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Must be the new Shakerz Bar... Here's a write-up from bangkokbadboy.com:
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At the top of an unmarked staircase outside Sukhimvit Soi 4’s Swan 1 Pool Bar lies the Shakerz Coyote Club - the newest of Bangkok’s bars, which had its grand opening party last night. Head up Soi 4, past Nana Plaza, and look for the Swan Bar on your left at the junction with the back-road leading to Soi 6 - it’s on the corner.
It’s been heavily plugged on Dave The Rave’s site over the past week, and is apparently the first of what will be a new development of coyote/go-go bars. Bangkok has only a limited number of gogo licenses, all of which have already been issued. So Shakerz is a “coyote bar” - the subtle difference being that the girls dance on the bar instead of at poles, and wear slightly (but not much) more than their gogo counterparts.
Firstly, Shakerz is tiny. I was expecting it to be the same size as the downstairs Swan 1 bar, but it’s miniscule. A central bar dominates the proceedings - from here, the bar counter extends around the walls, and is dotted with variously attractive and unattractive dancing girls. Beers go for a reasonable ฿100, and the barfine is set at ฿500. However, there is a twist.
You see, you can’t actually barfine the girls. Yes, in a typically baffling example of Thai “logic”, the powers that be seem to have come to the conclusion that if they were to allow the girls to leave, they wouldn’t have any customers. So the girls can only be barfined after the bar closes, or if there are no customers.
So in summary, it’s like a typical gogo bar, except the girls are wearing more clothes, and you can’t barfine them. The only reason I can think of to visit Shakerz would be for the fried chicken, but apparently that was for one night only.
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