Phuket's Best Bars

[fatter than harry]

...because we all have so much knowledge on this subject

Been living in Phuket for more than 2 years now and am finding myself going to the same old haunts - I wanna broaden my horizons, reach for the stars, go to new bars!

Can you list the bars that you rate above others and why? Hopefully we can build an area by area bar stool guide, a bit like Top Gun, only with beer instead of F15's.

[niagarekoja]

Can you list the bars that you rate above others and why? Hopefully we can build an area by area bar stool guide, a bit like Top Gun, only with beer instead of F15's.

Friends Bar,Soi Dongtan.Thaveewong Road.Good Host,Alan. likes golf,etc.

Partner Boonsong ,Thai runs bar very well.Good staff.Nice ladies good quality not to pushy.Never a shortage Music good. Customers come back year after year.

Irish Bar,Soi Dongtan Thaveewong Road. Good host,Irish from Dublin of course.Good food small menu though. Cheap beer ,can get thai pints

No lady drinks allowed.Waitreses.Mixeture of girls,some there a long time.Very pleasant.No heavy hastle.

Loads of TVs for matches.One big screen.Good customers. Can take families in no problem. Dogs un welcolme For sure!!

Mickey Mouse bar, Soi Dragon,Bangla Road. Italian (Massimo)and Thai. Expresso coffee behind bar.Good selection of Italien spirits. Good prices Loads of women some ok.

Good host and very honest Lost 35000 baht chain in there and got it back.

Country Bar,Soi Sea Pearl,Sawatdirak Road.Thai family owned bar on main road outsided ,not pushy.Girls average, odd times real stunners.But they soon go off married.Most girls from south Hat Yai as is owner. Prices ok For drinks that is

Bachelor Bar,Soi Eric,Bangla Road.Thai owned.Well run bar.Loads of ladies quite often some above average.Very friendly without going over the top.

The Monkey ba (gogo) Soi Sea Dragon Bar for air con.when it gets to much.English owner good bloke.Likes a beer as we all do

[niagarekoja]

Well that`s "That".

Everybody must be keeping their watering holes to themselves.

[neenthewiser]

Some friends of mine reckon Captain Kirk's in Soi Easy has the best girls but I find them too pushy for lady drinks.

Friends Bar, Soi Dongtan I like.

I don't think there are any good bars in Kata/Karon. Other than quiet places for expats to winge over a Heineken the place is like a morgue. Anyone know a good place please post.

I used to drink in a place called Toshe Bar in Soi Sunset. It was a shit bar but I'd generally be left alone and would drink a bottle of Scotch, eat a pizza, watch the football and all the comings and goings from the Expat Hotel. Ah the simple pleasures of life. But that bar's closed now so I don't know.

[niagarekoja]

Some friends of mine reckon Captain Kirk's in Soi Easy has the best girls but I find them too pushy for lady drinks.

Always found soi easy, a bit like being in a cave. Mind you it`s better now the air con has improved.

[fatter than harry]

Captain Kirk's has gone down hill loads from its best days, still I think thats the rule in Soi Easy, most of the bars seem to have closed down. Seadragon is always a winner, the Lions Den is interesting.

In Kata I used to enjoy watching the world go by in Sue's bar (just at the brow of the hill next to the peach hill Elvis place) Good girls, good beer, footy, and the rest, haven't been there for a while though.

[neenthewiser]

In Kata I used to enjoy watching the world go by in Sue's bar

Well... I don't like Su's bar because, on one of those days when bars have to close, Su told all her customers she would have a party at her house. We went along and were told to help ourself to beers from the fridge. I noticed one of the staff sitting next to the fridge scribbling notes. Sure enough, when we left, we were each presented with check-bins for what we'd drank. Note, we weren't charged cost price (30B per beer, which might have been acceptable), we were charged full bar price. What a bunch of c***s. Talk about Phuket Thais being moneygrabbing, spoilt by commercialism.

[niagarekoja]

In Kata I used to enjoy watching the world go by in Sue's bar

Sure enough, when we left, we were each presented with check-bins for what we'd drank. Note, we weren't charged cost price (30B per beer, which might have been acceptable), we were charged full bar price. What a bunch of c***s. Talk about Phuket Thais being moneygrabbing, spoilt by commercialism.

TIT That`s one of the best stories I`ve heard for a long while.No freebies for farangs in Thailand.I take it you will not be going again

[neenthewiser]

I take it you will not be going again

Indeed I haven't been back.

And just to add, Su's house was a big posh place with an electric gate! When I wanted to leave I had to ask for permission.!

Aahh the simple pure Thia people!

[Basher]

I live in Rawai Phuket and don't like the bar scene very much, too much the same sh*t over and over again for me, so I very rarely go into Pratong, but if I do I drink in TJs Monkey Ba, Soi Sea Dragon, Terry is a right laugh in there and he will drink with you and is not tight with the rounds either, great place.

But so saying I very rarely go 'over the hill' so I stay in and arounf Rawai, drink mainly in Freedom Bar as it has whiskey, pool and blues music, a table next to the ladies so I can oggle the birds going in and out and no BGs hassling me. Charlie the owner is a right laugh too by the way. And i live 5 minutes from it and have a back road to my place, no cops and harly anyone on the road, brill.

That's just about how I like it anyway,

Bash

[niagarekoja]

, but if I do I drink in TJs Monkey Ba, Soi Sea Dragon, Terry is a right laugh in there and he will drink with you and is not tight with the rounds either, great place.

Yeah I have spent a few bob in there.Generous with his t-shirts as well, have about five he gave me.Mind you i think I should have a share in the place the money I have spent there. The funniest night I had in there,was durring one bike week.

He had a guy from norway in there,an hells angel.Big f***** pissed as a f****giving terry a few wurries.He bought all my beer till this guy went.No one else stayed.

[sonthaya]

Weall have our favorite bars, mine is in Soi Eric

[davethailand]

Just came back from phuket, 3 days spent just to see customers who visit my bar and friends.

nicky handlebars good for a daytime beer and look at the bikes.

another customer of mine owns kangeroo bar, blue note, fat boy saloon and the dragon disco, dragon disco is a good place, mind you i was in a bit of a state by then.

great time in all of the above,

girls were better than my last visit although soi easy too pushy and we got ripped off with the change, stupendous prices for a beer bar.

[Wolfie]

Shoulda said you were in Phuket, i'd have met up with you fer a beer or seven

[davethailand]

sorry wolfie, a bit of a strange trip, i've only just recovered.

will be back in september

[Jimbo]

He Dave,

Would that be Ott you are talking about by any chance. He is my brother in law!

[davethailand]

certainly is jimbo, Black Rose

[LadyinRed]

Mee Bar: in the small soi next to Kata Beach resort

[Wolfie]

Mee Bar: in the small soi next to Kata Beach resort

I know that bar...

Do you frequent it often, LadyinRed? Maybe i should pop by sometime

[fatter than harry]

Mee Bar: in the small soi next to Kata Beach resort

Hasn't that Soi just been levelled?

[Wolfie]

Mee Bar: in the small soi next to Kata Beach resort

Hasn't that Soi just been levelled?

I havent been down to Mee's bar for sometime, but i think your right F_T_H

Mee's bar is dead, god save Mee's bar!

[LadyinRed]

I didnt realised that Mee's has been levelled, that is sad (I was there a few mths back).

What about the so-called 'diver's bar' in Kata Ctr (#3 Dan Kwian) - that was one of my fav old haunts

[fatter than harry]

Calm down dudes! The mass destruction of Kata was kept only to the soi opposite the kata beach hotel. Kata Centre is as it always is in the low, ahem, green season, very quiet.

[sonthaya]

A few of my favorites, Jazz bar just down the Soi where Irish bar is on the beach road, Toro bar at Soi Eric and Parrot bar at Soi "Katoy"

[Wolfie]

Parrot bar at Soi "Katoy"

We heard that you like to frequent that area...

[sonthaya]

Yes, but only for female companions, you can have the "others" all for yourself, so don't worry

[RDN]

I live in Rawai Phuket and don't like the bar scene very much, too much the same sh*t over and over again for me, so I very rarely go into Pratong.

Me too. I like The Point bar near Don's Mall in Rawai. Very quiet, a few ladies (but I'm not allowed to look) and a very good pool table. Owner Ian and partner Porn - nice people.

[cm boy]

What about a trip down Paradise? Does it still exist?

[igotworms]

Kata Centre is as it always is in the low, ahem, green season, very quiet.

What is this "Green Season" you speak of?

[RDN]

Kata Centre is as it always is in the low, ahem, green season, very quiet.

What is this "Green Season" you speak of?

It's a euphemism for wet, windy, get-your-wellies-on weather. "Green" as in "Blimey, haven't those weeds grown quick!".

"Low" season is far too unattractive a term for the current weather - but I love it! Today at the beach in Karon, there were no people for 50 yards apart from a Thai man, woman and baby playing in the surf. No rain, but quite cloudy - perfect for lazing about and getting some good air.

"High season" - you can keep it!