Karaoke in Thailand is normally reserved for Thai’s, Chinese, and Japanese. But unlike popular belief that if you’re white you’re not allowed in. Whoever says that doesn’t know what they are talking about. For years I’ve been doing Karaoke in Chiang Mai mostly but all over the country I’ve visited Karaoke houses and they all work pretty much the same way. The pricing on Karaoke all depends on the establishment while in Surin you can sit down and buy a 100 beer some places in Bangkok will cost you 500 baht a beer, pricing is all up to the establishment and what kind of service they may or may not provide.
I think a lot of tourists and expats alike are scared of Karaoke from the horror stories they have heard about people going in for an hour only to get a 50,000 baht bill then strong-armed into paying. While Karaoke is expensive the horror stories are mostly full of crap because they fail to tell you that they had 10 girls in the room and bought them all drinks, they were blind drunk on their own and an easy target.
I just got a question from a VIP member, the questions he asked are the same questions I get all the time so I figured I’d answer it in a post.
Please tell me about the Karaoke Bar.
I have not been, because I never understand what is happening. I have walked up and asked to take one, but always told they don’t go out.
I have never gone inside.
I know of sleezy place, where you walk in and go down the stairs and there are many girls, sitting on couches. The owner is a rude asshole. There are some pretty girls. But nobody talks to you, they just say “take one.” Well, I want to know what I’m going to get for my money, but there are no answers, and then stuff like, if you take her now she has to be back at 4 am. So I don’t do business with that place.
IF I was to take a girl, I like the old style rules, where if she goes, it’s 24 hours. There never used to be any of this “short time” stuff.
Also, we older guys need a girl who will ride us for a long before we produce.
So, Karaoke:
Let’s say I want to go in, let a beautiful young girl or two sing music, play with the girls, get their clothes off, take one home for 24 hours. How does the money thing work? What do I pay for? Also, I don’t like the concept of them ordering a bunch of stuff. I just want to sit, sing songs, play with them nude, and enjoy, and take home until the next evening. I wouldn’t have a problem exchanging girls. Is that acceptable to do as I wish, and to trade for another one when I bring the first one back?
I’ve been to all the Karaoke’s in Chiang Mai…twice or more. Every single Karaoke can allow girls to go out, just like in the GoGo and beer bar scene the Thai’s call this OT. (overtime). lol I love that term! OT normally comes in short time and long time. Long time is normally another 1000 baht which personally isn’t the best deal as it’s basically paying her to go to sleep for an extra shot in the morning. Personally I don’t like long time because I only like to sleep with my girlfriend.
While all Karaoke’s have a policy for OT not all Karaoke’s actually have girls that do OT and definitely unless they know you it’s more difficult to find a girl to do OT. Walking up to a Karaoke wearing flip flops and shorts and asking the hottest chick to go OT you are going to get a simple response. No. Actually there’s only one place in Chiang Mai you could do this and that’s 20/20 karaoke were they will bring the girls out in two groups, girls that go OT and girls that don’t and you don’t even need to go into the room just pick up the girl and leave.
The problem with 20/20 is the girls are mostly Akha mountain girls with rough hands and rough personalities. Compared to the local Thai girls there will be fewer stunners so don’t go with your mates go alone cause it’s likely there’s only one girl, another problem with the place is it opens early and closes early, because it’s the number 1 place in Chiang Mai for Thai’s to visit you have to get there early.
Chang Klan the center of Karaoke in Chiang Mai also has the most scam places, you see anything with the name KTV don’t go in and drink anything in these places, the mamason in these places are scam artists. Stand out the front ask to see the girls that go OT they will bring out a couple of girls and charge you 3500 baht short time which you must pay upfront. If it’s after midnight in Chiang Mai unless you want to fight for a skank in Spicy this is really your only option for
paid sex in Chiang Mai at that time of night.
I’ve been doing Karaoke in Chiang Mai for several years now but it’s only the past year that I’ve really honed in my skills and figured out exactly how to play the game every single time, these days it’s very rare for me to go Karaoke and not get laid. Obviously I have an advantage since I go a few times a week and bring to the club 60-100K a month. This is worth a lot to the clubs I go to so me and my friends are treated better than if you went by yourself. In fact I recently took an old friend to one and we had an awesome time. The next day they decided to go themselves and left early because it wasn’t the same.
The girls in Karaoke are aged 15-25 rarely you’ll see anyone over 25 and few if any girls actually speak English and rarely if ever will you get the real age of a girl. I was sitting in Karaoke last month when all of a sudden the Mamason pulls 4 out of 5 girls outta the room. The military had shown up for a sweep and the girls who weren’t 18 left the room, yeah that was a surprise as they all said they were 19. I left soon after.
Unlike bar girls Karaoke girls are typically white skinned and what Thai’s would consider “beautiful” in fact you’ll find that the karaoke girls on average are better looking than bar girls and less a ho than gogo girls. What Karaoke girls have over bar girls and go go girls is they are much more fun…much much more. Karaoke girls know how to “Take Care” if you’ve been missing the GFE (girlfriend experience) some say it’s gone, it’s not, it’s just rare to find it from the Go Go girl and the bar girls as it once was, the GFE is alive and well but these days you gotta go to Karaoke or a G-club to find it.
So I mentioned earlier how I figured out how to play the Karaoke game, here’s exactly what you need to know.
1. Membership!
If you don’t have a membership forget it, you’ll be scammed and taken advantage of, a membership get’s you free room, free mixers and a discounted drink rate. Memberships can start as low as 5000 baht.
2. Go Alone!
When you first go to a Karaoke club get a membership and make sure you go with a group of people all split a membership and pick a few girls each. This will give you the best idea of what girls you like and which girls like you! I used to think that the hottest girl in the club is the worst girl to pick, but after recently meeting up after hours with the hottest girl in my favorite club for a little romp I realized this is not true. The hottest girl in the club typically just needs more time than the others. Going with a group of guys you’ll find out which girls are more scandalous than the others. So remember her name and go back alone and sit with her. When you’re alone in a room with one of these girls who already knows you that’s when things are more interesting.
3. Pickup Rather Than Sit
I like to have a party and a good time, I go to Karaoke a lot because there’s many people who contact me on this site and want to experience it and want the introduction to my club. Obviously if you’re introduced as a friend of mine doors definitely open. But if you’ve already been you should have the mamasons LINE then just contact her to arrange a pickup of the girl rather than spending money in the club.
Things to think about
Karaoke clubs make most of their money from getting guys to sit in the room and drink lots of booze. So if you rocked up with 5 guys at 9pm and want to take 5 girls with you they aren’t going to allow you to do that because then the club can’t make any money. It’s not a brothel it’s Karaoke with benefits.
It’s perfectly normal to get a hand job for a few hundred baht tip.
Karaoke girls are always better drunk.
Take care of the Mamason!
Previous articles on this site may have mentioned places I thought were good at the time but things change all the time so if you planned on going shoot me an email first so I can tell you what the deal is.
