- Phuket's exotic nightlife
- Traditional establishments
- Nightclubs on the beach
- Massage and Thai boxing
Walking in the afternoon through the Patong resort in Thailand's Phuket, newly arrived travelers, guests of the island, go to restaurants and souvenir shops and do not even imagine that in just a few hours, when night falls on the coast, these streets will be completely transformed. And Patong will become the center of Phuket's nightlife. Central Bangla road becomes pedestrianized, neon signs flash above bars and nightclubs, entertainment owners fight for customers, turning up loud music. The cheering crowd floats along the Bangla road. In addition to tourists, amazed by the local exoticism, on the street you can see girls of easy virtue, who are here called bar girls; transsexuals willingly posing for the camera for a small fee; Thais who just came to rest on a par with tourists. Bangla road is worth visiting if only to see the other side of Phuket.
Similar, although not so bright and exotic entertainment is offered on other beaches of the island. Having explored everything in Patong, you can devote several nights of your vacation to the beaches of Kata and Karon.
Phuket's exotic nightlife
You can hardly surprise experienced party-goers with discos and nightclubs, although Patong also has such ordinary, traditional establishments designed for a pleasant pastime and dancing until you drop. Still, the sophisticated public expects some exotic, something unusual, original from Phuket at night. These amazing places include:
- Lady bars. These are places where everyone can meet and make close friends with girls, young people and katoy (transsexuals). Each guest is treated here as a long-awaited VIP-person. Lady bars don't usually dance. Here they enjoy each other's company, drink drinks, play board games.
- Go-go bars. Phuket's nightlife will surely appeal to tourists looking for a special kind of adventure. In go-go bars, the administration of the establishment does not need to pay for a girl you like who has treated a new acquaintance favorably and is ready to continue the evening in his company. This is how go-go bars differ from lady bars.
Traditional establishments
There are also ordinary establishments in Phuket, which are pleasant to meet anywhere in the world:
- Traditional bars. These are places where girls and boys of the oldest profession do not go. Rather, they don't catch clients here. In Phuket's bars you can watch TV, play billiards, drink a cocktail.
- Music bars. Cozy, small establishments where concerts of Thai musical groups are often held. These are places where young talents can express themselves and even become local stars.
- Sports bars. There are no girls who shoot with eyes and behave immodestly with tourists. These are the bars in which fans of sports or games, such as darts or billiards, gather.
- Discos. You can relax to the sounds of modern music, moving on the dance floor in the company of the same party lovers, at trendy discos, which are located both on the main Bangla road and on the neighboring streets. Such establishments are brightly decorated, have expensive and high-quality equipment. They feature trendy DJs - Thais and Europeans. It is not customary to meet girls at discos.
Nightclubs on the beach
Phuket's nightlife story would be incomplete without mentioning the beach nightclubs. Phuket's most popular Catch Beach club, which is also a restaurant and bar, is located on the secluded Surin Beach. This club is part of the fashionable Twin Palms hotel. Its interior is decorated in light colors with bluish details. Every year in September, this club hosts an amazing "white" party, where people dressed only in all white are admitted. The renowned chef Sasha Durakovich is in charge of the Catch Beach club cuisine.
Among the recently opened beach clubs in Phuket, the Xana Beach Club, to be found on Bang Tao Beach, is particularly noteworthy. This club, like other beach establishments, is open day and night. During the day, it welcomes vacationers from the nearby Angsana Hotel, who come here to dine by the sea and swim in the huge pool. And at night the club turns into a kingdom of skilled DJs who skillfully manage the mood of the public.
Massage and Thai boxing
Come to Thailand and not attend the famous Thai massage session? Nonsense, as many tourists think! This can be done at night. On one of the streets that intersect Bangla road, there is a large building whose facades are painted pink. This is "Christin Massage", where the Thai people still carry out Thai massage sessions, which bears little resemblance to the usual, healthy ones. This is the only establishment of its kind in Patong. The work here is poorly paid, so beautiful young girls who want to make money with their bodies prefer to look for clients in lady bars, not in massage parlors. The massage is done by older women, seeing which fans of Phuket's nightlife hurriedly leave this institution. We recommend that courageous explorers of hot spots go to a sports competition.
Thai traditional entertainment is Thai boxing. Competitions are held in many cities in Thailand. In some resorts, staged fights are held for tourists, in which actors participate. In Phuket, you can visit real fights, where athletes fight honestly and strike each other with full force. Participants in such fights are Thais and foreigners who have proven that they deserve to enter the ring. Sometimes in Phuket you can see women's fights, which gather crowds of people. All competitions take place in a stadium that is not easy to find. There is no special building for Muay Thai in Phuket. The stadium, or rather, just a platform with a fighting ring is located on the top floor of the New Tiger Complex. After watching several brutal fights in the ring, the heated audience descends to the lower floors of the building to discuss what they saw in the bars over a glass of local beer.
