fidolio wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:08 pm After 6 year I was full with expectations when landing at Phnom Penh international airport. Already in the tuktuk I get the feeling a bad feeling. All the new skyscrapers reminds of the time when Bangkok left its Thai soul.

After my incheck at the hotel I rush for the bar and the girls. ” Buy me a drink ”, Buy me a drink”, buy me a drink” , and no shame at all about the price , lady drinks ( juice ) = 5 Dollar. I refuse and kindly said, please let me just sit down and having my beer first. I thought I could have little chat But No. I was left there at the table as an lonely stupid barang with my beer course was refusing paying that 5 dollar drink , which I never do if I don’t know if the chatting girl go with customer or not. The problem is that the girl don’t answer that question before you pay that lady drink o change after. In fact Today 9-10 girls don’t go. They are so called , hostes girl and are there only for talking with you ONLY If you pay that 5 dollar drink and you also have to buy another one cours they so thirsty. During the time you maby lucky if the girls you pay the juice want to go to hotel, and the price short time , 100 dollar ! If you you more lucky you can get it down to 80 dollar but then you have to pay the barfine with is 20 dollar if you not have payed a lady drink and 15 dollar if you have. This is what I was meeting in every bar on every street, 136, 130, 118 , 51 , 5 and so on. I have been mongering all over the world and 2 times at year in Cambodia during 2000 - 2017 but never seen any change that turned so negative as in Phnom Penh. So unfriendly bargirl, like money robots with no brane at all. When I try to ask the girls , what they think about that almost every bar have no costumer, they just smile little and don’t get it. Is the bar only a cloud of money washing or Visa buissiness or the Chinese not have enough by destroyed Shv. Do the bargirls who think the the tourist pay flight tickets for thousand of dollars to get there and then sit alone with a fucking beer in a girlie bar and be served with idiot prices that together with crazy lady drinks and barfines are the highest in the world today. Of course the whole net talks and of course costumer choose other destination. I miss that friendly Cambodia who cares and give time and I hate this pissed garbage girliebars system . Soon the immigration will give you an extra donky stamp beside you visa on arrival. Of course there will alway be some stupid traveler who buy this totally humiliation that have destroyed the country. For me the worst bar with the most unfriendly girls was the OSTEX Bar on 136, the corner, were a girl get angry me when I want to sit alone with my beer for a while. Cambodia and Phnom Peng thanks for all the good year , you never see me again and I will never miss you stinking pot.