The bars

You can count the beer-bars in Pattaya almost one thousand altogether. Many of them are running with farang management, many with Thais. The ordinary staff includes a cashier, a mama-san and a bunch of bar-ladies. The customers usually sitting around the bar and the staff resides inside. Frequently a beer-bar has a pool table. We have one, too.

These bars are usually oriented to farang customers. I you are walking by these areas, you can never forget tens of exciting ladies shouting: “HELLO! WELCOME!” Every bar needs customers indeed.

The typical activities in such bars include consuming drinks, chatting with ladies, watching TV, playing innocent games etc. Additionally, you can ask some lady to go with you. None of the bar ladies are obligated to go with anybody. But yes, if the lady agrees, you have only pay the pay-bar and the lady will be free from the bar at this night. You may sit in the same bar together or go to another bar or to discotheque or to your hotel room, wherever.

Technically, this is not prostitution. Everybody can meet anybody and if they want to know each other more, so what? On the other hand, everybody knows that the ladies in bars are available for sex, too. This is highly tolerated in Thailand indeed, although the social status of bar ladies is not too much respectable.

Bottom line: the most important part in bar business is staff.