Pattaya Girls: Are They Overpriced?
My story on my last time in a GoGo bar.
Many years ago, I was hanging out with one of my American friend on Walking Street in Pattaya. On one night, we visited at least a dozen GoGo bars, but we didn’t bar fine any girls. We only brought some drinks for the girls so we can chat with them.
As this was not my first time in Pattaya, so I had a good idea of the prices. My friend on the other hand, it was his 2nd time there.
I remember going to one of the bigger/upscale GoGo bar located in the middle of walking street. I remember my buddy asking for the price to bar fine one of the girl.
4,000 baht for a short-time
The mamasan came over, which I found to be unusual and she told him it would cost 4,000 baht for a short-time and 5,000 baht for long-time. Mind you, and this was back in 2011.
I’m not sure why the mamasan came over, maybe she can speak better English, or maybe she is the best at closing a deal with customers?
Whatever the reason, the price quoted was high even back ten years ago. Maybe it had to do with us looking like newbies. At least my friend was the one looking like a real tourist, but he was smart enough to try to bargain down the price.
After a minute of negotiating, the mamasan didn’t budge, even though 4,000 baht was way overpriced for a GoGo girl at that time.
A quick looked at the girl my friend was interested in bar fine for the night. I can say she was not the best-looking girl in the bar; I would give her a 6 out of 10. A bit chubby for my taste, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the holder.
After that instance, plus a couple more visits to some other GoGo bars on Walking Street during separate holidays. I now no longer go to any GoGo bars or bar fine any GoGo girls on Pattaya Walking Street, except for the freelancers.
Is Thai Pussy Overpriced?
I can still remember my last bar fine for a GoGo girl at the same time I went with my American friend in 2011.
I remember I bar fine a GoGo girl at LK Metro and I dropped about 8,000 baht that night taking her out to different GoGo bars and buying lady drinks.
What a waste of money, never again.
Since then, I no longer go in a GoGo bar, but you might see me there to do some undercover research on the prices for my website and my Thai Girls Gone Wild YouTube channel. Other than that, you will not find me there anymore, let alone bar fining a GoGo girl.
Here are my two reasons why I avoid bar fining GoGo girls and why I avoid GoGo bars altogether.
High price
With everything you need to pay for a GoGo girl, a short-time can cost you at least $120 USD, and it can easily cost up to $200 USD or more if you’re not careful.
Most people forget to add the costs for their flight and accommodation, plus the price of the GoGo girl.
You might stay home for that price because when you come to Thailand, you will have to pay at least $1,000 USD for your flight and your hotels.
How I get the $120-$200 USD figure?
When you go in any GoGo bars on Walking Street, you will first need to buy a drink for yourself, that’s easily 100-150 baht, but you can also get a draft beer for as low as 70 baht.
If you like a girl and you want to ask her to go to your room. You will have to call her over and buy her a lady drink. That’s another 150 to 250 baht.
Back then bar fine is about 1,500 baht to 2,500 baht, but can be as low as 1,000 baht during the low season.
Of course, you will have to pay the girl for her time. That’s at least 2,000, to 2,500 baht for a short-time and long-time for an all-nighter is even more.
When you add all of that up, it is about 4,000 baht or about $120 USD for a short time with a GoGo girl. Assuming you brought one drink for yourself and one drink for the girl and that’s the low end. It can easily cost 5,000 baht and up.
Then don’t forget to add the cost of your flight, time on your flight, and the cost of your accommodations.
That 4,000 baht for a short-time is more like 8,000 to 10,000 baht for a short-time with a GoGo girl on Pattaya infamous Walking Street after you include the cost of your flight and accommodations.
Not cheap!
In 2005, I thought a short-time with a GoGo girl for about 1,500 baht for everything (Short-time, bar fine, your drink & lady drink). To me, that 1,500 baht was expensive. Today you will have to pay about 2.5 times more for the same experience.
That’s why I now avoid GoGo bars and stop bar fining GoGo girls like a plague.
Snotty Attitudes & The Buy Lady Drinks Mentality
This is my second reason why I don’t go to places like Soi Cowboy or Walking Street in Pattaya. Yes, it is getting too expensive for me in those two places and not only that. I think it doesn’t provide good value. On top of that, some of the girls have this bitchy attitude while some people call it “starfish” . A starfish is a girl who lays on her back with her arms and legs spread out without doing anything else after you bar fine her.
Of course, not 100% of the girls working in a GoGo bar or Coyotes have those attitudes.
But I find this new attitude abnormal, and from my experience, it is happening more often in the past few years. Out of all my years traveling to Thailand, I never had many girls with a snotty attitude and who do not go out with me or other customers for a short time.
Sure, if they were a staff maybe not or the girls holding the sign at the front because they sometimes don’t go out with customers. But I’m talking about the girls in Coyotes and some girls in GoGo bars who do not go with the customer. Some other times if they don’t want to go out with customers, the girls might jack up the price so high like 5,000 baht for a short time.
I believe this is happening more often now because of the higher cost of lady drinks. At the time of this writing, you pay around 150-250 baht for a lady drink, and the girls get about 50% commission. On top of that, the bar pressure the girls with a monthly quota to get each month for the girls to get their salary.
If you do the math, a girl in a GoGo or Coyote bars needs ten lady drinks per night for her to pocket up to 1,000 baht for a night of partying. Good for the girls, not so good for me.
This reminded me of one of those Japanese bars. Where the guy goes in the shop to get his eagle boost by chatting with a cute girl, but he didn’t get any pussy. It is starting to feel like that in Pattaya to me. Which really sucks.
The questions is
If she can make that much with lady drinks alone, why does she need to go out with some old fat guy when she can make a very good living in Thai standard staying in the bar partying and drinking with her friends?
The good ol’ days are gone for me.
I’m not getting any younger, and maybe it’s just me. I’m getting old, fat and ugly each year and more girls are not interested. Probably, that’s it. What about you? What are your experiences? Do you think it is just me or is this getting normal now?
How to avoid paying bar fine
With all that said, there is a method that I used to get GoGo girls in bed without the expensive bar fine. The best thing you want to do is wait until 2 or 3 am when the GoGo bars close. This is when many GoGo girls who had too much to drink or some of the girls who didn’t want to go home and they want to earn extra money. These girls will head to a nearby disco or other nightclubs.
What I do is, I would find the drunk ones and offer to buy her a drink or some food and find a way to take her back to my pad or a short-time hotel. I tend to get a cheaper deal-talking outside the GoGo bars, plus I don’t have to pay for the bar fine.
Are GoGo girls still worth it?
I know a lot of people see snagging a GoGo girl as the holy grail, and some seem to be obsessed with it. Personally, I’ve no idea why. They are overpriced, and the bar fines have more in common with paying off your mortgage than a quick roll in the hay.
And is it just me or is the standard not what it once was? Some of the mingers I’ve seen knocking about lately. For fox sake, I could do better in 7/11. Add to that the most expensive drinks and lady drinks in the whole city, snotty attitudes and mammasans wanting tipping for a quick back rub (without you asking) and it has me asking wtf?
Then I’ve never been impressed by them if I’m honest. To each their own and all that. There are way better deals to get rid of your dirty water. There are some quality GoGO Bars (GGB) out there, where almost anything goes and a lot of fun to be had, but they are few and far between.
What do you think? Leave your comment below.
