With thousands of bar girls for hire in hundreds of bars and clubs across the city, Pattaya is a place in Thailand where it’s famously easy to meet Thai girls for sex or companionship.
Visiting bars in Pattaya to connect with Thai bar girls and ultimately hire them involves a ritual‑like process that begins with buying lady drinks for girls you’re interested in, negotiating their prices, and paying bar fines for those you want to get more intimate with.
However, when it comes to prices, what bar girls in Pattaya cost in total can feel like a guessing game, and they’re typically much more expensive than options like freelance Thai girls online.
A simple way to save money if you plan to spend some time with female companions in Pattaya is to ensure you stay at guest friendly hotels, meaning ones that let you bring back friends for free.
Understanding Pattaya Bar Girl Prices
What bar girls in Pattaya actually cost depends on factors such as their looks, the type of bar, lady drink and bar fine prices, whether it’s for a short time, overnight, or a holiday girlfriend experience, the hotel you book, and how naive you appear.
What are Bar Girls in Pattaya?
Thai bar girls (bargirls) in Pattaya are women, typically aged 20 and above, who work in girlie bars such as gogo bars, beer bars, and gentleman’s clubs, and choose to go with male customers who visit the bars in search of fun and female company.
Although they are often employed as servers or hostesses, a bar girl’s primary role is to attract, entertain, and encourage customers to remain in the bar and buy lady drinks.
What It’s Like with Pattaya Bar Girls
Thai bar girls are generally attractive, friendly, and fun-loving. Some will be your girlfriend in Pattaya for a few days, no strings attached.
Ultimately, the appeal for most guys is that meeting Thai bar girls in Pattaya, the vibe, and the ensuing fun often feels natural rather than business-like or seedy.
The danger, though, the price you might pay, and why some guys stick to brief encounters rather than a girlfriend experience is that you can become emotionally attached, for all the wrong reasons, and unaware of the risks.
For more on how it is with Thai bar girls, the girlfriend experience, and the risks, have a read of this holiday girlfriend in Thailand guide.
Freelance Girls in Pattaya – The Cheaper Option
When it comes to bar girls vs freelance girls in Pattaya, the main difference is that, except in some freelancer-friendly bars, there’s no need to buy lady drinks or pay bar fines for freelancers, making them the cheaper option.
Most Thai girls online in Pattaya are freelancers. Plenty work the nightclubs and discos of Walking Street, and Beach Road (photo above) comes alive with them from late afternoon until late at night.
Besides girls who freelance full‑time, you’ll also find bar girls freelancing after hours, along with women in ordinary 9‑to‑5 jobs who occasionally freelance to earn extra cash, especially online.
On a cautionary note, whether you’re looking to hook up with freelancers or hoping to find a real Thai girlfriend in Pattaya, it’s best to quickly establish whether the women you meet in places like nightclubs, discos, or online are freelancing or not.
Where to Meet Bar Girls in Pattaya?
Girlie bars can be found on most streets in central (downtown) Pattaya but are much more prolific in the popular nightlife streets and zones such as Walking Street, Soi 7, Soi 6, Tree Town, Myth Night, and Soi Buakhao.
They vary in price and theme, from the cheap open-style beer bars of Soi New Plaza and Soi Made in Thailand, the short time bars of Soi 6, the discrete gentleman’s clubs around Soi Buakhao, to the flash but expensive gogo bars of Walking Street and Soi LK Metro.
Recommended: Read this Pattaya girls and nightlife guide for more about girls, the best nightlife spots, types of bars, massage parlors, and best place to stay for single men in Pattaya.
What Happens in Pattaya Girlie Bars Step By Step
- What often happens, especially in gogo bars, is that soon after ordering your first drink a girl may come along and ask if she can sit with you. Alternatively, the mamasan might ask if you would like a lady to keep you company.
- If you like a girl and want her to sit with you, it’s customary to buy her a drink (lady drink) while chatting and getting to know her.
- Buying lady drinks doesn’t have to lead to anything. But if there’s some chemistry and you want to spend more time together, either a short time (an hour or two) or a long time (typically overnight), it’s time to discuss the girl’s fee.
- Finally, before you can take the girl from the bar or use one of the private rooms that some bars provide, you have to pay a bar fine.
NOTE: It’s perfectly okay to decline offers of company if that’s not what you’re looking for. A polite “No, not today” is usually enough.
Things Pattaya Bar Girls Say
Most bar girls in Pattaya open the conversation with the obvious “What’s your name,” followed by:
- Where do you come from?
- How long have you been in Thailand?
- Is it your first time in Pattaya?
- Do you speak Thai?
- Where do you stay?
Depending on their motives, Thai bar girls can soon evaluate whether a guy is in Pattaya for the first time and might be easily deluded and separated from his cash. Or if he’s wealthy, single, and knows the score, or might be boyfriend material—if that’s what a girl is looking for.
Some secrets to being a successful bar girl in Pattaya are keeping secrets, not telling the whole truth, and telling a guy what he wants to hear.
Hence, regardless of a guy’s looks and age, so long as he has money in his pocket, in Pattaya, he will always be a handsome man.
Thai bar girls are not all free and single. Many have Thai husbands and kids waiting at home, one or more foreign boyfriends sponsoring them from abroad, or they’ve worked in bars longer than they dare admit.
Common lies that some Pattaya bar girls tell:
- It’s my first day/week working in Pattaya
- I don’t usually go with customers
- I don’t have a boyfriend
- I don’t like Thai men
The oft-repeated advice “Never fall in love with a Thai bar girl” is well-intentioned but not strictly true, even a little unfair. Some bar girls, however difficult to find, really are different.
The Games Pattaya Girls Play
The real purpose of playing games like Connect 4 (photo above) with Thai bar girls is not to connect four; it’s more about connecting and keeping the customer in the bar, spending money, and buying lady drinks.
What are Lady Drinks?
Any drinks you buy for bar girls in Pattaya’s girlie bars are called “lady drinks.” They cost more than standard drinks. For example, if a bottle of Leo beer for yourself costs around 80 baht, the same drink as a lady drink might cost about 150 baht.
The girls earn a generous commission when customers buy them lady drinks, and often have to reach a monthly drinks quota or risk having their salary docked.
The lady drinks menu varies from bar to bar. Many places limit them to spirits like Mekhong rum and shots of tequila. Some bars also permit fruit juice, and alcoholic lady drinks are often watered down to prevent the girls from getting drunk too quickly.
Pattaya Lady Drink Scams
- Drink Queens: Some bar girls string punters along, happily accepting drink after drink, despite having no interest in or intention of going with them.
- Pushy Girls: At some bars in Pattaya, girls can be pushy when it comes to lady drinks, often asking for drinks before properly introducing themselves and then drinking like a proverbial fish.
- Minimum Drinks: Some bars reportedly have a minimum lady drinks rule. Meaning, you can’t barfine a girl and leave with her until you have bought her a set number of drinks.
- No happy hour prices: At many bars in Pattaya, happy hour prices do not apply to lady drinks. It’s always a good idea to ask first.
Pattaya Lady Drinks Prices
The price of lady drinks at most beer bars and gentlemen’s clubs in Pattaya is around 150 baht. Lady drinks and regular drinks are generally cheaper in the Soi Buakhao area.
At Gogo bars/clubs on Walking Street and Soi LK Metro in Pattaya, lady drinks can cost 150–250 baht.
Some Pattaya gogo bars have a 2-tier pricing system for lady drinks (and bar fines), charging premium lady drink prices for the most beautiful girls.
For comparison, the price of a standard drink in Pattaya, a bottle of Leo beer, for example, costs 70–90 baht in most beer bars and gentleman’s clubs and 120–170 baht in gogo bars.
What is a Bar Fine in Pattaya?
If there’s some chemistry, and a girl likes you, and you both want to spend some time together outside the bar, you have to pay a bar fine to the bar before the girl is allowed to leave.
The bar fine is a form of compensation for the temporary absence of staff and the revenue lost due to the girl not being in the bar entertaining customers and selling lady drinks
Once the bar fine paid, whatever a bar girl and her customer get up to is their own business
Bar fines for bar girls in Pattaya can cost 300–3000+ baht depending on the type of bar and whether it’s for a “short time” or a “long time.” The cheapest bar fines are at beer bars, and the most expensive are at Agogo bars.
If a guy pays a girl to stick around for a few days for a girlfriend experience, to show him the sights in Pattaya, or whatever, he has to pay the bar fine for every day she stays with him.
The girl will also want compensation for her time, that’s negotiable between you and her and should be paid afterward.
When To Pay
Some bar girls in Pattaya, especially at agogo bars, ask for money upfront. They may offer a reason to hand over the money, and soon after, they invent a reason to leave or develop a sudden headache.
When paying for girls in Pattaya, it’s best to think of it as paying them to leave. In other words, never pay upfront. If it’s to rent a girlfriend in Pattaya for a few days, pay day by day.
Pattaya Girl Prices
What the company of girls in Pattaya costs depends on their looks and your negotiation skills, and how long it’s for.
Many bars in Pattaya also have different “long time” and “short time” bar fine prices.
Long time is typically overnight or whatever time was agreed. Other than at agogo bars, a bar fines cost 300 to 1000 baht. At Agogo bars in Pattaya expect to pay a bar fine of 1000–3000+ baht.
Short time is typically just for an hour or two. Other than at Agogo bars, short time bar fines cost 300–600 baht. At Agogo bars, a short time bar fine can cost 800 to 1,500 baht.
Thai Girlfriend Experience
To rent Thai girls in Pattaya for a girlfriend experience (rent-a-girlfriend) costs at least whatever a girl usually earns in the bar per day plus the daily bar fine and expenses such as food.
Picking Up Pattaya Girls at Discos and Nightclubs
Discos and nightclubs on Walking Street are among the best places to meet some of the most beautiful girls in Pattaya on the cheap., including normal “good Thai girls,” freelancers, and Thai bar girls.
Although many bar girls and freelance girls are just out to party, expect the majority to be seeking customers after normal girlie bars have closed.
The Sick Buffalo
Thai bar girls are very perceptive. They can soon determine whether a man is susceptible to their charms. If a guy is good-hearted (jai dee), girls might tell him a sob story in order to squeeze a little extra money out of him.
The story might be that she doesn’t have enough money to pay the electric bill or needs to buy medicine for her dad’s sick buffalo. Such sob stories invented by Thai bar girls are known as “sick buffalo syndrome.”
Girls in Pattaya Who are Not Girls
In Pattaya, some of the prettiest girls are not girls; they’re ladyboys (transgender people), aka Kathoeys.
There are many ladyboys in Pattaya and it’s often difficult to spot a Thai ladyboy—until it’s too late. When some hot girl you meet in Pattaya happens to be a ladyboy—politely tell her you didn’t know, and your preference is strictly for girls. Compensate her for her time, put it down to experience, and hope for better luck next time.
Paying the Price for Unprotected Sex in Pattaya
What is the risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease in Pattaya and what are the consequences? Consider this: Bar girls in Pattaya typically have far more sexual partners than most girls, and with guys who—while on vacation in Pattaya—have sex with more girls than average.
Condoms can be purchased at convenience stores, supermarkets, and pharmacies in Pattaya. However, If you have a favorite brand, fetch your own.
Pattaya Girls Quick Tips
- Book a guest-friendly hotel
- Check the joiner policy for the minimum age of joiners
- Lock valuables away before going out
- Don’t be shy to ask about the price of lady drinks and bar fines in Pattaya
- Expect “most” girls in Pattaya to stroke your ego
- Make sure the girl is actually a girl
- Always, always, always wear a condom
- Always treat the girls with respect.