Location and lodging: This club is in...

Location and lodging:

This club is in south Pattaya on Walking Street, which is blocked to vehicle traffic after 6 p.m., in a waterfront area of international restaurants, shopping, more than two dozen go-go clubs and a hundred open-air bars tended by girls. At the far end of the street is a four-star resort featuring nightly a seaside, outdoor buffet, in case you are really hungry. A room there will set you back $60-$80, depending on the season. Other Pattaya hotels, most including tax and free buffet breakfast, go for around $20-$35 and have swimming pools. Transportation around town can be had for as little as 25 cents per person for a seat in the back of one of the scores of available pickup-trucks. (If you just hop in without asking questions and hop out after ringing the bell to stop anywhere along the five-mile circle route they take, it's only 25 cents. If you have the driver take you or your party to a specific location, even off his normal route, and not pick up passengers along the way, then it's like a taxi and he will ask a group rate of up to three dollars for the trip, which you are free to negotiate.

The club:

There is seating for about 100 patrons, stagefront and on high benches with small tables along the walls, and more seating around a corner to the left where there are two smaller stages. The music is usually classic rock and not too loud. The DJ is silent.