Soi 6 suffered a major police raid on Thursday night.

Banglamung police sealed off both ends of the Soi and then proceeded to sweep all the girls and lady boys from the bars.

They were herded up for checking ID and for drugs testing.

Many bars were shut but this was down to their girls being detained rather than police action against the bars.

Pattaya People reported that the raids were conducted by 30 police and customers were also drugs tested.

The recently opened aircon bar on Soi Yamato, Bar 77 , is being redeveloped into a GoGo. It is set to open on 1st October. It will be named Las Vegas GoGo and the signs are already up.

A rather strangely named Bamboo...Boo has opened at the site of the old Malibu Bar at the corner of 2nd Road and Soi Post Office..

It is a nicely furnished large open bar featuring a live band pumping out all the usual bar favourites.

It was previously reported that Peaches , a bar on Walking Street in front of Lollipop A-GoGo, was going to be another GoGo. It seems more likely to be a standard bar. The notice for staff mentions 3500 Baht per month + tips. Not high enough for dancing girls.

A bit of chit chat from the Pattaya bar licensing office.

A friend was told that 200 licences have been cancelled recently.

Presumably down to owners quitting, going bankrupt, or converting to another type of business.

It seems that Mandarin Club are about to rename as Spicy A-GoGo.

Of course it will now get confusing with both Spicy A-GoGo and Spicy Girls A-GoGo. But the precedent was already set with both Sexy A-GoGo and Sexy Girls A-GoGo.

The Soi 6 half short time/half gogo is clearly intent on becoming a full gogo.

They will have to do something about their line up of bikini clad 30 years olds though. They are not really up to the Pattaya par with the entertainment.

Honey Girls A-GoGo was located on Soi Honey Inn half way between 2nd Road and Soi Buakhao.

It is now dark with a for sale sign on the door.

So now there are 76 Pattaya bars with girls dancing in bikinis or less.

It seems that Pook's lady boy bar on Soi 6 has new ideas for the upstairs which used to be a GoGo. The windows are being knocked out and it looks like it will be some sort of open bar.

Thinking of lady boys, the old location of the Malibu show bar on the corner of Soi Post Office and 2nd Road is being redeveloped. It will soon become another Bamboo Bar, so hopefully it will continue the tradition for entertainment albeit with a live band.

Taffy's Bar on the junction of Soi 14 & Soi 15, nearly next door to What's Up, has now renamed to Cats Corner.

Love Club on Soi 6 has been keeping the local bar fitters busy.

It only took 3 weeks for Love Club to realise that open fronted bars are not very successful on Soi 6 (although Pook lady boy bar opposite seems to do well).

So Love Club have now restored their front and therefore privacy for its short timers

The only (girl) bar that seems to have made a success of an open bar is the Soi 6 Corner Bar. But perhaps its location on 2nd Road may make it a special case.

Love Club now adds to the list of closed-open-closed joining the recent entries by Bus Stop and Mandarin Beer Bar.

Meanwhile a new small short time bar will soon appear in the vicinity of Foxy/Roxy/Red Light. It boasts the witty name, Quicky Bar

New bar on the way in the corner venue that was previously a Hungarian restaurant.

The bar should have influences from Jade/Kineree/Secrets/Honey pot. Coyote dancing will depend on the strange Jomtien licensing laws.

We will have newly done up ST rooms, and all the usual big screens, pool tables etc, prices, we wont be in the Fantasy bracket, but we we certainly wont be expensive, there will be one or two deals going on that you will only find in HOT LEGs Horizontal Sports Bar, but you will have to come and check them out.

Lady drinks, if its alcoholic, then the usual prices, non-alcoholic, then the BG has to tell the customer and this drink will be 20/30 baht cheaper.

Aiming for short time girl + room for an hour + a couple of beers for 1000 Baht.

Will also be looking for some good pool players to make up a team.

Howard was doing one of his Pattaya One News promo features on Ingos Bar and Restaurant, opposite the Buffalo Bar. Ingo's is a Scandinavian Bar.

He claimed following renovation, it was now a Restaurant in the day and an A-GoGo in the evening.

Last night at about 1:00am, looked across the road and saw ONE COYOTE (i.e.: fully clothed) girl on a pole. I have yet to do a visit to the place to confirm the situation.

Watching the TV promo, there appeared to be 2 poles.

Our belief is anything less that 3 poles and continual dancing is NOT an A-GoGo Bar.

Judge your self, but that is my view.

[The Thai-Anxiety view is that GoGos must feature dancing girls wearing bikinis or less]

The half way gogo cum short time bar on Soi 6 has re-opened after a short refit.

They have been advertising for staff and it seems that the intention is to become a full gogo. Hopefully at the very least they can attract a few more attractive girls. They have been struggling on this front for a fair few months now.

The bar hardly set Soi 6 alight on its first afternoon with just 4 dancing girls on duty.

And as far as decor is concerned, black is the new red.

There are now 77 bars in Pattaya with girls dancing in bikinis or less

The latest edition of After Dark is now available at plenty of outlets around Pattaya. It features good quality glossies of girls currently working in Pattaya and Bangkok gogos (mostly Pattaya).

Also look for the After Dark Calendar - 2009, available in October.

A little disappointing to see Kitten Club featured in this issue. The reviews of this bar are nearly all bad with rarely a customer enjoying a satisfying evening at a reasonable price. It seems a little mean on readers to entice them into the bar in search of featured girls