LK Metro, Pattaya – Opinion

LK Metro, Pattaya – Opinion

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LK Metro is a bar space in Pattaya, Thailand. It’s an L-shaped road with a dozen or so gogo bars on it, and has common bars and guesthouses combined in for good measure.

I like going to LK Metro in Pattaya. The road has low-cost booze, sizzling women and a big choice of totally different gogo and common bars alongside it.

Discover I mentioned ‘like’ and never ‘love.’ See right here’s the issue. I love going to Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy in Bangkok. I love Strolling Avenue and Soi 6 in Pattaya, I solely merely like LK Metro.

LK Metro appears to be lacking the X issue in my view. Each time I’ve been there the ambiance feels type of flat, like there’s is not any pleasure within the air. Nana Plaza has all of the ladyboys you could possibly ever dream of, Soi cowboy is a neon jungle filled with fairly coyote women, Soi 6 is full on and in your face, and Strolling Avenue is a mad home with a full on assault on the senses.

LK Metro is tame compared. It isn’t well-known for something; there may be nothing particular right here. The beers are low-cost and the women are fairly however there is no such thing as a one bar or place that stands out because the place to go. The gogo bars all really feel very medical and are type of lacking the wow issue. I couldn’t actually advocate one bar over one other right here as all of them appear so related.

The draught beers are filth low-cost with Tiger, Heineken, Asahi and extra out there all below 80 baht.

The road is simply too huge, all of the gogo women and employees park their motorbikes in entrance of the bars so it resembles a carpark greater than a premier bar space. There’s not a lot to take a look at anyway in case you sit on the entrance of among the bars (if they’ve seating). This may’t be mentioned for the extra well-known, iconic locations to drink at in Thailand.

The Billabong bar is positioned on the nook inside LK Metro, and is a well-liked place particularly when there may be dwell sport on. They declare to have 100 hostess women on their books with 30-40 working day by day.

Once I was doing a little bit of digging in regards to the Billabong Bar about drink costs I discovered that Singha is 115 baht for two bottles (2pm-2am) and 70 baht every usually. As somebody who’s used to paying Bangkok bar costs I discover this unbelievably low-cost, nearly to the purpose that Low cost Charlie’s want solely apply.

Low cost drink availability would possibly maintain again the way forward for LK metro’s future growth, because it may presumably be often called the gogo paradise for the Low cost Charlie brigade. To place the drink costs into perspective, I may drink one draught beer in each gogo bar on the road and my whole spend would be below 1000 baht. Unbelievable!
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The above video reveals a stroll round LK Metro in July 2015.

Of all of the bars the Workplace has the strongest theme, with the attractive gogo women inside dressed as scantily clad workplace staff!

This was one other place with very low-cost draught beer, the draught Tiger went down a deal with on this evening.

The situation of LK metro isn’t the most effective. For a primary time customer to Pattaya it could be onerous to seek out and not using a map or strong instructions in case you weren’t staying close by. This may’t be mentioned of Soi 6, 7, 8 and Strolling Avenue that are very straightforward to get to. LK metro is positioned on Soi 13 Pattayasaisong (Soi Diana) and you must stroll a few minutes up the road to get to it.

One annoying factor in regards to the gogo bars on LK Metro is they permit smoking inside. These bars are all comparatively small, and principally have doorways and never curtains on the entrance which means that if a bar is filled with people who smoke then the smoke lingers within the air with nowhere to go. I wished a draught Asahi within the ‘Paradise’ gogo bar one evening, however because the safety opened the door I used to be hit with an almighty waft of thick second hand smoke, I simply instructed them no thanks the bar is way too smokey inside.

What’s it with people who smoke? They all the time have to smoke ‘inside’ bars if allowed? It’s each egocentric and ignorant anybody who smokes inside a bar nowadays. Come on guys, is it actually going to spoil your evening to have a 5 minute fag outdoors a bar earlier than coming into.

The unfavourable well being facets of passive smoking are conclusive so please do everybody a favour and chorus from smoking inside bars in Thailand! (RANT OVER)

There are a couple of guesthouses on LK Metro, and they’re fairly low-cost with charges beginning at round 400 baht an evening. This type of holds again the potential of the bar space in my view and stops nightclubs working right here. The Strolling Avenue Nightclubs are open till daybreak normally, would you really need all of the noise and drunken revelry proper in your doorstep? Perhaps it’s because of a lot of the gogo bars closing at 3am, which is fairly late so there appears to be nothing preserving you within the space aside from a close by guesthouse.

The LK Metro bar space has been dubbed the ‘New Strolling Avenue.’ One factor that’s noticeable right here that isn’t on Strolling road is the dearth of Indians, Arabs and normal household vacationers. They simply by no means find yourself right here as a result of location. So it does have an benefit of being a extra discreet space for the gogo bar punters taking women out of the bars.

I personally assume it nonetheless wants some type of distinctive bar or novelty to carry extra folks to the realm to make it a premier bar space. I’ll nonetheless be visiting as a result of sizzling women and low-cost beer, however I’m but to be blown away and discover it onerous to advocate going right here over Strolling Avenue itself. It is going to be fascinating to take pictures and movie within the upcoming excessive season to see the distinction from the off-season.

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