Bar girls in Pattaya are Thai women who work in girlie bars such as gogo bars, beer bars, and gentleman’s clubs. Although they may be employed as waitresses, hostesses, or dancers, their primary role is to attract customers and encourage them to buy drinks.
If you want to know more about bar girls, including why they do it, who they are, and where they’re from, read this article all about Thai bar girls.
Where Are Girlie Bars 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.
Heres more about girls and nightlife in Pattaya if you’re visiting for the first time.
Things Pattaya Bar Girls Say
Most bar girls in Pattaya open the conversation with the obvious questions: What’s your name, where do you come from, where are you staying. Depending on their foreign language skills, it might be down to you to make the conversation.
When they ask more probing questions like do you speak Thai, or how long are you staying in Pattaya, they may just be figuring out how well you know the scene and if they might see you again.
Don’t expect them all to be totally honest about how long they have worked in bars, how frequently they go with customers, whether they have a Thai husband or boyfriend, or not liking Thai men.
Games Bar Girls Play
Playing games like Connect 4 is commonplace, especially at beer bars, where you find yourself sitting at the bar. They help to keep the conversation and lady drinks flowing.
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?
When a customer and a bar girl want to spend some time together outside the bar, a bar fine must 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 is 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, he has to pay the bar fine for every day she stays with him. The girl will also want compensation for her time, an amount usually agreed in advance.
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, invent a sudden headache or other reason to leave.
When paying for girls in Pattaya, it’s best to think of it as paying them to leave. In other words, never pay upfront.
Tips and Other Fees
TIPPING: If you want to give a tip, that’s up to you. You can say it’s for her taxi home or to get some food. There’s a good chance she will ask for some small money for a taxi anyway.
The Sob story: Thai bar girls are very perceptive. They can soon determine whether you’re good-hearted (jai dee), and might tell you sob story before they leave. It’s usually that they don’t have enough money for something that came up, Historically it was mainly for medicine for the family’s sick buffalo, and such stories are now best known as “sick buffalo syndrome.”
Pattaya Bar Girls Quick Tips
- Lock valuables away before going out.
- Don’t be afraid to ask about the price of lady drinks bar fines at any bar you visit.
- Expect “most” girls in Pattaya to stroke your ego.
- Always, always, always wear a condom.
- Always be nice, and they’ll be nice back.