I have to add my two pennyworth here…There are plenty of bars catering for us farangs where beer costs 60B or less and you can sit and have a chat with your mates or with one of the attractive fully clothed ladies. If you want entertainment, you have to pay for it. 130B is pricier than a beer bar, but fcuk me, the show in Angelwitch cannot be compared with anything you get in the UK (or the USA) - and at only little more than GBP2 per drink. I guess I also have another perspective on it. Here in Singers, in my local pub (where a few Thai girls hang out as the owner is married to a Thai), a bottle of Tiger or Heineken costs the equivalent of GBP3, or over 200B - and that’s a cheap bar! I’m looking forward to paying 130B soon!

Trying to get up there next weekend for a couple of nights. Don’t disappear.

I can see Go Go bars adopting a cover charge on a similar basis to BKK nightclubs. This would prevent the cases of the cheap charlies who only buy one cheap draught lager and then nurse it for an hour or so whilst ogling the naked women and looking at the shows. Nightclubs in Pattaya do not have cover charges but I have heard that at least one, the famous Tony’s, has now introduced one.

This is a shame because you may visit a nightclub and not like it and leave immediately if it is not to your liking, until you find the one that you want to stay in. But you can’t do this with a cover charge without it being expensive.

A bottle of Beer Lao in Angelwitch goes for, last time I checked, 130 baht. That’s about 2 quid. The wholesale cost is about 30 baht per bottle at most, I’d guess. So that’s a 333% profit.

Last week, I was drinking bottles of Carlsberg in a bar in the North of England for 75 pence a bottle. Okay, it was “cheap night”, but it wasn’t a depressingly boring bar. And I didn’t pay an entrance fee.

Sure, Bangkok’s cheaper than London. But gogo bars are home to some of the most overpriced drinks in Thailand, beaten only by the hi-so hangouts and the hotel bars. Cambodia, particularly Phnom Penh, is now the de facto destination for budget sex tourists. $1 beers and $10 girls.

I love Bangkok, obviously. I just don’t think most of the farang-oriented gogo bars represent particularly good value for booze, compared to the alternatives in this part of the world…

Cormac, thanks for commenting and passing on that information. However, I don’t think you will find many fans of London’s nightlife scene. We are not all rich!

Hi Gary, there will be an Angelwitch Halloween T-shirt waiting for you! Special go-go dance clubs could well of happened, but fortunately for us farangs it did not. We get all that entertainment in Thailand’s go-go bars for just the price of a drink. And, a drink that still costs less than in a depressingly boring bar back in Farangland.  Great mate, we are waiting for that drink.  With all these offers to get the drinks in, we will have to start calling you “Get ‘em in Gary!” 

Western sex scene, you have lots of gangsters and pimps involved who rake off ninety percent of the money the gals get - same in Thailand with the gal’s husbands/boyfriends but they are a whole lot cheaper than Western men.

For way less, I’d recommend Spearmint Rhino’s. Beautiful & intelligent women. Decent dancers. There’s cheaper stripclubs/lapdancing clubs but I prefer this club to Springfellow’s