In what many are calling the worst low season Pattaya has seen in a decade, new and owners alike are deciding that now is the time to get out, as evidenced by the latest two big-name bars to go on the market, 17-year-old Carousel Club A Go-Go and month-old coyote bar Ice.
While neither Carousel’s founding owner Enrico and Ice’s boss Eddie said that this year’s killer low season is the reason they’re selling up, both admit that this year has been much slower than ...
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2 Steps Forward, 1 Back As Pattaya Battles Pedophiles
Thailand’s complicity in the plot to force Gary Glitter back to the U.K. has again dragged the country into the unwanted international spotlight on pedophilia. But despite a recent string of high-profile arrests and prosecutions, Thailand -- and Pattaya in particular -- continue to attract the world's
From the Headlines: Fly Girls, Drunk Guys & Vigilante Justice
OK, enough with the Bangkok stuff. Back to Pattaya news. This week, "From the Headlines" brings you a collection of movie title-inspired items, including Thai girls who think they can fly, the most-dangerous address in Pattaya, vigilante justice, the dumbest reason to get into a knife fight and an Italian ...
PAD’s Credibility, Not Samak, Toppled in ‘Final Showdown’
Months of anti-government protests reached a crescendo in Bangkok today as the “People’s Alliance for Democracy” embarked on its “final showdown” with the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. With fewer than 10% of the protesters the group claimed would take to the streets, PAD managed only to briefly ...
Video of Maxim Thailand Models ‘Sexy Night’ Party
Of all the boy mags on Thailand's newsstands, Maxim is considered to have the hottest models. And, unlike Penthouse, which hires models that haven't appeared in its magazine for live events and FHM, which uses a mix, the Maxim girls you see on stage on the ones on the ...
After Dark: Bangkok Dangerous
I’d been saying for years that, someday, I was going to take a few days and finally do all the nightlife areas in Bangkok. Last week, fed up with Pattaya, mentally exhausted after having just one day a week off work since Songkran and eager to meet various Bangkok ...
Bar Crawl: Bangkok Nightlife Special Edition
The Ghost spent four nights in Bangkok this week taking in the nightlife there for the first time ever. Now back in Fun Town, here’s a rundown on the bars and nightspots in the City of Angels as seen through from the newbie tourist perspective. Also keep in mind that ...
Pattaya vs. The World: Lyra Calls Men ‘OFWGs’ & Thai Girls ‘Sluts’
She may be just out of school, completely unskilled for her job and totally unknowledgeable about Thailand, but a 21-year-old American name Lyra is positive she's got the male visitors sized up. To this Jomtien Beach English teacher you're all OFWGs: Olf Fat White Guys and the Thai women ...
From the Blogs: Navy Trip Report, Ozzy’s Kid Does Muay Thai, Faux Preggers
From the Blogs is a occasional round up of what’s being written about Pattaya and Thailand out in the blogosphere. In today's edition, U.S. Navy guys shun girls, crash vehicles; Ozzy Osbourne's son kicks butt, Isaan witch doctors create fake babies, plus blog bites on giks, gays and goofballs. Are You ...
From the Headlines: Phuket Toilet Tourists, Bouncy Thai Girls & Bitchy Men
From the Headlines is a regular roundup of Pattaya and Thailand news items. Not all the news mind you, just the stuff that happens to rise above all the other absurdity in the local media. Today: Tourist numbers better in Phuket than Pattaya and clean toilets may be why. Plus snide ...
Bar Crawl: Police Raids, Playgirls, Icy Coyotes & No Panties
The Ghost is off to Bangkok for a few days, but before I leave I offer up another installment of Bar Crawl. In this issue, the bottom line on two new Walking Street go-gos, more on Soi LK Metro's coyote wars, missing panties, Big Wednesday, plus more news from Happy, ...
TFS2M: Walking Street Mid-Low Season Report #1
It’s just past the midpoint of Low Season 2008 and, on the whole, it has been a brutal one for Pattaya. As I detailed a week ago, it’s been a very strange season, with some bars doing well and others less so. So, for my Sunday column ...
Coyotee’s Owners Plan Private Lap-Dancing Club, Disco
In Pattaya, where cheap draft beer, no-cover bars and hands-on female entertainment reign supreme, opening a private, high-end lap-dancing club would strike many as a dumb idea. But the owners of Coyotee’s A Go-Go plan to do just that later year when they transform the unused second floor of ...
Thai Jailed for Killing Brit Who Predicted Own Death Was Pattaya Bargirl
I really wanted to post this story a few days ago when it first broke. But while the basic plot -- man comes to Thailand, man marries Thai woman, Thai woman cheats him out life's savings, man ends up dead -- is tragically common, the original article had no tie ...
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