RIP Cheap Charlie's: Soi 11.

[Humbert]

Soi 7 is being redeveloped, even the new ThaiVisa HQ was taken down last year
won't be long before Soi 7 beer garden is shutdown,
they already close the Tunnel of Love, that ladyboy cut throat place between Soi 5 and Soi 7

The alley between Soi 5 and 7 used to be renown for it's internet shops where the girls would go to send emails to their farang boyfriends requesting money.

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I agree but none of the nutters on my block list would be tolerated there.

The dopes feel out of place there and leave of their own accord.

How does that equate to not being tolerated?

.... I don't tolerate nutters, I don't talk to them and they feck off.

Ok, so you have a 'blocklist' with 'nutters' you ignore, mention it/them in every second post and expect they fok off... yep, that's rational behaviour and a realistic expectation.

The dope's got me on his block list too yet he's happily able to stalk me and then trolls any thread he can get away with.

I think his balanitis has spread to his brain, the d ^ck-head.

[Hugh Cow]

Let's hope that the BKK icon will pop up somewhere else. Check Inn 99 has reappeared.

Neal Is it still in the same location or has it moved? I always enjoy a few drinks and listening to the girls sing from time to time.

[Humbert]

Let's hope that the BKK icon will pop up somewhere else. Check Inn 99 has reappeared.

Neal Is it still in the same location or has it moved? I always enjoy a few drinks and listening to the girls sing from time to time.

I wonder if they got a new dwarf?

[aging one]

Can really does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. He is seriously stupid.

Stayed in the Nana a few times and now is an expert. Lukes Bar, fuck me its Lucky Lukes and always will be.

[Humbert]

fuck me its Lucky Lukes and always will be

I was going to correct him but I figured it's all good WTF.

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I wonder if they got a new dwarf?

Is that the intelligent atmosphere that Can's on about?

[Hugh Cow]

One of the reasons I like Bangkok is for those little places like cheap Charlies in those little alleyways. They give character to the place. I have enjoyed watching the punters in Nana Plaza from a little balcony bar just up the escalator and right. I think 65B for jackcok. Been there so many times and still don't even know if it's got a name. Then down to maybe bus stop for a quick meal. Then off to those little bars like cheap charlies with friends. In the early 90s use to frequent soi 33. Liked Renoirs which has closed. Soi 33 bars changed over the years now only go to the Aussie bar there to get my fill of Australian Rules Football. Use to be some real characters in the bars around Washington square before the redevelopment.

[Seekingasylum]

the pickled liver moved a few years ago, its now at the end of the sleaziest walk of shame in bangkok, the cul de sac next to soi 7, home to the eden club, numerous suck shops, massage joints and short time hotels.

Tax, did you ever drink there regularly? I liked the bar which is one of the very few places where oikish antipodeans and scummy Brits rarely frequent but is redolent of a proper English pub. Thursday night quiz is good as indeed is the clientele which always has we more intelligent and sophisticated in abundance.

[taxexile]

i like that soi, i find the comings and goings very entertaining, and for a voyeur of the human condition soi 7/1 is hard to beat. such a wide varitety of punters. its a 21st century gin lane and a great place to waste a couple of hours watching and inwardly sneering. there but for the grace of god and all that.

the best spot is undoubtedly the aussie bar opposite the industrial scale suck shop, but it has recently changed hands and the clientele it now attracts are a gloomy lot. there used to be some world class banter as the punters passed by and the girls offered their services. it was sometimes full of terry57 types and the entertainment was excellent.

the location of the pickled liver, right at the end of the soi means that the view from the outside seating area is restricted somewhat, but i do sometimes drink inside. i was there last week to watch leeds v. newcastle and there was a decent crowd of supporters in there, not the noisy riff raff you can encounter in the nana boozers when a game is on. as you say, it is certainly different from other english pubs that area.

i also like the queen vic. opposite soi cowboy, thats another haven of tranquility. they also do excellent all day full english breakfasts for those times when thai food just wont do it.

[Dragonfly]

The alley between Soi 5 and 7 used to be renown for it's internet shops where the girls would go to send emails to their farang boyfriends requesting money.

you obviously didn't go there often,

it had everything,

restaurants, pool bars, live bands, massage, barbers, fortune tellers, and a bunch of hard core ladyboys with razor blades looking for a score

[can123]

Can really does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. He is seriously stupid.

Stayed in the Nana a few times and now is an expert. Lukes Bar, fuck me its Lucky Lukes and always will be.

Sir, you are a miserable sod . I don't think my posts merited a "red". It is fortunate that others here have a sense of humour. Are you intent on reducing the membership of this forum by driving posters away ? It certainly seems that way as there is not the least hint of anything constructive in your posts.

I have sent you a private message which says I am not going to retaliate by sending a "red" to you. Now all you have to do is look up the meaning of the word "banter".

[can123]

fuck me its Lucky Lukes and always will be

I was going to correct him but I figured it's all good WTF.

No, I should be sent to the Doghouse for getting the name wrong. Possibly even stoned to death ?

[Humbert]

you obviously didn't go there often,
it had everything,
restaurants, pool bars, live bands, massage, barbers, fortune tellers, and a bunch of hard core ladyboys with razor blades looking for a score

You must be thinking of someplace else. I lived on Soi 11 in 2000 and 2001. The alley that connected Foodland to Soi 7 was just a bunch of little internet shops etc. The other side was street food and a few tables and, yes, a fortune teller. In around 2002 they made a bunch of little beer bars up and down the alley. At that time I lived on Soi 4 at the Omni.

[Dragonfly]

You must be thinking of someplace else. I lived on Soi 11 in 2000 and 2001. The alley that connected Foodland to Soi 7 was just a bunch of little internet shops etc. The other side was street food and a few tables and, yes, a fortune teller. In around 2002 they made a bunch of little beer bars up and down the alley. At that time I lived on Soi 4 at the Omni.

maybe you didn't notice, it's 2016

[stroller]

fuck me its Lucky Lukes and always will be

I was going to correct him but I figured it's all good WTF.

No, I should be sent to the Doghouse for getting the name wrong. Possibly even stoned to death ?

No, but you'll be made to play the dwarf in front of Check Inn 99 for a week.

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[Humbert]

The alley between Soi 5 and 7 used to be renown for it's internet shops where the girls would go to send emails to their farang boyfriends requesting money.

Note the words 'used to be'.

maybe you didn't notice, it's 2016

Maybe you didn't read the thread. We were reminiscing about the past in the area.

[David48atTD]

Well, I have mixed memories of that alley.

It was cool, cramped and full of character and characters.

Had bars, hairdressers, internet shops, massage shops and street food.

Never saw the LadyBoys ... but, no doubt, being Bangkok, they presence was not far away.

I used to like to eat at the open food court on Soi 7 where the alleyway emptied ... till it closed a few years ago.

My sister was greatly amused by the 'No Blacks' sign in one of the Alley's shop windows.


Bangkok changes ... but it's always sad when a place that formed much of your pleasurable experiences is replaced or destroyed ... as I was when the Lumpini Night Market shut it's doors.

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[Humbert]

Never saw the LadyBoys

I didn't either but Buttplug probably has a keen sense of gaydar for them.

[stroller]

There used to be booths in that alley, where you could make a voice recording and have it made into 45 vinyl disc.

[aging one]

Sir, you are a miserable sod . I don't think my posts merited a "red". It is fortunate that others here have a sense of humour. Are you intent on reducing the membership of this forum by driving posters away ? It certainly seems that way as there is not the least hint of anything constructive in your posts. I have sent you a private message which says I am not going to retaliate by sending a "red" to you. Now all you have to do is look up the meaning of the word "banter".

Fuck I cant believe I took the time to answer your pm. "Stupid is as stupid does"

[aging one]

Lucky Luke's had nothing to do with the red, it was all this drivel but a guy who has spent a couple of weeks in the Nana area.

You exaggerate the intelligence of the members here.

I agree but none of the nutters on my block list would be tolerated there. It's a place for informed people to gather, chat and socialise and not a place to promote discord.

I stay at the Nana Hotel and only drink regularly at two other places - Cheap Charlie's and Luke's Bar. The latter is the first bar on the right as one enters Nana Plaza and is one of the best "people watching" bars in the world. I used to drink at Gullivers but the were too many unsavoury incidents of the sausage variety there. Sportsman's Bar is good too.

Humbert felt ill at ease in Cheap Charlie's. I rest my case.

Only those in the know would have been familiar with position of a whorehouse on Sukhumvit. The rest of the world would not dream that such places could exist anywhere near there.

I had never heard of the place before you mentioned it. You must be very old.

It was knocked down in 2008. Seems to have been a pretty disreputable place and not the sort of venue that gentlemen would frequent.

[can123]

Lucky Luke's had nothing to do with the red, it was all this drivel but a guy who has spent a couple of weeks in the Nana area
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The more sensible guys on here would want to know how you know what my experience of Bangkok is. The truth is that you are a miserable old sod who thinks he knows everything. You are destroyingt the forum by your attitude. You have no sense of humour.