The expensive drinks thread

[smokie36]

Thought I'd kick this one off to give us a heads up on places which you might like to take your better half to impress them with the size of your wallet etc..

To start.. The Bar on Soi 24 by the Davis Hotel....223 Baht for a bottle of Heineken....nicely positioned by the roadside with elevator music and free nuts.

Please add your own favourites!

[bkkjames]

any five star hotel.

[soundman]

I copped 250B for a bucket of ice at a hotel once.

Of course it did come on a silver platter presented on a trolley which was pushed by a waiter whose livery almost made me laugh until he more or less demanded a 100B tip.

[EmptyHead]

Bully's Pub. Lower Sukhumvit.

[mca]

any five star hotel.

I used to work for one of the big chains and even I was embarrassed by our minibar prices. There's a difference between taking a profit and taking the piss.

[kurtramsbottom]

A drink is only to expensive if you don't need it enough!

[rak sa_ngop]

342 baht for a pint of Heineken.

On Silom road, open air bar of the eating place that took over Niu's Jazz bar.

[smokie36]

A drink is only to expensive if you don't need it enough!

This thread is not about TOO expensive.....just expensive.

I've not had to remortgage the house and a quick check of my wallet revealed 7k Baht so time for a slap up breakfast.

[longstebe]

180 baht a bottle of beer in the baccara bar soi cowboy.

[The Dancer]

Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b.

[longstebe]

Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b.

How bigs the bloody bottle?

[smokie36]

Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b.

How many did you have?

[The Dancer]

Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b.

How bigs the bloody bottle?

The regular size, what is it, 300ml?

[Anthony5]

I think the Malaysians who had a 114.000 Baht bill at the pink lady karaoke will be around soon with details how much a beer was there.

Bet they'll beat every quote in this thread

[The Dancer]

Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b.

How many did you have?

You kidding? I sipped on the one for about an hour, came to the conclusion the place was too effin hi-so for me, left, took a motosai to Suk 5, sat me down at an alcocart and came happy all over.

[ThePlant]

I think the Malaysians who had a 114.000 Baht bill at the pink lady karaoke will be around soon with details how much a beer was there.

Bet they'll beat every quote in this thread

..beat me to that one....

[Laughing Gravy]

Huntsman, Landmark soi 4. 230 Baht for a pint of Heineken. Not including 10% service charge and 7% tax. The beer is often sub standard. So if you want to waste your money on a pint of pish, you know where to go.

I wouldn't mind if it tasted like Heineken from Holland but it tastes like all the others, such as Tiger and Chang draft.

[IMA_FARANG]

About 20 years ago now, I was roped into a night on Patpong with a "friend" I had worked with once in Saudi Arabia.

He had a Thai wife, and she asked if I would take him around Patpong, and show him some nice places.

Don't remember the drink prices, but the total bill was about 5000 Baht.

My memory of the drink prices is rather hazy, but I think he was drinking 150 t0 200 Baht shots of expensive stuff.

Including the "one hour "massage" upstairs he had with a "bargirls" which was no more than 30 minutes at best.

We spent no more than 4 hours going around Patpong to the places where HE wanted to go.

In the end the S.O.B. stiffed me for the 5000 Baht because he had "forgotten" to bring enough money.

End of aquintence, and end of friendship with him.

Got him back though, as his Thai wife found out about the night, and took the 5000 Baht from him and gave it to me with apologies for her husband.

I heard they were later divorced, and she returned to Thailand without him a year or so later.

She was a smart, well educated Thai woman (degree in hotel management at University of Texas) whose family supposedly owned a hotel on Koh Samui.

Good looking to, but a little older (late 20"s) than other girls when I knew her.

She'd be well in her fifties now. I understand she took over the management of her families hotel at one point.

Met her American husband and married him while she was going to school in Texas.

Husband turned out to be a drunk and a loser.

[YeahSiam]

I do find it a little difficult to call drinks 'expensive'

here having spent years being gouged in the West End and

City of London and routinely paying £12 for spirit &

mixer 5 or 6 years ago but if I absolutely had to raise

an eyebrow over prices, Maggie Choos in Silom is the place

I'd do it in. 300 baht for spirit & mixer.

[Sviss Geez]

Pint of Singha, 220 baht, The (ThaiVisa) Lounge Bar, Soi 7.

[Oceanbat]

Hyde & seek is good for post work drinks. I like opposite mess hall as well for post work drinks and nibbles. Hemmingways an oasis just off Sukhumvit and great for a pint outside. Seenspace never lets me down and there are a few good options there. Oskars if you are with cats from out of town and its a good place to start on soi 11

OB

[smokie36]

Hyde & seek is good for post work drinks. I like opposite mess hall as well for post work drinks and nibbles. Hemmingways an oasis just off Sukhumvit and great for a pint outside. Seenspace never lets me down and there are a few good options there. Oskars if you are with cats from out of town and its a good place to start on soi 11

OB

Hyde and Seek must be the only place in the world I'd order a cheeseburger as I would some beer nuts.

Miniscule and I think 400 Baht. ..lol

[wayned]

A bottle of Singha some 20 - 25 years ago. I think that the down payment was around 50 baht, but I'm still paying with many millions in instalments along the way. Whoops, my wife just looked over my shoulder!

[Oceanbat]

Hyde & seek is good for post work drinks. I like opposite mess hall as well for post work drinks and nibbles. Hemmingways an oasis just off Sukhumvit and great for a pint outside. Seenspace never lets me down and there are a few good options there. Oskars if you are with cats from out of town and its a good place to start on soi 11

OB

Hyde and Seek must be the only place in the world I'd order a cheeseburger as I would some beer nuts.

Miniscule and I think 400 Baht. ..lol

Make a decent negroni though.

OB

[Pheat123]

Soi New plaza Patts bottle of Leo 40 Baht

[bergen]

300 baht for a Singha (can't remember if it was a botlle or a pint) in the bar on ground fl. at Plaza Athenee.

Needless to say, I had only one...........

[TheSpade]

I paid 350B for a 'large' glass of craft beer in a bar in Ekkamai the other week. That was the cheapest they had. Some were around 700B I think. Just had the one beer.

Go to most of the tourist areas and most bars are over charging.

Regular Thai pub you get a big Leo for around 100B yet most tourist places are selling small bottles for over 100B.

Edited January 27, 2015 by TheSpade

[californiabeachboy]

Last month, on one of my visits to Bkk, I finally went to the Sky Bar (my neighbor convinced me to watch Hangover 2).

I paid 550 baht for a vodka on the rocks (the menu said Absolut, but I think it was the Thai version of Absolut).

I nursed that drink like never before. I actually enjoyed my time there, chatting with some others and admiring the view, so it was ok.

But after reading this thread, I am thinking I got a really good deal.

Edited January 28, 2015 by californiabeachboy

[NoshowJones]

Pint of Singha, 220 baht, The (ThaiVisa) Lounge Bar, Soi 7.

Was that after the TV members discount?

[Sviss Geez]

Pint of Singha, 220 baht, The (ThaiVisa) Lounge Bar, Soi 7.

Was that after the TV members discount?

No. Don't even know if that's still available, never hear anyone asking for it anymore.