LK Metro is a short, L-shaped street in central Pattaya, running off Soi Buakhao and bending out to Soi Diana, that holds around fourteen go-go bars plus a ring of beer bars, sports bars and restaurants — the whole thing walkable in two minutes. If Walking Street is the spectacle, LK Metro is where the men who live here actually drink.
The street was built as a small shopping-and-bar development in the early 2000s and became a go-go strip almost by accident, one room at a time. Because it is a mile inland and was never on the tour-bus circuit, the crowd is different: Western expats, long-stay retirees, repeat visitors, and their friends. Prices followed the crowd. Trip reports in 2025–26 put LK Metro consistently 15–20% below Walking Street for the same drink.
What is here (as of August 2026). The go-go rooms that have lasted are the ones to start with — Champagne (the original on the street), Crystal Club, Kink, Queen Club, Sugar Sugar, Showgirls and Destiny were all trading at our last check; smaller rooms open and close every season. Around them: Cheeky Bar and a row of open-front beer bars with pool tables, I Rovers and a couple of other sports bars for whatever game is on, darts bars, a few restaurants that do a proper Western breakfast, and the LK Metropole hotel at the corner for men who want to fall out of bed into the scene.
How it works. Exactly as on Walking Street, at lower prices and with less pressure. No cover. A local beer inside a go-go is $3.50–5 (฿120–170), a ladies’ drink $5–7.50 (฿170–250), and the beer bars on the street are a dollar cheaper again. Dancers rotate through the rooms and across the city, so faces you saw on Walking Street last year may be here this year. The mamasans are used to regulars and are generally straightforward with a polite stranger. Bar fines exist here as everywhere; we describe the concept in the bar-scene guide and leave the numbers to the bars.
When to go. Beer bars open mid-afternoon; the go-go rooms from about 19:00–20:00. It is busiest 21:00–01:00 and most rooms are dark by 02:00–03:00. Because the whole street is so compact, a good evening is three or four rooms, a drink in each, then a beer bar to compare notes. Sunday and Monday are quieter and friendlier for conversation.
What it is like. Busy but easygoing. The open fronts mean music drifts between bars and people move rather than settle. It is the only go-go street in Thailand where you will regularly see men in their seventies nursing a single beer for an hour, and nobody minds. The flip side: it is small, you will see the same faces, and on a slow night in September three of the rooms will be half-empty.
Who it suits. Anyone past their first visit; men who want go-go bars without Walking Street prices and touts; men staying on Soi Buakhao, Soi Diana or Second Road, for whom this is a five-minute walk; anyone who wants a sports bar and a go-go bar within sight of each other. It does not suit men who want a big-room show, a nightclub, or to be anonymous in a crowd.
Getting there. From Second Road, walk up Soi Diana (by the Areca Lodge and Page 10 hotels) and you are there in five minutes; from Soi Buakhao, the entrance is opposite the Soi Chaiyapoon end, by the 7-Eleven. Baht buses run along Second Road and Soi Buakhao ($0.50 / ฿15–20); from Walking Street it is a 20-minute walk up Second Road or $2–3 by motorbike taxi. Nearly every guest-friendly hotel in central Pattaya is within ten minutes of here, which is not a coincidence — see our guest-friendly hotel list.
Safety. Well-lit, small enough that the bar staff know each other, and with the usual motorbike taxis at both ends. Risks are the standard ones: your tab, your phone, your intake. The street is narrow and motorbikes do come through at speed; look before you cross from one bar to the next.
Highlights
- + Walking Street rooms at 15–20% less
- + Everything within two minutes’ walk
- + Expat crowd, little tour-group traffic
- + Good hotels on the doorstep
Good for
- go-go bars without Walking Street prices
- repeat visitors and expats
- bar-hopping on foot
- men staying on Soi Buakhao or Second Road
Drawbacks
- − Small — you will see the same faces
- − No nightclubs or big rooms
- − Half-empty on slow nights in low season
How to get there
Five minutes on foot up Soi Diana from Second Road, or in from Soi Buakhao opposite Soi Chaiyapoon; baht bus along Second Road or Soi Buakhao ($0.50 / ฿15–20); 20 minutes’ walk or a $2–3 motorbike taxi from Walking Street.
Safety note
Well-lit and small enough to be self-policing. Watch your tab and your phone, and mind the motorbikes on the narrow lane. Pay as you go until you know a room.
