And perhaps they are going there because they dont have to pay 600-800 baht barfines, 175 baht ladydrinks and 120+ baht drink prices to have FUN
I am sure those drink prices will have gone up already or will do soon as the tax on alcohol has just gone up again. One bar I was in the other night in Pattaya has added 10b to a beer as a result.
As to the general pricing - possibly it has an influence but in the bigger scheme of things, most guys are quite OK to pay these prices if they are getting a product to match (i.e. good). GB is still cheaper than NEP and always has been. I always raise a smile at these kind of posts - when the bar opened a beer was 110 baht. Now its probably around 120-135b - not much of an increase in 8 years when you think about it. Barfines were 500b eight years ago - now they are 600b. Salary levels (at least until my departure) had risen from 3,000b to base 9,000b for hostess. Some service team were between 9,000b-14,000b basic salary. if you do not pay those levels, you do not get the A team players. The irony is that the rates are still in place yet the salaries are not. Even odder is that some girls remain, but just amplifies the limited choices elsewhere for them to go and work at.