roxy ripoff

[fcoleman43]

They quit the tout scams on the left hand side walking down Soi SD now? heard rumors during renovations that owner would not allow that bs anymore....any truth to it?

 

[NotInsaneINC]

Remember all the touts having to wear purple shirts with numbers?
How long did that last?

 

[Kitty kat]

well....with or without purple shirt, the scam was the same, just a new shirt. My question was if the GoGo owner(s) that use to support the touts had stopped or not? Mind u not all GoGo bars had touts, just some of them.

 

[finglas9]

I hope you were wearing brown pants.

 

[??yl?]

yah...ladies in suzies are great.. they dun kept asking you for more lds or your drinks.. the ladies even brought me to a thai disco with thai live band for more dancing and i would expect that they want me to pay for their drinks.. but i am wrong they pay for it...

 

[Meghan]

This sounds like the house of sound in SSD to me.

 

[DanC]

Went into Roxy gogo last night, I walked in by myself, but a tout from the front entrance whom I hadn't even talked with, or made eye contact, followed me upstairs and gave the waitress his special price list. 500 or 800 baht for beer, I forget exactly, and more for spirits.

I explained to the waitress the tout had not brought me in, and she said I give discount 300 baht. I said no I've had friend here before and not that expensive, I want to see the normal price list. Took a bit of arguing, but she finally went to get it. Beer 250 baht (as is normal at that place for during shows from what I understand). I have no idea why it was so busy, with prices at this level. Then the waitress had the cheek to ask for a bigger tip than the 10 baht I left as a tip - only gave her to tip for actually bringing me the proper menu without *too* much fuss. If I was thinking straight I would have said ok you not want, and snatched the 10 baht back and given her nothing, I'm planning to get into the habit of this with the ungrateful waitresses.

While sitting there, out of three or four customers that came in, only saw one that truly came in by himself - others all had Thai dudes follow them in. One saw prices and was clearly annoyed, and despite her and the Thai man trying to talk them in to a 'discount', he left. The other pair you could see were not happy with the prices, and took 5 minutes of talking with waitress before she finally went to get them a drink. I could see her giving tout, who had been waiting on the sidelines, some kind of commission slip.

Anyway at Roxy the tout ripoff goes beyond normal, touts mill around at the door and seem to follow most people in - can't imagine how bad for business this is, surprised they had so many people in there under the circumstances. I certainly don't want to spend the night at a place observing people coming in and being upset about the prices and leaving again, nor do I go to a gogo to see Thai men standing around waiting to see if they get a commission or not with each customer that arrives. Upon leaving waitress asked why I go after one drink, explained at 250 baht what did she expect.

Same tout scam operating at gogo a few doors down from Roxy, I forget the name, but while it's a gogo, it's advertised as a pub or something (beer 800 baht, spirits 1000 baht). Unbelievable how after their scam fails, the tout all the while smiling says 'I give you discount', oblivious to how annoyed you are at him for just trying to scam you. The only reedeeming quality of Roxy is when you're give the drink menu, it has prices next to the drinks so easy to spot the scam. At the other gogo, the drink list they show you has no prices, only when you ask what the prices are do they flip the card over where has prices listed.

 

[Madz]

Poxy...best avoided...drinks prices notwithstanding....its just crap

 

[Uhg.......]

Been in Patong for two weeks now and visited Roxy on almost every night.
Prices for my orange juice/soda water 200 baht, ladydrinks including tequilas also 200 baht,
seems like most on their menu is 200 baht!
Manage to get in without a tout every night, but had one try to follow me in a couple of times,
but I just turned and walked away and when he turned his back I slipped in again!
The venue has changed format since last year, the pool tables have been substituted with a second
dancing seforum.xxxe, and they now have some very sexy strippers ala BNC in between the normal GoGo dancers routines, they also have some old grannies doing the PingPong Shows now and then
down on the second/original seforum.xxxe near the windows.
I personally think it's more interesting now than last years, although I'd rather skip the pingpong shows!
Barfines for normal dancers are still 600 baht, but the showdancers are nonbarfinable unfortunately!
A bit too much hassle for ladydrinks though.
Still, some of the prettiest gogo/show girls in Patong!:yes:

Plahgat

 

[misa]

Long time so see (read) Plahgat ;-) Good to see you back!