What was the best go-go bar in Bangkok?

[werner]

What was the best go-go bar in Bangkok? What memories do you have?

Midnight Cowboy at its peak in the early 90s was fantastic. It often had 20-30 handsome, athletic guys and no boring lady-boy shows. The guys were so attractive that it was difficult to choose a partner. Sometimes I would leave with two or three. The friendly British transvestite who worked as the mama-san had an acerbic wit, but would leave you alone if you just wanted to enjoy the eye candy. Why can't someone replicate this bar? Why did it close?

Barbiery [spelling?] at its peak in the late 1980s {and early 90s} was also great. It had many handsome guys and good mix of muscular types and athletic twinks. Why and when did it close? It always seemed packed,perhaps too packed.

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[scottish-guy]

I can't go back that far - but I always liked Screw Boy (before it closed, moved across the road to Fresh Boys I think - and then re-opened)

The boss at that time - who I knew as Porn - knew "my type" and whenever I arrived, if he did not have a boy on the staff to fit the bill would be sure to have one the next night. He also gave me gifts and the occasional free drink. Of course I was spending a lot of cash (maybe 3 bottles of JWBL a night in those days) - but the point is I've spent that in lots of other places and not got so much as a "hello" from the boss so I appreciated it.

I have 2 stories from those days:

1. As is still the case I believe, the Water supply in Silom is not 100% reliable and one evening I went into Screw Boy and the water went off at one point. They had a DJ at that time (from Dundee of all places) and he made the following completely serious announcement:

"The water has gone off and the toilets cannot be flushed - so if anybody needs a pee it's fine but if you need a shit please come to the bar and ask for a carrier bag"! Over the years I've tried to visualise (haven't practiced I assure you) on how you could actually hold a carrier bag open and shit in it at the same time but to date I still can't figure it out

2. Was in Screw Boy one night and Porn was doing his owner stuff when his wife walked in and started battering him with hands and fists and anything else she could find. It was better fun than any cabaret

[fountainhall]

Barbiery during that period was way out in front. My second would be Apollo in Soi 4 which I believe did not last much beyond the mid 1980s. I'm not sure why Barbiery went downhill, but it must have started long before it moved to its new location on the 3rd or 4th floor of a building across the road from Nature Boys. That was a big space but nothing was as good as the original Suriwong location. It never had any atmosphere, had nothing like the number of customers, only a fraction of the number of boys and the shows were boring. No wonder it didn't last long after that. Third has to be the original Twilight. Lots of boys, cheap drinks and a fair amount of sleaze!

[wyrleyboy]

Midnight Cowboy and Barbiery were my favourites too

[TaoR]

Barbiery was number one and Apollo was good too!

I fell in love my very first visit to Barbiery and so I was "committed" but we did party a lot and went to every gay bar and disco almost nightly. Sometimes, when we stayed out real late we would end up hooking up with alot of the other guys at Barbiery and then we would go someplace and eat.

I know the love of my life got his job because he had a cousin who was a go go boy. I never saw him at Barbiery because he got offed literally every night and sometimes two three times a night. Yeah, he was a stunner!

Its not hard to do the math on that and figure out real quick that that made Barbiery a lot of money and made the boys lots of money. When the bar and the boys are making money you are going to naturally have a really fun show and a really fun atmosphere!

Sadly, in this business, sometimes bigger isn't always better....

[fountainhall]

Sadly, in this business, sometimes bigger isn't always better....

So true. Apollo was a small bar with a great staff and boys who were so friendly and such fun even when strutting their stuff on the runway when naked. I was madly in love with the barman! Barbiery was also pretty small if you discount the boys' gym area to the right as you went in. Twilight seemed bigger but then it did not have a stage or catwalk within the audience area - that was tiny and stuck behind the bar. Even so, the atmosphere at week-ends when it would be packed mostly with Thais made it great fun.

[scottish-guy]

Not really a GoGo bar as such (although some impromptu displays) but does anybody remember My Way?

I always found the boys wanking off whilst wearing their street clothes much more erotic than in briefs or even nude

[Oliver]

Yes, I recall My Way- I assume you are referring to the Bangkok, not the Phuket one. It was the only bar in a dead-end soi near the Pan Pacific Hotel (I think that was its name.) I went there on my first trip to Bangkok. A very nice guy accompanied me to a scuzzy short-time room. In those days I was too shy to take him back to my my hotel. My only other memory is that the go go bar had a screen showing gay porn of questionable legality.

[scottish-guy]

Yes - the BKK one.

You're right - it was not easy to find the bar and the way I discovered it was that an English guy who seemed to be involved in the Bangkok Best Boys operation came into our company, had a few drinks and offered to take us to it.

There was no porn of that nature when I was ever there. The owner died (I think his band was Tony or Harry or some such) and it all went to pot after that with the staff having to send out to 7-Eleven for even a beer

[werner]

I never visited Apollo or Twilight, but visited My Way several times I think.
Was it the small bar with a central stage in a small alley way? Had some great sexy dancers.

Jupiter at its peak also was great--when it was on the ground floor of the sleazy hotel across from Jupiter's present location.

The old Jupiter was much better and had better looking guys.