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Thank you for sharing. I used this post to prepare my trip to Mandalay, and now can report: GGG still open in same place. I couldn't find Paradise Spa, probably gone. Lime Spa reported closed on Travelgayasia (but so is GGG, which is still open!) so I didn't go there. Full report, and many more findings, here: Gay activities Myanmar Sep/Oct 2018 https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2018/10/gay-activities-myanmar-sepoct-2018_15.html

I would not rely on Line alone. It happens quite often that boys lose or break their phone, or log out and forgot password, or for any other reason suddenly the chat in Line goes quiet. Knowing their place of work, and name and picture so you can ask their colleagues, is the best way to find a boy who has disappeared online. Frequent messaging can become a nuisance for people like me who are not into online chatting. If it gets too much, I leave messages un-read for days. "amongst the hundreds of offs" is a bit exaggerated. The average might be 50-100 customers per year. But yes, their memory of people is incredible. In Power Boys or Nice Boys, a boy approached me and asked if I remember him. I had to ask for name and home province, and then memory slowly came back. Later, checking my notes, I found that I offed him half a year ago, but his performance in bed was such that I quickly forgot him.

Of course I compare the numerical data with the pictures. Some people lie, others don't know know their weight and height and just put in something, others don't do metrical (for me, 6'4" means nothing - I would have to convert to cm). My point is, when I read 20 years, 50 kg, 170 cm, that gets me salivating before even seeing a picture.

Pattaya!

A lot of excellent reasons for me not to set foot in the bar. I might even change to the other side of the road when I pass.

Same for me. Everything between 160 cm and 190 cm is okay, as long as he is slim. The body mass index is helpful in such discussions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index I have my own system: heigth in cm - mass in kg - 100 <10 too fat 10-15 I have to take a closer look 20 perfect 20-25 I have to take a closer look 30 too slim (I know a boy who is 50 kg and 180 cm or similar, too slim for my taste, feels like hugging a stick insect). That's why weight or hight alone is worthless, just like the boy who claimed "But I'm slim! Only 55 kg!" when I rejected him for being too fat. 55 kg at 165 cm that was! 55 kg at 175 cm would be fine.

Let's do some maths. At a minimum, we would be looking at 300 drink for you, 300 drink for boy, 500 off fee, 2000 short time = 3100, and that 3 times = 9300 THB before you can expect good sex with a Vietnamese boy from Screw Boys. Whereas in Pattaya, it's 200 + 200 + 300 + 1000 = 1700 THB, and a 50% chance of good sex, or 3400 for 100%.

There is former Ruen Rom hotel, now S Hotel 1962 nearby, and several more who rent rooms short time in the 200 to 300 THB range. Yes. I'm slowing down. That day, I left my room 4 pm for 39 underground sauna (where I saw one awesome and several okay boys, but none of them was interested), then met a friend in Pinklao, but on that night he was not in the mood for sex, so I went home. I had two chances, none of them materialized. That was earlier this year.

When I withdraw money at an ATM, I get less THB per EUR than at an exchange booth. However operating costs for an ATM are probably much lower than for an exchange booth. There is no lack of exchange booths in Silom road, I estimate you can find one every 50 meter. Which is a huge waste of resources. There is an overkill of exchange booths in Silom and Sukhumvit and Pattaya, and up to 7 different ATMs in places like Hua Lampong railway station, just for lack of cooperation between banks. I pass Ratchadamri about once per week anyway, so I do all my money exchange there. But instead of going to Superrich (draw a queue number and deal with three different people before getting to the counter), I compare rates and then go to a lesser known money exchange, where there are no queues; often I'm the only customer, and the rates are the same.

By chance, I just passed there (Eastern side of Klong Lot at 21:45) by taxi and counted 10 boys, who looked available, and it looked very promising. I should have gotten out of the taxi for a closer inspection!

I don't think so. I met boys there (Saran Rom) who came from as far as Samrong. Anyway, with the decline of Saranrom, and in general all venue/location bases gay entertainment (sex cinemas, saunas), with maybe the exception of male massage (or is it just a fluctuation and number of opening businesses is the same as number of closing businesses) I don't think there is any gay activity that has escaped my intensive search.

The boys I met there came from all walks of live, but the majority was lo-so (low-society). The activity there is not linked to any opening or closing time.

I have been to Hat Yai several times. The gay scene is dwindling, details see on my blog. I met a Malaysian Muslim in one of the gay saunas of Hat Yai (I think now only one is left), and I asked him how he can reconcile gay sex and being Muslim, and he talked to me in fluent English for 10 minutes, but after that I was no wiser. I have visited the far south (Narathiwat and Pattani) in Jan 2016, report of gay activities here: https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2016/02/gay-activities-in-narathiwat-and-pattani.html Overall, friendly people and the only provinces in Thailand where you can go for days without seeing another White. Even in places like Sakon Nakon, Phichit, Bueng Garn, I see at least one other White per day. I would go there (Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala) again any time!

I heard that as well, but whenever I was there (a few times over the last years), there were plenty of people around, but I didn't notice any cruising.

That's disgusting! I'm just back from Myanmar, where I dealt with banknotes that are so dirty I would like to wash my hands after touching them. Those in Thailand look better, but still I wouldn't want to touch them with my lips.

I find online dating and social network extremely time consuming. Wake up 8 in the morning, have a quick look at hornet and blued and facebook, and suddenly it's 9! Same at night, after being out for sightseeing all day. Can easily spend an hour browsing profiles and chatting, and often without leading to meeting someone.

I almost got a boy from Senegal in Bangkok, it was just a matter of price, he wanted 1500 and I offered 1000. The boy from Madagascar in Pattaya was worth the 1000. My thought on African boys here: https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-boys.html

That's one of the reason why I avoid places with a minimum tip. During massage I see how it goes, and towards end I decide if I will have a happy ending or not. Which is the case in 1 out of 2 massages. At 5-10 massages per year, the sample is a bit low compared to others.

It is now run by an Irishman (?) and his Thai girlfriend (?). At least it was when I stayed there in June and August. Walk-in price 600 (low season) or 700 (high season), but online can be booked from 500.

Begin of this month I was going to stay at Happy Zone Inn (where I stayed last year on recommendation of a friend), but found it closed (out of business?). So I went to Viva Hotel where I got superior (?) room for 20 USD for first night and standard room for about 10 USD for second night. No complaints about the room, no problem with joiners. 100 m to Pub Street.

A&P is completely out of my price range; I aim for 10 to 15 USD per night when I'm in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap. I went to their sauna once and found it okay. But I liked the other saunas better.

I'm very intested in African boys, but had only little chance to act on it. (If there was a gay scene somewhere in Africa, with hotels/public transport/sightseeing like in SEAsia, I would go there.) That one chance was a Madagascan in Pattaya (there were at least three I spoke with over the last years), who happily accepted 1000 for short time and was worth the money and would have gone with me again for the same tip.

For reason of their unreliability alone I would never get the idea to reserve a boy and pay a fee in advance. Going with the territory, I adapted the "here and now" mentality. Anyway, my bar hopping ends when I see a boy I want to take home. I wouldn't reserve him for later and go to other bars and come back to pick him up. Do others never have issues when reserving a boy for later? Even with promising an above average tip, I can think of all kinds of problems: communication, space-time-confusion, empty battery, family business, only one room key for all inhabitants.

I cannot leave that uncommented, lest others think 1500 is the going rate for short time in Pattaya. It is not! I'm paying 1000 for short time wherever I take boys (online, Eros, Nice Boys, Power Boys, Dream Boys Pattaya, Kawaii while it was open) and they queue/beg/implore me to go again with me. Others report the same. Only Toy Boys and Boys Boys Boys (and maybe A-Bomb?) try to push the rate to 1500, one of the reasons why I don't go to these bars.

Walking home from Silom Complex through Soi Sala Daeng, I noticed the soi blocked by police and electricity company cars and several utility poles broken, resulting in part of the soi being without electricity. The center of the accident seems to be at Senso, with structural damage to upper floors. As far as I can judge, it will take days until all damage is repaired and everywhere has electricity and data connection again.