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Malibu is still there at the corner of Soi Post Office. It moved further up 2nd Rd but has now returned to the original location. The new hotel is on the corner of Soi Yamato. The next corner up from Malibu

Honeypot has basically taken over Lek's Classroom (ex) A-GoGo which now has open windows and coyote dancers.

I gave Gamebird 2 a try last night and it wasn't a hit with me. A girl followed me in and her opening gambit was 'buy me drink' . I declined saying it was too quick and she was off like a shot. I was left alone to cast my eye over the 2 coyote dancers at the far side of the room. There were hardly any girls in the bar on hostess duties so pretty near nothing going on in the bar to entertain. Draft beer was a reasonable 60 Baht.

Next door to Roxy

Er...aren't the bars closed on Sunday?

I noticed that Misty's now sells a "Lady Cocktail" at 165 Baht. The old Pattayaland rip off venues have all now changed hands except Kitten Club Classroom, Mistys, Rodeo Girls, Spicy and Popcorn are all now decently run. However for some strange reason to do with neon and newbies the bars in Pattayaland are still more expensive than Walking Street. In addition Wlaking Street wins hands down in terms of nudity and naughtiness. Pattayaland ends up as simply poor value

Thats the trouble with these extremist hedonist bar manager types. They think they occupy the moral highground just beacuse they run the best bar in Walking Street and then they try to deny others their little pleasures in life of having a good whinge

So will bar fines be set at 1500 Baht like at the last Baby Dolls 'party'?

Insomnia Gentlemen's Club is to be found in Soi Diamond in the venue that was previously Super Model A-GoGo A very impressive first visit. The local builders must have gotten very rich on the number of re-modellings this venue has had this last couple of years. But the current incarnation is the best so far. It achieves a feeling of luxury as conjured up by the name. In fact so much so that I was a little apprehensive of the prices within the useful VIP Menu on each table. But there is nothing whatsoever to fear. The prices are well reasonable with a cheap draft beer and lady drinks at 95 Baht. After putting myself at ease with a beer I then surveyed the dancing girls. There are only 2 on stage at one time and they were wearing swirling light dresses rather than the close cropped shorts or minis one usually associates with coyote dancing. And it works, the dancing came across to me as very sexy. Clearly this enjoyment signalled itself in my body language and one of the dancers quickly popped over a chat at the end of the song. She proved good company indeed. She gave me a guided tour of the bar including the topless dancing upstairs. There are also other simple innovations that made for a good time. The dancers only dance for a very short stint. It gives them chance to put a lot energy into the dance and it is good for the customers awaiting their speedy return to the chat. Well done to the Insomnia team, a great start for an innovative new venue.

Thought I would update the Hooty's review in the cold (& sober) light of day A new brighter Hooty's re-opened on November 1st 2007. The bar counter has been shifted to the corridor and there is now comfortable bench seating around 3 walls of the bar. This seating is perhaps a little far from the reduced and lowered central stage but there are now small dance stages in amongst the bench seating. The toilets are a big improvement on the previous versions. There were lots of girls on duty, both dancers and hostesses wearing attractive patterned dresses. As is usually the case for a new bar, the dancers weren't quite top notch, but there were still a few attractive girls on show. If the bar becomes successful then it will surely attract the cuties. There were so many girls that it felt a bit lonely to be ignored by the lot of them, not so much as a smile. Nothing a kick from a mamasang couldn't put right though. The music is clearly important to the bar. It is oldie farang friendly but perhaps a little more pop than other rock music bars. But this seems a good compromise as the music is a little more danceable for the girls. The big downer on the bar is the price of beer. There is no draft and bottled beer is expensive at 115 Baht. This puts the beer prices in the top ten for gogos yet the bar seems pitched at a level in competition with bars selling beer for about half the price of Hooty's. The previous incarnation of Hooty's seemed be in permanent decline due to pitching its prices always higher than the competition. It looks like this policy will persist under the new management.

Sorry Treacle Same old shite as the old Hootys Expensive beer at 115 Baht, no draft.., Not so much as a smile from the unfriendly girls As always Hootys reckons its a top draw when its not The improvements are that there are a lot of girls, there are dancing stations near the bench seating and the toilets are well better. But really the dancers are below average, unfriendly (to me anyway) and the beer price is simply an outrage. Compare that to the new Club Insomnia, the girls were friendly, the drinks prices were reasonable and I had a great time

Popped in last night, the bar is now 50% less good and the girls were 50% less attentive. To sort of counterbalance the girls were wearing twice as many clothes as they did bofore