Soi Green Mango

[TravelFrog]

What time do the Soi Green Mango bars and discos close at these days?

Cheers,

T.

[Noodles]

It can vary from night to night, usually around 1.30am.

Smaller bars in isolated spots I see closing at 2am.

Sometimes if goverment people from BKK come to stay on the island

the police come round and shut everything at 12.30!!

[happymanme]

jeeeeeeeeeez how times change i remember just last year leaving that kareoke bar downstairs in the circle at 4am (and it was still going)

dont tell me that closes as well.................boooooo hooooooo

my holiday is ruined .....blast the toxin <deleted>

[leehabgood]

Soi Mango will close around 1.30 to 2.00 am

But the Solo Bar(behind Starbucks) is now open to around 4am....!!

Go and get pissed..

[Khun Jean]

It is really easy for this government to find corruption. Just drive around the island and you will find many places still open after 1 or 2 am. These places are owned by the police or other higher regarded people. Buddy Bar (Lamai) is another example of a corrupt police controlled bar. It stays open until 5-6 am.

It is a shame that everybody just accepts it while if you just organize and publicise it this situation will change, these are not the dark ages anymore without free and fast information.

If you really want Thailand to be a place where you can visit in many years to come, these places are the ones to be boycotted. Just start your evening out 2-3 hours sooner and you will be just as pissed. And you will give a signal that you are not happy with this 1 o'clock nonsense. If you not boycot them you are exactly doing what they want, and that is get all your money and put all other bars out of business.

[seville]

hey Khun Jean are you a bar owner? I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I'm just asking, because it seems to me that if a bar wants to stay open past 1:30, they just do it.

Are you saying that certain places that stay open past 1:30 get sited by the cops and others don't on a regular basis?

It all seems rather funny to me, like when the cops set up the helmet checks every so often right in front of the police station, but you never get pulled over at any other time for not wearing one.

I'm sorry but your idea of not going to the bars that stay open late makes no sense. I also fail to see how a bar chooseing to stay open past 1:30 is going to put another bar out of business.

[Khun Jean]

No not a bar owner but i know a few. My neighbour is one so i can see it from very close.

Are you saying that certain places that stay open past 1:30 get sited by the cops and others don't on a regular basis?

The police will do a round every night on a moterbike and signals all the bars that it is closing time. Mostly between 1:30 and 2:00 am. There is no way you can stay open longer without losing your license and closing the bar for a long time, and paying a hefty fine and possibly some time in jail.

The bars that do stay open break the law. But because they are owned by the police they can stay open as long as they want.

Sounds fair he?

As bars start to get customers around 10:00-11:00 they can make money for only 2-3 hours. Not really enough to be able to make a profit and stay in business. The ones i talk about that stay open will attract a lot of people because there is no where else to go. And they make a big profit.

There are a lot of bars for sale, now you know why.

Boycotting the bars that break the law is a good thing because then everybody has an equal change to do business.

[seville]

The only places I've been to after hours on Samui are some of the Karaoke bars... but wouldn't it make more sense for the bar owners to band together to try and do something? Your surely not going to get a bunch of tourist to boycott a bar if they want to continue partying and the Thai aren't going to either.

[seville]

The only places I've been to after hours on Samui are some of the Karaoke bars... but wouldn't it make more sense for the bar owners to band together to try and do something? Your surely not going to get a bunch of tourist to boycott a bar if they want to continue partying and the Thai aren't going to either.

[seville]

The only places I've been to after hours on Samui are some of the Karaoke bars... but wouldn't it make more sense for the bar owners to band together to try and do something? Your surely not going to get a bunch of tourist to boycott a bar if they want to continue partying and the Thai aren't going to either.

[seville]

opps

[Khun Jean]

Seville,

You are exactly right. But most (all) of them are used to this stuff and they know how everything is handled in Thailand. Getting attention to yourself like standing out and "demanding" fair business for everyone is probably the fastest way of losing your business.

It is really up to the tourists to change it, almost impossible i know. But the more people know maybe some newspaper coverage and thing can start changing, little by little.

Wishfull thinking, but you never know....