Since i was in the area killing time before I meet someone I decided to head off to soi 3/1 to by some under the table duty free Marlboros (don't tell RDN!!) I thought I'd take refuge in the airconditioned comfort of Gullivers Mega pub on soi 5.
To my delight I find they are selling Beer Lao, arguably Asia's finest lager.
80 Baht for a bottle means it's not the joy to behold in Vientianne but it makes a great change from the local poison if only for an afternoon.
Earlier I popped into the DownUnder bar and took advantage of happy hour and had a Chinese beer Tsingshao which was very drinkable not to mention cheap.
I don't really feel comfortable plugging Gullivers as its not my kind of place, admitedly I took a maiden from here last week, but i don't generally come here.
It's a huge bar for Bangkok and the place isn't laid out well IMO. Usually the crap music is too fucking loud to have a sensible conversation with the woman of your next hour and you can't see everyone at the bar which I find disconcerting, yep, that maybe a hangover from the BeerGarden.
The totty on show are most often pretty but the hunt for the big paycheck and can be a bit of a hit and miss I've found.
The clientele seem to be a mix of sex-tourists (nowt wrong with that!) and the local well heeled, or so they'd have you believe, expats. Usually Brits and their down under cousins. Lots of white shirts and ties or smelly siglets and tatoos.
I've noticed the expats are by and large older gents and I'll bet you'll see them at a few of Pat's executive hobnobs and prolly cranking out a class or two at the British Council and AUA.
It's a bit busier than I've noticed in the past, which is predominantly a Monday arvo but is totally devoid of atmosphere, which leads me to ask...
Have you ever had a good time in Gullivers?
and
Does it ever get 'fun'?
Now it's time for another Beer Lao and I may just have a word to that cute lil thing around the bar who's been making funny tomgue motions at me!!:cool:
