Hell Club opts for later opening hours

Hell Club is the Pattaya version of Eden Club and is located in Soi LK Metro

Hell Club has now decided that the Bangkok opening hours of 1pm until midnight are not applicable to the late night fun lovers of Pattaya. Hell Club will now open 3pm until 2am

 

A second GoGo opens in Jomtien

Y.U? Club originally opened on Thappraya Road opposite the Jomtien Complex as a small disco and bar. It has recently converted to a small gogo.

There is now a small side stage for about 3 dancers.  The other side of the bar has couch seating.

The 3 average dancers were dancing nearly continuously in way too many clothes, namely top, short skirt and knickers. They were dancing enthusiastically enough for a small audience but the dancing was hardly what you could call sexy.

Given that the dancing girls have no opportunity to circulate then the job of entertaining customers falls to a team of about 6 hostesses of which two are ladyboys. A couple of the female hostesses were pretty enough and the single service girl is an eye catcher.

The ladyboys do the bar no favours when they are on welcome duty, they dominate the girls and one is convinced that the entire bar must be a ladyboy joint.

The bar could also do with a little signage to suggest a gogo, there is nothing to indicate what goes on save a handheld sign.

This a surely a no hope venue that needs to learn a few lessons quickly. At the moment, its as if the bar hasn't realised that a gogo needs to be sexy to get customers to stay.

The Thai owner should close the bar for a day and send the staff to Walking Street to see how sex sells when given half a chance chance. (And as is often the case in a Thai run bar, the toilet could do with a makeover).

The ladydrinks are expensive at 120 Baht (or else the girls ask for an expensive drink without informing the customer that there is a cheaper option). Bottled beer is 90 Baht and there is a draft beer at 55 Baht

More new bars

The builders have moved in and The Roof coyote dancing bar on Walking Street is now stripped back to the bare walls.

Meanwhile there is the new Tiger Lounge located on the upper floor of Soi Diamond. It is accessed by steps leading up from Walking Street. It shares this access with Tiger Club and Shark A-GoGo

There are two coyote dancing girls in windows to either side of the door. But somehow all this does for me is to advertise too many clothes and the possibility of high drinks prices.

Bob's BBQ leaves TQ2

From Bob's BBQ

We have made a decision to close our Bob's BBQ Express location inside the popular TQ2 on walking street. While I as one of my own best customers late at night will miss not having those tacos and burritos.

I would like to thank everyone who has supported us in the past 1 1/2 years. Bob's BBQ is still available at our main location on south pattaya road and we are now in the Door 2 Door delivery service. We are still negotiating on our Carrefour location which may come soon.

I have also withdrawn as a manager of TQ2 but will still be in the bar to see all my friends.

Farm Fresh

A minimum age of 20 for bar workers

Surely this will have severe consequences particularly as there already seems insufficient attractive girls to staff all of Pattaya's bars.

From Pattaya Secrets

Pattaya city hall have just issued a letter to all licenced premises telling them that they can no longer employ anyone under the age of 20 in the bars or even allow them entry if not an employee.

Previously employees could be 18, but the legal age for drinking has now apparently been raised to 20.

 
We Are No 1 installs CCTV

Jomtien's We Are No 1 A-GoGo has installed CCTV inside and outside of the bar. When I was watching, the bar was showing 4 views. Two are external with views along the road to the left and right. There were 2 internal cameras. One was watching the bar keepers behind the bar, the other was overlooking the end of the stage nearest the bar. It wasn't spotting any of the dancers though, but would catch customers sitting at that end of the stage.

I am not sure if it was having much effect on the naughtiness of the bar as the girls are rarely naughty on stage anyway. There is also a bar policy of keeping the majority of girls dancing, leaving hardly any chance for them to get friendly with the customers. So as usual, lonely looking customers were left to stare at insipid looking dancing.

 
Blue Lagoon II set to open

From Asia Bugle

The owners of Blue Lagoon are opening a second gogo, named Blue Lagoon II, at the rear of the Best Friend beer bar complex (Beach Road). The opening date is set at 21st January.

Update: No sign of an opening as yet

 
Hot & Cold 2 closes

Hot & Cold 2 in Soi Yamato has closed citing a difficulty in employing enough girls to work there. Strangely enough I was told about this in Hot & Cold 1 which was jam packed with girls (and customers).

 
My Friend You Bar returns to normal

From Pattaya Secrets

My Friend You, the famous Soi 6 bar has restored the option for downstairs service on the very dark communal couches.

The temporary cessation was apparently in response to a little police hassle.

 
Pinky Girl, a new Walking Street GoGo

Thanks to eyebee

A new gogo opened in Walking Street on 31st December. Called "Pinky Girl" (weird name - must be Thai owned). It's on the right hand side (as you come from Beach Road) a few doors down from the new Silver Star.

It is a smallish bar down a long passageway, has a main central stage plus the almost obligatory Jacuzzi.

The gogo started with just 4 girls but has now ramped up to about 10 girls of which 4 dance at any one time.

There is couch seating and those sitting near the Jacuzzi may get a little wet.

The bar is Thai owned by those that run Hot Girls, New Star & Nui's 2.

Bottled beer is 110 Baht and there is said to be a 5 Baht toilet charge.

 
Eden Club to become Hell Club

From the management at Hell Club

The Pattaya Eden Club will now be reborn as the Hell Club. The new club will offer exactly the same service as the famed Eden Club in Bangkok. Jacko will be retained as the manager.

The Hell Club will be opening this Saturday 6th January at 1:00pm, so all you potential little devils are welcome to come & have a hell of a time.

The emphasis will still be multiple lades but one on one will be available. The drinking aspects of the bar will still be secondary.

Update: Now open

 
The Roof goes dark

The coyote dancing bar on Walking Street has gone dark. Hopefully there is a good and temporary reason but one has to suspect that clothed dancing simply isn't as popular as the unclothed variety.

 
Pattaya's Eden Club closes

From the owner, Marc

The sad death of Francis, one of the partners involved in Eden Club, has resulted in the decision to close the Pattaya branch after just a few days of operation.

The club and next door hotel will be now be sold with the proviso that the Eden Club name is no longer used.

And best wishes to Marc, who is himself recovering after hospitalisation

 
Police bring the New Year fun to an end at 2am

The fun in Walking Street came to an abrupt end at 2am as the police sent around the instruction to close. It seemed to come as a surprise to the staff at the bar where I was at the time.

Bar were also checking people out into the street pretty quickly too. The throngs of disappointed revellers were non too impressed. The buzz on the street was hardly kindly to the police.

Hopefully this was a one off, maybe linked to concerns about bombs. Lets just hope that it is not a new year resolution inspired by Purachai's call for a return to midnight closing

Update: I have checked properly but the girls I spoke to informed me that the gogos have reverted back to 3am closing