Go2 Bar is a very popular nightspot located in the Pham Ngu Lao backpackers area. This bar has 2 levels with the bottom level playing mainly rock tunes and upstairs playing dance, pop, hip hop and rnb tunes. The 2nd floor is the nightclub and therefore the drinks are slightly more expensive than downstairs. This bar is one of the few bars that stays open late. Normally until about 4:00-5:00am.
Features & Services
2 levels (Second floor is the nightclub)
Indoor and outdoor seating
Food served (Western, Thai, Indonesian and a few Vietnamese dishes)
Pool table
ANZ Bank ATM
Operating Hours
9:00am until 4:00-5:00am 7 days a week
Address
Go2 Bar
187 De Tham Street, Pham Ngu Lao Ward
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Contact Details
Telephone: +84 (0) 8 836 9575
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April 12th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Can’t say enough about the Go2 Bar. Been there many times for breakfast (great omelletes) and late night drinks. The wait staff are friendly, funny, and a wonderful reflection of Saigon hospitality.
One of my favorite Saigon activities is to sit on the second floor at the “windows” (its in an updated French colonial building with no glass covering the large open windows). You can watch the infamous Saigon traffic at the intersection below. I have yet to see an accident even though there is no traffic light and people criss cross in front of each other at 20+ mph.
Also, Go2 Bar has free wireless. I travel to Saigon on business. When I am doing paperwork and get bored with the hotel room, I take my laptop to Go2 in the afternoon and work. Staff don’t mind if I spend two hours sipping one drink while I tap on my laptop. I always leave a 50k VND tip (about 3 USD). Makes them very happy (they make at most 30 – 40 USD per week). Enjoy!
August 13th, 2008 at 3:23 am
…actually, the description needs updating. On the fifth floor, up a steep set of stairs, there is now a lovely rooftop patio (with a retractable roof, no less!) that has cheap happy hour drinks (I think 2 for 1 from 4 to 7 PM) and a decently priced BBQ (cook it yourself on a mid-table grill with a propane tank underneath). The view of the street is not as nice from the top floor, but the air is considerably fresher, and you are not pestered by the people at street level trying to sell you crap. On a clear night, you can actually see a handful of stars, a rarity in downtown HCMC.
If there are still a few people hanging around, it is possible that the bar will just stay open all night, and you can order breakfast with your next beer as the sun comes up…
Cheers, Dave
December 20th, 2008 at 7:01 am
I’ve come 1001 times, many things are wrong here. Many working girls and bad management. 20% up on your bill after 1 am for service charge and the money doesn’t go to the staff. I’ve seen 20 staff try to hit white guys and black guys. It’s very not right there.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Pure tourist place, overpriced, staff is friendly, which is good.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
What Nb says and what Limbo says TRUE TRUE TRUE. Watch the whores there. They are very light fingered. Not bad for a drink to network with other backpackers… not real Vietnam though. Toi biet roi, toi la nguoi UC nhung toi den VN nhieu lam roi. Most girls there (Viet girls) after 9pm are hookers… Music is good though.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Wow people! You are such hypocrites! If it’s so bad then why were you there 1001 times??? They can’t stop customers from coming in; what you do is your own damn business! You try finding a better place to be after 1 am in Saigon! psh! You probably got drunk and got your ass kicked there, that’s why!
May 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am
When i was living in Vietnam, I truely enjoyed my experience at Go2. It was a great place with lots of friendly tourists, expats and locals. The bar staff are awesome. Go2 is slightly more pricey than other places but compared to prices back home, it is still quite cheap. The only people that i ever had problems from was foreigner men. The foreigners get away with a lot more here than they would back home. I never saw any violance from the bar staff or the security and i was living there for well over a year and a regular to the point of daily. Well worth a visit.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I have just left Saigon and I found Go2 to be expensive compared to the other bars beside it. I did witness the staff fighting with a customer, they were having a disagreement over a bill then one of the staff pulled out a stick and hit the customer. I just think u have to be very careful if u drink there.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Wife and I stayed for a drink… looked round its a backpackers bar… heaps of pissed ppl and hookers… finished our drink and continued down the street.. its no diff to St Kilda or Kings Cross… a place to get ripped off, rolled or laid
keeps ya wits about you…
June 28th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Went there last Friday night, the music was so cool. The bar was very crowded with a lot of prostitute girls, foreigners, some of them are gays I believe. Anyway, I will come back to enjoy again.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
some are right and some are not
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Why don’t you guys just find out all by yourself !
Anything has its own good and bad though ! Depends on when ? why there? what happen? kaakka
August 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am
been there loads of time, its a monty place! despite getting my camera nicked by a hooker outside, i still love it!!!!!!!!
August 18th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Music is good ? The music is same shit every day, everyday, everyday. Top 50 hits from the 70’s to today, good for backpackers and the masses. Too loud all time, cannot talk. Only place to stay open all night. Thousands of taxi girls on the first floor (with the same shit music). Actually people go there because it’s the only place like this in the area. In front have the Crazy Buffalo : even worst, shit name, shit logo, shit building, shit music, friendly staff (normal, it’s young vietnamese student).
Poor places.
December 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
went there today – dont believe the 2 for 1 rip off – guy outside says its happy hour to get you in but when you pay its definitely not happy hour and no 2 for 1 drinks like you get told! Stick with buffalo bar opposite. Lets down vietnam.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I have been there a couple of times 2 weeks ago…. Saigon has so many tourists but where do they
Go at night?? We were questioning that…. Same for the young locals…. Music is indeed the same every night,
But i would say it is almost a must to see for the mix of western guys looking for girls and the vietnamese
Culture….. Uhm…. The prostitutes…. You see maybe 3 or 4′ western’ girls, which gives you a sort of odd feeling
…. Well, if you are a bit critical on society, norms and values and so on.. But it is saigon. Go to
The horse racing as well in district 10, real karaoke in district 3 and see rest of vietnam on a motor
Bike with the easy riders and you will feel top of the world in vietnam!!
January 11th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
i spent a week in Ho Chi Minh, and i found the Go 2 Bar to be my favorite place for a beverage. Staff were always great, If there was any trouble it was created by some tourists as always. I met a great variety of tourists and locals
great place to chill out after being on the gas for sure
January 30th, 2010 at 4:30 am
I had a similar problem to Fred tonight at the Go2 bar. They had Saigon beer listed at 15000d on the menu. The price had been amended, as had some of the other prices. A waiter confirmed the prices were correct so we ordered several beers over the next 2-3 hours. However, when later presented with the bill we were charged 35000d per beer. We pointed out the 15000d price on our menu but were then shown other menus with the price listed at 35000d. The staff became very aggressive when we said we would pay the price on our menu, saying that they were right and our menu wrong and surrounding our table. Because of the threatening behaviour we felt it prudent to pay the higher price and put this one down to experience. My advice is please avoid this bar – there are plenty of other decent bars in the area that are better managed and don’t cheat or threaten their customers.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Go 2 is the only late late bar around, so basically the dregs of society go there as theres no where else. drinks expensive +20% . 90 per cent of the non white girls are hookers ,which is ok in itself but wouldn’t trust many of them and if you do decide to partake put everything bar the kitchen sink in the safe.