Agreed totally, these Viets seems to have buck the trends. When the Thais and PRCs first came they charge like 40-60 (Thai fish tank) and 80-100 (PRC street walkers) for some time. Viets came in and charges few hundreds for short time and thousands for overnight fairly quickly. I am not sure who started the Viets trends, VP or KTVs.
Before covid, I think the KTV "high end" Viets was about 300 short time now easily 500, some dare ask for 600-700; overnight 800-1200. These sort of earnings has no taxes, what we pay they keep in full. Think the price is way too high, definitely a hard pass for me but there are those "deep pockets" Bros who still went ahead to patronize them.
Come on, at that price bro can go massage or geylang many times. KTV one is pretty but 99% fake.
It's a bit of a weird system, there don't seem to be a "mummy" system, yet one of the waitress staff bring ladies in (and also later ask for "mummy tips" later). Maybe someone more experienced can shed more light on this....
Also, I am not sure if it was just me but there also doesn't appear to be a butterfly system...the staff bought the ladies in but then the lady stick with you the entire session, like literally the entire session without butterflying. I did ask if there were more ladies but the reply was a bit curt.....I later on, just as I was leaving, I saw several good-lookng ladies walking around. Maybe HH is a bad timing or maybe I was just unlucky that day.
Pros is that the lady does stick with you for very long (again, I am not sure if that is the case for everyone else or just happen to be the case when I went), hardly leaving the room. The con is that you only see what the staff bring in.
Timing: HH is 4.30 pm to 9 pm, non-HH is 9 pm to 3 am.
Price: HH timing is $88 for one beer tower.i am not sure about non-HH price. However, I must say that the beer is genuinely original, without being diluted with water (something that some other KTVs does). Because it was original beer ( I think it is European brand beer since it had that thick fruity taste not present in Southeast Asian or Japanese beer),one tower is actually very filing and quite easy to get bloated. I could hardly finish my tower, with some 20% left.
Ladies tips are $50. To be honest, for someone who stayed with you the whole session without even leaving, it's a fair price, so really can't complain there...
Also, there is a mandatory $15 fruit plate.
I am not sure if everything customer ended up paying staff tips though......
Without tips, it is $88 (one beer tower) + $15 (one fruit plate) = $103.
But with tips, it goes higher.....
Ladies tips are $50 and stayed the whole session without even leaving? PRC or viet girls? this is too good to be true...