Beer Bars With Ladies To Go
If the place doesn’t have pole dancers, then I call it a “beer bar”, if it’s not a pool hall or restaurant. In any case, this category still has the same rules of a go-go bar:
- fulltime employees on small salaries who make their money selling sex
- bar fines
- lady drinks
Many of these places are open air with no air conditioning, but most now have air conditioning (unlike when I first arrived here). All three of the above entertainment complexes have non-dancing open air beer bars, though they are a small minority of the bars there.
While these places are scattered around everywhere between Sukhumvit sois 1 and 33, their main “row” concentrations are:
- Sukhumvit soi 4 (Nana) outside Nana Plaza and running well down the soi (big)
- Sukhumvit soi 7/1 (medium)
- Sukhumvit soi 8 (small)
- Sukhumvit soi 22 – Queens Park Entertainment Complex, and Washington Square (medium)
- Sukhimvit soi 33 – “the artist bars” (the first bars were named after renaissance artists) and much more (big, pricier)There are other go-go bars outside of the farang areas (which usually aren’t called “go-go” but which are essentially defined by the above 4 rules), but I do not cover them here. You would need to be able to speak Thai at those places, and if you can speak Thai, then you have been here long enough to find those places. They are where Thai guys go.
