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.

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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

Oct 10 Key								Takeaway: -showgirl to 12 1000 -showgirl after 12 700 -topless dancer 700 -bikini dancer 600 Short times limited to 1 hour
	to 8pm	55				165	110
from 8pm		85	125-130	95			135-250

Beware of the very expensive lady drinks

  Review June 2010: Afternoon Flight

For a change I tried Air Port on its afternoon shift. Surely not a patch on the evening shift.

There were about a dozen girls in attendance of which 4 or 5 were dancing on the front podium stages. Nothing going on in the fun stages towards the back of the bar. The girls were mostly working just the afternoon shift and were a few notches older and wiser than the evening girls.

The dancing uniform was a bit naff with bras rather than bikini tops. A couple of dancers were topless so this is presumably down to the choice of the dancers.

There is a cheaper 55 Baht draft option in the afternoon but that is because the bar is more or less on par with the cheaper options in the afternoon.

I chatted to a girl who worked both shifts, which maybe was a mistake, as she seemed all geared up for lady drink demands as if it were a mega crowded, mega fun bar with lots of alternative options for her. Only it wasn't, as there were only about 5 or 6 customers.

It is probably better to stick with the more specialist daytime gogos. Less expectations on both sides makes them a more laid back option for afternoon drinking.

  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.

Alcatraz A-GoGo

Walking Street

alcatrazpattayagogo.com

Prison themed gogo opened at beginning of December 2010. Mainly coyote dancers and expensive drinks.

Dec 10 Key								Takeaway: -showgirls 1500-2000 -dancers 700+
	8-10pm	60					150
from 10pm		60	135	100	135-160	150

  News from Ishi, June 2011: Shower Block

Alcatraz has introduced a Jacuzzi with two ladies cleaning up at a time.

  News May 2011: Draft Beer

The bar has introduced a 60 Baht draft Tiger beer all night. Now served in a better sized mug

  News March 2011: Draft Beer

The bar has introduced a 60 Baht draft beer for an 8-10pm happy hour.

  Review December 2010: Perfect.. for a Hollywood prison musical

The bar would make a great looking set for a lavish Hollywood prison musical. There are multiple level cages, balconies and cell blocks. Perfect for teams of chorus girls to high kick in unison.

As to entertaining customers, seeking out sexy fun or takeaway pleasures, then the theme doesn't work nearly so well. Perhaps the bar designers had another demographic in mind, perhaps it is intended as a cabaret for East European/Asian couples or perhaps as a swanky nightclub for the Bangkok rich.

Anyway for the moment it is operating as a GoGo/Coyote bar so that is the way that it will be reviewed.

The central stage featured 9 dancers of which 3 were attractive topless inmates and the other 6 were a mixture of fully dressed coyotes, half with light dresses maybe in a prison theme, the other half as warders.

There was one lone girl dancing on the already deserted upper levels, but being too far away, this just adds to the overall effect rather than adding any real extra entertainment.

There's loads of lighting to give the bar to overall good effect, but not enough of it is aimed at the stage. The bar is large so the stage can be a bit far way, especially at the back of the bar. So being dimly lit as well does not help much.

The hostesses are uniformed as warders. Which again looks interesting, but may not be the right psychology. Surely most customers have come to Thailand to seek out the more submissive types. A theory backed up  by the popularity of air hostess, nurse and schoolgirl themes. I'd guess not many guys have much of a fetish for dominant ladies.

But the hostesses were doing a good job of roaming the room in search of guys who may like a little company. So a few plus points there.

The drinks prices are top end at around 135 Baht for most drinks (including lady drinks), but with a small draft beer and soft drinks at 100 Baht. I guess the bar connections are hoping that the new Carlsberg draft will have some sort of premium as 'something new', but being as it is the cheapo house lager in many British pubs, then the premium concept falls somewhat flat for me.

Perhaps the prices may fit with some top end swanky idea of where the bar wants to go, but in terms of the basic but remote gogo/coyote dancing on offer at the moment, this must count as the poorest value in town. But of course there are always many in town to whom this is not an important factor. What's up for instance does very well with prices higher than Alcatraz.

It was amusing to see that the usual barfine notices on the walls are replaced here by 600 Baht 'Bail' signs. Actually the price seems more reasonable than previously reported suggesting a bit of downward pressures on prices.

At the moment the bar seems to be doing reasonably well for customers with plenty stopping by its excellent location to take a look. One has to suspect that once the novelty wears off, then the bar will have to dream up something special to justify the high end pricing. The nature of the prison themed decoration of the bar would look very bleak and barren if it scales down to half the amount of customers/dancers. (A bit like the old concrete cavern of Taboo in Covent Garden).

Anyway the bar seemed fine for a beer or two with some pretty dancers and hostesses interacting. But really there are many better bars for girl watching, high energy atmosphere or hands on fun, all with much cheaper drink options.

  Review from Pattaya forums, Dec 2010: Stay Out of Jail

It seems that Alcatraz A-GoGo has opened to disastrous opening comments on the Pattaya forums.

The drinks prices are clearly a sore point with an across the board pricing of 135 Baht, including the draft beer (in small glasses). The draft beer is Carlsberg, which has novelty value in Thailand, but back in my corner of Farangland, it is just the cheap house draft. Certainly not a premium beer.

But having bought a high priced drink, or an extortionate Carlsberg, then surely one could expect to sit back and enjoy some top notch entertainment.

But I'm afraid not, the dancing girls are over dressed, and are simply not of the required standard to justify the premium pricing.

There are girls dancing upstairs, but these are too far away, and too poorly lit, to add anything to the entertainment.

The hostesses are dressed as jail warders. Perhaps good for the theme, but not found very sexy by commentators so far. The wait staff are scouts and the dancers have a zebra print prison uniform.

Not really much on offer for Farangs. Perhaps the bar has other ideas, and is targetting Asian/Russian tourists or something.

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.  Now a shoe shop.

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.

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: -showgirls (with numbers) 1000 -dancers 800
		180	135-150	125-145	170	150

  Review from Rick of pattaya-discover.com, March 2010: Big Fan

I have to confess to being a big fan of AngelWitch. It's formula is different from other bars and clubs in town. There is, or at least a while back there was a high standard of performance, choreographed scenes in beautiful costumes that were as creative and artistic as they were erotic.

Those standards seem to have slipped a little in the last year. It's still a great venue, one of the few venues in town where you can take a date and she's going to enjoy the show.

My last visit a month ago left me disappointed, with it's reliance on formula bawdy sketches that you could imagine seeing in any part of town, or even participate in at some of the raunchier clubs in town like Windmill and Babydolls. My date was bored. She sat through the sketches unimpressed and spent half the time checking her watch.

On my visit this week, the show seems to have been revitalised somewhat. We have some new comedy scenes, Tina Turner impersonations, acts with a live Python, and of course the statuesque Oi is on stage in many of the scenes, to impress us with her sensuality. Unfortunately, the lady with the acrobatic talents, who could swing between the steel poles with the skill of a trapeze artist, appears to be missing. Still lots of entertainment, and a show well worth watching.

My date this night loved the show, she smiled and laughed throughout the comedy acts and appreciated the beauty of the costumes and the talents of the show girls and actors. She watched in awe as the girls descended from the overhead gantry, sliding down the chrome poles.

We decided to stay for the next show and watched as the go-go girls descended onto the stage. The go-go dancers at AngelWitch are amongst the hottest on Walking Street.

Great entertainment, well worth a visit.

Beers are Bt 150, soft drinks Bt 125.

  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.

Atlantis A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Small gogo with very standard gogo offerings. Took over from Paris A-GoGo in September 2010. Renamed to Atlantis in November 2010 but closed just after Christmas in 2010.

  News May 2011: Redevelopment

The bar is now being redeveloped into an open bar with coyote dancing

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Babe Watch

Walking Street: Soi 16

Opened November 2005, closed in July 2006. Now Club RelaXXX A-GoGo.

Babydolls 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

Jan 12 Key								Takeaway: -festivities 1000-1500 -showgirls 700 -service 500 -dancers 600 -all after 1:30 am 300
	to 10:00	50			60	150	120
from 10:00		70	85-115	85	105-

  Review January 2012: Lap Dancing

Babydolls is still going strong with its ever successful formula of being hands on and friendly.

The only time the bar disappoints is when it is full, which is quite often in high season. Detracting nothing from the bar, it is one of the worst places to be when it is busy and you haven't got a girl on your lap. After all, who wants to sit in a bar watching everyone else have great fun.

But when you have got a girl on your lap then it is surely a great place to be.

The bar features about 8 girls on a central stage in various stages of undress. There are also 2 naughty show points with 2 girls at each. Although these are almost legendary in naughtiness, they are not the most popular seats in the bar. Perhaps too much of a continuous expectation of tips.

The bar is quite similar to the somewhat smaller Windmill Club, but has one advantage over the competition. When there are sufficient girls, Babydolls splits them into 3 teams of dancers that swap every 4 songs or so. So the girls can spend 2/3rds of their time on their customers laps. When there are less girls then they are split into 2 teams (as per Windmill) and they stay on your lap half of the time. The short dancers rosters of just 4 songs is well appreciated.

Drinks prices are very reasonable and the service is good (unless the waitresses have been cornered on someone's lap for a while).

  Review February 2011: Top Ten

There are two basic schools of thought about what makes a good GoGo. The first is that GoGos should feature the best looking girls in town. The second is that bars should feature interaction, interaction and more interaction.

Baby Dolls is surely the top rated of the latter school. But it also so good at providing friendly girls and staff, that it also makes its mark on those seeking more elite girls than perhaps are on offer. This double success seems to get the bar rated in most people's top ten.

I sometimes wonder why a few more gogos don't adopt the simple but effective policy of offering a friendly drinking partner to more or less everybody who takes a seat in the bar. After all that is what most (but not all) customers go into GoGos for.

  Review August 2010: Reliable Customer Care

The bar is sticking to a good system, and has now maintained high standards of fun for a long stint.

The bar has two threads of entertainment. There are the naughty show girls that have a circuit of the the play mat stage and then the Jacuzzi, working in teams of two. They are amongst the naughtiest in town with props such as bananas being put to good use. Plenty of customers will head straight to stage side seats for the 'shows'.

The other option is the more traditional centre stage gogo dancing. The available girls split into 3 teams (2 later on the evening when a fair few girls tend to drift away with customers). The girls dance just a few songs before a shift change for the next team. This works really well as the girls spend most of their time earning tips and lady drinks by sitting with customers.

The girls seem to generally prefer sitting on your lap rather than sitting at your side. I am sure this does wonders in terms of tips earned.

It is one Pattaya's best bars for a reliable chance of good close up, and hands on, customer care.

The only times I have ever made a hasty getaway is when the bar gets a bit crowded and there aren't enough girls to go around. There's nothing worse than watching other people enjoying themselves so much when you are missing out.

  Review April 2010: Always Good

Baby Dolls remains consistent to its hands on approach to customer care, and rightfully seems always busy.

Whilst other bars, with standoffish girls and few customers, must surely look on in envy. But in reality popular Walking Street bars seem to have two basic paths to success with a bar full of customers. One is to have the prettiest girls in town to look at, and the other is to get girls who are interactive with the customers. After all these are the two things that customers come to Pattaya for.

Baby Dolls has a central stage for gogo dancing, a play mat for naughty shows and a similarly naughty Jacuzzi.

The dancers have a nice short stint on stage for just 4 songs. So customers are happy to wait for their playmate to return to their sides. Early on in the evening there are enough girls to run 3 shifts but as the barfine toll takes its inecitable course,  the bar will drop down to 2 shift working. This means that early on the girls can spend 2/3 of the time with customers and later on, 1/2 their time.

I find that Baby Dolls is one of the few bars that offer a consistently high chance of finding fun enough to stay for a fair few beers.

  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.

Baccara A-GoGo

Walking Street

Baccara Agogo website

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

Sep 11 Key								Takeaway: 600
	to 9:30	59*		65	65		115
from 9:30		59*	125	105	100-125

  News from eyebee on Pattaya-Addicts, September 2011: 50-50

For a couple of weeks now, in Baccara (upstairs), they have had the stupid rule that the girls must dance with their tops on for 30 minutes, then can take them off for 30 minutes.

It changes on the hour and half-hour. Whoever thought this up must take first prize for stupidity! I was in there last night (during the topless half hour), and the place was packed. Many Japanese and farangs all having a good time. Then at exactly half past the hour all the girls put their tops on. You have never seen a place empty so quickly!

  Review October 2010: Happier than Happy

Baccara now seems to be the dominant bar of the Happy group, and seems able to command the lion's share of very good looking girls.

The layout downstairs is very much a traditional bar for watching dancers, rather than for interaction, but the upstairs affords a bit more privacy for those that like a bit of interactivity with the girls.

In fact this upstairs ice breaker has perhaps changed attitudes more generally than an upstairs-downstairs thing, and there are plenty of girls to be seen sitting on laps downstairs too.

The bar still uses a very long dance roster with many girls on stage, just rotating around one place per song.

The bar is very popular with Japanese customers suggesting that the girls' rates will surely be on the high side. But there are plenty of farangs too, so it is in no sense exclusive.

But of course there is a cheap draft beer. Other drinks prices are not so cheap, but not out of order either.

I have a feeling that the Happy A-GoGo placard proclaiming something along the lines of: 'Yes we are no 1' should perhaps be amended to direct customers across the street to Baccara.

  Review by Rick of www.pattaya-discover.com, April 2010: Upstairs Downstairs

Baccara is one of the most impressive clubs in town. The owners also run Baccara in Bangkok, and they've a created a unique concept that has the potential to be a great go-go bar. It seems to have almost everything a go-go club needs to be successful. There are two floors, effectively two clubs in one, as each floor has a different ambiance.

The downstairs area has a large central stage, but no shower, Jacuzzi or play area. There's about 20 girls dancing in rotation. The stage is big enough for a dozen girls or more, but there's usually eight go-go dancers on stage, dressed in bikinis and fish net stockings, and high heels. Some nights the bikini and stockings are white, other nights the outfit is black. Pretty standard stuff. The girls are attractive enough and reasonably friendly. There's great service, good music that doesn't make conversation impossible, and reasonable drinks prices.

The upstairs area has a sunken dance stage with a glass floor and fireman's pole for rapid descent to the lower floor. If you're in the right position on either floor, you can see the dancers on both floors.

The girls outfit on the upper floor is different, a short skirt and bikini top made of a see-through material, and ankle length basketball style shoes and socks. Quite different from the ground floor girls' outfits, and it's obviously designed for more fun and action. The girls generally remove their bikini top, and don't wear panties. When the opportunity arises, they create their own fun and games, swinging on the chrome poles, and engaging in all kinds of simulated sex acts.

Add to this some loosely choreographed shows later in the evening, basically different costumes, and some new moves and you have the recipe for a great evenings entertainment.

Since the opening in December there have been a few changes to the upstairs layout, with the addition of two small dancing stages, but they are not well positioned and get little attention from customers.

The initial impression when you walk into the club, is a formal atmosphere, a large central dance floor, male serving staff, and no play area. This cool, somewhat inhibiting atmosphere has an impact on the girls behaviour. They don't spend much time making eye contact, they seem totally engaged in watching their own image in the wall mirrors, and chatting with their friends on stage. Great eye candy, but not a lot of fun if you are looking for interaction.

I had more success making eye-contact with the girls on the floor above, while sitting in the downstairs section, as they flirted with me through the glass floor, lifting their microscopic skirts to reveal no panties and great contours.

The girls in the downstairs bar at Baccara are good looking but not exceptional as I would have expected. The successful clubs attract hot girls, but that doesn't seem to be happening at Baccara. Perhaps the girls understand the reasons why, better than the owners. The girls are friendly enough, once you make the connection, but the initial impression is that connection seems harder to make here than at many of the other Pattaya go-go bars.

The upstairs girls are a lot more interested in interaction with customers. Their outfit suggests fun from the moment you see them. A lack of wall mirrors shifts their focus to customers, and the sunken dance floor means the dancers are at eye level with those sitting in the armchairs around the central stage. The upstairs bar also has about 20 dancers, with 8 girls rotating on stage. There seems to be a high turnover, with new faces there every time I visit the bar.

As part of the fun atmosphere on the upper floor, customers throw Bt 20 notes or the more expensive ping pong balls, (for which the girls get Bt 20 a piece). The girls shriek and squeal as they race around the floor trying to catch flying notes.

With all the skill, experience, and ingenuity, not to mention expense, that went into creating Baccara, it should be the one of the best clubs in town, ranking alongside all the other great go-go clubs in Pattaya, like Airport, Peppermint, What's Up, SuperGirl, Happy and Windmill. It's certainly a great club, but it lacks the magic that you feel from the moment you walk into Airport, the energy that you feel at Peppermint, the almost endless stream of cute girls that Happy has, and a soul that permeates Windmill, ensuring every visit is a fun occasion.

While the service levels are very efficient, the male serving staff put a damper on activities. When there's no service girls, there's no opportunity to interact with them like at Windmill, or New Living Dolls, where it seems a part of the evenings entertainment.

A combination of men serving staff, a large central stage and girls who are more interested in their own reflection, than making eye contact, creates a formal almost hands-off, unfriendly feeling.

These criticisms may seem harsh, but at the end of the day, most go-go girls in Pattaya would like to interact with you in the style of Airport or Windmill, if only the infrastructure and the operational management allowed it.

I've had several impromptu interactions with girls at Baccara, that suggest they are willing but may be a little inhibited with the formality of the place.

On one evening, I was climbing up the spiral staircase, to the upper floor. I stopped to allow two of the girls to pass me. They were in no hurry to reach the lower floor and blocked my passage with their bodies, pinning me against the rail and smothering me all kinds of affectionate embraces. An unexpected encounter that brought a big smile to my face!

Baccara is definitely worth a visit. While it's clear that the owners are not trying to emulate the raunchy environment at clubs like BabyDolls and Windmill, they have a more formal, up market style in mind. The result is they have created an ambiance, at least in the downstairs area, that's somewhat chilly and unfriendly. Most customers don't make it, to the upstairs bar. So they miss out on the fun part of Baccara.

Time will tell how successful their concept will be.

  Review March 2010: Rapidly Evolving

The bar must be doing something right as it has rapidly become one of Pattaya's favourites.

So surely time to pay another visit.

There was a generally lively atmosphere and plenty of girls on stage and off. They were a well above average set of dancers, both in terms of attractive girls and in putting an effort into dancing.

There were a dozen girls on stage changing 2 at a time. This means a dancing roster of a longish, but typical 6 songs. The girls were mostly topless but a few were more coy.

It seemed to be a fun place to drink.

I would have stayed longer but I got pissed off by some uncalled for heavy pressure from ping pong ball sellers. I can easily ignore such nonsense but the 2 girls then moved on to a newbie sitting next to me. They were way too aggressive and I didn't really want to stay in a bar that allows their customers to be treated like that.

Note to newbies, don't waste your money on ping pong balls. The moment the whooping and laughter has died down, your contribution will have been forgotten. The same amount of money will be more appreciated as individual tips to the girls that provide you with personal company. They will usually remember you on your next visit and will be keen to hook up again.

  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.

Bada Bing A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi BJ

From 8pm

New GoGo to replace TQ2 maybe opened 9th December 2011.

Feb 12 Key								Takeaway: -showgirl 800 -dancer 600
	to 10pm						115
from 10pm		55	120	99

Note that there have been several reports of girls working this bar who don't go with customers. If this is your intention then it may be worthwhile asking before investing heavily in lady drinks.

  Review December 2011: Overdressed

I popped by at 11ish on a weekday evening. The bar had a decent amount of customers but was not very full.

The bar is a nice size with the now mandatory central stage surrounded by comfortable bench seating around the sides of a square bar. There are stools around the stage but there weren't any takers. It seems a sensible layout without being quite as glitzy as other recent newcomers.

On stage were about 10 coyote dancers doing the usual gogo shuffle. One of them was particularly attractive and the rest were about par for the course (which is actually pretty good). There was yet another team of coyote dancers sitting chatting amongst themselves whilst waiting for their turn to dance.

There did not seem to be much life to the bar in terms of customer interaction, but a couple of bikini dancers were sitting with customers.

Shortly a couple of younger guys came in and it wasn't long before they had 3 good looking coyotes by their side. It is often the way with coyotes, they tend to be a bit choosier than most.

Actually things got a little more interesting on stage at the change of shift. The next team of half a dozen less inhibited dancers shed most of their clothes. Previous reports had suggested that the majority of dancers were nudity averse, so I assume that the girls on the stage were the showgirls. The numbers on stage were still made up with a couple of coyotes though.

The drinks prices are well reasonable with a 55 Baht draft beer and 115 Baht lady drinks.

Overall the bar seems to have made a solid start and is worth a visit. I'm not sure what the long term intentions are in terms of having so many coyotes, hopefully just a start up strategy. I suspect that if they hang round for too long, the customers won't. I will certainly be back for another look though.

  News from Ishi, December 2011: First Impressions

The dancers were divided into 3 teams. Each team having 8-10 dancers.  The 1st team was made up of 8 bikini gogo dancers, and 2 of them were topless. The 2nd and 3rd teams were disappointingly all coyote.

The bar will also feature shows.

Baron Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 9pm

Previously Lennie's, then Shooters bar. Converted to a Club Mirage A-GoGo in November 2008. After sporadic opening it became Baron Club which opened on 28th October 2011

Dec 11 Key								Takeaway: 700
	9-11pm	59	59-		59-		130-145-180
from 11pm		59	140

  Review from Brian, December 2011: Only for the Rich and Foolish

I had my first visit at Baron Club ago go in Sio Diamond at 10.00 pm.

Ordered a Heineken, only one other customer there, went to pay my bill , Heineken 140 baht,

Very overpriced for what's inside.

But early days yet.

  News November 2011: Just Awaiting Customers

I popped by on a quiet mid week evening and the bar looked very promising.

There were half a dozen girls dancing on the long narrow centre stage. The girls were above average and were dancing in the complete range of clothing from bikini to none.

I spoke to one girl who was a devotee of mamasang Miki and was working to pay for university. She was good company and it made for a pleasant visit.

There was not really enough customers in the bar to warrant a Jacuzzi show a-la X-Zone but Miki says that some of her girls are up for the required naughtiness.

It seemed a bit academic for the moment though, as a quiet bar generally seems to be a coy affair. It's as if the girls are communally shy until such a time as that they can all be naughty together.

Anyway the bar looks as if it should do the biz. The only question is whether enough customers will get to know it.

  News October 2011: Re-opened

The bar was converted to Baron Club which opened on 28th October 2011.

  Review September 2011: Too Soon to Tell

The bar has undergone something of a refit in its long lay off. The current incarnation features a long thin stage with comfortable bench seating running down each side. This is becoming a very common design in Pattaya due mainly to just being sensible.

The bar has also fallen in line with a cheap beer to at least get customers in on a look-see. At the moment there is no draft but the bar is offering bottles of Chang at the very cheap price of 59 Baht.

On its second day the bar was quite lively with a fair few customers. A Thai manager and mamasang were enthusiastically coordinating the available resources.

The music is modern as per most bars, but is at levels that allow it to be dominant for dancing, but not so that customers need ear muffs.

It looks as if everything is more or less in place to have a decent stab at being a GoGo, but just for the moment it is woefully lacking ladies. There were just 6 on dance duty with 3 taking the stage at a time. There were a couple that would turn a few heads though. The dress code was bikini or topless.

It is way too soon to judge a bar on the dancers in the first few days of opening. It is very tough to get girls before a bar is established.

If the bar gets some good dancers, then it should do well, if it doesn't, it wont.

Beach Club

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

Beach Club website

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

Sep 11 Key								Takeaway: 600
	to 9:30pm	59*		65	65		115
from 9:30pm		59 small glass*	125	105	100-125

  Review January 2011: Improving in Decline

I had a very enjoyable visit at a peak time on a January evening.

And one has to notice that the customer count must have been somewhat disappointing for the connections. There was a fair bit of ebbing and flowing but the ebbs were very sparse. However this situation was not the slightest bit disappointing for customers. The girls were a bit more keen than usual to get interactive and there were plenty of them available.

There is a much wider range of girls now that a couple of years back when the bar could command a little more exclusivity. But there were still a fair few very attractive girls. In fact I think this more pragmatic approach to recruitment may have helped the bar. One girl in particular, that made my visit a treat, had learned her trade in a far more generally friendly bar than Beach Club has ever been.

Actually having set yourself up with some good company the bar is generally very customer friendly. There is cheap beer and the lady drinks are great value at 105 Baht. There were no pestering mamasangs and the service was polite and efficient.

And even better, the bar has an excellent rostering policy for girls entertained by customers. The basic dance roster is ludicrously long for girls without customers, but if the lady drinks are forthcoming then on her next turn to dance, her roster is reduced to just 3 songs. And if the drinks keep flowing, on her next turn she dances just one song.

Somehow the decline in exclusivity seems to have brought the bar down to a far more customer friendly proposition than before.

  Review June 2010: No Hassle

The bar has been a successful part of Pattaya nightlife for as long as I can remember. In town of spirals, Beach Club gets top notch girls, the customers follow and hence the bar can recruit the top girls.

The bar features table dancing, mostly at tables with a bay of comfortable bench seating. There is also a slightly larger table doubling up as a centre stage.

The girls do a very long and slow rotation around the tables. Not really a bar where this is a big issue as most customers seem to be content to watch the dancers, no doubt in anticipation of a takeaway selection. There are also hostesses in evening gowns.

The bar is a no hassle bar in that girls generally only approach if signaled to do so.

There's a cheap draft beer and prices are reasonable for a popular bar. In common with the other bars of the Happy group, the wait staff is mostly male.

  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.

Beavers

Walking Street

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. Due to the end of lease, Beavers closed at the current location on 30th April 2011.

Became Shark Club A-GoGo, see below

BJ Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Opened as a GoGo in November 2008. 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 RelaXXX A-GoGo, see below

Covent Garden Complex
Walking Street: Soi 16

See Club Boesché below

Broadway Club

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Opened in July 2006 to August 2006. And then September 2006 to March 2007. The venue was previously Las Vegas City & Jacuzzi A-GoGo.

Byblos GoGo Bar

Walking Street: Soi Diamond
(corner of Pratamnak Road)

Coyote dancing on the ground floor. The 1st floor is now a GoGo bar as opposed to the previous bells & whistles show and there is another on the 2nd floor. Not sure whether this is just overflow when busy.

Oct 11 Key						Takeaway: -festivities 1500 -showgirls 700 -dancers 600 Room: 1000 (inc barfine) All In: 2000
	49				120

  Review, October 2011: Reincarnated

Having heard that the pussy tricks shows had been given the push, I thought it was time to take a look.

And indeed the upstairs bar now operates as a standard GoGo. There were about 10 girls in the bar, enough for 2 shifts of dancers. 4 girls were dancing on the centre stage and one girl was soaping herself down in the Jacuzzi. The two teams would swap every 4 or 5 songs. For 1 or 2 of these songs two of the main stage girls stripped off their bikinis for a bit of a lesbian show.

The girls were about average for Walking Street, which is pretty good, and two of the girls would surely get plenty of barfines. At least if a few more customers were to turn up. A few customers turned up whilst I was there and they all got a pretty girl turn up to politely ask if they would like company.

I spotted an old friend from Shark who would have told me a bit more about the bar, had she been working there a bit longer. I may have stayed a bit longer but for her request for another tequila the moment she downed the previous one. Perhaps a temporary hang over from the pussy show incarnation of the bar, but the service staff were a bit pushy for tips, and there was a tip box on hand for the rather lame lesbian show. It was nothing that couldn't be handled by a stern 'no', and will probably subside if the bar gets popular with the farangs.

There were reports that the bar may be targetting a hands on sort of Jacuzzi show etc, but it was hard to tell on this visit as there wasn't really enough customer momentum to get that sort of thing going.

I suspect the bar bar will struggle to get people up the stairs. It has been a pussy tricks bar way too long, and will be out of consideration for a large portion of the target audience. Also any assertive attempts by the welcome staff to get people upstairs will probably just end up convincing people that it is still a bells and whistles place. At least they are trying to entice customers in with a 45 Baht draft beer.

I'll give another go though.

  News from Ishi, October 2011: Returned to GoGo

The upstairs bar has changed format and ditched the bells and whistles show. It is now a standard format GoGo complete with a Jacuzzi.

The mamasang learnt her trade at Windmill, so there is a good chance that the bar could follow a similar style. I do hope so.

The downstairs bar remains as a coyote bar, but the cheap 45 Baht draft beer is available all night in both bars.

  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.

C

Carousel A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

 Carousel A-GoGo

Long running GoGo closed in June 2010 and re-opened under new management on 1st November 2010.

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: 600 Baht
	until 11pm	59
		59		69	99-130	120

  Review April 2011: Going Nowhere Fast

I have stopped by a couple of times and the bar has proved consistently disappointing.

The bar is a little understaffed in terms of dancers and the usual operation is that the bar just has two of three dancers on the circulating stage. Then as soon as they finish there stint they go and congregate at the doorway to try and give a busy impression to anybody who may stick their head round the door.

The trouble is, once customers are inside the customers get to drink a lonely drink before inevitably moving on. The girls just seem to mostly ignore the customers.

On the plus side there have been a few good looking dancers in attendance.

There's nothing about the bar that is particularly wrong, just not quite friendly enough.

  Review November 2010: Third Spin

I popped in at around midnight and the bar was doing a very good trade. There were very few seats available, and those that were left, were crammed in small uncomfortable stools. So I gave it a miss and tried the next night at an earlier hour.

The outside of the bar now features lots of red, nicely highlighting the Carousel logo. A few brownie points for the designers are in order.

I found a more comfortable bench seat to survey the bar and sat down with a 59 baht draft, politely served by a guy. Male service never seems a good idea for the bar as it takes away an opportunity for lady drinks and tips. And from the customers point of view, service girls can be a good stand in for dancers, should there be too few dancers in the bar.

Anyway, the overall atmosphere of the bar was lively and the girls seemed to be having fun swarming around a generous newbie. Actually there weren't many other girls sitting with customers, so perhaps a negative point there.

The bar is pretty similar to what it was before the change of ownership. There were about 8 girls on stage plus of course the Carousel wooden horse. They were all slowly rotating, whilst dancing in bikinis or less (and just body paint for the horse). A pretty good selection of girls for the early days of a bar.

There was also a newly installed Jacuzzi with just one naked soaped up naked bather. Its not really well placed to be much of a spectacle for the majority of the bar though, but there are few stools with a poolside view.

For the moment the bar is lively and buoyed up with early days enthusiasm. There wasn't quite the sense of fun and boisterousness that suggests the bar will complete with the likes of Airport and Iron, but it made a good early impression.

  Review November 2010: Second Spin

Checked out carousel last night. Vodka was 130 Baht, not 120 as previously noted.

Owner is not the Happy/Peppermint group, as previously reported, but actually owned Super Models way back when. The main mamasan (there are 4!) worked for that owner, who has been out of the gogo biz since Supermodels fell off the runway.

Another mamasan most recently of Misty's was there with about 4 girls brought from there.

They did a nice spruce up. Looks more modern. They need more girls, but the mamas know, and are working at it

  Review by Ishi, November 2010: First Spin

8 dancers, (almost half were topless and others wore bikinis, but a few dancers put on see through mini skirt), were dancing on the main slowly rotating stage.

2 ladies were taking a bath, and one naked lady was dancing on a small table stage.

Casnovy A-GoGo

Walking Street
(Beach Road end)

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

Sep 11 Key							Takeaway: -Showgirls 1000 -Dancers 600
	ended					110
from 8pm		60 small	80-130	95	130

Beware of managers offering drinks, you may find yourself having an unexpected shock at check bin time.

  News from Ishi January 2012: Showered Out

The Jacuzzi features have been removed and replaced by table dancing stages.

  News December 2011: Waiting for High Season

Casnovy has occasionally flattered and has been up there with the most popular bars on Walking Street. It seems to have dropped off the radar a bit in recent times, but it is still a loud and lively venue that may better suit partying visitors, rather than seasoned expats.

My last visit was pretty much as normal, with a fair amount of attractive dancers amongst the three rows of dancers. Two of which are made up of table dancing positions and the middle row is the centre stage where the girls seem a little less inhibited about clothes.

The dancers are a pretty mixed bunch in terms of being friendly, some were hiding away just awaiting their white knight, whilst others were playing the crowds.

I was looked after by a very friendly service girl on my last visit. She was playing some strange game of keeping one foot on the floor and never quite sitting down. Something to do with house rules that service girls aren't allowed to sit with customers. She did a good job of sitting with this customer, even though it wasn't quite legally sitting.

On the whole the bar made for a decent visit. But I think it is rather waiting for the high season crowds  so as to realise the true spirit of the bar.

  News August 2010: Small Beer

Casnovy have replaced their large draft beer glasses with small glasses, still the same price.

  News from Ishi Aug 2010: Water Works

They've made 2 small bath-tubs (1 meter square, no head shower) on the left hand of the entrance. There are sofa-seats around the bath-tub.

  Review July 2010: Shown the Door

I'm not out much these days due to shitty business and no money and, apparently, I'm not the only ones. I did go for 2 of the big beers at Casnovy last night and noticed there were no shows being offered.

Chatted with one of the longtime mamasans and said all the showgirls had been shown the door. No more shows at Casnovy. The owner decided that the showgirl salaries were just too expensive given the shit economy.

They've been supplanted by 2 rotations of nude girls who, when not dancing, sit with customers, smile on stage, have a good attitude and only a notch below the showgirls on the looks scale. As opposed to showgirls, who look down their own noses on stage then go sit in the back afterward.

I, for one, would hugely applaud more bars – particularly farang-owned ones – following suit, knocking the showgirls they elevated to such lofty perches, down a couple pegs. Dancers? You can stay. Showgirls? You're fired.

Loved it!

  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.

Catz A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

Opened in November 2005. Catz renamed to ToyZ A-GoGo in January 2010, see below

The Cavern

Walking Street

From 8pm

The Cavern website

Opened 22nd May 2010 taking over the venue from Sisterz A-GoGo. Ownership connections with Baccara, Beach Club, Happy & Peppermint.

Sep 11 Key								Takeaway: 600
	to 9:30pm	59 small*		65	65		115
from 9:30pm		59*	125	105	100-125

  Review October 2011: What Goes Around, Comes Around

This was my first visit since the introduction of the centre stage. And it is immediately clear that it is a big improvement. There is now a lot more comfortable seating, and it all comes with a good and closer view of the central stage. A win-win improvement that also looks good and seems to generate a far better atmosphere for interaction with the girls. Presumably the dancers are now better aware of customers that are signalling interest.

Perhaps a little ironically, the bar is now a similar layout to when it was Honey A-GoGo many years ago. Since then Sisterz had 2 major refits and after that Cavern has now had its second. The bar fitters have done really well at this location and perhaps are also smiling at its reversion to the original design.

There was still the long slow march of girls through the 9 or so dancing points on the central stage. There were some good looking girls, and most (but not all) were topless.

The side stage dancers were a little disappointing though, as most were also topless. They were all nude on previous visits.

  News from Ishi, July 2011: Stage Centre

The Cavern re-opened on the 30th July after renovations. The former main stage is changed to the seats except the palm part which has become a sub stage.

There were 9 dancers on the new center stage which has 9 poles. The existing small stages have been retained, so there are no 3 sub stages and a larger central stage.

  Review October 2010: 3rd out of 3

Of the three Happy group bars visited on a roll, Cavern was least enjoyable compared with Happy and Baccara.

The bar is pretty close in the way that it works to Happy (and Peppermint). It has a long main stage with a very slow procession of plenty of dancing girls.

There is a small near-naked stage that had 2 girls entertaining the customers to good effect. There is also a 2nd small stage but there wasn't much of naughtiness going down there and it was pretty much ignored.

The main stage dancing line-up was about average for Walking Street, which is pretty good, just not as good as Happy and Baccara.

There was a melee of hostesses and girls waiting to dance hanging around in the corridor seating by the door. But they weren't making much of an effort to find someone to hostess for.

The bar seems quite popular but somehow it doesn't quite gel for me. It neither has the required top notch girls for a 'watching' bar nor does it have the fun of the more 'interactive' bars.

  Review by Ishi June 2010: Cool!

I visited The Cavern on the opening day and the next day. The air conditioner was too strong for me, so I put off the third visit. I visited on the 3rd of June, the air conditioner was now under control.

The dancers on the 2 small sub stages were naked all the time.

The bar now has a show time on the main stage just like Peppermint (ie bikini dancers or coyotees taking off their clothes song by song until naked).

There was a crack on the glass floor which was made by a big Farang.

  Review May 2010: Theme Bar

It is fascinating to see such a strongly themed bar arrive on Walking Street.

From my corner of Farangland, everything seems totally wrong about the theme bar concept, at least for my particular middle aged demographic.

Theme bars are a plain and clear signal that they don't don't want traditional middle aged drinkers to visit. There's the touristy Camelot Castle type bar that are just for tourists. There's the trendy bars that are clearly pitched at up market customers with money to burn. Then there's the theme bars targeting the binge drinking ladies, knowing that if they can attract the ladies, then the young lads will soon follow. The only anti-theme that attracts the older drinkers is the traditional pub. Especially those with reasonably priced beer, proper pub decor and a juke box that has been kicked into touch. (This last theme has become a massive success for the Wetherspoon chain).

Anyway back to The Cavern Theme. The bar is immediately obvious as a show bar where the customer is held at arms length. The stage is enormous and decorated as if for a cabaret rather than GoGo dancers. The dancers in the giant hand are particularly well 'protected' from the audience. Surely not the most obvious psychology for a Walking Street GoGo Bar.

There are a couple of side stages with two girls in each, but again, the Peppermint cage feel keeps the audience psychologically at bay.

This rather hands off approach sort of fits in with the rest of the chain (apart from upstairs at Baccara where the low down dancers are actually let of the usual pedestal and it feels like they 'invited' to get personal with the customers, which they do).

On my visit there were plenty of girls in the bar, but they weren't the top notch quality needed for an arms length show bar. The whole concept of the bar was therefore pointless. No interaction because of the ethos of the bar and not really worth staying in terms of a show.

But as always, it is never fair to jump to quick judgments during the early days of a bar. A good bar concept will soon attract the lookers. And of course the Cavern connections have the best track record in town for employing attractive girls.

Returning to the theme of traditional bar, Cavern has adopted the reasonable price drinks of Happy, Peppermint and Baccara. The music was also at about the right volume, which was a welcome relief after a visit to the Sapphire Club.

There are a few comfortable seats along the back wall, rather badly laid out with a long table and no entry exit points. Most of the customers are probably expected to use the stage side stools as per Happy or Peppermint. These are about the only bars in town where stage side stools are popular, but again this emphasises the need for top notch talent on stage.

I have a feeling that the Happy Peppermint chain may have opened one bar too many, all relying on employing the most attractive girls in town. There simply may not be enough suitable girls to go round. But if there are enough, then this will surely be another success.

  News May 2010: Thunder Mountain

The Thai-Anxiety team got a private preview tour of the new The Cavern A-GoGo last night (May 14). The bar is now officially set to open May 19 and the only real work left to be done is on the electrical wiring.

For a space that offers the second-largest amount of floorspace of any Walking Street go-go (with Peppermint being the largest), The Cavern now seems markedly less cavernous than Sisterz before it. The configuration is surprising.

Entering The Cavern, it's hard not to think of a Disney attraction. Perhaps Thunder Mountain. The owners have bought big into the theme, with faux rock boulders lining the walls and forming lower doorway overhangs and false ceiling in the main bar.

The next thing you notice is that they've moved the stage out of the center and now runs along most of the right side. Comfy elevated bench seating with long table, runs down the left side. Close is not the adjective you'd use for the distance between the two.

The bar does feature a couple of extra showcase stages. On the left side front corner, adjacent to the bench seating, is a small stage for 2-3 girls. At the far end of the bar, in the spot where Sisterz had its showers, is another waterfall stage with running water. Finally, on the right side in the back is The Hand a showcase stage that will give the appearance the naked dancing damsel with wriggling in the palm of a giant rock hand.

As mentioned, the wiring is still being done, so no idea about the lighting, but it better be a bit on the strong side. The bar, with all it's dark brown rocks, dark leopard-like upholstered seats, dark tabletops and dark floor is makes for a, well, dark bar.

The lineup is said to be all new girls and I can confirm no Peppermint will be used in the casting of the initial lineup. No word whether it will include any Happy, Beach Club or Baccara talent. Will simply have to show up opening night in your best Flintstones get-up to find out.

Champion A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 8pm

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

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: - 600 until 2am - 300 after 2am
	to 9pm	40-55	90	60	60-75	105-155
from 9pm		55	115	85	120

  News from Ishi November 2011: Less Happy Monday

The 'Monday night is happy all night' promotion has ended.

  News from Ishi August 2011: Shower

A couple of weeks ago, Champion installed a shower room. It's at the far end of the bar. Two naked ladies take a shower together.

Review March 2011: Scaling Down

Apart from the cheap drinks the bar doesn't seem to have an awful lot to offer at the moment.

The onset of low season has meant something of a slowdown in this bar. There are still plenty of bars that attract a good trade but Champion hasn't really been one of them for quite a while. It's not really a high energy sort of place and the girls are on the wrong side of average.

The bar is hardly stylish and the facilities leave something to be desired.

At times gone by the girls generally danced nude but now topless is the norm. And the low season reduction in the number of girls means that they are hard pressed to fill the bar's many dancing stations.

This ends up with the girls dancing too much and not really having enough time to take care of their customers.

So it rather ends up a bar with not enough below average girls with not really enough time to take of customers. Hardly the recipe for Walking Street success.

  Review August 2010: Improved a Bit

First of all it is was good to feel that the aircon has been fixed since my last visit although maybe they are still economising somewhat.

And whilst thinking of improvements it was also good see a handful of very attractive girls on the dancing team. Still plenty of old stagers though. The bar has decided that knickers are now required whereas on a previous visit, these were considered as overdressing.

The drinks prices are still more or less the cheapest on Walking Street.

In fact the bar seems well run and a decent place for a beer.

It never seems to warrant more than a beer though, primarily because the girls seem to be always dancing with little time left to sit with customers. This seems to have been an almost permanent failing ever since the bar introduced the table dancing tables. Just too many dance positions to fill for the amount of girls sustainable by the customer base.

  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.

Circus A-GoGo

Walking Street

Closed in January 2006. Became Angels A-GoGo but now a shoe shop.

Climax A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

Club 69

Walking Street: Soi 15

Now ToyZ. See Below

Club Boesché A-GoGo

Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

 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. Closed in Mid December 2011

Club Electric Blue A-GoGo (CEB)

Walking Street

 Club Electric Blue A-GoGo (CEB)

Closed in February 2006. 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

Previously Lennie's, then Shooters bar. Converted to Mirage A-GoGo, which operated sporadically from November 2008 until 9th October 2011. Now Baron Club, see above.

Club Mistys

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

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

Dec 10 key								takeaway: -dancers 600 -showgirls 800 all in: 1800 Baht
	ended					170	120-130
from 10pm		65 small glass	115-120	95	125

Free 10% discount card is available for customer drinks.

  Review January 2011: Disappointing

On the face of it, the bar has many good things going for it.

It is a large, modern, nicely styled bar with comfortable seating around the edge of the bar, just in front of that are large table dancing stages and there is the main stage in the centre.

There are usually plenty of attractive girls on show with about half dancing at any one time.

In addition the bar has a well liked host and good support on Pattaya forums. Presumably these two points are linked.

But for all of this the bar is generally very quiet. I for one find it a very lonely bar and I suspect that the overall lack of customers is probably down to other people having the same experience. I don't think there is any particular discouragement from girls hooking up with the guys because there are usually a couple of customers being well looked after.

I put it down to perhaps just the layout of the bar not being very conducive to the usual smiles, body language and proximity that usually do the biz in other bars.

Possibly the bar is just a little too large and the guys in the comfy seating are just out of range of the girls dancing on the central stage. There are table dancers a bit closer, but it is usually more comfortable and less awkward to watch the centre stage girls at normal eye level than try and watch someone towering nearly directly above.

Even when the girls are walking around the bar they are still a fair way away from customers and it is not easy to catch their glance.

Anyway, just a guess, trying to wonder why the bar is not as good as it really should be.

  Review July 2010: More Girls

The bar has enjoyed a recent surge in the numbers of girls dancing in the bar. And to add to the attraction, there are quite a few that are very pleasing on the eye.

This means that the bar is quite busy in terms of dancing. there is a circuit of girls for the tables around the outside of the bar. There is a circuit of dancers on the central stage and a couple more doing a play mat show with the usual thwack foam sticks, again on the central stage.

Plenty of girls left over for hostessing duty too. But to be honest, this does not seem one of their favourite occupations. They seem to prefer to chat amongst themselves.

Perhaps the best bet for a bit of interaction is to sit stage side and play with the girls with the thwack sticks.

  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 about 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.

Club Relaxxx A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

Opened November 2010 taking over from Club Sin City, previously Black & White, Taboo and Babewatch. Closed at the beginning of November 2011. Became a coyote bar in December 2011 and is now moved to the bars list

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 and closed in September 2010. Now Club Relaxxx, see above

Cosy's A-GoGo

Walking Street

New gogo at the location that was once Magic Palace. Opened 1st November 2009. Closed in early December 2010.

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

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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 3500 -dancers 500 -showgirls 600
Pint £1.30
	55*	95		95	85

* small glass

  Review September 2010: Pants!

The bar was pretty quiet at about a 10pm visit.

There were 7 or 8 girls on stage all in bikinis and wearing two pairs of panties. The girls were about average which means that a fair few would be up for barfines if ever customers turn up.

The girls were putting a decent effort into dancing, perhaps spurred on by the loud music that shakes the bar fittings

There was another team of dancers waiting for their turn to dance  but they showed very little signs of interacting with the handful of customers in attendance.

The bar is a bit old hat with traditional bikini clad dancing and the girls seemingly waiting for their number to be called. Perhaps nobody on their management has noticed that things have moved on and that most successful bars now have to be sexy, fun and interactive (or else have jaw droppingly pretty girls to hold the audience entranced without the need for the fun and interaction).

  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!

The Dollhouse A-GoGo

Walking Street

From 8pm

www.dollhousepattaya.com

Medium sized gogo featuring a revolving stage. Ownership connections with Living Dolls Showcase. Expensive lady drinks.

Jan 12 Key						Takeaway: -coyotes 1500 -dancers Fri-Sat LT 1000 -dancers Sun-Thu LT 700 -dancers ST 700 Room:
	79 small glass	125	95	145	150

  News from Ishi November 2011: More Expensive Draft

Draft beer has been upped to more or less the 80 Baht mark

  News from Ishi December 2010: Hotter

The Jacuzzi has now been replaced by a play mat stage. The girls found the Jacuzzi to be too cold.

  Review October 2010: Never Quite Hits the Mark

The plus side of the bar is that there are usually some good looking girls amongst the dancers.

Plenty of girls, maybe half in the bar dance on the slowly revolving central stage in a dress code ranging from bikinis to nothing. They dance for an awfully long time if you are waiting for a particular girl to finish her stint.

The girls don't seem very interactive after they finish dancing. Usually huddled amongst themselves. The only times I have noticed much animation is when a newbie is detected. Plenty of attention then.

The service girls seem the best bet for a bit of company. Several on my last visit were filling in for the lack of dancers plying the floor.

On a previous visit there were a couple of Jacuzzi girls that I thought would prove to be a good ice breaker for the bar. But on my last visit there was no activity there, perhaps just bad timing.

The drinks are generally expensive but at least there is a small draft beer available for 60 Baht. The 135 Baht for a lady drink shifts the bar into very poor value territory, or it would if any ladies were to ever show any interest in getting one.

  Review June 2010: A High Season Bar

I find that first impressions about the bar always seem a lot better than what you actually get.

The bar has a fair few ladies packed onto the revolving stage. They always seem to be dancing with more energy than in most bars in Pattaya and there are usually a few good lookers too.

There are also a couple of girls dancing on small tables and a couple of Jacuzzi girls at the back of the bar.

It all seems quite lively, but as one settles into a beer, one realises that it's not the most interactive bar in town. The girls waiting to dance seem happiest chatting amongst themselves rather than chatting to customers.

Also a bit of downer are the generally high drinks prices, although the bar now relents for a cheap low season draft beer. Lady drinks are poor value at 135 Baht and barfines are very high.

The bar usually seems to be a bit quiet in terms of customers, but the liveliness gives the impression that maybe the crowds will turn up soon. Probably better as a high season bar when people are a little less cost conscious.

  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.

Dream A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

From 8pm

Opened in summer 2011, previously ToyZ A-GoGo. Closed end of October 2011

  News November 2011: Dark

Closed at the end of October 2011. There's a for-rent sign on the door

  Review September 2011: Old Friends

My first visit since the change of management revealed a fair improvement since the days of Toyz.

The bar has added a little bit more variety to proceeding with the addition of a small Jacuzzi and a necessarily small cage for a dancer.

The bar has also ended the boringly long dance roster that Toyz used to employ. Now the dancing is split into two teams which swap over every few songs. At least the girls can then spend half their time entertaining the customers by sitting at their side (or maybe on their lap), rather than remotely from the stage.

The bar has also added a few more girls to the line up. This has help far more than just the quantity of girls. Several of the new girls that have been employed, have learned their trade in far more lively bars than ever Toyz was.

And of course it was these fun girls that made my visit well enjoyable.

The bar hasn't made a massive impact in terms of customer numbers yet, but it is an awful lot better than it was before.

  News from Ishi, September 2011: Water Feature

Dream A-GoGo now has a small Jacuzzi (one lady in a small bath) and a small cage (one lady)

The draught beer is now 75 Baht all night.

  News from Durian Doug, July 2011: Sold

ToyZ has been sold and has now become Dream A-GoGo

  Review March 2011: Traditional No Hassle GoGo

Toyz is an old school, small traditional GoGo. It has comfortable bench seating overlooking a long and narrow central stage.

It has not so many girls on show, but they are an attractive team. On my latest visit there were a couple of naked girls on stage. The bar has been topless for as long as I can remember so perhaps they are making an effort.

The bar is traditional in that there is nothing going apart from the gogo dancing. The girls don't seem very proactive in hunting out lady drinks. Maybe just a characteristic of a small bar with few girls and fewer customers. There seems to be something of an inertia problem, maybe like shyness in making the first move. Once a bar gets over a critical mass of people enjoying themselves then it seems to suck everyone else into the fun.

For the moment the bar is probably best for those seeking out an attractive girl for a rapid takeaway. Customers after a few drinks worth of entertainment will probably be better off heading on over to Relaxxx, for a bit of interaction, or upstairs to X-Zone for a naughty show.

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Eazy Room A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 15

Opening date set for 13th August 2011 but this was cancelled at the last minute. Previously Fun Room. Eventually re-opened under new management on 19th December 2011. Intermittent Opening.

Dec 11 Key							Takeaway:
	49

  News from Ishi, December: Closed and Re-opened and Re-closed

The bar closed just a few days after opening. This seems down to a lack of girls. Re-opened a few days later, hopefully after recruiting a few ladies. But again it only lasted a few days.

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Fahrenheit A-GoGo

Walking Street

A gogo from the makers of Shark and tiger opened on 12th November 2010.

Oct 11 Key								Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -600 Room: 300 + Barfine
	to 9:30	60		60	60
from 9:30		70 small	130	100	100-140	150	125-180

  News from Ishi, August 2011: A Change of Rotation

Until November, the dancers were split into 2 teams, and each team danced for 20 minutes. Whilst dancing the girls did not rotate around the stage.

From December, the pattern changed a little. The teams still dance for 20 minutes, but half way through their set, the girls at the front and back switch their position to the opposite end of the stage.

I enjoyed this change because I was able to get a look at more of the dancers.

  News from Ishi, August 2011: Show

After a break Fahrenheit shows have returned with 4 coyotes take off their costumes one by one.

  News from Ishi, March 2011: Show

Fahrenheit has started a simple show with five dancers starting in bikinis and string-skirt. Just one show at 10pm for the moment

  Review November 2010: Manic

I visited on a very busy Friday night and the bar seemed pretty packed with customers.

The bar is smaller on the inside than perhaps you would expect from the outside. There is comfortable bench seating around the sides of the bar and stools at stage side. And for future expansion there is an upstairs area not in use on my visit.

There is a narrowish central stage running the length of the bar and it had plenty of decent looking dancers amongst the 15 on stage. 12 out of the 15 were bikini clad but 3 girls at the front were baring all, perhaps they were show girls.

At a change of shift all of the dancers departed the stage and were replaced by another team. So plenty of girls on hand.

Several girls were entertaining customers so it looks quite a friendly place too.

I found it a rather manic atmosphere lots of girls milling round being shooed out of seats as customers were piling in.

Actually at a toilet break I realised that the bar was not as crowded as it first appeared as the bank end of the bar was deserted. There were a couple of reasons for this, all of the naked girls were strictly pinned to the front end of the stage, no doubt to give a good impressions as customers stepped through the door. Views from the back end of the bar were strictly bikini clad.

Also the stage side seating seems to block the passage ways a bit (like Iron) so it is a little bothersome to push past everyone to the seats at the back.

The drinks prices are in the reasonable range for a lively bar and there is the traditional cheap draft.

Anyway the bar has worked up quite a lively atmosphere in a relatively short space of time so all bodes well.

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. Re-opened in May 2011. Didn't last long.

Now Club Insomnia.

 Frozen A-GoGo

Renamed as The Sea, see below

Fun Room A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

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.

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See GoGos with East European dancers

Gentlemen's
Club

Soi Diamond

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. Went coyote only over the turn of the year 2010/2011 and is now also known as Blue Bar or GC Club depending on which sign they are showing. See Gentlemen's Club

Gothic GoGo

Walking Street: Soi BJ

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

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Happy A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Happy

From 8pm

Happy Agogo website

 Happy A-GoGo

Eternally popular gogo with pretty girls and a no hassle policy

Sep 11 Key								Takeaway: -ST 600
	to 9:30pm	59*		65	65		115
from 9:30pm		59*	125	105	100-125

*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.

  Review December 2011: Constant

I visited at midnight, on a weekday, a couple of weeks before Christmas.

And it was pretty much the same successful looking GoGo that it has always been.

The stage was pretty well packed with dancers, most of them being topless. Surely an above average crew, but not quite the top notch. That accolade is reserved for Baccara these days.

There were a couple of coyote dancers on the centre stage and disappointingly the small corner stage, once knickerless, is now well overdressed. At some point in the last couple of years it has been hijacked by coyotes.

The crowd was a mixture of guys gawping at the girls, a few sitting with girls, and there were even a few farang couples converting a corner of the bar into an impromptu disco.

Perhaps not quite the packed audiences of old, but that's fine by me. In fact the bar was probably about 2/3rds full.

As always, the male service is spot on in terms of efficiency, but way off mark in terms of an opportunity for a chat.

All seems well at Happy.

  Review October 2010: Not Quite Number One

It wasn't so long ago that Happy and Peppermint had a nice niche sown up of being the top falang bars operating a pick a number and go. Customers would watch the top notch girls dancing for a few drinks hile pondering their options for a takeway.

More recently the group have added Baccara and The Cavern to their list of similarly run bars.

It is therefore interesting to note how the extra two venues has impacted Happy.

There simply aren't enough top notch girls in Pattaya to maintain a totally jaw dropping line up in each of the 4 bars.

In fact Baccara is now easily the number one of the group. It is the only one of the 4 that has a near complete set of very attractive girls.

Happy and Peppermint are now a very good 2nd tier. But the line up is no longer exclusively top notch, there are a significant proportion of average girls. (the Walking Street average is pretty good though).

I wonder if this will change the dynamics of the bar. Generally average girls are not going to be picked off stage by the ruminating customers. Usually they have to take a more interactive approach to obtaining barfines, by adding their sweet personalities to their list of attractions.

Also having more average girls may rather challenge the premium prices commanded by dictat at Happy.

  Review April 2010: Happy as a Coyote

As you'd expect with an ever popular bar, they mostly stick with their formula and changes are rare.

So indeed there was the usual stage full of pretty girls doing a reasonable stab at energetic dancing. And as usual, they were not really making much effort to play the audience. There's no need for the girls to be pro-active at Happy, the guys soon do the requesting.

But there was one recent change though, coyote dancers had joined the bikini clad and topless gogo girls. The coyotes were wearing big bras and the usual short denim shorts with the fly half undone.

It will be interesting to see if the idea works at Happy. For me, coyote dancing is nothing but negative, and most bars offering coyote dancing as the main spectator sports seem to founder.  There seems to be a fundamental correlation between girls who would rather not take off their clothes to girls who are choosy, offish or pricey when it comes to customer care. Best avoided in my book.

Otherwise things still seemed good in Happy. Customers were still calling down pretty ladies and the watchers seemed happy enough to bide their time whilst sipping alone. Perhaps the bar was a little less crowded than on previous visits but probably just the low season norm.

  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.

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.

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: -festivities 1500 -service girls 1000 -showgirls/coyotes 800 to 1:30am -showgirls/coyotes 600 after 1:30am -dancers/hostess 600 -dancers/hostess 400 after 1:30am Room: 500 + barfine
	to 9:30	50	115	50	50	125
from 9:30		95	130	95

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. The welcome staff have free drinks vouchers to give away.

  Review June 2010: Specialist

Heaven Above is perhaps a little different to most Pattaya GoGos and has developed its own style.

It features a central stage full of attractive girls. They operate in two teams. There's the GoGo dancers who do a very long and slow advance round the stage. They wear their own choice of dance attire ranging from quite a lot to not much at all.

There's also a second team of negligee clad girls who occupy one end of the stage, the low brick wall around the stage, and a couple of small side stages.

The main stage is low and the bar is not large, so most seats get a good show.

The subtle difference though, is more to do with the interaction between the girls and customers. Customers who sit quietly will probably get left well alone. Even customers signaling over a girl may well get short shrift too. The trick seems to get into more of a party frame of mind. The chances are that the girls will pick up on the vibe and take it from there.

Not a bar for everyone but it has enough fans to keep it lively late at night. Can be very slow earlier in the evening.

  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.

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

Hooty's A-GoGo

Walking Street

GoGo renovated in October 2007. Closed in June 2011.

Hot Girls A-GoGo

Walking Street

Reports of a discriminatory 400 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

June 11 Key						Takeaway: -barfine 600-700 Room: -900 (inc barfine) - All in 1900
	55*	150	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.

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Illusion Pattaya Club

Walking Street: Soi 14 & 15

 Illusion Pattaya Club

Large white themed nightclub like gogo opened in October 2008. Same owners as the previous Top Girls. It soon fell back to the bells and whistles show concept but closed in March 2010.

Images A-GoGo

Soi 16, Covent Garden

Opened May 2006 and closed in October 2006. Now demolished to make the back way into Soho Square

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

Dec 11 Key						Takeaway: -models 3000 -showgirls 1200 LT until 1am -showgirls 800 LT after 1am -showgirls 800 ST -dancers 600
	85	145	95	125-165	125,135,250

  News December 2010: Bangkok Models

Iron Club have added Bangkok models to their line up for the last few months. However from December (running until next February), things have changed a little.

An Iron-Mama confirmed that the previous stable of models has been replaced with higher-end models. For typical Western-born Pattaya visitors, the upgrade is really a downgrade.

While the previous models danced topless, the new dancer wear pasties on their breasts. And, unlike the previous models, these ones positively do not go with customers, at any price. You can, of course, buy one a Super Model drink, but it will cost you 250 baht for a small Coke.

Following the Walking Street trend, these new high-end models are aimed at the Russian couples, Koreans in pajamas and those content to just look and not touch.

  Review July 2010: Pumping

I've been meaning to take another look for a while now but, for obviously good reasons, the bar has always simply been too full for my tastes.

But for my latest visit I tried earlier about 10ish and it was about a third full. I sat in the middle of the bar so as to report on all the stages.

The front stage was filled with about a dozen girls in a very square military formation. They were all bikini clad except when the got to the last position, they would generally take off their tops. There were some good looking dancers but not exclusively so.

The middle Jacuzzi had a couple of girls doing the Jacuzzi thing enjoyed by a couple of ringsiders. This was not the most popular spectacle. The star stage seemed to be the back stage where the lookers were. There were usually 4 girls half dancing and half doing the usual play stage antics. They were rotating through clothing from bikinis to none.

I was well looked after by a front stage dancer who proved very diverting company. All totally hassle free and without stupidities like lady cocktails. We did have to shoo away an old mamasang who bizarrely thought she may be able to contribute something to our private proceedings.

Actually for the price of the 120 Baht lady drink or two, the girl was excused dancing duties for quite a while, at least until the bar filled and their weren't enough spare ladies to take up the slack.

All in all the visit was a complete success with the only minor gripe being the music volume making verbal conversation a bit of a strain. Still my drinking partner had gotten used to this, and developed an easy to understand tactile body language that got most necessary messages across.

  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.

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The venue became Broadway Club which is currently closed

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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

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Very expensive club featuring East European girls. Opened on 20th December 2009 at the venue that was previously Polo Entertainment. Reverted to Polo with Thai dancers in March 2011

Closed, then became the Broadway Club which closed too.

The Lighthouse A-GoGo

Walking Street

 The Lighthouse A-GoGo

Opened on 20th January 2012. Connected with Fahrenheit, Tiger & Shark

Jan 12 Key								Takeaway: 600-1000
	to 9:30	70	130	70	70+	150	125-170
from 9:30		80	130	100	100-140

  Review January 2012: Sardines A-GoGo

The connections of this bar must be well happy. It was pretty near full and yet there were hardly any girls. There must have been about 4 guys for every girl.

The bar is quite small with a narrow central stage nestling between two sides of bench seating. There are also a few stage stools down one side.

There were 5 girls dancing and just 3 hostessing whilst waiting to dance. There were a couple of very attractive girls amongst them and the whole crew would qualify for a fair few barfines each month. Most girls were topless and the rest were wearing bikinis. Thankfully no coyotes.

But it was amazing that there was a steady stream of customers coming in to jammed into the few available bench seats by the bar ushers. To be fair though there was an equally rapid stream of customers departing after one drink.

I assume the bar has somehow tapped into the market of the multitude of passers by who are not really into gogos, but would like a quick look see.

The drinks prices are similar to sister bars Tiger/Shark/Fahrenheit but the draft beer is 10 Baht more expensive at 80 Baht (70 Baht in happy hour).

  News from Ishi January 2012: Opening Day

The GoGo opened with about 15 dancers of which 6 were dancing at a time. Most were bikini clad but some were topless.

Soi Diamond

Lady boy bar which closed in January 2010 to make way for Spanky's

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.

Dec 11 key								Takeaway: -service 2000 -showgirls -1000 -dancers 1000 LT -dancers 700 ST
	ended						135
			135-145	120	150	195

  Review from Pattaya-Addicts May 2010: Soft Soapy

They had some soapy show going on the stage but the girls kept their pants on, so it didn't do that much for me to be honest.

In the past Showcase had some attractive show girls, so this helps to justify high drink prices, but none of the girls on stage at the time I was there were particularly outstanding.

  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.

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

Jan 12 Key							bar fine -service 700 -dancers 600
	until 9:30	45	110		65	120
from 9:30		65	95-110		120

  Review March 2011: Good but No Lollipop

As mentioned below Lollipop is a pretty sound bar with a couple of drawbacks. There are often more girls dancing than those on hostess duties. Not that this matters much as the girls aren't very pro-active in looking for lady drinks. The norm for the bar is that mamasang organises the girls to sit with customers.

This tends to make the bar more of a 'watching bar' than an interactive bar, and it therefore hasn't really made much of an impact with farangs.

However all is not lost, on my last visit the bar was doing quite well with a fair few customers from various parts of Asia. Presumably they prefer watching some of the very good looking dancers that are the norm at Lollipop.

A perfectly good bar for a reasonably priced drink. deserving the rather doubled edge adjective of 'no hassle'.

  Review August 2010: Dance Too Much

Lollipop is one of the bars that has many of the features in place that makes for a good bar.

It is tightly run and plays it straight. There's no hassle and the staff and management are friendly and able.

There usually a fair amount of attractive girls and they have the full range of dress codes from over dressed coyote to very little.

The drinks prices are reasonable too.

All sounds good bar one design flaw. The bar has nearly all the girls dancing and the dance stint is overlong too.

The few girls on hostess duty, waiting their turn to dance, aren't particularly pro-active in searching out lady drinks either. Perhaps because their turn to dance will come around too quickly to make it worthwhile.

One contributor to a Pattaya forum suggested that they have worked around the over-dancing problem by sitting at the play table stage. It seems that the girls there can take good care of nearby customers whilst still nominally on their dancing turn.

Other than that, the bar is still worth a visit for those that prefer watching over interacting.

  Review by jj, April 2010: Nice Experience

Lollipop seems to be a bar in decline, but one that has found a comfortable plateau. Changes from earlier reviews are evident. Having once employed 3-4 dozen girls, it is now down to a dozen-plus. Outside hostesses/hello girls were apparently available for back-up if needed.

It seemed a bit strange to see coyote dancers, topless and nekkid ladies all on the stage at one time. I suppose they are trying to appeal to all tastes.

The Jacuzzi area in the back of the bar is now curtained off and the play mat only seems to be used by request but the manager and the girls seemed quite willing to do so if asked. The dozen girls were more than enough for the 9pm customer demand. Those few customers were generally experiencing an up-close-and-personal interaction. They also seemed to be resident expats returning to the bar -- given the reaction of the staff -- rather than first time tourists.

Comfortable seating, Walking Street prices, hands-on interaction, reasonable volume of the music, all make for a very nice experience. One added feature is that the katoey mamasan seemed to exempt the girls on customer's laps or on the play mat from their normal dance rotation.

  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 the 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.

M

Magic Palace A-GoGo

Walking Street

Opened on 31st Dec 2007. Closed in March 2008. Now Bartimes

Marilyn A-GoGo

Beach Road

Closed in Feb 2006. The site was redeveloped and is now Highway Star which is also closed.

See Baron Club above

The Moon Club

Walking Street
(corner of Soi Diamond)

Very expensive show bar opened on 9th July 2011. Ownership connections with Rocket show bar.

Jan 12 Key						Takeaway: 5000 show girl 2000 coyote 1000 dancer
	65 San Miguel Light	130-135	120	130	150-200-250-300

  Review December 2011: Gone to Moon Dust

I stopped by at prime time during the week before Christmas. The welcome girl sounded a little desperate calling out the line: draft beer only 65 baht.

Anyway I stepped inside expecting to be swooped upon by hoards of tequila hunting agency models, but something was strangely awry...there weren't any.

There were about four customers totally unhassled by anyone. There was a perfectly friendly service girl who wanted immediate payment for my drink, but pointed out that I could have a bin if I wanted.

On stage were a handful of unimpressive GoGo dancers in complicated bikinis that were almost one piece costumes, and weren't really very sexy at all.

After a few songs, there was a change of entertainment when a couple of cabaret style showgirls took to the stage. But as they didn't quite tick enough boxes of being young, pretty and female I took my leave.

So there you have it, a trip to the moon without being hassled in any way whatsoever; and experiencing only a brief interaction with a pleasant service girl; and enjoying a decent cheap beer. Better than I ever thought possible. But I suspect that this is not the way it should be, and something is up at Moon Club.

  Review from pattaya-addicts.com September 2011: Tequila Girl Hassle

Beware of the unwelcome hassle from tequila girls hunting in pairs. They are way too aggressive in their demands to be bought an expensive lady drink.

  Review July 2011: A Wholesome GoGo

First a couple of corrections from the previous comments:

1. There IS draft beer. San Miguel Light, tall glass, for 65 baht. First time I've seen SML on tap. Mixed house drinks were 130.
2. You CAN run a checkbin. I did, at least. Perhaps it depends on circumstances as yet unidentified.

My impression of Moon Club was, at once, extremely favorable yet such that I'm certain that I will never go back, or at least not more than 1 more time.

The club is extremely well done out. Curvy panels of LED lighting run across the ceilings and down the walls. Most of the de'cor is white, but not quite all done yet. A podium in the corner was still missing paint and the cocktail tables are not fully functional yet (missing lights). Still a work in progress.

It is, however, so small you have to go outside to change your mind. It seats, comfortably at least, about 25 --- girls and customers total. Very busy in its early days, I saw just as many people walk in, sit down and then get up and leave before being served because of the overcrowding. Staff were pulling up stools in the aisles in front of the bench seating blocking the view of those behind. Left with no table, however, the seats were quickly vacated as customers simply left.

The music system, on the other hand, is terrific and the DJ very talented. It's loud, but not in the way that hurts your ears. You can talk with the girl sitting next to you, but not much further away. The music is all very danceable pop --- Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Pussycat Girls, etc. -- and mixed well. Very enjoyable if that's your taste in tunes.

The staff seemed mostly comprised of contract girls --- some of whom have worked for, in order, Sapphire Club, What's Up, Insomnia Club, and Club Blu --- they seems to work 10 days at any one place.

Additional, surgically enhanced showgirls with pasties livened up the looks. Tall, but no ladyboys that I could spot.

The bar is very, very much aimed at the Asian tourist and couples. The lack of nudity, (half-hearted) choreography and Angelwitch show tunes makes it very clear this bar is for the casual tourist on holiday. For that, you cannot fault the owner who, of course, has been running Rocket Club upstairs, aimed at the same market. With a door two steps off of Walking Street, it's not only the expected move, but the smart one, both from a business and police standpoint.

So, while the look, sound and (at least for now) talent are all very positive, its tiny size and emphasis on the wholesome side of go-go bars will mean it will be worth at most one follow-up visit.

  Review from Pattaya forums, July 2011: Expensive Show Bar

The bar has opened with very attractive agency coyote dancers. There are also slightly more appropriately dressed show girls that are a bit shy and hide their bits behind pasties.

The bars seems to be modelling itself more as a no take away show bar rather than most bars and have set extremely high barfines to maintain a full cast of dancers.

The show has yet to impress.

There's talk also of lady boys but this is unconfirmed.

Drinks prices are suitably high with no draft, 130-135 baht bottled beers, 120 baht soft drinks and 150 baht lady drinks. Customers have to settle the bill as soon as they receive a drink.

The decor seems to have impressed. It has a the theme of spaceships and is mostly white. the girls are dressed in costumes alluding to space suits.

Presumably the bar is targetting tourist couples rather than western guys.

See GoGos with East European dancers

N

Naughty Girls

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

www.naughtygirls-pattaya.com

Renamed from Vixens in Jun 2006. Convenient rooms

Jan 12 Key						Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -600 Room:
	55	110	95	130	100/120/150/230

  Review January 2012: Low Key

This GoGo must be the most low key in walking Street. It hardly ever gets a mention on the forums.

It's certainly not a high energy bar, nor is it hand's on, it hasn't got the prettiest girls in town, nor has it a show, there's no sign of a Jacuzzi, no play area, and there's certainly nothing to complain about with the drink's prices. In short there's little to say about the bar.

It has a traditional centre stage, with girls in traditional gogo attire, doing the traditional Isaan shuffle.

At least there's usually a few decent looking girls in attendance.

Not bad, not good, not naughty, just misunderstood.

  Review January 2011: Sanctuary

If life is getting a little hectic at Walking Street's high energy GoGos, and you fancy a moment of quiet reflection then Naughty Girls is the place to go.

You can enjoy a relaxing beer in your own company, secure in the knowledge that nobody will do anything that could possibly impinge on your personal space.

And there is an attractive setting for your quiet contemplation. The venue features modern, nicely styled decor and there are several attractive dancers on the central stage. The girls provide a pleasant background, but thankfully they never attempt to move into your foreground, lest they disturb your peace.

So having supped your beer, you can emerge from the venue, relaxed and composed, ready to head back into the high energy fun of Pattaya nightlife.

  Review July 2010: Moderate

Naughty Girls continues its very traditional approach to GoGo.

The bar has a narrow central stage featuring maybe be 10 girls dancing at a time. They do a very slow rotation of one girl per song making for a way too long 10 song dance session. There are generally some attractive girls and they dance either topless or bikini clad.

There is comfortable bench seating around 3 sides of the square bar.

There is a cheap draft beer at 55 Baht.

The bars main drawback is that it does not seem to have a found a good way to hook the girls up with customers.

Perhaps they seek to emulate Super Girls next door, where the girls don't make the first move and wait for their number to be called by a customer. Most customers in Super Girls are happy to bide their time over a few beers whilst making their choice. But Naughty does not quite attract the top notch level of girls required to make this mode of operation work. Naughty ends up with a very moderate mix of an uninspired show and not very interactive girls.

  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.

New Living Dolls One

Walking Street

From 8pm

Popular bar featuring a multitude of girls.

Jan 11 Key								Takeaway:  -dancers 600 -service 600 -showgirls 700
	to 10pm	59 small glass	125	65	65	140	115
from 10pm				95	95-115
	12am to 2am	2 for 1 on selected drinks

  Review October 2011: Body Paint

New Living Dolls is a long running and successful GoGo, that in style and popularity, sits a notch just below the Happy group GoGos.

It is farang run and is therefore aware that the best customers are repeat customers. The drinks & barfine prices are reasonable and the bar is well run ensuring that there are no worries about hassles and other silly tricks that some other bars get up to.

There are enough girls in the bar to have about 10 girls on stage at any one time. The slow procession of GoGo dancing is punctuated by frequent shows. The shows aren't choreographed, just girls making a bit more of an effort than the usual dancers, with a few variations such as body painting.

In terms of interaction with the girls, the bar is similar to the Happy group. Customers won't get asked unless they signal their interest to a girl. Then the girls are more than willing to oblige in partaking in a lady drink or more.

The bar was doing a good trade without being particularly full. Perhaps better than most given the low season visit.

  Review August 2010: Business as Usual

The bar seems to be marking time nicely perhaps to be ready for a good high season when the perennial visitors will flock back.

The basics of plenty of attractive girls and an efficient staff, along with friendly managers should hold them in good stead.

The drinks prices seem to be creeping up though, but there's a good happy hour and the cheap draft beer is retained for the whole evening.

My main low season gripe is that the show is a bit insipid, especially compared with the 'good old days' a couple of years ago.

But on the whole the bar is pretty much business as usual.

  Review April 2010: Better than Ever

Thanks also to Pattaya Ghost

I stopped by at a prime time on a weekday evening and the bar seemed better than ever. I seated my self down on the comfortable bench seating, and before I knew it, a beautiful showgirl was bouncing on my lap. Actually I've know her for a long time so it was hardly an accident.

Whilst I was enjoying myself immensely, I rather think that my good fortune was not exactly perfect for the bar. The reason I say its better than ever, is that it is not quite so jam packed as it was a year ago. Then I would have had to put up with a stool and would have had little chance of finding an unoccupied girl free to lavish such considerate care.

The bar is still doing well though, with a good amount of customers and plenty of girls.

The shows have taken a bit of a strange twist. The popular full-on lesbian shows have been dropped. Replacements seem to be mostly fully clothed affairs. Even more bizarrely, the girls were taking off their clothes just as soon as they de-staged, returning to rejoin their drinking partners in the more traditional gogo attire of very little.

I picked up a little bit of gossip there too. Apparently the managers have been trying to keep a log of girls and their monthlies. Whilst being entirely sympathetic with the umbrage taken by the girls, one has to wonder if perhaps days off weren't being sneaked in a little too often.

Anyway enough of the tittle tattle, there were plenty of other more sensual pleasures awaiting to be enjoyed by the obliging girls.

  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.

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 January 2012: Playing the Odds

The small bar has a few old stagers that have been hanging around for ages. But otherwise the bar has a rapid turnover amongst the younger dancers.

So every time I go there is more a less a new dancing cast on display. The bar is pretty good for dancing with short dance rosters and often more attractive dancers than you would expect in a small bar.

In terms of interaction it is very hit or miss. It just depends on the current crops of girls whether they are interested in socialising or not.

It is one of those bars where the cheap draft is important, as it makes it worthwhile for just a look see. If the dancing team is a bit offish then nothing lost, but if it is a good day it can be fun to stay for a few.

A totally inconsistent bar, but the odds of a good time are good enough to make it worthwhile to at least take a look.

  Review February 2011: Afternoon Fun

The afternoon GoGo scene seems to be in something of decline ate the moment with some pretty disappointing customer/girls counts, particularly in Sois 13.

But New Star is one of the better bets for afternoon fun. It usually has a fair few girls with some of them being decent looking. The bar works well for the afternoon audience with minimal numbers set to dancing whilst the majority are assigned to customer care duties. The dance roster is proportionally short too.

In fact the bar seems better in the afternoon than at night. In the evening it can take on a harder edge. It particularly targets customers that the touts can aggressively snag on the way to Super Girls. Then all the best girls in the bar seem attached to the entrance to form part of this snagging team.

No such nonsense in the day time and the bar provides a good hangout for the afternoon trade. Not so sure about the short time rates though. The charges are well uncompetitive. But a good place for a beer or two.

  Review July 2010: Knowing the Ropes

The bar can be a bit of a mixed bag but there is always a chance of hands on fun with a pretty girl.

The bar has a fair few girls for a small bar but there is usually quite a range with some well pretty and some well past it.

There are usually just 3 or 4 dancing girls in the full range of bikini to none. The star turns of the team does a play stage stint at the front of the bar with thwack sticks and the like.

As there are few girls dancing at any one time this leaves a good amount pf girls available for hands on customer care.

There's a cheap 55 Baht draft and lady drinks are ok at 110 Baht.

All seems pretty good in terms of the way the bar operates, but there are a few things more that customers need to know.

Firstly the pretty girls are anchored to the seats around the front door. They are available for hostessing, its just that when they haven't got a customer, they have to sit near the door ready to impress customers who poke their head inside for a look see.

The trick is just to select a seat near the front door so that you are close enough to take a look, and be within smile/signal range to ask a girl over. Sitting at the back of the bar tends to result in the old stagers having first dibs.

The second thing customers need to know is that the girls will prey ruthlessly on any newbies they detect. They can swarm around in seconds.

And one last thing to note is that the bar runs 2 shifts changing at 8pm. Both shifts can have some pretty girls, making the bar well above average for daytime fun. Most other bars seem to have more of a 'second' team on the daytime shift.

  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 runs out 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.

Now ToyZ, 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

Dec 11 Key						Takeaway: 600 Room: 300+barfine
	65	125	95	110	110

  Review October 2011: Too Small

The bar has a good location and gets a good throughput of customers. However the bar does not really have enough girls or enough space to capitalise on this.

Sitting in the bar for an hour reveals how it rapidly fills up and equally quickly empties again. There simply isn't enough good seating to provide for many customers at a time. There's just a single bench seat for 5 or 6 people. After that, there are a few seats around the front stage that has no view of the main stage and a lack lustre dancer rarely doing her best to entertain customers on the 'lonely benches'.

The girls are a mixed bunch, with usually a couple that attract attention. And if the situation allows then they can be quite hands on and fun.

It is a bar that is worth a look, but one must always be ready to make a quick getaway if the best seats are taken.

  Review September 2010: Minor Bar

The bar continues its minor bar existence. It is worth the occasional pit stop as it usually has a few attractive girls and can get quite hands on friendly when the mood is right.

There are usually 4 or 5 girls on the main stage and another 2 or 3 dancing on the tables and secondary stage.

One of these is designated as a show girl, partaking in the soapy stage antics. There are no ring side seats so this adds very little to the bar.

The dance roster is a bit too long for a small bar, so I guess if a customer is being looked after by a dancer, "I go dance" often correlates to "check bin".

As mentioned before, there are too many girls dancing on the main stage which offers a good view to only a few seats in the bar. Perhaps the bar could get a few useful tips from a psychologist.

  Review May 2010: Half Full or Half Empty?

The bar has had a reasonable crowd on my last couple of visits with half the seats filled and the bar probably having a full quota of girls.

The girls dance in the full range of gogo attire. The girls are probably an average crew which is pretty good for a small bar.

The arrangement of the bar probably means that half full is about as good as it gets. All the dancing action is confined to the main stage which is only visible for half the bar. The other half have to make do with a lack lustre single girl on the secondary stage. Not really up to much there.

Maybe a redesign of the bar could improve it from its current middling status. After all the location is very good.

  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.

O

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Paris A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Renamed to Atlantis A-GoGo in November 2010. Unchanged management, see Atlantis A-GoGo above

Peppermint Palace

Walking Street
(Now downstairs under Marine Disco)

From 8pm

Peppermint Agogo website

Beware of a discriminatory 200 Baht entrance fee for Asians

Large popular gogo with plenty to see and watch. Ownership connections with Happy, Beach Club, Baccara and Cavern. The bar moved downstairs in June 2010.

Sep 11 Key								Takeaway: 600
	to 9:30	59		65	65		115
from 9:30		59 small glass	125	105	105-125

  Review January 2011: Still Pepped Up

Not much changes at Peppermint. They have a formula and stick to it. It has cheap beer and reasonable lady drinks but the takeaway prices are very top end. But within this ranges it offers something for everyone, and hence maintains a perpetual busy state.

Now there are 5 bars in the chain (Peppermint, Happy, Baccara, Cavern and Beach Club), it is always tempting to speculate about how they are running off against each other. On my last couple of visits I think it is clear that the top notch girls have moved on to Baccara, but there are still plenty of girls at Peppermint to please most customers. If anything, the bar in the chain that has suffered most from the ascendancy of Baccara is Happy. This was pretty much a pick a number and go bar, but now the best girls are gone, it is a little lacking.

Peppermint however has always had a bit more in the way of interaction between girls and customers, and the lively atmosphere has persisted better.

Anyway for all intents and purposes the bar is the same successful GoGo bar that it has been for years.

  News from Ishi, August 2010: Shows

Peppermint has now introduced a balloons and darts show

  Review June 2010: The 2nd night at Junior Mint

When they first announced that Peppermint Palace would be relocating downstairs, owners of one of Pattaya's most popular go-go bars took pains to assure fans the bar would remain the same in both style and size.

It's not, a fact immediately obvious when you step through the door. While it's laid out almost identically – and seats arguably the same number of people – Peppermint has lost that cavernous feel that strikes awe into first-time patrons. Upstairs it was Peppermint. Downstairs they should consider renaming it Junior Mint.

But what Peppermint lost in size, it may have made up for in atmosphere and comfort. A bar that always felt open and even a bit cool now feels noticeably more intimate. Ceilings are lower, tables are closer to the stage and – thankfully – there's much less floor space for dozens of girls to gather, squeal and scramble for ping pong balls.

Design-wise, it's almost as if you're wandering into the alternate universe Peppermint. It looks the same, but with subtle differences. There are now just 2 table dance stations, instead of 4. The stage has the same shape, but is just smaller. The Peppermint Beach sofa seating has moved to the left and The Cage is still there, but is smaller and tucked far back in the corner with less of a view.

Both customers and staff reported that Thursday's grand opening was packed to the rafters. As noted, the bar does seat close to as many people in a more confined space. So crowding – which often was a problem during high season upstairs – now could be a permanent condition when (if?) the tourists return to Pattaya.

Friday, thanks to a torrential downpour, saw the bar back to more customary customer levels for low season and while parts of the bar are indeed narrower than before, the back section of the bar is about the same width and at no point felt claustrophobic.

Peppermint also feels fresher. The barstools were all reupholstered before being taken downstairs and the transplanted tables also got a bit of an upgrade. The stage-side bars are lit and look as if they came from the same supplier as those in Baccara. And the air conditioning is obviously new: Once customers cleared out after 11, it got positively frigid.

The only drawback in the look at this point is the lighting, which uses the same fixtures as in Baccara and The Cavern and makes the bar a bit darker than Peppermint. But management said lighting work is not yet complete and more illumination is being added.

After an extended visit, it was hard to find fault with Peppermint 2.0. The smaller size may end up being a plus, as the upstairs bar has faded in recent years amid tougher competition and smaller tourist crowds. It certainly will draw more trade being on the street level and the cozier confines put customers closer to the action.

  Review June 2010: Sitting Pretty

Peppermint has been around a long time and is one of the proven success stories of Walking Street. And yet I always consider the design/layout to be poor.

The main area of comfortable seating as you first enter the bar has a very restricted view of the entertainment, the majority of which is going on at the back end of the bar.

And in the well entertained back section there is mostly only uncomfortable stool seating that usually drives me out after a single beer.

The theory must be therefore that customers will put up with a bit of discomfort if the girls make it worth their while. And of course Peppermint can command some of the best. Saying that though on my last visit the bar had plentiful good looking girls but maybe not quite the top notch standard needed to make people put up with uncomfortable seats.

This time I opted for the restricted viewing area, and enjoyed the company of a friendly and non-pushy girl over the course of a few reasonably priced drinks. All was well with the world and I wondered if the new downstairs version of Peppermint will have a better seating layout.

  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.

Pinky Girl A-GoGo

Walking Street (Beach Road end)

Opened Dec 31st 2007. Closed when the venue was demolished in March 2009. Now the New Simon Beer Bar Complex

Playgirls

Walking Street

200 Baht entry charge

An upstairs bar in the Nui's group specialising in a mix of gogo and bells & whistles shows.

Apr 09 Key						Takeaway: -showgirl 800
	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

Walking Street

Reverted to Thai ladies and Striptease in March 2011.

Previously Polo Entertainment was a long running show bar with Thai dancers. It changed to an East European format with expensive prices in December 2009.

So now waiting on reports for how the new bar is operating. I retain sufficient suspicion to wait for others to do the trail blazing.

Powers Club A-GoGo

Walking Street

The venue was previously Maya Karaoke and before that, Private Dancer. Opened as Powers Club A-GoGo on 12th March 2010 until it closed in early December 2010. Now set to become a gay bar City Man Club.

Closed. Now Powers Club

R

Rhino GoGo Club

Walking Street
(south end)

Rhino opened on 20th June 2011 in the venue that was previously Hot Tuna Pool and before that a GoGo called Teasers. The bar has ownership connections with the Hot Tuna beer bars.

Dec 11 Key							Takeaway:
	60	120				120

  Review October 2011: Trying Hard

The bar features the currently fashionable centre stage layout. In fact there is a small variation, in that the centre stage is split in two. There is comfortable bench seating down one side and stools down the other.

There is also a Jacuzzi feature towards the back of the bar featuring a naked lady trying to entice a few customers to her bathside.

The dancing stages were filled with half a dozen girls in traditional gogo wear. They were probably a little below walking Street average, but there were a couple who would turn a few eyes.

There was quite a busy mamasang working hard to conjure up a bit of life from the dancers, and also trying to hook up customers with girls.

It seems that the bar is trying hard, but really the sprinkling of customers didn't give the impression that the efforts were succeeding. For my own little contribution I stayed, just for a one drink look, as I heard that the lady drinks are on the high side at 150 Baht. But the offerings on show weren't worth paying the premium pricing for.

The bar seems modelled on Airport or Iron, but hasn't built up the necessary momentum yet to make it work. Possibly the location is working against them. But at least they seemed to be trying hard to make it a lively venue.

  News from Pattaya forums, June 2011: Open

The bar features two centre stages with about half a dozen dancers on each. The dress code is mixed from bikini to very little.

There's a water feature with dancers in wet t-shirts.

The decor is dark with mirrors.

An average line up for the opening day but that is often the case as a bar has to gain momentum before being able to attract top notch girls.

There was no draft beer at opening leaving an unattractively expensive 120 Baht option for bottled beer. However the bar has stated that a cheap draft beer will be laid on shortly.

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: 300+barfine
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.

 Roof Top A-GoGo

Closed. Now Tiger Club which is also closed

Roxy

Walking Street
(opposite Tony's Disco)

From 9pm

www.roxypattaya.com

 Roxy

Bar with gogo girls and sexy shows. Opened July 27th 2006. The venue previously housed Club Electric Blue.

Dec 11 Key								Takeaway -showgirls 1200 before 12 -showgirls 800 after 12 -dancers 600 Room:
	Ended
		70	120	110	110		120

  Review February 2012: Off the Radar

My recent visits at ever declining frequency have not really been very successful. There's nothing whatsoever that's strikingly obvious as to why, its just a bunch of little things that add up.

There's usually a sprinkling of good looking girls on hand but they are a little bit choosy as who they approach, if anyone at all.

The high seating to the left of the bar as you walk in is a little too far from the action, and the moment you sit down you know that you will be ignored.

Best to sit on the right where you are closer to the stage and the main foot traffic that passes by.

It's one of those bars that would be so much better if the girls were just a little bit more interactive.

  Review March 2011: Always a Chance

The bar has cut back on its previously large team of welcome staff. It used to compete with the likes of Iron and Casnovy, but now just a couple of girls outside in the usual check patterned dresses.

Inside is a bit hit and miss in terms of interaction, but there's usually a fair few good looking girls for those who enjoy watching the dancing. They usually cram the stage with girls and perhaps don't leave enough on hostess duty. There is also a show segment to the stage entertainment. Perhaps more an excuse to raise the barfines of the prettiest girls rather than any serious competition for Angelwitch.

Its really then just about how many customers there are in the bar. If you can get hold of a pretty girl for company most things seem good about the bar. If not, then it is all a bit middling.

Last time I was sitting between two tables of free spending farangs and they were having a great time cornering more or less all the non-dancing girls in the bar.

If one had asked them, then they would surely say it was the best bar in town. I on the other hand, found it to be a bit naff due to the lack of available girls. The truth must lie somewhere in between.

  Comment January 2011: Naff

In agreement with a couple posters on Pattaya forums it seems that the girls don't appear to approaching the customers of late, perhaps some new bar policy.

The side stages seem pretty naff with girls being bored and overdressed, so consequently being ignored by customers, and so the reason for the girl's boredom. And so defines a downward spiral.

  Update from Ishi December 2010: Show's Off

Roxy have ended their long running stage shows. The central stage is now limited to the usual gogo dancing.

However the bar has installed a substage behind a window along the lines of the shower shows in Sisterz & Champagne. 3 girls do a 15 minute strip show once an hour

There is also another substage with either topless dancers or coyotes.

Update from Ishi December 2010:

Roxy restarted their shows on the main stage again. But for the moment the show time is just five minutes. The show is very simple, three dancers strip while sucking bananas.

It seems that the temporary end of shows was down to showgirls quitting rather than a change of direction form the bar.

  Review August 2010: Strong Showing

For those that like a bit of a show, then Roxy is one of the best on Walking Street. It features very attractive girls, a generally fun atmosphere and also a cheap beer option.

In fact a few months ago it was also starting to capture a share of the market of those customers who prefer to interact with the girls. I may have been unlucky on my last couple of visits, but there were few girls on hostess duties whilst the stage was packed with dancers. A late night visit had to be a quick U turn as every single available girl was set to dancing with none to take care of customers.

But returning to those that like the show, then the bar offers alternate shifts of a stage packed with lively dancers and then show girls in a choreographed erotic presentation. Not quite as professional as Angelwitch, but not bad. Not quite as naughty as certain 'specialist' bars, but not bad.

Male service staff is a bit of a downer though.

There are also many attractive welcome girls that can be enticed in, but the lady drinks have to flow freely otherwise they soon have to depart back to welcome duty.

  Review November 2009: Opportunity Knocks

With Polo closed as a show bar and with Angelwitch developing something of a reputation for hassle, then surely Roxy has a good chance to capture some of the trade for shows.

The bar has a much friendlier drinks price policy than Angelwitch and there are plenty of good looking girls participating in the shows.

Perhaps the shows are a little less impressive but the more easy going bar atmosphere makes up for the difference.

Hopefully the bar can therefore attract a few more show going customers. But it is not really the sort of bar for customers seeking company, the girls don't generally circulate the bar in search of lady drinks and the likes.

S

Sakura Club 69

Walking Street: Soi 15

Now ToyZ, see below

Sapphire Club A-GoGo

Pattaya Soi 15
(just off Walking Street)

From 8:30pm

sapphirepattaya.com

Opened 23rd May 2010. Previously Gamebird 2.

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: - 1000 top tier coyotes -800 other dancer before 12 -600 other dancers after 12
	to 10pm		75		75-	130
from 10pm			130	60	120-150

Discount card available. Tuesday is happy Hours all night. Thursday night is party night.

  Review December 2011: A Remake Not  as Good as the Original

It is always exciting to see what's new when a major upgrade takes place. And indeed the newly enlarged bar makes a good visual impression. The bar has expanded into 2 next door units so maybe is about twice as big. The bar is now rectangular as opposed to the more square shape before. there is a long central-ish running lengthways down the bar. It is surrounded by Baccara style sofa seating. And most impressive of all, the stage was jam packed with dancers.

My visit started with a niggle though, the 65 Baht draft beer displayed so prominently on the welcome boards does not exist. Presumably it's on its way, but why display the signs when it isn't yet available? Having spent a good packet on the refurbishment why not invest a tiny amount more on correctly priced signs. After all the bottled beer is perfectly reasonably priced and a 75 Baht happy hour beer price would be a perfectly attractive promotion on a sign.

Sitting down to survey the bar, I started to think that the new design wasn't all that ideal. Bigger does not necessarily mean better for a GoGo bar. The distance to the stage is all important, there is something very sexual about proximity. Also greater distance can make signals of interest such as smiles, gestures and gaze that little bit harder to pick up. I felt that Sapphire has the bench seating around the sides of the bar just that little bit too far away. This is especially true on the shorter sides of the bar which have a poor viewing angle on the long thin stage. At the worst seats, one just sees the couple of  dancers at the end of the stage.

There is also a Jacuzzi at the back of the bar.  It is not located for general viewing though, so is basically entertainment for those sitting directly at the bath side. Something to try on the next visit.

And then there is the issue of coyote dancers. It seems to be that 2/3rd of the dancers are coyotes wearing shorts, bras and tops. Admittedly the shorts were about as small as they could possibly be. But I for one find coyote dancing unappealing. Firstly nudity is so much more attractive, and secondly coyote dancers are on average for more likely to be 'unavailable' due to personal choice, sponsorship, price, or just being selective. And of course their barfines are higher for no reason that I can fathom (beyond them being supplied by an agency).

It was also strange how the bar has organised the shifts. The girls were split into 3 teams and every so often the teams change. This seems a perfectly good idea, but what I couldn't understand, is why two of the teams were entirely made up of coyotes. So for the majority of the time there is no nudity on display. Wouldn't it be a better idea to distribute the gogo dancers amongst all the teams so that there are always some nude dancers on stage for those that like that sort of thing.

On the positive side, the bar has built up a very good customer base in a relatively short time and the sheer popularity of Sapphire brings with it a very lively atmosphere. The Thursday parties have traditionally been a great success and I don't suppose minor niggles about coyote dancers will be much of an issue then.

  Review by Ishi November 2011: Mostly Coyote

Sapphire Club re-opened a few nights ago. It has expanded into 2 next doors units and is to be found at the centre of Soi 15.

The bar now features the almost inevitable Jacuzzi. There are now single sofas around the stage like Baccara.

The dancers are divided into 3 teams. Each team having 13-17 dancers.

The 1st team is made up of coyote dancers, topless and bottomless gogo dancers.

The 2nd and 3rd teams are disappointingly all coyote.

There are no shows or similar to break the pattern.

The bar has ratcheted up the bar fines somewhat with the traditional counter intuitive higher fees for the less entertaining coyote dancers.

1st rate gogo dancers have an 800 Baht bar fine before midnight, and 600 after.

2nd rate coyote dancers have an 1000 Baht all night bar fine.

3rd rate coyote dancers have the same bar fines as the GoGo dancers

  News September 2011: Expansion

From the 1st of October the Sapphire Club will be closed for renovations. It will be expanding and and will open with a new look. The work is expected to be complete for a re-opening on 25th November 2011. And it duly opened as expected to large crowds.

  Review September 2010: Progressing Well

The bar seems to have established itself rapidly and now boasts a large dancing team and a fair amount of customers too. There were a fair few good looking girls amongst the dancers.

The girls are not shy to take good care of customers who in turn seem to be enjoying the bar.

On a recent visit, Steve, previously a large presence at New Living Dolls One, was on meet and greet duties.

On my last visit there were 8 girls dancing and maybe another dozen or so on customer care duty whilst waiting their turn to dance. The girls were dancing mostly topless but to an overlong dance roster of 8 songs.

The bars that can hire the prettiest girls in town tend to get away with longer dance rosters as they can attract guys who are happy to watch pretty girls dance. Bars that target more hands-on customers really need get the girls back to their lady drinking a bit quicker. It's notable that the bars that are most successful in this genre, Windmill and Baby Dolls, keep the dance roster down to 4 songs.

But saying that, on one occasion, girls with lady drinks in front of them were excused dancing duties, so then there was no issue with the 8 songs. On another occasion, there weren't enough girls in the bar, and so no dancing exemptions. Then I am afraid: I go dance, gets the response: OK, see you next time, check bin.

I also had to shoo away a mamasang on drinks begging duty. She was more aggressive than most, and she pushed me a bit close to annoyance levels before giving up the hassle. But I was with a very accommodating girl so this minor annoyance was soon forgotten.

The drinks prices are in the reasonable band.

On balance, the vibe seems very good, and things look very promising for the bar.

  Review May 2010: Dazzling

I stopped by at the opening party and I am sure that this will prove somewhat atypical and a more realistic review will soon follow.

I was greeted with a lively bar full of girls and half full with customers, who seemed to be fellow countrymen of the bar's Irish ownership. In fact I was then personally greeted by the owner, always a nice touch.

There are plenty of pointers that this will be a well run Farang bar with a good attitude to customer care. The drinks prices have started at a reasonable level with a 65 Baht draft beer and bottled beer at 100-110 Baht. There is a comprehensive drinks menus on each table, always a good idea.

There were plenty of girls with the main team dancing on the central stage. They were an above average team, especially good for an opening night. They were making a fair effort in dancing too. They were all bikini clad though, but you can never read much into the opening party as perhaps there were dignitaries or wives etc on the guest list.

On the downside the bar has adopted the recent trend for very loud music, not quite the loudest but too loud for a comfortable conversation. (The Cavern was later notable for not following the trend and keeping the volume down).

Oh and the great looking lighting was a real pain. They had some sort of manic light robot out of Terminator 2, with a pre-programmed mission to dazzle the customers with blasts of amplified light. I got well pissed off with it very quickly. No doubt it will be re-programmed or re-booted very soon.

Perhaps feeling a bit sensitive after being attacked by the light robot, I found the main stage lighting badly placed too. It was hard to see the girls as lights at the opposite side of the stage were also shining in my eyes and a little bright too.

Still the bar looks good and the owners seemed to have a good attitude so hopefully Sapphire Club will be a welcome addition to the hot competition of Soi 15.

The Sea

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

 The Sea

Understated gogo with plenty of attractive girls but very little extra entertainment to make it stand out from the rest.

June 11 Key							Takeaway: -festivities 2000 -dancers 600 Room 400 + barfine:
	55	110	95	105	150	110-155

  Review January 2011: Swell

There seems to have been something of a shift in foot traffic over the last year. Highly successful gogos on Walking Street and Soi 15 seem to have taken some of their trade at the expense of those on Soi Diamond. The basic gogos of Paris (now closed), Carousel, The Sea and Naughty Girls are probably most in the firing line. The others have various specialities that are diverting enough for customers to make an effort.

Anyway of the four mentioned, the Sea has been the most successful at upping their game to keep hold of customers.

In fact on my last couple of visits, there have been quite a few girls keen to get a bit interactive. And consequently there have been quite a few happy looking customers enjoying the bar.

The Sea has always had a goodly amount of dancers for a small bar and the bar has consistently maintained a good quota of attractive girls.

It doesn't really compete with the new breed of high energy bars, but it is a good example of a more traditional format GoGo.

The draft beer is cheap at 55 Baht, but the music is a bit too noisy, verging on uncomfortable.

  Review June 2010: Lively

As only an occasional visitor to the Sea I was pleased to see that the bar seems to have loosened up a little on my last visit.

There was the usual gaggle of attractive girls but they seemed to be having more fun than usual and actually interacting with the customers.

I looked around and noticed that the previously noted officious mamasang wasn't marching around the bar trying to implement her rather aggressive band of match making.

And lo and behold, the girls were doing a better job for themselves.

Otherwise the bar was pretty much the same as before with plenty of girls on stage wearing less than an average amount of bikini bits.

The beer is still cheap and the music is still dance,

Now the question is, whether my unfavourite mamasang has departed or was she just having the night off.

  Report September 2009: Matriarchy

Still a bar that doesn't appeal to me at all.

There are always plenty of girls, many of them well attractive. They have a fair few on stage and are generally topless or less.

The trouble is that the girls seem uninterested in finding a drinking partner. The more attractive they are, the more they have a stern resolve to march off the stage to their seat crowding around the door. 

It seems to be the job of the mamasang to try and match up the girls with the customers. But this method leaves some seemingly unfriendly body language interaction with the girls who have just marched past all the potentially interested customers ignoring them.

The matriarchal controls also extend to negotiating with the customers for the girls offsite fees. Again the higher than average demands adds to the unfriendly atmosphere of the bar.

But if you just want to have a beer and watch some pretty girls on stage, then the bar is sound enough.

There's also a good 55 Baht draft beer in a decent sized glass.

  Report August 2009: Up Front Afront

Reports that the mamasang is demanding an unrealistic 2500 fee (bar fine not included) for long time for the girl to be paid up front

  Review April 2009: Non-Committal

A very basic smallish gogo that usually fails to get me to stay beyond the first drink.

The bar is generally blessed with a large team of dancers several of whom are very attractive. They mostly dance topless with a light skirt affair.

The drinks prices are reasonable with a 55 Baht draft beer.

I am not keen on the way the girl selection works though. It is one of those bars where the girls ignore the customers unless the customer makes an effort to flag her down via the mamasang. What's more, the prettier girls seem to have the important job of sitting near the door and cannot be disturbed from this critical work except at the command of the mamasang.

The trouble is with the system, is that having made the choice via the mamasang, then the staff all seem to get pushy as if you had committed to a barfine choice.

But if you're happy with the way the bar works then most other aspects are fine.

  Review Sept 2008: Drifting

A perfectly good GoGo bar that has rarely persuaded me to stay for a second beer.

There are always plenty of girls on hand, of which there are always a few pleasing on the eye.

Without studying it for long, I have a feeling that one of the failings of the bar is that the cutest girls are given the job of hanging around the door. Their job is attract in newcomers rather than socialise with the oldie customers.

Sometimes I have visited and the girls have been very slow to glance around at the customers let along stop by for a chat. This is not a hard and fast rule, it just seems the average.

Otherwise beer prices are good, the music is slightly loud dance and the girls dress in the range of bikinis to nothing.

Perhaps unusually these days, there are no signs of Jacuzzis, showers or play stages.

Shark A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Previously Big Willies and renamed in autumn 2004 to Shark A-GoGo. Now merged with Shark Club A-GoGo see below.

Shark Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond
Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

 Shark Club A-GoGo

Nominally table dancing but most notable for up close and personal customer care. Shark Club A-GoGo Tiger Lounge & Fahrenheit are in the same ownership.

Oct 11 Key								Takeaway: -festivities 1000 -LT 1000 -ST 600 Room: 300 + Barfine
	to 9:30	60		60	60
from 9:30		70 small	130	100	100-140	150	125-180

  Review January 2012: Clone

I have stopped by a couple of times and never really had much luck in the bar. The bar is perfectly decent with its central stage being well populated with dancers of which several are well attractive enough.

Perhaps there are too many girls on the stage and not enough on hostess duty. There  always seems to be a smattering of customers many of which look a bit lonely. Several of the girls were being friendly sitting with customers but just not enough. The basic dancing show is not quite exciting enough just to sit and watch, and and the girls aren't quite top notch enough to stun guys into passive watching mode.

The bar seems to have traded up from its previous incarnation that had lots of rough edges but also a lot of character. Now it is a lot more professional and slick, but it seems to exist as a rather unexciting clone of several other bars following the same theme. The upstairs location is probably enough to ensure that Shark stays second fiddle to similar downstairs bars.

Perhaps upstairs bars would be better advised to target a niche rather than become a clone.

Maybe a bit overly critical as the bar is quite fine. It's just that I rather miss the old Shark Club which was one of my favourites.

  Review March 2011: Renovated

The bar has now re-opened after a month of renovation.

The bar is totally restyled, changing from table dancing to a gogo with a central stage. Perhaps taking a cue from the successful launch of sister bar Fahrenheit, the bar is laid out similarly with a long thin central stage packed with girls. There are also a couple of small podiums at the end. There is plenty of comfortable bench seating and it is a little more spacious than Fahrenheit.

The bar has actually decreased in size overall with some space being given to an open walkway to the adjoining Tiger A-GoGo.

The bar has some good looking girls dancing, but on my visit the fashion for cramming the stage with dancers means a vey long dance roster of 30 minutes. Hopefully just a teething problem whilst they get act together. The girls were dancing in a range of not much to very little. The standard issue bikinis are very revealing.

The bar has kept the generally reasonable drinks prices but the bar seems to have dropped the happy hour.

But it all looks pretty good. Hopefully they won't lose Shark's emphasis on good hands on fun in trying to recreate the high energy 'watching' bar of Fahrenheit.

  News October 2010: A Tale of Two Ends

The difference between the 2 ends of the bar seems to be maintained.

Easily the best end is the old Shark Club end, accessed from Soi Diamond. The girls are friendly, hands on, and are dressed in a negligee affair.

At the old Shark GoGo end, accessed from Soi 15, the girls simply aren't as friendly and certainly not so keen on the lap dancing stuff. The dress code is a sometimes knickerless short skirt and almost mandatory bikini top.

Given the high end drinks prices, the GoGo end offers poor value compared with many better options. But the Club end is at least competitive in terms of fun and atmosphere and so is worth a try.

  News April 2010: Prices

The bar has generally been a success in the Thai-Anxiety rankings. It scores well in terms of having a decent number of good looking girls who are often quite hands-on friendly.

Perhaps the biggest long term draw back is that the girls are sent on a long dance circuit of usually 7 tables. 7 songs is a little too much especially when they can be very long dance music tunes.

But there are usually enough girls that one usually gets a decent amount of hostess time before the girls go dance.

More recently though the bar seems to have had a bit of a charge on drinks prices leaving soft drinks and lady drinks amongst the most expensive of all gogos in town. Perhaps the latest hike was a little too much though, as there was a rapid rethink and the introduction of a decent happy hour of 70 Baht on nearly all customer drinks.

One of the better GoGos in town, but now on my semi boycott list of bars where I don't want to encourage spiralling prices.

  News June 2009: Club or GoGo

The recently merged Shark A-GoGo/Shark Club still seems to be finding its feet with a pretty variable experience depending on the day of the week.

Although the bar is knocked through the, two ends of the bar still have a different feel, presumably down to having a mamasang for each end of the bar.

I very much recommend the Club end of the bar (ie above Super Girl). For some reason the girls are far more likely to seek out a few tips and hands on fun at that end of the bar. The girls at Soi 15 entrance end seem to be solitary creatures.

Both ends of the bar suffer from an over long dance roster of at least 7 dance songs. I tend to take this is a cue to move on.

The music is always of the dance variety but wildly random volume levels make for very different experiences. Sometimes it is very loud, similar to Casnovy and sometimes the music is kept down. One has to suspect that it's something to do with the boss being present or not.

Anyway I have certainly had a few good sessions mostly at the Club end of the bar and it is definitely on my regular circuit.

  News Dec 2008: Merged into Shark Club

Shark Club and Shark A-GoGo have now been merged into one with the name Shark Club A-GoGo. There are still separate teams of girls with mamasang at each end of the enormous bar area, but the dividing walls have been removed.

The Shark A-GoGo end of the bar now seems to have taken on the procedures of Shark Club.

This include the girls being hands on friendly. I surely enjoyed my stay in the bar. Seems a big improvement on the old Shark A-GoGo

  Review Dec 2008: Enjoyable

The bar seems to have calmed down a bit from when I first stopped by when it seemed one of the most lawless bars on the circuit.

I now enjoy the bar and nearly always seem to find a pretty girl to play with. It is surely a hands on bar but not quite as raunchy as Windmill or Babydolls. But by way of a compromises they have a regular supply of very pretty girls.

There are usually about 20 girls in the bar of which 7 are dancing a circuit of 7 tables. This leaves a fair amount of time for the girls to get busy on their potential customers, but when they go dance 7 songs is too long and is often a cue to depart. The dancing dress code is generally well revealing.

The drinks are a little pricey but just about within range.

It seems strange that this bar is so much better than Tiger A-GoGo and Tiger Lounge in the same ownership.

  Review March 2008: Suck It and See

I have never quite got the hang of this bar. It seems just a matter of luck whether the girls are feeling naughty or demure.

There are a fair few pretty girls and perhaps not quite enough customers. So the girls can get a little bored. But if you catch them at the right time, they can be a lot of fun.

The table dancers used to look for tips but the excess of table dancing venues tended to put a stop to this style of operation.

The chances of bagging a pretty girl for a bit of fun on your lap make this bar worth a visit, but one should be ready to make a quick departure when there is nothing doing.

Silver Star 3 A-GoGo

Walking Street (near Beach Road)

From 8pm

Lively and expensive Thai owned gogo opened 16th September 2006

Nov 11 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 1000
	95	115	110	120-150	110-130

Beware of mamasangs asking for girls fees upfront. Not only is it very expensive but it also likely to stir up trouble when the girls dream up the oh too common excuse to turn long time into short time.

  Review October 2010: Jam Packed

The bar hasn't really sorted out the design issues of the front section of the bar feeling a little more like a corridor than part of the bar. Dancing cages have now appeared rather than the simple table dancing positions that were there before.

It was not attracting many customers and most were quickly moving on to the very busy back section.

The main stage was packed with girls dressed in a range of bikini to nothing. Plenty of attractive girls on show. and lots of customers seem to like the format of the bar. There was also a show which is basically the same as usual just with less clothes.

The sheer number of people makes for quite a lively atmosphere. But I wasn't entirely convinced by the plus points as the downside of the number of girls dancing, is that they don't get much time with customers before they are called up for another session of adding to the dancing scrum.

  Review March 2010: Dance Too Long

I have never really found much to attract me to Silver Star, so it has been  year since my last visit.

The 'good' news was that high end drinks prices have been frozen for a year, and the draft beer is still 'just' 95 Baht.

I didn't get far into the bar though, as I was recognised by several girls dancing on the tables in the corridor area. It seems that half a dozen of the Blue Lagoon girls have made this their new home.

Strangely the sofas in this section of the bar are already dilapidated and it has only been open for a little over a year. It didn't seem to be due to over-use, as I was about the only customer sitting in the corridor section.

The inner section of the bar seemed to be doing good business though, with plenty of girls and customers.

Anyway I didn't stay long as the girls dance for too many songs with too short a break to make it worthwhile buying then a drink. Pretty much the same as a year ago.

  Review March 2009: Lonely Corridor

The bar has now extended with a new section of the bar at the front nearest Walking Street. Several table dancing stages have been added.

Perhaps a little bit early to judge, but it seemed a very lonely entertainment area. There were dancers for each table but there were no spare girls available for chatting with customers. As other customers are continually passing through to the main area of the bar it felt a little bit like sitting in a lonely corridor and missing out on more interesting entertainment inside.

Certainly not worth the expensive 95 Baht for a draft beer. But no doubt things will change, they'll have to.

  Review Nov 2008: Location Location Location

Expensive beers and hassle on previous visits makes for a rare review for this bar. It also doesn't capture much interest from reviewers on other Pattaya websites and in particular, on the forums.

But the bar was doing very well at a mid evening visit. Perhaps comfortably half full.

There are also plenty of girls employed in the bar covering the whole range of pretty to not. They had a naked dancing show for the prettiest half of the staff and the stage was packed. Lots of eye candy. The pretty girls suddenly vanished out of sight at the end of the show though. Presumably there is an upstairs changing room and dancing area.

Nobody hassled me either which was a good job as the pretty girls were upstairs.

I didn't stay beyond a beer, but I'll just let the number of customers let it be a testament that the bar must be doing something right...(Beyond being the first bar in Walking Street that is)

  Review from Steve Feb 2008: Unimpressed

I’ve been frequenting the Silver Star GoGo on Walking Street recently, and have not been too impressed. In fact, after my last visit, I don’t think I will ever go back there.

The drinks in this bar are over-priced. I can live with 120 Baht for a gin & tonic, or 130 Baht for a lady tequila, but it’s the persistent pressure from the service staff to buy then drinks that bugs me.

I can live with that, too, after all you can just say no. But then on my last visit some nonsense started, with the mamasan telling the dancer I was sitting with that she had to come and clean the bar instead of sit with me between dances. Never mind the fact that the dancer was on her third or fourth tequila on my bin! The girl told me it’s no problem, just buy mamasan a drink and she won’t have to go clean the bar. What a load of bollox!

The girl went back dancing, and I went to the hong nahm for a leak. When I came back, some guy and his girl had settled themselves down in my seat. Never mind the fact that it had two drinks on the table. Never mind the fact that it had my bin full of receipts on it. Obviously, after the ‘bar cleaning’ episode, this was just another way to show their displeasure that I hadn’t bought a drink for any of the service staff that night.

OK, I can take a hint, I checked bin and left and will not be going back. And that’s another thing that annoys me about this place, the bills are all poorly hand-written and it’s difficult to check the total in the dim light.

There’s nothing wrong with the dancers in this bar, but the ‘service’ staff seems to inhabit a parallel dimension and the ‘shows’ are a waste of time.

I met the same dancer from Silver Star in one of the more reasonably-priced Walking Street GoGo’s. She told me that in Silver Star, it seems, to stop the ladies leaving, they will only pay them for the month after they have worked six weeks or more, so the lady will always lose at least 2 weeks of pay if she changes bar.

So my advice is to avoid the place. Oh, and it’s Thai-owned, so don’t bother complaining.

  Review May 2007: Quickly Established

The bar seems to have established itself quickly. I visited it at peak time and it was more crowded than most Walking Street bars at this time. And the customers seemed to be enjoying themselves.

There were about 10 attractive dancing girls on stage, half a dozen were in a circuit that dances topless and the others were in another rota and danced naked. There were the same number on hostess duty whilst waiting there turn to dance

There were a couple of girls frolicking in a Jacuzzi but past experience suggested that they can be bothersome on hassling for tips.

The bar offers as much fun as many of the top names on Walking Street. The only reason I don't visit more often is that the drink prices are higher than average and that the bar allows too much hassle for tips including a toilet jockey.

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

Now Relaxxx A-GoGo.

Sisterz

Walking Street

Opened 6th September 2007. Closed 31st January 2010. Now The Cavern, See above

Smile Rock Girl's A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

Very small gogo took over from Rock Girls A-GoGo in June 2008

June 08 Key						Takeaway: -showgirls 700 -dancers 600 Room:
	55*

*small glass

  Review July 2010: Smile...Not

Smile Girls A-GoGo is a tiny bar with bench seating down ether side of a central narrow stage. This leaves little space for the walkways down either side of the stage.

There's usually 3 girls on stage, 2 dancing, and the other soaping herself down in the Jacuzzi embedded in the centre of the stage. The girls are distinctly below average but the bar at least tries to get a couple of decent looking girls for Jacuzzi duty.

There's a cheap draft beer at 55 Baht.

Some of the girls can be quite hands on, and I've seen a few customers enjoying the attention.

But unfortunately the overall attitude towards customers is that of hassle. Some of the girls try to bully for tips way beyond the level acceptable in other Walking Street GoGos. I've found it an unpleasant bar to drink in on a couple of occasions.

  Review November 2009: Play Stage

Smile Girls A-GoGo recently had a quick re-fit. They have installed a Jacuzzi/play stage replacing part of the central dancing stage.

Perhaps even better, they have re-fitted some of the girls ensuring that there are now a few that are pleasing on the eye.

The very small size is surely very restrictive on the bar, as there is nowhere for a play area with ringside seating. I am sure the girls would be up for it. They seem quite hands on friendly.

The beer is still cheap albeit a smallish glass.

Anyway a good improvement at the moment. 

  Review September 2009:  Friendly Enough

A very small gogo that perhaps has done well to keep going.

On my visit there were 6 dancers of which 3 were dancing at anyone time. The dress code was topless. Of the 6, only one would have been on most customer's barfine list.

To give them their due though, the dancers were friendly enough and a couple of customers were enjoying themselves.

  Review March 2009:  Show and a Half

The dancing girls are not really up to scratch but seem friendly enough if you want to be take care of. However there were a couple of attractive showgirls.

They were pretty enough to get my interest but their show seemed never ending so I gave up the notion. I was told that the show goes on for an hour.

  Review from Pattaya Polecat, August 2008:  Spoiled Regular

A narrow little bar with a dozen dancers, a handful of whom are as pretty and playful as any you’ll meet in Pattaya.

One lady drink gets you a lot of attention – a 100-baht note gets you some very intimate attention, I noticed last night – and it doesn’t take long to become a spoiled regular.

Soapy/lesbian show around midnight.

  News June 2008: A Challenge

It seems a Pattaya tradition to totally re-develop a bar each time it changes hands. Perhaps it is psychologically easier to blame the layout of a bar for its ills rather than the bar management or policies.

Anyway the change over from Rock Girls to Smile Girls breaks the trend and has been implemented in a somewhat minimalist (read cheapest) way possible.

The bar is somewhat aesthetically challenged in both decor and girls. The bar is surely not going to attract any that pop their head around the door for a look see.

I stayed for a drink and sort of watched the 3 or 4 dancing girls, mostly bikini clad but one girl took offer her top.

The girls were making an effort to come and say hello but I was a little ruthless and fended them off somewhat brusquely. At least they kept trying rather than usual assumption that if you reject the first girl then you are not after company.

There were a couple of attractive girls in the bar but as soon I showed the vaguest flicker of interest, the mamasang was over like lightening to hassle to buy the girl a lady drink.

All this did was hassle me out the door.

Snowice

Walking Street
(Beach Road end)

Opened as a coyote show bar in October 2009 but soon released that less clothes is best. The venue redeveloped as a GoGo in November 2009 but this didn't last long. The bar has been removed and the space used for pool tables

Spanky's

Soi Diamond

Well known Bangkok show bar which opened an expensive Pattaya branch on 3rd December 2011

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway: 700
		120-135	130	130+		150

  Review December 2011: The Wallet Takes a Spanking

The bar has had a pretty low key opening with most early visitors reporting very few girls working in the bar.

On my visit there were 6 dancers on stage on 2 waiting in the wings. They were an attractive crew and were putting a fair amount of effort into their dancing. The girls were nicely dressed in mostly not very much. Thankfully no sign of coyotes here.

The small team of girls made for a pretty impossible situation. By my observation they were dancing 75% of their time and if you offered a lady drink, the girl would be back on stage barely before she had time to drink it.

The bar is pretty small, with the now almost mandatory central stage surround by a couple of tiers of comfortable bench seating. There's a Jacuzzi feature but it wasn't being used on my visit. And as a bit of nod to Angelwitch, the bar has an upper gallery from which the girls can slide down poles to the stage.

However there was no sign of a show. Maybe this is something for the future for when the bar gains momentum. After all the Bangkok branch is known for shows. I suspect the bar may prove a little small though to become a show venue. Maybe the small size will mean not enough customers to share the overheads of a show.

The staff were friendly and the mamasang was particularly personable.

I don't think I'll be rushing back though. Especially with a coke being a very expensive 130 Baht. I was a bit gob smacked being asked to pay such a premium price when the bar was operating at such a minimal level. I think they need an opening promotion to keep the drinks prices down until such a times as there is a premium product to justify them.

Its always tricky for bars to start up, it it very tough to get girls until the bar is up and running for the girls to see a good prospective employment. But for the moment the bar offers very poor value indeed, at least for coke drinkers.

Super Baby A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

www.superagogo.com

One of the most consistent bars with one of the prettiest line ups in Pattaya. Not really a bar for chatting to the girls. More like pick a number and go.

Mar 10 Key							Takeway: -festivities 2000 -showgirl 700 -dancer 600 Fixed rates: 2000 ST/3000LT
		120	110	110	160	120

 Review from RickG, March 2010: Super Excuses

I got there about 11:30 pm, and the club was not very busy. About 10 or 11 girls on the centre stage and the shower / bath area at the back was populated by four attractive girls, but no one seemed to notice. There were some very cute girls on stage, some of the hottest on the street, hardly a bad egg amongst them. A couple of 9's a bunch of 8's and the rest better looking than the girls at an average go-go bar.

As I sat down, I looked into the eyes of one of the hottest girls in the club, I smiled at her. To my astonishment, she smiled back. I offered to buy her a drink, she didn't respond at first. I repeated my request and she agreed.

I had just established that she was a local girl from Chonburi, pale skinned and exquisite, she had worked at SuperBaby for four months and had a 3 year old son. I was just about to enquire whether her magnificent breasts were completely real, when she started to clutch her stomach and say she was hungry. She indicated she had her own food, and she disappeared to go fill up, leaving her drink almost untouched.

She reappeared just in time to start her dance cycle on stage. I counted the songs, .. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Ten songs! this is ridiculous! I am not a patient man, but this girl seemed worth waiting for. She had been on stage for over 30 mins. Finally she collected her bikini top, and headed off stage. But she disappeared in the crowd. I was surprised to see she was sitting with some other guys.

I called over the mamasang, and explained the story. She spoke to her and got some story about thinking I didn't want her to sit with me. I protested that I was not going to pay for a lady drink for less than 5 mins of companionship, even with a hot girl, then kept waiting for 40 mins just to be dumped. Without a moments hesitation she pulled the second slip from the bin and told me I didn't have to pay for the lady drink. I paid up and made a hasty exit.

This behaviour is very unusual. There is a kind of agreement that the girl will sit with you till she has finished her drink. To walk away without finishing a drink is a broken promise, that gets go-go dancers and the club a bad name.

  Review from Ishi, Jan 2010: The Show Must Go On

Super Baby and Super Girl have show time again but just for Jacuzzi girls.

The difference between normal time and show time is just brightness (darker for show) and music (slower for show). The dancers on the stages no longer change their costumes.

Of course the Jacuzzi girls are naked all time, so it's impossible to change costumes for them. And the Jacuzzi girls dance as usual.

I happened to hear that the DJ said, Show Time. so I could tell which is which. But I was not sure so I confirmed with a service girl: Is this show time? She said: Yes. For the Shower Girls.

  Review from materialsman, July 2009: Faded Glory

Considering this was a Friday night, albeit in a supposed low, low season, I have to admit I have never seen Baby so devoid of customers, shocking to me really, considering the line up of lithe limbed young ‘hotties’ that is the norm for a Bar catering to the discerning Asian gentleman.

The line up was pretty reasonable, but they looked fairly bored by the lack of the 4-4-4 customers on this particular evening, and I feel that as much as I like the ‘Japanese’ look of the ladies, being an aficionado of their style of perverted pornography, it didn’t suit some of the girls on stage, I think that sort of curly, back combed hair look only works if the girl has the right facial features. So again we only had a couple of beers in the place, and frankly without the customer base they are famed for, the place is starting to look like a bit of a ‘faded glory’ Bar at present. Still a fairly good line up on stage though, so they are forgiven and I will always go back there.

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, Jan 2009: Super Market?

More like a meat market than any other gogo in Pattaya. I visit at least once per trip, but one drink is enough.

Pretty girls, many slim, but after awhile the girls start to look the same. Dress the same, dance the same, many with light coloured hair.

The music is crap.

Seen many guys (and not only Asians) call a girl down, she has no more than a sip of her drink before she is off to the changing room. To each their own and good luck to them.

  Review July 2007: Pretty Much the Same

I sat down and ordered a coke and the service girl kindly pointed out that it would be 100 Baht. The service is always spot on at Super Baby with a high ratio of servers to customers.

As always there were mostly pretty girls upon stage although a couple were a bit tubbier than I would have expected. The girls dance a ludicrously long dance stint, but then again, they never have customers who are waiting for them to return.

The girls were all dancing topless with a semi transparent skirt. When they finish their dancing they wear a bra as opposed to a lighter bikini top. The girls dance without expression or smiles or much eye contact. This is under instruction rather than out of unfriendliness.

'Pick a number and go' bars are not really my thing but if that is what you prefer this bar is still number one.

Super Girl

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 8pm

www.superagogo.com

Sister bar to Super Baby. An original pick a number 'n' go bar that features very pretty girls who do not interact in any way (not even a smile) until you pick out their number

Mar 10 Key							Takeaway: -festivities 2000 -showgirl 700 -dancer 600 Fixed rates: 2000 ST/3000LT
		120	110	110	160	120

  Review November 2010: The Sun Never Sets

Pretty much the same as always.

The stage is full of very good looking girls doing a very slow rotation of about 10 songs. Mostly dancing with a vacant look and an unsmiling face, but friendly enough if you catch their attention. The girls tends to have overtly styled hairdos presumably as these appeal to the Japanese customers usually forming the majority in the bar. Note that the bar is in no way exclusive, everyone is equally welcome.

There is also a Jacuzzi with some equally good looking girls but they don't do much beyond soaping themselves down.

There is no interaction in this bar unless customers make a specific request for a girl.

The drinks and girls prices in the bar have been traditionally on the high end. But these have been held for quite a while and other bars have caught up.

Not really a very animated bar, and there are many bars that are a lot more fun. But if you want to partake in quietly watching girls dance for a couple of beers while choosing a pretty girl, then there are few better.

  Review from Ishi, Jan 2010: The Show Must Go On

Super Baby and Super Girl have show time again but just for Jacuzzi girls.

The difference between normal time and show time is just brightness (darker for show) and music (slower for show). The dancers on the stages no longer change their costumes.

Of course the Jacuzzi girls are naked all time, so it's impossible to change costumes for them. And the Jacuzzi girls dance as usual.

I happened to hear that the DJ said, Show Time. so I could tell which is which. But I was not sure so I confirmed with a service girl: Is this show time? She said: Yes. For the Shower Girls.

  Review November 2009: Sudsy Bikini

A quick look around the rapidly revealed that not much is changing in Super Girls.

There were still plenty of good looking girls coiffed up with Japan pleasing hair styles. They were dancing a long spell on the central stage followed by another song on a table dancing stage..

They were all dancing topless. But perhaps a subtle change is that the girls were smiling compare with rather blank faces that seem to have been mandated in the bar up until this visit.

A Jacuzzi has been installed in the bar a fair few months ago and I was fascinated by the pointlessness of this particular attraction. There were 3 girls partaking but there was no interaction between them. They were all simply doing an insipid dance as per the rest of the girls on stage. One may argue that the attraction is that the girls are naked but as far as I could see the girls were busy forming the soap suds into a replacement bikini bottom. Nothing to see of interest there then.

But as always, the bar seemed to be doing well with a decent amount of customers appreciating the pick 'n' go style of the bar.

  Review Feb 2009: Super Lookers

The bar is sticking with a well tried and tested policy of very good looking girls and a pick a number and go selection method.

Maybe even the prettiest line up in town at the moment. Strange that it doesn't really attract so many farangs as Happy and Peppermint and several others. Well not so strange really, as perhaps the way the bar works is more targetted towards Japanese and Korean visitors. There is nothing exclusive about this bar though, all visitors are welcomed here. Maybe something to bear in mind for anyone thinking that Pattaya gogos are all members only.

Anyway there are usually about a dozen girls dancing on the central stage with another couple at small podiums next to the main stage. The dress code is topless with slightly see through skirts and no knickers.

There is also a Jacuzzi featuring 3 naked girls but I didn't see anything naughty that you may come to expect from a Pattaya Jacuzzi. Could have been down to a lack of tips though.

The music keeps the girls entranced to the point of being zombiefied when dancing. By all accounts the girls are perfectly friendly if you call them down from the stage. It is just the stage that is a smile free environment.  Saying that I did spot a few more smiles than I remember from previous visits.

The drinks prices are on the high end of the scale but not our of order.

  Review June 2008: Super Friendly

I generally avoid the Super bars as I don't really go for the vacant unsmiling expressions and the general onus on the customers to select a girl by number.

It is rumoured that the glum stare whist dancing is a nod to Japanese guys preferring it that way.

Anyway I paid a rare visit to Super Girl and I caught the attention of a happy smiling dancer who acknowledged a gesture with a big smile back.

As soon as her dance stint was over she bounded over for a chat. She was a bubbly girl and made for good company.

Surely out of character for the bar but I soon found out the reason why. It was her first day there.

I promised to go back in a few days and check whether she has learnt the zombie expression yet. I told her that it would be perfectly alright if she decided to blank me out totally. I would put it down to a successful induction into the Super Girl ethos.

  Review from polleke, Oct 2007: Nothing special

Sat down and saw an average bunch of (friendly) girls dancing on a central stage and 4 in each corner. Some of them topless.

Stayed over for one beer and left Just nothing special compared to sister bar across the soi

  Review from Pattaya Secrets, May 2007: Super Suds

The bar seems to have changed its extremely conservative policy and bowed to pressures to move with the times. The bar has installed a Jacuzzi and a table dancing stage.

Some of the girls who preferred the original format have now moved across to Super Baby.

However the girls still seem pretty emotionless and do little to circulate amongst the customers. It is sometimes good to have a hassle free environment but it makes for rather a spiritless environment

  Review Dec 2006: Is It Hot Or Is It Not

I reserve this gogo to visit when I am showing round older friends or relatives who would like to see what goes on in Walking Street.

The bar seems happy to cater for customers who clearly have no interest in barfines and the like. So it is welcoming from that view point. Also there is nothing overly naughty going on. Just a few topless marking time or slightly swaying to the music. There a few shows to break the monotony. They are nude but hardly likely to shock my up country aunts.

The girls are young and pretty but dance with dance with a vacant stare that simply does not engage or encourage the audience.

If a customer is into whispering a number into a waitresses ear, then surely a pretty smiling face will appear that is hot and ready to trot. The bored looking faces seem restricted to the dance floor. The girls seem happy enough when supping on lady drinks.

If you don't whisper a number to a waitress then it is unlikely that the girls will bother you off their own accord.

As a seasoned campaigner I prefer a bar where the sex is a little more in your face. But those preferring a 'pick a number and go' type bar seem to enjoy the offerings of this bar.

Similar style to the associated Super Baby, but this bar is the much quieter of the two.

Super Model A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Opened March 2005 until June 2007. Now Gentleman's Club, see above

Sweetheart's A-GoGo

Walking Street (central)

From 8:30pm

Table dancing opened 12th March 2007. The venue was previously The Roof and before that, Highway Star A-GoGo.

Jan 12 Key								Takeaway: -1800 festivities -600 Room: -200
	to 10pm	59	95	59	59	125	95
from 10pm		65	105	65	95-125	125

  Review December 2011: Steady

I popped in for my very occasional beer and everything is about the same as usual. Except that the drinks prices have edged up. They are still within the very reasonable range, but are now more psychologically expensive than major bars with prettier girls and less clothes.

The friendly greeter made his welcome, leaving me to scan the bar. There were plenty of girls with 6 dancing at any one time. They were doing an excellently short dancing roster of just 3 songs. That would be great for customers awaiting their drinking partner to return from her dance shift.

But actually there weren't any customers that I could see sitting with girls. Most seemed to have been attracted in by the open door policy. Other bars just don't seem quite so welcoming to tourists with just a passing interest in GoGos. This rather left groups of customers, several of them ladies,  chatting amongst themselves rather than being interested in the girls.

The bar still is designed around table dancing which is not a comfortable viewing position, too much neck craning and the likes. Also there's no fun if the girls are all respectably clad in full bikinis.

So as usual, I left everybody in the bar enjoying doing their own thing and moved on. A traditional and perfectly pleasant, but unexciting, one beer visit.

  Review May 2010: Narrow Minded

The combination of cheap prices and an 'all welcome' policy continue to keep the bar busy.

Thereafter things seem to drift for me a little. The bikini clad table dancing does not really hit the mark for me, and does not offer the right opportunity to catch the eye of a dancer.

There are usually a good number of girls, especially  for the smallish size of the bar. (Thinking about narrow bars, this must be one of the most successful in dealing with what is usually quite a handicap of a layout). The girls are about average, but average is not a negative term on Walking Street.

There's often a few customers enjoying a bit of 'in yer lap' fun too.

The music is oldie farang friendly and there are plenty of service girls on hand to keep the drinks flowing steadily.

A well sound bar then, makes me wonder why I never stay for more than a beer. Perhaps I have a deep psychological issue with the lack of nudity.

  Review August 2009: Open Door

The bar still seems to be doing quite well in drawing in some of the passing foot trade that would otherwise give gogos a miss.

The bar has about 20 dancers of which 8 are dancing a 4 song shift on 4 tables. The girls are all strictly bikini clad which is related to the open door policy of the bar. Some if the girls can be quite hands on, perhaps beyond what one may expect from an open door bar.

The bar features very reasonable prices for more or less everything on the menu. The dancers and the staff are quite friendly and the owner makes a point of a personal welcome too.

  Review Feb 2009: Warm Welcome

Sweethearts still seems to be doing well. The open door policy coupled with reasonable drinks prices seems to attract a wider range of customers than most gogos.

The owner makes an effort to welcome customers which came as something of a shock as I am not used to being sought out. I usually try and hide away from farangs behind a lap full of girls.

The girls are strictly bikini clad and I guess this is coupled with the open door policy. The girls are not quite top notch but there are plenty who I would entertain on my lap. In fact I stayed single on my last visit. I was coveting my neighbour's hostess, she was lovely.

Of the bars without shows or naughty stuff, this is one of the more successful. Probably down to the cheap drinks and warm welcome.

  Review May 2008: Open to the World

The bar seems to have carved out a niche that is attracting a good crowd.

It is just a little bit more inviting than most gogos. It leaves the front door open so that passers by can see the table dancing within.

The open door policy probably provides a little encouragement for inquisitive tourists who maybe a little shy to venture into the unknown of a closed door bar.

The bar is more friendly than most to South Asian and Middle Eastern tourists too.

The downside for the more hardened gogo addict, is that the open door policy means that there is no nudity or naughty shows for passers by to see (or customers for that matter)

The girls are average but that still means that there are some good looking girls.

The music is oldie farang and the drinks prices are very reasonable.

Good to see a bar catering for a wider audience than most. There's plenty of room in Pattaya for a bit of variety.

  Review Sep 2007: Still One Beer

The bar has policies in place to make this a successful GoGo. The drinks prices are competitive and the barfines are amongst the cheapest in Pattaya's gogos. There are always managers on hand for a chat, or to sort out problems.

As a result the bar has now built up a large team of dancing girls of which many are attractive.

The good policies enable a good bar, but actual fun is still down to individually how one hits it off with the girls. Unfortunately on my visits, the girls have been a little standoffish and so I have rarely stayed long. There is no reason why others shouldn't be luckier.

Another recent negative is that the bar seemed to react more cautiously than most to the worries about a police visit. The girls were distinctly overdressed when other bars were still taking risks.

T

Taboo Club

Covent Garden
Walking Street Soi 16

Opened 19th Oct 2006 until 17th March 2008, previously Babe Watch A-GoGo. Now Black & Whte: X Zone 2, see below

Tahitian Queen 2

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Old style US oriented rock and roll gogo. Established in 1991. Closed in October 2011. Now Bada Bing A-GoGo

Teaser's GoGo Club

Walking Street

Opened Nov 2005 but closed by Jan 2006. Now Rhino A-GoGo

See also Teazers coyote dancing bar

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Now converted to a Lady boy bar.

Tiger Club A-GoGo

Soi Diamond, upstairs

Opened February 2006. Previously The Roof and then New Player. Closed in Autumn 2007. Reports of a brief re-opening in July 2008. The name is now used by Tiger Lounge

Tiger Club A-GoGo

Walking Street
At Soi Diamond (upper floor)

Coyote dancing opened Jan 2007. Nude by mid 2008. Tiger Club and Shark Club A-GoGo are in the same ownership. Drinks and barfines are expensive.

Oct 11 Key								Takeaway: -LT 1000 -ST 600 Room: 300 + Barfine
	to 9:30	60		60	60
from 9:30		70 small	130	100	100-140	150	125-180

  Review September 2011: Roaring trade

Another first visit after recent renovations. And it seems to have followed a bit of a trend that the bar is improved after renovation. I don't suppose that the improvement is much to do with the physical changes, but more to do with making an effort by employing more staff so as to get more from the changes.

The bar has been cut down in size by partitioning off the back section. Surely this makes the main section of the bar feel busier, not to see a cavernous empty space.

Also the new Jacuzzi adds to the sights to watch. It wasn't really dragging down any customers to sit close by, but it adds to the overall atmosphere as there are plenty of things going on.

The bar was actually as lively as I have seen it in recent times, with lots of girls dancing, but still lots of girls sitting with customers and generally being quite interactive.

Long time Pattaya mamasang Jesse (looks a bit like Tina Turner) was doing a good job ensuring that the girls were approaching customers.

All in all a lively venue which is worth a visit.

  News from Ishi, July 2011: Re-opened after  Renovation

The bar re-opened on 22nd July after a month or so of renovations.

The main stage (with 4 dancers) has not changed, but the remainder of the bar has been down sized using a curtain.

The bar counter has moved next to the entrance up from Walking Street.

A Jacuzzi with 3 dancers has been installed close to the main stage.

  Review January 2011: A Change of Stripes

The Tiger/Shark bars have often made for enjoyable visits. They feature that rare mix of good looking AND hands on friendly girls. However the bars have also been somewhat flawed by long dance rosters and expensive drinks (with the gimmick of discounts hardly worth having).

In the last couple of months the bars have seen a change of approach which has put Tiger back on my favourites list. Drinks prices have been reduced and are now on the cheaper half of the Pattaya scale. Lady drinks are 120 and draft beer is 60 Baht (45 Baht in Happy Hour).

Also the bar has changed the dance rostering so that the girls dance for a fxed amount of time (15 or 20 minutes). The girls are in 2 teams which swap over at the ends of each shift.

I guess that these changes are related to the new sister bar at Fahrenheit which seems to be doing very good business on these terms.

Anyway Tiger has been a good place to visit in the last few weeks

  Review May 2010: Vestigial Features

Tiger still seems to be the weaker link of the three areas of the Tiger/Shark bars.

The bar runs more or less the same as the others but somehow seems to retain the least interactive girls of the three.

The bar has loads of table dancing stages and they are brought into play according to the number of girls. Whenever I have been in there have been far too many girls set to dancing with not really enough set to work hostessing. This leaves the bar being a little less fun than Shark, particularly the old Shark Club end.

I think that the difference is simply down to vestigial differences from when the bars were separate entities. Shark Club was easily best then, so people who still remember these times tend to gravitate there. No doubt this will fade with time.

That's not to say fun isn't available in Tiger, it's just less likely.

The girls are generally good looking and so there's no problems on that front.

The music is strictly of the dance variety and the volume tends to be a bit inconsistent.

The drinks prices have been pushed up to the top end and offer a little less value than some of the bar's competitors. Same ball park though, not a massive difference.

  Review August 2009: Tiger Stirs

Tiger Lounge is in the same ownership as Shark Club A-GoGo and on previous visits was very much the poor relation despite operating nearly exactly the same as Shark.

The difference previously was that there were simply too many dancers dancing and not enough left to look after the customers. On my last visit they had recruited enough girls to provide some individual entertainment for the customers.

And sure enough, the girls had a good hands on attitude to customer service and indeed a good time ensured.

The dance circuit is very long though, so as per Shark Bar, when your girl 'go dance, then it is often a cue to move on.

The draft beer prices have recently crept up 10 Baht to 85 Baht for a decent sized glass.

  Review March 2009: A Long Safari

Tiger A-GoGo has now been extended so that the open space between the bar and the stairs has been incorporated into the bar. It somehow makes for neater and more enticing entrance.

No doubt it will have to change soon but the extended operation is a disaster.

About half a dozen new table dancing positions have been created in the new front section of the bar. The bar seemed to have just added these new positions into the dance rotation such that the girls now have to dance 8 songs. Way too long for the girl, and way too long for any customer waiting for their return.

In fact 13 girls were dancing out of the 19 names on the white board. Too much dancing and not enough taking care of the customers.

If you do try the bar it is best to sit in the back section. The girls start their long stint in the front section and tend to congregate there just when they are about to start on their dance marathon. Better to watch from the back section to catch them as they are finishing their dancing.

Top Girls

Walking Street: Soi 14

Bells and whistles show venue for Asian tour parties. Now Illusion Pattaya Club, see above

ToyZ A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

ToyZ started life as Catz in November 2005 in the Covent Garden Complex on Soi 16.
Catz renamed to ToyZ in January 2010 but closed in summer 2011.
ToyZ re-opened at the new Soi 15 venue on 16th December 2011.

The venue has had a chequered history:

• Previously Nui's A-GoGo, but then was empty for several years
• Opened as Club 69 in Feb 2007.  Renamed as Sakura Club 69 in April 2007 but closed in July 2007.
• Re-opened in October 2007 and lasted until February 2009.
• Re-opened in July 2009 and lasted until May 2010.
• Re-opened on 1st October 2010. Closed 21st October 2010.
• Re-opened on 14th February 2011. Renamed Climax A-GoGo in March 2011. Closed 17th November 2011
• Re-opened as ToyZ on 16th December 2011.

Dec 11 Key							Takeaway: -showgirl 1000 -nude dancer 800 -other dancer 600 - late night dsicounts
	to 9:30pm	65		65	65	115
from 9:30pm		65		95

  Review, December 2011: Good Start

ToyZ is easily the best of the recent GoGo openings. The bar has near instantly established a lively and fun filled atmosphere with not an agency coyote girl in sight.

The mamasang is from the original ToyZ in Covent Garden, and reportedly has rounded up a fair few girls from the old bar.

There was plenty of interaction between the girls and the customers and many of the girls seemed quite hands on friendly.

The bar itself is pretty much the same layout as it has been for a long time with the square centre stage surrounded by 3 walls of bench seating.

The Jacuzzi has been shifted out from its previously badly tucked away location but it still has a limited viewing arc. Perhaps it will be hands on friendly and command its own little audience of waterside devotees.

The centre stage was filled with dancers in all stages of undress, and definitely no coyotes. They were all putting a reasonable effort into their dancing.

The drinks are reasonably priced too.

In fact the only downside is the on-going ToyZ policy of long dance rosters. The current system is for a 9 song stint. Way too long! As soon I spotted that my drinking partner would be away for so long, my mind started to drift towards the delights of Babydolls next door.

Actually there were always many good things about the old ToyZ, but when the bar wasn't buzzing, and the dancers weren't quite so enthusiastic, then the long dance rosters made the bar boring. I hope they don't make the same mistake here. They have to bear in mind that Babydolls is right next door and they have an excellently brief 4 song dance sequence.

But for the moment ToyZ is lively and fun and so this is not really so much of an issue.

  News from Ishi, December 2011: First Impressions

The bar opened on 16th December 2011.

The bar looks pretty much like it did as Climax but there is now a 2 girl Jacuzzi feature.

There were 30 dancers in the bar. Of these 9 dancers were on the stage at a time. Some were bottomless (Bar Fine: 800B) and others were topless (Bar Fine : 600B).  Thankfully there were no coyotes.

Walking Street: Soi BJ

Now Bada Bing A-GoGo, see above

Tramps A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

Previously Bells & whistles show bar which ran between Nov 2006 until May 2008. Reopened as more traditional GoGo on 28th January 2010.  but it didn't work and was closed by May.

U

Utopia A-GoGo

Soho Square
Walking Street

Originally opened as a coyote nightclub in June 2008.
Converted to GoGo in July 2008. Closed in March 2009.
Re-opened under new management still as a GoGo on 8th October 2009.
Changed hands in February 2011.

Dec 11 Key						Takeaway: 600
	59	120	90		130

  Review January 2012: Not Quite Utopia

I visited at prime time and the bar seemed to be doing OK.

There were half a dozen girls dancing on the stage in a wide range of dress from coyote down to very little. There were a couple of very attractive dancers and they were making quite an effort on the dancing front.

The layout of the bar looks a bit of challenge. The U shaped bar gives no central place for the dancers. They use just one leg of the 'u' and it does not have enough comfortable seating. So mostly they are expecting customers to use stools.

There were a fair few customers but there seemed to be a pretty rapid turnover. Perhaps not enough girls to keep more than a handful of customers amused by on the hostessing front.

The girls were being friendly enough though, and they were approaching customers.

The bar seems a pleasant place for a drink, but is not quite convincing enough to stay for two.

  Review February 2011: New Management

Utopia A-GoGo re-opened after a short break on 26th February with a new management team in place.

I didn't spot anything drastic changing in the layout. The main stage is in front section of the bar where there is just a little bench seating but mostly stools. There's more comfortable seating at the back of the bar but it is way too far from the stage.

It takes a while for a bar to gain momentum in recruiting girls, so not really very valid to comment in the first few days. There were perhaps too few girls but some were attractive enough.

The dress code was bikini or semi transparent skirts like at Super Baby with not much else underneath. Some girls danced topless.

The drinks prices follow Pattaya norms at 65 Baht for a decent sized draft beer, 120 Baht for bottled beer, 90 Baht for soft drinks and 120 Baht for lady drinks. There is an opening offer of 20% off all these prices making 52 Baht for draft, 96 Baht for bottled beer & lady drinks, 72 Baht for soft drinks.

There was a mamasang doing a good job in circulating around the customers to check that all was well.

The bar is farang managed and seems set to progress. I would guess the biggest challenges will be the southerly location and the lack of comfortable seating with a view.

  Review June 2010: Showing Effort

The bar seems to be trying a bit of everything to try and carve a niche for a GoGo in the wrong end of town.

And in terms of a GoGo bar with a bit of a show it is worth a look. There were 7 or 8 girls dancing on the main stage and a couple on tables around the corner. They were dancing in various stages of undress and there were a few decent looking girls on the team.

The bar also have an erotic show that is the usual taking off of clothes song by song.

The bar wasn't succeeding in getting the girls very interactive with the customers though. The usual too many dancing girls and a bar layout allowing off duty girls to hide round the corner, so avoiding signals and smiles.

Also the bar has a broader than usual range of customer nationalities, so perhaps the show idea works better than barfines and lady drinks approach.

  News, October 2009: I Don't Go to GoGo's to Watch Pretty Girls Dance!

The upstairs gogo has made a few alterations since it closed a few months ago. Sensibly it has created a new flight of stairs directly up from Walking Street. This provides a much clearer focus for the welcome staff to usher people in.

Once inside, the entrance has shifted a bit but the bar is still rather dissected in two the same as before. The Jacuzzi has been taken out and the regained area has been filled with backless stools arranged around small tables.

I opted for the couple of comfortable bench seats still remaining. There is still bench seating along the side of the long stage at the other side of the bar but this wasn't being used.

There were 5 very pretty girls dancing, being coaxed into quite an energetic effort by one of the extensive management team. The girls were dancing in bikinis or topless depending on their wishes.

The music is DJ selected and is more heavily into dance tunes than most gogos in Pattaya.

There were another half dozen girls waiting their turn to dance but they were hidden away around the corner.

There was no interaction between the dancers and customers. Presumably the bar is being targeted as a watching bar with energetic dancing as the main draw.

Me, I don't go to GoGo's to watch pretty girls dance, I go for a little more in the way of personal interaction. But a bit of variety is always welcome for those with different tastes.

Draft beer was 55 Baht but I am not sure whether that is the happy hour price or for all night.

V

VIP Club & GoGo

Walking Street

Opened Nov 2005 until Nov 2007. Now Lollipop A-GoGo, see above

Re-named as Naughty Girls, see above

Voodoo A-GoGo

Walking Street

Opened mid 2007 until May 2008. Now taken down in favour of beer bars

W

What's Up Imagine

Walking Street: Soi 15
(above What's Up Playgirls)

Upstairs bar at What's Up has closed. The downstairs bar remains popular though. It opened 23rd December 2009. Closed by April 2010. Perhaps a high season operation.

What's Up Playgirls

Walking Street: Soi 15

From 8pm

www.whats-up-agogo-pub.com

Multiple interactive stages brought new life to this largish gogo. Expensive drinks and bar fines soon followed the success.

Sep 11 Key							Takeaway: -showgirl until 12:00 2000 -showgirl after 12:00 1000 -showgirl ST 1000 -dancer 1000
		145-155	145	155		165-185-255

The bar also charges 20 baht for cold towels.

  Review from Pattaya-Addicts October 2010: Las Vegas Showgirls

What's Up has transformed into something of a cabaret show bar. Like something from Las Vegas with prices to match.

Some will say Angelwitch still rules the standard for shows, but they have not replaced their shows for a while and same-same tends to get stale after a while. This is was my first time at What's Up for a while, so I enjoyed the shows quite a bit.

The shows are choreographed with up to 8 girls but they still remember their roots and the shows feature lots of lesbian fun.

And still the showgirls find the time to entertain customers by sitting on their laps.

  News July 2010: Out of Order

An argument over taking pictures in the bar escalated out of control and ended up with customers being bottled by What's Up staff.

  Review by Rick G of pattaya-discover, May 2010: Gyrations

What's Up has always been a fun experience for me.

A small central stage, with 4 girls dancing, a play area and a shower area, plus a small exercise area where girls swing on those chains that hang from the ceiling. It's one of What's Up's unique features. The more skilled girls swing on these chains, in acrobatic fashion, engaging in all kinds of gyrations, and offering every part of their curvacious bodies for inspection and interaction. Girls are keen to interact, and constantly make eye contact. They're perhaps a little pushy, but there's lots of cute girls willing to interact with you, in any way you can think of.

It's still a great club, and well worth a visit.

  News from Ishi, Dec 2009: What's Upstairs?

What's Up (Officially What's Up Play Girls) is set to open its upstairs floor.

It will be called What's Up Imagine and will open on 15th December 2009.

Imagine and Play Girl have the same entrance and to enter the Imagine we have to use upstairs. One of the staff said that the concept of Imagine is different from Play Girl. I can't guess.

  Reader review Nov 2009: Jacuzzi Tips

The performance at the Jacuzzi is quite interactive and enjoyable. Although there is a girl, the pretty one who she thinks is the queen of the town and she is a bit rude.

They don’t ask for a drink at the Jacuzzi, but a tip is very welcome. A 20 Baht note is enough, although you will need more than one tip if you continue.

The performance at the stage didn’t interest me at all, just the Jacuzzi.

Beer Singha costs 115 Baht, a little expensive.

  News May 2009: What's Up

The bar is expanding into the upper floors (last used as Fantasia Bar). The first floor will be an expansion to the gogo complete with Jacuzzis and the second floor will be short time rooms

  Review April 2009: Bar Owner's Dream

What's Up must be every bar owner's dream. The bar charges top dollar for more or less everything and at the same time is more less packed out.

Over recent years the put some good sexy policies in place with their Jacuzzi and mattress play areas. They also had the idea of getting the showgirls to go clambering amongst the customers in the nearby seats.

All good stuff but for me the bar has simply got too expensive. The beer has gone up from the 60 Baht draft level to no draft and 125 Baht bottles. And the bar fines seem to be more or less set at the top end of unreasonable and can be doubled should a temporary opportunity arise.

Whilst I appreciate the entertainment talent of the show girls, I am not sure what the rest of the audience are enjoying. The girls on the main dancing stage seem somewhat demurely dressed and most of them seem to sit by the door rather than go out mingling.

On my last visit I had a beer and a brief chat with a showgirl I know. As a gesture to the inflated drinks prices I offered the odd 20 Baht note change to my friend rather than leave it on the tray. Another girl spotted the tip and made a surly remark about it being 20 rather than 100. Just about sums up What's Up.

The Windmill Club A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi Diamond

From 7pm

windmillpattaya.com

Opened 19th November 2005. Fun and sexy.

Oct 11 Key							Takeway: -festivities 1500 -all LT before 12 1000 -showgirls ST 700 -service ST 600 -dancers ST 500
	to 10:00	45			50+	120-150
from 10:00		75	110 2 for 190 not Corona	85	95 2 house spirit for 130

There is a VIP discount card is still available at Windmill for a 10% discount on all drinks and bar fines. Chang Draft, after happy hour is 65baht for all card holders.
Apply for your member card at any time for instant membership and your discount will apply immediately. Just needs full name and email address.

 Review February 2011: Popular...

Whenever I have popped by Windmill over the last couple of months it has been pretty well packed out. There was a time earlier in the year when things weren't looking quite up to scratch, but then the managerial boot was forcibly applied and now the bar is back to peak popularity.

There seem to be three routes to being a popular GoGo in Pattaya. The first is to employ the prettiest girls in Pattaya. Never fails to attract hoards of customers. Another route is to provide a good quality, professionally produced, sexy show. The third is to get hands on girls to jump onto customers' laps. And Windmill is one of the best examples of the third way.

The bar has dancers on a central stage, a few on tables in front of the audience, and there are also 3 naughty show areas. This is where bananas and other props play an integral part in the sexy shows that abound there.

The Windmill girls are very proactive in seeking out partners for an intimate chat featuring plenty of body language. And this goes down very well with customers indeed. And for services beyond the call of duty, lady drinks and tips are most definitely required.

Seeing so many customers, and so many lady drinks, makes me wonder why a few more bars don't follow suit. There's only one and a half others that partake in the same idea, Baby Dolls + a show table in X-Zone. Probably it is down to being difficult to get the obliging girls necessary for the concept to work.

And work it does.  I am just waiting for high season to dampen down a bit. Perhaps then I can find a space to squeeze into, and hence to enjoy the happy benches of Windmill.

 Review February 2011: Still Good...But...

There seems to be a bit of a consensus of commentators on the Pattaya forums that Windmill has declined a little. And I tend to concur.

Nothing major has changed to the format of the bar. It is still a very hands-on bar with very obliging girls. It is still very popular and there are plenty of girls there.

But the probability of having a good time seems to have dropped from the near 100% chance a year ago.

Perhaps there are a few clues, but I don't know if anything major has changed in the bar's organisation. A few months ago a fair girls I knew shipped across to Baby Dolls so perhaps a little decline at that point. Since then I have noted a slightly hard edge to the bar. One girl turned out to be a tequila monster demanding another almost as soon as she had downed the first. Another time I got shifted out of a show side seat in favour of apparently more deserving customers. And also it now seems a bar policy that girls rapidly down their drinks just as they 'go dance' to ensure that they are not obligated to return after the dance. this Allows the girls to change customer if they see someone better. Nothing much really to worry about much but it tends to add up.

But saying that Windmill is still naughtier fun than most bars in town.

  Review July 2010: Likely Fun

Windmill gets the Thai-Anxiety award for the bar where it is most likely that an agreeable girl will jump on my lap and make the visit a success.

Down mainly to the dedicated entertainment committee of the girls and the management, but perhaps the small size of the bar assists too. The bar simply can't squeeze in too many customers for the amount of girls available, which is quite a lot anyway.

So the girls make for  great hands on hostesses, there's naughty shows in the Jacuzzi and on play mat stages. The drinks prices are good and the happy hour is very cheap with 45 Baht drinks.

But really its that nearly 100% likelihood of fun that makes Windmill one of Pattaya's outstanding gogos.

  News from Ichi, May 2010: Reds Away

The bars recent dalliance with red knickers seems to have come to an end and the bar is back to its au naturel norms.

  Review from RickG, March 2010: Super Fun

I stepped inside, and felt like I was intruding on someone else's orgy. Windmill re-defined raunchy and interactive some years ago, and most other clubs have been trying to catch up ever since. Well tonight Windmill was clearly way out in front again. This was friendly, raunchy and interactive like you have never seen before. Girls were running around in various stages of undress offering various parts of their anatomy to anyone who was in the mood to interact. And tonight everyone was interacting. For most of the time I was there, there were only a few girls on stage. Meanwhile, there were more than 20 girls creating their own kind of fun with guys in various parts of the club. At one point some of the hostesses stripped off and got up on stage to make up the numbers. By the way, the dance cycle at Windmill is only 4 songs.

Windmill doesn't have the hottest girls on the street, but it does have the friendliest, most fun girls you will find just about anywhere. At most other clubs, girls will introduce themselves by holding out their hand. At Windmill, the girls will approach you, pull aside their bra and offer one or both breasts for you to fondle, or else will approach butt first, skirt raised to engage in some rhythmic gyration.

At around 2 am, several western couples wandered in, and sat down. After a few minutes in Windmill, even the stern looking elderly matrons were smiling from ear to ear. Once inside Windmill, all this debauchery seems like the most natural thing in the world. If you're feeling inhibited or a little stressed step inside Windmill for an instant cure!

Windmill has draught beer at Bt 75. The best value for money in town, considering the entertainment! Lady drinks are Bt 120.

  Reader review Nov 2009: Interacting

It's the bar I like the most for the moment.

It's worth having a draft beer (75 Baht) and watching the performance at the stages. They are quite interactive and enjoyable.

I hate the bars where girls just dance trying to be sexy (sometimes they don’t succeed). In this bar, I even don’t need to bother looking at the dancers, the girls interacting with the customers is all that is needed.

The performance at the Jacuzzi was a little poor; they were just having a shower, nothing hot.

A tip or a lady drink is required when the girls are 'interacting'.

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X Zone A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 16, Covent Garden Complex

From 8:30pm

www.xzonepattaya.com

Very large gogo with multiple stage including the very interactive soapy stage. Opened December 2005. Expensive bottled beer.

Jan 12 Key							Takeaway -festivities 1500 -showgirls 800 -dancers 600 -all after 2am 400 Room: 200+barfine
	To 10:30pm	Buy 1 Get 1 Free				100-120
From 10:30pm		59	130	100	120-145

  2011: Discount cards:

• white card is free, 10% off drinks except lady drinks and happy hour
• yellow card 1000 Baht, 20% off drinks and barfines. Free use of VIP room

  News November 2011: Tawdry Things

X-Zone with its new bosses and modifications is now doing well. Two new mamasans in there: One whose made the full lap and returned to Covent Garden after getting her start as on one of the original Club Boesche mamas, and the other a 5-year veteran at Heaven Above.

Unfortunately, she brought none of the beauties from Heaven Above to X-Zone. A mama who comes without a herd of girls is pretty useless to a new employer, me thinks, but apparently she had some falling out with the boys (or one of their wives) at Heaven.

Would have been nice to have some of those angels in X-Zone, but those princesses would never stoop to doing the tawdry things the X-girls have to do.

  News September 2011: Re-opened

The bar has closed and is up for some changes. Mama Mikki and her girls have moved to Windmill. The intention seems to be to preserve the existing attractions but personalities clashed. The bar re-opened after a few days.

  Review March 2011: Same Same

X-Zone is still a very large GoGo but the only worthwhile entertainment is at the bar's naughty table.

The rest of the girls seem to be on permanent dancing duty, as if just to provide an attractive backdrop for the main show.

  Review July 2010: One Table Show

X-Zone is a very large GoGo but the only worthwhile entertainment is at the bar's naughty table.

It is often noted by Pattaya commentators as the naughtiest naughty table in town. Two girls at a time offer hands on/hands in entertainment to the guys who sit at the table. The show tends to dominate proceedings for the rest of the bar too. A well popular attraction.

The rest of the bar is a little disappointing. Too many girls are set dancing and there are few left over to take care of customers.

The bar is often halved in size by curtaining off a portion and there are still too many dance stages to fill for the number of girls available. On occasion there are plenty of girls but then the bar opens up the curtained off area and there are again not enough girls left over after filling all the extra dance positions.

Still  I guess this matters little to the customers who mainly come for the naughty table.

  Review February 2010: Lucky Dip

X-Zone is a fairly popular bar that caters for those that like a  bit of hands on fun.

It is also a very large gogo that maybe requires a few too many girls dancing just to fill the stages and make it seem lively and atmospheric.

The net result is that I have often stopped by and there have not been enough girls to go round. So now I pause at the door and survey the bar. I just check that there are a few girls available for customer care.

Assuming that this is the case then the bar is good fun. There is always a naughty table on the go with a few toys to play with. Otherwise the table dancers are generally a fun loving crew with a fair few that are well attractive.

The serving girls can be fun too.

  Review May 2009: Draft Beer

The bar has always been on my occasional visit list mostly due to having expensive beer. Previously the cheapest option was a 125 Baht bottle but now they have recently added a 70 Baht draft.

Interesting that none of the welcome placards tell of a draft beer option. If I don't see the option of a cheap beer on the welcome signs them I assume the bar is expensive. Surely worth writing the option on the signs lest there are others who make the same assumption.

The bar was doing fine with a fair few customers dotted around but there was still lots of room for more.

The girls were friendly and fun so I will have to drop by at a time more conducive to a longer stay.

Covent Garden Complex
Walking Street: Soi 16

See Black & White above. Now closed and has become Club Relaxxx A-GoGo

XXX A-GoGo

Walking Street: Soi 15

Opened 20th October 2006 and merged into Baby Dolls in February 2007.

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Notes

Festivities bar fine. Many, if not, gogos charge higher barfines on what they consider special days. Every bar has a different definition of which days are special though. And some special days are even more special (expensive) than others.

The 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.

Nudity cannot be guaranteed and whenever the Pattay police are on the prowl the girls cover up. Closing times are sporadic depending upon local enforcement. 2am or 3am is now the norm.

Anyone with Middle Eastern or South Asian dark skin should be aware that they may receive a rather negative welcome. 90% of gogo bars have unspecified entry restrictions which can be hard to tie down as different people have had different receptions. Unwelcome faces will be told at the door that the bar is suddenly a members only club. Discriminatory maybe, but it is for real, it is based on experience, and it is supported by those who care about the welfare of the girls.

Just a couple of times people have had a bad experience in a bar which is perhaps the fault of an individual employee rather than bar policy. More often then not, the bar would be more than happy to deal with offsite problems even when it is not strictly their problem. To try and be fair to the bars, offsite complaints about employees can only be considered for inclusion if they have first been presented to the bar involved.

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