I'm in the lucky(?) position now of working weekdays in Pattaya (where I'm a software engineer) and spending every other weekend in Phuket (where I own a hotel).
Since my condo in Pattaya is only minutes from Walking Street, and since I'm down in Bangla Road on Saturday nights, I thought I'd do a quick comparison between the two nightlife areas.
First, if you think Bangla Road is dead, then Walking Street is six feet under and rotting.... I just got back from a 00.30 visit and it is very quiet, much more than Bangla and the Bangla sois.
Ladyboys, many of them, and ugly, all over Walking Street. In Bangla, I really don't see that many (relative to WS), but maybe this is because my eyesight is bad and I mistake them for women, at least in the first seforum.xxxes of horizontal exercise.
The WS bars seemed to employ more bouncers that in Bangla. Perhaps WS attracts a rough sort of crowd.
I was interested in seeing the foreign TPVs in WS. Hmm, lounging about and smoking on duty and then dropping your cig butt on the ground? No, not very impressive
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(Yes, I'm biased...)
I did chat to one of the Thai bar-staff about them and she said that none of the Thai staff liked the foreign volunteers.
I was going to take a photo of them but they really gave me dirty looks when I whipped it out (the camera).
Anyway, I'm back in Phuket this weekend, and Bangla is definitely my favorite over Walking Street
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Maybe see you in MTB.
Simon