Nana Plaza as Seen from Temptations

Nana Plaza as seen from Temptations Ladyboy Go Go Bar.

Halloween in Thailand 2013

 Bangkok

 Phuket

Pattaya

Annie's Soapy Massage in Bangkok

Annie's Soapy Massage located at Sukhumvit Soi 2 in the Raja Complex.
(Between Soi Nana and Soi 2, near Nana Plaza.)
A bit run down, but a fun, soapy time to be had.

The Go-Go Club Electric Blue 10th Anniversary

The Club Electric Blue in Patpong is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Come and check it out  if this place is still rocking in this naughty area in Bangkok.

Patpong is one of the world’s most famous red light districts. This is where the Thai Go-Go Culture started and became hot. And even though the area has a bit of a dodgy reputation right nowadays – thank you rip off bars! – there are still some great go go bars around that make it worth visiting.
Club Electric Blue is one of them and located on Patpong Soi 2, next to Foodland.

Bangkok Night Life

Dean Barrett Guide to Soi Cowboy

Writer Dean Barrett walks thru Soi Cowboy, describing the scene.

  " I was innocently walking down Soi Cowboy and Jimmy Corr 
saw me while he was photographing them and had me pose with them. 
Nothing happened. I swear!"
- Dean Barrett

Red Light Districts of Bangkok

by erikssc.

Sexy GoGo Girls inside Nana Plaza

video by TravelSmith

Nana Plaza Update

 

A new bar has opened up inside Nana Plaza on the ground floor called Angelwitch 2.  

It can be found on the right hand side, between Rainbow 2, 

and Playskool (which is currently closed for renovations.)
Erotica Go Go Bar in Nana Plaza has changed its name to Erotica Chili but otherwise it's business as usual.

Things are grim in Nana Plaza for those who depend on business in the plaza to pay the bills.  First was the initial bemusement of a major police raid, more than a month ago.  This was followed by annoyance as word spread that random checks would take place in the plaza most nights. 

In every bar, those on stage were in shorts and fully covered tops.  It all looked like some sort of B-grade YouTube music video with confused girls who quickly became disheartened and ultimately disinterested as customers stuck their head in the door, didn't like what they saw and tried the next bar (where it was exactly the same).  

The rain lingered from late afternoon and was still falling late in to the night making this past Thursday the worst night I've ever seen in the plaza.  Come 10 PM, and some gogo bars had yet to have their first customer.  Hopefully the covered look is very temporary.

Then there was frustration as word reached managers and owners that some girls who were told to stay away until things settled down had found new bars to dance in.  Fewer girls means fewer customers.  

A month on and now everyone is angry - bar bosses, investors, bar managers, mamasans, the girls and even customers.  Takings are down, girls have flocked to Cowboy and customers don't know where to go.  Some girls have been spooked and are unlikely to return to Nana when things eventually blow over...whenever that may be.  

There's a feeling that much of the hard work of the last year restoring Nana as Bangkok's best and most popular farang bar district has been undone.  What owners in Nana are rightfully angry about is the way that Nana Plaza - and only Nana Plaza - has been targeted, while it's business as usual elsewhere.

 
read more at  Stickman.

Editor's Note:  It is my understanding that the dress code has returned to

normal inside the gogo bars at Nana Plaza.

Cascade Ladyboy

Transsexual shows her photos outside "the katoey" bar Casanova located in Nana Entertainment Plaza.

                         

The picture board of ladyboys that's outside the Casanova Bar.

photos by Kris Van Exel  from Flickr.

Inside 3 Go Go Bars at Nana Plaza

 Playskool A Go Go Bar inside Nana Plaza.

Mercury Go Go Bar inside Nana Plaza.

Billboard on the 3rd floor inside Nana Plaza.

Is Soi Cowboy Getting A Little Congested?

It looks like Soi Cowboy in Bangkok is getting a little congested 

with all of the street vendors setting up in the middle of the soi.  

Photo by Stickman.

Nana Disco Re-Opens

Looks like Nana Disco is re-opening on July 24th.

Re-built late disco at Nana Hotel in Bangkok.

Nana Plaza Beer Bars Open at 1pm

 

An update on the afternoon drinking scene at Nana Plaza

by Dave The Rave.

Suspense Novels About the Bangkok Nightlife

Jake Needham, Dean Barrett, Stephen Leather, Hopkins, 

Christopher G Moore, John Burdett..... Novels set in Bangkok,

How many of these books have you read?

Recommend any others?

Some of The Girls at Billboard A-GoGo

 

A few of the show girls at Billboard A GoGo inside Nana Plaza.

(The stage is on the opposite side of the jaccuzi.)

images from Billboard A GoGo

Tokyo Player Inside Nana Plaza.

 

So Las Vegas A-Go Go on the third floor of Nana Plaza is now called Tokyo Player.

Las Vegas was a nice quiet go go club, good to cuddle up with a cutie.

We will see what its like after the remodel and name change.

Courtyard Beer Bars in Nana Plaza

Shot of the courtyard inside Nana Plaza, back in September, 2012

by Emad Aljumah from Flickr.

The Old Nana Plaza Sign

Here is a photo of the old sign at Nana Entertainment Plaza 

that's shows the neon mostly functional.

Photo by Mistifarang.

The Big Mango Bar, Bangkok

Over the next few months there will be a bit of a change at the Big Mango Bar that's just off Soi 4. They are looking into converting the upper floors into a hotel/hostel... the bar will remain the same - just few mods....

We have 5 floors (not 4 as stated in a wrong article by a fat proffessor) at the Big Mango and lots of room, so the plan is to turn some of the floors into Serviced Apartments and Hotel rooms.   We arrived at this idea due to all the inquiries we get from people walking in off the street and asking if we have accommodation.  We have plenty of hotels around us – which are always full, so there seems to be a market down the sub-soi. And what of the bar?   Changes are going to be there too.  I don’t know the details of the plans, but I do know that there will be a bit of construction on the the upper floors. If you wonder about the staff, then don’t.  They’ll remain.    The bar will close for a while for some major construction works to be carried out. Not too sure about the name just yet…. it’ll no longer be just a ‘bar’.   So… The Big Mango Bar now opens at 4pm. Free Wifi and also public laptop available inside. The Big Mango Bar

Nana Plaza Update (3-13)

Inside Nana Entertainment Plaza the Pretty Lady Bar took down their Nana Main Station because of complaints that it was so bright and that it was hurting people's eyes.  The sign was replaced with a red on black canvas sign which you can only read if you're standing right in front of it!  Compare that to the lovely new sign at Lollipop, right next door, which stands out all around the plaza.

Nana Liquid Disco, across the street on the ground floor of the Nana Hotel, remains closed.  It was reported last week that it had closed due to the strict enforcement of 2 AM closing on Soi Nana - which continues to be enforced.

Read more of this at 

Stickman