Most interesting bars :
Tilac Bar : Many girls ; coyotees during the WE ; reasonable prices.
Lucky Star (Long Gun) : Small, but long established. Sexotic shows.
Baccara : Flashy, best designed bar, expensive.
Rawhide Bar : Both cute girls and off putting women.
Dollhouse : The best and longest lasting happy hour.

Suzie Wong (rating : )

Updated September 2009

Suzie Wong is located in the middle of Soi Cowboy on the right side when entering from Asoke road. It is directly opposite to the Dollhouse bar.
Suzie Wong has been around for ages at the present location, but we can speak of a relatively new bar, since management and layout of the bar have been substantially altered a few years ago. It was a very successful bar years ago, but the change was quite welcome, since over the preceding years it had clearly deteriorated into a dump. The present managers/owners are the same people that run Playskool bar at Nana Plaza and Sheba's at Soi Cowboy.

A lot has changed at Suzie Wong over the last two years. We do not always update as often as we would want (we can not visit all the bars regularly). When reviewing a prior version of this page, we spoke of a busy bar with lots of shows. Nude shows of the lesbian 'wide open' variety were on offer, and the bar employed some ladyboys (or katoeys).

Nowadays, when we visited recently on a regular weekday, we noticed that the bar is not attracting a large number of customers anymore. Other bars (Long Gun, Tilac Bar, Baccara) the same day were bustling with customers, so Suzie Wong must have lost some of its glory.

There are two shifts of girls dancing, one shift with topless girls, one shift with girls dancing in the nude. Though we stayed for longer than an hour, we did not see any show (which does not mean there are none).

Suzie Wong has a central longitudinal stage, with barstools around, and two rows of sofas on both sides. The barstools are not moveable, which is somewhat uncomfortable, and I noticed people avoiding sitting on them, and trying to avoid bodily contact with other customers.

Unfortunately, the management of Suzie Wong finds it opportune to have very high prices for its drinks. Beers go for 150 baht nowadays. In view of what the bar has to offer, when compared with other bars in Soi Cowboy, these drink prices are somehow ridiculous.

When walking out, watch out not to bump into the wooden doors, which for some reason are carefully watched, and tend to be closed hidden behind a curtain. Suzie Wong is also one of the bars which has a number of thugs monitoring people going in and out.

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