Pattaya Beer Bars

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Pattaya is especially famous for its beer bars (also called bar-beer), staffed by "bar girls" who are "for hire" to the tourists and ex-pats who drink there. Popular beer bar pastimes include pool, connect-four and shut-the-box.


Open-air beer bars can be found all over Pattaya, with the biggest and best known concentrations being along and around Pattaya Soi 7 /Pattaya Soi 8 and Pattaya Walking Street, at numerous points on Pattaya second Road, Pattaya Beach Road, Soi Buakhao, and in smaller numbers just about everywhere else, including along the southern end of Naklua Road and at Jomtien. Although the staff of a typical beer bar will usually all be prostitutes, customers who have no intention of paying a "bar fine" (money paid to the bar so that the girl can leave with the customer) are generally very welcome and indeed make up the majority of the clientele