Just spent one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life in Phnom Penh. The city is safer now than it has ever been but take the normal precautions you would take travelling anywhere in the world. The people are wonderful,the girls sweet,lovely and affectionate. This is girlfriend sex at its cosmic best. Bring plenty of dollars cash with you and don't forget photo for visa on arrival. There are no ATMs but you can get cash advances on credit cards at banks in town at $5 or 1% minimum charge. Visa is the most widely accepted. Good place to stay is Mikey's Guest House at 213 Sisowath Quay, the most lively part of town. Rooms are $20 and $35. If Mikey's is full, try the Riverside Hotel ($25/$30) a few blocks further north. The hotels can find you girls but you'd need to be pretty incapacitated to resort to that method. Indian-made viagra ("kamagra") is available at all pharmacies and costs only $10 for 4x100mgs tablets. To get around town, the moto-taxis are fine. Pay no more than 50 cents during the day, $1 after dark. Try and get hold of Bayou, a free monthly listings magazine with good map in the middle. All the cafe-bars on Sisowath have copies. You don't need to tip here but even small tips of say 1000R(25c) are very much appreciated. The beer is good and deceptively strong at 5%. Beer Lao is my favourite.

- There are some good privately-owned sex bars (brothels basically). Drinks are usually $2.You can have sex on the premises for $10 whether it is yum-yum (BJ) or boom-boom (shag). Girls don't have any underwear on. Mikado is good fun although the girls are not up to much. Cyrcee Club (#13, Street 49 ) has some nice ones, ages 20-25. Sophie Club ( 9EO Street, 118 corner of Street 53 ) is an outrageous place.It has rooms upstairs but don't be surprised to see guys getting BJs at the bar. Be careful with your cash here. Some of the girls have light fingers. While one is playing with your dick the other might be going through your pockets. A class apart from these three places is DV8 (#7, Street 148 ) just off Sisowath near the Riverside Bar (not the hotel of the same name). Drinks are cheaper and girls are very cute and accomodating. You can pay the bar $25 and have a girl for the whole night. Try their B52 cocktails.

- For freelancers, the going rate is $20 for long time. A good place to start is Sharky(#126,Street 130 )(www.sharkysofcambodia.com). The girls here can be a bit aggressive, particularly the older ones who usually start massaging your back the second you sit down.$1 for for about 15 minutes.The best-looking girls here are the waitresses who earn only $40 a month for a 6 day week. Work on them and you can get them to see you on their day off. This place can get lively from 8 onwards and serves good tex-mex food. A later place and my favourite is the famous Martini (402, Mao Tse Tung Blvd) (www.martini-cambodia.com), also does good Asian food, a lot of pretty girls 18-21. All the drivers know the place. Disco starts at 9 and live bands in the main area at weekends. The girls are a 50-50 mix of Vietnamese and Khmer. Vietnamese are generally more aggressive and older. It's worth getting there early to get the pick of the best. I noticed a few girls start at Sharky and go on to Martini later. Another excellent spot is Walkabout, a 24 hour bar. It helps if you can play pool because the girls congregate round the table area. The Walkabout is the best place to watch live sport, especially English football, as it has a big screen and can show two games at the same time. In the same street is the famous Heart of Darkness. Worth a try but recently is attracting a lot of rich Cambodians and also a gay crowd, the girls who freelance there make you work hard too. Also, some of the bars on Sisowath have their own regular freelancers who arrive any time after 6.Try Mikey's (Sin is hot) and the Jungle Bar nearby.

- There are some good hostess bars, barfine $5. Try Shanghai Bar (Cnr streets 51 & 172) opposite Walkabout where there are a number of pretty girls 20-27. There is also Rose Bar just off Sisowath down from the Riverside Hotel. The girls here are okay but this place attracts a lot of yuppy types.

- Cambodia's first a go-go bar has just opened, called Viper (702 Kampuchea Krom Blvd). Girls dance on a stage surrounded by a ring of fire. I heard the drinks are overpriced here so didn't bother checking it out.

- There are two main brothel areas where the girls stand in front of tin shacks which are generally smelly, dirty and unhygienic. $10 a shag. Very few girls speak any English but you might prefer to take them back to your hotel and pay them a bit more. One area is called Tuol Kauk and is only 3 kms out of town.

Now for a warning which you can ignore at your peril. The infamous Svay Pak (K11) has been under police surveillance for some time. An average of 2-3 foreign guys gets busted here every week. To pay your way out of jail will start at $50,000. Keep the fuck away from the place. The most dangerous part of the city is Hun Sen Park after about 10. Streetwalkers cost only $3. If you go there and get away with just being robbed, you will be lucky. Another place to avoid is U2, a large Cambodian nightclub on the way to Martini. Shootings are common there between drunken locals. Another 1-2 guys gets set up every week, not only by Cambodians but by other foreigners working for NGOs would you believe it. Never accept an introduction for a sex partner from anybody. You will have no difficulty finding your own ones. Have a great time and be nice!

Exceptional update
I will try the gogo bar when i next go to cams,
Because the Thai goverment is killing the sex scene in BKK.
will cambodia become the next place

Great Info HH.

HH, thanks for the update and info, especially about the new go-go. But I have to wonder where you got the info about an average of 2-3 arrests occurring at Svay Pak each week ? There were several arrests of hard-core criminals in the past at Svay Pak, but I don't recall (in my past two trips there) it being on average 2-3 a week. In fact, in my Feb. 04 trip, Svay Pak was pretty laid back.

I went to svay pak to a viet place, got a girl
and noticed a car following my taxi motorcycle,
I realised it was the cambodian police checking me out,
The girl i was with was 25 years old so i was not worried,
I think the policeman went back to svay pack
so Headhunter might have a point about police surveillance there

I did my December trip and had a ball. I started as usual at the Le Cyrcee and the girl I had the first time iI visited remembered me and I took her again. Went to Sharky's the next night and found an excellent 25 year old and took her back to my room for a short time, about 2 and half hours. She really was something. Next went to walkabout and took three talk about sticky fingers. One of them got to my pockets as I was so busy that I did not notice Went to martini's next and found a great 22 year old and spent the rest of my time with her. She just stayed with me. She was an 8 to 9. She was not that great at sex but she was great. Had no problems with the hotel and everything went very smooth. I may go back this month, don't know yet. I did meet a great bunch of guys at walkabout but they were no help in helping find my way around. The girl and the motodop helped me out. Still did not find Great World Massage and the Viper address turned out to be a restaurant. I guess I am not that good at finding my way around with someone else helping me. If I go again I will not stick to one motodop as I hav e done the last two times. Anyway had a blast..