The FARANG Speaks 2 Much (tfs2m)

editors note: Yes - I know these are not reviews but rather a list of bars and clubs. Some u may know about and others u may not. I learned of a few. If anyone wants to post a detailed review of any of these by all means please do and send it in. thx.

Hotel clubs/bars:

Park 87+ - Conrad Hotel

Spassos - Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel (usually full of working girls but also a lot of guys)

Concept CM2 – Basement of Novotel Hotel in Siam Square (packed with working girls, including a section devoted to ladies from Eastern Europe/Russia, but seems to be slowly being taken over by customers from India and the Middle East)

Met Bar – Metropolitan Hotel (very hi-so and sometimes they want members only)

Syn Bar - Nai Lert Hotel

BarSu - Sheraton Hotel on Sukhumvit

Flava - Dream Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 15

Westin Hotel lobby bar on Sukhumvit Soi 19 – usually has absolutely gorgeous girls serving here, if they don’t get snapped up by visiting executives and offered jobs as air stewardesses (which is what happened to a few of the girls last year).

Elephant Bar – Marriott Resort on the other side of the river, views of over 11 acres of tropical gardens, great to take a classy girl but not a pick-up spot

Angels in Nana Hotel – see night club section later for comments (but this place is wall to wall P4P)

Interesting Bars:

Pollys - Lang Suan Soi 7 (very trendy)

Hu’u – Ascot Sathon Rd Silom (also very trendy)

Escobar – Ekamai

Ice Bar – Thong-Lo

Lullabar – Out near Khao San Rd (1 Soi Mahannop1 Mahannop Rd. Pranakorn – near Democracy Monument and close to Democ) great live music

Astro Bar – Sukhumvit Soi 16 (opposite Mayfair Hotel) is full of 1950s artifacts

Barber Bar – Soi Sarasin (Opp Lumpini near Lang Suan) – also Brown Sugar and Around Midnight bars in the same area

Koi restaurant bar – on Sukhumvit Soi 20 (Tuesday and Thursday nights is model night with plenty of young ladies from S. America, Southern Europe)

Crystal Lounge – Sukhumvit Soi 20, a crystal jewelry store by day, cocktail bar by night. Very hi-so.

Bars with a view:

An exception to my two rules at the start of this section of the guide, but worth mentioning as great places to take a classy Thai date (not that girl you just picked up at Angels disco…):

Vertigo – on top of the Banyan Tree on South Sathon Rd.

Distil - in Silom on top of the Le Bua State Tower, a 63 story building near the Shangri-La Hotel. This is a very impressive bar.

Zeta bar – on top of the Hilton Millennium, across the river

Baiyoke Sky Bar - on the 83rd floor of the tallest building in Thailand

V9 – at the Sofitel Silom on the 37th floor and quite popular

Model Nights:

Several clubs/bars in Bangkok host special ‘model nights’ on certain evenings each week. If you are a registered model in Thailand (and can show your model card) you will receive free drinks. Obviously the theory is that wherever cute models go, so will the crowds. I’m not sure this strategy is working, since all I see at models nights are young male models picking up female models.

Flava at Dream Hotel - Friday/Saturday

Groove Kitchen (Ana’s Garden) in Ekamai - Sunday

Koi on Sukhumvit Soi 20 - Tuesday/Thursday

Bed Supperclub on Sukhumvit Soi 11 - Wednesday

Escudo on Thong-Lo - Thursday

Night Clubs:

QBar - on Sukhumvit Soi 11. Seems to be in a bit of a decline, with the wrong ratios on many evenings now (too many guys for the girls) and even the working girls that hang out here are nothing special. It is very small, very expensive, and on some nights they just play absolute crap music.

Bed Supperclub – Sukhumvit Soi 11. Very stylish, very few working girls.

Santika – Ekamai near Soi 9. Just a great club, packed most nights. No P4P, but if you look OK the girls can be friendly and numbers exchanged.

Glow - Sukhumvit Soi 23 area - down a bit of a side alley, close to Narcissus. Never understood why this club is not more busy – great music, tremendous layout and décor, coyote dancing on the bar, friendly staff, but very few customers.

Hard Rock – Siam Square. Not so much a night club as a restaurant/bar, but late in the evening there are good bands and a fun atmosphere. Full of working girls and P4P.

Concept CM2 – Novotel Hotel in Siam Square. A very busy club filled every night with working girls, some from outside of Thailand (see earlier on Hotel bars/clubs). This is a major P4P club in the city for freelancers, but has an increasingly dodgy South Asian and Middle Eastern clientele these days.

Nana Hotel (Angels Disco) – Soi Nana on Sukhumvit. Goes quite late, and packed with working girls of varying looks. A highly reliable pick up spot for P4P.

Lucifers – Patpong I is a bit hit and miss.

Funky Dojo – Patpong II

G.O.D. – Patpong II/1

Lava – on Khao San Road. Cute bar staff but dodgy clients.

Café Democ - near Khao San Rd at the Democracy Monument

Sin Club – Soi Nana (Sukhumvit Soi 4) down about 100 metres from Nana Plaza on the right. Goes late some nights.

Slim/Flix – on RCA with no P4P and young, mostly Thai crowd

Jazzit – on RCA

Club Culture – reasonably new club, near Phaya Thai BTS on Sri Ayuthaya Rd (opp Siam City Hotel) and run by the same people who managed Club Astra on RCA which is now closed but was a very popular dance spot. Popular with hard core dancing crowd.

Narcissus – Sukhimvit Soi 23 area

Groove Kitchen at Ana’s Garden – Thong-Lo Soi 3

Tapa’s (or Tapaz) – Silom Soi 4

The Club – Khao San Rd

Other Night Clubs:

These are clubs which can be less friendly towards tourists and foreigners. They usually ask for passport ID to gain entrance, and there are very few if any farangs in these places most nights.

Escudo – Thong-Lo (near Soi 11-13)

Booze – Thong-Lo Soi 10 near Ekkamai

Gigabyte – Next to Booze

Nung Len – Ekamai

WeZa – Ekamai just past Soi 21

Route 66, Prop bar and a few others in RCA