Oliver
December 24th, 2014, 18:19
A thread current in GB's forum evoked memories of my first visit to Pattaya eighteen years ago; I'd enjoy hearing from others who were around at that time.
The first bar I entered (and "offed" from ) was Cockpit but I also recall visiting Gentleman's in Soi 1 and Moonlight in Pattaya Second Road, where the dancers wore short silk kimonos which they would carefully fold before dancing. They looked dangerously young to me. Of course, the age for bar-workers was sixteen then.
Cockpit had a show which provided my innocent eyes with my first viewing of khatoeys. It was not until the next evening that I learnt that they weren't girls.
There was no Sunee scene then but I did travel to North Pattaya to a bar called Memories (I think). I remember staying only ten minutes; I was shocked both by the youth of the guys and the public antics on display.
BBB was busy, often with as many as one hundred guys. Toy Boys and A bomb are the other go go bars I remember. Panorama was then called Cocobanana and there I began my routine, still maintained, of enjoying a Bir Singh as dusk falls.
In so many ways in Pattaya is better today; hotels, restaurants, shopping- even the cost of travel is lower in real terms. But am I alone in thinking that there was an excitement in the 90s which is no longer there? or was it just the impression of a first-timer?
The first bar I entered (and "offed" from ) was Cockpit but I also recall visiting Gentleman's in Soi 1 and Moonlight in Pattaya Second Road, where the dancers wore short silk kimonos which they would carefully fold before dancing. They looked dangerously young to me. Of course, the age for bar-workers was sixteen then.
Cockpit had a show which provided my innocent eyes with my first viewing of khatoeys. It was not until the next evening that I learnt that they weren't girls.
There was no Sunee scene then but I did travel to North Pattaya to a bar called Memories (I think). I remember staying only ten minutes; I was shocked both by the youth of the guys and the public antics on display.
BBB was busy, often with as many as one hundred guys. Toy Boys and A bomb are the other go go bars I remember. Panorama was then called Cocobanana and there I began my routine, still maintained, of enjoying a Bir Singh as dusk falls.
In so many ways in Pattaya is better today; hotels, restaurants, shopping- even the cost of travel is lower in real terms. But am I alone in thinking that there was an excitement in the 90s which is no longer there? or was it just the impression of a first-timer?