Just some random notes on the go-go boy bars and a few restaurants I visited in Pattaya recently:

BOYZTOWN

Copa Showbar - big place, beer 190, large audience (over 50?), get to the show early to avoid seats where sight of stage is blocked by two thick pillars in room. Professional but I found the underwater show too long and a bit tedious.

Funny Boys - great place, lots of younger boys (by BoyzTown standards), beer 160, 2 other customers when I was there at about 10pm, clean set-up, towels and hand-wipe on arrival.

G-U-Y (in Walking Street) - loud, loud, loud - the music and the boys. I went there early, about 10pm, and was the only customer throughout. Beer 150.

Happy Place - this seems to get good reviews but I've never been too impressed. Beer 150. This time there was certainly some good talent on stage - 000 and 111 had nice packages and bodies to show off; 3 (Tao) is skinny but with a cute smile; 2 enjoys playing with his cock. The music is very loud and I was surprised that all 4 dancers at show-time were young but chubby and there were just 2 other performers to do the more erotic stuff and hold the show together. The show lasted 25 minutes.

Lucky 777 - beer 160. Big place, seating around a central stage. I was there early (9:30pm) and was the only customer but a few more came and went in the following hour. Many very cute young boys here (check nos 4, 42, 48 amonst others), mostly in their (fake) Toot undies - but they all looked so bored, almost none made any attempt to shuffle on stage, let alone actually dance; none seemed to be seeking eye contact with the few customers that were there, for better or worse; no smiles and many standing with arms folded even when new customers did look in. The music is thankfully quite low volume, but sadly smoking is still allowed inside. Personally I think the boys would look better without footwear - maybe some guys find the black hard shoes and black socks combo with Toots on some of the guys to be sexy, but it does little for me!

Splash Boys - a mixture of older and young boys. Check on numbers 2, 4 and 6 for cuteness. Beer 160.

Toy Boys - about 20 young boys in white undies; beer 160.

Vassa - I almost visited this place twice but each time backed out, partly because 180 for a beer seems unreasonably steep for such a small go-go boy bar (no show) and there are no more than 6 boys around at any one time. But eventually I stepped inside and was pleasantly surprised. Number 3 is very cute and well worth spending time with; 5 is both cute and the hottest of the dancers. Boy drink 120.

X-Boys - I like this place, always a good and varied show. I arrived as the Big Cock display was in progress - quite inviting. Beer 200 I think - the doorman explained it's more expensive than other places because those hardons are on full show.

SUNEE PLAZA

Good Boys - fun, sleazy, relaxed, you decide. Beer 150. Around 10 street boys, none making any attempt to look clean or smart - just there on stage in (or out) of their baggy boxers, wanking away and showing off their assets, with (straight) porn on their phones to keep the party going. There seemed to be a jerk-off competition, sponsored by some other customers, while I was there - the boys almost queued up to jerk off onto one of the customer's drinks tables. Afterwards they would grab a tissue and casually wipe away their deposit ready for the next boy. I wonder if these tables get a full clean at the end of the night? On my next visit, while most of the boys were just about still wearing their loose boxers, one had given up altogether and was stark naked, lay on his back on stage with a full hardon. All good stuff. They keep the lights down low as the night gets later and activities more interesting.

Happy Boys Bar - drinks 99. About 10 boys, mostly on the older side. Just one other customer so mamasan and the boys themselves all quite pushy to get attention and a drink. None that attracted me and I left as soon as drink finished.

Mic My - similar to Nice Boys and same sort of boy-mix. Let down by a pushy and demanding (but ultimately harmless) mamasan - if you do get a boy to sit with you, she will expect you to buy a drink for her as well as for the boy. Beer 150.

New Sawadee Boys - a relatively busy place. Most of the boys look VERY young and, during my visit, a mamasan suddenly burst in from outside and ordered all but two of the boys off the stage. They promptly ran off through the back of the bar. Just two "older" (and very cute) boys were left on stage - one told me he was 19, the other 21, so I'll assume from that that the rest are 18 or younger. A fun place.

Nice Boys - beer 160, always relatively busy, lots of boys. Many cute and young boys in white undies. But I don't understand what the group of skater boys in sagging jeans at the back of the stage was there for - do they ever perform, or are they just decorative? Not a pushy place and many boys seemed bored, but some real cuties - 60 with a blond afro style hair do, permanently admiring himself in the mirror (as well he might!), 62 tall, with hands stuck in his pants almost permanently, with multiple ear rings and tattoos; 50 also cute.

SOI DAY/NIGHT EATING

La Cuisine au Beurre - I'd say the food is consistently a bit better than Petite Planete down the road, and the prices marginally higher to match. Had a good, properly cooked steak there; mushrooms in sauce on toast to start; can't remember the desert. Service efficient if not actively friendly.

La Petite Planete - 3-course dinner (curry chicken mayo and salad; steak in blue cheese sauce; peach melba), plus one beer and bottle of water came to 360. Perfectly satisfactory. Not a busy place.

Volterra Italian restaurant (down side alley half way between Soi Day/Night and Sunee Plaza) - has its own Italian chef, and my pasta and bruschetta was tasty, authentic and big portions. Including a glass of house wine and a bottle of water the meal was 405.