A dreadful experience at one of my favorite Pubs.

[BritManToo]

1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Can't remember how many times we've been told on TVF to pay after each drink is bought. Only newbies and perhaps drunk people run up a load of chek bin before paying.

And don't pay a 200bht bill with a 1,000bht note.

"No, that was only a 500bht note you gave me"

[Ron jeremy]

31 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

The lady manager must have had some cause to react the way she did, but we only get one side of the story.

Yes, she was thai. Simple.

[twocatsmac]

3 minutes ago, OJAS said:

Since libel and slander are regarded as criminal matters here in LOS, the bar could have taken legal action against him which might have resulted in him being banged up in the Bangkok Hilton (or local equivalent) for an exceedingly long stretch, had he done as you suggested.

 

I will leave it to others to judge whether he would have deserved such a fate!

 

Ok, I understand that that now and mods pointed it out too.

I always read reports on bars elsewhere and if negative I steer clear.

Too many many good bars to take chances with the bad uns.

[Orton Rd]

Pubs in Liverpool are like that ????

[OneeyedJohn]

How do u drink outside a 7-11, sit on the pavement and crack a can of chang.

[varun]

You were perfectly within your right to question the discrepancy in price.

Just change bars - simple as that.

With bars hurting as much as they are right now, it is their loss, not yours,

no need to squabble over 50 baht - just walk on out. 

[bkk6060]

Ha.

I told you.  All the crying about the bars not being open and do not believe I have ever read a positive review about a bar.  

All, terrible comments about everything and then the  ẗhey cheat/steal money¨ themes.

All seems like such a joke glad I have no interest in going to any of these places.

[luckyluke]

The o.p. paid 140 one day and another 190.

Nothing extraordinary here, they can change the price when they want.

You check the bill after the first drink, you continue to order after, or you leave.

If the staff know you, they usually tell you there is an increase in price when you order, and if there is no written announcement in the premises.

Here it is strange the staff and manager insist there was never a 140 price.

Why should they say that if it was not the case.

That it comes to tell the customer he should better go somewhere else is very unprofessional from the manager, even if she may been irritated by the maybe wrong attitude of the customer during the discussion.

She should have in first instance apologized for the wrong price stated the day before.

 

[Kwasaki]

The 50 bht would matter to me too because that's all I pay for a beer. ????

[sharecropper]

2 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Yeah.

we also won the league mate!

 

(silence) 

As an Everton fan, let me fix that for you:

 

Yeah.

we also won the league* mate!

 

[northsouthdevide]

It's not like there isn't plenty of other bars looking for business. 

 

Just go to another with more friendly management. 

[Skallywag]

2 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

i should have got 2 beers for 140 baht (70 baht per pint), not 190. 

Those are agogo or nightclub prices, not "bar" prices (maybe in BKK?) normal price is 140 a pint when not on the 2 for 1 promotion?   Maybe a sky bar in a fancy hotel?

Only bars in Pattaya I ever frequent it is 50 baht before 7 for a small bottle and 60 or 70 baht after.  Unfortunately since the pool tables are closed down I have not gone out to my favorite bars.

Have never trusted beer on tap since working in a restaurant/bar years ago.  Temperature fluctuations, dirty supply lines, dirty glassware. Most beers tastes pretty awful and are rife with bacteria from what I have seen here in years past when I did try a pint from the tap. 

 

Heard a similar story here in Pattaya from a friend.  He had the experience on second round, not the second night.  FIrst round was 90 baht, second round 120 baht for a mixed drink, July 1.  

 

[Skallywag]

9 minutes ago, luckyluke said:

You check the bill after the first drink,

Maybe just ask the price? thao rai nung beir Leo?  Or Chang, Tiger, San Miguel, Singha, etc..???? 

[Jai Dee]

A troll flame post as well as replies have been removed.

[2long]

And this is all from someone who has genuine Danish friends and from other western countries but claims it's not possible to have genuine Thai friends.... and his farang friends all have the same story.

Sound like a right laugh, that lot!

 

140B for two PINTS! 

190B for two pints!

 

Is it real beer?

[petedk]

1 hour ago, Peter Denis said:

This thread is not about the 50 THB, but about being ripped off and then being unvoluntarily dragged into a nasty conversation with the pub-owner.

I fully understand OP's reaction, and personally would never go back as long as that obnoxious lady-manager is still there.  And even with new ownership my perception of the place would be different than it was before because of that experience.

Unfortunately the 'libel' laws in Thailand do not allow to Name & Shame the place because even when fully right you can be prosecuted by the owner for 'hurting their business'.

You are correct.

 

I once complained about paying 130 baht (I think it was ) when the sign outside said "100 Baht". 

I was told that it was a mistake, but I had to pay the full amount. I never went back but the sign remained at 100 baht for at least the following 3 weeks.

That was blatant cheating.

[BritManToo]

4 minutes ago, petedk said:

I once complained about paying 130 baht (I think it was ) when the sign outside said "100 Baht". 

I was told that it was a mistake, but I had to pay the full amount. I never went back but the sign remained at 100 baht for at least the following 3 weeks.

That was blatant cheating.

You walk into the bar and say, "I'll have a 100bht beer" (ow beer, nung roi baht kap)

They bring the beer, you hand them 100bht.

No opportunity for cheating.

 

I'd have to be a 'special bar' for me to pay 100bht though.

I'm used to Vietnam and Cambodia where the price is 50c to $1.

[petedk]

Just now, BritManToo said:

You walk into the bar and say, "I'll have a 100bht beer"

They bring the beer, you hand them 100bht.

No opportunity for cheating.

It doesn't work like that.

I ordered food together with my friends. The bill came after we had finished eating.

[bodga]

Have  you  thought  about counselling?????

[473geo]

How times have changed I seem to recall the 'good customers' in bars were the bell ringers, not the bell ends

[sanuk711]

6 pages on his 50 baht Beer...............life was just never this exciting when I lived in BKK/ Pattaya...............

[2long]

Fair play to the OP. That's at least two new topics of his this week that have attracted multi-page discussions. 

At the end of the day, that's what TVF is about. ????

[robblok]

17 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

6 pages on his 50 baht Beer...............life was just never this exciting when I lived in BKK/ Pattaya...............

Now that you live in Issan its damm i overpaid for my som tum pala 20 bt.. ????

[WineOh]

Listen right,

i Post these kinds of things so people get to see what goes on out there and maybe open 1 or 2 eyes in the process..

if you think that getting ripped off and treated like s**t for the privilege is acceptable behavior then you are raving mad!

 

without our custom these pubs could not survive, the manager would be out of a job and so would the waitresses.. 

 

Bad reviews are just as important as good reviews. How can an establishment ever improve if they dont know where they are

going wrong?? They need to know so as to stop more future bad reviews. 
 

and just to reiterate, this has nothing to do with the 50 baht for goodness sake. It was how i was spoken to after pointing out that i saw the price had gone up since yesterday and how it was made to feel like that was my fault. 
 

Do You think i am out of Order for checking my bill when I am ready to pay?? And as for paying as you go, had i not been at an establishment i trusted for sure that would have been my course of action. Where i went would be the last place i thought something like this would happen. 

[Henryford]

Wow this fuss over 50 baht. I would just accept it (but maybe not go back).

[Don Mega]

22 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

6 pages on his 50 baht Beer...............life was just never this exciting when I lived in BKK/ Pattaya...............

Amazing Thailand !!

[innosiem]

2 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Bad reviews are just as important as good reviews. How can an establishment ever improve if they dont know where they are

going wrong?? They need to know so as to stop more future bad reviews. 

Please do point us in the direction of your "review"
to "review" a place for others
that place needs to be named

i understand libel etc. as stated above,
but what did your "review" on google or tripadvisor say ?
link ?

ranting in TVF about an undisclosed business,
is not a review sorry, its just a rant.

"They need to know so as to stop more future bad reviews. "
how will the owner ever know you are talking about their business if it is not disclosed?
 

[WineOh]

1 minute ago, innosiem said:

ranting in TVF about an undisclosed business,
is not a review sorry, its just a rant.

No rant mate.

just another daily observation in the land of perpetual smiles ????

[Chivas]

OP you know what these fruitcakes are like. She would have told you anything to avoid loss of face.

Name the boozer (I havent read entire thread if you already have)

[n00dle]

Reading this, my overwhelming response was, who cares?