Thai Anxiety posted a top 10 league table of most expensive bars for booze today on Pattaya Addicts and as it's of interest to all drinkers, I have reproduced it here. The prices shown are for pints:
- Galaxy Cabaret £4.60
- Tramps Showbar £3.50
- Polo Entertainment £3.00
- Living Dolls Showcase £3.00
- Angelwitch £3.00
- Roxy £2.80
- Coyotee's £2.70
- Hooty's £2.60
- Voodoo £2.50
- Silver Star 3 £2.30
Now this makes interesting reading cause there are more than a few decent go-go bars serving Happy Hour draft at 55 to 65 Baht. I accept that it's not a pint of draft but it's enough to get you in to check out the bar. If a bar's good, I will often stay beyond Happy Hour and pay full price. With the prices shown above, I wouldn't even go in to check them out.
I've commented here before on being in Living Dolls Showcase at 8.45pm one evening when they had a second string of girls on stage yet still charged me full price for a beer. If the 'stars' haven't yet reported in surely it would be an ideal opportunity to charge Happy Hour prices. That said, I know nowt about running bars but plenty about drinking in them so it is for the bar keeps to do their thing and for me to do mine. I haven't been back to Showcase since that incident and I won't be going back there or to any of the above unless I hear on the grapevine that they are offering something extra special.
The way it stacks up for me as a punter is like this. If I make Happy Go Go the standard with Heineken beer outside Happy Hour costing 95Baht, then any bar charging more than this has to give me something above and beyond Happy. If it doesn't, why would I bother?
Where do you stand on the price of ale in Fun City? Feedback welcome. pattaya.rag@gmail.com
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