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Originally Posted by Pooter
A quick review on Pattaya
It's taken me about 2 years to finally admit this now but Walking Street in Pattaya is officially dead.
Now there is still the odd good bar here and there but they are very few and far between.
Ofc if you dont mind somewhere like iBar and Insomnia you might find some hot chicks but that's about it. Unless you are prepared to pay 1,000B bar fines and 3,000 ST or 5,000+ L.T for a hot chick from Sapphire or Whats Up a gogo's.
The worst thing about those prices, even though the chicks are hot is everyone i know who has taken one at those prices, from those places, say the sex has been ****, you cant lick their pussies, they want to put a condom on for a BJ etc... They do this because they can get away with it, so why wouldn't they. (Obv a slight generalization as no doubt you know someone who had great sex from there, but you get the gist of my point....hopefully)
So your paying near on western prices for slightly above avg chicks that you could prolly do in the west for about the the experience. (this applies to stuck up 'show girl' gogo dancers in places like Sapphire, Happy, Whatsup etc..)
Essentially most of the decent gogo bars with nice chicks have turned into plastic western style coyotes bars. The rest of the gogo's on offer have slim line ups of old, ugly, trashed bodies that I wouldn't **** for free let alome pay for.
L.K Metro is OK if your looking for a 'quiet' night of drinking and not looking for 'hot' chicks, there are a few nice ones about, but overall the quality of women there is just terrible. Fire up Wechat or Tinder in LK and all you get for 1000 meters is ladyboys and old/ugly massage chicks.
Soi 6 still exists and has gotten better, from a drinking/chilling point of view over recent years, but is still a short-time brothel soi with 90% ruff chicks and 7% okish ones and 3% young hotish ones, the best thing about soi 6 is the fact that it's no nonsense they're there to get ****ed and your there to **** them, still reasonable prices for a quick afternoon pump.
Now, if you wanna step out of the farang traps and feel young, handsome and rich enough (i'm thinking of Jspil and Co. here aka millennial Bangkok hipsters) and wanna try to 'pull' very hot, non hooker chicks - try Bone club, Differ, Club Noir and/or any of the Thai pubs on Third road between Pattaya Nua - Pattaya Klang, could possibly add Hollywood to that list but the mix of Chicks is about 60-40 Non hooker to hooker and most hookers go there on 'days off' or with their thai bf's.
This was gonna be more of a Walking street rant but meh go there for yourself to see how terrible it really has gotten.
Whats good about Pattaya compared to BKK?
Cheaper better food, ease of transport-getting about, cheaper gyms, beach's if you want them, even tho they're not great it's nice to still have a beer or dinner on the beach cheaply and easily if you fancy it.
I Use bkk as a comparison because the only two places worth living in Thailand (not holidaying) is BKK or Pattaya LDO
i agree with it all and if you're talking the bar industry it applies to bangkok as well.
walking street is a mess with all the tour groups and cheap charlies with their 7-eleven beers just loitering all night long.
i still like thailand but it's played out as far as the farang-centric sex industry goes. go there for food, for fun day trips, for boozing, conveniences, culture, maybe 1 or 2 bar fines over the course of the trip because why not, but the days of going there to bar fine two girls per day are over.
when i was there a few months ago the gogos were swarming with chinese. on three separate occasions i chatted with a random asian seated next to me and they were all from china. it's game over. just wait until they swarm on the gogos en masse and the gogos start catering to them almost exclusively.