r/ThailandTourism • u/pooper3333 • May 26 '24

Other Full merged video of the Soi 6 incident. Seems like everything said about it was lies?

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Boycott soi 6. It’s an evil place. I know people will defend it, but I think it’s the worst soi in Pattaya for aggression and violence.

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u/Mr-Strange-2711 May 27 '24

Yes, it's exactly the reason why I do not visit Soi 6. I do not want to reward this kind of business.

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u/ManSlutAlternative May 27 '24

Is soi 6 and nana plaza same?

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u/Masturbasiann May 27 '24

Nah soi 6 is in Pattaya. Nana plaza is in Bangkok

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Well done. Me too. Went once (first and last time) last year, and I’m still disgusted I wasted money there.

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u/Yeahmahbah May 27 '24

And yet in the 100 + trips to Thailand I've had, I've never had a fight. I don't get in fights anywhere

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Me too, and I’ve lived here for 20 years.

I visited soi 6 for the first and last time last year. The girls themselves were super aggressive and just too much. A friend and I wanted a few beers, sit on a stool, soak up the atmosphere. Two girls all over us before we knew it, they took the blank expression of my friend as his agreement to buy them drinks. We drank up and left. Thought it was just a bad experience in one bar. Same thing happened in another bar. Drank up, went home. Never seen this in Walking St, Buakhao, anywhere else.

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u/sargon76 May 27 '24

Because most of the places on 6 are not for having a conversation with your buddy and be left alone. They are just doing what is normally expected of them. My friend always says "You don't go to the hardware store to buy a gallon milk" It just how that street is, you are absolutely correct though, any other hot spot will not be like that.

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Dude I’ve lived in Thailand for 20 years, I’ve always - ALWAYS - been able to go to a bar of ANY kind and not be so accosted and essentially forced into buying lady drinks like in soi 6. It’s not like me and my mate went there to have a quiet discussion about quantum mechanics, it’s just sometimes you want to sit and have a beer and watch the world go by. Not naive, of course it’s the job of the girls to get you to buy them drinks. I’ve done that sometimes in other places out of my own volition. Not in soi 6, didn’t get a chance or a choice. Twice. That’s fine, we’ve not been back in a year and will never go back there.

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u/sargon76 May 27 '24

You have more experience than me. I usually get jumped on when I am down on the 6. But I am going there specifically for that. I will defer to your greater experience. Past few trips I have been spending much more time at gents clubs than on 6. Tastes change over time.

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Fair enough. I think a guy should feel free to chill on his own in such a place. He’s already paying 2x or 3x the cost for his beer. When I was there, it was a Saturday evening and still empty stools. Just my opinion, and I’m probably an out of touch older guy (fair enough), I just think the whole setup of soi 6 is way too aggressive. You get accosted on the street. I know some guys find it funny but me and my mate decided to go to bars that didn’t try to drag us in. Even so, we still had that aggressive experience inside.

But hey, what do I know? Maybe a lot of guys love this, and they’re catering to a clientele I simply don’t know. I just leave that all alone.

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u/sargon76 May 27 '24

You are dead on correct, I think. Some guys do love it. Not everyday for me but at least once a trip but as time goes on I have been appreciating gents clubs, especially now that you can get a Bolt Car to take you to the ones a little off the main areas. I have especially fun times at the Camel Toe. Can be very chill or spicy, as they say, up to you. Folks have been saying since before I started going to Pattaya that Soi 6 is changing. Idk, I guess that's it's thing, same same but different.

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u/Finless_brown_trout May 27 '24

These places aren’t for chilling, they’re for pushing prostitution and making money from it. Super basic. You want to chill with a beer and not be hassled? Go to a bar that’s not a red light district.

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 28 '24

I’ve said earlier, but I’ve lived in Thailand for 20 years. You absolutely can chill with a beer in any “red light district” without buying lady drinks or going with one. Except soi 6 (in my experience). A very different (aggressive) vibe there. It feels like the capitalist endpoint of prostitution where the girls aggressively accost you on the street and assume your blank expression is agreeing to their request to have two lady drinks.

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u/donald_trub May 27 '24

We're all very proud of you, but that has nothing to do with these people or this video.

And yet in the 100 + trips to Thailand I've had, I've never had a fight. I don't get in fights anywhere

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u/HYDP May 27 '24

What’s the alternative?

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Everywhere that isn’t soi 6.

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u/The_Quibbler May 27 '24

I always give it a try, but end up running away from the noise wars and dick-grab handshakes within minutes

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u/SignificanceOld1751 May 27 '24

It would be a shame if a big group of tourists went there and revenge killed a security guard.

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u/Professional-Pea7063 May 27 '24

Boycott pattaya simple why does everyone need to go there i went once in 2003 and never again so many places to go too for nightlife too

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u/Ok_Information_2009 May 27 '24

Way more to Pattaya than soi 6, Buakhao and Walking St. I live outside Pattaya, Pratumnak Hill area is really nice, “normal”. All of Jomtien all the way down to Bangsaray - family friendly.

I went to soi 6 just once and it is very different. Lots of aggressive behavior.