Feel free to pull it out and look at the amount if you want. More papers will be added as you order more drinks for yourself or others. In addition to your drink he will bring a piece of paper about the size of an index card and put it in a container in front of you. Soon your drink will appear, usually brought by a different guy. Doesn’t matter if you order water or Johnny Walker Blue on the rocks (not that they’d actually have that) the cost is the same. No, you can not just sit there and look, you have to order at least one. Think of your initial, and possibly only, drink as a cover charge. Whatever it is he is saying, the important part is your drink.ģ. You may not be able to hear him because of the loud, blaring disco music, or you may not be able to understand his attempt at English. The captain will immediately take your drink order. Don’t be picky on this visit, just sit your ass down.
On subsequent visits you’ll have learned where you like to sit. The captain will use his penlight to escort you to a seat. Yes, that is a totally nude and erect guy on the stage. You’ll immediately be handed off to a mamasan, or more correctly, a captain.Ģ. It’s these guys job to lure you into the club with false promises. Outside of the bar there will be one or more barkers.
Doesn’t matter which bar is your first, once you’ve popped your cherry you’ll be a pro and can then start hitting the various bars to find the one that suits you best. So, for the newbie, here’s a step by step program for your first visit to a gay gogo bar in Bangkok.ġ. But before the thread goes totally off the track (that’d be by responding post #5) they’ll be accused of being someone they never heard of someone else will abusively tell them to use the search function some old disgruntled Pattaya expat will tell them they will be ripped off, left with blue balls, and spat upon and one of the bar owners in Pattaya will use their post as an excuse to promote his bar. yikes! Doubtful they’ll get the answers they were looking for. What a scary introduction that must be! If they man up and post their questions. Which means they found one of the gay Thailand forums. If their first visit wasn’t a spur of the moment decision while already in Bangkok, the newbie probably tried to find out the scoop through the internet. While a first time visit is undoubtedly thrilling, it also can be a bit unnerving as the newbie hasn’t a clue as to how the whole thing works. But what about the new guys? It’s not like outside of Thailand you’ll ever have an experience even close to that of visiting one of the gay gogo bars in Bangkok. For those of us who visit Thailand, and its bars, frequently, the entire process of a night out is pretty humdrum.