under bars

Classroom 2 A-GoGo

Now named Lek's Classroom, see below

Club 69

Walking Street: Soi 15

See Sakura Club 69 below

Club Boesché A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

From 8:30pm

www.clubboesche.com

 Club Boesché A-GoGo

Opened November 2005 and quickly became a popular GoGo notable for its range of entertainment including the much copied Jacuzzi. The name is pronounced boo-shay and is named after a US DJ who is a friend of the owner. Check for restrictions on early bar fines.

Nov 09 Key						Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -showgirls 1000 -dancers 600 -all 400 after 2am
Pint £1.80
	75	125		130-150	125

  News from Club Boesché, September 2009: Penthouse Pets

Club Boesché have recently contracted some REAL penthouse models from Bangkok to do 3-4 nightly shows and have been featured here at CB for the past three weeks.

These models have actually been shot in Penthouse Asia Magazine by my on staff photographer. These are not the local group who claim to be in the real Penthouse Magazine. And the difference between my girls and the other group in town is that they DO barfine.

Nightly shows start at 11:00pm.

Also  there is a 50 baht draft beer promotion that is going great.

  News from Club Boesché, June 2009: Barfine Promotion

Club Boesché is  running a promotion which started Friday reducing barfine prices AFTER 2AM to 400 baht for all dancers, showgirls, hostesses and service.

The bar has now taken on 2 new mamasans which have stockpiled the bar with 24 additional dancers this past week and include many many beauties.

The bar is overloaded with girls at the moment so they are taking the opportunity to keep the customers happy.  Maybe explaining why business has really picked up this past month.

  Review from BiLLYiSaKiD, May 2009: Sometimes Hot… Sometimes Not…

When a good friend of mine first told me of a place where we could down cold suds and watch tight-bodied women soap each other up (among other things…) in the middle of a Go-Go Bar, I was actually nervous to go… Even with all the anticipation it took us three days into our April 2008 trip to make it to the famous Club Boesche. Letting the excitement build was well worth it. WOW!! What a night… The club was packed, the girls were super hot and they actually had some drink specials going on. The music? Umm… Can’t say I even remember what kind was playing… More like a loud rumble than music but, it sure kept the girls moving…

…And with a little encouragement from our group, the ladies we were with actually stripped down and hopped in the hot tub… Two of them weren’t even on shift! Since it was early for me (9PM), no bar fines from Boesche that night but, I did set my sites on one of the hostesses who wouldn’t stop massaging me while I checked out the sites and enjoyed my drinks… “Bar fine next time” I told her.

…Next time ended up being almost four months later! But this time Boesche had almost nothing to offer… The club was dead, the available girls seemed distracted and the hot tub show consisted of a girl pretty much soaking her feet. We were so bummed… And I actually had raved about this place to the group of newbies I brought with me this time. Being newbies they didn’t have as nearly a bad time as I did. I attributed the lack of interest from the girls to us visiting during low season in August but, we were welcomed generously at other places that same night. We even gave it another shot a couple nights later but, same deal… Good looking but, same bored talent.

Strong Points:

• Girls always HOT!
• The place just looks cool… Innovative

Weak Points:

• Too much hype
• Average service at best

  News May 2009: Economy Blues Drinks Specials

Bottled beer has been reduced to 95 Baht and draft is now 65 Baht. Plenty of other specials too.

  Review November 2008: Less for More

I find this a bar that doesn't quite live up to the Pattaya hype. In fairness it must be reported that the bar has a lot of fans, although it doesn't quite crop up in conversation as much as it used to.

The first negative that hits me is the lack of comfy seating. There are a couple of benches but they don't really have much of a view of the dancers. I also get the impression they may be 'reserved' for favoured guests. The rest of the customers have to put up with uncomfortable stools.

The rather cheesy dance music is perhaps on the loud side. Something I only really notice if there isn't enough other entertainment.

I find the girls to be on the unfriendly side, seeming to prefer their own company to that of the customers. However that is not always the case, just depends who is in the bar at the time. If there are no friendly girls, the dancing is pretty average, although I have seem a couple of talented dancers who command an audience.

Generally OK but I find it simply does not justify the high end drinks prices.

  Review by Ray, March 2007: GoGo US Style

Three Baby Dolls have moved to this bar and I popped in to see how they were doing. I'd never been in here before and found it perfectly OK. However, I was being taken care of by girls I already knew, so on my second visit I tried to look at the bar more objectively.

The first thing I noticed was that most customers were sitting in groups chatting to each other and I started to get a TQ2 vibe. The girls confirmed to me that there was little hands-on going on because the customers didn't want it, not because the girls didn't, and that lady drinks were hard to come by.

The mother of all jacuzzis is a also bit of a disappointment, being set low in the floor right at the back of the bar, and as the doormen will inevitably show you to a stool at the front you could visit the bar several times and not realise it was there.

The stage is unusually large, having eleven poles in 3-2-4-2 formation. I found myself thinking of them as defenders, midfield, front line and wingers. On several occasions the poles were not all occupied. There is a glass floor above the stage and occasionally a couple of girls would go up there and lark about.

The girls are a pretty ordinary bunch, a few outstanding but mostly pretty average. On my first visit three or four girls were dancing naked, on my second they were all bikinied up. I heard a rumour in the previous bar I visited that the police were on the prowl and maybe that was why, but on neither visit did the bar look remotely like the photo on the web site.

With its average girls, mostly voyeuristic customers and superfluous "security", Club Boesche is what a Walking Street go-go would look like if you transplanted it to the US.

  Review by Serigala, Jan 2007: Lack of Interaction

My wife and I went here on the recommendation of a couple friends of ours. They maintained that it was “their favourite place” and had short timed a jacuzzi girl.

We were ushered in and, as has been mentioned by others before, directed straight to the jacuzzi area where we were seated at bar stools. Jacuzzi was occupied by three girls, one of which was reasonable. Occasional licking took place but always the same licker and lickee. The third girl needn’t have been there. We quickly got bored and turned our attention to the stage. Around ten girls shuffling about the poles with a total lack of enthusiasm. Clothing was bikinis, skirt and top or shorts and top.

One girl did actually decide to get a bit lively and dance. However, as she couldn’t take her eyes off the mirror, we assumed it was only for her own benefit.

As others have reported, there seems to be a total lack of interaction here and, apart from a smile from a service girl, we’re sure that the girls here wouldn’t have noticed whether there were customers present or not.

Considering our poor appraisal of Boesche, others seemed to be happy with the offerings as the place was quite crowded.

One expensive drink and left.

Club Electric Blue A-GoGo (CEB)

Walking Street

 Club Electric Blue A-GoGo (CEB)

Closed in February 2006 and the bar transferred to a smaller venue in Soi Diamond. The original venue is now Roxy.

Club Electric Blue Jr

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Opened February 2006, closed June 2006 and re-opened in October 2006. Closed permanently in July 2007 and is now a fast food joint.

Club Mirage

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

New GoGo for November 2008. Previously Shooters bar, and before that, Lennie's. Closed in August 2009. Re-opened under new management on 22nd October 2009

Mar 10 Key							Takeaway: -Dancers 600
		120				130

  News March: Just a Mirage

The bar was reported closed on 11th March 2010

  News February: Draft Off

The draft beer is back off the menu, leaving only an option for expensive bottled beer. This doesn't stop the welcome staff advertising the non existent cheap draft though.

  News October 2009: Draft

Draft beer has been added to the drinks menu at 65 Baht

  Review October 2009: Something Different

In terms of decor the bar is pretty much unchanged from the previous ownership

Perhaps with an eye on 'something different' for Walking Street, the bar has come up with a couple of unusual ideas.

Firstly the bar has a few coyote dancers and secondly the gogo girls all wear bikinis.

The music emphasis is on dance and the tunes are quite heavy fire alarm (as NightMarch might say) and played quite loud.

On the positive side, the bar had a few very pretty girls which is always half way to success.

I am not entirely convinced that it will work out though. Quite a few gogo-like bars have tried the coyote idea and few have succeeded.

On my visit, I had a very pretty girl make the effort to be friendly, so I was happy enough for a while. After a  couple of drinks though, I got a bit annoyed at the loud music spoiling my small talk, so I departed.

There's no draft beer and the bottles are 100 Baht. Lady drinks are 130 Baht.

It will be interesting to see if the bar adapts more to the GoGo norms, or else to see if it can attract a younger audience who appreciate the coyote/disco style.

Club Mistys

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm
Shows 10:30pm-12:30am

www.mistysagogo.com

Misty's A-GoGo relocated from Soi Pattayaland 2 to Soi 15 on 9th May 2008. It was also renamed to Club Mistys

Jan 10 key								takeaway: -dancers 600 -showgirls 800 all in: 1800 Baht
Pint £1.70
	ended					150	120-150
from 10pm		65*	115	95	125

*small glass. Free 10% discount card is available for customer drinks. The bar is said to have shows when the audience is sufficient, but I haven't caught one yet.

  Review February 2010: Elusive

The bar is still one of Pattaya's more impressive GoGo designs. The mix of neon, chrome, spiral staircase, balcony, table dancing stages and centre stage looks the Biz.

On my last visit there were plenty of girls and there were several that were well attractive.

There's a reasonably priced draft beer and the rest of the prices are typical of many competing bars.

There's an affable host who seems to be a centre of attention.

And yet with all these good thing in place, the bar is pretty near a 100% guaranteed failure for me to attract the attention of a drinking partner. And looking around the bar I am not the only abject failure in town. The bar rarely seems busy in terms of customer count and a fair few fellow customers are usually sharing my Mr Lonely posture.

Probably just me, but maybe the girls need a nudge to become a little bit more pro-active bout taking care of customers.

  Review June 2009: Ratios

I still drop by for the occasional look see but never stay long because the dancing ratio doesn't really give the customers a fair chance for much time with the girls. Whenever I have dropped by there are many more girls dancing than hostessing such that the girls were only hanging around for 3 dances before starting on another 6 dance stint.

Just a personal taste thing, and I did see a large party who were clearly enjoying themselves. The trick being to be able to have a good banter with your mates whilst the girls are away for the majority of their time. Then you can spoil the girls rotten for the short time that they are at your side.

There's an affable host on hand for a chat should you not bring your mates with you.

Most things are spot on about the bar. It looks good, there are some good looking girls and they take off plenty of clothes when dancing. Drinks are reasonable with a plenty of happy hour options too.

  Review December 2008: Close Competition

A good looking bar that has not quite made it on to my list of favourite bars.

There are a fair amount of girls employed and there are some who are pretty indeed. Plenty on show in terms of dress code too.

The happy hour offer is a very good deal at 2 for 1, and draft beer later is a reasonable 65 Baht.

The upstairs loos have been mentioned in the past in terms of caution of the spiral stairs when drunk. The stairs are wide enough that this isn't really an issue.

The only real reason why I haven't become a regular is that on most visits, I have been simply been ignored by the girls. Not a big issue, but Misty's is located tantalisingly close to Baby Dolls where good hostessing is assured. So impatience usually  gets the better of me, perhaps a little bit before it should.

  Review June 2008: Spoilt

A generally pleasant subsequent visit was spoilt by an offer of a lady drink (110 Baht) which ended up as a lady cocktail (150 Baht) without anyone asking or pointing out the uninvited upgrade.

It is a waste of time informing the mamasang as she simply blamed the girl and did nothing to put the matter right. The advice is to take it up with the farang management.

The bar has measures in place to try and prevent this happening, but the very existence of the dual price temptation means that this problem will inevitably recur.

  Review May 2008: Looks Good

Popped in for an early look see and the new bar surely looks good.

The outside neon is surely the most impressive in Pattaya.

There is a central stage with half a dozen girls fully covered in a white lacy affair.

There are another half dozen girls on table dancing stages arranged just in front of the comfortable bench seating. The girls were topless but strangely with a blouse at half mast. Perhaps at the ready for a quick panic.

There is an upper floor with accessed by a scary looking spiral staircase. The girls dance nude up top and are viewable from downstairs.

There were plenty of girls in attendance and an old friend looked after me well.

The drinks prices are comparable with other popular bars but the draft beer wasn't in a particularly large glass for the price.

The music is aimed at the dancing girls rather than oldie farangs. Perhaps a bit loud, but not quite the loudest.

I found a couple of teething problems in terms of the arrangement of the dancing girls. Sitting downstairs, the upstairs girls are simply too far above to be particularly worth a cricked neck for. The lighting, although effective, makes it difficult to watch the table dancers, its either too dark, or else one gets a bit dazzled. And the girls on the central stage are simply overdressed. Perhaps the trick is to sit upstairs...but I don't know if I would trust myself to get drunk upstairs, what with having to negotiate the stairs on the way down.

Club Nevada

Pattaya Soi 13/2 (Soi Post Office)

From 1pm

Tends to run out steam from 8pm

Afternoon gogo with very steady trade and little reason to change much. There are convenient short time rooms. The bar is popular in the afternoon and early evening but tends to run out of girls and steam later in the evening

July 09 Key						Takeaway: 600 All in package: 1300 (45 min limit)
Pint £1.20
	55-65		65		100

  Review February 2010: Desert Oasis

This bar is another on my circuit where my favourite thing on offer is the aircon. There are actually not really many bars around South Pattaya that provide a bit of cool air during the afternoon and early evening hours.

Several years ago it was quite a lively daytime haunt but it has scaled down somewhat. Most of the time there aren't really enough girls to go round, and the chances are that customers are in for a lonely drink.

That's not to say that there isn't fun to be had. There are some friendly and attractive girls there, just not enough.

Anyway drinks are cheap, the bar is well run in terms no hassle and usually about half of the 3 to 6 girls on stage dance in very little.

If they could just up the momentum a bit it could easily be an afternoon highlight rather than just a decent place for  brief respite in the cool.

  Review June 2009: Nevada not Nirvana

There were about 12 girl in the bar of which 6 were dancing. Of the 6, usually half are naked and the others prefer bikinis. They dance to rock music which sometimes features long tracks, so the dancing stint can often be overly long. There are usually a few good looking girls, but there also the inevitable off-Walking Street heavies.

The girls now seem to prefer their own company rather than circulate seeking the company of customers. Maybe it is better in the afternoon, but my recent early evening visits have been lonely affairs.

The drinks prices are reasonable at 50 Baht or a draft Chang and 60 Baht for a draft Heineken. Served in a good sized glass too.

  Review Dec 2008: Refreshment Break

This has become a bar that I visit regularly but rarely stay long. It is conveniently located near Beach Road and Royal Garden Mall. It is a good place for a refreshment break when strolling around the area.

The bar has scaled back its girls and somehow there are never enough to spend much time entertaining customers. They tend to do a long dance stint even when there are next to no customers in the bar.

On the positive side there are usually a few attractive girls in attendance and about half the girls dance nude.

The drinks are cheap with a long running 50 Baht draft Chang and draft Heineken is 60 Baht.

The bar seems to be best in the afternoon when there are more girls and more customers.

  Review, May 2008: Undanceable Rock

The bar seems to have picked up a little since the last report. Nothing has really changed about the bar but having a few more ladies means it works so much better.

The bar is primarily an afternoon bar catering to expats. The music is strictly rock focusing on the 70s. Some of it is totally undanceable for the girls.

Most, but not all, of the girls dance naked but the girl nearest the door puts her wrap back on presumably in anticipation of a police visit.

The girls tend to do a fair stint at Nevada so presumably they are well looked after by the bar. They know how to look after the customers but are not really quite so hands-on as Hot & Cold at the other end of the soi.

An easy place to stay for a couple of beers but I have rarely stayed for a long haul.

  Review, August 2007: Downward Spiral

The bar seems to be struggling with the low season of late and does not seem to be responding well.

They clearly have a lack of girls which generates a lack of customers and hence a lack of girls.

Also when the bar is down to their last half dozen girls, they still insist that most of them are dancing. This policy may encourage newcomers peering through the door to stay for a while, but sends the customers they have got already packing.

In addition the bar has decided to play safe with the morality police on the prowl. So it is not as if there is much to see on stage either

  Review from Peter, July 2007:  First Stop

A friend has been to Thailand 10 times and I have been three.

We spent most of our time in Pattaya in Club Nevada.

It is his favorite hang out during the day and it was my favorite hang out since trip two.

It was the most comfortable, best music, no hassle, and has some amazing looking girls.

I cannot say I have been in a better gogo in Pattaya and I have been in at least half of them.

I would just like to say that on my next trip, when I get up in the (late) morning in Pattaya, Club Nevada will be my first stop. Again.

Club Oasis A-GoGo

Soi Buakhao
(between Soi Diana Inn & LK Metro)

From 5pm

www.nightcluboasis.com

Reports of a discriminatory 300 Baht entry charge (inc 1 drink)

Popular, off Walking Street, GoGo. Opened Dec 18th 2006. Now with short time rooms. Beware of the expensive lady cocktail scam... And make sure you get your change back, the service staff can be forgetful.

June 09 Key							Takeaway: - evening until 11pm 700 All in: - 1300
Pint £1.40
	5-9pm		70
from 9pm		60	95	80	100-125	125*

* Ignore any signs on the wall for 95 Baht lady drinks, this is not the case.

  Review September 2009: Location, Location, Location

The bar has carved a niche for itself and has been consistently busy during the summer low season.

I'm a bit of loss as to why it is so successful except that I find myself dropping by quite often. Usually just down to its good location at a break point on several different walking routes around town.

In a way it is the crowdedness that I don't like, I don't go to bars to watch other people enjoying themselves. And in this bar there are not enough girls to go around for the number of customers. It must be great for the owners as they have built up sizeable audience of people who like to drink and watch rather than participate. It must be good for profit margins.

But for me it is pleasant place to enjoy 1 beer's worth of aircon before continuing my journey elsewhere.

  Review March 2009: The Little Things

The bar is very well located offering an aircon oasis when strolling around Sois Buakhao, LK Metro, Diana and, Leng Kee and Chayphun.

It is quite an attractive bar with a central stage for a dozen dancers and 3 other table dancing stages.

The girls are split into two dancing teams each taking aturn on stage for about 5 songs. The girls dance in bikinis or topless with a few taking off their knickers for the final song of their set. There are usually a few pretty girls amongst the dancers.

It is a bar that targets Pattaya regulars and at first glance all seems well organised. But somehow I seem to get irritated by minor grievances on every visit. There are two levels of lady drink and the most expensive usually appears without asking. The prettier girls seem to like to hunt for the lady drinks just a few minutes before it is their turn to dance. And girls at your side are likely to be whisked away by the mamasang to other presumably more profit making customers. Small change is often assumed to be a tip.

But saying that it seems to be a very popular bar, often being full or there abouts.

  Review from Materialsman, Nov 2008: Worn at the Edges

Another first time visitation for me. I have heard good reports of this place, but either my own taste in girls is extremely restrictive, or we just picked a bad night, for with one or two exceptions it resembled a bit of an elephant’s graveyard of a Go-Go, plenty of dancers in the bar, but not to my ‘spec’, it resembled a home to the girls that were perhaps a little bit worn at the edges to put it nicely, but each to their own, and things can change on a daily basis, if not an hourly basis in the bars of Sin City.

  News June 2008: Afternoons

The bar is trying afternoon opening again from 3pm. It has been pretty quiet so far though.

  Review May 2008: Settling Down

The mamasang has worked in many Walking Street bars and has previously run a pretty tight regime of ensuring that customers are matched to girls.

Oasis though has settled down into a very hassle free gogo where you are likely to drink alone unless you make an effort to call over a girl.

I asked the mamasang about this, and she said that they have decided that is what the Soi Buakhao customers prefer.

So the bar offers minimal hassle, cheap beer and farang rock music at a reasonable volume. Sounds like your local pub back in farangland. But of course there are topless dancing girls and short time rooms if you feel the urge. So the best of both worlds.

But perhaps a little too restrained though for my tastes.

  Review by Polleke, Oct 2007: Good Value

Got in at 10.30 pm. Inside there is a central stage with 8 girls doing a 4 song shift. There are also 4 tables in the corners with a girl dancing. So there were about 24 girls on duty that night. Did however see some girls returning from ST.

I was approached by a nice lady and called in a lady who was dancing at the moment. Had a very good time with some hands on fun from both ladies.

There are no shows. But nevertheless a nice place to spent some time.

The bin was 1680 bin which includes 2 barfines (550 each, 2000 LT) 1 bottle of Heineken, 1 diet coke and 4 lady drinks, so overall not too expensive I guess.

Club Sin City A-GoGo

Covent Garden Complex
Pattaya Soi 16
(Just off Walking St)

Taking over the difficult venue that was previously Babe Watch, Taboo and Black & White. Opened on 5th June 2009

Nov 09 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 800 -dancers 600
Pint £1.40
	60	95			135

  Review July 2009: Loud

The bar has been open a few weeks so maybe time for a follow up review.

I was first impressed by the amount of dancers in attendance. They still have about 10 girls dancing on the central stage and a couple of more in a Jacuzzi. There were another dozen awaiting their turn to dance. There were a few pretty girls amongst the dancers.

The Jacuzzi doesn't seem to add much. There are no stools for those that like to assist the girls with their ablutions nor is it in a good place to provide many customers with a show.

I was first unimpressed by the volume of the music. More disco levels than gogo.

I was next unimpressed by the price increase in draft beer, from 65 Baht to 95 Baht. It is served in good sized measures though.

There were some friendly girls doing the rounds but a combination of the loud music and expensive draft meant that I turned down the girls' advances and decided that the bar had become a one beer venue.

There were very few customers but there were two farang couples enjoying a dance. It struck me strange that the bar was being enjoyed more for its loud music than for its gogo aspects.

  Review June 2009: Hassled

I can't say I enjoyed my first visit much, I seemed to get hassled by some of the oldest gripes in the book.

But first the basics. The bar is more or less the same layout as last seen for Black & White. There's a large central stage, a cage stage, like Peppermint, which was unused as was the swimming tank. The inevitable Jacuzzi was in operation with a couple of girls soaping themselves down.

There were a decent amount of girls in attendance with quite a busy stage show of 8 dancers. The girls were dancing for 8 songs which is way too long for those waiting for girls who 'go dance'.

The girls were average which means that there were several that would surely be escorting customers home. Not a bad team for the 2nd night of a gogo. The gogo dancers were a bit shy though, only one took off her top to dance.

There is a draft beer at 65 Baht.

Perhaps the staff were a bit over keen, being near the opening but I found my self getting a bit hassled. There were 2 mamasangs working the floor and they were friendly enough to introduce themselves. One clicked her fingers and 2 girls appeared at my side. I always consider it bad manners to be doubled teamed, I take it as a set up for hassle. Anyway I sent one girl away and spoke a few words to the other. The girl, a server, and one of the mamasangs were unduly quick to push for a lady drink. And no wonder they were so quick, at the next song, it was the girls turn to dance (for 8 songs!).

Perhaps I was just unlucky with timing.

Cosy's A-GoGo

Walking Street

New gogo at the location that was once Magic Palace. Opened 1st November 2009.

Nov 09 Key						Takeaway: dancers 500
Pint £1.30
		55+			120

  Review November 2009: Another Noisy Bar

The bar was doing a good trade on its first day. It is intuitively a good location, and I suspect that it is quite advantageous to have a door opening directly on to Walking Street.

The bar is on the small side with a side stage for about 8 dancers.

There is a little bench seating opposite the stage, but most of the bar is given over to rather wobbly uncomfortable stools. There were a few more substantial stools at the back though. The bar has crammed in too many stools and it felt overly full even though most stools weren't taken.

I instantly dismissed the music as too dance oriented and too loud. The clear success of the noisy Air Port Club seems to be tempting all the new bars to follow the lead with heavy tunes and disco level noise.

I spotted one of my pretty friends on the dance floor but I wasn't tempted to wait as she was about 6 long dance songs off finishing. There were 7 girls dancing with just a couple taking their top off. There weren't really enough girls for the amount of customers, but this aspect soon changes if the bar is seen to be a success by the girls who will then sign up.

The beer was cheap with bottled Chang at 55 Baht.

But really on this visit, it was too crowded and too noisy to stay in bar with only standard gogo shuffling to watch.

Soho Square
Walking Street

New gogo for February 2009, replaced or renamed to K A-GoGo in March 2009, see below

Coyotee's A-GoGo

Soi Marine Plaza
(Soi Lucky Star off Walking Street)

Bar primarily noted for its erotic shows and standoffish but beautiful girls. The bar opened in July 2005. Closed on the 4th May 2009. Returned later in May 2009 but closed again in early October 2009 following the death of one of the owners, TJ

Crystal A-GoGo

Soi Pattayaland 2

Soon to re-open as Bubbles (with girls), see above

D

Diamond A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

 Diamond A-GoGo

Medium sized bar specialising in shows. Ownership connections with Casino Club

Apr 07 Key						Takeaway: -Bangkok Super Models 3400 -showgirls 1000 -dancers 600
Pint £1.30
	55*	95		95	85

* small glass

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, March 2010: A Little Bit Happy

Diamond has never done much for me so maybe the review would be best left to someone who appreciates the bar. But for some reason Diamond rarely crops up in conversation except to say how expensive it is to barfine Bangkok showgirls.

I always think of Diamond as small version of Happy A-GoGo. It generally has a good selection of girls, the drinks are reasonably priced, and most of the customers are here to watch pretty girls rather than do much in the way of interaction. That's not to say the girls are unfriendly, they seem approachable enough. But they do not pro-actively seek out customers.

Only my last visit there was a team of about 8 dancers who were a bit coy with their dress sense. After a while they gave way to another team, presumably the showgirls, who weren't so coy. But it was hardly a riveting performance.

The music is on the loud side but maybe not quite so extreme as days of old.

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, March 2009: No Barfine Bangkok Girls

I could not believe the level of talent on stage.

It turns out they have more Bangkok girls down for 10 days. I was told they get paid 1200 baht per night and is only here for 10 nights. She gets 50 baht per lady drink but has to achieve at least 10 per night or her money is cut by 50 baht for each.

Barfine for the Bangkok visiting girls is set at a suitably discouraging 3500 with the likelihood of a fee for the girl to match.

It also seems that the girls aren't from the farang P4P scene. Some wont go with customers, some will, some are basically party girls, some may well be used to being in high class Thai places where they charge 3000k ST.

  Review March 2009: Revival

Suddenly Diamond was back to where it was a few years ago.

The bar was three quarters full, there were show girls on stage that were capturing the attention of the audience and the music was too loud.

Good to see that the import of a team of dancers from Bangkok seems to have sparked a revival.

I'm not sure if it is like this everyday but I think I may have stumbled in during a dance contest.

Things look hopeful for the bar as there were plenty of attractive girls around and the beer was still the same cheap price as before.

It made a good change to leave after one drink on the grounds that the bar was too full. I usually leave after one drink because the bar was too empty.

  Review Nov 2008: Little Sparkle

Diamond is not really getting the customers in at the moment. I stopped by at 10pm and I was one of two.

Perhaps one of the reasons is a lack of enthusiasm by the welcome staff. They seem to ignore passers by but will of course respond if you step towards the door. The door itself is not really inviting, its like stepping into a vault.

Inside there were 3 bikini clad girls dancing on the central stage and there were another 4 or 5 sitting around waiting for their turn. An average bunch but that still means there are some attractive girls.

There wasn't much doing in the bar but a couple of the waiting girls popped over to see if I was interested. But as I never really appreciate being double teamed I fended them off.

I thought about these double teaming tactics for a while and came to a conclusion. There probably not many regulars of the bar, so the chances are that any customers are newbies and therefore can be easily persuaded to buy multiple lady drinks.

Probably just being cynical though, there were no other signs of hassle. But then again, I didn't hang round very long.

  Review Jan 2008: Reasonable

Diamond is a very straightforward gogo which is pretty conservative in terms of entertainment.

It seems to have a good customer base probably from reputations from maybe slightly better times of old. It seems to cater for guys on holiday rather than expats.

It seems to give a good package of reasonably priced drinks, a reasonable show and a reasonable bunch of girls who tend to keep themselves to themselves.

I guess it does the business in terms of entertainment and so keeps customers returning for occasional visits. It misses out on regulars as they simply get to know the bars where the entertainment is a little more sexy.

Or perhaps just where the music is not played quite so loud!

  Review April 2007: Foreboding Entrance

The doorway is a little foreboding, looking more like a bank vault than a gogo. The welcome staff weren't really on their toes either, giving an air of being picky about who they let in.

Well they were kind enough to open the vault so I wandered in.

The bar was quite popular with a mildly erotic lesbian show capturing the attention of the rapt customers.

The music was loud but not quite the ear splitting levels I was expecting. The customers were also 'having fun' with ping pong balls, entertaining the tequila girl. There were also a couple of guys taking delight in being swamped by lady drink chasers.

Looking around at the bar it seemed that most of the customers were there to watch rather than partake. There were few girls enquiring where customers originate from and there were no girls sitting with customers idly chatting about thisthatandtheother and short time rates.

But what does it matter when there is a bar full of customers who are enjoying themselves. As I prefer to enjoy the girls rather than myself I moved swiftly on.

The Dollhouse A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 8pm

www.dollhousepattaya.com

Medium sized gogo featuring a revolving stage. Ownership connections with Living Dolls Showcase & Sisterz.

Nov 09 Key							Takeaway: -dancers Fri-Sat LT 1000 -dancers Sun-Thu LT 700 -dancers ST 700 Room:
Pint £1.70
	to 10pm	50*		59	59+	135
10pm-1am		50*	125	95	145
	from 1am	50*			59+

* small glass

  Review October 2009: Little Interaction

The bar has improved for installing a cheap draft beer at 55 Baht but otherwise it seems to operate pretty much as normal.

The were quite a few girls rotating around the central carousel stage. There were some good looking girls and there was a complete range of dress from none to bikini. There were also a couple of girls ineffectively dancing on small stages in amongst the audience.

There was very little interaction between the girls and the customers. I have a theory that may be total bollox, but I reckon that response to the ping pong balls is used to differentiate between ex-pats and visitors. Only ping pong friendly customers are likely to get company.

Still there are plenty of bars that are prefer to be show/watching bars rather than being interactive, and this is a decent enough example to watch a bit of gogo dancing.

  Review from Pattaya Talk, April 2009: Improved

The bar introduced a cheap draft and at least one forum poster reported a good improvement in the bar:

The most improved gogo of my recent trip, after a couple of years in the doldrums, they seem back to their best with a high number of lookers, many of whom are interactive in the bar (with excessive pressure for ladydrinks).

  Review December 2008: Visitors Bar

The bar was very quiet at what should have been a prime time. I presume this rather reflects the lack of holiday makers in town. It has always struck me that this bar is not really a hit with Pattaya residents and appeals more to visitors.

The bar had about 15 dancers in attendance and a few showgirls hiding away in their changing room. 5 or 6 girls were dancing either in bikinis or topless on the revolving central stage.. The girls were generally average which of course means there are a few that appeal.

The girls seemed a little lack lustre in terms of hostess duties, and a couple of newbies behind me were getting a bit of a hard sell about ping pong balls.

There were a couple of shows that were not particularly sexy. One was traditional Thai dancing, and in the other, the girls only got down to their knickers.

I'd rather guess that not many expats use the bar as the drinks prices are on the high end whilst the entertainment is on the low end. Nothing inherently bad about the bar, just poor value.

  Review March 2008: Ping Pong Heaven

At a prime time visit, the bar was very lively. Plenty of whooping and holloring as the guys were lining up to throw ping pong balls and cash at the girls.

It was clear that most of the high spirits were down to holiday fun and the novelty value of a gogo.

From an expat point of view I don't really see why it should be so popular. The girls were distinctly average (that's not to say that there aren't pretty girls, the Walking Street average is pretty good). The drinks prices are on the high side too.

My only theory as to why the bar attracts holiday makers is simply down to the rather good name, particularly as Thee Dollhouse is a well known chain of lap dancing bars in USA.

The girls were not being friendly to me though. They probably spotted the micro gesture of disdain towards the frequent attempts to sell me ping pong balls.

Still you can't knock a bar where everyone is laughing and having fun...you just have to quietly go somewhere else.

  News from Pattaya Secrets, Oct 2007: Jimmy's Gone

It has been reported that Jimmy is no longer the manager at The Dollhouse. Hopefully his success at re-animating the bar will open plenty of new opportunities. The management change was a result of ownership changes and the bar is no longer associated with Club Boesche

  Review, Sep 2007: Jigging

After a rather disappointing early evening visit I stopped by at about 10pm and things were far more lively.

In fact I was soon approached by a very attractive girl indeed who turned out to be on loan from Heaven Above.

Nothing like a pretty girl on one's arm to make one appreciate the rest of the entertainment. There were about 8 girls on the central carousel, mostly bikini clad. There are several table dancing positions and also a small cushioned show stage with a couple of girls on show. This was not quite the naughtiness of Windmill or What's Up though.

One notable policy of The Dollhouse is that all the girls seem to be continuously dancing, whether they are on or off stage or even at the side of a customer. Presumably salary cuts apply if ever a girl is spotted not jigging around. Still it seems to help the girls stay slim.

Hopefully the re-animation will continue. Surely this has a better chance than previous short lived revivals, as the price of draught beer has now been reduced to Walking Street norms.

Pattaya Soi 8

Opened January 2006 and went dark 3 days later. Now Bada Bing

Closed. Now Dynamite Boys

E

Asian tour party venue

Not fully included in list as it does not advertise public admittance and may in fact have a cover charge designed to deter.

It's a companion to the Model Club and features the Russian/Uzbekistan girls that dance at Galaxy Cabaret.

This venue is on the site of the new but failed Pattaya Dragon complex.

F

Fantasia Show Bar

Walking Street: Soi 14

Bells and whistles showbar closed in June 2007. Now merged into What's Up.

Fantasy GoGo

New Simon Beer Bar Complex
Walking Street

Very small gogo opened in October 2009, closed in the first week of November 2009.

Far East Rock A-GoGo

Beach Road: Soi Post Office

From 1pm - 10pm
Most girls depart at 8pm

Afternoon gogo catering for expats into rock music

Jan 09 Key							Takeaway: -to 5pm 850 -from 5pm 550 -from 8pm 300 - All in 1500
Pint £1.20
	50-60	90	80	130	130	90

  Review August 2009: Still Underwhelming

I stopped by for a beer at the early hour of 7:45pm and the bar had the feeling of it being closing time already.

There were about 8 girls in the bar when I arrived but by the time I had finished my beer the bar was down to 2 or 3. 8pm is the end of shift for half or more of the girls.

I didn't stay for a 2nd beer to find out how the bar works out between 8pm and closing time at 10pm.

When I entered there were 4 girls dancing mostly bikini clad. Not a crew that stands out but a couple of the girls would surely be getting a few bar fines.

The service girl was friendly enough but the dancing girls were winding down so it is a bit unfair to comment on their interaction with the customers.

Probably better to give the bar a try in the afternoon.

  Review Jan 2009: Underwhelming

I have been somewhat underwhelmed when I have recently stopped by this bar. It hasn't really changed very much over the last few years, its just that a little less good than it used to be.

There are slightly less girls, they are slightly older on average and the decor is now slightly faded.

On the positive side the beer prices have been the same for ages and the bar continues with the oldie farang friendly rock music.

There are usually a few customers in the bar who are enjoying playing with the girls, so not a bad place. Never any undue hassle either.

Presumably the relatively early closing is something to do with running one shift of staff rather than two.

  Review May 2008: Foundering

The bar seems to be struggling a bit at the moment. I have been left to drink alone on my last couple of visits due to a general lack of girls.

There is also a general lack of customers too. This may be down to the girls being a bit overdressed in bikinis. Or perhaps it is down to lady boy welcome staff putting a few people off.

Still, there is nothing particularly bad about the bar. The beer is cheap and the music is farang friendly. And the girls seem friendly enough too.

As always it could be just bad luck but I think it is simply edged out by the better local competition from Nevada and Hot & Cold

  News, Jan 2008: Far East Rocked

Far East Rock has made the UK news as it is listed as one of the assets of Angela Miller. She has been prosecuted for running brothels in the UK where Thai girls were working in semi slavery to repay ridiculous trumped up debts incurred to get a chance of working in the UK.

She was sentenced to 4 years and will serve more if she opposes the confiscation of her assets.

She had been extradited back to the UK after being on the run for 6 years in Thailand.

  Review, Sep 2007: Fourth Choice

Far East Rock seems to be the least popular of the afternoon gogos in the area. It is outdone by Cub Nevada for prettier and nude dancers. It is outdone by Hot & Cold for up close and personal attention. It is outdone by TQ1 for those that want to have a banter with their mates.

There's probably no good reason why it shouldn't compete with the others but momentum seems to have made this the least popular. Prices are generally competitive and the music is attractive to the afternoon expats.

The kateoys on the welcome staff at the door are probably a big negative for many potential customers. It seems strange to use kateoys when it does not seem to be a big thing within the bar.

The poor ranking generally reflects in a lower standard of girls but there are usually a few that one would be happy to share a drink with.

Never seems too bad, but I generally soon get tempted to move on to one of the nearby competitors.

  Review, March 2007: Afternoon GoGo

Seemed reasonably popular on an afternoon visit with plenty of customers who were enjoying some hands on fun with the girls.

In the evening katoeys guard the door so I don't know whether it changes character.

The music is pitched at those who like their rock from the 70's and 80's.

The draft beer comes in decent size glasses to make for a reasonably cheap session.

About 6 girls dance at anyone time which is probably a couple more than necessary s it would leave a couple more girls on hostess duty. Previously girls danced nude but on this visit they were generally topless

First A-GoGo Lounge

Pattaya Soi 8

From 7pm
Shows from 9:30pm

www.firstagogo-pattaya.com

Opened on 28th January 2009 in the venue that was previously Zoo A-GoGo

Nov 09 Key							Takeaway: 800 until 11pm 600 11pm-1:30 300 after 1:30 Room: 600 (no barfine)
Pint £2.30
	7-10pm		70	70	70	95-180
from 10pm			85+		130-150

  Review February 2010:  Change of Management

The bar has just had a change of management so time to have a look if anything had changed.

I didn't spot any physical changes to the bar. It still suffers a little from a rather high stage that is located a bit too far from the comfy seats.

On the plus side, the bar had a fair amount of good looking dancers. There were perhaps 15 girls in all of which 6 were dancing. They wore bikinis or less depending on their preferences. Most would don pleated skirts as they ended their dancing stint.

To me the long term failing of the bar is that the girls never seem very interested in interacting with the customers. Taking a quick look round the bar, I think there has probably been a bit of an improvement on that front, as a couple of guys were enjoying a chat.

The much travelled Thai bar manager Kuhn Saatit was on duty but somehow his presence rarely correlates with the sort of bar I like to drink in.

The bar didn't click for me on this visit, but I think there is an improved chance of this happening on a subsequent visit.

  Review from Pattaya-Addicts, May 2009:  Large and Airy

Large and airy, a central dance podium, two separate dance stages around the sides, two dozen or so dancers with a generally good standard. Large screen TVs around the walls showing sports for those who are no longer interested in watching the dancers. And the girls were actually dancing.

There were a couple of shows, but I guess because the girls appeared to be new these weren’t as slick as some of the others you can see around town.

  Review Feb 2009: 60 Baht Happy Hour

Since opening, the bar has reduced its previously top end prices down to more realistic levels and there is also a very good 60 Baht happy hour which runs to 10pm.

  Review Feb 2009: 60 Baht Happy Hour

Since opening, the bar has reduced its previously top end prices down to more realistic levels and there is also a very good 60 Baht happy hour which runs to 10pm.

The bar has recruited a few more girls and they now have half a dozen that are well attractive. Unfortunately they don't seem to be very interested in circulating amongst the earlybird 9pm customers so I wasn't tempted to stay long. The dancing at the early hour was strictly bikini clad.

  Review Jan 2009: First But Will it Last

The new GoGo is located on the north side of central Soi 8. It was previously the location of Zoo A-GoGo. I have heard that there was a previous incarnation of First A-GoGo on the same site many years ago.

The gogo is large with a central stage plus an unused side stage and a Jacuzzi.

There is an area with sofa seating and the rest of the bar is stools. The gogo generally looks good.

It is always difficult for bars to recruit girls for the opening and this bar had just 6 dancers. Less than average too. They were all bikini clad. I was told that the Jacuzzi girls were a little more revealing but they hadn't started yet.

The Pattaya Ghost informs me that all 3 of the Jacuzzi girls were eminently 'doable'.

The drinks prices are way too much for this early days entertainment with no draft beer and bottles at 100-110. Spirits were on the menu as 130 Baht.

The service girl taking my order was a good English speaker and she was happy to chat to make up for the lack of available dancers.

But really the bar is currently poor value with expensive drinks, few ladies, and dancers with too many clothes.

The bar seemed basically friendly and free of hassle. I will certainly drop by again to see how they fare.

Now Club Insomnia.

Closed in the summer of 2007, now Stork Club

 Frozen A-GoGo

Renamed as The Sea, see below

Fun Room A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

Small gogo opened in March 2007. Closed in March 2008. Re-opened  on 12th June 2009. Re-opened early August 2009. Dark again February 2010.

Sep 09 Key							Takeaway: 500 before 1:30 250 after 1:30
UK Pint £1.00
	45	99	75	80+		130

  News February 2010: Dark

The bar was dark this evening, with a for sale sign on the door.

  News July 2009: Re-opened

The bar re-opened in the first few days of August with a good amount of dancers.

  News July 2009: Dark

The bar was dark this evening. No official word about the reason but the welcome staff from the next door bar claimed it was permanent

  Review June 2009: Opening Day Fun

The hosts for the re-opening of this small bar will be familiar with anybody that has been to BJ Club. The manager there and the mamasang seem to have done a good job at the poorly located BJ Club, so perhaps they can do something with a  notoriously difficult small narrow bar.

The opening night perhaps demonstrates some of the problems. There were perhaps a couple of dozen girls in the bar with 4 on the central stage and a couple doing their own thing in the Jacuzzi. By the time the owners mates had claimed the best girls, then there weren't enough left to entertain the rest of the customers. No doubt on following days there will prove to be too many girls. It is hard to maintain a happy medium for a small bar

There were quite a good team of girls for an opening day, probably a few from BJ Club. They mostly danced in bikinis but a couple lost their tops.

Draft beer was 45 Baht.

G

Galaxy Cabaret

Walking Street

Be warned that the drinks are very expensive and that mandatory 100 baht tips for the dancers will be extracted.

Oct 07 key						bar fine
UK Pint £4.60
		220-250		230	790+

1000 Baht for 4 minute lap dance.

  Review from Pattaya Addicts August 2008: Millionaires Only

Lured in by the blondie dancing in the glass cubicle upstairs overlooking the street.

Wandered in.... sat down.... ordered a Heineken - 220baht payable immediately.... Different blondie starts dancing & wigglin her bootie in front of me for few seconds.... holds out her hand & says in no uncertain terms one hundred baht...

It was the manner in which it was demanded. I replied no money have to go to ATM sorry. Blondie looked at me with contempt & spat something along the lines of you have no money go home sleep alone.

Next thing a different girl came along & plonked a small sign on the coffee table in front of me which read something like minimum tip 50 baht & in brackets something like this is only $2 US.

Suddenly my urge to nail a white girl had diminished somewhat & I promptly got the hell outta there.

  Review from Pattaya Addicts March 2008: High End

A few prices quoted or charged in March 2008. Bottle of champagne 8950 Baht. Box of chocolates (Ferrero Rocher) for 1500 Baht. Long time 15,000+ Baht

  News Aug 2007: Open

It was reported on Stickman that Galaxy had closed. This seems not to be the case. (The door was open and people were entering but I wasn't going to look any further lest I get hammered with a mandatory tip). Girls are now back dancing in the street booth too.

  News from Pattaya Daily News June 2007: Police Raid

Pattaya police arrested five naked Russian dancers at Galaxy Cabaret on walking street.

Outside, there were clothed foreign dancers performing behind a glass window. However, inside, Russian strippers were entertaining the audience.

Foreign undercover 'volunteers', with female police, posed as customers to investigate; and found five Russian strippers, clad only in bikinis, dancing to the delight of the audience. The police immediately arrested the half naked performers.

They all had permits to work as dancers, but they were, nevertheless arrested, as it is a crime to perform unclothed.

The manager was also arrested

  Review from Pattaya Talk, Nov 2006: Avoid

We sat down and ordered our 200/250 baht beer.

One of the the girls said hello, seemed pleasant but we avoided to much chatting as we did not wish to lead on as we were only having a look inside.

Then a girl walked over, stood about 1 metre in from of us and wiggled her ass.. then pointed at a sign on the table saying minimum tip 100baht.. and demanded 100 baht, she didn't ask nicely or anything it was a literal give me 100 bath now .. to avoid grief we coughed up and started to finish out beer with haste.

Then another girl came over and tried to do the wiggle .. we said no thanks & she moved closer. again we said no, she then called the bouncer over saying we pushed her away and started shouting abuse. The bouncer was a big guy, so we just pleaded ignorance said it was not right .. he showed no interest and started to try and argue with us .. so we made a quick exit and left to the safety of walking street ..

Avoid the place like the plague

  Review from Stickman, July 2006: Mandatory 100 Baht Tip: Avoid

We were greeted by the doorman and asked if there was a cover charge. “No” was the reply – so in we went ‘for the experience’. There were a few good lookers swinging off their poles in their birthday suits – totally uninhibited. We were beset upon immediately by a couple of reasonably attractive Romanian girls who forgot to put all their clothes on, so we thought we would do the right thing and invite them to sit with us and have a drink.

Not long after we had taken a seat on the sofa, a third totally naked bird took the opportunity to slither across my lap (totally unexpected and uninvited) - knocking my beer over. Not only did she reduce my stubby to a half full state without me enjoying too much of it but she rudely interrupted the conversation I had just started with the bird I had bought a drink for.

She removed her body from my lap and stood with her hand out – she had the audacity of seeking a tip – and I stress I neither invited or wanted her. My mate joked she was looking for payment for services rendered. What services? I politely gestured for her to POQ but she wasn’t leaving in a hurry. My mate told her a little (not much) more strongly that we were happy with the two girls we were talking with and didn’t need her. She threw her head back and charged away. She returned 30 seconds later – smashed a plastic sign down on the table in front of me “It is Galaxy policy that 100 baht tip must be given ...” 100 baht for what! That was enough for me – I was out of there.

Get a load of this... Tab – 2 lady drinks @ 300 baht + 2 small Heineken @ 220 baht = 1,040 baht for a small amount of entertainment.

Gentlemen's
Club

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8:30pm

gentlemensclubpattaya.com

The GoGo bar replaced Super Model A-GoGo in November 2007. Convenient rooms. The previous Insomnia prefix was dropped when the Insomnia group sold the bar in October 2008

Sep 09 Key							Takeaway: -all 600 Room: -350 (inc barfine) All In: 1850
Pint £2.00
	To 10pm	55	55	55	55	120
From 10pm		85	105-115	105	120-160

  Review, Nov 2009: Jacuzzi

The bar has recently re-opened the upstairs floor complete with the almost inevitable Jacuzzi.

It has always been tricky to run a bar over 2 floors. Few people tend to go upstairs. I guess psychologically one will never venture up a strange set of stairs unless invited. I think it needs very clear signage to indicate what is upstairs and that it is currently open.

There were no clear messages from Gentlemen's Club staff or signs that there was entertainment upstairs. As far as I can gather it has limited opening hours too. I think that it opens at 10pm.

Anyway upstairs I was a little under whelmed. The Jacuzzi is one of those that is more of a dancing stage than anything. There are no ringside seats. But of course the bench seats are close enough for a good view of a show, but a show with no audience participation. There are also a couple of dancing podiums too.

There were 4 or 5 girls upstairs, and as you would expect for the bar, they were well attractive. But unfortunately they were all engaged by a party of customers at the other side of the bar.

It is always tough to make a small operation work in a GoGo, as there will often be too few girls for the customers, and equally often, too few customers for the girls.

On this occasion I had a lonely beer watching other people have fun. Not really my thing. But equally well, it could be the other way round next time.

  Review from Materialsman, Oct 2009: High rating in beauty

This is not a new club per se, but this was to be my first visit there. First impression upon entering was that it was much smaller than I had imagined, and by the impression given by the website, but what it lost in size it more than made up with the quality of the dancing girls on the night.

There were probably only ten girls onstage and as many again scattered around sat with customers, but of very high rating in beauty, I would have to award this place a 9/10 based solely on the girls I saw last night, they looked stunning attired in quality, expensive red lingerie style bikinis.

There is also a VIP style room upstairs available for the princely sum of 500 Baht with No Barfine as it proudly states on the displayed notice, but I had no chance to take a look.

I had a couple or three beers here and very much added Gentlemen's Club to my Favourites list for future perambulations.

  Review from Pattaya-Addicts, May 2009: Impressed

I was impressed with the looks of the girls dressed in tiny red bikinis or less. They even had a show with the usual sexy dancing ending with some rubber hose whippin'.

When I looked around I saw mostly younger guys visiting but the girls seemed to be interacting well between their dancing-shift. They sent the ugliest girl over to me (as usual!) Can never understand this practise, why bars almost always sends over the oldest and ugliest girls to new customers!?

Anyway music was too loud, some boring Techno Dance whatever they call it although the girls seems to like it, and where quite energetic up on stage!

  Review Feb 2009: Service Without a Smile

The bar seems to be quite popular when I stopped by mid week.

The bar had about a dozen girls split into shifts with about half a dozen on stage. They are still following the pattern of taking off clothes as they work through the short dance roster.

The girls are attractive which obviously goes someway towards  explaining the popularity. I think the short striptease dance pattern is a good idea too.

Unfortunately there weren't really enough girls in the bar to take personal care of all the customers. The lucky few seemed to be having a good time though.

As I felt somewhat neglected on this occasion, I decided to move rapidly on and maybe try again another time. As my tipping tends to reflect how much I enjoyed my stay, I chose not to leave one, 85 Baht is already enough for a draft beer. I got such a sneer from the service girl. Totally unpleasant.

  News from Pattaya Ghost August 2008: Downsized

The bosses continue to keep the upstairs stages closed unless absolutely pressed for space.

The bosses have also made a few change, dropping the sexy gowns for most girls and putting then in go-go style skirts and bikinis. They’ve also introduced a number of sexy shows.

  Review June 2008: Lonely

The bar seems to have settled down into a rather low key affair. There are plenty of good looking dancers and they keep the stage entertainment brief and to the point with a three song set usually removing excess clothing at each song. Sexy indeed.

The bar seems to have gone awry in terms of hooking the girls up with the customers though.

I concur with a fair few Pattaya forum members that customers are generally left to drink a lonesome beer without any interest from the girls to say hello. There is a theory going around that the girls are picky and just waiting on good looking young guys. But they may have to wait a fair time in Pattaya.

There is a bar gimmick about waiving a 20 baht dollar bill around to get a girls attention, but I have yet to see this work.

In the meantime the connections of the bar will be wondering why the customers aren't showing as much interest in drinking in the bar as they would like. Nothing a bit more of bullying mamasang couldn't sort out.

  News Dec 2007: Happy Hour

The bar has now started a happy hour until 10pm. All drinks are 55 Baht (except lady drinks). The VIP card is not available during Happy Hour nor are the free shots.

Closed

Goldfingers A-GoGo

Beach Road: Soi 7

Previously a girls A-GoGo but went Ladyboy in June 2007 and closed in December 2008.

Gorkle Pattaya Club

Soi LK Metropole

Previously Memories A-GoGo. Bought out in July 2007 and renamed Gorkle Club. Closed & re-develpoed as Ice coyote bar in May 2008

Gothic GoGo

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Gothic themed gogo opened in November 2007. Closed by February. Now Ezy Bar.

H

Happy A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Happy

From 8pm

 Happy A-GoGo

Eternally popular gogo with pretty girls and a no hassle policy

Jan 10 Key								Takeaway: -LT 1200 -ST 600
Pint £1.90
	to 9:30pm	59*		59	59	150	105
from 9:30pm		59*	120	100	95-120

*small glass

Note that any visible cameras are retained at the door. Also there is a notice saying that mobile phones cannot be used in the bar. Showgirls cannot leave before 10pm.

 News January 2010: Sign of the Times

Happy is now sporting a flashy new sign

  Review April 2009: Personal Space

I'd make a lousy bar owner. If I fashioned a bar according to my own likes and dislikes, I'd end up losing out on some of the most popular bars in Pattaya, and Happy is one of them.

I often pop by Happy early evening for one drink whilst planning an itinerary for the rest of the evening. It is perfect for a quick drink, as it has very good looking dancers, reasonable drinks prices and no hassle from the girls (not that hassle is a bad thing mind you, I do particularly like being hassled by a girl jumping on to my lap).

There are plenty of girls on stage and they have a very long dance roster, but that's ok, not many of them have drinking partners waiting for their return.

The girls on the main stage dance topless and it must be said that the basic gogo dancing is some of the more energetic in town.

All well and good, and maybe too good. Later on the crowds come to enjoy the entertainment. At this time the bar is everything that I don't want from a bar. More than likely you will get ushered to one of the last remaining seats in the bar, usually a stage side stool jammed between 2 other occupied stools.

Now then its a question of priorities, do you want to watch some of the prettiest girls in town? or do you want to have a comfortable seat and the space for a girl at your side? (even if getting a girl is as yet, just a hope). Call me strange but I prefer the comfortable seat and a bit of room to breathe. But at least I can see the point of view of those jammed into the small stage-side stools enjoying the pretty dancers.

  Review Sept 2008: Still Happy

Nothing much had changed since my last visit. In fact nothing had changed since my last visit. The bar is simply supremely consistent.

Still pretty girls on the popular main stage and naked girls around on the side stage which isn't so popular.

Most guys seem to come to look rather than interact with the girls much.

The shows are simple with just a little added enthusiasm to the dancing and a few less clothes.

The beer is reasonably priced but it is not given away as the glasses are small.

On the whole I find the lack of interaction makes the bar pretty sterile but that is personal taste rather than a criticism of the bar. Many would say how pleasant it is to be able to sit ad watch without being hassled.

  Review by Serigala, Jan 2008: A Kind of Show

My wife and I went here around 9pm. Considering the early hour, the place was very busy.

Luckily enough, there were two spare seats next to the central stage where we were seated.

Central stage was occupied by eight naked girls enthusiastically dancing. After every number they rotated to the next pole until they’d done a complete circuit of the poles. Not much interaction with the customers though but we still enjoyed the dancing.

After this, the naked girls were replaced with shuffling bikini girls (a few topless) and we realised that we had just witnessed a kind of show by the naked girls. On a few side tables there was table dancing with skirted, but knickerless, girls who we managed to get a smile out of.

We did notice that Happy also had hostesses and there were a couple engaged with Japanese gents.

Probably one of the better places that we visited but again, it was just a one drink place.

  Review by polleke, Oct 2007: Same Same

Went in and found the place as usual packed with customers as well as pretty girls. I found the quality of the girls had decreased a bit since my last visit 6 months ago. Maybe because of the time 0.30 am and most prettiest girls had been barfined.

Some of the girls are topless and in the new part of the bar there were no naked girls dancing as I remembered from a previous visit.

The place is always full of fun and I always like to come back. One of the top gogos in Patts

  Review April 2007: No Hassle

I often pop in for a beer in the early evening to have somewhere pleasant to sit down whilst I plan where to go for the evening.

The bar has a no hassle policy, so unless you send out the signals, no girls will approach you. But it is not like the Super Baby/Girl gogos where you do not even get a smile before selecting a girl by number. The girls here smile and cast their eye over the customers so as to give the guys a chance to signal the girls should they so wish.

There are plenty of pretty girls on stage dancing though they sometimes have to dance very long stint.

There is a choice of stages with the main stage being topless, there is a knickerless table dancing stage and also a small nude stage.

The service is good, if not a little too efficient, with the all male service guys sometimes being a little over enthusiastic to suggest more drinks.

I rarely stay beyond one drink though, the bar has a policy of 'no touch' whilst drinking with girls. I prefer something a little bit naughtier. But for those that like to take away to play, this bar surely delivers good options

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, Sept 2006: Party

The best gogo in Pattaya. Barfine a girl here, go back a few nights later and get treated like a king. The line-up is outstanding, and the girls dance enthusiastically. The mamasan is always on hand checking everyone is "happy". The icing on the cake for me is that the girls all seem to genuinely like each other, which just adds to the electric atmosphere.

There is always a party atmosphere the minute you walk into the bar, something that most bars do not have. I hate walking into a dead go-go bar, and then everyone stares at you for the next 10 minutes, sizing you up and hoping you will barfine them. At Happy, the place is so damn crowded and there are so many girls, that no one notices new arrivals walking through the door.

I would rather that they had female service staff, though.

Heaven Above A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 7:30pm
Dancing from 8pm
Shows from 10pm

Slow until the shows start

www.HeavenAbove.com

Lively bar packed with pretty girls who are often criticised for being picky. There are luxurious convenient rooms at the Galaxy Suites above the bar.

May 09 Key							Takeaway: -service girls 1000 -showgirls/coyotes 800 to 1am -showgirls/coyotes 600 after 1am -dancers/hostess 600 Room: 500 + barfine
Pint £3.00
	to 9:30	50	115	50	50	110
from 9:30		95	115

There is a pre-pay card to keep drinks at 90 Baht each if you buy 10. Also card to keep track barfines then buy 6, get 1 free. Over peak season girls are not allowed to be barfined in their first 2 hours at work.

 Review from Materialsman, Oct 2009: Marxist Mindset

One of my favourites is Heavens Above. Once more it didn't disappoint me, some honey's here as always, they seemed to be having some sort of Daisy Duke thing going amongst the staff, you know the look, tiny denim shorts, check shirts tied at the waist, straw hats etc. and very nice it looked too!

I know some of the show girls here have a reputation of bad attitude, but frankly I have never had a problem with any girl from here, maybe through my very persona, I dress reasonably well, I'm not a complete 'fugly', and I treat the girls in my company well. Hey, maybe I have become a member of the Heavens Above clique that some guys whisper darkly of, that's an amusing thought, I've always held on to the Groucho Marx mindset towards belonging to clubs and cliques.

  Review October 2009: Pretty in Heaven

I tend to visit the bar for a hassle free beer that makes for a pleasant backdrop whilst planning the evening.

The bar is attractive with a white theme. There is a fair sized central stage and also a play mat area towards the back of the bar.

There are always a goodly amount of girls on the stage and they are an above average crew. The dancing girls choose their own attire and how much or how little they are happy with.

There are also a few girls, maybe classed as showgirls, who wear negligees. They seem to hold dominion over the raised step around the edge of the stage.

The girls have a very long dance roster rather suggesting that the bar is for watching the girls rather than interacting with them. Well that's my excuse anyway, the girls never seem very interested in me.

  Review by Pattaya Today: Night March, April 2009: Tight Butts

For me, and others I know, Heaven Above has the number one position as far as sheer number of small-bodied, tight-butt dancing damsels is concerned.

The den has also introduced a theme-style night as far as clothing goes, with girls in schoolgirl-style uniforms one evening and then cowgirl tops, shorts and hats the next, and so on.

  Review from Pattaya Talk, April 2009: Interaction

Has always provided a great breed of fare for the eye but an improvement has been made in recent times; that improvement is in terms of interaction, the ladies seem much more willing to gyrate in your direction

  Review from Materialsman, Dec 2008: Stunning Girls

Always one of my favourite Pattaya spots, and one that recently had come in for a little criticism on another Pattaya Forum.

Again the Bar was busy. I think my Heineken was again 120 baht, could have been 110, not really sure.

I did however have a brief chat with the Manager, an affable enough young Aussie chap, who was desperately trying to sell me on the idea of purchasing a special discount drink card for the minimal sum of 850 Baht, which was guaranteed to eventually save me money on my drinks. Sorry, I’m sure it is a good deal but not one I am going to go for while out having a good time and in a fairly incapacitated state, seemed a bit like a Time Share sort of deal.

As for the eye candy on view, well again recently there has been criticism of the line up, but I have to say I thought there were some stunners on show, whether or not they have pussies made of gold that pee pure Pinot Noir, and a stuck up attitude to match, I can’t really say, they certainly seemed friendly enough to my advances, and when I walked out of the club at around midnight there were fifteen very attractive hard bodied girls lined up totally buck naked on stage, and more circling the stage, what’s wrong with that scenario, I mean what more could you desire? The service staff were attentive, and some comely wenches amongst them too.

All in all, still one of the top go-go’s in Pattaya with some stunning girls, in my humble opinion.

  Review by Pattaya Today: Night March, July 2008: Still a Slice of Heaven

The Heaven Above ogling den continues to retain an air of consistency that to my mind keeps it among the better joints around.

Relatively small in terms of space, it always has a brace of dancing damsels.

While the vast majority are long-term practitioners of the art of wallet emptying, it’s a place that suits the punter who understands the ‘great game’ and plays by the rules, most of which are for the short term.

I still think most of the music is drawn out of an aural trash can, but the chrome pole gyrators seem to appreciate it. The free style of dancing apparel, rather than a uniform approach, makes for an intriguing mix of colours and fashions, which I think adds to the overall appeal.

Highway Star A-GoGo

Beach Road
(Pier Entertainment Complex near Walking Street)

Relocated after closing in February 2006 at the venue that is now Sweethearts A-GoGo. Closed in June 2008.

Honey A-GoGo

Walking Street

Honey was replaced by Sisterz A-GoGo in September 2007, see below

Honey Girls A-GoGo

Soi Honey
(Between 2nd Road & Soi Buakhao)

Opened on 12th February 2008. Closed by September 2008. The venue was gutted in January 2009. Now split into single units

Hooty's Show Girls

Walking Street

From 8pm
Shows from 9:30pm

GoGo renovated in October 2007 and re-opened on 1st November 2007. Noted for music policy of farang friendly music that is also danceable for the girls.

Jan 10 Key							Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -dancer 600
Pint £2.10
	to 10pm	70	70	70	70	120
from 10pm		70	120	95	90-125

  Review September 2009: First Time

Limey things are looking up at Hooty's. For the first time in years I found myself a dancer who was up for a friendly few drinks.

Hopefully it is a sign that the bar is giving up its pretensions as an expensive show bar and joining the group of fun bars where the name of the game is to get customers hooked up with girls, not watching them from a respectable distance.

Helping in the cause, Hooty's has established a reasonably priced draft beer and have recently installed a Jacuzzi. It is not particularly well placed, being mostly hidden behind the stage, but it at least signals an intent that the bar wants to be seen as fun.

Anyway I have to be a bit restrained in case the good night was a one off, but it will at least earn a couple of return visits in the very near future.

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, Dec 2008: Really Friendly Staff

No dogs, no stunners, average GoGo girls... really friendly staff, but no hassle for lady drinks.. some cutie service girls, the dancers are interactive, but not pushy... many happy farangs with girl companion...

All in all a great venue if you are not too picky...There are two to die for showgirls, but they don't mix with the customers.

  Review Nov 2008: No Draft, No Dice

At about 10pm I was the only customer in the bar. There were plenty of girls in attendance with several that were well attractive.

You'd think I'd be well away. But as is often the case in a dead bar, it is actually pretty tough to attract the attention of the girls.

Because there are next to no customers in the bar, the dancing girls don't really cast their gaze around the room. And when they have finished they go into an impenetrable huddle. There's no point in circulating when there are no customers.

The mamasang spotted the unattached customer though, and send a 'B string' girl over. I am a great believer in first come, first served, so I expect that if I am the only customer in the bar, then I should be allocated an 'A string' companion.

From my viewpoint the bar fails to make my list due to the lack of draft beer. A cheap first drink option is always good as it tempts me in for a 'look see'. But being as this bar is twice the beer price of most (I see no taste advantage of bottles over draft) then I simply give it a miss, particularly as previous visits have also been pretty naff.

  News June 2008: Happy Hour

Hooty's has started a happy hour with bottled beer at 70 Baht and house spirits at 50 Baht. Later on there was no sign of the 70 Baht Beer on the welcome cards.

  Review from Ray, March 2008: Young Lads

I dropped by this bar a couple of weeks ago to see if anything had changed and found it had been taken over by a group of young English lads who were monopolising all the girls not on stage.

Feeling old and unloved I drunk up and left.

As I believed the owner was a relatively young English guy? I thought this was a typical night. Obviously not.

  Review March 2008: Just Like Old Times

Maybe I hit that bar at a bad time but it was not a fun place to be. In fact it was very much like the rather dour Hooty's of a year ago.

There were plenty of girls in the bar huddled on one side without making much effort at mingling with the customers. The gogo dancing was fully bikini clad and even the show girl got no further than taking her top off.

There were no girls dancing at the small podiums amongst the audience.

There were a fair few customers giving the bar the once over though. Perhaps it was just me that considers this bar as poor value for its overpriced beer.

Hot & Cold A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 13/2 (Soi Post Office)

From 3pm
Start of shift for most girls is 6pm

 Hot & Cold A-GoGo

A mixture of girls but they are all up for some diddling fun.

Jan 09 Key							Takeaway: 500 dancer 800 service All in: 1300
Pint £1.40
	to 8:15	45				90-150
from 8:15		60	90	60	80

  Review July 2009: Mixed Reviews

It sometimes seems strange that one of my favourite bars seems to get very mixed reviews on the Pattaya forums. And I can see both sides of the debate.

The bar has more than its far share of girls who would never get a job in Walking Street. But it also has a few girls that would easily make the grade.

They all hands on and friendly, it is just a matter of selecting ones that appeal. To enjoy the bar, one simply has to be able to 'sack away' the girls that don't appeal. If you get friendly with girls that don't appeal, then you can almost guarantee that they will try jumping on your lap for every visit in the next 5 years. The bar must look after the girls well as some of them stay a long long time.

Maybe because the girls stay a long time, I have got to know some of them better than most girls in Pattaya. So it is almost like a local.

  Review Feb 2009: More Dilapidated More Expensive

The bar struggled to maintain momentum over the peak season as there simply weren't enough girls to round. (But no doubt the finances were healthy).

However things seem back to normal and there are enough girls on the bar that 2 or 3 will soon jump on your lap.

However a couple of less welcoming features have started to emerge. The first is that perennial lady drink upgrade without asking first. This is clearly a new policy as it has not happened for years of regular visits. I put a stop to it as far as I was concerned, but I notice that an awful lot of girls are now drinking 150 Baht Breezers. The standard lady drink went up not so long ago from 80 to 90 Baht.

The other misguided policy change, is for the girls to dance for 5 songs rather than the previous 4. To be slightly blunt, not so many of the girls are employed for their on stage grace. They are for more gainfully employed as literal lap dancers. The extra song just makes customers wait longer and the girls get even more tired after their 9 or 12 hour shift.

Still plenty of fun to be had but keep an eye on what your girls are drinking.

  Review June 2008: Seedy Fun

The state of the decor is getting worse and worse with time. The stained concrete ceiling effect is second to none. The benches are falling apart and the foot rests are nearly rotted through.

But what the hell, it is a great bar. The girls are up for more naughty fun than nearly all the competition put together.

There are a few potential downers though, there are a fair few oldies and chubbies. All the girls can be good fun but it depends a little on personal taste on how one deals with the choice.

There are plenty of attractive girls employed by the bar, but it often seems that they are all otherwise engaged. In fact the bar must do really well for the girls as some seem to be whisked away as soon as they turn up for work.

In fact the high turnover means that if you feel a bit stuck for choice, then wait a drink or two, and a few returnees will soon appear.

The other characteristic of the bar is that the girls like to jump on your lap in teams of 2 or 3 rather than as individuals. But if you can't stand the heat, then don't diddle in the fire of Hot & Cold.

  Review by polleke, Oct 2007: Hands on fun

For being one of my fave bars, I hadn't paid a visit for 6 months. Fortunately nothing has changed only the line-up.

2 minutes after entering I was treated with a balls massage from 2 girls that jumped aside me. After a couple of minutes they were replaced by a more fancied girl and the treatment went on.

I am aware they are not the most beautiful girls in town but hell it must be one of the most hands on fun dens in Pats. I too saw customers entering and leaving right away, but for me I hope the place stays the same for a long long time.

Be aware: the girls are pushy for threesomes, just stay firm, unless of course you want a threesome.

  Review by jj, May 2007: Bar Shuffle

Consistent with the post-Songkran bar shuffle, the staff at Hot & Cold has undergone about a 50% change.

Many of the 'older' gals have departed as well as a few of the service staff. Their replacements are perhaps younger but seemingly no less experienced!

As before, the mamasaan seems to ensure that there is a wide variety of ladies in the mix. She just seems to have reduced the average age by a few years.

The customer service, whether from the dancers or the service staff, is still very much hands on and up close and personal.

Now if they'd just fix their termite-ridden seat problems, they could rise to the top of the Pattaya bar scene once again

  Review by jj, Jan 2007: High Price of Service

The service staff of H&C have always been known for their hands-on customer service. This has proved so popular that the mamasaan has instituted a new fee scale. It seems that the service staff has proved so popular that they are being barfined at least as often as the dancers. To discourage their early departure, their barfine is now 800 baht, while that for the dancers remains at 500.

As I and others have noted, H&C may not include many stunners but they are the tallest! With the imported H&C2 staff and some new hires, H&C now seems to offer the tallest group of dancers in the city.

Other aspects of the bar's operation remain as before: 4-5 song sets with plenty of dancers ensuring that your lap dancer will remain with you a majority of the time. Friendly hands-on service; little pressure for the 80 baht lady drinks. Classic tunes played at a reasonable level. 11pm 'shows'. H&C offers something for everyone.

  Review from Pattaya Today: Night March, Oct 2006: Nothing Too Flash

One of the longest-running ogling dens around town. The music is OK, and the drinks prices are very reasonable.

The damsels are not the best lookers in town, but I doubt there’s anyone who expects much in the way of ‘talent’ away from the dens of Walking Street. That said, there are plenty to look at and they come in all shapes, sizes, and age ranges.

They’re certainly a touchy-feely lot and for customers who may feel the need for a short lie down with an accommodating companion, the total cost will run to 1,300 baht.

Worth wandering into if you are at a loose end one late afternoon or happen to be out and about in the Soi Post Office/Yamato area

Hot & Cold 2

Pattaya Soi 13/1 (Soi Yamato)

Brought back into service in May 2006 but closed again in Jan 2007. The bar is now up for sale

Hot Girls A-GoGo

Walking Street

Open from 3pm

Reports of a discriminatory 300 Baht entry charge (inc 1 drink)

Standard gogo with a bells and whistles show. Thai Ownership connections with New Star & Nui's Club 2, Pinky Girl & Rock Girls

Jan 08 Key						Takeaway: -barfine 600-700 Room: -900 (inc barfine) - All in 1900
Pint £1.70
	55*	110	95	110	110

*small glass

  Review April 2009: Asians Agog

The gogo still tries to be both farang friendly and Asian coach party friendly. But on my last visit the bar was pretty near full of Asians looking agog at the razor blades being drawn from a girl's pussy.

One is tempted to be a bit dismissive of such non-erotic shows but the bar surely had more customers than some of the farang oriented gogos in town.

Whilst the bells and whistles shows continue on one stage there is a girl soaping herself in the Jacuzzi. Its not geared up to allow for much customer interaction though.

The beer prices are kept at reasonable levels for the pay as you go farangs with draft at 55 Baht.

It is very much like its sister bar, Playgirls, just down the street but this one is probably the better due to having a few more attractive girls.

  Review Oct 2008: Pretty Hot

The bar is pitched at Asian tourists in that there are no drinks prices advertised by the welcome staff who are also there to charge unsuspecting visitors an entrance charge. As always the bar is free to farangs.

But the strange thing is that it is a perfectly good bar for farang customers too. There is a cheap draft beer at 55 Baht albeit in a small glass. The lady drinks are also in line with other bars at 110 Baht.

There are some pretty dancing girls and they are happy to pop over for a chat. No undue hassle and I had a perfectly pleasant stay.

There is a bells and whistles show but it is at least simultaneous with a pretty girl soaping herself in a Jacuzzi. The shows alternate with dancing and the girls just dance 2 songs. No sooner did my drinking partners say I go dance, and she was back by my side.

Probably mostly down to my pretty hostess, but I well enjoyed my visit.

  Review Jan 2008: Not Recommended

Entrance 600 baht + 1 drink free. Girls were taller and more beautiful, only topless. but the girls were more demanding and ripped off about 1000 baht from us. I don't recommend this place to anyone. seating arrangements too were poor.

  Review Dec 2007: Schizophrenic

The new layout of the bar is the fashionable white theme complete with Jacuzzi. The bar have recruited a few pretty girls to take good advantage of the shower show.

However the bar is still persisting with the bells and whistle show. But the focus of this is a stage towards the back of the bar.

On my visit though, the bar had not yet succeeded in attracting people to watch the shower show. There was just me enjoying the pretty girls of the front stages. A coach party of people were crowded around the old stagers doing their bells and whistles thing on the back stage.

It was fine by me!

  Update from Ray, Nov 2007: Renovated Hot Girls

The bar's had a makeover rather similar to Noi's and is much improved.

The front stage has replaced by seating which has all been upgraded to comfortable white benches and there are now two smaller stages in the middle of the bar, one for dancers, one for the shower show.

The rear stage still has the occasional bells and whistles show.

Worth a look.

  Review May 2007: Off the Radar

The bar seems to warrant hardy a mention in the Pattaya forums so it was time to go and take a look for myself.

The bar is long and very narrow with a couple of side stages on opposite sides. Some seating affords very poor viewing of the stage.

There were about 20 girls of which at least one was katoey. They weren't a bad looking crew. Three were dancing on the first stage and more dance on the second stage if there are enough customers to move down into the seats overlooking that stage.

Perhaps the most striking reason for the lack of farang comments is that most of the customers are Asian. It seems that bells and whistles shows identify that a bar is targeting Asian customers.

There is a menu card on the tables that advertises fixed rates for bar fines, rooms and short time rates for the girls.

Didn't spot anything bad about the bar...it is just that there are so many better bars nearby.

Hottie's A-GoGo

2nd Road (in Smile's Avenue bar complex opposite Mike's Shopping Mall)

www.hotties-pattaya.com

Previously a coyote bar it changed to the GoGo format in November 2009. May claim to be a GoGo bar but the girls were wearing to many clothes to count. Now listed on the Bars pages

Dec 09 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 800 -dancers 600
	45	105	75		120

  Review by Ishi, December 2009: Show Tips

Almost 10 days have been passed since they became a gogo bar.

Draft Beer:B45, Bottled Beer:B105, Cola:B75, Lady Drink:B120

Bar Fine dancers:B600, showgirls:B800

They have a billiards table.

Some dancers are Coyote style, but other dancers wear bikinis. And one Show Girl became naked. After show time staff walk around to collect B20 because of Show Tips.

I

Ice A-GoGo

Soi LK Metro
(off Soi Buakhao)

 Ice A-GoGo

Converted from coyote dancing to GoGo dancing on 1st December 2008. The venue was previously Gorkle Club, and before that Memories A-GoGo. Ice is still open as a beer bar.

Illusion Pattaya Club

Walking Street: Soi 14 & 15

Entrance charge of 300 for those persuaded by touts. Free for the rest.

 Illusion Pattaya Club

Large white themed nightclub like gogo opened in October 2008. Same owners as the previous Top Girls. Now features a bells and whistles show.

Dec 09 Key						Takeaway:
		150	85		-250

  Review Oct 2009: Darts Bored

Illusion is of no interest to farangs. It is a bar solely catering for those that enjoy non-erotic shows featuring bells, whistles, darts and the like. There is not even gogo dancing between the shows.

There were about half a dozen girls rotating through the shows and they were hardly setting the bar alight in the looks department. Though its fair to say that they may have been more appealing to the Middle Eastern target audience.

The music was also selected to appeal to the Asian market.

But nevertheless the bar has a Soi 15 entrance where passing farangs are invited in with the offer of 50 Baht draft beer (which was sold in decent sized glasses).

Surely not to farang tastes, but the bar was doing a decent enough trade within its target audience.

  Review Feb 2009: Bells and Whistles

I have a feeling that the bar never really got up to speed in attracting farang customers. After all competition from Baby Dolls and What's Up is pretty much the best raunch in town.

So Illusion seems to have scaled down a little and reverted to the bells and whistles format of its previous guise as Top Girls.

There were just 6 or 7 dancers all bikini clad. A couple were putting an effort into dancing but really it was not up to much. There are no poles for the girls to lean on.

After a few songs of gogo the dancers clear the stage and find a dark corner to hide in while the show girls do their unsexy bells and whistles turns. The show girls then circulate for a tip and the cycle continues with the dancers.

The beer is still cheap at 50 Baht but the bar is no longer really an option for those seeking sexy entertainment.

  Review Nov 2008: Less Pasty

The bar has improved a little since the opening days and have doubled their dancing staff to about 15.

The extra dancers have been deployed at small stages in front of the sofa and mattress seating.

There are no cuties amongst the new girls but at least they are a bit closer to the customers and it is a much friendlier venue. Anyway it's a bit too dark to see much anyway.

The girls were dancing way too long and about two thirds are dancing at any one time. So not much chance for the girls to seek out lady drinks.

The girls have dropped the pasties and reverted to bikinis/topless/nude presumably down to the girls own choice. Unfortunately the girls have also dispensed with the fall open tops that would have been very sexy if the effect hadn't been spoilt by the pasties.

  Review Oct 2008: An Illusion of a GoGo

One suspects that the opening configuration will be pretty short lived s it seems to fall short any many fronts. However there is no reason why things shouldn't improve.

The large bar is more reminiscent of a nightclub than a gogo bar. It is kitted out in extreme white and the seating is predominantly large white mattress affairs. They look good, but in reality there is no back support and they get very uncomfortable after a short while.

The music is also predictably club style. The DJ picks some pretty long dance tunes too. Lots of pretty lights to match.

On the downside the seating is simply too far from the two stages. There were 5 girls dancing leaving just two to circulate amongst the customers.

They were wearing bikini bottoms and tops that fall open to reveal all...well nearly all, the girls were wearing star shaped pasties. It is a silly trick as it smacks of censorship and I therefore find it annoying.

There were two amongst the 7 girls that would get you calling them over, but in reality, the lack of hostessing time, (2 long tracks compared with 5 long tracks dancing) made any thought personal entertainment impractical. And as if to stress the point, the girls were vainly hassling for lady drinks whilst dancing.

It always seems a mistake to open without adequate dancers, all the bar reviewers come round in the first few days when the bar is struggling and report how naff it is.

Opening drinks prices are very reasonable though...surely helps.

But I'll be listening out for comments on the forum for when the bar builds up a few more girls. The bar does seem to have potential. It could be that they ay change format to something more like a nightclub. It does seem a strange layout for a gogo, especially as it is lacking all the play stage and Jacuzzi features that seem to draw in the customers these days.

Images A-GoGo

Soi 16, Covent Garden

Opened May 2006 and closed in October 2006. Now demolished to make way for Wildcats Coyotee bar

Insomnia Gentlemen's
Club

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Insomnia Gentlemen's Club replaced Super Model A-GoGo in November 2007. The Insomnia prefix was dropped in October 2008 when the bar was sold. Now known as Gentlemen's Club, see above

The Iron Club

Walking Street

Opened 1st October 2009. Previously Republika Disco

Feb 10 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 1000 -dancers 650
	85	135		125-140	125-240

Reports that showgirls cannot be barfined until 1am.

  Warning from Pattaya Forums: Expensive Lady Drinks

Rapid success seems to have been too much of a temptation and there have been a fair amount of complaints about the bar appearing on Pattaya forums.

Particularly prevalent are very expensive lady drinks turning up without the customer asking for them or being told about how expensive the drink being asked for (up to 240 Baht!).

  Review by Materialsman October 2009: No Iron Hoofs

Next to the popular Airport and has a similar layout and some smartly dressed Hello girls outside, although they don't really maintain the concept throughout the staff like Airport. As discussed on various forums, the Club is unfortunately named for some London based Brits, Irons being a word associated with gays, in Cocker'nee rhyming slang, iron hoofs = poofs, fortunately there are only women dancing here.

I have read that the layout is not conducive to sitting in comfort, and I have to agree, having been trodden on a couple of times while people passed by, but it makes good use of the limited space and sort of opens out the further back you go near to the now standard Jacuzzi areas where girls were soaping each other and whipping buttocks with gay abandon. It's pretty smart inside the Club, though the quality of dancing girls left a little to be desired, but it is early days and there is time for it to get better, a sprinkling of beauties though, not all farm fresh awkward shufflers, and the Tequila girl was to die for.

I had a girl target me pretty quickly, I put that down to my beautiful new Hawaiian shirt rather than my visage, so I humoured her for a while until she went to dance/shuffle and finished my beer and made my escape, as her conversation was sadly lacking, must have been new to the scene. Can't remember the drink price, I think around 125 Baht for the bottle, reasonable enough for Walking Street, but currently I could only award a 7/10 due to the standard of girls, but I will give it another try next time, I liked the décor.

  Review October 2009: Iron Awe

An impressive looking venue with a surprisingly large, high ceiling interior.  There is bench seating down both sides of the bar.

The iron theme is perhaps a little cold, but it looks pretty good. The bar is basically long and narrow with 3 stages.  Nearest the door is a gogo stage for 9 dancers. The dancers were wearing a uniform with a futuristic theme and a short blouse garment covering the shoulders. The uniform allows options for either a bra or topless.

The girls were a pretty good selection considering the early days of the bar. But they were dancing an extremely long dance stint of 9 songs. Obviously the bar is hoping for a Happy style audience with watchers rather than those wanting the company of a girl. The trouble is of course, that not many bars can command the quality of Happy, and this bar is not yet one of those select few.

The dancing girls weren't being the slightest bit friendly in terms of seeking out lady drinks and the like.

The middle of the bar has the now inevitable Jacuzzi with 2 girls at a time soaping themselves down. There are stools surrounding the action.

The back stage is quite elaborate with a raised platform and maybe a small rotating platform. The stage was occupied by 2 girls performing a more energetic dance than the standard gogo fare.

The service staff were also wearing smart uniforms, perhaps Air Port Club have set a new trend in motion.

It is early days and the bar wasn't working too well on my visit. Customers were only staying for a single drink. I rather think the dancers uniform will soon be dispensed with as, whatever people claim, less clothes is best. No reason why uniforms for service staff shouldn't continue though.

And if the bar does take off though there is an issue with the layout. There is not really enough space to have stools down the side of the main stage as well as it being a major thoroughfare to he back stages of the bar. There's likely to be all sorts of bumping and barging, surely not a good idea for somewhere where people are likely to be a little drunk after a few beers.

J

The venue became Broadway Club which is currently closed

Jupiter

Soi Pattayaland 2

Previously known as Planet Rock closed in Dec 2006 and is now Wild West Boys.

K

K A-GoGo Wonder Girls

Soho Square
Walking Street

Failed Counter Soho soon replaced or re-modelled as K A-GoGo in March 2009. Closed 1st August 2009

Kiss Kool Bar

Pattaya Soi 6  (Soi Yodsak)

Bar from 1pm
Dancing from 5pm

Half way between a short time bar and a GoGo. The girls are lined up outside but there is dancing inside for entertainment

Oct 08 Key						Takeaway: 500 after 9pm 1000 before 9pm Room: 300 (no barfine) All in: 1000
Pint £1.80
		80-100	60		90

  Review June 2009: Mandatory Lady Drinks

Can't say I got a very friendly reception on my last visit. I smiled at a pretty girl sitting outside only to find that she was a newbie and had a friend acting as a minder. I wasn't very enamoured by the uninvited minder and indicated that I found 3 to be a crowd. The minder didn't take it well and decided that the bar had just implemented a no lady drink - no company policy and she whisked the original girl away on that pretext.

I sorted it out but the incident rather soured the visit.

But at least the bar has a fair few girls, the drinks are reasonably priced and the decor is good.

  Review Jan 2009: Up To Speed

The previously reported scaling down of the number of girls was apparently the aftermath of a police raid.

The numbers now seem to have returned to previous levels. Saying that, I haven't actually been tempted in yet to see if the extra numbers have restored the bar to its former glory.

The bar is nicely decorated in a tiger theme and the drinks prices are reasonable.

The girls are at least 20 years old and the bar doesn't employ lady boys.

  Review Oct 2008: Superfluous Dancing

Kiss Kool seems to have scaled down since my last visit. And in the jargon of my trade, it hasn't scaled down well.

There were just half a dozen girls waiting outside, a couple of dancers and one other girl drinking with a customer. The lack of momentum means that there are no customers being entertained by the dancers. Selecting a girl at the door tends to ensure an intense short time interview, which makes the dancing superfluous.

And it got worse. My girl said: I go dance, She said 5 minutes but it was interminable. The bar was by this time totally empty apart from me and my girl. And she was bikini clad dancing in an inane unsexy shuffle to dance music that was of no interest whatsoever.

Really a dreadful way to entertain the only customer...who predictably didn't stay long.

...oh, and there was no draft beer either, so not a particularly cheap way to get bored silly.

  Review Nov 2007: Hard Sell

Kiss Kool is proving to be pretty conservative with little changing over the last year or so.

The bar seems popular with plenty of ladies. There is comfortable sofa seating in an attractive tiger skin decor. There's a large screen TV but it can show some pretty irrelevant programmes to what is the business of the bar.

There are usually 3 dancing girls modestly attired in bikinis. They are not really the focus of the attention as most customers will have a personal service girl on hand.

The bar operates more as a short time bar than a gogo with the girls up for selection as you walk in rather than circulating around the inside of the bar.

The girls seem to be aging a little and I found the bar to have a slightly hard edge with the hard sell to go upstairs.

But there seems little reason to change a well tried and tested formula so I don't supposed things will change much in the foreseeable future.

  Review March 2007: Half Way Decent

The bar area is attractive with comfortable sofas done out in a tiger theme. There is a large screen TV but variable programme choice means that this proves more of an distraction than an entertainment.

The bar is half way to a gogo in that there is bikini clad dancing on show but the real entertainment is the hands on grope provided with a view to a short time upstairs.

The draft beer is reasonably priced as are the lady drinks.

I would visit more but I dislike choosing a girl from the line up at the door after just a quick glance. And if you don't choose a girl, the default house selection always seems to disappoint. 

  Review from jj, Sept 2006: Dancing Not So Hot

A few changes, unfortunately none for the better.

Music was much louder -- to the point of being unable to engage in normal conversation.

• Deang - the 'show girl' - got herself a sugar-daddy and has left permanently.
• Maun - the sexy dancer - has returned home with no return date in sight.
• Porn - the second sexy dancer - remains.

All in all, the dancing was tame in full bikini with only an occasional teasing flash.

Once the gals were seated however there was fun for all on the couches, even if the conversation was subdued.

At 80B, lady drinks are still a bargain.

Kitten Club

Beach Road: Soi Pattayaland 2

From ~5pm

Surely the worst gogo in Pattaya with policies such as not revealing expensive drinks prices until the final bill. Keep a watch on your bin for padding.

Note that there is a camera in the bar that relays the action to the Penthouse hotel rooms above

Dec09 Key								Takeaway: -showgirls 1500 before 11pm -dancers 600 Room: 550+barfine
	to 7pm	2 for 1	2 for 1
from 7pm		79	130	125	150	190	99-145

  Review from Pattaya-Live: Dec 2009: Strange

Kitten Club and Obsessions are 2 GoGo bars in one. They each have their own entrance but that lead to the same bar, a large GoGo bar with a central stage.

Kitten GoGo bar is a girl GoGo bar while Pattaya Obsessions is a Lady Boy GoGo bar. The left part of the stage and the left part of the bar are for girls and for girl oriented customers (real girls dance on the left part of the stage only) and the right part of the stage and the right part of the bar are for LB and LB oriented customers (LB dance on the right part of the stage only). Waitresses are either girls or LB and obviously are not limited to any part of the bar. Strange but interesting mix.

Real girls wear red, lady boys wear black.

  Review from Pattaya Today: Night March, June 2009: Ladyboys

The bar underwent a complete remodelling a few months back after being forced to close for some misdemeanour or other.

While the new layout is more attractive than the previous rabbit-warren incarnation, the overall quality of the dancing damsels is borderline freak show.

Apart from the ladyboys, the genuine girls dancing damsels are a mixed bunch. While a couple are arguably attractive (and given the lighting I think they may well have started life as boys), most are either overweight or just plain frightening.

Drinks prices are ridiculous for what’s on offer: 150 baht for spirits, 139 baht for a lady drink, and 79 baht for draught beer.

Not worth a cracker unless your tastes run to the gender-confused.

  News April 2009: Back

Kitten Club has re-opened with the promise of new water features. I'll leave it to somebody else to give it a look. It was closed with a notice on the door saying closed for being 2 sexy.

  Review from Pattaya Addicts, Feb 2008: Ladyboys

I paid 900 bath for two drinks. One soda for me and one breezer for the lady I barfined!

I decided to look into Kitten club because I had read that they had now moved the ladyboys to a separate bar. How wrong I was.

The service staff marched me right to the back of the bar and then 3 tall ladyboys descended on me like pigeons around fallen breadcrumbs.

  News from eyebee, Dec 2007: Split Kitten

Kitten Club seems to have split into two. There are now two doors; one saying Kitten Club and the other Obsessions. They look to be two separate clubs.

Now Obsessions in Bangkok's Nana Plaza is a ladyboy bar so there is the possibility that this is the case in Pattaya too.

Due to high prices and customer unfriendly policies such as unpriced bills in the bin, Kitten Club is on the Thai-Anxiety, "Never Again" list. So it may be a while before further details are available.

Kitten Club also has a large impressive new neon sign.

Review from Thailand Nightlife Roundup, Dec 2007: Avoid

There is a closed circuit channel on the Penthouse Hotel melonf78TV so you can, more or less, see girls dancing inside the kitten club downstairs.

Unfortunately, the Kitten Club is a disaster. Up close you realize most of the girls are skanky and some of the girls are ladyboys and one in particular was aggressive and acting stupid. They dance over some jets of air which lifts their skirts Marilyn Monroe style but hey who wants to see ladyboys' skirts fly up? So, although I have mixed feeling about the hotel itself, I have no mixed feelings whatever about the Kitten Club: AVOID.

  Comment from Pattaya Talk, Nov 2007: 125 Baht Coke

After ordering a coke, I settled in to watch the lovely kittens play in the tank. The coke arrived and the bill did not have a price on it. I asked for a bill and found my 10oz. coke was 125 baht. No wonder they do not list prices on the tab.

Never again!

Kittens changed name to 19-69 but that has now closed

L

Just a temporary name for Hot & Cold during the ensuing shutdown after a police raid. There's still a sign though. See Hot & Cold above

Lady's Shadow Club

Walking Street
(Absolute Entertainment complex)

Very expensive club featuring East European girls. Opened on 20th December 2009 at the venue that was previously Polo Entertainment

Jan 10 Key						Takeaway:
		300

  News January 2010: Greeters and Fleecers

Very expensive drinks and no doubt mandatory tips make this a bar for most Pattaya visitors to avoid.

The bar is now trying to entice a few more customers up the steps with a phalanx of girls dancing on the steps.

Closed, then became the Broadway Club which closed too.

Las Vegas GoGo

Pattaya Soi 13/1 (Soi Yamato)

From noon

Opened on 1st October 2008 in the venue that was previously 77 Club and Sweet Dreams Bar before that.

The gogo is run by the team that ran Las Vegas Bar in Jomtien most famous for the girls playing pool naked for a suitable tip. No sign of a pool table in the new venue though.

Feb 09 Key							Takeway: 1000 before 6pm 600 after 6pm all in: 1300
Pint  £1.20
	to 1pm					100
from 1pm		50	90	50	110

  Review August 2009: Regulars

A brief visit as a couple of familiar faces meant that I couldn't dally long.

There were just 2 dancing girls who were bikini clad, There were another half dozen girls on hostessing duty. The girls were not special, so it is more down to a good bit of personal attention to keep the customers entertained.

Most of what was going on in my short visit was pretty innocent chatting, but I rather guess that more fun could be had if the customers so wished.

A decent draft was served for the good price of 50 Baht.

It all seemed a steady sort of place where everyone looked content enough.

At least they had a few customers. I guess that there is a pretty regular crowd here. Perhaps even a few regulars that remember the naked pool played at the bars previous location in Jomtien.

  Review Feb 2009: 50 Baht Draft

Las Vegas have reduced their drinks prices with a very reasonable 50 Baht draft (from 75 Baht).

Las Vegas have somewhat less than top notch bikini clad dancers but they are very friendly. Hands on and hands in as I like to say.

  Review from Materialsman, Dec 2008: Not to Dance

When this Bar was situated on Soi Post Office it was a regular stop off place for me and my friends during a good weekend daytime pub crawl, had many a good time there, and bedded some fairly decent girls there over the years, and the owner Peter came up with a classic retort one day that sticks in my mind even now, I has chastened him for his girls lack of enthusiasm on the dance floor, and he said My girls are here to get fucked, not to dance, and you can’t argue with that logic can you? Sadly, the in new place the girls showed a similar lack of enthusiasm, and I couldn’t see even one girl in the worth playing with.

As for the Bar, well it certainly appeared smaller than the original place, although a little bit classier in terms of décor, the old place was fairly basic if my memory serves me well.

I will give the place another try in the New Year, if only in deference to Peter and his unique style of man (woman) management.

  Review Sept 2008: Opening Night

The bar opened with very much the feel that it will blend in with its near neighbours, Far East Rock, Club Nevada, Spicy Girls and Hot & Cold. It is similarly sized too.

It will open in the afternoon and offers reasonable rates for in house short times.

The drinks seem to be set slightly higher than the opposition with a 75 Baht draft. Lady drinks were 100 Baht

There were plenty of girls on hand for the opening night, although a little questioning suggests that some were employed just for a day or two. The girls were very much a mixed bunch with a few that were presentable.

The dress code is bikini but only 3 or 4 were dancing at anyone time. Surely a good idea giving more time for smooching rather than dancing. There are no novelties such as Jacuzzis or show girls, so the bar will just have to rely on the girls providing good old fashioned hands on entertainment.

I enjoyed my stay but will have to stop by again to make a more realistic appraisal of its offerings. Everyone was eager to please on opening night.

Legs Club

Pattaya Soi 13/4 (Soi Pattayaland 2)

From 5:30pm - 1am

www.legsclubagogo.com

The next incarnation of the old Mistys A-GoGo. The soi is becoming a little gender confused so the bar sign emphasises that it will be girls girls girls. opened 26th June 2008. Still owned by the Misty's team

July 09 Key							Takeaway: 600 Room: 600 (inc barfine) All In: 1600-1800
Pint  £2.10
	to 8pm	45*	45+			120,130,165
From 8pm		65*		95

*small glass

  Review August 2009: Too Small

Legs Club is basically a pretty good gogo in terms of the way the bar is run. But the small size makes for a variable customer experience.

The bar typically has about 10 dancers of which 3 or 4 dance at any one time. The dress code is mostly topless and some girls maintain this when mingling. There are some attractive dancers on the books.

The downside of the size is that as soon as there half dozen customers in the bar, and a couple of barfines, then there aren't enough girls to go round.

On one visit my drinking partner was ordered from my side to sit with one of the managers mates. Totally out of order.

My current tactic is to take a look inside and if there are more than a handful of customers, then I try again another day. But still the bar can be good if it is not crowded.

  News March 2009: Slimmed Down Legs

Legs Club has been reduced down to half size. A wall has been constructed such that Legs Club is now a narrow single unit bar with a side stage.

It is now similar in layout to the unsuccessful Popcorn just down the soi. There is stool seating facing the stage abd a little comfortable seating at the front and back of the bar that does not offer a particularly good view of the stage.

For the moment most other things in the bar are the same as before with about 10 dancers of which 2 or 3 are very attractive. They now just dance for 3 songs which is good.

I hope the bar can maintain momentum. It is notoriously hard to make a small gogo work. It is difficult to maintain a good balance between girls and customers.

  Review February 2009: Lucky

The bar is running at a somewhat smaller scale than when it was Mistys with maybe a dozen dancers starting the evening.

The girls dance a nice short stint on the central stage with topless being the standard dress code.

I seem to have been lucky nearly every time I have visited the bar. There always seems to be a girl I know from another bar, or else a good looking native of Legs Club.  And they always seem keen to get re-acquainted.

But on the other hand luck is generally made by a good attitude from the girls and management.

Anyway it works for me at the moment.

  Review from Pattaya-Live, August 2008: Hungry and Attentive

This is a surprisingly good venue. Managed by Tim (who should be well known to any past customers of Misty's), the girls are as classy a line-up as you'll see in most Walking Street joints but on the whole are MUCH friendlier.

There aren't many prima donna princesses in this place and many of the girls are quite alluring. I haven't noticed that the girls are too pushy for drinks but they're quite keen to get to know you -- an excellent combination, in my book.

Anyway, two thumbs up from me, Legs is well worth a visit if you are in the area and enjoy being the centre of attention of some very hungry and attentive ladies.

  Review June 2008: Legs Open

Legs Club A-GoGo opened on Soi Pattayaland 2 on 26th June 2008. The venue was previously home to Misty's A-GoGo. The new management have bucked the trend and decided that the interior is perfectly OK and did not need major renovations.

Actually the staff were familiar, as the bar have recruited dancers, service and mamasang previously working at Baby Dolls.

There were only about 10 girls working on the first night. There were dome pretty faces and about half were dancing topless. Never fair to assess the dancers on the first night though, and there will be an update when the bar has had time to come up to speed.

The drinks prices are comparable to Walking Street prices, but perversely, this is cheap for Pattayaland.

I enjoyed a short visit and even on its rather low key opening, it is already the best gogo on Pattayaland.

The gogo opens for early evening trade at 5:30pm but also closes early at 1am

Lek's Classroom A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 2

From 8pm

classroom-honeypot.com

Large gogo with overdressed girls. Recently supplemented by a Jacuzzi and spanking stage. Previously named Classroom 2 and Classroom 2000.

Aug 09 Key							Takeaways: - dancer 600 - showgirl 1000 before 10pm - showgirl 800 after 10pm
Pint £1.90
	to 10pm	59*
		59*	106		95-105	100

*small glass

  Review by jj, July 2009: A Mere Shadow

A mere shadow of its former self

After a long layoff, a visit to Classroom 2 (Soi 2) was in order. It was a mega-disappointment. Formerly operating like Windmill and Baby Dolls, C2 is now tame to say the least. The single lady in the shower was the only nekkid one. Precious few nipples were on display and gone were the naughty girls stage and the table dancing. The most endearing members of the staff were the service ladies.

At one point. my traveling partner and I comprised 2/3 of the entire customer level!

  Comments by jj & DavidT, April 2009: Flourishing in Class

I admit that the seating drawbacks noted. Also the diversity of the dress and entertainment seems a bit bizarre, yet somehow it all seems to work in the end.

But the dancers are regularly bar-fined. One day just this week there were only 5 left at 2AM; the servers were pressed into service as dancers.

C2 seems to be a late nite venue. Nothing much seems to be going on before 10pm and things pick-up rapidly thereafter.

Somehow this place seems to flourish.

Also noted that mamasang Larn has impressed on the management team

  Review April 2009: Large Classes

I am struggling a little bit with this venue, it never seems to click.

I wandered it an early hour and there weren't more than a handful of customers in but somehow there was nowhere left to sit. The venue is really quite large and it has not scaled down very well. Without the table dancing in operation there are an awful lot of seats that are simply too far away from the action now confined to the central stage and Jacuzzi. There are also a couple of other bays of seating that simply aren't pointed in the right direction.

There were quite a few dancers covering quite a range attractiveness and quite a range of coverage too. Some were topless yet some were well overdressed in skirts, knickers, bras and blouses.

The draft beer was cheap and the service staff were friendly.

I am always happy to pop in and give it a try but rarely has it persuaded me to stay long.

  Review by Materialsman, Oct 2008: Squeaky Clean

Well, time was moving on apace, so it was time for a trip down memory lane and The Classroom 2 A Go-Go in Soi 2 where I have had many a happy time over the years. Walked in to a fairly quiet establishment, but the line up was pretty reasonable, and a lithe lovely soaping herself in a Jacuzzi type bath. Actually, I wondered to myself after watching her soap herself squeaky clean for over an hour, ‘If I paid the bar for her, would she come back to ‘my loom’ and insist on another shower, if so, why?’

Well, we enjoyed the schoolgirl clad dancers, when suddenly the music changed and the good lookers ran off stage and the ‘showgirls’ appeared. When did Classroom2 become a ‘bells and whistles’ pussy show bar? So, we sat through a couple of shows, including ‘pussy smoke cigarette’ show, which took me by surprise as I thought smoking was banned in air conditioned bars? Smoking was definitely bad for this particular girl’s health, as she appeared to be smoking two or three at a time! Thankfully, this show wasn’t too long, as whatever hidden talents this girl obviously has, being slim and a looker wasn’t amongst them.

The bar had started to fill up by then, a party of bemused looking Asians, and a gang of loud Aussie back-backers had come in off the street, but that was the pattern of events, a couple of songs for the dancing girls, then show time again. To my eternal shame, one of the mamasans identified me as being an old time Pattaya monger, and roped me in for a bit of audience participation due to lack of interest from the other attendees, so yours truly got pushed up on stage for both the ‘pussy shoots darts at balloon’ show, and the ‘pussy fires bananas’ show, which culminated in the last banana being fired out after I had retaken my seat and wasn’t ready for it leaving me with a couple of nasty looking white sticky stains to both my shirt and trousers, much to the amusement of my drinking buddy.

Drinks I think were a strangely priced 106 baht a bottle, which I guess is okay considering the show, but a little pressure for ‘tips’ was prevalent after each extravaganza, though I tried to protest that I should actually receive my share of the tips for my ‘performance’, but to no avail. I don’t begrudge the poor girl her tips, she probably doesn’t get much in the way of bar fines.

So off we went out of the door, and the girl in the Jacuzzi was still soaping herself up, trying to find and cleanse body orifices she had previously missed. Overall the place was okay, but I preferred the old style of purely dancing girls, don’t need to see the pussy shows as I am a jaded ex-pat, but it may suit some.

  Review June 2008: Put to Shame

The bars seems to be very much a mixed bag. The bar was pretty quiet when I stopped by, but a friendly service girl told me but it was very crowded the night before (Pattaya bars are often crowded yesterday and tomorrow but never today)

The girls were also very mixed in attire. There was one beautifully built girl dancing topless, but most of the others were wearing skirts and blouses, and in many cases, bras too. I am wondering if the large chested girl should be asked to cover up. I have a theory that the others were overdressed because they were put to shame by the beauty,

The drinks prices were quite constrained and the music was forgettable which is better than being loud.

No real reason why the bar shouldn't make for a good visit, but as none of the girls felt like being friendly to me, I didn't stay long. Nearby Soi 6 is way too inviting for this bar to be anything less than great.

  Review by polleke Oct 2007: Not Much Fun

There were more girls inside than I expected. Most of them average to below. 8 girls dance on a central stage and 1 girls is in a bathtub.

When more customers arrived 4 girls were ordered to a side stage by the owner and the 2 mamasans and 1 papasan ( build over lady)

Drinking prices were okay.

Not that much fun in this place. Left after 2 beers and a ladydrink.

  Review by jj Oct 2007: Undercover

Classroom 2  just recently reopened after a 30-day time-out penalty by the local boys in brown.

It is obvious that they are suffering quite a hang-over from that event. Everything was under cover. Except for periodic short 2-song "shows" where the gals ended up nekkid, nothing was showing.

Another odd observation is that fully half of all the customers entered the bar with a lady in tow. There must be a message there somewhere but I have no idea what it is. Seems like a place to avoid until the hang-over wears off.

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Very dark lady boy bar with 15-20 katoeys. Presumably has dancing as it promises an erotic cabaret. Closed in January 2010

Closed, now a salon

Living Dolls 1

Walking Street

Listed as New Living Dolls One, see below

Living Dolls Showcase

Walking Street

From 8pm

Very expensive bar notable for erotic shows with beautiful girls (many of whom don't go). Ownership connections with The Dollhouse & Sisterz.

Mar 10 key								Takeaway: -service 2000 -showgirls -1000 -dancers 600
Pint £3.00
	ended						135
			135-145	110	150	195

  Review from Pattaya Secrets December 2009: Some Beauties

Living Dolls Showcase had some beauties both on show and walking around, no mystery why there are so many bums on seats in that place, some stunners but not half as many as there were in Happy a Go-Go.

  Review March 2009: Friendly Reception

I visited the bar at a prime time of about 11pm. The bar was enjoying a sizeable crowd who seemed to be enjoying the shows.

The format was for a few show numbers on the central stage, and then a few numbers of when all the gogo dancers would take the stage. The stints were not too long which is always good in my opinion.

I have a feeling that the bar doesn't really target hardened Pattaya gogo fans though. The shows are choreographed but not outrageously sexy. In the few numbers I saw the girls were a bit shy and kept their knickers on throughout. Good looking girls, but their reputation of being not so keen to go with customers diminishes the attraction somewhat.

The gogo dancers were average (which of course is pretty good in Walking Street). Again they were a bit shy, with only a couple of the dozen on stage, taking their tops off.

The bar seemed to excel in meeting and greeting, lots of happy long lost friends seem to be re-uniting with girls and staff from previous visits. My service girl was well friendly too.

I can't say I was impressed by the dancing girls hunting lady drinks in twos though. It always telegraphs to me a money grabbing attitude rather than the desire for a one to one hook up.

I would suggest that this is one of the better bars in Pattaya for farang couples. They can enjoy the friendly reception along with the cabaret style show without it being too outrageous.

As a rather hardened pleasure seeker though, I found the entertainment to be marginally sexy, and the drinks prices way too expensive at 135 Baht for a bottled beer.

  Review from Pattaya Ghost, June 2008: Ridiculously Priced

There were plenty of silicone-enhanced showgirls still left after 1 am, although they seemed content to play among themselves, leaving the handful of customer in the bar to sip as slowly as possible on the ridiculously priced 150-baht shorts.

Shows or not, LDS has to be the biggest clip joint in Pattaya. Even Angelwitch, with shows and an environment five times better than Showcase, prices their drinks at 145 baht. Remind me not ever to go back there.

  Review by polleke, Nov 2007: Beautiful Girls

Visited the bar several times this week and really loved it.

There is a central stage crowded by more than average looking girls. They have some shows but they can't compete with the ones in Angelwitch.

There was one girl though that was an outstanding dancer. However there are so many lovely dancing girls, my eyes were caught by a gorgeous hostess (barfine 600 Baht, 2000 LT)

Note: there are a couple of very beautiful girls, that have big sponsors. I was told they ask 10,000 bath ST ( discount when they like you). They actually get barfined 3-4 times a week. Certainly not by me.

  Review July 2007: Closely Packed

The bar may be a very popular show bar but I find the drinks prices way too high to justify more than an occasional visit.

So given the new happy hour I thought I would give it a go.

For the life of me I could not suss what they are up to. Every single dancing girl in the bar was packed on the stage. There were about 15 but as late comers rolled in they would get changed and then add to the pack.

The girls were slightly above average with just a couple revealing their tops. The stage was a bit too packed to really allow for much in the way of dancing.

Certainly not worth watching, nor were there any girls that were free to sit at your side for a chat.

I was totally baffled by the lack of entertainment value in the the proceedings and my visits will surely remain occasional.

  News from Living Dolls Showcase, July 2007: Very Happy Hour

Living Dolls Showcase has embarked on a summer activity programme that gives you the cheapest happy hours in Pattaya.

From Monday 16th July our first ever happy hours are from 8pm to 10pm with draught beer and well drinks at 30 baht. Short time bar fines are 400 Baht from 8pm to midnight and we will commence a number of our shows from 8.30pm.

We have some great new girls who along with our established stars look forward to giving you a great welcome and a fabulous time.

Closed

Lollipop A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 8pm

Opened on 9th November 2007. The venue was previously Amazon, then VIP Club & GoGo. The bar is not affiliated to the Bangkok bar with the same name

Oct 09 Key							bar fine -service 700 -dancers 600
Pint  £1.50
	until 9:30	45	110		65	120
from 9:30		65	110		120

  Review, October 2009: Worth a Pop

The bar seems to have evolved a strange little characteristic that it seems to be the mamasang and even the service girls who do the connecting between girls and customers. If left to their own devices the girls seem to like sitting together in distant recesses of the bar.

The bar is pretty traditional with the main focus of attention being a fair amount of girls dancing on the central stage. There are usually a few pretty girls and there is the full range of bikini or not on display.

The play mat and Jacuzzi haven't been a big draw during my visits to the bar. The play mat stage seems to have become just another dancing stage.

All in all, a generally pleasant place for a drink that could improve a little if the dancers were a little more pro-active in taking care of customers.

  Review, April 2009: Plateau

The gogo is pretty sound with good looking girls dancing on the central stage with little in the way of clothing. Then there is a play mat stage and a Jacuzzi at the back of the bar.

Drinks prices are reasonable and the staff are friendly.

Somehow I have drifted away from making this a regular stop on my circuit. A couple of times it has been a bit depleted of girls and another couple of times the girls have been bagged by younger and more attractive customers.

Maybe I get the impression that they prefer the customers who like to sit back and watch the dancing rather than those that prefer one on one company. Just a matter of available ratio of girls.

But still worth a try, I think I have just been unlucky.

  Review by Ray, March 2008: Moving up the League

Bit tricky to find, this bar, it's tucked under the Polo Entertainment Centre and its entrance is permanently obstructed by the crowd of rubberneckers gawking up at the gyrating Natasha in the Galaxy Cabaret window.

Once you do manage to locate it you will find a bar that's deeper than it's wide with the front section set up as a standard go-go and the rear section fitted out with a jacuzzi and a sexy show table.

I've visited this bar a few times now and I think I'm getting the hang of it. I picked out a dancer that caught my eye on the way through and went back to check out the show. To my surprise the showgirl and my dancer seemed to hit it off and as there weren't too many other customers around we soon had a nice three way going.

When the show was over the showgirl leant over and whispered to me that she was really pleased I had brought that particular dancer over as she fancied her herself but hadn't had an excuse to get her hands on her before!

Lollipop is rapidly moving up my personal league table.

  Review Feb 2008: Naughty Table

The bar is slowly progressing and now have enough girls to keep a steady 2 girl show going on the show table. They follow in the traditional naughty mould of Windmill and Baby Dolls etc. Suitably friendly to keep me entertained for an hour anyway. There is also a Jacuzzi but the naughty table gets top priority when the numbers are low.

The main stage is a traditional Isaan shuffle affair and still seems to lack a little momentum. Nothing really amiss, probably just a matter of time as people get to know of the bar.

Last time I visited I spotted a few girls newly recruited from Sisterz.

  Review Dec 2007: Jacuzzi

I popped by and noticed that the bar has joined the ranks of those with a Jacuzzi feature. I sat at the back where the Jacuzzi is located and watched a pretty girl doing some lone ablutions. It was the last number of her stint and there was no replacement act.

After a bit of prodding by the mamasang the Jacuzzi girl came across for a chat. But at the very moment she sat down a service girl cam homing in like a missile to suggest that I should buy her a lady drink.

This was way too pushy and I left pronto. I don't suppose that it is anything but bad luck, but this bar is something of a disaster zone every time I have visited.

  Review from Graham, Dec 2007: Pleasantly Surprised

First impressions was I liked it, and nothing happened that night to make me change my opinion. I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the girls. OK, not that many, but it is early days yet.

I young bubbly girl who was only up to my chest came a took care of me. Not pushy for drinks. Both she and the Mamasan were in Soi 6.

Opened in December 2008. Loma is the Thai word for dolphin. Closed in May 2009.

Closed, now Avenue Mall

M

Magic Palace A-GoGo

Walking Street

Opened on 31st Dec 2007. Closed in March 2008. Now Bartimes

Mandarin Club

Pattaya Soi 6 (Soi Yodsak)

Mandarin Club closed on 12th December 2008 and but re-opened on 9th May 2009.

Jan 10 Key						Takeaway: Room:
Pint £1.40
	60		50		120

  Review May 2009: Red

The bar seemed pretty much unchanged from previous incarnations.

There are still 4 bays of comfortable sofa seating overlooking a central dancing area now cut down to 2 smallish stages. At the other side of the room there is quite an expansive bar counter. It all looks pretty good with the sumptuous red theme that is traditional to the bar.

The dancers were generally a little below par and were a little overdressed dancing in skirts, knickers and bikini tops.

There were about 8 girls on duty, 2 of which were dancing. A couple were sitting with customers and the rest were sitting out front.

2 of the girls were good looking but unfortunately I was the 3rd in line. The 2 pretty girls were in fact looking after their customers well, but my assignment was a bit prim and proper, so not really much to stay for.

The draft beer was a reasonable 60 Baht.

Marilyn A-GoGo

Beach Road

Closed in Feb 2006. The site was redeveloped and is now Highway Star which is also closed.

Memories Gentlemen’s Club

Soi LK Metropole

Converted from a restaurant to A-GoGo in March 2006. Bought out in July 2007 and renamed Gorkle Club, Now Ice Bar.

See Club Mirage above

Misty's A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 13/4 (Soi Pattayaland 2)

The bar has now relocated to Soi 15 and renamed itself to Club Mistys, see above. The venue is now Legs A-GoGo

Entry 500 Baht

An Asian tour party venue.

Not fully included in list as it does not advertise public admittance and has an expensive admission fee to put off passing trade.

East European coyote dancing features in the public glass booth. Presumably high prices will also be copied from the other East European bar, Galaxy

Aug 09 Key						Takeaway:
Pint £6.20
		220-260

  Review from Thai Visa, August 2009: Seeing Red

On Walking Street someone stuck a Buy 1 Get 1 ticket in my hand outside a new place called Moulin Rouge. It is a new bar with Russian girls .

I went up the stairs and into a very dark red room with around 8 Russian dancers, 5 Thai bartenders and me as the only customer. I sat down to watch the dancers and ordered one Heineken.

2 minutes later the waiter came back with a bill of 260 Baht!! and insisted I paid it before I could get my beer. Anyway I paid the bill and got my beer, and found out that the Buy 1 Get 1 ticket I received 4 minutes ago outside their door, was no longer valid.

After 5 minutes a pretty rough looking Russian dancer came over and started crawling on me. No thank you, I only want to sit and watch the show. She snarled at me and told me the rules said you cannot refuse a dancer and you must pay her some tips. You can only tip 100 baht, and its better when you tip more than one bill.

I got up, got out, and left the nice Russian girl with my 260 Baht Heineken.

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Naughty Girls

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

www.naughtygirls-pattaya.com

Renamed from Vixens in Jun 2006. Convenient rooms

Jan 09 Key						Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -600 Room:
Pint £1.70
	55	110	95	130	100/120/150

  Review February 2010: Symmetry

There's a certain symmetry to Soi Diamond, with the two centre bars on either side of the beer bar isle being somewhat bereft of ideas. (And often, customers)

Naughty Girls is not too far off the mark. It is an attractive bar with a central stage. There is comfortable bench seating around the sides of the bar. There are table dancing positions set amongst this seating, but it is rarely used these days.

On my last couple of visits there have been some very attractive dancers on show too.

There's a 55 Baht draft beer and other drink prices are in line with Pattaya norms.

The flaws that I see are that the girls dance a very long stint, which is usually a cue to depart for anyone waiting for a particular girl.

Secondly in common with neighbours, The Sea and New Star, the bar seems to think that the most attractive girls should be given the onerous job of sitting by the door. If it were my bar, I would assign them the job of sitting with customers instead. Better to get at least a few customers with as smile on their face, rather than concentrating on getting people into the bar only to leave them lonely and bored.

  Review June 2009: Middling

Now a very traditional gogo with not really much going on except the stage full of girls. The bar still seems to err by having too many girls dancing and not really enough on hostess duty. But better ratios then about a year ago.

There are about 10 girls on stage and most are bikini clad with a few topless. Probably about average for Pattaya but that means there are several that are attractive. The dance roster is too long and if your girls says I go dance, then the best reply is: ok I go check bin.

From what I have seen recently the bar is struggling for customers. I've not really helped out much by staying for a second drink, I have been ignored, double teamed and targeted by the bar oldie.

The draft beer is reasonably priced.

The bar is not a million miles away from getting it right but at the moment is does not seem a roaring success.

  Review Jan 2009: Naughtier and Better

Things seem to have improved at Naughty Girls. The bars has recently abandoned its policy of making all available girls dance and there are now a few that available for a chat.

Also a general air of happier girls may also have led to a few more of them taking their tops off for dancing. The unrevealing black boob tube that they used to wear has mostly been left in the changing room where it belongs, and small standard bikinis are now the norm.

I am told that the lady drinks are now more tightly controlled and customers are no longer stung for the expensive cocktail. It is hard to check this out though as I make such a point of ordering a standard lady drink that I am unlikely to get the girls trying it on.

In fact I was very well looked after by a friendly hands on dancer and would have been tempted to stay longer if it wasn't for the still overly long dance roster of about 7 songs.

  Review May 2008: What's Going On?

I've given up on this bar as I can't really work out what is going on.

The good news is that there are plenty of good looking dancing girls. The bad news is that they are nearly all set continuously dancing.

It may look good to have a bar full of dancing girls but I prefer to have a bit of company.

As far as I can tell the girls are only excused dancing when they have a lady drink in front of them. And when they order a tequila you don't get much time for your money. I walked out pronto when my lady drink only excused the girl from dancing for one song.

  Review Oct 2007: Military Precision

The bar seems to be doing well under the watchful eye of the Tina Turner look alike mamasang.

There were a fair few good looking girls both on stage and quickly by your side. In fact the service girls proved very personable and very hands on too.

The bar is still running a policy of excusing girls dancing duty if they have a lady drink in front of them. However with military precision, the moment the last sip is taken, the mamasang appears from her observation post and orders the girl back on stage. She can jump back off stage into your lap immediately the drink is replenished.

As long as you hit it off with the girls that you select (or indeed the girls that select you) then this bar can be very enjoyable.

  Review from Asia Bugle, Jan 2007: Worth a drink or two

The music was OK, car alarm but at least listenable, and there were plenty of girls on stage and scattered around the joint.

I had a couple of young ladies accosting me with the usual “What you name, where you come from?” line, but without the added, “buy me dlink?” Even though no chance of a barfine, they still remained friendly and chatty.

A show involving a pair of young ladies supplied with bananas was done with fun and by the time I was ready to leave I thought the den has certainly improved in quantum fashion in recent times.

It mightn't be the best in town, but it's definitely worth a drink or two.

Pattaya Soi 13/2 (Soi Post Office)

See Club Nevada above

New Living Dolls One

Walking Street

From 8pm

Popular bar featuring a multitude of girls.

Mar 10 Key								Takeaway:  -dancers 600 -service 600 -showgirls 700
Pint £1.70
	to 10pm	59*	59-125	59	59	140	115
from 10pm		59*	125	95	95-115

*small glass

  Review October 2009: Not So New

The bar has had a little time to settle down after a change of management so time for a quick review.

There have been a few changes to the bar. The unused Jacuzzi has been removed in favour of a small dancing podium. The seats have been reupholstered but in essence the bar looks more or less the same as before.

I also heard that the new owners has dropped the new prefix and refer to the bar as Living Dolls One.

There were the usual extensive team of gogo dancers with about 12 on stage at any one time for a dance roster of 6 songs. There is also a team of showgirls who take to the stage for various lesbian antics and the like. There are plenty of attractive girls on show.

Unsurprisingly the new management have made few changes to the operation of the bar. If anything the bar has improved for me, as a couple of girls bounded over for a bit of good taking care.

I am anticipating a return visit to the bar more than I have for a long time.

  News July 2009: Dolled Off

The bar has been sold and the new owners George and Simon will be at the helm from the 1st August 2009.

  Review May 2009: Dolls Indeed

After having found a comfortable seat I looked up at the stage to see a dozen good looking girls with few clothes to share between them.

I relaxed to drink my free first beer and all was well.

I glanced round at the bar to find that it was well crowded with appreciative customers enjoying the show.

There are plenty of service girls and there are plenty of managers and owners and the like if you would like a chat.

The drinks are reasonable and the barfines are competitive.

The bar is also a no hassle bar where the girls leave you alone unless called over.

Not really my sort of bar though, the no hassle policy coupled with a high ratio of customers to girls usually ends up in the visit being a lonely drink.

  Review Nov 2008: Too Good

A very popular that always seems pretty full or else totally full. The bar surely must be doing something right.

Maybe this is down to the free beer tickets dished out by the welcome staff. Or maybe it is the reasonable drinks prices once you have finished the freebie. Or maybe it is the cheap barfines to partake in a little later in the evening.

There are plenty of girls to go round with many of them good looking. Also the bar tries to keep hassle down to a minimum. Unfortunately this often means that the girls don't bother you enough even to say hello. No problems if you call them over though.

There are showgirls featuring sexy but not choreographed shows.

Music is strictly selected to keep the dancing girls dancing.

There are plenty of farang managers on hand for those that like to mingle with the barkeeps.

Something good for everyone then...except of course, those that like a quiet drink.

  News from New Living Dolls One, Oct 2008: Bed Tax

The tub is gone for now, it was under 2 aircons and as such the girls were always getting sick.

We have replaced it with a big red BED, yes we still have the mirror in front of it. The girls have been taking there turn at bed time play with odd guy wanting to join in .

Yes our bar fines did go up from 400 to 450 and from 200 to 250 we also had to increase our happy hour from 39 bt to 49 bt. Guys sorry for doing this but after 3 wholesale increases which we did not pass on it finally had to happen.

  Review by Ray, March 2008: A Winning Formula

In the many opportunities for contemplation offered by bars where the girls seem to regard me as The Wrong Sort Of Customer, I have formed my own view of what makes a great bar. It's fairly simple really: lots of attractive, uninhibited girls wearing as little as possible in a space big enough to hold lots of them but small enough to keep them in close proximity to the customers.

This is just such a bar. Sure, there are experiments with the usual gimmicks, the jacuzzi show, the corner coyotee dancers, but nobody pays much attention to them and I doubt they add a single baht to the bottom line. For all practical purposes a bar is the girls, and you won't find a friendlier, sexier bunch than this anywhere.

New Living Dolls One implements a winning formula perfectly. Long may it prosper.

Previously The Roof. New Player closed in December 2005. Became Tiger Club A-GoGo, see below

New Star A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 3pm, shift change at 8pm

Hands on fun for those that can cope with the high pressure hassle. From the people that also run Pinky, Nui's, Hot Girls & Rock Girls. Convenient rooms

Nov 09 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 700 -dancers 600 Room: 950 (inc barfine) All in: 1950/2450
Pint £1.30
	55		95	95	110-180

  Review by Ishi Jan 2010: Merged Stage

The smallest foam Jacuzzi in Pattaya is no longer used. It's a part of the dance stage now.

The problem is that the bar runsout of water. It happens often, there's no water in the toilet or in the kitchen. I'll never order Draught Beer again!

  Reader review Dec 2009: Worth a visit

This bar is quite small but it's worth a visit.

Some of the girls are very beautiful, most of them in topless and with very pretty breasts.

The staff are friendly and drinks are not too expensive.

  Review by Ishi Nov 2009: Split Stage

The stage is mow divided into 3, each one is less than 2 meters long. The first stage from the entrance is a play mat where one naked lady is dancing.

The center oval-shape stage is the smallest Jacuzzi in Pattaya. It has almost 6cm high wall. Of course there is no water but just foam and one naked lady is taking a foam bath.

The 3rd stage has 2 poles and 3 dancers.

Bar Fine, dancers are B600 but show girls are B700.

  Review May 2009: Lost Faith

The odds of an enjoyable visit seem to have diminished.

There are some unattractive girls who do the circulating around the customers. There are a few attractive girls but they seem locked to the stools at the door presumably to entice passers by.

The net result is that this has become a bar that does not deliver. And there's plenty of nearby bars that do biz.

If you are lucky enough to get one of the pretty girls at your side, then the bar can be quite hands on.

I think the location is excellent for the bar. It is the first bar in Soi Diamond and you see an avenue of touts ahead of you. It is then so easy to just dart in the first one rather than run the gauntlet of quite hasslesome touts.

The bar probably does a steady trade in people tempted in, but who stay just for one drink.

  Review December 2008: Right or Left?

The girls of New Star A-GoGo vary their short time rates according to which side of the bar you sit on.

On the left the table menus show the all in package as 1950 (600 barfine + 350 room + 1000 short time). On the right hand side the menus show a total of 2450 with the girl's share being 1500 Baht.

Either way it seems very expensive.

The bar has a very mixed selection of girls ranging from very pretty to very not. The prettier girls are anchored to door with an invisible bungy cord. They are employed more to attract passers by than to look after the customers inside.

If you are up to being manhandled by the oldies, the bar can be quite good fun. But I always feel for the unaware newbies who get ruthlessly exploited by the girls given half the chance.

  Review April 2008: Door Decoration Girls

A Thai run gogo that inevitably provides a good home for staff who maximise their earnings from relentless hassle of customers.

The latest wheeze they have is for the only pretty girls in the bar to be anchored to within a few paces of the door. They parade around topless such that customers peering around the door get a good eyeful of a pretty girl. If they are convinced then they will shuffle in to find a seat, only to realise that the majority of the girls are second string. As with the pretty girls on scouting duty at a beer bar, it seems difficult to get the door decoration girls to sit with a customer.

The bar isn't entirely without merits though, as hands on fun is readily available here.

However the chances of finding both a pretty girl and one who doesn't hassle too much, make for a rare entertaining visit.

  Review July 2007: Uneven

Unsurprisingly similar comments to the recently reviewed Nui's 2 as both bars are under the same management.

This is a small gogo with a prime location as it has first dibs on customers walking up Soi Diamond from Walking Street. The bar is surely in need of a bit of sprucing up.

The bar features the whole range of girls, fat, thin, young, old, pretty & not. I think it is the luck of the draw that there were a couple of pretty girls in the bar. Actually one of the pretty girls was anchored to the door so as to give unrealistic impressions when guys would look in to check out standards.

The girls dance at all levels of undress suggesting that it is surely "up to them".

Some girls hassle, some don't, some girls are hands on and some aren't.

A totally mixed bag, but the odds are a little too high of a duff visit for the bar to retain many, if any, regular customers.  However there is surely a chance of being lucky and having a good time.

Nice 'n Eazy

Pattaya Soi 13/1 (Soi Yamato)

The bar was converted to a beer bar in July 2007 but retains the Nice 'n Eazy name

See Sakura Club 69, see below

Nui's Club 2 A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 3pm
Shift change at 8pm

Avoid the shift change, dancing stops for 15 mins with bored customers inside

Small & middling gogo. Ownership connections with Hot Girls, New Star, Pinky Girls & Rock Girls

Mar 09 Key						Takeaway: 600 All in package: -2000 -1600 afternoon
Pint £1.70
	55*	110	95	110	110

*small glass

  Review July 2009: Low Season

The bar had a low season feel to it with a rather underwhelming urge to entertain.

There were about a dozen girls on duty of which 7 or 8 were dancing. They were doing a 7 or 8 song rotation around all the various dancing stages in the bar. The dress code is ether topless or bikini clad depending on the girl's wishes. The girls were average, which is not to say there weren't a couple of pretty girls.

There is also a single naked girl who was preening herself in a quasi show in the middle of the main stage. She was on for quite a long stint.

As soon as the girls were finishing, they were reaching for dressing gowns and departing out the front door. Either eating or supplementing the welcome staff. Either way there weren't may girls looking after customers in the bar, so it all seemed something of a dead loss to me.

  Review Jan 2009: Unbalanced

Nui's 2 has never been a very successful bar for me and I put a lot of the failings down to the layout of the bar.

There are just a couple of bench seats facing the main stage and these seem to be the only area of the bar where customers get much attention. It is also the only place where you can see the nude showgirl who performs at the centre of the main stage.

The rest of the seating only gets a side view of the main stage and a view of a shuffler or 2 on the secondary stage. Somehow this gives a vibe of 'second best' and I guess that few guys stay long when seated there. And hence they get ignored by the girls.

The girls are not particularly noteworthy but there usually a couple of pretty girls on the evening shift.

The music is strictly for the girls.

Beer price is reasonable at 55 Baht for a small draft beer, but there are no other bargains.

  Review April 2008: Lucky Dip

Very much a lucky dip this bar, but with the odds stacked against wining.

The bar tends to attract below average girls but this does not preclude a few pretty girls in attendance.

There is a fairly long dance rotation with not really much in the way of naughty stuff. Most of the girls are bikini clad but a couple go topless.

Some of the girls provide hands on fun on your lap but most tend to ignore customers.

Newbies should be very wary. Last time I visited, the mamasang was trying to push a very expensive all-in fee on a besotted newbie.

  Review July 2007: Improvements

The bar has added extra dancing stages such that there is always something to look at wherever you are sitting. Previously only a few bench seats overlooking the stage had a good view and the rest had a restricted sideways on view. The previous main stage has been converted to a couple of table dancing stages. In addition two more table dancing stages have appeared along with a small show stage in the middle of the bar.

It certainly brought a bit more life to the bar with plenty going on.

On the downside, the bar has found some very small glasses for the draught beer and the dancing roster is now an overlong 7 songs.

I would have stayed longer but the personable bar lady boy set his sights on me and I prefer to play with the ladies.

  Review July 2007: No Customer QA

I would guess that few Walking Street regulars would have this bar on their list of favourites, or indeed any of the bars from the Nui's group.

The bar is not without merits, it has a few pretty girls and some lively dancing, drinks are reasonable and there are plenty of service staff on hand. Indeed there were a few customers clearly enjoying fun with a girl on their laps.

The negative side seems to be a lack of customer QA. Management style is distinctly light touch and the girls are allowed to hassle and hustle for as many tips, drinks, drinks for their friends etc as they can get a way with. This surely discourages regular business and means that the bar has to target newbies with a large welcome staff.

Still the bars have survived well and are continually adding new venues. They must be doing something right, even if only economically.

  Review Oct 2006: Middling

Not a very well laid out bar as only a small row of bench seats get a good view of the stage, A large proportion of the bar get just a sideways on view of the dancing.

The girls are very much an average bunch but there are some that are attractive. About a dozen of the 15 in the bar were dancing at anyone time and they seemed to be putting a fair effort into entertaining. Several were topless. All girls were wearing the almost obligatory micro miniskirts but it was not clear from my sideways on seat what they were wearing underneath.

I was approached for a drink by a personable ladyboy hostess and an oldie dancing girl. My rejection of their advances was taken as signal that I would reject advances from all girls in the bar so I had little choice but to move rapidly on.

O

See Club Oasis above

Obsessions

Beach Road: Soi Pattayaland 2

Ladyboy bar to be avoided for the same reasons as the sister bar Kitten Club, next door.

P

Paradise A-GoGo

Soi Buakhow (southern end)

From 7pm
From 3pm Tuesday & Friday

Opened on Sept 25th 2006, closed by Dec 2006. Reopened under new management on June 16th 2007. Reported as closed in January 2010.

Feb 10 Key							Takeaway: 450 Room: 350 (inc barfine)
Pint £1.20
	to 9pm	55	55			95-125
from 9pm		55	95		90-120

  News January 2010: Re-Opens

The bar has re-opened

  News January 2010: Re-Closed

The bar has re-closed

  News November 2009: Re-Opens

The bar has re-opened

  News November 2009: Dark

The bar has been dark for a couple of nights but people were milling around last night but no dancing.

  Review August 2009: Oh Dear

I stopped by to find a bar with just three dancers and four customers. I checked the white board and there were no girls marked down as barfined.

They had one girl dancing and that surely makes for a lonely atmosphere. A couple of the other customers seemed to be happy with the situation though, as they had snagged a dancer each.

Me, I was out of there before finishing my beer.

  Review Feb 2009: Half a Dozen Girls

I paid an early evening visit and found half a dozen girls in attendance of which a couple were pretty. Three were dancing on the central stage for a 3 song stint. The dress code was topless.

The drinks prices were reasonable enough but when there is not much doing in the bar then it is important that girls go and entertainment the customers at close quarters.  Unfortunately it seemed that the older girls were doing the carousing and the younger girls were reserved to give the mamasang a massage. Really not much to stay for then.

  Review June 2008:  Pleasant Enough

I pop by after shopping at TukCom but haven't yet been persuaded to stay beyond one drink.

The bar is pleasant enough but it struggles to get sufficient momentum to retain any top notch girls. There are some pretty welcome staff though, I don't know if they can be persuaded to accompany customers.

There were 3 dancing girls all dancing topless. But this was causing sufficient concern about the authorities to keep the front door locked to gain a little time if needs be.

The bar is reasonably priced and has farang friendly music levels.

  Review Nov 2007: A Bird in the Hand

A bar with its heart in the right place. It's just that not quite enough people seem to know this.

Prices across the board are well reasonable, for drinks, lady drinks, take-aways and take-ups.

The music is farang friendly as are the girls. There are usually about 10 girls in the bar of which about half are set to dancing. 3 dance topless on the central stage and the others use a side stage and a table dancing stage.

The prettiest girls in the bar are on welcome duty and I have never seen them come inside. This tends to rather emphasise the less than top notch girls inside.

A few bars try and make up for this by being hands-on friendly, but I haven't yet been so entertained in Paradise.

The bar is a fine place for a couple of drinks but I soon find it is time to move on. I coined a little saying: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but a hand in the bush is worth four more... And I like to go in search of the four more.

  Review June 2007: Return to Paradise

Although I didn't think about it at the time I must have been the first customer as I seemed to interrupt their opening day staff meeting still continuing half an hour into their advertised opening time.

I didn't spot many changes to the decor since the previous incarnation, but the prices painted on the walls showed that the bar intends to be very competitive on price. Bar fines are 450 Baht, lady drinks are 80 Baht and there is a 50 Baht draft beer. There was also a drinks menu on each table.

The mamasang had apparently not worked in a gogo bar and the dancing girls didn't seem to have much more experience either.

Nobody seemed to know much about making introductions so it all seemed a little shambolic, but the mamasang was doing her best to go around asking. The heart seemed in the right place so I am sure everyone will learn quickly.

The opening cast of dancing girls were a little middling and they were reluctant to take off their bikinis but that is often the case. The monetary benefit of revealing a little more soon puts things right ,and success usually draws in a few more cuties.

Early days, but I think the prices will impress and give the bar a good chance.

Paris A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

Small gogo with very standard gogo offerings

Mar 10 Key						Takeaway: 600 Room:
		90-100	80	110	100

  Review July 2009: Off chance of entertainment

Another bar that seems to be doing its bets to get by in the down turn by putting its head in the sand and ignoring anyone dropping by on the off chance of entertainment.

The were about 10 girls of which 6 were dancing, the rest were hiding in corners or else more blatantly ignoring customers. The girls were dancing bikini clad but after a while one girl took off her top. For no obvious reason whatsoever apart from the lack of customers, the mamasang told her to cover up.

A bit under whelming at the moment, perhaps it will pick up at the next high season, whenever that is.

  Review Jan 2009: No French Kissing

Paris is a very straightforward gogo which tends to mark time whilst the rest of Pattaya marches on to ever naughtier levels.

The were 6 dancers on the central stage, either topless or bikini clad according the girls wishes. They were an average crew but the average is pretty good on Soi Diamond. There were another 8 girls waiting to dance.

The girls are not very quick to try their luck for a lady drink, but if you make a signal you may be able to attract their attention. I spoke with a girl, and neither she, nor the wait staff were at all pushy. Not really a bar for hands on fun either.

A pleasant enough, well run bar, that still lacks a little innovation.

  Review May 2008: No Can-Can

A predictable single beer visit 6 months on from my previous look see.

As usual there were a few pretty girls, but as usual no one made any efforts to make contact.

The beer was not cheap, as there is no draft, but then again, it is not expensive as there are bottles at 80 Baht.

I was struggling to think of much to say about the bar so I went somewhere else to consider my prose.

The bar needs a little je ne sais quoi. Perhaps a little Can-Can would help.

  Review Aug 2007: Few Negatives

Very little changes in Paris. There are currently about 25 girls working in the bar of which 8 dance on the central stage at anyone time. They dance for 4 songs and bikini clad or topless seems to be the dress code.

There are several attractive girls in the bar but I get the impression that they are not so interested in touting for business.

The bar is lacking in innovation and has become a venue for a single beer approximately every 6 months.

Still the drinks prices are reasonable and there are few negatives about the bar...just a lack of positives.

  Review Jan 2007: Hardly the CanCan

This bar is one of several Soi Diamond that are declining by marking time. Competing bars are upgrading their appeal with naughtier shows, Jacuzzis, naughtier girls, high energy atmosphere or simply packing their bars with cuties. Paris continues with basic dancing and demure lady drinking. The trouble is that the prettiest girls go with the flow, and so the girls that remain tend to be the slightly less attractive.

That does not mean that all is negative, the girls are still up for a chat, dance topless and the bar always seems well run and friendly. The ongoing 70 Baht for a bottle of Singha is always good value.

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, July 2006: Keeniaw

Not very busy. After sitting down and I was double teamed immediately. The demand for a lady drink came up quick but I politely refused. This resulted in myself being called "keeniaw".

I observed the slightly overweight dancers (ok, some slim girls were available as well) and the "lady" next to me inquired if I was interested to have one of them. Shaking my head got me another "keeniaw" so I decided to check bin.

Passion Dance Club

Pattaya Soi 6 (Soi Yodsak)
(Beach Road end)

Dancing from 3pm

There is a new GoGo on Soi 6. It is a sister bar to Betty Boup Dance Club is located directly opposite. The bar opened on 1st November 2009.

Nov 09 Key						Takeaway: 700 Room: 300 All in package: 1000
Pint £1.30
	60	90-95	75	85-125	100

  News November 2009: Closed & Reopened

The bar will be back soon though, they are on a recruiting drive and will be back in a few days as soon as they have got the numbers up.

  Review November 2009: First Impressions

They say first impressions count, and mine was to trip up over a not very visible step at the front door.

But once safely inside, things soon looked up. The bar is a little smaller than Betty Boup opposite and is attractively decorated with a chrome thene. It is basically a square with comfortable bench seating around the walls. The square central stage is quite large and is set lower than most. There are stools with backs around the stage.

The music covers a fair range of genres but is basically there to be danced to. It is perhaps a little loud but it is after all, a dance club.

The girls made for a very impressive line up, probably about the best I've seen for an opening day. One of the advantages of running two bars is the flexibility to move girls around as needed.

There were only 2 or 3 girls dancing as most were occupied being hands-on friendly with the customers. Exactly as it ought to be. A quick look at the white board, showing plenty of barfines and the likes, suggest that this approach was working well.

The drinks prices are very customer friendly too.

So a good first impression, apart from the doorstep that is.

Peppermint Palace

Walking Street

From 8pm

Beware of a discriminatory 200 Baht entrance fee for Asians

Large popular gogo with plenty to see and watch. Ownership connections with Happy A-GoGo & Beach Club

Jan 10 Key								Takeaway: 600
Pint £1.90
	to 9:30	59*		59	59	150	105
from 9:30		59*	120	100	105-120

*small glass

  News from Peppermint, January 2010: Re-locating

Lets clear the confusion. Peppermint will not close, in the not too distant future it will be re-located to the ground floor of the marine complex, and something I have always wanted as it will off street access to many new customers. An area has already been allocated and the size will be the same as it is now and the same concept will be used. This will happen sooner than later but will result in no closure of Peppermint.

  Review September 2009: Longer Lasting Mint

I made quite an early evening visit and everything seemed pretty much as it has been for as long as I can remember.

The only change that was immediately apparent was the bar has dispensed with the topless bar idea. I guess it hasn't really made any difference as the bar was at the poorest viewing point of the whole venue.

There are still naked cage dancers, topless gogo dancers, negligee clad side stage dancers and a few table dancers on top.

I got a friendly reception from one of the girls who remembered me from a quick beer at Club Oasis.

The drinks prices are still reasonable and they are still served by male service staff.

But most importantly, there is still a very large contingent of attractive girls.

  Review Feb 2009: A Palace Indeed

Surely a fun palace with lots going. The bar is consistently busy.

There's the main stage with topless girls, a side stage with nearly nude girls and a cage with fully nude girls. And if that isn't enough there's a few table dance podiums and a topless bar. There are always plenty of attractive girls to select from.

The bar is in the mould of Happy, Super Baby and Super Girls in that most customers sit watching, rather than playing, presumably readying  themselves to pick a number and go. But of the quality quartet this bar is the most likely for the girls to try their luck for a lady drink.

Drinks prices are reasonable and this must surely generate some of the return trade. Also the bar does not mess around with a complex barfine structure. It is just a single standard rate.

It is probably the fact that you are not messed around by drinks prices or barfines rather than the actual level that appeals. If you are on a budget you may find the premium rates asked for by the girls is on the high end of the scale, and rather counteracts the advantage of the cheapish drinks.

There's a couple of gripes though, the bar employs toilet jockeys and the majority of the comfortable seating does not command a very good view of the best dance positions. So stool seating is the norm.

  News July 2008: Shows

Peppermint has now introduced sexy lesbian shows to its many styles of entertainment.

  Review May 2008: Watchability

If you've got a good formula then stick with it. And that's exactly what Peppermint continues to do. Nothing much has changed in the last couple of years and that includes maintaining a healthy amount of customers.

There is still the combination of topless main stage with occasional shows, side stage with nearly nude dancers, cage with fully nude dancers, knickerless table dancers and a topless bar.

Plenty to watch but not quite so much to do as in the naughtier bars with hands on fun. In fact putting the best looking girls in a cage seems positively mean.

Perhaps, because the watchability takes priority over the playability, this means that the bar caters more for Asians than farangs these days.

Still the girls are pretty, the drinks are reasonable, and the male service is very efficient.

A sure bet to stay popular.

  News from Pattaya Addicts, Nov 2007: Discriminatory Entrance Fees

It seems that Peppermint have started charging a 200 Baht entry fee to Asian customers.

Their door staff are now equipped with several signs.

First there is a sign saying 'Full' used to turn away South Asians and Arabs (A common Pattaya policy, said to be based upon safety for the girls and the higher risk of misogynist attitudes from men from those parts).

There is now also a sign indicating a 200 Baht entrance fee. This sign is used for Asian customers or perhaps it is targeted at Japanese visitors.

Farangs are waved in without let or hindrance.

  Review by polleke, Oct 2007: Packed

Went in and the place was really packed. The staff hardly couldn't find a seat for me.

There is one major stage where the girls are topless and 2 minor ones in the corners where they are naked.

As I like a bit of interaction between me and the girls on stage, this is hardly not possible because the place is so crowded. You can have a girl on your side if you ask the service staff that is mainly male, which I don't like.

Left after 1 diet coke (95 Baht)

More a place for people who like to watch. Not for me though.

Pinky Girl A-GoGo

Walking Street (Beach Road end)

Opened Dec 31st 2007. Closed when the venue was demolished in March 2009.

Renamed as Jupiter but now Wild West Boys.

Playgirls

Walking Street

Entry charges for some

An upstairs bar in the Nui's group specialising in a mix of gogo and bells & whistles shows.

Apr 09 Key						Takeaway: -showgirl 800
Pint £1.50
	65				110

  Review April 2009: Playaway

The bar targets Asians and East Europeans with a mix of gogo and unerotic shows with darts and whistles etc.

There are no welcome signs suggesting prices as no doubt there is a cover charge including first drink for some whilst farangs breeze in unmolested for the normal pay as you go price structure. The draft beer was reasonable at 65 Baht.

The bar is narrow with central stages, two dancing stages and a Jacuzzi. The naked girl was soaping herself throughout and the dancers were bikini clad.

The girls were friendly enough and would pop over to inquire of your birthplace. But they weren't hasslesome if you preferred to be left alone.

In fact a perfectly decent sort of small bar with many of the usual gogo entertainments.

There was one tiny little almost insignificant problem though...the girls were well below Walking Street average.

  Review Sept 2008: Pleasantly Surprised

I was rather suspecting a bar that was a bit more hardened to fleecing the bells and whistles crowd but the bar was not such a lost cause.

The steep steps up to the first floor bar wouldn't survive health and safety rules in Farangland. They are pretty unattractive as aesthetically too.

But inside the bar is bright and attractive along similar lines to Airport below.

There are 3 stages, 1 is for gogo, the other alternates between gogo and bells and whistles shows for the tourists. In the centre is a Jacuzzi complete with a a suitably soapy girl. There are no seats near, so no chance of any hands on fun.

All drinks prices are reasonable and the standard for the Nui's group bars. So no premium to watch a show you didn't want to see in the first place.

The gogo girls were a little reluctant to take their tops off and there are none of the the cuties that are reserved for downstairs duty at Airport Club.

I spoke to a couple of the dancing girls and it made for a very pleasant couple of drinks. They were not pushy and were charming hostesses with plenty of tales from a longish gogo careers.

The service was also good.

The Pleasure Dome

Walking Street

Plans for The Pleasure Dome have been abandoned

Polo Entertainment

Walking Street

Now Lady's Shadow Club, see above

Pook Bar A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 6

Located upstairs from the Pook bar. Closed in March 2008 for renovation as lady boy venue. Later became a girl coyote bar, 6 Up

Popcorn

Soi 13/4 (Soi Pattayaland 2)

Opened 6th October 2007 in the venue that was previously All Girls. Closed in October 2008. Re-opened in February 2009 but only lasted a month and closed in March 2009

Powers Club

Walking Street

Opened on 12th March 2010. The venue was previously Maya Karaoke and before that, Private Dancer

Mar 10 Key							Takeaway:
	90					120

  Review by Rick G, March 2010: Draught Free

There's an upper window where a couple of coyote dancers provide some entertainment to passers by on Walking Street.

There's a long stair case to the upper floor and there's a pool table at the top of the stairs. The main bar area is a large room that has several small stages. There is comfortable white leather seating, some bar stools and a collection of girls that looked a little disappointing. Surprisingly, there's nowhere to put your drink next to the sofas.

My request for a draught beer seemed to cause some confusion. The first girl didn't understand what I had asked for, so a second girl came over and took my order. She returned a moment later, to tell me they had run out of draught beer.

I will return in a week or two. Hopefully, the staff are more organised by that stage.

Closed. Now Powers Club

R

Rock Girl's A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

Opened March 2007 until June 2008. It was then sold and became Smile (Rock) Girls A-GoGo, see below

Rocket Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Rocket opened on 10th February 2008.

Apr 09 Key							Takeaway: 600 Rooms:
Pint £2.50
	110	130

  News March 2009: Bells & Whistles Shows

Rocket A-GoGo upstairs on Soi Diamond seems to have taken a change of direction. The previous manager Kuhn Artit has moved on to Gamebird 2 on Soi 15. The bar has now become a bells and whistles show targeting Asians and East European couples.

The welcome staff signs for cheap drinks have vanished so presumably the drinks prices have inflated somewhat. Draft beer is 110 Baht and bottled beers are 130 Baht.

The bar seemed to have more customers than in its previous incarnation so must be doing something right.

  Review by Mr Mats Oct 2008: Rocket Play

I found a new place for me, Rocket GoGo.

Seated beside the jacuzzi I found two pretty girls and I could play with them too. Very friendly and the service staff were nice to me - an old man from Europe.

Draft bear 40 bath before 22:00 and 55 after.

  Review Sept 2008: One Fatal Flaw

There are many good things to say about the bar, particularly for a Thai run bar.

Drinks prices are good and there is a little hassle from the girls or staff. All the usual gogo entertainments are there including the almost inevitable Jacuzzi.

There seems just one thing missing, pretty girls!

Getting customers to upstairs bars is always difficult but its seems that getting the girls to climb the stairs is nigh on impossible.

  Review by Fontok, Feb 2008: Nicely Laid Out

Rocket Club A-GoGo is situated upstairs on Soi Diamond

Access: They have chopped off the last few yards of the beer bar below to make an entrance lobby. Go upstairs (usual steep thai steps). The gogo is on the first landing. If you go further up, you could find the room(s) for gogo girls that are too tired and need to take a rest...

The Bar: Nicely laid out with good bench seats round the edge and tables with chairs. About 8 girls on stages, while two girls were washing in the Jacuzzi. Appears the changing rooms must be small, so they had to wash in public!

Drink prices were sensible and sticky signs round the top of the mirrored walls with the "price list". Draught Chang was 55 Baht.

Smokers: They have realised bout the new No Smoking Ban and have converted one of the men's toilet cubicles into a Smoking Room (or so the sign on the door says).--- quick thinking that! Well done, even though I am not a smoker.

Yes, I will go back and give it another go. May not be many girls there yet, but some friendly and I am willing to follow up their approaches... I think the BF was 600 Baht, which is pretty standard these days. Did not have the time to find of what the girls wanted... Most seem fresh from the countryside, or so their dancing skills told me (I was taught about reading dance skills a long time ago from an ex-gogo girl in Bangkok).

  Review from Bob, Feb 2008: More of the Usual

Entrance is narrow staircase right before Paris a Go Go. The, what has become usual, interior for new go go's - stage for 4-6 girls, jacuzzi, comfortable seats, etc., etc., etc.

Line up was less then spectacular.

You really have to question the wisdom of someone opening a new go go on the second floor as the season winds down. Even many of the ground floor go go's can barely get more then a handful of customers these days.

Not yet worth the climb up the steps.

Rodeo Girls

Soi Pattayaland 2

From 6pm

www.rodeo-girls.com

A much improved bar after having recently being bought from the Jupiter/Crystal/All Girls group. Rodeo Girls previously converted to Wild West Boys but converted back to girls in Dec 2006. Changed hands after a brief closure in February 2010.

Oct 07 key						Takeaway: 1000 to 9pm 500 from 9pm
Pint £1.60
	69	99	99	99	110

  Review July 2009: Novice Cowgirls

I caught this bar soon a after a low key re-opening. Hopefully they have started on the learning curve, because it looked dauntingly step from my visit.

I guessed that the only experience they had in running a gogo bar was a visit to Happy A-GoGo. Just put some dancing girls on a stage and the customers will roll in.

The bar had six girls in the bar when I arrived, and 5 of them were set to dancing. To be fair, there were a couple of decent looking girls, but they were a bit overdressed in bikinis.

I don't see much point in going to a bar to watch average bikini clad girls without any chance of interaction whatsoever. A lady drink is no ticket to a break in the girls continuous dancing either.

A cute and young tomboyish girl seemed to be in charge at the time, but hopefully there is someone a bit more experienced behind the scenes.

Perhaps a play on the reality agent rule number one, may be helpful to this bar (and a fair few other bars too!):

The three main contributions to a successful GoGo bar are interaction, interaction and interaction.

  Review July 2009: Uninteractive

The small bar is one of the least interactive bars in town. I really can't figure out how the bar works at all. Presumably it is based on Superbaby or similar where the customers call the mamasang over and ask for the girls by number.

Meanwhile all the customers are expected to be entertained by the shuffling beauties. Rodeo has actually got some good looking girls amongst the 7 that were on duty when I visited. But they are not really quite the top notch required to get customers drooling just from watching bikini clad dancers.

There were also more than half of the girls dancing. They would end their stint, go to the toilet, adjust their make up and it was time to dance again.

Not really my sort of place at all.

  Review Jan 2009: Come On Down

The bar now has a few more girls but still does not operate in a traditional fashion.

About half of the 10 girls in the bar dance at any one time. They dance for 5 songs strictly in bikinis. They are quite a select cast and are all attractive. They are good at smiling at the customers while they dance too.

Yet as soon as they finish, the smiles are turned off and they find a seat and wait alone for their next dance.

The mamasang offers the chance to get a girl down, but that seems to entail an immediate lady drink. Maybe a personal thing but I don't particularly like calling down girls via the mamasang. It sort of implies a little more interest than I like to show. Much better to make it less formal and invite a girl over with a one to one smile or a gesture.

  Review May 2008: Thrown Off

I cannot work out what how this bar is meant to work. They had just 6 girls in attendance and 5 of them were dancing. This meant that there were simply no girls remaining to circulate amongst the few customers.

How are they supposed to get a few lady drinks when they are dancing all the time?

What is the customer expected to do, get bored watching the overdressed bikini clad shufflers. Presumably one could quote a number to the mamasang and takeaway a girl, but this business model only seems to work at high end bars with very attractive girls.

To be fair, the girls were attractive though. I am sure I would have bought a few lady drinks if the opportunity arose. But it didn't, so I moved rapidly on.

  Review by polleke, Oct 2007: Friendly

We came in just half a hour before closing time.

Its a small gogo with a small stage with 4 girls dancing and 8 girls remaining to entertain the customers.

Since I didn't expect too much, I was really surprised by the above average girls, that were also very friendly. (maybe they wanted a bar fine regarding the late hour).

We really liked the place and will certainly pay another visit.

  Update from Rodeo Girls, Oct 2007: New Perceptions

After 10 plus months of being under new management the bar now has a reasonable number of locals that frequent the bar and a very decent percentage of return customers.

We have made a conscious effort to change the perception of the bar since taking ownership and, we believe, the effort has been successful.

We look forward to celebrating our 1 year anniversary on Dec 2.

 Roof Top A-GoGo

Closed. Now Tiger Club wh