Chang Mai Travel Tips

Chang Mai is great to go for the cooler temperatures, mountains, waterfalls, elephant treks etc, but there is still plenty of action around the place, after all it is in Thailand! Found a nice hotel from the internet, the Diamond Riverside. Nice room, a/c, cable etc. Big breakfast buffet and guest friendly. Out the door, five minutess straight on and you are in the famous Chiang Mai night market. Gifts and food everywhere but you can buy most of the stuff on Sukhumvit in BKK anyway. If you go to the left, walk a few hundred meters, you will see a street of discrete beer bars. Most are expat owned and do food as well. Girls available in all of them and a lot cheaper than in BKK. 200baht bar and 800 a night!!. Now, you are not getting Kings' Castle or Nana Plaza girls here but the lights in my room weren't that bright anyway!

Ask a taxi for Bababobo. A bar in an area with an adequate supply of cuties and across the street there are a few gogo bars. Much cheaper than BKK but you pay for what you get. However beers are 70 to 75 baht and the music and atmosphere is fine, not pushy.

One place in Chiang Mai that needs further exploration is the Chiang Mai Cafe, a karoake bar located next to the Riverside Hotel. I stopped in there with a girl I had already picked up from the Harley Bar, just to check it out. Lots of gorgeous young long legged beauties (the manager must be a leg man) who go on stage and lip sync one song, then are available to sit with customers. My date, whose friend worked the door, said that it cost B2000 for LT after B500 barfine. A bit expensive, but everyone (and I mean everyone) of the girls there were really beautiful and looked 18-20 years old.