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A friend of mine went to Bangla last night. He bought a pretty go-go gal a drink, and asked how much for short time. She said only in the rooms upstairs, and 5,000 baht. No wonder the place is not busy. They seem to be pricing themselves out of the market. Voluntary extinction? Self sabotage?

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3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

A friend of mine went to Bangla last night. He bought a pretty go-go gal a drink, and asked how much for short time. She said only in the rooms upstairs, and 5,000 baht. No wonder the place is not busy. They seem to be pricing themselves out of the market. Voluntary extinction? Self sabotage?

With those prices SM007, it could well have been the Suzie Wong establishment!

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7 minutes ago, xylophone said:

With those prices SM007, it could well have been the Suzie Wong establishment!

Even when I was there many years ago, the prices I heard quoted were rather outrageous. Bangla in general seems to be a limited market for punters who do not have deep pockets.

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7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Even when I was there many years ago, the prices I heard quoted were rather outrageous. Bangla in general seems to be a limited market for punters who do not have deep pockets.

It wasn't that long ago that I used to barfine from the Bangla bars - not the Go-gos - and the rate was always B500+B2,000.

 

Having said that, there was a very pale straight-off-the-plane guy in the bar opposite to me last night and he was getting well and truly fleeced by about four girls but seemed quite happy about the attention. He went off with one of the "dancers" and I would imagine got a very poor deal but probably didn't care.

 

(There are dozens of very mediocre Thai girls in London at B6,000/hour)

 

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Way back in 2008 i used to go to Scruffy Murphys the Irish pub top of Soi Bangla the band was brilliant with a lead singer who played the violin and guitar turned out he was from Wigan my neck of the woods if you could sing he would let you get up mant a night id fall out after singing Down Under to get the Aussies singing along with me or a Barrovian in Patong instead of Im an Englishman in New York happy times. The girls would wait for you to buy them a drink and after id consumed enough id be off with my Tilak to the Patong Lodge hotel just up at the top of the Hill out of patong.

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"In my opinion Bangla was an experience to look forward to, but now it has become stale for me," -Xy

 

Yep, first did Bangla 1993 and am not going to bore anyone with "the good old days", as everything changes. Ended up spending 11 years in Phuket, some of those years made it to Bangla once in a year. As Xy said, "stale".

 

So I'd watch for Air Asia sales and when that party itch happened, hello BKK for the weekend. Couple nights in Bangkok is hugely better than Patong. More to do, prettier girls.

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19 hours ago, xylophone said:

 

 

We went to check on a friend and his bar in Soi Sea Dragon, but both he and the bar were gone, and that was a shame because he was a nice guy (from Belgium I think) and at one time he owned two bars in that Soi, so we had a drink in another bar, aptly named "Hangover Bar", and I say aptly, because I'm definitely suffering from one today!

 

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Lovely Bar @xylophone?

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52 minutes ago, HighPriority said:

Lovely Bar @xylophone?

Yes HP he did have Lovely Bar, as well as one of the bars on the side of the Soi in which he sold Belgian beers on occasion, but that went many months ago. He was always good to have a chat with and as I knew him, the girls didn't hassle me, but I did know one of the girls from way back, so she always got a drink from me!

 

Don't know where he has gone, which is a shame as it was a sort of "bolthole" bar for me, away from the madding crowd.........perhaps that is why he left; too quiet with little business?

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16 hours ago, London Lowf said:

It wasn't that long ago that I used to barfine from the Bangla bars - not the Go-gos - and the rate was always B500+B2,000.

 

Having said that, there was a very pale straight-off-the-plane guy in the bar opposite to me last night and he was getting well and truly fleeced by about four girls but seemed quite happy about the attention. He went off with one of the "dancers" and I would imagine got a very poor deal but probably didn't care.

 

(There are dozens of very mediocre Thai girls in London at B6,000/hour)

 

Wow. What can one say to that? If the punters were not so gullible, desperate and vulnerable, the pricing would self correct. Maybe. Ah, the good old days. I remember on Samui 10-15 years ago, you could get a solid 9, a true supermodel type for 1,500. How things have changed. Those top shelf gals are now getting 30,000 baht and up online or with escort services in Bangkok or Phuket.

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5 hours ago, xylophone said:

Yes HP he did have Lovely Bar, as well as one of the bars on the side of the Soi in which he sold Belgian beers on occasion, but that went many months ago. He was always good to have a chat with and as I knew him, the girls didn't hassle me, but I did know one of the girls from way back, so she always got a drink from me!

 

Don't know where he has gone, which is a shame as it was a sort of "bolthole" bar for me, away from the madding crowd.........perhaps that is why he left; too quiet with little business?

He was a nice bloke ????????

My wife’s friends Pizza and Aey used to work there in circa 2017.

 

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On 6/24/2023 at 8:15 AM, spidermike007 said:

Even when I was there many years ago, the prices I heard quoted were rather outrageous. Bangla in general seems to be a limited market for punters who do not have deep pockets.

As every trade person knows, asking and getting are never the same.

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On 6/25/2023 at 9:36 AM, xylophone said:

Yes HP he did have Lovely Bar, as well as one of the bars on the side of the Soi in which he sold Belgian beers on occasion

Just remembered, that bar was called, "Monjo Bar".

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13 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Just remembered, that bar was called, "Monjo Bar".

Yes, that one had a “toilet” ????????‍♂️

????

Was it monjo or mojito ?

 

My wife said that he and his wife sold out but after further interrogation she confessed to having no idea what had happened… ????????‍♂️

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44 minutes ago, HighPriority said:

Yes, that one had a “toilet” ????????‍♂️

????

Was it monjo or mojito ?

 

My wife said that he and his wife sold out but after further interrogation she confessed to having no idea what had happened… ????????‍♂️

Yes it did have a toilet and it was called Monjo bar, whatever that meant!

 

He told me that he had sublet it (sub leased) and was focusing on Lovely Bar, but quite where he is now I have no idea?

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5 hours ago, xylophone said:

I did mention a bar that was undergoing some sort of renovation, and it was called "Ting Tong Bar" but now it has had a complete makeover and is called "Hurricane Rock Bar" and it looks like it's got a new owner, but the decor is appalling IMO, because it's all black, from the floor to the tables to the "chairs" which look like they've been made out of repurposed oil drums, and of course it's right next door (actually attached) to a fairly successful bar which has its fair share of wifebeater wearing customers, called "Offshore Bar".

An interesting thing that I've noticed about bars - when the owner bails out due to, for example, a big rent hike, they often take their chattels and branded stuff with them and spring up in a new location with the same signage.

 

This happens frequently on Bangla (your Smiley Bar, etc.) and I used to go to Offshore Bar years ago when it was much further down Nanai towards Banzaan, and I also believe that Ting Tong has moved, albeit not very far.

 

Now that I stay in Kamala I have noticed that there is one bar in particular that has changed locations three times in the last four years.

 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, London Lowf said:

when the owner bails out due to, for example, a big rent hike, they often take their chattels and branded stuff with them and spring up in a new location with the same signage.

Are you implying there is something wrong in a bar owner taking his own belongings/property to a new location because of a rent hike?

He has not "bailed out" he has been "forced out"!

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2 hours ago, xylophone said:

........I didn't consider myself being fleeced because I was willing to buy them drinks and they didn't ask for one.

Volenti non fit injuria!

 

If I ever bought two rounds of LDs for four bar workers in exchange for an hour's chat then I would consider myself well and truly fleeced - but I am obviously far less affluent than you are (or just plain mean!)

 

PS: I hope you included the pole dancer!

 

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On 7/3/2023 at 5:00 PM, London Lowf said:

An interesting thing that I've noticed about bars - when the owner bails out due to, for example, a big rent hike, they often take their chattels and branded stuff with them and spring up in a new location with the same signage.

The reason is simple: licensing is tied to the company/bar, but not the adress, so if you want to avoid the hassle of getting it all done new, you take your "old company" simply with you.

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14 hours ago, London Lowf said:

Volenti non fit injuria!

 

If I ever bought two rounds of LDs for four bar workers in exchange for an hour's chat then I would consider myself well and truly fleeced - but I am obviously far less affluent than you are (or just plain mean!)

 

PS: I hope you included the pole dancer!

 

Your post misses the point I was trying to make in my other post, inasmuch as I have known three of these girls for many years, a couple of them for over 10 years, and one of them is married to a friend of mine, so to be able to catch up with them was a pleasure – – and I always know what I am up for when buying drinks, and it is of no consequence to me as to the cost of such.

 

Fortunately the horribly tattooed and muscular pole dancer wasn't there at the time, and even if she had been, because I didn't know the woman, I wouldn't have bought her a drink!

 

Anyway LL, everyone to their own...........

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14 hours ago, jts-khorat said:

The reason is simple: licensing is tied to the company/bar, but not the adress, so if you want to avoid the hassle of getting it all done new, you take your "old company" simply with you.

not sure thats correct, the premises surely is part of the licence.? 

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2 hours ago, xylophone said:

Anyway LL, everyone to their own...........

Yes indeed. I'm glad that you realise that my post was not intended as a criticism but more an illustration of our differing attitudes towards LDs as even I have now been going to Bangla long enough to have acquaintances going back several years.

 

And I'm sure you realise that the pole dancer comment was a quip - I'm well aware of your attitude toward her from previous posts, but surely you have some sympathy now that she has lost the gig in Tiger?

 

(Yes, I'm still joking!)

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14 minutes ago, London Lowf said:

 

Yes indeed. I'm glad that you realise that my post was not intended as a criticism but more an illustration of our differing attitudes towards LDs as even I have now been going to Bangla long enough to have acquaintances going back several years.

 

And I'm sure you realise that the pole dancer comment was a quip - I'm well aware of your attitude toward her from previous posts, but surely you have some sympathy now that she has lost the gig in Tiger?

 

(Yes, I'm still joking!)

All in good fun LL, and on the subject of Tiger, any news on the grapevine of what's going to happen to it??

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6 hours ago, xylophone said:

.....any news on the grapevine of what's going to happen to it??

I would imagine that you'll hear before I do as you are far more chatty with the locals than I am - I'm always scared that they'll start touting for LDs if I say more than "San Miguel mai manow" to them!

 

I thought that the pole dancer said something about Tiger re-opening as a bar complex in six months, but I might have misheard - I often do with my poor hearing and the Bangla backing track!

 

I'll try to ask a few (male) people over the next few days.....

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3 hours ago, London Lowf said:

I thought that the pole dancer said something about Tiger re-opening as a bar complex in six months, but I might have misheard

So, being demolished as a bar complex...............and reopening as a bar complex!!

 

Sounds very Thai LL.

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