smokie36 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 any five star hotel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundman Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EmptyHead Posted January 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2015 Bully's Pub. Lower Sukhumvit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtramsbottom Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 A drink is only to expensive if you don't need it enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rak sa_ngop Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 342 baht for a pint of Heineken. On Silom road, open air bar of the eating place that took over Niu's Jazz bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longstebe Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 180 baht a bottle of beer in the baccara bar soi cowboy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dancer Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longstebe Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b. How bigs the bloody bottle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Awright, I've got the lot of you beat. A bottle of Heineken at Spasso, drum roll, 490b. How many did you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dancer Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony5 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Dancer Posted January 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePlant Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Gravy Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMA_FARANG Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahSiam Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sviss Geez Posted January 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2015 Pint of Singha, 220 baht, The (ThaiVisa) Lounge Bar, Soi 7. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanbat Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayned Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanbat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheat123 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Soi New plaza Patts bottle of Leo 40 Baht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bergen Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 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........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpade Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
californiabeachboy Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Pint of Singha, 220 baht, The (ThaiVisa) Lounge Bar, Soi 7. Was that after the TV members discount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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