Patong Beach

In the daytime, Patong was just like Chaweng. Traders were everywhere, Tuk Tuk's plentiful, although they were a different sort than the other two places. Again, we found an Irish Bar. This was more of a themed pub though and didnt hold our interest for very long.

When it got dark, Patong was a completely different place. There were really only 3 types of places to go at night. First, the big resorts had entertainment on, mainly focused on couples or families and so didnt really suit us. Then there was a small selection of pubs like the ones we had been in, bar, pool tables etc. These places were fairly quiet here though. The third type of place was the Go Go bars and they were in plentiful supply here. There was one area in particular called Bangla Road which was full of them.

This place was so hard to believe initially. There was like 8 girls in every bar waiting on you to come in, people on the street were offering all sorts of sex shows, and of course lady boys looking for business on the side of the street. We had a good look around this place but it was a bit too much. Luckily enough, we found a nice normal bar right in the middle of all this called The Aussie Bar. Again, it was just a normal pub with pool tables. It was pretty big and had an upstairs where we spent our time. We had a great time in this place and met loads of cool people. The staff were a great laugh here too, and so we spent quite a few nights drinking in this bar. There was good music there too and the DJ played our requests too. The girls working there racked the balls for each game of pool and it was winner stays on and there was always someone to play against. We did manage to hold this table nearly all of the time that we were in there so it was great.