Comments on: Cheap Charlie’s Bar http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:04:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chopsticks http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-10515 Chopsticks Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:11:40 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-10515 A fun place to start a night out on the town. Drinks are ridiculously cheap compared to other bars and clubs in the area. The crowd is mostly all foreigners and crowded it usually is. It can be hard to find room, even standing room, inside the yellow line early evenings on Friday and Saturday. A Bangkok instituion.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 3   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars30disp.gif"></li> </ul> A fun place to start a night out on the town. Drinks are ridiculously cheap compared to other bars and clubs in the area. The crowd is mostly all foreigners and crowded it usually is. It can be hard to find room, even standing room, inside the yellow line early evenings on Friday and Saturday.

A Bangkok instituion.

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]]> By: nickd http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-51 nickd Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:02:58 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-51 A fun little spot and as the name indicates, it's cheap. It's always pretty lively with friendly folks. The only drawback is it's mostly a standing pub so you can't really get comfortable but it does lend itself to a more social setting.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 3   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars30disp.gif"></li> </ul> A fun little spot and as the name indicates, it’s cheap. It’s always pretty lively with friendly folks. The only drawback is it’s mostly a standing pub so you can’t really get comfortable but it does lend itself to a more social setting.
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]]> By: werewolf http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-48 werewolf Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:46:12 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-48 One of my favorite watering holes in Sukhumvit. Cheap Charlie's looks like a pile of driftwood washed up in a small parking lot and someone got some nails and wire and made a temporary shelter. It’s a Bangkok institution that’s been around for 25 years. There is an old newspaper article from the International Herald Tribune (July 05) that is laminated and posted on the front of the bar, with a headline that reads, "Cheap Charlie’s Rules: stay inside the yellow line, no prostitution, and no number 2". If you’ve been to Cheap Charlie’s before then you’ll understand the headline; if you haven’t then you need to go. Again, Charlie’s is a Bangkok institution in the same way that Harry’s Cafe de Wheels is a Sydney institution. A place that falls short of all expectations, and is so unique that it defies description. A place you’d never imagine until you’ve seen it. A place with the cheapest regular drink prices in town. Cheap Charlie's is filled to capacity or beyond nearly every day, assuming it's not raining. There's a reason for that... it's got 'atmosphere'. It may sound unappealing to sit on a hard wooden stool, with a wobbly table for your drinks, inches from cars driving into a commercial parking lot in an outdoor bar that is totally exposed to the weather and offers no service beyond one middle-aged Thai man opening drinks and serving highballs from a wooden hovel, but somehow it works for me. The cheesy signs, the collection of items that has been accumulating for two and a half decades, and the homemade toilet are all part of what makes the winning formula in a place that lives up to it's name. Cheap Charlie's is the place you go when you don't need to impress anybody, you just want a cheap, cold beer and a conversation. I go there often.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 4   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars40disp.gif"></li> </ul> One of my favorite watering holes in Sukhumvit. Cheap Charlie’s looks like a pile of driftwood washed up in a small parking lot and someone got some nails and wire and made a temporary shelter.

It’s a Bangkok institution that’s been around for 25 years. There is an old newspaper article from the International Herald Tribune (July 05) that is laminated and posted on the front of the bar, with a headline that reads, “Cheap Charlie’s Rules: stay inside the yellow line, no prostitution, and no number 2″.

If you’ve been to Cheap Charlie’s before then you’ll understand the headline; if you haven’t then you need to go.

Again, Charlie’s is a Bangkok institution in the same way that Harry’s Cafe de Wheels is a Sydney institution. A place that falls short of all expectations, and is so unique that it defies description. A place you’d never imagine until you’ve seen it. A place with the cheapest regular drink prices in town.

Cheap Charlie’s is filled to capacity or beyond nearly every day, assuming it’s not raining. There’s a reason for that… it’s got ‘atmosphere’. It may sound unappealing to sit on a hard wooden stool, with a wobbly table for your drinks, inches from cars driving into a commercial parking lot in an outdoor bar that is totally exposed to the weather and offers no service beyond one middle-aged Thai man opening drinks and serving highballs from a wooden hovel, but somehow it works for me.

The cheesy signs, the collection of items that has been accumulating for two and a half decades, and the homemade toilet are all part of what makes the winning formula in a place that lives up to it’s name.

Cheap Charlie’s is the place you go when you don’t need to impress anybody, you just want a cheap, cold beer and a conversation.

I go there often.

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]]> By: markthepoint http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-19 markthepoint Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:46:46 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-19 All drinks are around the 50 Baht (buck and a half or nearly a pound) mark which for that area is ridiculously cheap. Normally busy most days and only one slight drawback, there's no roof or in fact anything there's just a bar and some seats. Good to visit once<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 2   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars20disp.gif"></li> </ul> All drinks are around the 50 Baht (buck and a half or nearly a pound) mark which for that area is ridiculously cheap. Normally busy most days and only one slight drawback, there’s no roof or in fact anything there’s just a bar and some seats. Good to visit once
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]]> By: dreampipe http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-14 dreampipe Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:22:00 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-14 What can I say? Not really my type of bar but when it comes to cheap, laid back and a good spot for people watching this place it hard to beat. I love all the trinkets and crap hanging all over the place. Would have to be the coolest outdoor bar in Bangkok.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 3   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars30disp.gif"></li> </ul> What can I say? Not really my type of bar but when it comes to cheap, laid back and a good spot for people watching this place it hard to beat. I love all the trinkets and crap hanging all over the place.

Would have to be the coolest outdoor bar in Bangkok.

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]]> By: Cheap Charlie by Werewolf at The FARANG Speaks 2 Much http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Cheap Charlie by Werewolf at The FARANG Speaks 2 Much Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:59:21 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/pubs/sukhumvit/nana/cheap-charlies-bar/#comment-8 [...] There is an outdoor bar on Sukhumvit Soi 11 which is a Bangkok icon, named “Cheap Charlies”. I once read a description of it that said it looked like it had been formed by a pile of [...]<ul></ul> [...] There is an outdoor bar on Sukhumvit Soi 11 which is a Bangkok icon, named “Cheap Charlies”. I once read a description of it that said it looked like it had been formed by a pile of [...]

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