FLB is a long established hostess bar on Walking Street, just by the Walking Street Tree.

Owner Martin has just announced that he has thrown in the towel, and will put FLB Bar up for sale.

The bar has been round forever and was originally known as Freelance Bar. Maybe the name was more literally correct once, but has been more of hostess bar with salaried staff for as long as I can remember.

The bar's heyday was when it was the first to have success with its internet forum. This made FLB into a hangout bar where forum members would meet up. There were plenty of customers and the bar's parties were something of a Pattaya social occasion.

This hangout aspect was somewhat diluted with the break away set up of the similar, but more modern, Secrets Bar.

FLB has gently declined since. Last month it tried a new angle with coyote dancers, but presumably to no great effect.

Halo Club is located towards the Beach Road end of Walking Street. The club has had a busy first year or so of openings, closings and changes of style. The bar has tried disco, GoGo and coyote formats  

Halo Club re-opened on 16th May. On the first day there were coyote dancers only.

But by the second day, the bar had become more GoGo like with most of the dancers donning bikinis. In all there were 17 dancers in the bar.

Interestingly there were a couple of East European coyote dancers, reportedly available for a short time at 4000 Baht.

Barfines for all are set at 1000 Baht.

There are now 83 bars in the Pattaya area with Thai girls dancing in bikinis or less.

Far East Rock is a GoGo at the Beach Road end of Soi 13/2 (Soi Yamato).

The bar has re-opened after a few weeks of renovation.

It is now a little smarter and blacker but pretty much as before.

There are now 82 GoGos in the Pattaya area with Thai girls dancing in Bikinis or less.

Club Blu on the corner of Soi Buakhao and Soi LK Metro has been closed ever since a police enforced closure a couple of months ago.

The bar has now been sold, and perhaps with a little bit of surprise, it has been sold to the Pook Bar team. This has been confirmed with staff at Pook Bar.

The group runs lady boy bars on Soi Buakhao and Soi 6. Pook Bar has flirted with girl coyote dancers upstairs at the Soi 6 venue, but once the boys move in, there is little chance for the girls.

So one has to guess that Soi LK Metro will soon have its first lady boy bar.

jenny Star Bar is a well known lady boy bar nestling under the escalator to the Marine Disco.

The bar seems to have been caught up in the redevelopment of the Marine site so joins Doll House as a famous name being closed in the name of progress.

Halo is located on Walking Street about opposite Soi 14.

It started life as a disco, then tried the coyote club gig, then tried becoming a GoGo but none seemed to work and the bar closed in January of this year.

The bar now looks set for another try and is now advertising for GoGo staff.

Far East Rock is located at the beach end of Soi 13/2 (Soi Post Office).

It is reported that the bar has closed for renovation. The work is expected to take about a month.

In the meantime there are now 82 bars in Pattaya with Thai girls dancing in bikinis or less.

Saying that, there are now bars that are on notice of being demoted from the GoGo list on the grounds that dancers are wearing too many clothes.

Recent visits to Bada Bing and Ginza have been 100% coyote. The bars will be revisited to check for improvements in dress code before being relegated from the list.

Halo is located on Walking Street towards the Beach Road end.

The bar has gone dark. Classy Inn on the floor above Halo has also closed. The venue may yet change to something new.

The venue has had a very poor track record of success. It was previously Snowice coyote bar and then GoGo, Voodoo A-GoGo, and the Nok beer bar complex.

Possibly the space is too narrow and the inner venues have always been set a long way back from Walking Street. First timers don't really like to venture too far from the safety of the crowd, whether it be going upstairs or down a long corridor.

Club Blu is located on the corner of Soi Buakhao and Soi LK Metro.

Club Blue was closed with a police notice announcing a 30 day closure from about 20th March.

The police order has now completed, and the bar could have re-opened a week ago, but didn't.

A new bar has got the publicity machine at PattayaOne working to produce a little news piece and video about a new opening on Soi 6.

The new Coconut Bar looks like a lean to in the space next to Soho Bar.

It seems a bit of shame to hijack the name 'Coconut Bar', hitherto this has been a nickname for the freelance scene on Beach Road.

Club Relaxxx has gone dark in the Covent Garden Complex on Soi 16. It pulled up the shutters on 11th April and some of the dancers moved across to PePe A-GoGo opposite.

The bar has opened and closed quite often seemingly opening in the hope of finding a long term buyer.

Meanwhile Papa A-GoGo has again closed on Soi Diana. It is part of Papagayo which continues as normal. The GoGo is said to be hoping to re-open in May.

So Pattaya's GoGo count drops to 83.