A plain explanation of what this site is, how it gets your bar found on Google, and what you get if you claim your listing. No jargon left unexplained.
A directory of bars that are actually open, right now, in Pattaya. Bars come from map data (Google Places and OpenStreetMap), from owners adding their own bar, and from customers tipping us off about one we've missed — but every single one is checked by a person before it goes live. Nothing gets added automatically. That's why you won't find bars here that closed two years ago, or duplicates of the same place under three different names.
Your bar gets its own page on this site. That page has your name, address, phone number and social links written on it for a visitor to read — but it's also written into the page a second time, in a labelled format made specifically for Google to read. So instead of Google guessing which bit of text on the page is your name and which bit is your address, it's told directly: this is the name, this is the address, this is the phone number. That labelled format is what people mean when they say "structured data", "schema" or "JSON-LD" — it's just your bar's real details, laid out so a search engine doesn't have to guess.
The page also carries a "breadcrumb" — Home > Find a bar > your bar's name — so Google understands where your page sits in the site, not just that it exists in isolation. And the full list of every currently-listed bar is handed to Google as one structured list too, so a newly-listed bar can get picked up quickly instead of waiting for a search engine to stumble across it on its own.
None of this needs you to do anything. It happens the moment your bar has a listing page — claimed or not.
Either way, being listed costs nothing, and a person checks it before it's public.
Listed is free. Claiming is optional, and it's what hands control of the page to you:
Claiming costs a small monthly fee, billed automatically — you'll see the exact price when you submit a claim, and every claim is reviewed by a person before anything is charged.
Claim your barOnce you've claimed your bar, you can set a short promo line — up to 140 characters, something like "Happy hour 5–7pm, 2-for-1 buckets" — right from manage your listing. It shows as a banner on your bar's own page, and bars with an active promo can be filtered to directly on the search page, so someone looking for a deal right now sees yours instead of scrolling past it.
Claimed bars can get a printed QR sticker for the bar itself. A customer scans it with their own phone to say "I'm here" — no app, no account, nothing to download. Once enough people scan within a few hours, your bar picks up a 🔥 Busy now tag on the site, visible on the search page and your own listing. It's a live signal to someone scrolling nearby that your place actually has people in it right now, not just an address and a hope. It's a fun crowd indicator, not a booking system — and if it's not for you, tell us and we'll switch it off for your bar specifically.