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Originally Posted by pablo
I will normally hit the 7-11, pick up a sixpack of "Chang" beer...put it in my backpack, and just walk about Bangla.
(better yet...go to "BIG1 market", below "Ocean" on Bangla. Less $$$ than 7-11.)
Much cheaper than paying inflated prices in the bars! 
(No....I'm not from Boston, either. 5555)
Pablo  |
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but plenty of people do it. Then when they get tired, they splurge at the 50 baht beer place.
I've said this to Nicke, but I really think making Bangla a walking street has hurt patong. You have so many people just walking. The bars are more empty. But worse it seems to have lost it's intensity.
When I first got here, walking all the way up bangla at night would be impossible without getting pulled into several bars along the way. Now it is just easy to blast up and down. In someways it has made patong smaller and more boring. It took several months to work my way around bangla cause I kept getting distracted and pulled in places. Now you could give it a decent look-about in an hour. Boring.
I'd actually be in favor of night-time bars on bangla road. Something they could roll in and out.
I'm not a small outdoor bar kinda guy, but I prefer the previous intensity.