kram987 Posted Sunday at 10:30 AM Posted Sunday at 10:30 AM 4 hours ago, vinapu said: 1. It depends what movie one is watching. +1 Quote
Patanawet Posted Monday at 10:35 AM Posted Monday at 10:35 AM On 9/7/2025 at 2:30 AM, khaolakguy said: The owner can only have been Mrs Tangmo, renown for this sort of thing! Correcto! Is he/she still around? Is Khun Bon still around? Quote
Nathan_B Posted Monday at 02:37 PM Posted Monday at 02:37 PM On 9/5/2025 at 11:37 AM, Marc308 said: In fact I once did fly halfway around the globe to go to the (old) A-Bomb and when arriving I found only 3 "veteran" boys there. Give me appointments anytime over that hit-n-miss experience. I haven't been to Pattaya since early 2020, before the pandemic hit. Is A-Bomb still going? It was one of my favourites then. Quote
Keithambrose Posted Monday at 04:16 PM Posted Monday at 04:16 PM 1 hour ago, Nathan_B said: I haven't been to Pattaya since early 2020, before the pandemic hit. Is A-Bomb still going? It was one of my favourites then. Same happened to me years ago at the Golden Cock! floridarob 1 Quote
khaolakguy Posted Monday at 06:24 PM Posted Monday at 06:24 PM 7 hours ago, Patanawet said: Correcto! Is he/she still around? Is Khun Bon still around? I haven't been to Paradise(there is a song there somewhere) for a couple of years but they were both present when I last visited. Patanawet 1 Quote
ichigo Posted Monday at 09:32 PM Posted Monday at 09:32 PM 6 hours ago, Nathan_B said: I haven't been to Pattaya since early 2020, before the pandemic hit. Is A-Bomb still going? It was one of my favourites then. I visited A-Bomb in January of this year as I was staying at the hotel directly above. On the night I went, it was very low on customer numbers (perhaps 3 or 4), and very low on boy numbers (I think only 1 or 2). The show still went on but I think it was outsourced as these boys left straight after the show. I only went that one time so I cannot comment on whether it would be busier on other nights or not. vinapu 1 Quote
Olddaddy Posted Tuesday at 12:33 AM Posted Tuesday at 12:33 AM 9 hours ago, Nathan_B said: I haven't been to Pattaya since early 2020, before the pandemic hit. Is A-Bomb still going? It was one of my favourites then. So how you been getting it?🍆 Patanawet 1 Quote
colmx Posted Tuesday at 09:35 PM Posted Tuesday at 09:35 PM On 9/8/2025 at 3:37 PM, Nathan_B said: I haven't been to Pattaya since early 2020, before the pandemic hit. Is A-Bomb still going? It was one of my favourites then. I bumped into the manager of A-Bomb in a host/karaoke bar last weekend, he said that the bar is open for the show only and that they currently have no floor boys emiel1981 and vinapu 1 1 Quote
floridarob Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM 21 hours ago, colmx said: I bumped into the manager of A-Bomb in a host/karaoke bar last weekend, he said that the bar is open for the show only and that they currently have no floor boys what's the sense then? PeterRS 1 Quote
orson Posted Thursday at 03:43 AM Posted Thursday at 03:43 AM 8 hours ago, floridarob said: what's the sense then? Most tourists don’t have any plans to off any boys. They just want to experience the shows - thus the reason why most successful bars in the area have multiple shows per night. Unfortunately a-bomb has only a single show, and quite a short one at that BL8gPt and hanan 2 Quote
floridarob Posted Thursday at 04:34 AM Posted Thursday at 04:34 AM How much can they possibly sell a night and pay the bills? Quote
PeterRS Posted Thursday at 07:52 AM Posted Thursday at 07:52 AM I remember chatting with some Japanese and Taiwanese guys around ten years ago. They were in their own groups of 2 or 3 and the conversation developed around nightlife. I asked what they liked most about Bangkok. The universal opinion was that all planned in their separate groups to go for massages, then to a gogo bar and finally to a disco like DJ Station. I rather innocently asked what type of boys they liked to take off from the bars. None, was the answer. They only went to see the shows. None of them had ever offed a guy! Going to a disco to end the evenings was the priority. Given that this was the relatively new market starting to invade the gay scene in Thailand, it made me just a litte concerned about the future. Bars with boys for offs would obviously survive with the western tourists who still visited in some numbers and other individual Asians. But if a majority of Asians were not in the market for offs, I wondered how the bars would survive in the longer term. I still wonder! Quote
hanan Posted Thursday at 10:51 AM Posted Thursday at 10:51 AM On 9/9/2025 at 4:32 AM, ichigo said: I visited A-Bomb in January of this year as I was staying at the hotel directly above. On the night I went, it was very low on customer numbers (perhaps 3 or 4), and very low on boy numbers (I think only 1 or 2). The show still went on but I think it was outsourced as these boys left straight after the show. I only went that one time so I cannot comment on whether it would be busier on other nights or not. I was in A-bomb a few months ago and my experience was the same. Only 3 customers for the short and not impressing show, maybe 5 boys who all quickly ran out of the bar and disappeared when the show ended. Drinks 350 baht I think it was. I am not in a hurry to return. It was a good bar 10 years ago. floridarob and BL8gPt 2 Quote
vinapu Posted Thursday at 03:51 PM Posted Thursday at 03:51 PM 11 hours ago, floridarob said: How much can they possibly sell a night and pay the bills? ask them , not here Quote
vinapu Posted Thursday at 03:53 PM Posted Thursday at 03:53 PM 7 hours ago, PeterRS said: I remember chatting with some Japanese and Taiwanese guys around ten years ago. They were in their own groups of 2 or 3 and the conversation developed around nightlife. I asked what they liked most about Bangkok. The universal opinion was that all planned in their separate groups to go for massages, then to a gogo bar and finally to a disco like DJ Station. I rather innocently asked what type of boys they liked to take off from the bars. None, was the answer. They only went to see the shows. None of them had ever offed a guy! Going to a disco to end the evenings was the priority. Given that this was the relatively new market starting to invade the gay scene in Thailand, it made me just a litte concerned about the future. Bars with boys for offs would obviously survive with the western tourists who still visited in some numbers and other individual Asians. But if a majority of Asians were not in the market for offs, I wondered how the bars would survive in the longer term. I still wonder! take a heart ! On my last visit most boys I observed siting with customers in various bars were sitting with Asians , not farangs. And quite a few offs by Asian could be seen as well Quote
vinapu Posted Thursday at 03:54 PM Posted Thursday at 03:54 PM 5 hours ago, hanan said: It was a good bar 10 years ago. so was Trump when he had The Apprentice mauRICE 1 Quote
floridarob Posted Thursday at 06:30 PM Posted Thursday at 06:30 PM 2 hours ago, vinapu said: ask them , not here There are always more answers here, even if they are wrong. 2 hours ago, vinapu said: so was Trump when he had The Apprentice Never was he good.... vinapu 1 Quote
PeterRS Posted yesterday at 01:55 AM Posted yesterday at 01:55 AM 7 hours ago, floridarob said: Never was he good.... With the perfectly ghastly, snake-like Roy Cohn as his mentor, Trump was certainly never good. Down in hell, Cohn will be exhilarated at how well his pupil is doing! kokopelli3, Ruthrieston, Londoner and 1 other 4 Quote
PeterRS Posted yesterday at 01:58 AM Posted yesterday at 01:58 AM 10 hours ago, vinapu said: On my last visit most boys I observed siting with customers in various bars were sitting with Asians , not farangs. And quite a few offs by Asian could be seen as well I am delighted. Please recall that my post stated the conversations took place ten years ago. A new generation of Asians is clearly changing the profile. Quote
vinapu Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 8 hours ago, PeterRS said: A new generation of Asians is clearly changing the profile. on my last visit I went to every bar at least once and in every one of them Asians were majority of customers I registered only one exception - when for several minutes at Atlas I was only one customer - Farang 1 - Asians 0 bkkmfj2648 1 Quote
