WTF happened to PATPONG?

[donnnnnny]

(rxpharm @ Jun. 07 2009,05:46) it can be hit and miss taking a taxi back, since there is a taxi mafia working in the Patpong area. I would avoid using a Tuktuk - the price is negotiable and they will usually start over 100 Baht back to Nana area, whereas a metered taxi would be around 60-70 Baht. Sky train is ok to get there if you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the station. Coming back by Skytrain is a no go after midnight. If you do take a taxi back to Nana area, wave one down on the street and don't take one that is sitting there or they will try to extort you with a quoted rate and not use the meter.

I haven't been to Patpong since last year, but I do hear business is bad and many girls may be exploring other sources of income. I am surprised as a Friday night should bring out some of the part time university students at KC3. I suppose the "married life" may have jaded Stogie as TT Chang thought it was not bad.

never use the taxi's at patpong walk 2-300 meters along silom and hail a cab fuck the idiots at the end of the soi

[Tomcat]

If you are going Patpong to Nana...
Ive been telling people for years the easiest way is to cross Silom Rd to the other side and walk down towards Skytrain. You come to a road that is a main junction on the right....This is the place where the Thais get the taxis and you wont be ripped off.

I always Ask to go to Suk Soi 2 as its even quicker. Guess Bar is spitting distance

Actually i agree with Doug. Patpong will not be there in 5 years. It is pretty obvious if you see the buildings they are tearing down near the old fish restaurant.
The place is fraying at the edges now....

RIP

[bangkokbillie]

This old fish resteruant? I asked about this and they say a new bar is coming in. So maybe a changing of the guard. Hate to see this histroical area go by the wayside.
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[guydesavoy]

"crazy 3"...yeah it took me a while to get that one too

[El_hefe]

I think they should make Patpong a national monument of sorts, like the Bridge on the river Kwai. It was a pretty unique destination in it's prime, nothing like it almost anywhere else in the world, for better or worse. Now I see the farang couples in some bars..... the horror.
A lot of history, and disinfectant, has been slaked down those noble gutters.

My first night ever in Thailand in the early '90s I ran to there immediately like a pilgrim to the Vatican. I hung out in the Blue Sky Bar, a mixed ladyboys & kickboxing enviro...... only in Thailand... & went back with my first Thai lb that first night. So I have a warm nostalgia in a way for it.

God only knows what my life would be like now if I had been drafted to Nam & visited PP 35 years earlier.....

It does seem tired & hangdog in recent years, but I wish it doesn't disappear like Bugis St.

[eltel]

Are the stalls with fake everything still in the middle of the street?

I haven't paid the place a visit in about a year.

KC3 has been 'OK' when I've been there.
But it was always a place where I started the night off. I always fucked off to Nana after one or two drinks.
I'd also feel more comfortable paying for the drink when you receive it.

[Guest]

Its all still there. Watches, shirts, boxing shorts, pipes, imitation perfume that smeels just like the real stuff for 10 minutes that is and if you walk down the sides you'll get the guys with a laminated card of photos saying "pussy show"

[allstar88]

i blame gordon brown

[Guest]

(Stogie @ Jun. 06 2009,07:23) Good grief... what the fuck happened here?

If the club was situated within the confines of a prison, or worse... the UK, then OK; I would have been tempted by a few... But as it's somewhere close to the epicenter of the ladyboy universe then it's a disgrace.

exactly, no if's  and's or butts ... it can actually be down right scary.

[jimslim]

Took a short trip to Patpong with Ciobha and Kilome last Friday night , to cut a long story short we were looking for a certain girl in a certain beer bar and we were successful eventually  

The whole area itself is fucking annoying , the minute we left our taxi we were tortured by annoying little Thai men touting for "Pussy Show "

By my reckoning there must be around 500 "Pussy Shows " within 500 metres .

Ugly Thai women jumping out in front of you and trying to pull you into bars , after 10 metres I was all mi aow kraped out , so just resorted to ignoring everyone .

I thought KK3 had some great talent on offer though , the place was busy , busting with stunners and I was in the mood for a post op , Kwan was looking stunning walking around naked (first time I'd actually seen her in the flesh )

The minute we take our seats the first wave hits us .........
About 10 ladyboys standing grinning , all with the same chorus "One dink for me !"

A mamasan who strangely resembles the 80s drag queen Divine , whispers in my ear that I can buy a drink for one or all of them , or they have short time rooms upstairs , or I can buy her a drink .

I thank her for her sage like advice and tell her I'm quite ok alone with my friends and my San Miguel Lite but I will call her if i need any advice .

I quickly realize the only way to get rid of the grinning chorus which by now is becoming a little unnerving is to invite someone to sit with me , Nanci has long since sensed this and lands on my lap to whisper in my ear "I have big cock " I know , I know I say into myself smiling .

After we finish our beers we leave , I wanted to check out Kings Corner (OK I'm in one of my post op arousal moods that happen once in a blue moon ) but Ciobha has seen enough , Kilome found his mystery girl in a certain beer bar .............

Back to run the gauntlet of "Pussy Show " once again ,after much haggling we finally find a taxi to go back to Nana that isn't looking an arm and a leg for a 5 min drive .

Opening line from taxi man "You want pussy show ? "
We tell him we like ladyboys , no problem he knows them all and can take us to them .........

After 5 mins back to the sanity of Nana  


I still wish I'd bar fined Kwan though  

[ciobha]

I had never been to Patpong before in the years I have been to LOS and accept full responsibility for this little jaunt! I had been badgering the slimman from before our trip began fo an excursion there, as a change of scenery from Nana.

I can't say I regret going, however I will not be back in a hurry! The touts are annoying, to put it mildly, and the pressure to buy ladydrinks is relentless. KC3 has IMO more talent than any of the nana bars, but I just did not feel comfortable in there. At one stage, to get rid of a persistant LB, I told her Kliome was my boyfriend and I only like gay man. Even this line had little success.

[HogTied]

(jimslim @ Jul. 04 2009,03:51) we were looking for a certain girl in a certain beer bar and we were successful eventually *
The whole area itself is fucking annoying , the minute we left our taxi we were tortured by annoying little Thai men touting for "Pussy Show "
By my reckoning there must be around 500 "Pussy Shows " within 500 metres .
Ugly Thai women jumping out in front of you and trying to pull you into bars , after 10 metres I was all mi aow kraped out , so just resorted to ignoring everyone .
I thought KK3 had some great talent on offer though , the place was busy , busting with stunners and I was in the mood for a post op , Kwan was looking stunning walking around naked (first time I'd actually seen her in the flesh )
The minute we take our seats the first wave hits us .........
About 10 ladyboys standing grinning , all with the same chorus "One dink for me !"
A mamasan who strangely resembles the 80s drag queen Divine , whispers in my ear that I can buy a drink for one or all of them , or they have short time rooms upstairs , or I can buy her a drink. I quickly realize the only way to get rid of the grinning chorus which by now is becoming a little unnerving is to invite someone to sit with me , Nanci has long since sensed this and lands on my lap to whisper in my ear "I have big cock " I know , I know I say into myself smiling .
After we finish our beers we leave , I wanted to check out Kings Corner (OK I'm in one of my post op arousal moods that happen once in a blue moon ) but Ciobha has seen enough , Kilome found his mystery girl in a certain beer bar .............
Back to run the gauntlet of "Pussy Show " once again ,after much haggling we finally find a taxi to go back to Nana that isn't looking an arm and a leg for a 5 min drive .
Opening line from taxi man "You want pussy show ? "
We tell him we like ladyboys , no problem he knows them all and can take us to them .........
After 5 mins back to the sanity of Nana *


I still wish I'd bar fined Kwan though *

Nice Patpong TR Jimslim, *
Now you have me in suspense of the mystery bar and mystery girl of Kilome. Did he find her? Whats with the happens in PP stays in PP?

Those pussy show guys are irratating and I just walk right through them and never get eye contact unless they grab my arm and then its a death stare followed by firm no. some of those pusy shows have ladyboys working in the bar. *I think its just in case a punter tells to the touter he likes ladyboys. Then he can say we have. I get nothing out of these shows, and can't even tolerate the shock value of some bitch pulling needles out of a nasty pussy. They are always ugly so can't be a regular bar girl so have to come up with a talent? My first was my last.

If you think the woman who jump out at you trying to pull you in bars then try going in the day time, when grandmothers are trying to pull you in for happy hour. they are relentless linking their arm with yours as you walk away. I have had one walk over 100 metres until she got the picture. No one else is around so they no one to give up a prospect for. *I actually went in to a GG massage place for happy hour price one day and took a look at 5 gg's, I couldn't bring myself to it, even at happy hour prices.

The one drink for me chorus at KC3 reminded me of little poor children in Cambodia standing outside a fence chanting their only English they knew "A dollar for us to share" however I didn't mind when the kids did it, fucking annoying have all those KC3'ers begging in unision. I was alone so had no buffer of friends, one was in each ear asking for the drink.

Your to kind comparing that mamason to Divine. All those Kings Group mamasons are big and nasty.

Its a different experience for sure, and I prefer hopping over a street to Patpong II where its not so in your face and you have to seek it out, instead of forced on you constantly.

[jimslim]

(Boarhog @ Jul. 04 2009,07:29) Now you have me in suspense of the mystery bar and mystery girl of Kilome. Did he find her?

He did eventually but it involved a lot of walking and a lot of phone calls .
He'd seen her pic on LB69 and the photographer there told him she was the best looking LB he had ever shot , she was lovely very passable and feminine , but I don't recall her name . The bar , a grim place ,was named Pinnocio Club and had 4 lbs , none particularly pretty apart from Kilome's little honey .

[kahuna]

(jimslim @ Jul. 04 2009,03:51) The whole area itself is fucking annoying , the minute we left our taxi we were tortured by annoying little Thai men touting for "Pussy Show "

Ugly Thai women jumping out in front of you and trying to pull you into bars , after 10 metres I was all mi aow kraped out , so just resorted to ignoring everyone .

I thought KK3 had some great talent on offer though , the place was busy , busting with stunners and I was in the mood for a post op...

The minute we take our seats the first wave hits us .........
About 10 ladyboys standing grinning , all with the same chorus "One dink for me !"

Damn...I've been there many times Big Jim...Never ever have I had an experience as you have described...Granted my last visit was in March,
but I doubt things have changed that much...

I ignore the touts...always have...and no one ever bothers me or grabs me...

I've had some great visits to KC3 and Kings Corner and the discos...The ladyboys have never begged nor has the mamasan pestered...

Perhaps it's just that I'm old and ugly... Or perhaps I've just been looking through the wrong eye...

[rxpharm]

Having been to Patpong several times in the past, the key is to appear determined to reach your target - either KC3 or KC. Walk with purpose, eyes straight ahead and give a perfunct but not rude dismissive wave to the touts trying to get you into the other bars or shows.

Of course you need to dodge the other pedestrians, but this tactic has worked well for me in the past. I haven't been to Patpong for about a year now, so I am sure there will be new girls in the bars as well as some of the veterans.