[erroxiainsona]

I think dangerous if you use fake ID's as you are asking for trouble

[Badyalectlawl]

The past 2 times I entered a club I was asked for my passport. The first-time I didn't have it on me, so I just said to the guard in Thai that I didn't bring it and I was definitely over 20. He let me in without any problem. The second time was at some club called "mystique" on Sukhumvit soi Sawasdii. The guard asked me for my passport, and I just so happened to have it, so I gave it to him. From behind me the manager sort of ran up from behind me and said to the guard in Thai "you don't need to check ID's of farang, just let them in."

I have be denied entrance to the bedbar on sukhumvit soi 11 last year because I didn't have any ID. The last 2 times I was at the Bed Bar the service was very very bad, and farangs were treated like 2nd class citizens compared to the hi-so Thais.

[Crilosajsamq]

I really don't expect to be treated as royalty when travelling. Though it usually does work out like that in Thailand. Could be my incredibly handsome appearance, or possibly my 'accentless' Thai, I really don't think it is the credit cards they see next to the wads of American and Thai cash lol.
Considering I am not a nice looking guy, and my tones are terrible, must be the plastic. Seriously though I never heard of military having major issues with it. Maybe they are a bit more relaxed because they know they live nearby and are not the tourists, not so much the issue of how much money they have on them. I say this because I know a guy in the U.S. Air Force who was in Thailand for 2 years and at that time they gave them about $46 a day. That is quite a bit of money to go through in one day in Thailand, not as a tourist(easy to spend that as a tourist), but rather as a resident it is alot of money to go through on a daily basis.

I have never lived there for more a 6 weeks at a time so who knows

[g4YthYXx]

ehm..well, last year i wanted to enter a nice Club near Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya..I was 19 and my bf 20! they didn't let us in, although, he's a farang...and me, half- thai...

After that try, we didn't go out clubbing anymore...just listening 2 music and drinking cocktails in such nice bars around bkk and hua hin..

[Grzqbmhy]

haha.. wait for 2 more years.. and get in legally!

[Mappaindy]

Just returned from Bangkok this morning and decided to update this thread with my experience and confirm what some of the other forumers have mentioned.

Yes! The clubs are getting tough on the 20 year old minimum age rule and it doesn't matter if you look 50, if you don't have an ID, you can't go in. I was at both Dance Fever and Hollywood and both establishments checked me and my friends for ID even though they knew we were foreigners. So I'm assuming that foreigners no longer appreciate privileged treatment with regards to age flexibility.

But it doesn't matter cos I'm legal.

[brandiweb]

Quote[/b] (Makiy0 @ Aug. 12 2004,00:28)]Just returned from Bangkok this morning and decided to update this thread with my experience and confirm what some of the other forumers have mentioned.

Yes! The clubs are getting tough on the 20 year old minimum age rule and it doesn't matter if you look 50, if you don't have an ID, you can't go in. I was at both Dance Fever and Hollywood and both establishments checked me and my friends for ID even though they knew we were foreigners. So I'm assuming that foreigners no longer appreciate privileged treatment with regards to age flexibility.

But it doesn't matter cos I'm legal.

Sorry, but I don't agree with this post.

Last week I went to Hollywood 2 times and both times I wasn't checked for ID. The first time I went with a friend (also a farang) and nobody asked us anything. In fact, they wanted us to get in as soon as possible. That night, saturday 7 august, it was very crowded and somebody told us that it was because of a Thai vacation that started that day.

The second time I went with the same friend, but also with some other people (including a Thai girl who I met the first time in Hollywood and some friends of her including a Hollywood security guy and his girlfriend) and this time also no ID problems. I didn't have to buy a ticket, because I went together with some Hollywood staff

edit: forgot to mention, I'm 22 (next week 23) and my friend's 24)
edit2: it seems that I went 3 times iso 2 times and all nights no ID check. must be the tequila sunrises

[halfstreet]

Then next year I will checkout Dance Fever.

Are there more famous disco's in Bkk?

[Mappaindy]

Quote[/b] ]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?

I think the volume of the music is just about right, it's a club after all. I prefer Dance Fever to Hollywood because most of my Thai friends are members there while only one of them is a member at Hollywood. Also, Dance Fever is larger than Hollywood. However, everything else is pretty similar.

[Mappaindy]

The legal age is 20, but I've never seen anyone being checked for age. I also think it wouldn't be any problem for a foreign girl to enter a club there. Just make sure you have loads of fun.

[opelayday]

Bear this kind of thing in mind if you don't take your passport with you...

Quote[/b] ]'Social order' cops raid night club
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - As part of the government's efforts to bring moral rectitude to a city famed for vice, Bangkok police raided a night club popular among foreigners early Sunday to perform urine tests and check passports, authorities said.

More than 50 plainclothes and uniformed policemen, under orders of Interior Minister Pracha Maleenont, closed the American-owned Q Bar for the remainder of the night, stopped customers from leaving and administered urine tests on 373 people, said Sgt. Maj. Manote Panyatana.

Two people were found to have "purple urine," meaning that they had taken drugs, but police were performing further tests to see if they had taken illicit or prescription drugs, Manote said.

Of the 373 people tested, 104 didn't have passports with them, as required in Thailand, and were taken to a police station where they were fined and released, Manote said. He did not know the amount of the fine.

Anti-drugs and "social order" campaigns, begun by the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have in recent years put a dent in Bangkok's reputation as an anything-goes city.

Most clubs and bars now close at 2 am, and spot check raids are common at night clubs throughout Bangkok.

"We do random checks at a different bar every Friday. It's by the orders of the police commander and policy of the government to be strict about drugs," Manote said.

"We did the raid last night because the minister requested it... he ordered us to arrest, and he's commanding, so we had to make the arrests," he said.

[DavidShreder]

Quote[/b] (Tjau Min @ Aug. 14 2004,21:42)] Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (Makiy0 @ Aug. 12 2004,00:28)]Just returned from Bangkok this morning and decided to update this thread with my experience and confirm what some of the other forumers have mentioned.

Yes! The clubs are getting tough on the 20 year old minimum age rule and it doesn't matter if you look 50, if you don't have an ID, you can't go in. I was at both Dance Fever and Hollywood and both establishments checked me and my friends for ID even though they knew we were foreigners. So I'm assuming that foreigners no longer appreciate privileged treatment with regards to age flexibility.

But it doesn't matter cos I'm legal.

Sorry, but I don't agree with this post.

Last week I went to Hollywood 2 times and both times I wasn't checked for ID. The first time I went with a friend (also a farang) and nobody asked us anything. In fact, they wanted us to get in as soon as possible. That night, saturday 7 august, it was very crowded and somebody told us that it was because of a Thai vacation that started that day.

The second time I went with the same friend, but also with some other people (including a Thai girl who I met the first time in Hollywood and some friends of her including a Hollywood security guy and his girlfriend) and this time also no ID problems. I didn't have to buy a ticket, because I went together with some Hollywood staff

edit: forgot to mention, I'm 22 (next week 23) and my friend's 24)
edit2: it seems that I went 3 times iso 2 times and all nights no ID check. must be the tequila sunrises How enviable !! Now that I am going to australia to study, I wonder when will be the next time I patronise these nightspots.

[Fdmnrnba]

Quote[/b] (delawang @ Aug. 17 2004,20:04)] Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (Tjau Min @ Aug. 17 2004,19:11)]What are old fat drunk hairy persons doing in clubs anyway

Alcohol Tjau Min. Don't underestimate the power of alcohol Suggest going to the Burger King instead, a lot of fat food and they also serve alcohol

[juyrett]

Hey great to have found this forum... I have benn living in Thailand for a few months. Well a little over a half year. And I have had minor problems getting into night clubs without ID. I am 21, I go out of 46USD per day (not including apartment)... Maybe I have a baby's face.. This is what I have learned :

The only way to forget ID and get in is to know someone.
Have your ID at all Times, even if it is Foreign DL.
Make a copy of your passport and modify it with a Computer. (they accept copies)
Bed Bar and Mystike or some of the most serious, I have experienced a whole lock down of the Mystique night club for Drug and Age controle.
Don't try bribing, you get banned for quite some time

Anyway I have my brothers coming to visit, and one is only 17, so I want to have a "real fake" Id. They used to have them on Kho San but now every one knows of this fake student ID's and it doesn't work anymore....

Anyone have advices...

BTE see you all at full moon on the 2nd...

[Fdmnrnba]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

[Fdmnrnba]

IMO it's weird that you have to carry your passport with you everytime you want to visit some clubs. You'll have a big problem when such an important document is lost, especially when you're a farang. On the other hand, I can imagine this is the only way to make sure there aren't any underaged persons inside the club.

[Fdmnrnba]

Quote[/b] (Makiy0 @ Aug. 16 2004,04:33)] Originally Posted by [b 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. Ok I will see you there next year

[Allorneadesee]

I don't think you will have any problems any where. I even think in the country it will be less strict. Don't worry.

[Immonnaornach]

Quote[/b] ]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 agree delawang I guess he was talking more about the laws, I was just talking about the so called harrassment he seemed to be bothered with at the door And therefore automatically assumed that the doormen the police and just about everyone else were corrupt and were only after easy money. In my opinion, proper behaviour would be to make no trouble and go elsewhere and bring the passport next time if you wanted to see the place so bad. LOTS of other places to go where they don't ask 4 passports.. I have never been asked for my passport.. Oh, yes once.. In Escudo in Thong Lor.

Quote[/b] ]I don't think the man was talking about what the bar does, he was talking about the law and getting arrested for not having your passport when the bar gets raided. The passport thing is not a new law in Thailand, but enforcement is new. Other countries have the same law for example people who are visiting the USA from a visa-waiver country have to have their passports on them at all times.

After thinking about the passport thing it came to me that your visa-expiry date is in your passport, and that would be a reason for wearing it at all times.. There is after all a huge number of people overstaying there visas every week.

This is a fun thread by the way

[Chooriwrocaey]

North East as in...? Do you mean Udon Thani, Kohn Kaen, Kakon Phanom...? Every place is different. Udon has a lot of farang, whereas in some places farang are quite rare.