Bars & Night Clubs!!

Post by **Flannel** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:50 am

I am coming for 3 weeks in spetember - October. And i want to know what the night life is like?? I hear a lot about Hilton disco? Is this the place to go?? And i also hear about somewhere called Sam Sam bar?? Can anyone fill me in on these 2 places and what they are about?? (Sports, Prices)

Cheers

Post by **poosmate** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:22 pm

Main sport in the Hilton disco is " Fleese the farang " Prices can be a bit steep I hear.

Post by **Flannel** » Sat May 30, 2009 2:54 pm

Okay, where is the best place(s) to go for me. Good bars, to have fun (With drinking, that is) and cheap and good place to go clubbing??

Post by **sandman67** » Sat May 30, 2009 3:59 pm

start with a pub crawl round the bars in Bintablok and find ones you like.

The Hilton is a bunghole...... bar girl wannabe hi sos, drunk farangs, crap music, hideously expensive drinks, shitty service and indifferent staff....need I continue?

Thai nightclubs are awful, Hua Hin ones doubly so. A well managed and funded program of preventing any viable competition opening up preserves the present situation.

If you want a night out try the Luk Nam pub at the weekend. Gets ripping at 10pm and stays open till 3 and rocks with live music and partying Thais. Tuk Tuk ride 10 mins out of the town centre. Good service, cheap beers, and better music.

Post by **JimmyGreaves** » Sat May 30, 2009 5:31 pm

sandman67 wrote:
If you want a night out try the Luk Nam pub at the weekend. Gets ripping at 10pm and stays open till 3 and rocks with live music and partying Thais. Tuk Tuk ride 10 mins out of the town centre. Good service, cheap beers, and better music.

Is the football shown? All age groups?

Super Joe · Post by **Super Joe** » Sat May 30, 2009 5:52 pm

The irony is that the Hilton is, and has been for the 5 years I've been here, the most popular and busiest nightspot in town for Farangs.

Everything Sandman says about it is true, but it's essentially the tourists (due to the mass of girls in there) that make it work.
What club back home can you go to for a cheap (in relation) late night drink, where there's 100 odd young girls all smiling at you wanting to come over. If there was a place like that back in Hounslow High Street they could be playing Barry Manilow for all I'd care

Thai nightclubs are awful

Generally yes, but Bangkok has some quality clubs where top international DJ's visit.

SJ

Post by **richard** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:17 pm

Luk Nam anytime

Post by **Flannel** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:25 pm

Can someone fill me in?? What is a Farang?? And what about this Sam Sam bar?? I hear a lot about?

Post by **Norseman** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:57 pm

I suppose you are a farang. A white man.
Take a look here and I'm sure you'll find Sam Sam http://www.huahinafterdark.com/map.htm

Post by **kendo** » Sun May 31, 2009 6:16 pm

Flannel wrote:Can someone fill me in?? What is a Farang?? And what about this Sam Sam bar?? I hear a lot about?

A farang of western origin,

A popular theory of the word's origin derives it from farangset, the Thai pronunciation of français, the French word for 'French' or 'Frenchman'. France was one of the first European nations to establish cultural ties with Thailand in the 17th century, so to Thais at that time, 'white man' and 'Frenchman' were synonymous. However, the Portuguese, Dutch and others arrived long before the French, which makes that origin unlikely. A few others have suggested that in the Ayutthaya period, land was given to the Portuguese merchants to conduct their businesses at their "Baan Farang" (Guava Village).[citation needed]

Kendo.

Post by **hhfarang** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:50 pm

Now I'm insulted by the word, being American!

Post by **le pew** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:04 am

Recently, at a golf course, I asked the caddies what sort of fruit was growing on the trees on one of the tees. They tol dme it was a farang tree and that when the fruit is split open, the white flesh appaers. According to them, the white people were named after the fruit!! Perhaps "Guava"? from the previous reply?

Post by **Jimiherf** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:45 pm

Spanish came along with that fruit. They left but the fruit remained and got associated with white men. Same color same taste...

Post by **le pew** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:35 am

Thanx Jimi. Sounds more likely than anything I've heard before.

Post by **Amarita** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:35 am

Farang or falang is also a word describing an epidemi like colds,
diarrhoea and so on. It is not a very complimentary word I
think. We still use the word farang here in Norway when we
have caught some unpleasant disease.