smitty: as the #1 farang g-club proponent on the web you ought to just keep 3 or 4 standard replies saved on a notepad page, and simply copy and paste to save time. The ongoing debate never seems to leave one or two points… the cost of a g-club and the quality of the girls.

I just finished my initial 20,000 baht membership at the Pent. I’d say a typical night out there with a freind, neither of us getting laid at the Pent, but often going somewhere else for a little boom boom afterwards, was about 1400 baht — say 900 baht’s worth of my whiskey and a couple of drinks for the girls. 700 baht each for two or three hours of real enjoyment in a nice environment tells me that the money issue is just a matter of reconciling the fact that you are paying an up-front price instead of pay-as-you-go.

The girls? I’d say they’re certainly no better looking than what I’d get at rainbow 4, but girl for girl, better than the average go go.

I think the real difference is in attitude, atmosphere and energy. The girls tend to be able to muster energy and enthusiasm; the service staff actually believe that they are there to serve you; and the surroundings are clean, attractive and comfortable.

It’s not a brothel — you don’t point at #22 and ask her how much for a short time — but it can be a good time.

I haven’t enjoyed other g-clubs as much as I’ve enjoyed Pent, but I wouldn’t bad-mouth them… just explain as clearly as I can what I didn’t like. That’s what info sharing is about. The tip from bkkunderground (different thread) sounded like a good tip on a smaller, less well known club that I might enjoy.

The blog and the Guide can act as good information sources about places you want to get a look at, but in the end nothing substitutes for actually going there and finding out for yourself.

Otherwise, the danger is (as the Heckler said elsewhere)that you end up analyzing the fun out of a lollipop.

To borrow smitty’s refrain: The Pent sucks… don’t go there.
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it’s cool. I tire of these g club debates. For sure they are not for everyone. For sure if your idea of a good time is to get the best deal or to barfine then g clubs are not your scene. I have found them to be fun, a nice change of pace and have met some great girls who could never be compared to a nana or cowboy girl. Some could.

G clubs are also a great place to entertain business clients and to take people out who might never be caught dead in a go-go. Yes - from time to time I get lucky with g club girls and they don’t seem to be interested in the tx but in having fun. I also know some of them have a ton of sponsors and have some guys on the go for money. Not me.

So anyway. It is what it is.

g clubs suck. don’t go.
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To me, the girls in these photos don’t look any better than the average gogo girl. That’s simply saying what we see from those photos. For fuck’s sake, one even has a belly tattoo. And they’re wearing more.

People were going on about Pent having lots of white-skinned beauties but from these pics I honestly don’t see it.
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I think the blog has just hit a new low point.
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i was trying to point out that the preferences of expats tend to change over time to match that of the locals. whether it’s being brainwashed by the local commercials, advertisements, assimilating to thai culture, or whatever. a lot of the foreigners will start to jump onto the thai bandwagon.

going to the g-clubs is one thing. starting to party at predominantly thai clubs is another. then moving on to shun the darker skin issan girls in favor of white skinned girls from chiang mai or bangkok.

i am not harping on member clubs. i think they’re just another form of entertainment here that you can’t get elsewhere in the world. there are good looking girls at either venues (g-clubs or gogos). it’s just that the type of girl working there is targeted to a different group. however i don’t think the girls in these particular photos are any better than what you can find in nana or cowboy.

i am saying that the product (the girls) is the same. just the packaging (gogo environment vs g-club environment) is different. and yes, outside of work the g-club girls are more educated, presentable, and stylish than the farmer’s daughter from buriam who arrived in bangkok six months ago.
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Anyway. Each to his own right? I find it funny how people always need to harp on the member clubs like it is the same girls and same scene but more expensive. I don’t think it is the same. I like all scenes in BKK. One of the reasons I love the place is the variance of quality and let’s say craziness. There are nuggets in each spot but I have taken enough people to a place like Forte who know the go-go scene well who always admit to the fact they have never seen so many hotties in one spot. Not all the girls but some. I don’t shift to any one place - I hit on all cylinders.
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James: “The girls in those photos look pretty much like any girl in any place who parades for us…”

both are fairly accurate statements. but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

the g-club girls are aimed at thais and asians so they will have a different look than the ones at nana & cowboy. most expats here tend to bore of the bar/gogo scene after a while and shift towards freelancer joints, soapies/massage parlors, and on to g-clubs.

it also seems that the longer the expat lives in thailand, they get caught up with the local mindset and their preference towards the women here also change to be on par with the locals.

uni girls, pale skin, models @poseidon, hi-so, hi-so wannabes, etc

overall i tend to agree with james. same product, different packaging. the girls in the photos above are no different than what you will find in nana.
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