45 Moo 6, Bangpra, Sri Racha, Chonburi 20210
Bangpra Golf Club is the one of the oldest golf course’s in Thailand.
Built on a total area of 550 rai. Bangpra Golf was transferred to National Lottery Bureau during the age of Marshal Sarit Thanarat.
Although Bangpra Golf originally occupied only 9 golf holes, Marshal Sarit assigned Lieutenant General Jitt Suntranon to be responsible for further construction of a further 9 golf holes.
I really don’t know why the management of the Kitten Club/Obsessions GoGo continues to employ a few females in what is essentially a quite successful ladyboy boozer, other than pretending they are two separate bars with an imaginary divide.
The bar currently has 8 girls and 35 ladyboys. A few years ago Kitten Club garnered a reputation as a rip-off joint in terms of drinks prices, which were not being displayed, and some punters were stung with outrageous bills.
That has now changed and things seem to have been well and truly cleaned up.
The left part of the stage and the left part of the bar are for girls and for girl oriented customers (real girls dance on the left part of the stage only) and the right part of the stage and the right part of the bar are for LB and LB oriented customers (LB dance on the right part of the stage only).
Waitresses are either girls or LB and obviously are not limited to any part of the bar. Strange but interesting mix. Real girls wear red, lady boys wear black.
Beach Road: Soi Pattayaland 2
From ~5pm
Strictly bikini All-in is now 2000. There are only bikini girls, no nudity of any kind at all (no full nudity seen there for many years).
Afternoon opening resumes The recent police action to close GoGos before 6pm has fizzled out and the bar has resumed opening from 1pm.
Refurbed I stopped by on a weekend evening to take a look at the changes since a refurbishment. The dynamic of the bar is very much the same as before, but the bar does look smarter for a general rework of the fittings.
The major change is to rework the bar counter at the back. The messy DJ area and boss’s cubby hole is now an area reclaimed to the bar. With the bar counter itself looking a lot more attractive.
This back right area seems more for the Scandinavian regulars than for customers dropping by. It does not really command a good view of the stage so is probably best used as a hangout area.
There were 9 dancers in the bar when I visited with 3 on stage at any one time. This was a good ratio which left plenty of girls able to work the bar for lady drinks.
There were 3 quite attractive girls and it was generally a decent line up for the bars in the Sois 13 area. Topless was the majority favoured dress code for the dancers.
There were a decent smattering of customers, and most had a lady by their side (or on their lap). It is probably the least hands-on bar of the local area but the hostessing was working OK anyway. So very much as before, but looks a little nicer.
Pattaya Soi 13 2 (Soi Post Office)
From 1pm – 11pm Most girls depart at 8p
I stopped by the LK metro GoGo during a weekday Happy Hour. First impressions were good with a sizeable staff ready to guide customers to the plentiful seating around the central stage.
The drinks service was prompt and polite. The square bar has bench seating overlooking the stage which was occupied by 7 dancers.
The dancers were wearing a wide variety of costumes with a black theme. The dress code ranged from overdressed coyote to sheer negligee. There were several decent looking dancers amongst them.
A rather serious flaw started to emerge at the first dancing shift changeover. All the girls trooped off the stage and slowly a replacement crew appeared in bits and drabs. However the new crew was pretty much the same as the previous set. It appears that there were 10 dancers total in the bar and 3 would take a break each shift.
The stage may look full, but this means that there were hardly any girls available for hostess duties. You would have a double shift wait when your drinking partner ‘go dance’.
Inevitably I decided to move on after my drink. But don’t assume that this means that the bar is under the cosh.
There are plenty of GoGos on Soi LK Metro that are also ‘one drink and move on’ venues, so there is a steady stream of vaguely disappointed customers arriving after departing from these other bars.
Draft beer was 69 Baht\
Soi LK Metro
I visited the Soi LK Metro venue at about 9pm on weekday evening. There was not really much going on at the time.
There were 4 or 5 girls dancing on the central stage mostly in coyote street wear, with just one in a string bikini. The girls were attractive enough though.
There was a second team of dancers, pretty much as the first team. There were a few customers, of which two were chatting with dancers. The others were ‘waiting for wonder’ as one Pattaya forum member eloquently puts it.
Draft beer was 69 Baht. And one glass was sufficient for the visit. This was the last of the one drink GoGos on my pub crawl. I was ‘wonder’ struck in my next port of call, Pandora’s, and I stayed there for the rest of the evening.
Soi LK Metro From 6pm
Club Nevada on Soi Post Office (Soi 13/2) lady drinks are still 100 baht, which is the cheapest for any gogo in Pattaya.
In this mourning period the music is lower and some girls are wearing a black ribbon around their upper arm or a black bow on their bra.
String bikinis, but no nudity. Bottled Heineken 125 baht now.
No nudity A no nudity policy has been introduced for the period of the King’s mourning. All-in is now 2000, up from 1800.
Half of the dancers had bikinis and half opted for full nudity — nothing in between.
The recent police action to close GoGos before 6pm has fizzled out and the bar has resumed opening from 1pm.
There were about 10 girls serving about the same number of customers. Surely not Walking Street standard, but there were a couple of attractive dancers. The dress code varied from bikini to nude. There were just 3 dancers on stage at a time dancing for a nice short stint of 3 dances.
The beer was cheap, as were the lady drinks. I am pretty sure they were only 100 Baht, but surely an excess of beer wharped my memory, they can’t possibly be that cheap, can they?
I stayed a while simply because 2 dancers proved to be very good company. Nevada may be a standard old school GoGo with few of the thrills you would expect on Walking Street. But if you hit it off with a pretty girl, it is just as good as any in town.
Pattaya Soi 13 2 (Soi Post Office)
From 1pm to 1am There is a shift change at 7pm.
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
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