Pattaya Thailand Essentials

One of the most infamous streets in the world, Walking Street Pattaya is known for it’s bright neon lights, loud music, go-go bars, beer bars, discos, restaurants, and of course girls.

Walking Street closes down to traffic at 6pm and becomes the center of Pattaya Thailand’s nightlife.  For the first time visitor the sights and sounds of 1000 meters of debauchery can be overwhelming.  There are go-go bars and beer bars lining the street, with a bevy of beautiful Thai girls outside trying their best to get you to come in and have a drink or two.

In addition to the beer bars and gogo’s, there are a number of great restaurants, souvenir and t-shirt shops, and entertainers putting on street performances.  There are girls and ladyboy’s packed into every bar and many freelancers working the street.  The number of freelancer’s increases as the night gets later and bars around other parts of Pattaya shut down.

If you are looking to shoot a game of pool and not be hassled by the girls, there are a few bars that cater to this as well.  Up for a little live music?  You can check out the Blues Factory Pattaya.  A live band plays blues and R&B music.  If your fortune enough to go when Lam Morrison is playing, it is a must see.  He is hands down the best and most well known guitar player in Thailand.

There are a number of well known discos and nightclubs that keep the party going until the wee hours of the morning.  Lucifer’s, Marine, and Insomnia are three of the most popular.  These Walking Street Discos usually have a small cover charge to get in, and the later it gets, the bigger the crowd.

In addition to the Main drag of Walking Street, there are also several smaller Soi’s that jut off the side.  Here you will find many more bars, go-go’s, and restaurants.  Soi Diamond being the most well known entertainment street.

Walking Street is the crown jewel of Pattaya nightlife.  It is well known for its crazy and wild night time entertainment, and rightfully so.

Soi 6 is Pattaya’s daytime Walking Street.  It’s been refered to as sexy, seedy, and sinful.  All could be an accurate description.  Soi 6 is Pattaya Thailand’s daytime center for crazy fun and debauchery, a walk down here is not for the meek and mild mannered.

Soi 6 is a street filled with short time bars and go-go’s that starts operating in the early afternoon and goes on till late.  However it is best know as a place for daytime fun.

The bars and staff are known to be a little bit rougher than their Walking Street counter parts.  A lot of the bars are small and somewhat run down, but that is part of it’s attraction to the regular Pattaya travelers.

On your first walk down Soi 6, you will see dozens of Thai girls sitting outside the front of their bars.  Cat calling to the passing men as only they can do.  “Hello Hansum Man..”  Some will come out to meet you in the street and pull you into their bars.  If your not interested just tell them no thanks and walk on to the next gauntlet of beautiful Thai girls trying to get your attention.

You’ll also find several ladyboy bars and go-go’s on Soi 6.  However most of the bars are strictly girls.  There are too many individual bars to list, but in a future update we’ll put up a map with all the bars on Soi 6.

Soi 6 Pattaya is not for everyone.  But if your in the mood for some daytime debauchery with some of your friends, than it maybe just what you are looking for.

The Blues Factory in Pattaya Thailand is top spot to listen to live music on your holiday.  They have several live bands playing blues, r&b, and rock.  Opened in 2001 and still going strong, the bar is located just off Walking Street on Soi Lucky Star, just opposite the Marine Disco. When you walk in you will be allowed to choose from the available seats, which include tables in front of the stage and dance floor, high top bar tables, or a series of booths along the outside.  Drink and wait service is good, and the music fantastic.

The main headline blues band is The Blues Machine.  The lead singer is Mary from the Philippines, and she can really belt out the songs.  Their main rock band is the Lam Morrison and The Rock Machine.  Lam is probably Thailand’s best known rock guitarist and plays in the Pattaya Blues Factory most nights.  Lam left the Blues Factory for a short while to do his own thing, but has returned recently to rip it up once again.

In addition to the house bands, there are guest bands that come to play in the bar – 3 band nights as they call them.  They have included some well known names in blues and rock from Thailand, Canada, and the U.S. The Blues Factory opens nightly at 8:30 and is a fun and different way to start your night on Walking Street.  It usually brings in a fairly sizable crowd, so always best to get there a bit early if you want to have your pick of the seats.  The Blues Factory is definitely one of the best live music spots in Pattaya.

One topic that always comes up when talking to people about Pattaya – Women.  It’s no secret that Pattaya has a reputation for wild and seedy nightlife that is known around the world.  The city has tried to clean up its image over the past few years, yet everyone still  wants to know about the Pattaya Girls.  It’s not much of a wonder to anyone who’s been there, as there are beautiful Thai women all over the city.

The main thing that comes to a lot of people’s minds is prostitution.  Although illegal in Thailand, officials tend to look the other way when it comes to this aspect of the nightlife and culture.  Sex is on sale pretty much 24-7 in Pattaya.  That is the reality, no matter how people would like to sugar coat it.

However it is not like a lot of western people envision. Most drum up some horrible vision of the worst, and assume that is what Pattaya is like.  On the contrary, it is much more respectable than that, even if you disagree with the pay for pleasure mentality.  It is out in the open for anyone to see, yet it remains a bit discreet to those that partake.  What do I mean?

First, let’s make sure you know that all women in Pattaya are not prostitutes.  If you approach women in an inappropriate manner you will get yourself in trouble.  Just use your head and show respect.

You can meet girls in Pattaya at a variety of different venues, from beer bars to go-go bars, discos to restaurants.  You can find girls that are willing to go with you.  However it doesn’t have the seedy feeling of prostitution that most would associate with it.  It is more like you are flirting with a girl in a bar.  You hit it off and she goes with you.  You take her to dinner, dancing, and back to your room.  It is more like a date, which I think is most appealing to most men that come here.

If you find a girl that you really like, she may stay with you through your entire vacation.  You’ll find yourself taking her sightseeing, shopping, to the movies, out to dinner, just like you would a girl back home.  You’ll be paying for these things as well as her barfine and daily rate, but it feels like you’ve found a new girlfriend.  This is really what they mean when they say she was a girlfriend experience.

Pattaya Girls – Things to Know

You have to realize that even though you think you’ve found your new girlfriend, this is still a working relationship.  Unless you sponsor her and take her out of the bar, she is still a bar girl in Pattaya and will go with customer to make her living.  When she is with you, she will be devoted, as long as you are paying her.  When you are gone she will be looking for a new customer.

The Bar Fine

A lot of people still don’t understand this.  The barfine is the amount of money (baht) you pay to the bar to take the girl off premises, nothing more.  You are essentially taking one of the bar owners girls off duty for the night and you compensate the bar for this.  Any additional ‘services’ you require are on top of that.
The typical bar fine can run from THB 200 – 500 (that’s Thai Baht if you don’t know).

Negotiating with Pattaya Girls

The additional services are negotiated directly with the woman of your choosing.  It is often advised by people that have been in the pay for pleasure realm for some time that it is best to agree upon a price before paying the bar fine and leaving the bar.  I can’t say this a bad option.

There will be a different rate depending on whether you want to take a girl long time or short time.

Long Time vs. Short Time

What’s the difference between long time and short time…about 500 Baht.  Seriously though, there is more than just price involved.  It also has to do with time, location, and intent.

Long time (LT) is where you take the girl from the bar for the entire night.  She will stay with you until morning (or early afternoon depending on how late you were out the night before).  This is like a first date.  You take her with you to bars, discos, maybe a bite to eat.

If she likes you, she may try and stay with you the next day.  If she is up early and getting dressed, it’s time to pay her and let her go.

Short time (ST) with a Pattaya girl is all about satisfaction.  You meet a girl in the bar and arrange to take her short time.  Most bars will have a room available onsite or you can take her back to your hotel if it is guest friendly.  It is all about a quick session and then back out to the bars.  There is no overnight stay involved.  If you took a girl for short time and find there is a connection, you can ask her if she wants to stay with you long time and go from there.

There is a lot more information that can be passed along, especially to those who are making there first trip to Pattaya.  Hopefully this answers some of your initial questions about Pattaya girls and what to expect when you get there.

Massage in Pattaya is all too often incorrectly associated with sex, however in this case, it is spot on.  The soapy massage has become a time honored tradition in Thailand.  We don’t know the history, but it is quite popular, along with a few other variation such as the oil massage.

Not all massage places in Pattaya cater to this.  A lot of them are above board and offer simply a thorough Thai full body massage.  You have to make sure that you are in the right kind of establishment if this is what you are looking for.  Some of the major establishments are Heavens Entertainment, Sabailand, and Diamond massage.

You will find many large scale massage parlours around Pattaya, as well as many smaller ones.  In the larger ones, you will quite often be escorted through the entrance into an area where the girls all sit behind a glass wall.  You are able to look at the girls and find one that you find beautiful.   As the massage girls all where numbers, you tell the attendant the girls number, and he will be off to arrange things.

Now the variety and quality of massage girls will depending on the day and time you arrive.  It can also depend whether or not it is high or low season in Pattaya.  If you don’t find one that you like you are always free to leave.

Most of these places will have a variety of different options on the menu for you to choose from.  It could be an oil massage, soapy massage, or numerous other combinations.  You will typically get the actual massage first, followed by the well known happy ending.

With the Soapy massage, the girl usually begins by washing you down as you sit together in a large bath tub.  Then you proceed to get out of the tub and onto and inflatable air mattress.  The girl will then soap you down with her body as the main instrument for applying the suds.  It can be very erotic.  What happens after that is up to you.  You will probably spend an hour, maybe more in the parlour.  Fees may range from 1000 – 2000 baht.

The Coyote Bars in Pattaya are quite popular and have been catching on in the last few years.  These bars are slightly different then your other beer bars and gogo’s.  The concept is a bit different but like other things in Thailand a bit of the same.

The bars are typically laid back, TV screens, pool tables, a bar, and places to sit.  The coyote girls, are dancers who are paid to dance around the bar on platforms or raised areas.  Typically these girls are stunners, truly beautiful.  They are eye candy for the patrons to ogle at while they are drinking and having a good time.

One thing about the girls in the coyote bars of Pattaya is that they all do not go with customers.  They are usually paid pretty well to dance and attract customers into the bar, however it is up to them if they wish to go with someone.  In the beer bars and Pattaya gogo’s, they are there to attract customers, but their goal is to find someone to take them out of the bar for the evening.

In Pattaya’s Coyote Bars, it is not uncommon for a man to be turned down, when he offers to pay a ladies bar fine.  The girls can afford to be a bit choosier as to who they want to go with, if anyone at all.

These bars are are usually quite popular just based on the beautiful women that work there.  You can sit back relax and have a few drinks while looking at the talent on stage performing.  There are now shows, but some would say the girls dancing around to the music is the show.

Prices in the Coyote bars can range from reasonable to expensive.  It really depends on the place and the owner.  You may find some deals, but don’t be surpised if the drink prices are on the high end in some of these locations.  But then again, this is Thailand, and compared to back home, even the high prices seem cheap.