Well yes, plenty of pattaya beer bars have raised that price a little, epsecially in the main drag along walking st and bars in the areas of 2nd road and sois off that road. 300 baht barfine and upwards seems to be becoming a norm.
Still plenty of bars with the old price of 200 though, go to soi buakow, diana type areas, naklua in the north.
Having said that, I don't consider a 100 baht increase much of a deal myself considering that 200 baht price point has been in affect for what seems like an enternity, inflation and all that.
Back the topic of the 1000 baht barfine.
Just my humble opinion and also one that is shared by many posters I've read discussing this.
The coyotee dancer concept is nothing more than an average looking girl in shorts wiggling on a podium, that really is the truth and it's nothing you can't see in various beer bars, perhaps minus the aircon. They certainly bear no relation to the movie 'coyotee ugly'.
Unfortunately this concept looks like it may be here to stay as business owners have found a way to re-package an average looking girl and tout it to be 'something special'.
Guys, especially newbies fall for this and the fact of the matter is, if you were on walking st in pattaya looking at 1000 baht barfine coyotee dancers, you could simply walking X amount of paces to a nearby by Agogo bar and look at hotter looking dancers (that are naked) and pay a barfine of 500/700 on average, showgirls cost more before certain times but there are still plenty of hot women for the standard agogo barfine price available.
A good point in case was a friend of mine who was in a disco that has coyotee dancers with high barfines, he was laughing while we talked about the fact that he saw guys were paying expensive barfines for these girls, while just literally a few paces away, were far hotter looking freelancers on the dance floor, no barfine required, that for me sums up the situation perfectly.
I don't really want to talk about 'going rates' but if I meet a hot looking girl in a club that is freelancing, most are happy with 500-700 baht s/t or 1000 baht for l/t, if a coyotee girl that has nothing more than the freelancer to offer in the looks department has a barfine of 1000 baht, is she seriously going to be happy if a guy offers less for the price of the barfine for some s/t action?
The main problem with these highly inflated barfines is that is raises (perhaps/maybe) the girls expectations of what they think guys should pay, some guys claim they still only pay 1000 baht for l/t with a coyotee dancer, and while that may be true, it still means you have paid 2000 baht before getting back to the room, when you could have taken 2 women from a nightclub for the same price.
Go figure.