CHAMPAGNE A GO GO

Some people seem to be dreaming of Soi LK Metro as a second Walking Street.

. I do not often go there, mainly because of the motorbikes parked everywhere around and the food carts and the mobile shoe sellers, but more still for fear of being run over by a motorbike.

Champagne A-GoGo on Soi LK Metro is still a double shophouse and its neighbour Club Malibu, also a double shophouse, is still closed, but it does have Champagne signs on its façade now.

The layout of Champagne A-GoGo is still basically the same: a (too) narrow central stage and double-tier bench seating on both sides. I have never been a big fan of double-tier bench seating: I feel uncomfortable on the upper benches and I feel uncomfortable on the lower benches.

The line of reasoning that it seats more customer bums cuts no ice: the punters are more spread and the empty space, especially on the upper benches, serves as a hiding place for the girls. During my visit there were lots of dancers and waitresses and about a dozen customers. The dancers went on stage in teams of ten.

They were a mix of coyotes clad in denim outfits and girls in red bikinis in the most diverse shapes and sizes, with some huge tops and the bottoms varying from strings with a fantasy metal chain between the buttocks to old-fashioned swimming trunks.

The only nudity I saw were a team of two naked dancers and the two or three girls soaping in a big elevated transparent box. There was also a short act by a pole dance performer.

On the television screen Japanese adult cartoons were shown. The girls at Champagne A-GoGo were not pushy at all for lady drinks. Perhaps they do not want to hassle expats and cheap charlies.

Bottled Heineken still 120 baht.

Soi LK Metro From 4pm