Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza , occupies a three story building in a red-light district of Bangkok, claiming to be The Worlds Largest Adult Playground. It is on Sukhumvit Road Soi 4 about 20 metres from the Nana Hotel, and about 300 metres from the BTS Skytrain's Nana Station. The name originates from the Nana family which owns much property in the area and still has much influence in Thailand. Along with Soi Cowboy and Patpong, Nana Plaza is one of the Bangkok red-light districts which attract primarily tourists.The plaza's U-shaped building is roughly square-shaped, with a single opening on the west side, and consists of a ground floor and two additional floors arranged around a courtyard. It started as a restaurant and shopping center in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s, a few go-go bars appeared and gradually replaced the shops and restaurants. In 2012 Nana Plaza was sold to Nana Partners Co Ltd, a partnership that includes the Eclipse Group – one of Thailand's largest bar and nightclub operators – for a rumored $25,000,000 after the land was inherited by seven sisters who wanted nothing to do with a red light area. Several short-time hotels operate on the middle and top floors. Short-time hotels rent out rooms by the hour or more to patrons to take a bargirl for sex. Most bar girls working at bars in Nana Plaza will leave with customers upon payment of a bar fine. Smoking is banned indoors, there are no elevators. The building closes at 2:00 a.m. and lies dormant until the following evening. In 2016 two waitresses in the plaza's Bangkok Bunnies go-go bar said that they received monthly wages equivalent to £130 and daily tips equivalent to £11–16 . This compares with a 2016 average monthly wage in Thailand of around 13800 Thai baht .As of November 2017, there are eight kathoey bars in Nana Plaza; these venues are True Obsession , Straps, Chili, DC-10, Casanova, Mercury, and Temptations , Charades . Several other bars have a few ladyboys in their line-ups mixed with their regular go-go dancers.
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