The Rise of Soi Cowboy and Decline of Nana Plaza
Found this article on Bargirls discussing the bar scenes and I have to agree with a lot of the sentiments so I thought I would post a link for anyone intested in recommended Bangkok bars (go-go etc.) in 2009:
[url]http://www.bangkokbargirls.info/bars2009.asp[/url]
Your preference/taste may vary
Have been to Baccara recently and must say the standard has risen dramtically over the last year, as have the number of girls, and have the prices. Drinks are expensive now. Some other bars cheaper.
Girls numbers ranged from 1 to about 300 so seemingly have heaps of girls in total but not all in attendance.
Standard for prettier girls to start at asking 4K LT now. otherwise they could do multiple STs in preference. So many Japanese customers willing to pay plenty to compete with.
On Sat night, one pretty girl (to my taste) had several guys come looking for her (yes I saw them), so she didn't have to take any low offers.
It was pointed out to me that Girl No. 80 was consistently the busiest every month in terms of most barfines, so probably only does ST. She had a somewhat similar to Japanese look about her (face egg shaped) but very plain in my eyes. I would not even give her a second glance.
I liked a girl from Sisaket (I thought aged 23 but she said 26) with pretty eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, hair, bottom, etc. and one or two others.
Many girls arrived quite late, e.g. still arriving after 9PM, after rain stopped and fined 4 baht per minute after 7.00PM on Weekends (2 Baht /min on other days). Clearly many girls lose their entire monthly salary in late fines or non attendance fines, each month. But these are usually the prettier girls who get bar fined regularly and make their money purely from drink commissions and customer "tips"/payments.
The prettier girls knock back plenty of customers that do not appeal to them.
Some bars have girls of suspect age that may not be able to go to Hotels that check their Ids. Be careful!