The Search...

For a new location of J&B Bar or whatever name we might come up with, is in full swing!
For us here J&B stands for the way we like to work, the kind of bar/location we like to have aaand the kind of atmosphere we like to offer our customers when they come to Patong Beach Phuket.

It is still hard/ not easy to find the right location for that. We have been offered locations allready in the main gay soi. But while very tempting to do, it has a lot of risks and as such we decided that even when we would do/make a step into the main gay soi, it would not be the J&B way of working as you all have gotten accustomed to this last year. We would and will still be searching for the best location outsite the main gay soi.
Maybe if we go ahead with a location in the main soi as well, it would be more like a satelite then anything more, of whatever enterprise we like to run outsite of the main soi.

We also start to consider looking for location outsite Paradise as well, but also outsite Paradise location is very important: easy to reach, easy access to the gay businesses in Patong, ergo Paradise, easy access to the other main businesses and entertainment area's of Patong Beach, like JungCeylon, Bangla Road, Hotels, Beach, etc.... so our location can again be a good meeting point for gay tourists as well as local gay peple, also the ones who do not like to go into Paradise. More and more we encounter gays here who, though gay and knowing quite a few people here, do not like to go into pParadise.

Well, the search goes on, and becomes more serious by the day!

Also we do not want to pay any keymoney etc. just rent....why? You mighty think, if thats the custom...
Well, several reasons actually:
We do not like such a financial burden, specially with the economy being down and lot of you guys back home not bing sure if you can make it back to Phuket at all to start with... one cna only spend his euro, dollar, baht only once ;-)
Also we would like, for more or less same reasons, to be able to keep our prices reasonable, more affordable for when you come back to stay with us! Its no fun if you discover that all of a sudden you find out you pay actually same or more for the drinks as compared with home (as I discovered when I returned here after a 6 weeks stay in Hollland).
The governement has raised taxes on alcohol and sigarettes with 20% (!!), ssso thats quite an amount to take into consideration and we would like you to enjoy Patong Beach Phuket as much as possble in the same way as you have been used to.
Now for some of you this doesn't make too much of a difference, but for others among you it is important to know you have agreeable places to go to where one can enjoy and still feel one is not over spending at the same time...

Well, considerations maybe not to relevant for our guests who come down (orup) here for their hollidays, but of importance to our guestst who try to live here on Phuket and when one likes to atract the local gay community in the proces as well.

The economic downturn the world economy has taken is something which is not passing by the Thai, even though they like to have it look that way, it doesn't!
Take also into consideration the political turmoil of the last 8/10 months and the international reactions to the events as a result of that, as well as what might be expected.

We of J&B feel that we must do our utmost that whatever location we decide on to continue the formula of the way of work, as we started out on our old location, we can present a well run business with continuity. A place which one can call "home a way from home". A place where you like to start or end your day in Patong Phuket, a place where you know the service is up to standard, your hosts do all that they can do to give you a good time while here, and you find help to/easy access to the relaxing fun Patong also can offer you while we of J&B are still able to serve you with the best and most honest advice you can get in Gay Patong.

Ergo, maybe a tall order... the location doens't need to be big, but well placed.... and for the time being ofocurse we hope it will be in Paradise and otherwise we hope it will be well placed not far from Paradise.................. because not withstanding the economic crisis, Patong continues to develop.........
and also the gay community will develop with it, in and outsite Paradise.

We keep you informed and please, if you have any idears and thoughts about our quest for a new location, please do not keep it away from us, but let us know, so our little comunity can be a true soundboard.
"More" allwasy knows more then "one"!!