V CLUB
Yes, it was just excellent 10 years ago, and I had many excellent experiences there, including several off-site rendezvous with a very cute young waiter who was painfully shy but after several converstaions he agreed to meet me outside.
Then the place seemed to change from highly customer oriened to customers are a bit of a nuisance, along with this came a gatoey manager who though she was the most important person in the world and she had no hesitation whatever to pad the bill. This happened several times - one coffee but three coffees and a beer etc all on the bill. After some confrontation she would sort of agree that something was wrong but 'You will have to pay because It's impossible to cancel the chits, but never mind, I'll make sure it's ok next time', plus lots of "farang keeneo" comments.
Then I noticed service had gone way down with most of the boys.
On my second to last visit I inquired about the cute young man in the front garden. She dragged him inside against his protests that his brother was coming in just one minute to pick him up. I ended up quickly in the massage room with a very unhappy and quite upset young man. I quickly aborted the situation. When he reappeared at the front area the gatoey abused him and demanded he pay 200Baht fine. It turned out his brother was in fact waiting for him. I paid my bill and followed him outside and discretelly gave him the 200 Baht. All of this was maybe 4 years ago.
Last week my meeting at the old Thai FArmers Bank building finished very early, I decided to go to V club which is of course just 5 minutes drive. I sat down and very quickly 3 massage came and sat at my table without invitation,and very quickly launched into telling me the minimum tip is 3,000Baht plus "V club boys are all special and famous, so you have to pay more".
I left very soon after. Back to HERO for me.
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