Lucy Club Bangkok

Doors don't open until 10pm here, and that tells you most of what you need to know. This is a second-stop bar on Sukhumvit Soi 3, the kind of place you land at after dinner somewhere else, not a spot to kill an early evening. It runs to 4am every night of the week, which in Bangkok terms puts it among the venues still going when plenty of others have shut the shutters.

The crowd on Soi 3 skews international and social, and a bar like this works better for groups or for solo travellers happy to talk to strangers than for anyone after a quiet drink. If you want the calmer version, come on a weeknight and come early, around opening. Turn up at 1am on a Saturday and you're getting the loud, full-tilt version instead. Neither is wrong, but they're different nights out, so pick deliberately.