It’s been 20 years since you could find 80-baht drinks on Walking Street. But, in a clear sign of how desperate Pattaya’s low season has become, big-name go-go bars Fahrenheit and Geisha have turned back the clock to 2006.
From Sunday to Thursday, 80-baht drinks all are all over the menu – with the usual exceptions – all night. The exceptions to the 80-baht drinks are lady drinks, cocktails, Corona. The usual.
So it’s 80-baht drinks deal is not just for beer or house spirits. The 80-baht drinks cover Remy Martin and Hennessey, Jameson and Jim Beam. Absolut, Ricard, Capt. Morgan and more.
The 80-baht drinks deals are good at both Geisha and Fahrenheit, but Dave the Rave recommends you spent your bahts at Fahrenheit. Super hot ladies, great hosts and a top-quality bar overall.
80-Baht Drinks Time Machine
To find the last time 80-baht drinks looked normal on Walking Street, you have to rewind roughly 20 years.
Thai Anxiety records show the old P.72 on Walking Street selling bottled Heineken in the summer of 2006 for 80 baht, with the same price still attached to the bar around its 2007 refit.
Roo Bar, another now-defunct Walking Street beer bar, was being discussed by Pattaya regulars in 2007 with beers in the 65-80 baht range.
By 2008, the cheap-drink era was already fading. Club Mirage, which once was located near Walking Street that November, advertised itself in the lower price bracket with draft Tiger and Heineken at 65 baht, Chang at 85, house spirits at 95 and bottled Heineken at 105.
Papagayo, away from Walking Street, was still drawing praise that year for 80-baht bottled beer precisely because the price had become notably cheap.
By 2009, those prices were already rising. Walking Street Bar, now defunct, was charging 85 baht for Tiger, while the newly relocated Insomnia was in the 170-200 baht range. Marine 2 – now an Indian nightclub – reportedly responded to Insomnia’s arrival by cutting drinks from 160 to 100 baht.
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
As Redlight Report predicted in April, this has been the worst low season for Pattaya’s nightlife since Covid. Last week’s Obon holiday in Japan provided a temporary bump, but this week it’s back to welcoming Indians into your go-go bar or no one at all, although Thursday night on Walking Street witnessed a good number of Koreans intermingling with the Indians and Chinese.
Report after report this summer have chronicled have U.S. President Donald Trump’s losing war in Iran has derailed Thailand’s tourism industry. Some bars are cutting prices. Others are just shutting down completely.
Newly opened Vicky’s Secret on Soi Diamond – after trying it for a month – decided to close for the next two months rather than try to survive the low season.
Vicky’s owners completed construction and renovation of the former i-Doll go-go across the soi, but hasn’t opened it yet; again, because there’s simply not enough tourists in Pattaya right now.
Bad for Bars, Good for Drinkers
Of course, slow times – bad for bar owners – can be good for expats and tourists who do come. In a town where the aging Cheap Charlies love to complain about rising prices, 80-baht drinks will have them happier than finding a sachet of Kamagra on the street.
So get off Thai Visa and hit the town for 80-baht drinks. It’s time to party like its 2006 again!
