[Allorneadesee]

They want your tourist dollars. Don't worry about the ID. Have fun, but be careful.

[Fdmnrnba]

Makiy0, about Dance Fever... is it similar to Hollywood? I didn't have time to check it out.

About Hollywood: didn't you think the music was a bit too loud?

[Galsteinbok]

really? is there anywhere in Chiang Mai, i wanna go there to drink. My cousin in Thailand told me that if they caught us under age, they will sent us to the police.

[Podborodok]

It just brings back the good old memories.... all the ideas, dressing to fake age and adrenaline to sneak into pubs and discos when I was underage.:laugh:

Well, now that I am legally overaged.... The thrill seems to be lesser for me.

[halfstreet]

HHmm...I went three times to Hollywood 1,5 week ago and they didn't checked my id.
They only touched my pants for objects for 1 second and in I am

I became 2 months ago 24 but look like 21.

[Lauramalina]

Thanx Guys.
Yet its not in Bangok? So will they be harsher in the North East??

[snova]

I guess if you are lucky and the club has not been raided recently, the club may not check ID. Here's a letter printed on today's The Nation by a 50 something farang on this subject.

Police-state tactics fail to impress tourists

My wife and I are in Thailand for about three weeks as tourists. On Sunday, after dinner, we wanted to have a drink at the well-known Q Bar on Sukhumvit Soi 11. Both of us and another friend could not enter the place because we didn't bring along our passports, which we kept at our hotel, the Conrad. I understand that the Interior Minister in Thailand is very eager to prevent underaged patrons from entering pubs and bars. However, all of us are around 50 (yes, 50) years old. Today I read in your newspaper that many foreigners were fined the day before at the same bar because they didn't carry their passports. I have never been in a country where middle-aged, well-behaved tourists are harassed methodically and probably for easy-money extraction like in the so-called Land of Smiles. Nowhere are tourists required to carry their passports day and night because the risk to lose them would be too high, and embassies would be very busy issuing replacement papers. My conclusion is that systematic harassment of tourists who are keeping Thailand afloat by spending billions in foreign exchange here is due either to police corruption or to a moronic policy of a blustering interior minister or both. I recommend the Prime Minister look into this matter urgently and very carefully, adjust the police-state methods applied at present and relieve some idiots from their positions. Please.

Dr Frank Sirninger

Bangkok

[Fdmnrnba]

Just received a live phone call from Hollywood and yes, the music is very loud
I didn't understand half of the conversation.

[Mappaindy]

Quote[/b] ]Then next year I will checkout Dance Fever.

Quote[/b] ]About Dance Fever, I thought it was smaller than Hollywood and less crowded. Anyway, next year I'm going to find out

Yeah, it's definately worth checking out. It's actually larger and definately not less crowded.

[Fdmnrnba]

Yep, Singha and Heineken.

[halfstreet]

Interesting and strange at the same time

[Fdmnrnba]

Quote[/b] (dao @ Aug. 17 2004,18:24)]I agree about the passport. A visa card with picture should do.. I don't know why it's required with a passport, but could it be that some places want to restrict the amount of farangs.. A lot of thai places have this sort of policy I have noticed. I think that it is quite understandable when you consider that they may not want old fat drunk hairy farangs in singlets, shorts and slippers bothering young thai students.

What are old fat drunk hairy persons doing in clubs anyway

[Lauramalina]

Hey I'm 18yrs old and I'm off to Thailand next month and July. I really want to go clubbing but I don't know how old you have to be??
My ex boyfriend is 19 and he goes to clubs, with his friends. Some girls are around 16 or so I think.
As for ID what do they ask for and is it possible to have a fake one??

Confused.

[Fdmnrnba]

Quote[/b] (delawang @ Aug. 19 2004,17:09)]Heineken and bia Sing at Micky D's??

Only in Thailand

Indeed

[Immonnaornach]

I agree about the passport. A visa card with picture should do.. I don't know why it's required with a passport, but could it be that some places want to restrict the amount of farangs.. A lot of thai places have this sort of policy I have noticed. I think that it is quite understandable when you consider that they may not want old fat drunk hairy farangs in singlets, shorts and slippers bothering young thai students.

[Badyalectlawl]

The only place I've been asked to produce ID as of late was at "The Bed Superclub," which I don't really like all that much anyways. Oh, I was asked for ID at other places, but when i couldn't produce it, it was no big deal--I still got in.

[halfstreet]

They sell Heineken right or am I wrong?

[suidinguilelf]

A fake ID is one thing. An altered copy of a passport is a whole different level of violating the law. The club better be really really worth it.

[Immonnaornach]

I gotta say that in my opinion.. (and I've been working as a doorman for 6 years..) this Dr Frank Sirninger doesn't really seem to understand much about nightlife and bars. The man in the door seldom cares why he has to do something, 99 percent of the time he just does what he is told. If he has to refuse anyone without passport so be it wether they are 10 or 80. In my country it's ultra-strict. If you let someone in that's drunk, underaged, has no id, looks drug'ed or has a fake id the club will get a hefty fine and might even get closed for 2-6 weeks (and consequently lose big amounts of sale/income) And the club will fine the doorman responsible. To most people the doorman is just a dumb arrogant person who won't let you in (and sometimes her might be but most times he is just doing his job, knowing all the time that if there's a raid he might lose a lot of money and maybe even his job if he makes a mistake.

Oh by the way.. Tampering with passports will get you sent to jail for 2-5 years here I think (worst case..) I would avoid it if possible
Just my humble thoughts..

[JMLot]

club or pub . what is the difference?
To me a pub is where you can get a drink and some eats. Also,friendly conversation and social contacts.