February 8^th, 2010

Skytrax Disco has long been a place of controversy among regular ACgoers.  It always stuck out from the rest of the clubs and bars on Fields because it was primarily a Filipino hangout.  Lots of young wannabe “thug” types local kids, loud blaring hip-hop music, and regular knife-wielding, bottle-smashing brawls that would make most UFC matches look tame.

Plenty of foreigners have found themselves getting into trouble there over the years, but there are still plenty that like going in.  Many of the bargirls will go there after shift or on their nights off.  Whether it be to drink and dance with friends, or to hook up with one of the local critters (as if they didn’t have enough sex already at work), you will always see and hear about bargirls hanging out there.

I personally have never set foot inside the place; at least not that I can remember anyway.  There have been many long drunken nights in AC for which entire blocks of time are unaccounted for in my memory.  I’ve always just heeded the warnings and considered it “their territory”.  I was just fine enjoying the other 100 bars, thank you very much.

Nevertheless, plenty of guys I know love the place and say it’s great for taking your barfines to for late-night partying, or even going stag and having the possibility of scoring some “strange”.  Off-duty bargirls + alcohol + dancing = many possibilities.

But therein lies one of the risks:  The local hoods have to see foreigners parading around everywhere with their women in AC all of the time.  So one could appreciate how they may like having at least some places where foreigners aren’t waving their pesos around like the Pied Piper of Hamlin.  Mix that jealousy and bitterness factor in with alcohol, mob mentality and gangsta rap music and you have a recipe for trouble.

Despite all of that, the white guy in this video seems to be doing okay, (sunglasses indoors notwithstanding) and he films some pretty cute babes in the process.