Your favourite gripe about customer service in bars/gogos

[Holt]

Don't forget that these girls have to earn a living to, you think just coming there and drinking your own drinks will earn these girls money, no, it's the LD and the BF you pay which give them their earnings. The more you spend the more they earn....

But i have to say, girls or bar owners who are beeing pushy for every 15 min for a LD, yeah thats just anoying uch:

 

[jaiwithsoni]

170-200b?.......Tell em it's a drink you're buyin em, not the fcuking sinsot.:diablo:

 

[gina68]

Could the senior members on this forum make a list on which bars are ok and wich is not? Wich go go is ok and wich is not? Wich massage parlor is ok and wich is not?

Then we could have a list of favorite places. Maybe some bars, go go:s and massage parlors would find that list interesting and change how they treat customers in the future? Or not......... If not the list would be great help for alla the BM:s who are not in Patong every day.

 

[Big Head 22]

Thanks for injecting a dose of reality check into this debate.

 

[Colette~]

Having read this thread prior to going out the other night I then experienced two annoyances that very night, is this thread cursed?

1. In a very good and popular go-go bar that I frequent often, I sat down and within minutes one of the dancers approached me and asked me to buy a drink, which I refused, I wasn't having that sort of night out. She then told me that I had been in there 'last night' very drunk and that when I paid my bill, I gave an insufficient B500, thinking I had given a B1000 and left and so I still had a bill.
I explained that this was highly unlikely as the previous night I had spent on the toilet with a severe case of random squits (completely true). She then said 'no last night, last last night'. This was also not possible as I had gone to Chalong for dinner with a friend and stayed over. This prompted a very complicated sentence involving the words, 'no' 'last' and 'lastlastlast night' in random order. We finally nailed the night in question to four nights previously.
I had no recollection of the issue or of being challenged about the bill on the night but I do recall that having left that bar, I sat in a bar beer opposite the place for two drinks with a mate before moving on, unchallenged. So highly unlikely I reckon.

2. I then moved on to a large bar on Bangla, ordered a Bacardi Coke, when it arrived it contained not one trace of Bacardi. Now due to the toilet issues previously mentioned I had been drinking somewhat tentatively, in fact that Bacardi order was my third drink of the night, so I could not be accused of being desensitised to the taste. Proof of my suspicions are confirmed by a no quibble and immediate replacement of the drink upon my complaint. A sure sign of a rumbled scam. (Oh shit we thought he was drunk, quick pour him a proper one).

I shudder to think at what does slip through when actually too drunk to notice though.

My all time favourite regular gripes are the classics 'lets keep his change for ages and hope he forgets he has some' and the '20 -30 in coins stuffed into the flab on the bill folder' and the 'rare these days' 40 baht in 1 baht coins all scotch taped together in handy 10 baht bundles, for that extra large pocket bulge.

 

[Josef]

Bad reviews of places can cause serious problems for the owner of the forum !!!!


And good reviews can be a matter of personal preference/choice.

 

[demactima]

It wasn't a debate. It was a thread about "favorite gripes" about bars or bar service. It then mutated into a thread about favorite gripes about favorite gripes!

 

[richardinunion]

I have a few regular bars I go to and never have problems with. But on the few occations that i go "soi crawling" I always come over some problem/rip off attempt. Seems to get more and more common and theres nothing you can do about it.

 

[Wilde33]

5555555............ no sh!t

 

[Naruto Gal#1]

I can live with most of what has been listed so far as I can always vote with my feet and make it to the next place, not buy the extra drink or buy two, whatever, always more fun to be had. What I really don't like is getting my nipples twisted, literally (don't laugh, I'm not kidding). I don't twist their nipples, keep your paws of mine.

Oh, my other gripe is the music, Rap is awful. It is amazing how many places play that crap. I'd rather hear Issan music than Rap. Good music will keep me in a place and happy, buying, buying, buying, but Rap keeps me walking... Jeeze, I guess I'm getting old...

 

[Leanatan]

shuffle from side to side whilst looking at herself in a mirror : that IS Happy agogo:

 

[Unixmen]

I think most of the BM's who either live here or come to LOS regularly are aware of the scams that go on in a lot of the bars. Best thing to do is walk away. The biggest mess I've got myself into was going to one bar in particular most of the time and the owner started automatically get herself a drink on my account without asking after a few weeks (Initially I used to offer to buy her one). I knew it went on and if I've had enough I just pay and leave. This had been going on for several months and enough became enough when more and more LD's appeared on the bin. She was now buying her 'staff' drinks on my account as well. I refused to go back to that bar. After a few days the owner tracked me down and asked 'why you no come to my bar anymore?'. I told her straight that I didn't like Lady Drinks going on my bin without being asked. You guessed it. I'm a cheap charlie. But that was all my fault, she was just pushing the boundaries to see what she get away with.

My real gripe is being charged for water in a lot of the bars. I usually drink Black Label with water and in most places they will charge me 40 Baht for a 500ml bottle. Hell, I'm already paying 130/140 baht for the whiskey. Blatant ripoff as they buy the stuff in packs of 12 which costs about 50 baht.

 

[Kirby]

Looks like they just got used to you. I have had customers who have
told my staff to help themselves, "don't ask me for LD..just give me the bill".
But every visit is a clean slate, no assumptions.
Speak up when you feel the need to. Don't be angry,never, ever... composed is always the best way.
You will usually get some recompense if the place has any heart. :star:
If they are still a$$holes name and shame.

Any spirit should come with free mixer, a shot is a shot..but with mixer you only get a half shot...
Very few bars do otherwise.
Some places like mine put mixer with a half shot then an extra splash.

 

[LittleFoot]

Not only that, but the bars can change from day to day. A place could be great on Monday and by Friday be so so.

Rex

 

[rayderjoe]

The drinks are too weak..
The women dont dance hard enough..
The drinks are expensive..
I cant get enough ice.. Or too much ice..
Or not enough mixers, or too much mixers..
The girls dont talk to me long enough..
except the ugly ones which wont go away..
They want me to buy them drinks..
The chairs are too hard..

waaaah waaah waaah.. Listen to ourselves !!! We in a ****ing country where nubile young women in various states of undress bring drinks to your hand, and sit there rubbing your c0ck, while you half ignore them and blather about whatever you like to your mates, while drinks magically appear every time one gets near empty.. Yeah I hate that too.. Its such a drag !!

 

[swtchikku]

Good thread, although nothing new here..I am taking notes.
I like the ideas
Give the glass with the shot inside and the soda can/red bull bottle separately.
When a lady is given a "lady drink" she should stay and play for a while,
probably turn off her mobile too:grrrrrr:
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[Zilla Saurus]

Although being ignored by the girls in a gogo is less pleasant it's not so big a deal for me. You walk out and go to the next one.
Too pushy ladies are worse. This one time I enter a gogo, not too many customers about, but ok. I was sat down in front of a dancing girl and even before I sat down she had her but cheeks literally in my face. Within seconds she was all over me "buy me drink mai", "you pay bar for me?", "I boom boom long time and smoke you very good"... I just wanted to enjoy my drink and scout the place out a bit, but miss pushy wouldn't let me. She was pretty ok, and I would take her with me, but it was too much, even after asking her to relax a bit.
I didn't even finish my drink and ran like the wind outta there.

 

[AnimeFreak]

You cannot win with music, everyone wants something different
It's odd, if I play Pink Ployd at 2AM, the customers are pissed and
really happy to hear an old favourite, thumbs up all round, my staff eject it to play hip-hop.:grrrrrr:
There are bars near mine mostly empty because the music is painfully loud and distorted.
I told them but their not listening. better for me I guess.

 

[Lis]

That's the key to staying out of trouble. I won't argue or raise my voice, just politely tell them I don't think this bin is right. It's always a hard one to argue if you have been in the place for a while, like several hours. Then it's my fault regardless of the fact I know the bin is inflated. It now becomes a case of mai pen rai.

 

[watercurves]

I went to Joy Bar on soi Sea Dragon last night with a few friends. Beer is cheap at 80 baht but the mixed drinks (whisky coke) were 150 and lady drinks were 170. A little expensive for a small bar on that soi in my opinion, but whatever. One of the guys had a tequila shot, and we got charged twice for it - 150 baht and then 130 baht. When I said something, they sort of begrudgingly removed the 130 baht charge. Then I asked another girl how much was a tequila...130 baht. So then they had to even more begrudgingly correct the 150 down to 130...

Anyways...

What was cool, the owner saw what happened and she came over and gave us 5 free shots of tequila and apologized. Very good form and unexpected --- so good customer service does exist!