What Aussie Bar Is
Aussie Bar anchors 9 Bangla Road, the first landmark off the beach end of Patong's main strip. Two floors, four bars, three pool tables, and a stated capacity of 250.
Phuket 101 calls it the island's iconic sports bar, and the official claim of oldest sports pub on Phuket has gone unchallenged.
Every code gets a screen: AFL, NRL, EPL, rugby union, boxing, NFL. If it kicks off at 3am Thailand time, the room is open for it.
Reading the Room
A big open front facing Bangla Road with the serious screens deeper inside and the pool tables upstairs.
Hotels.com Go Guides rates it the obvious first stop for sport in Patong, and the street view seats double as the strip's best people watching post.
The Menu, Edited
Inside Aussie Bar
Who Shows Up, and When
Australian tourists and expats by reflex, plus every other nationality that needs a screen on Bangla Road.
Daytime is calm: breakfast beers, pool, and reruns. The volume builds with the evening fixtures and peaks when the strip outside does.
Fight nights fill both floors before the first undercard.
What Regulars Say
- Tripadvisor reviewers keep returning across trips; the recurring line is that every Patong holiday starts and ends here.
- Phuket 101 credits the staff with keeping a Bangla Road venue genuinely family friendly before dark.
- Hotels.com Go Guides ranks it first among Phuket sports bars.
- The recurring tip: claim a street side stool at sunset and watch Bangla Road switch itself on.
Who It Is For
- Anyone in Patong with a fixture to watch. Every code, every time zone.
- Expats homesick for a pie and a schooner served without irony.
- Avoid if Bangla Road itself is the problem. The bar is calm by strip standards, but it is still the strip.
Before You Go
The beach end of Bangla Road, two minutes from the sand. Tuk tuks know it by name.
See what else the strip holds in our Patong guide, or compare rooms in the Phuket sports bar list.
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