Martini closing soon ?
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- Wun Gwo Pee
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I agree. It's a shabby sad place now, killed by Pontoon and GSM (which in turn look like dying soon also). I wonder what will happen to the little dwarf guy? He has been there for years.
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He's been moonlighting at other locations for a few years now, and doesn't even bother to stay late at Martinis anymore. I've seen him working the Palace during the day, and another nearby mostly Khmer disco some evenings.alanclarke72 wrote:I agree. It's a shabby sad place now, killed by Pontoon and GSM (which in turn look like dying soon also). I wonder what will happen to the little dwarf guy? He has been there for years.
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Can someone post the location of the first Martinis on Google Maps or something? I went there maybe 5 times and know it was somewhere near Olympic Market but can't remember where the hell it was really.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Lucky Lucan wrote:Can someone post the location of the first Martinis on Google Maps or something? I went there maybe 5 times and know it was somewhere near Olympic Market but can't remember where the hell it was really.
Basically next to the Intercontinental Hotel on the left as you face it, just behind the row of shops fronting Mao Tse Tung Blvd. Accessed via the carpark on the road beside the hotel.
It was an easy ride home to the Villa I rented in Toul Kork from there.
Note to self: Must be nice to morons.
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So about opposite Mekong 74 here on 205 :
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Int ... 5db7dd53c9
And you mean accessed via the car park that's there now?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Int ... 5db7dd53c9
And you mean accessed via the car park that's there now?
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Lucky Lucan wrote:So about opposite Mekong 74 here on 205 :
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Int ... 5db7dd53c9
And you mean accessed via the car park that's there now?
roughly where Home du pain is shown on that map
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Had the same thoughts about ThermaeLTO wrote:Martinis hasn't really been Martinis for at least a couple of years, and was in serious decline for a few years before that. GSM and Pontoon, changing times and clientele, an explosion of new and slicker discos, the general shift from straightforward whore bars to hostess bars, an immutable business plan based in UNTAC Cambodia, the dreadful lonely location, all conspired to kill it. And nobody appreciates the seedy anymore (...old Thermae also comes to mind). Most of the girls are gone, the disco is always empty, except on a 'good night' for an hour (when there might be 12 girls on the dancefloor and 6 guys watching) before they all go to Pontoon and the like. The barang customers are very thin these days and the place now has a primarily Chinese clientele. They even took out the pool table near the bar and replaced it with some some of video gambling thing. The Martinis of old has been dead for a while. It's spirit only a memory. Closing the remnants would just be the burial.
Didn't Charly recently signed in and/or tried some marketing posts in here recently ?
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Except by pitch black nights in the rainy season. I almost drowned a friend's car once on the northern stretch of Mao Tsetung coming from TK. I really started to worry when small waves were running on top of his camery hood. Car started to raise again by miracle probably seconds before engine would have stalled.LaudJohn wrote:It was an easy ride home to the Villa I rented in Toul Kork from there.
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Barang_doa_slae wrote:Except by pitch black nights in the rainy season. I almost drowned a friend's car once on the northern stretch of Mao Tsetung coming from TK. I really started to worry when small waves were running on top of his camery hood. Car started to raise again by miracle probably seconds before engine would have stalled.LaudJohn wrote:It was an easy ride home to the Villa I rented in Toul Kork from there.
ahhh .. those were the days!
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I don't think much has changed there. The stretch of MTT between Psah Dam Kor and Russian Federation was still getting severe flooding last rainy season, and unlike the section between Intercon and Monivong, they haven't put in any new drainage there recently.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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It's been years since I saw water rise higher that wheel height there, plus you would be the only car crazy enough to go anywhere at such a time and in such weather and that did add quite a bit to the experience for the noob I wasLucky Lucan wrote:I don't think much has changed there. The stretch of MTT between Psah Dam Kor and Russian Federation was still getting severe flooding last rainy season, and unlike the section between Intercon and Monivong, they haven't put in any new drainage there recently.
I will miss martini if it closes, because it'd mark the end of an era. But I agree it's been the shadow of itself for a few years and not worth visiting lately. The best times were at the original location. Great times in that seedy short time hotel on the opposite corner of the yard, the chakrout or something.
At the time, the venues of choice for punters were sharkys, sophies, mikado, and of course the walkabout. Plus km11, before the tide started turning. Other times... Still I'm glad I could witness some of it.
At the time, the venues of choice for punters were sharkys, sophies, mikado, and of course the walkabout. Plus km11, before the tide started turning. Other times... Still I'm glad I could witness some of it.
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I never went to Sophies, and after all this time, I have still not set foot in Sharky's, no real reason, just never happened.
Nor Mikado, come to think of it.
Nor Mikado, come to think of it.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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