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About week after I retuned from Aug 2024 trip I spotted extremely good airfare to Bangkok for mid January and decided to buy it even if I had my doubts I will be able to utilize it for many of reasons. Main one being my Mother’s mantra I already mentioned few times before “if you don’t have money for vacation , don’t go” . One thing she did not know was line of credit though. Even brief , weeklong November foray , which turned very pleasant did not convince me to break that unspoken rule. I gave myself till New Year Eve to make decision. And of course, what else , I decided to utilize that ticket. So new Year Day I spent on my computer booking hotels and airfares. Then disaster struck – I learned that my friend is landing in Bangkok at the same time. He may be friend but not kind of one I would like to accompany me in my Silom affairs for simple reason – he is babbler known for saying first and thinking distant second. As travel companion he is also bit imperial and selfish when comes to programs. In short , better to be met in social setting , not on the road. Since not much I could do I left it to be solved when in Swampy. Ticket was cheap but there was price for it – very early departure at 6 am, three legs so involving two connections on the way and late arrival I Bangkok, just before midnight. It worked, all three fights arrived 30-60 minutes before scheduled time and only complain I have was that cabin in United flight to Narita was cold. I had sweater but could use winter jacket which was tucked in check-in luggage as I did not expect I will need it until I return home. Of course while standing in long but fast moving immigration line I was spotted by my friend so my cover was blown right there. My luggage was already waiting for me , his came quite fast and we shared taxi to our hotels , first his in Sukhumvit and than mine in soi 3. I was in my room just before 1 am and decided to take shower and do survey of the area. As it was past bar closing time I spotted few known faces dining here and there , with friends or alone. On Suriwong there was guy I offed last trip who immediately offered his companionship but I declined and it was his fault. He cut our session short under some pretext which in my book is criminal and results in blacklisting. Hot Male beer bar still had few customers and P was free so I offered him a drink which led to his suggestion that since bar is closing soon he may walk me to my hotels. He is not a person I would reject such an offer so I agreed immediately shyly suggesting we may even have coffee together in the room. Not sure I used word ‘ coffee ‘ but whatever it was he got it and added ‘ till morning ‘. Now we are talking ! Soon I paid 600 off fee and world saw us walking briskly to soi 3. We met before few times but this session was by mile the best. I like straight boys who are clingy and not faking it. He left me at 7.30 declining breakfast invitation , no doubt wanted to catch some sleep. Day 1 For breakfast I went to Foodland, where else ? in meantime message Raposa I’m heading there and soon after he joined me for a meal and news exchange. After we parted ways I went to XOne to exchange money and around noonish I went to meet me friend thinking about excuses to create free evening. It was easier than I thought. After taking boat along Saen Sap canal and doing some sightseeing in Khao San area we returned by the boat to Saphan Taksin , had a meal in the area and decided to part ways even if it was still daylight for simple reason – jet lag decided to intervene. In hotel I collapsed on the bed but not before I set my alarm clock for 9.pm. I’m not one to waste vacation time. As for first bar visit this trip there was no doubt where I will go , Atlas of course . I was greeted enthusiastically by barker outside who remembered I helped him when he had period of sleeping in the rough and by cabal of boys knowing me from Tawan and even Arena. Can’t say I was very impressed with selection but certain I’d pick up one of 4-5 guys there. There were few twinks I’d consider too. Face of one waiter was familiar and it turned out few years ago he was one of stars at Jupiter I had hots for but of course those days he did not even look my way. He lost some muscles but face is still handsome. Perhaps I should give him consideration in future for old times sake. 8 red notes distributed, to that guy, one of singers , James and Ken sitting with me , J/O contestant, f***k show performers and two big c***k showmen. I liked the show as it included full set of numbers. Just before midnight I crossed the soi to climb stairs to Hot Male where S was waiting for me forewarned about my intentions earlier. Show was on and I entered exactly at big c**k show moment so another 200 went for the needy but well endowed. We went to Foodland for a meal and then home .S never disappoints and never rushes to go home, so it looks this trip so far I’m doing well.

Hello fellow connoisseurs of sexy guys. I've had the pleasure of posting and getting feedback while on the first part of my trip in Bangkok. Now that I've made it to Tokyo it makes sense to share my experiences here. Since I'm starting this thread anew I hope you'll indulge a bit of content about my points/miles redemptions. Now let's get to brass tax. I arrived at Tokyo Narita airport at around 6am and my hotel check in at the Hyatt Regency was not until 2pm so I decided to be leisurely and methodical in my movements as not to rush or make mistakes in this place that is new to me. Ate some sashimi at the airport for breakfast and made my way to the train station on the lower level of the airport. Used the 7/11 branded ATM and took out 10k yen in 1k notes. The Tokyo public transit system has a reputation in my mind of being efficient yet potentially complex for newbies. So I went to the ticket counter and was sold two tickets that got me a train to Nippori station and then on a subway ride to Shinjuku. Made it there with no errors. I arrived at the hotel at noon and was told that my room would not be ready until 2pm but that I could upgrade to a similar room with a Mt.Fuji view for only $47 more and that would allow me immediate check in. I took the offer seeing as the hotel was already free for the night because I used my annual Hyatt category 1-4 free night cert. The card has a $100 annual fee so this hotel is worth way more than that. It's soon to become a category 5 hotel so will no longer be in range of my free night cert once the hotel renovations are complete. Alright I'll stop with the points stuff for now. My original plan was to go to King of College and get a better understanding of how their system works. I walked to it from my hotel about 30 minutes away. Once I'd got to the right location I still hadn't got a response from KOC account on the Line app. I sent them a message but there was also an error I was getting when trying to add them on Line. I'll have my Line issues fixed by the next time I come to Asia for sure. The way I think King of College works is that you walk in and if it's your first time then a bartender should tell you how the system works. I think this might cost you 1700 yen. I'm interested if this is kind of like a host bar concept where if you really like one of the guys you can pay to take it further. It seems like you'd be buying them drinks and such also while they entertain you. I'll save this for later because I ended up walking about 7 minutes further to Danshi Gakuen. I could not add them on the Line app so I used their English language website's 'contact us' function. I asked if they were open for walk-ins and that I was outside. They said yes and to press the intercom when you get to the third floor. I preferenced DG over KoC because of the ultra quick response time. I'd say less than 5 minutes passed before getting a response when I messaged them. The response was sent to my email. I went up and talked to the manager and he brought me inside. We heavily relied on Google Translate. He said there were three guys on property and that I could look through an album. I assume this meant that they could try to get a boy from elsewhere to rush over if they were available. I was able to narrow down who was available on their website using the narrowing functions of 1)Workday(who was available today) 2)Age(from youngest descending to oldest) 3) Straight. So going in I had my eye on a couple of guys and it just so happened that one of my picks was already here. The manager had him walk in and smile at me so I could confirm he was accurately portrayed in the pictures. I agreed and said that I would like to book him for 12 hours for 34k yen(about $230) The manager asked if I was looking for anything anal related and I said no which was good because they guy I selected is straight and not up for that. I said I would like kissing and 'boyfriend experience' and he knew exactly what I meant. Once the manager confirmed with the boy I paid in cash at 7pm and they said the 12 hours begins at 9pm and ends at 9am and comes with a room in the building and use of a shower/toilet. I rushed back to my hotel and packed some essentials and rushed back and made it there with 15 minutes to spare as the frozen rain was hitting me. I went up the stairs and my boy was there to greet me. I changed my shoes for slippers at the entrance. He took me to the room and the night began. We got acquainted and he was so wonderful to me. His English was better than my Japanese and he seemed to delight in communicating with me. We soon stripped off and he used the phone in the room to request the use of the shower. I think they do this system as to protect the privacy of the clients because some people do not want to be seen here by others. Also obviously to make sure the shower is not currently being used. After a shower and teeth brushing we hopped into bed. It was freezing outside so cuddling with him was just what this Florida guy needed. We fooled around for maybe 80 minutes. Once we both got off we started talking about getting a meal somewhere since the night was young. This was exactly what I was hoping for. I love getting a local guide to take me around and show me what they enjoy. He ended up taking me to his favorite local ramen spot. He loved telling me about the differences in the tenderness of the noodles and such. I ended up eating a bowl and one portion of extra noodles and he actually had two extra noodle portions. Such a sexy 121 lb guy. He does Aikido and soccer so his body was delightful. A nice touch was that he paid the 100 yen for my extra noodles even though it's stipulated that I must pay all expenses. We talked earlier and he surmised that we had a mutual enjoyment of bowling so we went bowling for two games. I won't divulge our scores because they were lackluster. We were competitive the first game and I crushed him the second. When it was over I insisted on paying but he pulled out two cards and handed it to the cashier. Not sure if they were free certificates but it was a kind gesture of him to do that even though I was supposed to cover all expenses. We then had another enjoyable walk through Kabukicho and Golden Gai passed all the tourists, intoxicated people, and scammers. I loved his commentary and questions. The whole way he held an umbrella over us which I found so sweet of him. We got back to the room at about 1am where we shared another shower and jumped back in bed. I could tell he was ready for sleep so I would not be persistent in nagging him to get sexual if I sensed he wasn't into it. We cuddled and kissed some more and eventually fell asleep. I told him I'll try not to wake him up or touch him overnight and he said he didn't mind. So I was able to caress him and kiss him at various points throughout the night. At about 8:30am his alarms started to go off every 5 minutes which I found comical. By 9am I was dressed and saying goodbye to him at the door. We hugged and I left. I thoroughly enjoyed that experience. I imagine many of you might be more into the sex parts versus my preference for a boyfriend experience and local guide and cuddle partner. That's okay we all have preferences. Now the question is, should I check out of my hotel and book another night with the same guy at DG before someone else does? This option also saves me money that I would have to spend on a hotel for the night so if you factor that into the price of 12 hours for the boy/room it's phenomenal in my mind. I did say that I would go to King of College to scope it out for Vinapu so I need to figure out a plan for that. King of College has an Instagram account and the last two nights around 8:30pm they posted a story that says who is available at the bar. One guy looks tempting but his face is blurred so that's a potential red flag for me. I guess I can always just walk away and pay only 1700 yen. The price at DG for 90 minutes was something like 15k yen so I just ran the numbers in my mind and 34k yen for 12 hours just seemed the most bang for the buck. Well, that's all for now I need to see some cultural sights before choosing my next boy wherever that may be. I don't have hotels yet for my last few nights in Japan so I could stay in Tokyo longer or jump to Osaka anytime.

Day 4 HC left at 6 and I got some sleep. Past 8 I went for a breakfast to Ibis Styles, they have a deal , buffet breakfast for 250 and it’s extremely good value. After that short survey of Patpong market and back to hotel to pack up. Most of my stuff I’m leaving there as I will be returning to the same place . That part is usually easy for me as I’m used and well trained to travelling light. S showed at hotel on the dot, whole in smiles and we went to Don Muang by usual BTS+Mrt+ SRT red line way. All very smooth although they removed from his luggage some big bottle of body lotion but he kind of expected it. In order not to lead into temptation we were seating separately as one never knows where his hand may land in the plane full of people. Taxi for 180 to our hotel, The Space but south of city center but still walking distance there. We both are in Chiang Rai for the first time. After shower we went to the city , on our way had some local meal 200- for both and secured an adventure for tomorrow – for 1000 per person I bought trip to the Golden Triangle, whole day , visiting 7 places. Soon after dark we retired to hotel as I claimed I’m tired while in fact all I wanted was some intimacy with such a hunk. That turned out easy to have. I guess he felt bit indebted. Second very sweet night in row , I’m afraid to become diabetic. Alarm set for 6.45 am. Few pictures from evening walk in Chiang Rai

So here's my update. Please be gentle. I made some serious mistakes and I'm going to just put them all out there so I don't make them again and hopefully it will help you guys avoid this kind of situation. I ended up booking another 24 hours with my guy from DG. He was incredible. It was like having a close friend in Tokyo that was excited to show you anything you'd want to see in his city. He seemed to really enjoy communicating with me. He knew more English than I did Japanese but with the help of Google Translate and DeepL, we were able to have great conversations. He also enjoyed getting me to better pronounce certain Japanese phrases and seeing me use them on people that we interacted with. He was cracking up at many of my failed attempts but it was worth it to see his reaction. We went to this bar called LOST in Shibuya that was created by a famous expat Youtuber. I was really wanting to go so we went. When we entered he was told that he would be id'd in order to make sure he was of legal drinking age. He was allowed but I was a little taken aback by the request. The customers were all expats my age or older. He was the only Japanese guy and he was definitely the youngest at 20 years old. We ordered margaritas with the name "Go Fuck Yourself". He was having a super intense reaction to the sour and salty tastes and it was so fun to see him squirm. We really enjoyed that. We also swung by my old hotel to pick up my heavy backpack. He was such a gentleman throughout always making sure I was cared for and often insisting to carry my bag which I usually denied him but acquiesced a bit because it was pretty heavy. When I booked him for 24 hours I paid a bit extra for the private unattached apartment which was nice. I only had use of the apartment until 1pm the following day even though our time together expired at 3pm. He wanted to take me to a big park in Shibuya but it was closed. I wanted to take him to Teamlabs Tokyo but it was sold out that day. I had mentioned shrines and temples earlier and I had seen something about Yasukuni so I mentioned that to him. We got a taxi to the Yasukuni shrine. I knew of this shrine because among Japan's neighboring countries it is controversial for various reasons I will not get into here. It was definitely a beautiful place. There were restrictions on photography and behavior in certain areas. There were guards there to make sure everyone behaved. My guy enjoyed showing me the different exhibits and making sure I did the various shrine specific rituals the correct way. We then went out to a Western/Civil War era themed steakhouse which was tasty and fun. I like that he takes me to these places where I'm the only obvious foreigner instead of the more touristy spots where foreigners are ubiquitous. We went back to the apartment for a shower and then raided the local 7/11 for beers and munchies for the apartment. We feasted and watched a famous Japanese movie that I recommended to him called Battle Royale. He'd never heard of it but was clearly enjoying it. Sadly I was tired and as we were getting ready for bed he took awhile brushing his teeth and I passed out. The next day we had some fun in bed and showered. Got breakfast at a tasty cafe nearby. For lunch we ended up getting some delicious Gyoza. We grabbed my bag around 1pm from the apartment which was sadly not available to me anymore. At this time it started to dawn on me that my time with him was soon to come to an end. My phone was low on battery so he rented a powerbank from 7/11 for me. I know I have an issue with getting emotionally attached to people I like too fast so I really had to try to keep it together. Even if it's just losing a paid friendship like this I find it difficult. He could tell I was struggling. I powered through it and we parted ways with a hug and kind words. He told me I was always welcome in Japan. What a guy. Apologies if this is a bit disjointed I've just had an ordeal in Osaka so I'm kinda fried. Sitting at the airport typing this and deciding if it's worth going out one last time in hopes of finding someone sexy before my 6am flight. I'll be posting a summary of my first night in Osaka soon. It's pretty awful so hopefully it's entertaining to read. Also, I did not go to King of College. I was preoccupied and the guys mostly didn't do anything for me just from looking at the pics on Insta.

Day 64 (2 March 2025) – End of trip report Today is my last day in Cebu, as I return to Thailand tomorrow afternoon. I meet with Mr. B. for lunch today in the Ayala mall. As it is a Sunday, and lunch time, it is very crowded and we need to eat in a restaurant that neither of us is familiar with. It’s name is: BadBoys Swingz . As this is my last full day in Cebu, I want to try something different and this dish with the name = Pork Dinakdakan – looks yummy, as it looks like some kind of cream sauce on top of a pork chop ? I start to eat it and I realize that I do not like it and later on thanks to Mr. B., I get the below picture to understand why I did not like it. Yuck – it is not really my type of cuisine that I like. I ordered it by only looking at its photo on the menu that did not contain the below description. https://www.facebook.com/BBWINGZ/ After I attempted to eat a 1/3 of it, I then call over the waiter and I attempt to order a cheeseburger (now I wanted to play it safe) but he replies, “the chef cannot make you a cheeseburger because there is no cheese today – are you ok with a normal hamburger?” I reply, yes. I tell Mr. B., this is another perfect example of a typical experience that I have had numerous times here during my 60 days in the Philippines. Mr. B. makes me understand that this is normal. I tell him that I have personally been in many Thai restaurants where the dish that you requested is missing a key ingredient and I saw with my own eyes that the restaurant does one of the following 2 things: Sends one of the staff to go and buy the missing ingredient – often I have seen them in 7-Eleven buying the missing and/or run out of inventory item, or, they ask you if the missing ingredient can be substituted with something else. Mr. B. makes me understand that this would never happen – as the staff are NEVER allowed to leave the restaurant to go to the nearby 7-Eleven (they are everywhere here in Cebu just like in Pattaya) or nearby supermarket to buy the missing ingredient. Furthermore, the chef is only allowed to prepare the dish in accordance with the strict recipe. I explained to Mr. B. that this is a big difference than in many other countries that I have been in – where they are empowered to improvise – in order to keep the customer happy. By the way, my hamburger was very good and Mr. B. enjoyed his meal. While we were eating, Mr. B. teaches me about another Filipino idiom regarding AFAMs. That is to say, “escape from poverty….”. To put it into context, if some Filipinos see a Filipino person walking with an AFAM (farang), as they pass by, the Filipinos who are observing them may say, “escaping from poverty….”, in such a way, in the local language tagalog, so that the Filipino person hears it and the AFAM does not understand it. Everyone has a good laugh and the AFAM does not have a clue. I tried to find a Thai equivalent – as I have heard the money boys back in the Jomtien Complex – Supertown laugh and giggle when one of them “hits the jackpot…” – as in they found a farang who has money - dtee sua (ตีสัว). So, this is another similarity between Thailand and the Philippines. Afterwards, we go to my condo so that I can give Mr. B. the promised luggage with the 5 new towels and 1 set of dark grey sheets. As I see that there is still some spare room in the luggage I show him the many drinks that were in my refrigerator that I will not consume before I fly back to Thailand and he agrees to take them and I am super happy about that. We sit and chat for a while and reminisce about our many trips that we did together and how our wonderful friendship developed in these 60 days. We are both sad that we will not see each other unless I return again to the Philippines or if Mr. B. comes to Pattaya. As Mr. B. is ambitious and wants to move abroad to have an out-of-country work experience – I am not sure if we will ever see each other again, but we agree to keep in touch via WhatsApp. Mr. B. leaves with the luggage and I am truly sad. But, unbeknownst to Mr. B. I snuck a surprise within the towels that he will discover after he opens the luggage back in his boarding house room. Sure enough, about 1 hour later, he discovers my surprise and he is truly overjoyed, especially with the kind words that I put in the card, some surprise pesos, and a little black book for him to keep notes about his to-be worldwide adventures. Mission accomplished, as he only discovered his surprise back in his room, because any other time that I have tried to reward him, he ALWAYS pushes back on anything that I try to give him – as he is such a kind and modest authentic non-greedy Filipino person. He will make someone an excellent partner. I love making surprises I start packing for my return to Thailand and then I call it a night and I set the alarm so that I will wake up in time to finish packing and to check out and get to the airport in time. This is the end of this trip report series to learn if an elderly gay retiree can live ok in the Cebu city area in the Philippines. After 60 days here, I have determined that the answer is YES, and for my retiree living requirements – the place that I would choose is: --> The MegaWorld Mactan Newtown township over on Mactan island at the beach <-- --> As it offers a lifestyle that is the closest to what I have back in Jomtien in Thailand <-- --> And the condo complex that I would choose would be - One Pacific Residence (OPR) <-- --> note that 3 additional condo complexes are currently under construction - so, these would need to be evaluated to understand if OPR would remain as the number one choice <-- In second place would be the CBP Cebu Business Park, and in third place would be the Cebu IT Park. Thanks for coming along on my 60+ day adventure, and I hope that you enjoyed the journey with me. My next trip report will be in late April and from Da Nang, Vietnam, and since I will be there for around 130 days, I am thinking to just do weekly updates – as these daily updates are a killer. Also, I will have my Thai boyfriend with me – so I will have less down time. Day 64 (2 March 2025) – concluded – End of this Trip Report.

Filipino men are cut, poorly. Thai men are uncut, usually. Filipino men are on average, thicker and shorter in penis size. Thai men are on average, thinner and longer in penis size. Filipino men tend to have a bit of chubbiness, even when fit. Thai men then to be thinner, even when fit. Filipino men don't have as many tattoos. Thai men typically have a few. Filipino men will manipulate and lie to you, but they believe they are being honest. Delusion. Thai men will manipulate and lie to you, but they are well aware of what they are doing. Tactic. Filipino men are ashamed to be filipino. Thai men are proud to be thai. Filipino men fall in love before you even meet them. Thai men fall in love after you fuck them. Filipino men will rarely ask for money, being around a white person is enough for them because they value whiteness and mediocrity over anything else. Thanks colonization. Thai men don't see white people as anything other than what they are, tourists. Filipino men will fight tooth and nail to convince you that PH is the best country on the planet, all the while claiming to be "mixed." Thai men don't give a shit what you think, Thailand is already great. Filipino men will stretch the truth on everything, and romanticize even the most trivial things. Thai men don't care to impress you, they are more curious. I could go on for years. They are nothing alike.

Just came back from Thailand. 2 nights in Pattaya. 4 nights in Bangkok. My first time to Pattaya. Got comfortable private car to and fro. I'm so honoured to have forum member @bkkmfj2648 showing me around at night. He took me to Jomtien Complex and we watched cabaret show at new bar Candy. Very professional and nicely done. Then on the second night, he took me to Boystown to watch the show at X-Boys. More hardcore than shows in Bangkok bars but it's not something I haven't seen before. Saw similar shows in Soi Twilight years ago. We also explored Sunee Plaza and visited Nice Boys which has been renamed Boys Nighclub. Bar model is similar to that of Golden Cock and Nature Boys in Bangkok years ago. Had dinner at local eating place near Boystown. @vinapu nicknamed it The Prison because of metal tables and chairs. In the daytime, I was at beach. Saw the volleyball guys at Dongtan Beach. I stayed in Rabbit Resort. Very nice hotel with resort feel.

Monday night, was pretty quiet all around... I was going to go to Atlas to check the show out, since I'd never been. One of the guys outside said it's be better tomorrow as Mon is slow...plus the only guy I noticed standing outside a few nights ago that interested me, wasn't around. So I went to Koi bar, talked to the owner...really nice guy. He reads the comments here, so whatever you think, let him know 👍 Met a Cambodian guy from an App.... he didn't have his ID....I told him my hotel requires ID and we couldn't come to an agreement on what to do today, was cute but I didn't get the vibe. I walked to Super A and Mr O's bar... only 1 interesting guy at Super A, but the bitchy mamasan said he recently had nose surgery and couldn't do hard sex... is she reading the posts here too that she knows about me 😝 SO Mr. O's... there was a 1st day cute guy from Laos, 27 yrs old but looked 21/22....was my type. After talking to him for awhile (Google Translate) he didn't have his ID either, wtf? Verified with Mr. O what the fees were, 500 off 1500 short time..... I said I could get him into the hotel without ID, he didn't seem like a threat. No problem with Tarntawn, they know me..... In the room he asked me how much I pay him... he said 10,000 baht.... I thought he too was reading the forums and confused me with @vinapu 😁 So I sked him several times, showing him a currency conversion app, so he could see how much in Lao money.....thinking he thought 1000 thb was 10,000 thb. He confirmed 3 times, 10k THB....lmao. I brought him back to Mr. O's, he wasn't ashamed or anything even though all the other workers were like WTF??? Then his friend from Laos said, ok...he'll go for 3000 thb......omfg Hate nights like this... waste of time. On the other hand, the previous night, had a "freelancer" from Super A, that shows up occasionally was good, fun and polite....1500 thb and appreciative. He works for a delivery service in the daytime and comes for extra money when he can or is horny..... my type of guy, lol

Day 23 and 24 Longed for and coveted day for my readers finally arrived and this long reports comes to an end but not before enduring one more day. After breakfast S went to his room and I returned to my hotel supplied condo to do finances. While whole trip was within budget it turned out I’m short of cash for my last day , not really intended to be celibate. But since XOne now is opened on Sundays I marched there to get some much needed baht. When I was in GoodBoys I got a Line of guy who was sitting with me, he made sure to remind me about his desire to make my days even more pleasant than they are , sending me “ when”? messages daily, To this morning message my answer was “ 3pm’ today. I gave him location and at appointed time welcomed him in front of condo building where expressed desire to see how it looks inside so off we went. In fact it did not start well as he asked to smoke on outside patio and did not seem to be in rush to return to the room with impatient me inside, only firm ‘ hey you “ made him thinking I may become serious and it needs to be said all went very well from this point on. I like good looking, muscled guys who are bit talkative and are endowed properly and he possessed all those attributes. I think we had a bit of chemistry and at end of session I was pleasantly surprised how well it went with my initial reservations gone and forgotten. Having arrived on motorbike he did not ask for extra taxi money but being business oriented he ask for a little bit of gas money. I told him I don’t like it, he smiled , I have him 100 baht and got kiss as repayment. I thought silently “ what a fucking charmer he is” . Money and time well spent. Right after he left I went to Madrid Café in Charoen Krung soi 49 as today was my last chance to sample their pizza – they were closed when I went with my friend in the beginning of this trip . Hurrah, it was opened and I like small ritual we have with Jennie, the owner. She asked ‘usual” and soon Chang landed on my table and while after cherry tomato and shallots pizza as well. Mission accomplished, even typing this I miss the place and the pizza. It’s great loss to humanity they are no longer in Patpong. In the evening I went to Banana where again reader , Raposa , 10tazione and me had a drink outside watching the world to go by , then Will went his way and our trio went inside as show started. We got quite a prominent seats in front. #31 I offed in November was looking hopefully at me but I had other solution in mind for my last night. After watching show for about 1 hr, we decided to change scenery and walked to Moonlight where I had designs on M, guy I offed in beginning of this trip already. He was on the stage, smile at me and I wasted no time to point at seat beside me. Seconds later he was there. Even mamasan was surprised with my speed while disappointed that such self service deprived him his tip. Mindful that my night is short I left my friends in the bar hugging them good bye and soon world saw me sitting in the back of new shiny M’s motorbike. Second time with him was even better than first although at one point he was getting itchy to go . That granted me 1 hr. of sleep alone. At 3.30 fast shower , gathering last few unpacked things and at 4 I went out. No taxi in sight in the soi but as soon as I hit Silom one stopped. Seeing senior citizen with luggage he asked first :‘ airport ?’. We agreed on 500 , tolls on him , and we sped toward Swampy. Few hours later I left Thailand for 40Th time taking with me precious memories as well as 5 bars of soap and 6 bags of 3 in1 Khao Son coffee. Having just 1 hr. of sleep actually helped as I slept through most of my first 7 hrs. leg . 31 hrs and 50 minutes after I closed my condo in soi 3 , I opened door to my home. It was almost midnight so good arrival time to bit jet lag and indeed it worked. I had very little of it and it went away after 2-3 days . Did I get withdrawal syndrome after having 11 out of 24 nights celibate, 2 times as much as in all previous trips combined ? Answer is no. I knew it’s coming and reason was , exactly that , reason. I knew that this time finances are limited and I need to stick to limitation. Being always good with that helped. I had great 3 side trips , all in regions I did not visit before and having S with me in Chaing Rai was excellent idea as he is exemplary travel companion, asking for nothing, never complaining and if he was bored, never showed that to me. Glad I finally nailed longed for and coveted Jupiter guy, even if at some cost, but sense of achievement is worth it. Two new finds , M and Good Boys guy proved excellent and promising material for a future as well. Meeting so many members was true highlight of this trip and thank you all for scarifying your precious vacation time to meet . Now counting days to January 2027, my next trip

Day 19 After breakfast trip to Venice and by free public bus #17 at that. At northern tip of island they built replica of Venice , complete with gondoliers and Ponte Rialto. I quite liked it , did not take gondola trip because I didn’t do it in Venice proper either. What surprised me is how uncrowded place was. There were tourists , Vietnamese and foreign here and there but definitely no more than 1-2 percent of hordes invading Venice day after day. There is cultural center where in the afternoon and evening are performances so I guess during day people are soaking in the sea . But beach was not crowded either so I decided to crowd it for a while. What impressed me the most was bamboo structure , no idea about her function but intricate construction is a treat. Early afternoon I jumped into free bus and went to point in south where road to airport turns inland. From there I did lazy walk along main road all the way to the city stopping here and there to check tours offers, eat something and see what souvenirs they have on offer. It was dark when I finally arrived to my sizable room spending whole day outside. Then I went for my ice cram to night market, noticed that massage boy I spotted another day is busy, exchanged some money but rate there is 1000 dong lower than in bank, not big financial hit though. What need to be said and I should do it earlier is that visiting Phu Qouc does not require visa even for those who need visa to Vietnam but there’s one condition – one must arrive by plane from abroad and leave the same way. If you want to go to mainland , make sure you obtain visa beforehand.

Day 11 Anxious to see famous Phi Phi Island and even more famous Maya Bay with addition of beating the crowds I woke up at 5.30, spruced up , made a tea and at 5.50 parked myself in front of hotel hoping I wont wait too long. Indeed I did not. Car came at 6 on the dot I was treated to car ride as it turned out I was only boat passenger from Krabi Town, rest were Ao Nangers. On joining the rest I learned that my driver was no one less than owner of tour company and I was given ride in his own car. That is proper client service I thought. No only we started early but also our boat was speedboat , no wonder it cost that much but with 7 islands on the schedule it was good option. At 7 we were already on the water. I thought our first stop will be most popular place i.e. Maya Bay to beat the crowds indeed but no, we stopped at other island where we were treated with quite lavish breakfast at beautiful setting . Then off for short stop at two micro islands joined by strip of sand and finally off to Maya Bay . Breakfast setting : our speadboat It was past 9 and forget about ‘beat the crowds” part. Beach itself is beautiful indeed, swimming is prohibited, one can wade into water up to ankles but mass of humanity made visiting more chore than pleasure. I even saw few baby sharks in the water and noticed that we people are really herd animals as ¾ of visitors crowded part of beach close to the entry while part further away was quite pleasantly less populated. I even spotted one very handsome specimen of tourist and followed him for a while out of sheer visual pleasure, judge for yourself. Isn't Maya Bay beautiful ? Crowds to get back to the boat were insane, we wait perhaps 30 minutes in line just to board. Next stop was supposed to be famous Phi Phi Don island and my expectancy was as high her fame. First we were invited for a lunch to one of many restaurants lining beach, while also crowded food was good and I noted that on this tour today they feed us very well, other than beer there was no need to buy any snacks or drinks as what they provided was more than sufficient. Then we had time to survey the realm and let me tell you I was not disappointed with such famous place. Indeed I was fucking disappointed like shit with that poster boy of overdeveloped tourist trap, sorry my language but that’s the best I can do even now , 6 weeks after actually being there. Setting may be beautiful but narrow strip in the middle flanked by beached on both sides is nothing but overbuilt horror crowded with hordes looking at overpriced souvenirs and drinking even more overpriced drinks. After visiting Phi Phi now I consider Patong on Phuket pristine and unspoiled destination. Some may disagree but my point is , if one can avoid visiting Phi Phi, don’t go and give island some breathing space. On course I tasted some swimming on the beach so I can boast about been there , done that but it was low point. Honestly , no idea what is the pull of place making it so popular. Next stop was Bamboo Island where we had 1 hour for swimming and by way Chicken Island we returned to Ao Nang at end of day. Chicken Island : Despite being disappointed with Phi Phi and tired with crowds at Maya Bay I still consider that 2800 well spent. Tour was organized well, they could do what they could to show us what was scheduled. Whole ;’’beat the crowds” thing did not materialize but I was not disappointed for simple reason- I did not believe that part from the start. If one wants to beat the crowds at may beach only option is to hire private boat and set off there as early as possible without any stops on the way. Even that may not succeed. While beautiful I still thing doing our part for mother Earth is leaving Maya Bay alone. I got again car ride to hotel , not private this time as two people from other tour joined in . In hotel I realized I’m quite tired but that did not stop me from wandering around the city. Tomorrow complete change of scenery.

Day 2 During our time together I mentioned casually that in few days I’m going to Chiang Rai. S immediately jumped on that wagon saying he wants to go with me. It was exactly what I was planned and hoped for . As traveler companion he is second to none, interested in sightseeing and never complaining about anything. I enjoyed his company in Siem Reap year ago so consider him well tested as co-traveler. I asked him to send me his passport details do I can buy him ticket and we worked out financial details – i.e , all expenses paid, I will pay off fee for 4 days and his compensation will be what I paid him for long time less 1000. Judging from his reaction he would be happy to just go no matter what I offer to pay. Sweet taste of vacations I guess. He declined breakfast offer so I went to UNESCO listed Foodland alone and was surprised how full it was that morning. I claimed last and only available table. Then I went to see my friend , only to learn he had one of his stupid ideas opting for Chatuchak Market so I tagged along. As always it was crowded and very hot. Since we are both jet lagged after few hours of wandering we felt need to rest. Ok , I was feeling quite good but did not want to waste that opportunity to part ways so claimed to be sleepy as well and on Siam station we went our own ways. In the room I bought S a ticket using my tablet as I’m under own strict order not to use phone for any financial transaction unless absolutely necessary. Not sure that strictness served me well but more on that later. Being so close to the bed I soon collapsed on it but not before setting alarm for 9 pm again. For supper I went to G’Bangkok warmly welcomed by Guido the owner as well as Banana barker from across the soi who recognized me immediately and even went as far as to say he is lucky because tomorrow morning he is going to see him mother somewhere in Issan. I forced some tip on him to help with his bus fare. As for bar to visit I opted for The One (Tawan) curious how they are coping after Atlas sucked so many of their employees. Two or three barkers outside were veterans, one even immediately inquired discretely if I would entertain an option to take him with me LT. Inside there were handful of customers and few boys from old crew. One of them , true veteran who I mentioned few times in my report as guy who gave me second worst performance and then year or two later best off of them all immediately suggested I buy him a drink but I politely declined – last time I offed him he cut meeting short claiming he parked his motorbike in wrong place and then 5 minutes later asked for taxi money ! On the stage was one new guy, quite hunky , I’d say twunk +++ sporting very handsome face and surprise, surprise , two brothers who I met first in Arena back in 2013. One of them, Dit was actually very instrumental in me visiting Tawan for first time. We were passing by on the way to BBB Inn and he suggested we step in to see big boys. It’s how I discovered Tawan charms. Now 13 years later I see him on the stage of Tawan’s new incarnation. His brother Fai is one of best masseurs I even had pleasure with . Since tonight I had other designs, I finished my beer, tipped both brothers and new , handsome guy and went my way. Not sure about show at The One as I left about 10.30. I walked around the area to finally land myself at Moonlight . It was 11 pm and show was on. Bar was quite empty with perhaps 10 spectators which was less than number of waiters and mamasans. Certainly there’s some crisis there and for the hell of me , I don’t know why as I still consider that bar the best and feel the best visiting there eve if at least one of their mamasans has nasty habit of leeching to me as soon as I sit down. I was hoping to see Y but was told he took few days off . show always stop mid time for boys parade and quite of them , familiar faces . mostly already rehearsed at least once tried to attract my attention and was even one who tried equally hard not to notice me even if we met in Nov and parted ways on good terms. In absence of Y, leechy mamasan pointed at another attractive guy , not knowing that it was the guy I tipped yesterday at Hot Male – on weekend nights 3 Moonlight dancers boys we giving guest performance at Hot Male between 11.45 and midnight. Practice discontinued week or two later with change of Hot Male’s ownership. So if mamasan and me are synchronized it left me no option than to call guy over. Well built , from up close even more impressive than from distance, nice smile , good English. LT declined but with me being freshly arrived is not crucial so we settled on not so short short time. While walking M told me why he is so well built – he is runner and plays volleyball so sporty type and it shows. We weren’t hungry so did not stop anywhere. Great meeting and I was happy even if he left before promise time – I need some sleep and likely he noticed it so clumsily claimed he needs to go to bar because he forgot something . OK, ok no harm done. He left me happy with the choice tonight.

Before I move on to my Marrakech section. I want to mention I took a coach back to Marrakech from Agadir for my flight back home that evening. At the coach station while I was waiting for 10 minutes for my coach there was this young guy walking around the station clearly not travelling anywhere and clearly not wearing underwear in his grey Adidas tracksuit bottoms. He was very handsome athletic and toned. His cock was very much on display. It was very long and thick while flaccid. I was staring at him while he stood in front of me playing on his phone when I heard the call for prayer. It was ramadan and he went into the bathroom to get ready for prayer I assumed. If it wasn't ramadan I would have followed him into the rest room to see if there was any interest. The coach stopped at a service station halfway through the journey. The bathroom was very clean. I felt a lot of gay tension/energy in there and there were some hog guys loitering around washing their hands for a long time and checking their hair. Then this matronly older woman cleaner came in to mop the floor and everyone just disappeared. No onto Marrakech where I started my holiday. OK first thing don't book a Riad if you want to bring a guy back to your room. I made the big mistake of staying in a Riad in Marrakech for most of the trip. They are too small, intimate and family run. My one was run by a married couple and their two adult kids. You can hear conversations in the neighbouring rooms. Definitely didn't feel comfortable bringing a guy back there. Hotels are not much better. Air bnb is the way to go I think but I didn't use one this trip. The second day I was sight seeing in the market and this sexy dark skinned Moroccan approached me and started speaking Arabic. I saw his mother motion to me before he saw me to tell him go haggle me. I told him I could speak a bit of Arabic and I wasn't Arab or North African even though we looked like we could be distant cousins. He didnt believe me but started speaking a bit of broken English anyway. He asked if I wanted a massage. Immediately I thought scammer but he was really hot and tall so I followed him through the winding souq. It got quieter and a bit sketchy and I did think about running back. He led me down a long winding alleyway and through a door. The entrance said Hammam something or another in Arabic and French. There was a dark room with four guys I thought were going to beat me up. They said massage. I said yes. The guy who took me there didn't work there. He asked for a small tip and left. I asked for a male masseuse. They looked at me funny and the women there were not impressed. The guy I got was short and muscly, OK looking but not gorgeous. I wanted one of the tough looking guys who was very handsome but they didn't do massages. As I was getting changed there were loads of women there who were clearly pissed I asked for a guy because I look and act very masculine I'm told. Anyway, this guy started scrubbing me in the steam room after giving me a shower. While he washed me he touched me everywhere, including ass a lot and my balls a little. While he was washing and scrubbing my ass I kind of spread my fat cheeks and he started soaping up my hole. I felt his throbing cock with my arm. I heard those annoying women making noise outside. I motioned at the noise and he went to lock the steam room from outside. He scrubbed me quickly and I started touching his hard 7 inch cock. It was thick but not very thick. He put his finger to his lips to tell me to be quiet. I started sucking his dick before he bended me over and fucked me. It was over pretty quick. Not helped by those annoying women who were having a full blown conversation outside. There was too much shit going on and I was worried my belongings in my box were going to be stolen. Remember I was just going through the market/souq I hadn't prepared for a massage but I was douched luckily. I was carrying my new iPhone and $350-400 cash. Luckily they did not steal from me although I'm not entirely sure exactly how much cash I was carrying. To be fair I don't think they took anything. After the scrub/sex in the sauna. The guy took me upstairs to another room for the oil massage. While he was setting up the room the sexy tough looking guy approached me and asked why I didn't use the women. It was clear the women there were pissed. I just shrugged my shoulders. I could care less what they thought. I'm a foreigner in some foreign land with complete strangers. I think he was either hitting on me or shaming me because they thought I was Moroccan and lying about my ethnicity but I'm terrible reading between the lines so it is what it is. So then the oil massage started. The guy was rubbing his cock against me and was throbbing again when a women came into the room and started yapping in Moroccan Arabic, which is not Arabic at all. It's like comparing English and Italian. Didn't understand a word of it. He replied and she left. He closed the door. His boner was dead. Another woman came 5 minutes later yapping and then these women started having a full on loud conversation in the room next door. The guy wrapped up the mediocre massage and I left. I gave him the amount he asked for tip which was less than 10 dollars. He was so happy. The massage was 15 dollars. It was in some far back alley way. The souq is a maze and have no clue where it was Abd never saw it again during my 5 days in that part of the city (old Medina area). Not bad for my first full day in Marrakech. I will type the rest another time because I'm tired of typing.

Day 14 Time to return to civilization or, since my destination is Pattaya, to a bit of civilization. In the morning I went to survey local wat, white temple towering over center. On the grounds they have nice exposition showing history of Buddhism , I found it very interesting. Then returned to hotel , packed little I have and found myself on the road again. Catching 100 baht tuk-tuk to the airport was easy and I was there well before time, soon found that I have even more of it since plane was late 1 ½ hr. Security confiscated my deodorant which was surprising considering they did not have problem with it in Swampy when I was flying to Krabi. Oh , well. Reading forum I noticed unwelcomed news – due to local election there’s prohibition in Pattaya today , no alcohols sales and presumably no bars opened. Landed in BKK at 4.30 pm. and closest bus they had was 6.30 to Jomtien and at 7 to North Pattaya Bus station so it looks good part of day today I spent waiting in airports. I went to coupon, now card restaurant by the Gate 8 to eat something. Now they have cards they can preload with any amount we wish and unused amount is promptly refunded. Very efficient. Killing time I also checked capsule rooms near train station , past the money exchange booths. Not exactly cheap at 600 for 2 hrs but still handy for those who need to catch early flight without worrying about catching the taxi in middle od the night . This time I decided to solve permanent problem were to stay , in Pattaya or Jomtien by meeting both options mid way and opted for Zing hotel by Pratamnak hill , mid way between both. Do not mistake it with Zing Resort in Jomtien Complex. We always pass by it but almost never read reports from people staying there and I must say , I liked it. By time I get there and spruced up it was past 9.30. I caught songtaew toward Boyztown but as expected all bard were dead closed. Only venue in Boyztown opened was Paradise massage with few attractive guys outside including Wit , veteran there. I noticed that he starts to develop bit of size. When commented about it he retorted that it’s because I did not use his services for so long ( I did last year though) . There were just 2 freelancers in completely empty Boyztown proper. So I decided to see how are things in Jomtien Complex hoping Dik’s will be opened because I had cravings for chicken with cashews, what else. I was opened indeed and quite busy at that with only one table free so I claimed it immediately. Soon after I spotted familiar face of our former member z909 passing by so I called him over. His first reaction was like he saw the ghost as we exchange some messages in December but then I was not sure I will go so said nothing so he was not expecting to see me there. We exchanged news and just before midnight I hoped on songtaew and returned to hotel for my record breaking 7th celibate night in Thailand in row. Pure tragedy was that I did not even feel bad about it, who would think ?

Day 13 Since I opted to sunset trip to Hong Islands I have morning free and decided to visit fishing village opposite of Krabi town. Another great idea. Peacefull and serene and only few minutes , 10 baht boat ride from busy city. It strongly reminded me village where I spent my vacation at my grandparents farm to a point that I started feeling bit emotional. Krabi river: toward the sea: and a village: If I ever return to Krabi that will be my first place to go for in-depth exploration. Often otherwise unremarkable places are treating us with enlightening what sense of travel is all about. I returned the same way , by local boat. I was supposed to be picked up by tour people at 11.30 but they arrived 45 minutes late when I started wondering if there’s some screwup and even called lady who sold me that trip asking what is going on. Fortunately from now on all went very well. On Hong island I climbed impressive view point, then took ecological path where I spotted monitor lizards and even had time to get wet in the sea. Glad I took that advice to take that trip. few pics from up high on Hong island : On next island we got a supper / dinner , quite tasty and sufficient although I noticed few people from our group overloaded their plates and did not eat it all wasting quite a lot of food and did not even bother to clean after themselves leaving that job to a guide and other tourists. Some people should never be released from their leashes. For actual sunset we relocated to other island where swimming was difficult due to sharp stones but view was spectacular. After dark there was an opportunity to swim in water with fluorescent plankton . All in all , again I was very happy with advice to visit Hong Islands, screw Phi Phi and their hordes. It was probably 9 when I finally got to my hotel , enough time to buy banana pancake on night market to celebrate my fourth celibate night in Krabi.

Day 5 part 2 Next stop of our tour was tea plantation, high in the hills. That was one of those obligatory commercial stops but at least they served us light lunch and views were nice. Then off to Sop Ruak, place where Myanmar , Loas and Thailand meet in confluence of Mekong and Ruak rivers. That the once infamous Golden triangle , it used to be lawless opium growing area , hence notoriety but now is serene place with good views and only Opium Museum reminds us about that past. Museum is quite interesting and manageable and we got some time to stroll along the river to marvel at other two countries. While Myanmar side looks serene , on Laos side there’s new Chinese built city and while I’m not against development , it looks bad in such beautiful spot. monument on tops of the hill above the triangle Buddha guards border from Thai side sharp end of Myanmar, Laos across the Mekong Main accent of that city is not the temple , mind you , but casino. Since in my opinion we did not had enough time to back in Golden Triangle I made decision to return there after tomorrow. stop by rice fields on way back By time we returned to Chiang Rai , about 1 hr. drive away it was dark already . S decided to spend 1 hr in the hotel’s gym then we went to Night Market , about 30 minutes walk from hotel to eat something and check offerings but I can’t say stuff on the stalls was very unique , mostly the same one can buy in another tourist markets all over Thailand. Back in hotel for well deserved rest after such busy day if one can call ‘rest’ sharing bed with handsome hunk who is quite grateful for his vacations here. Alarm clock set for 7 am just in case

Day 5 part 1 Alarm rung but it was only me who woke up to it, S decided to linger in bed bit longer but it turned Ok as we were still waiting for our van after hotel’s breakfast. First stop was famous White Temple. They gave us 1 hr. which is by far not enough. Never mind impressive temple, admiring almost as impressive toilet complex could take half of time. and then impressive toilets: But that is nature of organized trips, logistics is taken care of but often at expense of spending not enough time in some places and way too much in others. So we need to take good with bad. Certainly whole complex is worth a trouble of getting to Chiang Rai, even if just to visit that temple IMNSHO. Even if it was relatively early – we came to the temple at 9 am there were tons of visitors. Next step was Blue Temple, almost equally impressive and equally crowded but toilet complex not even close to one at White Temple Then on to Black House , temple like collection of different oddities including at least 20 crocodile skins and live buffalo . As for toilet – sign leaves nothing to imagination. All those places are close to the city but not really walking distance. Then off to Karen’s village. It’s bit of tourist trap but curiosity took over but at least it looks like village with people living there , animals wandering freely and only main street is more like market than village street. I was most impressed with long neck lady with all those rings talking over smartphone, XV century met XXI. Village guardians : part 2 of the day - Golden Triangle to follow

Day 3 Today I’m free of social obligations with my friend owing to little lie – I told him I’m going to Chiang Rai today. I will meet him again at end of trip but he will not know it until it actually materializes. Time from arrival was pretty intensive and I feel lazy today wasting precious vacation time in the room or wandering on the market behind the hotel. At 3 pm I mobilized myself to go to Foodland for a soup #4 on the menu – chicken rice soup. Nothing special but since I discovered thanks to one of boys it’s my daily staple whenever I feel hungry but not very hungry. S is very excited with tomorrow’s trip, packed already and sent me picture proudly reporting it’s only 7 kg – I warned him about carry-on limit. From Foodland I went to soi Pluk Chit but not to have massage at Sabaidee Spa or Sanctuary by A but to get a haircut for 100 baht – that is heavily local area with prices to match , on my way back I went to check new mall on corner of Rama 4 and Witthayu roads, Parade or whatever is called. I’m not mall person so only mildly impressed. Returning to hotel I checked new shiny Squrrel House hotel in former BBB Inn location. Looks really very new, if only prices would be more user friendly. Tired with doing nothing whole day and hungry after dark I returned to Foodland for a meal and then parked myself over Chang in front of Banana Club where I was supposed to meet ichigo who showed up on the dot as we agreed. We exchanged latest gossips as he is at end of his very long trip and after gulping beer and gin/ tonic we discussed next steps which turned out to be Dreamboys. I was hoping either Handsome Cambodian ( HC )or Vu Thy, another Cambodian will be there and indeed HC spied me right after he showed up on the scene. I saw him many times but honestly his smile was broadest of them all ( we had unsmiling meetings too ). Using excuse of siting with ichigo I kept him in suspense for a while before inviting him to seat and have a drink. Something good happened in his life or he was on Prozac because I never saw him so happy before. Seeing me, the trusted ATM, was only tiny part of this happiness . Of course we agreed on LT tonight , went to Foodland to get a bite and then to the room. I always liked HC and tonight I was genuinely happy to see such great change of his mood to a super upbeat. He told me bit about his plans for future as well as troubles of the past and was unusually clingy – he usually maintained cool macho appearance but tonight was extract of sweetness. That was transformation I was happy to see. Happy reunion indeed.

Day 12 Yesterday was the sea, today I’m climbing mountain, to be specific Tiger Cave Temple . While Tiger cave in on ground level , to reach the temple atop of mountain one must climb no less than 1260 steps . Rising up i knew it will be beautiful day : Temple is half way between Krabi town and the airport and it’s well visible owing to golden Buddha statue atop glistening in the sun. To get there I took tuk-tuk , 100 baht. I started early to avoid the heat and at 8.15 am, after paying some token admission fee , I started climb which turned out to be very serious undertaking. So serious that at 2/3 , around step # 800 I had moment of giving up but there was rest area where I caught my breath and carried bravely .As always on top , once we get there we forget about climb and start awing at beautiful view from there. It was definitely crowning moment of this trip. I had chat with Polish family about sights we did and plan to do, Told them to avoid Phi Phi if they can, they told me the same about Railay beach and suggested I take tour of Hong islands tomorrow, adding that better than morning is option of afternoon sunset tour. While getting there was hard every climber knows that often going down is even more strenuous stressing joints and knees but somehow for me it turned to be breeze. On ground level I visited Tiger Cave and started looking for transportation to the city. Taxi driver wanted 300 and tuk-tuk driver 200. Keeping in mind that I paid 100 coming here and basking in pleasant weather I armed myself with can of Chang and decided to walk toward main road, about 1 km away hoping to catch something there. After 2 or 3 minutes tuk-tuk stopped with young French couple and they invited me to join them aboard. Vive la France! While in the city I went to the same place I bought “beat the crowds’ , he, he , he , tour and bought Hong island sunset tour as advised. 2400. After lunch I got bright idea to rent a boat and take a tour of river I’m admiring from my window day and night. Guy wanted 900 for 2 hrs , but accepted my offer of 800 and off we went along mangroves toward Krabi iconic guardian hills. It turned one that there’s substantial cave inside one which looks like tilted so I explored her as well. From there he suggested we go to fish farm which was nothing special other than option of buying dinner., I opted for fish soup which was tasty but bit too spicy for my palate. But at least I chalked it off. Since guy was not in rush and after dinner still gave me tour of some channels and 2 hrs become 2.5 so I gave him 1100 which he visibly appreciated but it was worth it. I never was sea , sun and sand person and today , spent in the mountains and on the river was true highlight of my trip . Certainly it was great idea to stay in the city , not Ao Nang like few people advised me. I finished such fruitfully spent day with mango pancake at the night market and when about to go to bed had that thought that having somebody beside would be great idea. But since I decided to be celibate I checked Grindr offerings in Silom and sighted going to bed alone .

I am hardly an expert on Pattaya as I don't visit often enough. However, I've been going roughly once a year for the past 20 years at least, so I think I can say something about how the tourism scene has changed. Perhaps other members with more frequent visits, or who tend to stay for a month or more at a time can chip in. For sure, the urban area has grown. There was a time when Jomtien was little more than agricultral land. For sure, the roads are much more congested than in the decade 2000 - 2010 so that means more people. There are more tall condos, but not so many tall hotels. Shopping malls like Terminal 21 didn't appear until after 2010, I think. I wouldn't be so quick, therefore, to dismiss the assertion in the cited news article that there has been a relative decline of the sex scene as an attraction. That said, it is foolhardy to try to put a quantitative figure to it, like saying "2-3 percent of overseas visitors". As others have said, depending on the hour of day, visitors do various things. Looking at the crowds on Walking Street, I'd venture to say just about all visitors to Pattaya walk that street at some point, children included! What I want to unpack is how the article's assertion may be true, but still not a healthy trend. The news article spoke about overseas visitors. Actually, I think the biggest growth in visitors to Pattaya have been in domestic visitors. Many own apartments as second homes. Many drive from Bangkok to spend a weekend in Pattaya (thus the horrible traffic). Growth in overseas visitors, by my observation, has long been of the packaged-tour kind. There seems to be three big groups: Chinese, Indians and Russians. CHINESE 10 - 15 years ago, there was much discussion about huge tour buses carrying enormous numbers of Chinese tour groups. I have seen them myself, but in the last five years or so, I reckon they are less noticeable. This suggests that the Chinese packaged-tour numbers peaked sometime back and have not recovered. However, this is not to say that the Chinese are not coming to Thailand. They are, as I have seen again and again in my far more frequent visits to Bangkok. In the capital city, they are numerous. Increasingly, they are independent travellers, an evolution I expected from years ago given that China's GDP per capita is now US$12,000 (compared to Thailand's $7,000). When Chinese did not have much of a choice regarding their itinerary (because they were coming on packaged tours), they came to Pattaya. Their programme was probably packed with Tiffany Show, a boat tour, Nong Nooch and such standard fare. In a packaged tour, it would have been very hard to be a buyer of sex. So, to the extent that packaged-tour volumes increased dramatically, then the sex trade must have declined as a relative attraction. What I'm not so sure about is whether independent Chinese tourists are making their way to Pattaya. Or are they most sticking to Bangkok and Chiangmai? I somethow think they are giving Pattaya a miss (but others watching the Pattaya scene more closely may advise here). INDIANS My observation of the more recent explosion of Indian tourist traffic is that it is very gendered. Males outnumber females maybe 10 to 1. Yes, there are some packaged tour groups, but I think most come on corporate incentive tours (thus predominantly male). This explains the relatively sudden appearance of many Indian music bars on Walking Street, and ethnic Indian barkers. VIsitors from India (predominantly male) will be interested in the sex trade, but for practical reasons such as being in the company of friends and colleagues, they might go no further than to gawk at the grils and tease each other. Mostof them probably cannot afford to actually hire a girl - too costly for Indian dispoable income - and anyway most cannot afford to be seen to be hiring a girl and bringing her back to the same hotel where 50 of your friends and workmates are staying. Someone might tell your wife! So, if I am right, that however interested the (often male) Indian visitor may be in girls, he can't act on his impulses. This may be another excuse for those promoting Pattaya as a family friendly destination to brag about how uninterested in sex current visitors to the city are. In case you're wondering about GDP per capita, India = $ 2,500. That is to say, Thais are more than twice as rich as Indians. I read somewhere that academics of tourism generally see a GDP per capita of $10,000 as a threshold beyond which independent travel takes off. And as we know, independent travellers spend much more than packaged tourists. China has crossed the threshold. Thailand is getting close, but India is still far behind. This explains why company-paid tours (i.e. not even self-paid packaged tours, let alone independent travel) make up the majority of visits from Indians. RUSSIANS Certainly Russians come in droves, but I don't think they come in packaged tours (Moses may know better), though there is a fine line between chartered flights (followed by free-and-easy days) and all-inclusive packaged tours. However, they do come in family groups, which therefore means that it is hard for any family member to be bar-fining girls from Walking Street, Soi Buakhao or wherever the bars are. THE BIG PICTURE So all in all, there is reason to the claim that the sex trade as a relative indulgence of overseas visitors has declined over the years, but look more closely and two caveats stand out: 1. If not for the sex trade, packaged tours and incentive tours might not even choose to include Pattaya as a destination. If there wasn't theTiffany Show or Walking Street, would the groups from China and India come? 2. The quality of visitors that Pattaya attracts should be worrying. They are the low spenders, either because they are on all-inclusive packaged tours, or they are from a country like India that is poorer than Thailand. And if the Chinese experience is anything to go by, as soon as a market gets rich enough to produce independent travellers, they skip Pattaya.

Day 18 After entertaining myself for few days in Pattaya and Bangkok time to chance scenery and country and after packing up what I need I went to Foodland for breakfast and straight from there to Don Muang for my 12.30 flight to Phu Quoc, Vietnamese island closer to Cambodia then motherland. My first time there although not first in Vietnam. At 2 pm we landed , my hotel was in the center and I was so anxious to start new adventure that I made two mistakes while still in the airport. First glimpse of the Long Beach : First I did not change money assuming it will be easy in the city. It turned out not so easy at the first look and it took me a while to find place. Of course after I found it , all of the sudden I saw plenty of options. Certainly there are many exchange facilities along the road leading from airport to the city as this is where most hotels are and she runs parallel to properly named Long Beach. So my advice would be to exchange some money in the airport to start loaded although rates are bit better in the city and along the strip. Second mistake actually cost me money as I did not do homework about distance from airport to the city and possible cost . I knew about free bus but as I said I was anxious. I was approached by guy who quoted 30 $ to which I said no very firmly but he still outsmarted me by asking how much you give me and I idiotically offered 20. Later I learned that even 10 would be generous as price should be around 175000 dong = 7 USD. One of biggest attractions of island for tourists are few lines of free green colored electric busses. Stops are clearly posted and main interest is fairly frequent bus # 17 running between airport and northern tip of island with replica of Venice- watch this space tomorrow. How to get the free bus from the airport ? When you get out from terminal look diagonally right across the parking in front . You should see the bus waiting, if not it should come soon , as I said it’s every 20 minutes . It runs along the beach then meanders through the city and again along the beaches up north so chances are your hotel is walking distance from the bus. Certainly both of n mine were, very short distance. Overpaid taxi delivered me to my hotel and once I got to my room I was quite impressed what 35$ buys you there in terms of accommodation. Not to mention breakfast on top floor included. my hotel : and the room : and view from top : I set off to see the city , since I couldn’t see place to change money I went to bank which turned to be good idea as rate was the best 25040 for 1$ and they made me millionaire in a blink. 40$= 1 000 000 dong. Thoughtfully payout was in 100 000 ‘s as guy there said ‘ to make your life easier” . Of course right after that I saw several places to exchange but I was good for now. They have very picturesque temple by the sea , it’s where town and tourists congregates to watch the sunset. For 250 000 one can take sunset cruise with added attraction of fishing for sea food and having it cooked right there. At night of course Night Market, main attraction for me was ice cream made on the spot. They call it Thai ice cream but I never saw this in Thailand. In middle of market is mixed massage place and I spotted very attractive guy offering massage but that being my first night there I decided to leave it for tomorrow. And tomorrow of course he was busy when I passed. As they say’ luck smiles at you only once”.

While you are factually correct I don't think there are many places in the world where prostitution is offered at minimum wage rates. It would take a lot of hard labour and hunting to find bar boy in Bangkok who would go short time for less than 1000 if that's even possible . Street trade may go for less but finding it may be problematic. Boys ( and girls for that matter ) charge not for what they do , they charge for making their bodies available so comparison to people toiling for minimum is missing the mark in my not so humble opinion

Day 16 After guy left I lazed a bit in the room and then went to excellent breakfast downstairs ( again 189, definitely worth the price big time) and then lazed even more. My bus was at noon, 12.05 to be exact so I left room at 11.30 sand at 1.50 was already on the train from Swampy , returning to Silom after weeklong absence. Rice soup lunch at Foodland , then walk in Lumpini park back to hotel for some internet and more of doing nothing and at 7 pm I reported at G’Bangkok where reader , anddy, his local friend and me had dinner together, soon joined by Guido’s , the owner , cat who was not shy to take best seat. Reader actually reported on it in some thread day after. As it turned we have different plans for tonight after dinner we split. I decided to try Freshboys tonight enthusiastically welcomed by one of their barkers , veteran of soi Twilight who raised his shirt tellingly inviting vinapu tuck which I was happy to oblige to. Bar was quite full but I lucked out as somebody was leaving and I got his seat just in front of the stage. Immediately I noticed familiar face of certain soi 6 masseur who obviously decided to change his occupation and try luck in go-go bar. It looked he did right move as not only I wasted no time to tip him but soon after he was called over by quite young and attractive customer and after a while they both left. I doubt Wat Hualampong was their destination. After watching beginning of show I decided to change scenery and try another bar I did not visit this trip – Jupiter. Off I went hoping certain guy there I’m eyeing for quite a while enforced by enthusiastic feedback of one of my most trusted forum friends will be there. Last few times I was in bar last year he did not seem to pay much attention to be but lust is list and I decided not to give up easily. Bar was super crowded but again it worked for me as I was squeezed in the seat at beginning of stage , right across cage where boys are seen changing . In short great viewing point. Guardian Angel sent helpful mamasan my way who when brought my drink asked which boy I like and I told him my dreamboy’s name. He did his laser thing and obviously guy nodded approvingly as soon he told be he will com after the show as he is in it. Alleluia, hurrah silently screamed I , finally at least ! During show at least mamasan confirmed arrangement and as soon as show finished my guy was right beside me. Primed by my friend I welcomed him by his name and told him I know where he is from and this was good move as it melted ice definitely. I knew it won’t be cheap but I made decision now or never so when it came to business I asked him about long time and was quoted astronomical 10 K. Gulp , I expected it to be high but not that much. Contrary to what one may think, I agreed. Long circling to finally put my hands on him over few trips and very good initial impression tonight made me thinking ‘go for it “ and I did. Soon we left, as always when LT is on the cards I asked about him being hungry , he said no but soon when we were passing some Issan restaurant on Silom he suggested ‘ lets eat something ” so we went . Order was not necessarily modest but food was tasty and we left nothing on our plates . I hate when guys order food and don’t eat what they order so I liked that clean plates. I the room all went better than expected and what I wanted, all I got. In the bar he told me he will be able to stay till 6 am only and it was quite impressive that he announced our time is over at 5.57 am exactly. Last hugs, fee dispensed and then I had time to reflect on the meeting. I finally hit my elusive goal and when comes to merit of meeting , I couldn’t ask and expect more, certainly professionally executed escort duties by long salivated about beauty. So I chalked it off as money well spent. Was it worth it ? Other than boosting my ego, probably no. Still a lot of money for just 6 hrs session . I can think of three guys equally greatly built but more personable. My guy did his best to do his job but there was one thing missing , that elusive spark. Will I be inclined to repeat him ? Yes , definitely, but not for that money. But I’ m happy I did not get stingy and did not waste that opportunity. I made it ! Goes without saying celibacy was ruined last night.

It's really sad / annoying to browse these forums, and see trolls successfully starting arguments. It's understandable why Airlines would want to restrict use of power banks. Lithium fires are nasty, and are very hard to extinguish. Fires on planes are very bad. Quality power banks are not the problem - they have built in protection to avoid overheating, but cheap ones that would skip the protections can cause issues

Day 7 As I said before I felt we did not have enough time at Golden Triangle so I decided to repeat visit there , specially motivated by the word that there is another Sky Walk there. We decided to take bus to Chiang Saen, city few km downstream from actual Triangle , which seems to act like capital of the border region. It was an idea of mixed brightness because bus departed 1 hr. later than scheduled , we were told they didn’t not have driver available. Oh , well, we are on vacation . While waiting I managed to show finger to farang wandering through bus station and taking pictures of all and sundry without even bothering to ask. Fortunately he got the message and stopped. It took about 1 hr to get to our destination. Finding Sky Walk proved chore , we did not see any advertisements of any kind but after asking few locals we took an advice and took tuk-tuk to the place . It’s few kilometers downstream of Mekong so even further from Triangle. View is precious as walk id high on the mountain. There's temple on road level and they provide free lift up the hill as well as down but for getting down we opted for a nice walk through the jungle . I was not surprised that there were only few visitors on that new shiny sky walk, what one can expect if no information about it , never mind direction where it is was available or at least we did not spot any. It was worth the trouble though as view of area with Mekong prominently bisecting it was great and air up there much fresher than on road level. There was no ready transport from there available , we tried to stop something but traffic was sparse. Passing Thai girl smiled at S and he asked her how we get back to civilization. Ever industrious , she pulled her phone and called her friend to come with tuk-tuk and take us to Sop Ruak. Soon we were on our way , it’s about 10-12 km from walk to actual Triangle. That lift cost 200 baht She dumped us in front of local restaurant so we had our meal there and then walked toward Golden Buddha guarding confluence. Then S spotted that they offer river cruise by the boat including visiting Laos market on other side which can be visited without visa , just for 50 baht admission fee. Boat was 800 including waiting time in the market so of we went. While cruise was worth it market was nothing special but I bought some Laos coffee and super tasty Dark Lao beer to support host country’s economy. After saturating ourselves with triple border area it turned out that getting back to Chiang rai in the afternoon may be bit problematic as there’s no bus in the afternoon from Sop Ruak and we were suggested two options – taxi to either Chaing Saen or Mae Sai and bus from there but we solved it easy way, why not to take taxi to Chiang Rai instead. Again lady from the t-shirt stand where we asked for options had a friend with car and she suggested she will call her and in 15 minutes we will be on the road. Indeed this is what happened and in 55 minutes we were already in our hotel ,my pocket lighter by 1500 baht. After shower S went to the hotels’ gym and I checked my e-mails. There was nasty one from my credit card- somebody from Nigeria charged my card for 300 odd dollars but they stopped it and wanted me to confirm if it was really me. I couldn’t call collect so decided to call regular way, got connection very fast , told them that it was not me as I’m quite far from Nigeria now. As per procedure they cancelled cad immediately and will be issuing new one ( which when I returned home was already waiting for me). But it was not end of my troubles as there were three hotel charges which were supposed to go through that card in coming days but Agoda made it easy to use another card, thank God I had that one. S returned from gym about time I finished sweating card stuff and to went it off I offered to go for banana pancakes for supper while he is taking shower. On my way I was timely cheered up . in one of local restaurants few guys were having a meal and when they saw me approaching one screamed “KFC man” , they laughed and so did I. Goes without saying that S did his best to console me after all that tribulations and enforce what I know already – that he is an excellent travel companion.

I'd venture to bet that readers posts are binging much more readership to the forum that your usual venom you are inserting here. Posts are all the same like boys - outstanding gem in one's eyes is at best "also run' in somebody else's. Nobody is forcing anybody to read posts one is not interesting in. Have your fun here and let others to have theirs. Calling 'reader " obese is even more extravagant than calling you polite or me back haired

Just put in an inquiry for a 24 hour charter course with the same guy. No response yet. I’d like to go sightseeing with him and more of the same stuff as last night. Charter course is around 60k yen and it seems like it doesn’t come with a room like the 12 hour does. I asked if i could still have the room so i wouldn’t have to spend on a hotel. Hopefully it works out! Here’s the view from my window. Mt. Fuji is barely visible i think. On a clear day it definitely is visible. Here’s the Hakata-Fukuoka style Tonkotsu ramen my guy took me for.

Day 6 After breakfast we are heading to Mae Sai on border with Myanmar , Thailand’s northernmost point. Recently there’s Sky Walk built there which I must to see and S is gladly tagging along. There’s also talk about possibility of crossing for a day into Tachileik - on other side of border without visa but on day pass and 10$. I got conflicting information about whether it’s still possible , no better way than just go and see. We took van there from bus station and in about 1 hr., we were on bus station in Mae Sai from where we took 2 motorsais to the sky walk. Better option than climbing the hill as sky walk is quite high up the hill on the border. It was fairly early and far from crowded. Admission is something like 50 baht . We were given protectors to put over the shoes but I created sensation hiding my sandals in the back pack and putting those on bare feet. Two ladies were so taken by my extravagance that requested their photo with ,me to be taken by the guy they were with. They also made sure to point to everybody present that this farang put protector on bare feet, how brave guy he is ! Weather was ideal and view over to Myanmar nice, although one would be hard pressed to say that Tachileik is memorable sight. beyond the river there's already Myanmar Then we descended to local market and went toward border crossing about 1 km away. Thai official was speaking English and politely explained that owing to situation in Myanmar not only locals can cross on day pass and foreigners must fly over border So we took pictures of Thailand’s northernmost piece of land by the river and resigned to returning to Chiang Rai sooner than expected as apart from that sky walk and market there’s not much to do in Mae Sai. But certainly sky walk is warranting getting there. As a bonus we learned that there’s another sky walk in Chaing Rai area – and exactly where we are heading tomorrow i.e. in Golden Triangle. How it’s possible we did not see it yesterday I wondered but that’s mystery to solve tomorrow. So we took songtaew to bus station and bus back to Chaing Rai . On our way we discussed what to do with newly found free time and we decided to go to Goddess of Mercy on outskirts of the city. In Chiang Rai close to bus station we found restaurant with excellent chicken with cashew nuts , the we went to refresh in the hotel and then took 150 tuk-tuk to the Goddess. Closer to it is , better impression it makes. Statue is enormous and I was glad to see that it’s possible to take elevator to the head and admire view from there. view from the Goddess eyes : Beauty of the place was enhanced by the fast that sunset was approaching . By time our 200 baht tuk-tuk took us to the center it was dark already. S went to the gym and I went to buy banana pancakes to both of us for a supper. Soon after we finished it lights went off but not necessarily we went to sleep right away. Sometimes watching stamp collection in the dark is a lot of fun.

Candy Bar Burlesque Show review – 07 March 2025 After my return from 62 days in Cebu, Philippines, and the completion of my USA tax return = hallelujah!! It is time for some FUN!!! I ask my Thai boyfriend to get us a reservation to see the Friday night show – which as per the below weekly program schedule – meant that we would see the Burlesque Show. I tried to do the booking reservation, but it is difficult if you do not have Facebook. For purposes of this review, my boyfriend shared with me the below FB info page – which should allow you to make a reservation. We did not have any problem initially --> read on… https://www.facebook.com/people/Candy-Bar-Jomtien/61572178823103/ Prior to the show start time at 10:30pm, we go to Dick’s Café for dinner at 8pm. Afterwards, we go to the Sun Bar, which is directly across from the new Candy Bar. It was the birthday of one of the Sun waiters (his name is BOY), and as my Thai boyfriend knows almost everyone in the complex, we are inserted into the birthday festivities, including the addition of our 100 baht bank notes to his birthday garland. Suddenly, my boyfriend orders a whiskey bottle with mixers and ice – I look at my watch and it is only like 9:20pm and I say to him, there is no way that you and I can finish off that – he laughs at me and says, our friends are coming to join us (3 more guys) and we will drink some more after the Candy show back here at the Sun Bar – and he looks at me and says, “they will have dancing inside tonight…..” He knows me all too well – as my main complaint/bitch is that there is nowhere to dance in the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown). So, how could I dare to say no..... I say to him, please hurry up and run over to the Candy Bar and extend our reservation of 2 to now 5 – as I did not want us to be denied seating. He comes back and tells me mission accomplished. Drinking and waiting at the Sun Bar in anticipation His 3 friends join us, and we all continue to laugh and drink with the Sun Bar birthday guy. 10:15pm arrives and before we know it and we are inside the Candy Bar. Well, my first impression is that this is a serious venture that has wonderful aesthetics, and sound absorption, rendering the place with excellent acoustics. So, the new owners have definitely spent some good money to make this place very enjoyable. Our assigned seats are at the back of the lounge, and they are super comfortable, with firm body supporting cushions – all with that new smell. Immediately, one of the hosts comes over to offer us snacks (nuts, M&Ms, raisons, etc.) to nibble on. Our drink orders are taken by one of the cute waiters who are all dressed in a sexy type of candy stripe muscle t-shirt. I love the optional bandanas that they are wearing as the differentiating factor. Which bandana is your favourite? The bar’s decor is very well thought out – where everything is in a nice shade of pink, with amazing attention to branding, from the drink coasters to coffee cups, to walk fixtures – truly an artsy upscale new addition to the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown). Eclectic, but in good pink taste, in my opinion.... Show time – the Burlesque show begins with this opening number, “Diamonds in the sky”. There was the all-too-common picture frame skit (we saw this type of skit at The Venue Christmas Show) : And then my 2 favorite numbers were: 1. The Lady and her Tramp…. 1741435936254.mp4 2. Sexy pop my balloon scene – it was hilarious…. 1741436356067.mp4 I do not know how long the above skit will last because that sexy balloon guy gives the audience a rather large pin to pop his balloons - but you can see the fear in his eyes when the second guy kind of aggressively stabs his balloon - noting that there is not much distance between the skin of a popped balloon versus the skin on that sexy guy. How long before he is unintentionally pierced by an audience member who has had perhaps too much to drink? ..... All in all, it was a GREAT burlesque show and I wish them a tremendous amount of success. My only worry now is that the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown) now has 3 cabaret type of showbars; The Venue, M2M, and now Candy Bar. We noticed that perhaps 2 to 3 stars from M2M are now working at the new Candy Bar and we hope that it does not diminish the success of M2M. My boyfriend and I, we voted the show bars in the following order; 1.) M2M, a VERY close second 2.) Candy Bar, and 3.) The Venue. We agreed that we need to return to the M2M very soon to see if they have lost any of their passionate greatness as a result of the Candy Bar. We also agreed that we need to return back to the Candy Bar on one of their other theme nights; Perfect Pop Show, Classic Camp Cabaret, Icons – Anthems & Divas. Recently, the Candy Bar had a Sexy Bum Competition, where the contestants were numbered (like in Bangkok), so that they could be voted on. There was a 1,000 baht prize for the best bum. This looks like it was a lot of fun and I wish that I had been there. Hmmmm --> just look at those voluptuous sexy bums…. and the winner is.......... wait, wait, wait - I am so confused - how could a guy who looks like he is directly from the Atlas muscle bar in Bangkok be a winner in the "twink heaven" confines of Supertown? Inquiring minds want to know - is Supertown slowly turning into a mini muscle heaven ?? After the conclusion of the Candy Bar Burlesque show, we head back to the Sun Bar, as our unfinished bottle of whiskey was waiting for our return. And as my boyfriend told me, there was dancing inside the bar, of course behind the smoke screen glass. Now I was truly happy, as it is very rare that I get to dance in the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown). mini partial map for those who are not familiar with the Supertown entertainment center in Jomtien https://www.gaysupertown.com/ I stay for an hour and then I leave all of them and I head back home to sleep it off – as the whiskey is now starting to give me a slight headache. I wake up at 8am, and my boyfriend sends me a message from the Jomtien soi 12 beach volleyball to tell me that they are heading home to get some my sleep. What was the name of that song from the Twilight movie ?

Day 22 Time to return to civilization but not before utilizing such spectacular beach and adjacent sea in the the morning to soak for few hours. I was never beach and sea person but I liked it there very much to extend of even thinking about returning there. Amazing how wet was water there ! Getting to the airport was easy as free bus stop is steps from hotel. Airport was very crowded and bit disorganized but I was calm because my flight was late. Immigration at Don Muang was also crowded, lines moved fast but still it took while before I was able to be on my way to Baan Silom where I was informed that they are full but because I had reservation they upgraded me to a condo across the street. While preferring g hotel room I gladly sampled that condo . It was quite nice with tiny bedroom but sizable bathroom and full kitchen , even with washing machine . They also told me that my friend stays there and I suspect that he got my room as when I met him hour later he was in the same room I stay in previously this trip three times. At 7 pm I was supposed to meet jason1975, reader , Raposa and 10tazione for a dinner at G’Bangkok and I messaged one of them I will be late because all those commotions. We had prime table outside which is always great people watching spot. We had fun and food was as always very good. After dinner reader went his way and us four went to Dragon and Koi ( or is it Kuay ?) to see boys dancing and getting touchy-feely in between. Some of them looked very nice but generally twinks are not my field. Our next move was to my field indeed, namely Atlas where of course we were greeted enthusiastically my aspiring wingmen Ken and James, asking for drink, tip and when I off them , in short usual vinapu’s Atlas and Tawan liturgy. We watched show but there was no f…k show today , apparently police said forget about it . Of course tips to me boys and some performers as well big cock show performing artists were distributed but no off since I had other plans for tonight. I kind of missed S, my companion from Chiang Rai and told him already earlier that tonight he is mine so straight from Atlas I went to pick him up and we went to Foodland where soon we had another member reunion, few hours after previous one. And there was reason for that as one of us had birthday and reader organized actual birthday cake for him. Of course we sung ‘Happy Birthday “ before we attacked that cake with knives and forks. After while crowd dispersed and we walked briskly to my newly acquired condo in soi 3 for another stamp collection survey , our 6th this trip. And last as tonight is my last full Bangkok night

To be brutally honest, in the past few years after Covid, I didn't go to Freshboys often. I went mostly to Jupiter, Dreamboys and Screwboys (now Good Boy) to get my offs. Then last year, my guy started working at Freshboys and I soon became a regular, to the extent that I now have the mamasan's Line number! I got to know some of the guys at Freshboys personally through my guy. Through them, I got to know about the other guys working in the bar - as in their names, nationalities and some of their stories. The numbers in Freshboys range from #1 to #45. Mamasan's number is #888 while assistant is #111. I know who takes part in the big cock show and who gets offed on a regular basis. One guy created record with 3 offs in one night, with the use of short time room upstairs. 2 offs in one night is not uncommon. These popular guys go out with customers then they come back to bar less than two hours later in order to secure another customer as long as bar is not closed yet at 1am. I heard from one guy: "20 minutes finish! 2000 baht!" But many of the guys work hard because they want to provide for their families back in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar. Many of the guys with tattoos choose tattoos to remember their family members. Some of the Vietnam guys made the decision not to go back to Vietnam to be with their families during Tet this year so that they could earn $$$ working in bar. There are some guys who applied to work at Freshboys because they were barely getting by in their previous jobs in pubs or massage shops. I believe that such stories can also be found in Dreamboys, Hotmale, Good Boy, Atlas and even among the models in Moonlight and Jupiter. I don't think Freshboys has the best show or the best guys in Bangkok. But it has my guy so that's why I go there. 🥰

Last night, St. Patrick's Day, 17 March 2025, I returned to The BEST Bar in the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown) with my Thai boyfriend and some of his friends joined us for a very entertaining evening. It being a Monday night, I was quite surprised that it would be so much fun - as Mondays tend to be kind of boring. They started out with their street show -- to try to entice customers to sit and drink and to eventually watch what goes on behind the CURTAIN.... twink fight 1742290838982.mp4 Then after the light tame street entertainment concluded - they asked us to move inside into the air-conditioned theater and then the CURTAIN was pulled. This seems to be a newer phenomena here in Supertown - that whenever there is a CURTAIN or SMOKED GLASS - it usually implies that something more fun is going to happen, then perhaps what is permitted by the lease agreement. The CURTAIN (in some of the bars) is used to keep those out on the street from seeing what decadent activity is happening inside, and it seems that the SMOKED GLASS is to "hide" the unofficial dancing that may be occurring inside. I see these 2 new additions to the Supertown offering as being a BIG positive - especially in light of the demise of Sunee Plaza and the shrinking of Boyztown. In this way, some hedonistic excitement can enter into the non-zoned for entertainment Supertown space in a discreet and subtle way. Ok, enough with my words - let me share with you some of the debauchery.... Next video and photos are from the inner space behind the CURTAIN: 1742291004992.mp4 This was the warm up act after the cabaret and ladyboy numbers were completed - they were fun and entertaining. At the beginning of this thread (Christmas day - 25 December 2024), the guy with the boner on the right is the same guy dancing up on the stage last night - also on the right - the one wearing glasses. But my ATTENTION was focused on the NEW twunk. I became mesmerized with this new addition - yummy I really want to soap him up in my shower He is truly my type - there was a queue for each of us to perform the Vinapu Tuck into his sexy underwear. By the end of the night his package was full of well deserved baht!!! The entire behind the CURTAIN space was FULL - on a Monday night = WOW!!! So, I need to figure out a way to get this new twunk into my condo, without upsetting my Thai boyfriend - as he could tell that I could not control excitement for this hotty last night. For tonight's 4 hands massage - my Thai boyfriend has invited the guy in the above first video dancing out in the street wrapped in a white cloth. I will try to ask him when he is in my condo room tonight if he has contact with the above twunk - hehehehe.....wish me luck....

Day 17 It must be something in Bangkok water as during days this trip I feel very lazy, only with arrival of night I seem to get bouts of energy. This afternoon my out of the scene guy told me he wants to come. This is arrangement we have , since he is working in steady job but on unsteady schedule he tell me when he can come and then I either say yes or no, no fuss , no issues. Usually we meet once or twice per trip for few hours of fake romance but rather real fun. The same happened today, I like him and I sense he appreciates that. Never asks me for anything other than to buy his favorite farang food which by sheer coincidence is bucket of KFC goodies. With some concern I noticed that he seems to start developing a bit of stomach and I was not shy to point it out but he was witty – said kettle calls pot black , he, he. Where he learned that ? After 4 hours of said masterfully faked romance by both of us he left , I made sure to tuck his usual tip in his undies and soon I went to Foodland where reader joined me for a meal and latest gossip. My plan for today was Goodboys and , in reserve Moonlight as I did not see Y this trip yet. I got quite nice seat and noticed Viet boy whom ichigo and me saw week ago at Atlas on the stage. He recognized me as well and invited myself to seat with me diplomatically saying I don’t need to buy him drink I I don’t want too. So of course I wanted and it was money well spent as he turned out to be talkative , clingy, progressive and not shy at all , certainly I got my money worth even if I told him , no offs today. He was far sighted though and suggested we exchange Line. After hour and half of not exactly behaving , he got his well earned tip and I went to Moonlight as planned. It was quite empty , show just started and I was one of may be 10 customers. Mamasan got good shot , knowing that I like Y and he is not there he immediately offered to call him in. While watching show I was cruised and smiled at by quite a few guys , even his royal highness Babe waved at me , likely recalling tip I gave him on my last visit last week. Nut came to say “ hallo, I did not see you n Moonlight for long time” which had some merit as last few times I visited he was not there or did not notice me. I just love Moonlight with all those smiles but no palms outstretched , no boy ever there suggested to get tipped even if plenty suggested ‘ I go with you “. Y showed up exactly when show was over and off we went. He came from home so was not hungry but I treated myself with banana pancake on Patpong market. I asked what is the reason for his absence and he told me every year he likes to take whole month off. Of course , ever since he has a girl he is available till three but today he surprised me by saying “tonight I will give you time till 4 “ . I gladly accepted extension of audience. Today was quite remarkable for me as all three guys I met clearly appreciated fact that I met them, I could sense that very well. I even thought with Y I finally will have that elusive hand holding only session but no, as soon as light dimmed I noticed that actually it’s not hand I’m holding and we went from there. He left at 3.40 and I could catch some sleep on my last debaucherous night in Bangkok, indeed in Thailand as tomorrow I’m off to Phu Quoc

Day 15 I did not get room with breakfast but it can purchased on reception for 189 and it’s extremely good value. I was surprised with array of dishes , from Western to Asian in great variety for such paltry sum. And it was very busy, no wonder. I feel lazy this morning but around 11 am phone buzzed, some Line message. I checked and surprise, N the masseur I did not see and did not hear from for more than year. Either he saw me passing by Jomtien Complex with z909 or somebody told him I’m in Pattaya. 7 days celibacy is about to be broken as I can’t deny myself such reunion, we met several times already. Asked him when he can come , answer was right away and 5 minutes later there was message “ I’m in your hotel , where you are ?”. Of course he went to wrong Zing, one in Jomtien even if I clearly told him in writing which Zing and where he should go. In few more minutes I saw him alighting from motorsai and we rushed to embrace. I noticed that his once steely muscles are quite soft now , at least he did not pick up any body fat (yet ?). Nobody on reception even blinked, only cleaning lady smiled broadly, no doubt silently congratulating my choice. I noticed previously girls like N. Who would bother with massage on such occasion ? we opted for joyful fun instead. Yes , friend from his shop told him somebody like me passed by with farang last night, it’s why he digged my contact and messaged me to make sure. After about 2 hrs. we parted ways, me going to bus station in Jomtien to buy ticket for tomorrow. Then I decided to do some sightseeing in Pattaya so went to Pattaya Night Market on Second Road, bought shirt and had lunch there , then to Central Festival Mall and along Bitch Road down to Boyztown and then Sunee- very deserted but kept clean. After all it was still day time. Then to hotel to welcome sunset in roof top pool. Zing has two pools, one behind the building and another on smaller on the roof. Having choice between Jomtien and Boyztown my heart took me to the later. At Pikkety I ordered beer and noticed kind if familiar, smiling face so I invited him for a drink. Soon source of familiarity was revealed , guy used to work in Copa as receptionist. Quite flirty and after hour or so of talking I even shamelessly stole kiss from him. We could have something but I had other plans so tipped him 100 for his time and 200 for that kiss and went to Dreamboys hopping #36 whom I saw 3 times in August will be there or if not #37 known to me from May trip. Unfortunately neither one was present and to make things worse, #36 was already assigned to somebody else. Not seeing anybody equally hot I finished my drink and crossed soi to XBoys just in time for show to start . as one would expect on Saturday night bar was completely full. I got some seat by the door and it was actually quite good viewing point. I watched whole sexy show and at the end tipped A, guy I offed few times in the past and owner of very sizable tool . He not only recognized me but also planted a juicy kiss on me . How sweet. Having such good time at Piketty I should return there but somehow went to ToyBoys . In August I saw very interesting specimen there and was hopping he will be still there but no, at least not at that time as it was almost midnight. Twinks are not my thing and nobody on the stage was offing material so I ordered beer just for that sake of supporting business. Beside me some ladyboy was sitting with 2 boys molesting them not exactly discretely, at least not from my position. Twinky guy beside her from my side at closer look seemed to be quite well built. I noticed he sport his number 17. In few minutes ladyboy left paying for drinks , not sure she even tipped boys for their troubles. Said twink turned professional and didn’t waste time , likely noticed that I had some interest in him and said he can go with me “ short time or long time if you want”. That’s the move ! As soon as I heard “long time ‘ , I was in, hungry of company after celibate week. Drink 300 , body nice , warm , firm and hairless, off fee 500 and expected long time tip as per their menu shown to me by mamasan was 3000. No, contrary to some recent reports, they did not want tip up front, quite opposite I was clearly told ‘ you pay this to boy in the room”. We travelled to Zing in style, anxious to see his stamp collection immediately I hired two motorsais at 80 each and in few minutes we were there. Again nobody even blink an eye. It was more romantic than steamy and after week long fast it was exactly what I wanted and boy sensed it right away. I made sure though to get my money worth and as result at 7 he asked me if he can go home to get some sleep, declined even breakfast invitation. I’m back to debaucheries I guess.

Day 10 My flight to Krabi was at noon so I took my luggage with me to Foodland and straight from there I went to Swampy. At Krabi airport I took van for 90 baht and luckily I was 1st passenger who alighted from it after perhaps 20 minutes of ride. My hotel was named Riverview and indeed only street separated me from river and I had nice view of the river from my window. strange logic, smoking in the room prohibited but ash tray provided What fascinated me the most were mangroves as it was first time I had occasion to see them from up close – ban opposite of the city is practically mangrove forest. Some people advised me to stay on tourist ghetto of Ao Nang few kilometers away but my preference was city and it was smart choice. Rest of day I spent wandering about the city and splurged on ‘early bird “ tour of the famous Phi Phi Island , Maya Beach and other islands. Promise was ‘beat the crowds” with start at 6 am. So I decided to splurge 2800 to join. While expensive I saw offerings for the same as high as 3500 in other places , among others in my own hotel . I visited no less than 3 night markets including one with Chinese theme as in few days we will have Chinese New Year. Knowing I need to wake up at 5.30 I went to bed bit earlier than normally.

FFS! Thai bans power banks on flights or Thai bans use of power banks on flights. Are they really in effect so different, anyone is free to read and make their own judgment/interpretation on the original article which was linked in the opening post. Reader isn't in, or supported by, a newsroom! He is just re-posting articles for information, and better that we have the articles and links than not. Don't shoot the messenger!

I went to Agadir for a week last month just before ramadan started in the beginning of March. I wouldn't recommend going during ramadan. I took 2 guys, separately, to my hotel room by the beach. I was asked who they were by the security guy at the door but I am quite daring. I told him they were my friends in Arabic. It helps I look dark Arab/Moroccan. I am almost 40 but people say I look very young for my age and dress young so no one seemed to bat an eyelid I took guys in their early 20s to my room. Both times the guys were quite nervous because they had never been able to enter a hotel to hook up before. I'm fully vers but both guys refused to bottom which is fine. I like to top guys who say they are only top. I play a little but don't push it. Also I check and probe to see if they have been fucked before, this first guy's hole was so tiny and almost sealed closed so I'm sure he had never been fucked. This first guy was cute and had a nice muscly body but lied about having a big dick when it was quite small, not a big deal really but I don't know why people lie about such things. He rimmed me nicely and gave me a massage with Argan oil I brought the week earlier in Marrakesh (spent a week there too). He finished very quickly inside me raw (I'm on prep and doxy). He apologised and said he hadn't masturbated for days because he was on holiday with his family there from Casablanca where they live. I gave him $15 for "taxi". He was very pleasant and friendly, which I appreciated a lot. Nice guy even if the sex was very short. I'm sure him being nervous about security didn't help. The second guy I also met in front of my hotel in the beach front. He was drop dead gorgeous. Very tall and could easily model. I actually told him he should model. He was very sweet and friendly. I took him to the hotel door. Again I told the security guy he was my friend in Arabic. I was nervous a bit but I am daring. I made sure to give the security guy a nice tip the next day, which he was very happy with. I really couldn't believe this second guy's pictures were really real. He looked French but I think a fair bit of Moroccans do look French/European. Absolutely gorgeous guy. He was muscly but a bit skinnier that he was in his pictures. He was very nervous as he had never managed to meet someone in a hotel before. We showered together, beautiful body very tall, good size dick flacid. He relaxed after a while and I told him to give me a massage for a few minutes. He got hard quickly. His dick was like a hammer about 8.5 inches and very thick. I sucked for a bit and then massaged his back. I checked and probed his hole while massaging him. He recoiled very quickly. He had definitely been fucked before but he said he couldn't because he was injured inside. He looked sad saying it. I thought maybe he had been raped or rough fucked by a huge dick to get injured. I remembered being injured by a huge dick rough and reckless guy in London when I was young and being in terrible pain for several months and definitely not able to even think about getting fucked for months, thankfully it sorted itself out as I was scared I would need to see a doctor and get surgery but that wasn't necessary in the end. I know in the country he is in that wouldn't be an option. I was too embarrassed to go in the UK 20 years ago! He is so beautiful I am sure he gets a lot of unwanted attention. Still his hole looked perfect from the outside and I didn't probe any further. He flipped my over and asked for a condom I told him I was on prep and doxy. He didn't know what it was and insisted on a condom, which I fully respect and made me like him even more. He proceeded to fuck shit out of me so damn good for about 30 minutes. He was hitting my prostate so hard I wanted to scream and moan but was afraid someone might hear. I didn't think he had it in him because he was sweet but he turned into a jack hammer bunny rabbit. He was so relentless and rough but not reckless. I absolutely loved it. When he finished he asked to take photos from my balcony with sea views. I was just watching and admiring his beauty as he took a photo shoot trying on my clothes. He said he had never been in a hotel before let alone with a sea view. He was going to show off to his friends with the pics later. The sea view from my room was stunning so I got it. We had drinks and he took loads of photos while admired his beauty. He asked if I wanted to fuck again but I said I was done for the day. I didn't realise it was going to be ramadan the next day and I was leaving the day after that to Marrakech for my flight back home. He didn't ask for any money but I literally forced him to take $20 for taxi. The next day I just rested. I didn't both trying to hook up because it was ramadan. I didn't even open grindr that day. There were loads of hot guys on grindr during the week I was there. Most wanted money and I was too scared to meet the first few days before taking these guys to my room. The guys at the hotel reception were so sexy but I didn't try my luck with them. Wish I had. I had an interesting week in Marrakesh too. I will post about it if anyone is interested.

Well i did it. Went to Freshboys at 9:35 right after checking in to my hotel. One gripe about the Quarter Silom is that the a/c says it is 16 degrees Celsius and i cannot set it any colder. I don’t think it has come on since i’ve been here. It’s colder outside than inside. I think i need to ask for a new room because it’s so hot in here I liked how the pricing was straightforward. I bought a Coke for 400 baht. Waited about ten minutes. There were around 30 guys on stage in white shorts/socks/shoes. I found it rather erotic seeing them up there. I didn’t wanna linger and get hassled to pay for more extraneous expenses so i chose the guy i wanted. #20. He was a tatted top. I ended up paying for two drinks, the 5oo off fee. Also, 2500 upon completion of the deed. I told him just to enjoy himself and bust so he did. Then he helped me do the same. He asked if i was happy and i said yes. So then he was ready to leave. Sounded good to me as i am dead tired from jetlag. If i do this again tomorrow i will specify exactly the amount of time i expect him to stay. That was fun. Took me one stroll around the block to get the nerve to go in but once i did it was glorious. Plus i paid exactly what i agreed to so no extra charges. What if i go there tomorrow and it’s more just to hangout and gawk for an hour? Is that when they try to push more charges on you?

Our wonderful @spoon told me about this Kasaimassage Twitter (X) account to check out, as the masseur specializes in: - Cumcontrol - Edging Today, as I am in Bangkok for some days, I wrote to this guy on LINE, as was displayed in his Twitter (X) bio: lin.ee/dSHPVFQF and I chatted with him this morning to make an appointment, which I had today at 4pm. I booked a 90 minute session. The masseur's studio is in the chic and luxurios Noble Ploenchit condo complex at the BTS Ploenchit station ( exit central embassy gate ). He met me in the lobby and took me up to the studio. When the elevator door opened you are in his studio - I was like wow. He is a sexy 28 year old young Thai guy with a nice body. We made some small talk and then I took a shower in his studio before we started. The entire massage is sensual and erotic, where the sensualness slowly increases during the massage. He starts out with his gliding hands and then he eventually transitions to a very nice type of massage oil, that smelled like eucalyptus. He puts your leg in what the Thais refer to as the shape of the number 7, so that he has full access to your genitalia (in a non penetrative manner), to make sure that you are fully stimulated for when he eventually tells you to turn over. Then he starts the cumcontrol in an edging style - in that your now erect cock is stroked in sensual ways that are slowly increased in their timing to bring you to the edge of an orgasm. He is also erotically touching your nipples and balls and groin. Three times I had to make him stop so that I could prolong the pleasure. During our session he got naked during the cock edging part and he let me play with his nipples, stroke and suck his nice cock. Around the 85 minute mark, he edged me over the edge and gave me a very intense orgasm. He is definitely an edging and cumcontrol master. Out of a maximum rating of 10 - I give him a 9.5 rating. I paid 3.000 baht for my 90 minute meeting. He can also organize a 4 hands cumcontrol edging session if you would like. Below is a screen capture of his Twitter (X) account. I asked him if I could publish this in our forum and he said yes. You can see that he is followed by the Thai massage comnunity, that is organizing the first ever MIMA Party on 3 May 2025.

I had literally just got out of the lift in my condo and walked outside when I heard a loud bang. It was the nearby elecricity transformer. I was on my way to do some shopping on SIlom and Sukhumvit. When I got a taxi, the driver was almost screamng at me - "Aftershock! Aftershock?" I stupidly did not understand what he was saying because I had actually felt nothing as I was walking. Then my partner started sending me X videos of water like a waterfall coming from a skyscraper swimming pool, and then another of a tall building under construction that was collapsing. I then realised there had been an earthquake. But that's odd, I thought, because Bangkok is not in an earthquake zone! The traffic was becoming bad and eventually my taxi driver dropped me on Saladaeng Soi 1 saying he had to get home. Not even having had breakfast, I was hungry. The Skytrain and MRT plus shopping malls were closed. Fortunately, market stalls were open, and then I found some guys drinking at a tiny Spanish restaurant on Saladaeng. They told me it was still serving food. I therefore enjoyed an excellent lunch. By this time the internet was working again and I could see that the quake did not occur in or near Bangkok. It was a major 7.7 quake situated close to the surface near Mandalay in Myanmar. That's a big one, bigger than the 6.9 shock I had experienced near San Jose in 1989. It was felt all over west Thailand and in China's Yunnan Province. The only other time I recall Bangkok ever experiencing such a shock from a quake was the one off Aceh Province in indonesia in December 2004. Shopping abandoned, getting home was the problem. Silom was choked with traffic for the most part not moving. Taxis and motorcy taxis were impossible to find. So i walked down Convent and eventually found one motorcy driver on Sathorn prepared to take me the 4 kms or so to my condo. He wanted Bt. 20 more than I offered which i was delighted to agree. Weaving through the enormous traffic jams on both Silom and Nanglingchee was sometimes scary but the driver knew what he was doing. I got back safely - only to find the lifts were still out of action! 8 floors later and an exhausted owner finally was home and ready for whatever water was left in the shower! But still no aftershocks, and I expect there will be none as they will usually be much closer to the quake's epicentre. We would certainly have felt a few by now if we were going to get any.

Bhutan is perhaps best known for a comment made by its former King suggesting "gross national happiness" was a better guide for a nation than "Gross National Product." When I visited in 2007, the country had its fair share of poor people, but then it had only recently opened up to the rest of the world. Television had only been introduced in 2000 and the number of tourists that year was only around 7,000. By 2019 the number had increased to 316,000 and hotels had mushroomed. Whereas I stayed in a mix of simple hotels and guest houses, soon after you could spend five nights in different 5-star hotels. That said, I loved my two weeks in the country, the more so as every Bhutanese was friendly to what must to many have seemed like exotic foreign visitors. One problem for Bhutan was its only international airport was at Paro and the arrival through the hills and mountains so tricky that few pilots were certified to land there. Now Bhutan is catching on to the wellness travel concept and is constructing an entirely new wellness town with a much larger airport at Gelephu close to the indian border. Its new airport will have a capacity of 123 flighs a day, compared to Paro's five - all from short haul destinations. Artist's rendition of new Bhitan airport: Photo BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group Hopefully the new mass influx of tourism will not spoil the country as they have parts of Bali. As I discovered Bhutan is one of the gems of Asia and deserves to be seen and enjoyed. Hopefully once the new airport opens, the wealth of incoming visitors will trickle down to the poorer parts of the country. Paro Airport The Tiger's Nest Monastery percehd on a rockface 3,120 meters above ground level, the symbol of Bhutan A monk outside paro monastery Morning view Phallic Images are common in the countryside, often painted on the outside of houses The majestic Phunaka Dzong at the confluence of two rivers Monk descending monastery stais Wonderful artistic images adorn all monasteries https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/14/travel/bhutan-gelephu-international-airport-intl-hnk/index.html

Day 20 In some sense unremarkable day but at made it fun at my friend expense. More about that in a second. After breakfast I wandered through he streets and back alleys part of city on other side of river bisecting it, spying on normal, local life. I found big statue of Ho Chi Minh and former airstrip , now just a very wide road. And surveyed very colorful as well as smelly sea food market returning to hotel around 11 am to pack up and go to new hotel , this time in a beach area close to the airport. interesting building and just streety street : Reason for the move was to shock my friend who is coming today and has no idea I’m in Vietnam , even less in Phu Quoc. Skillfully I obtained information about his time of arrival and hotel he will be staying and booked the same. Luckily I got the room facing entry and soon I saw him coming from the bus, opened window and screamed “ what the fuck you are doing here ?” . He being short sighted couldn’t see me initially but recognized voice and screamed back’ where you are and what the fuck YOU are doing here”. When I waved towel from the window finally he spotted me. Imagine going from, say Montevideo to Novosibirsk only to hear and see your friend is already there. Judging by his reaction he was very happy. view from welcoming window: and to opposite side from hotel's corridor: Rest of day we spent walking to the city and back , checking sights and stores and before retiring to hotel we had super tasty Vietnamese sandwiches in otherwise unremarkable restaurant across the road. Since tomorrow is my last full day here and his first , we resolved to celebrate joyful reunion and even more joyful fact that we are here together only one day and spend it in style by taking world’s longest cable car over sea.

A much belated report. So I was in the area earlier than planned (8+) and had lots of time to kill... While walking around and the movie crew was still in the area filming Some doubt started to creep into me while check out the spot.. Is "Fresh Boy" the same as "Fresh Boys"? I don't want to go to a wrong show.... so maybe i should skip "Fresh Boy"? Eventually, after walking around the entire area, it was CARPE DIEM and made my way up I was early... The show was to start at 10 and I was there with 80 mins to kill.... Sat down, got a coke or something, and was pleasantly surprised by the boys on stage... I started making notes on my phone.... The rotation went on for a while but it was interesting to witness what they were doing off stage.. as well as on stage.... Most were young and fit... some where older and as somebody pointed out, they are in FB presumably for the show component.... Some tried to make eye contact but what I really didnt like was the mamasan getting touchy with the boys on stage... like she's taxing them.. of cos shes doing it as marketing but one would imagine she's also asking for more from the boys off stage/behind the scene.... as a customer, she was fine.. she did a courtesy ask the whole night and didnt approach otherwise.... when i wanted somebody to sit with me, i signalled the other mamasan and he was did his job drinks 400 thb.. i think it was mentioned that second drink costs less... so i had the (wrong) impression that boy's drinks are not 400.. but they are so after a while of studying the system, the boys, the crowd, it was time for the show and tbh, the show quickly got monotonous even for a first timer.... the d*ck hitting pole was 100% unnecessary so the room was fairly crowded... the front row was full.... the area on the right (when facing the stage) was starting to fill up so big shot had asked 5-6 boys to sit with him and he off-ed all of them.... the only reason why i took notice was that the mms was at the cashier trying to sort out all the charges and that took a while .... that's it for a quick report..... so it was fun chatting with the boy (no off) .... a little touchy touchy and there was even a show and (no) tell and it was a good night of fun.... time flies when you are having fun.... didnt wait for the last show and left to take the BTS back to the hotel... last last note: when they give you change, they deliberately break up notes and give you coins..... one would say that since you do it that way, i shoulnd't reward bad behaviour and leave the coins for them.. which is exactly their intention... but i was naive/forgiving/happy i left them the coins, just as they intended... oh well...

Having 4-5 boys a week seems fun but is it reality? Living someplace is very different then vacationing. When I am on vacation I feel like I need to do so much because time is limited, however when I lived abroad I hardly found myself going out. Sometimes on a weekend or when asked to go out but I routinely found myself as a homebody

If your bf was drunk, maybe he didn’t realize that you weren’t comfortable in those settings. You may want to talk with him about how you feel about it when he’s sober. Whether you’re in Pattaya or Bangkok, there are many options to choose from. Since you’re the one who’s paying, you should have the final say on where you spend it. As for the young Asian woman’s remarks, I think the best response is “same reason you are.” I frequently find myself among the oldest patrons in bars in Bangkok. In most cases I find the locals concerned only with enjoying themselves and welcoming of others. I wouldn’t give any credence to the crude one you came across. Enjoy yourself!

Thanks, Reader , for raising this interesting issue. I agree that the age factor is central; my generation of gay men spent their younger years in a homophobic and legally-perilous environment. To us, Pattaya meant freedom and liberation. Younger guys don't need to travel thousands of miles for that now. Yet today's Pattaya, admittedly bland compared with the past, still offers us an enormous amount, particularly if it means time spent with a loved one. The hotels remain cheap, embarrassingly so compared to the UK, the dining opportunities numerous, offering even better value. Even the beaches are cleaner. It provides an escape from a northern winter, the denizens remain friendly and welcoming and the travel easier from the airport than back in the day. My ninetieth visit is iminent and I am still like a little boy looking forward to Christmas. The Pattaya/Jomtien to which I return hasn't got the "edgy" flavour it once had but probably that makes it even more suitable for someone who has aged in three decades years as much as the city has changed. The question on my mind is what will happen to the gay scene when my generation has gone.

On my second day in Marrakech I spent most of the day sightseeing and trying the local food. Around 9pm I went to the main square area. The circles around the entertainers were too small to try and touch up guys in the circle. It gets pretty chilly at night in February. Maybe this activity is more popular in the summer. I went to the park suggested by the famous poster on here near the main big Mosque around 10pm. There were loads of people around but men only walking around in the dark parts of the park. It felt very cruisy. I sat on a bench in a dark part of the park for a few minutes. I was joined by a handsome young lad who sat next to me. He looked around 19 or 20, quite tall and very pale. He spoke OK English. I touched his thigh while we chatted about where are you from? How old are you? (I say 29 even though I'm literally 40) etc. I moved up higher and unzipped his jeans gently. He was already hard but was quite small. I jerked him off for a while. He wanted me to suck him but I lied and told him I'm a top/actif only. I gave him a tip. He was surprised by and happy with the tip. I left and went to sit on another bench. I think he went and told his friends I gave him a tip because literally a minute later I was joined by another young lad about 22/23 years old on this bench. He was more handsome and built than the first guy a bit darker features but not brown like a light caramel complexion. He was a lot more confident and took his dick out instantly. He was semi hard looked a good 8 inches and thick. He told me to suck it but I smelt something fishy from his cock while jerking it off. I think he had just been fucking a woman. It had that distinctive fishy pussy smell. It put me off lol. Also this bench was a lot more exposed and not in the darkest part of the park. I gave him a tip and he wax happy. As I walked off a guy was chasing me looking for some fun grabbing his cock but I was so tired by this point. I had spent the whole day on my feet sightseeing. On the third day. I went to a well known touristy Hammam where I heard the masseuses sometimes engage in gay activities when it is quiet in the mornings. Unfortunately I went sightseeing in the morning and by time I went there in the afternoon it was heaving with tourists. I got assigned the youngest masseuse there as he was the only one left available. He looked around 18. Handsome toned and skinny. He was too timid and shy to do anything. He looked a bit too young so I didn't try anything with him. The fourth day I went to another Hammam for locals where supposedly gay activities take place amongst the customers. There were locals there with their young kids. The local guys had huge bulges and looked super horny and up for it but they were with their young kids. I heard their wives force them to take their young kids so they don't get up to anything in the Hammam. They were staring at me a lot but I did not engage because of the kids with them. I sat next to a very feminine chubby local guy with long hair and man boobs. He spoke good English and I felt comfortable with him. He showed me how to scrub and wash myself with the soap. The Hammam was way too hot for my liking and I was getting uncomfortable. Opposite me sat an old guy with an enormous hard on around 10 inches and very thick while washing himself. He kept staring at both of us and smiling. The I looked to my right and I saw by the door in front of the toilet a very handsome young man around 22 years old. Very muscly with a six pack. Caramel complexion. It was lust at first sight. He was wearing tight white shorts and he was rubbing a huge erection. It looked about 9.5 inches and very thick. He was rubbing himself very aggressively and obviously. He was motioning for me to join him. I completely froze as I hadn't got my bearings in the Hammam yet, it was too hot and steamy for me, I was overwhelmed by everything going on. Literally a minute later the fat bitch next to me made a beeline towards the guy and they disappeared towards the direction of the toilet. I got up to see where they went. The toilet door was shut. There was only one toilet and two of them walked in that direction. I was so disappointed and sad at the missed opportunity because I was too timid to act. I sat back down and the guy I hired to scrub me came to scrub me down. By the time he finished 15 minutes later the fat bitch re-entered the main room after fucking my man. I went looking for my Mr sexy but he must have left because I never saw him ever again. My heart sank and I left the Hammam disappointed soon after lol. I would have stayed for hours there but it was just too hot for me. The next morning on my fifth day was my last day at the cock block Riad. There was so many guys up for it on grindr. Horny tourists and locals but nowhere to go. The tourists in the town centre were all in Riads too and busy being tourists like I was. The nice locals had nowhere to take me. The for pay guys seemed a bit sketchy and I am paronoid and I only started getting daring later on the trip when I moved on to Agadir. If I go back I would be a lot more comfortable and confident I think. I had breakfast at the Riad and there was a Belgian guy sitting alone on the table next to me. We started chatting and talking about our adventures. I was getting gay vibes from him but I wasn't sure. I'm not good at reading the signs. He was a really cute twinky type, blue eyes, in his late 20s. I definitely would have fucked him but I was too timid. By the end of breakfast he said I was such a nice guy and got up to hug me. I was so shocked I didn't know what to say or do. He left to get ready and I was about to check out. My last day and a half I stayed in a beautiful all inclusive resort in the outskirts of the city. I was determined for more sex before I left for Agadir. I had been talking to a gorgeous Russian tourist on grindr. He was 25 years old. Dark hair and blue eyes. Very pale. I told him to come to my hotel. He was a bit hesitant and scared to come but he did in the end. Reception called me when he came. I went down. He was wearing the shortest shorts. Although he acted masculine he was dressed very gay. I thought it was poor choice to wear such a colourful t-shirt and such short shorts, I don't think it helped our cause. The reception said no guests in the room. I made a scene and kicked up a bit of a fuss. I pretended I was outraged by what they were implying. I said he was an old friend and we studied together in London. They said OK we can hangout by the pool. We stayed there for a while but it was chilly by the pool and it was around 10pm. We stayed for a bit by the pool and I convinced him to come to my room. He was so scared. I took him to my room and gave him 4 beers and vodka from the free mini bar to calm his nerves. It did the trick because he started to relax. I then started stripping him down and we had a shower together. I gave him a oil massage. I stroked his big thick 9 inch cock. He got hard quickly and told me to stop stroking him because he would cum quickly. He was bottom only. He started sucking me and rimming me and I rimmed his fat ass. He had a really big ass for a toned thin guy. My absolute favourite is a big ass with a thin waist. I started fucking him and my favourite thing is to stroke the guy's dick while a fuck him doggy style. I don't get why guys like him with big hard cocks are bottoms only but everyone is different. I am fully vers but that is very rare in my experience. He came and then I came after he sucked me some more. We spoke for an hour about our lives and travels. He was going to the desert the next day and I was traveling to Agadir (see above posts). We spent 4 wonderful hours together and he left for his Riad in the town centre at 2am. The reception never said anything about it.

There is always lots of discussion around this and I am aware there are lot's over circumstantial experts on these forums. However, thought this was interesting insight. Had dinner with an old escort-friend who had some interesting insights on the local market. Now this guy is a pro - escorts full time and travels the world doing it. So that's not your average Grindr listing. But he shared a few pointers: - the expert guys here are all charging 200K COP per session. Full stop. They basically all know each other and when word gets around, they will confront anyone undercutting that rate. - with foreigners, they will start negotiations at 300-400K for a session (about $100USD currently). How do they know you are a foreigner? Why do you think they immediately ask for your name? So if you are confident with Spanish, you may want to try a fake name. - the going daily rate here is 1.2Millon COP (currently about $300USD) per day for these same guys. If you are planning for more that three days (a weekend) then you can negotiate. - any new boys on the scene that are getting a good reputation (good reviews from their clients) will be approached to step up to the new rate. Those that don't agree may find themselves with bad ratings. Think about that when you read those MIleroticos reviews, which virtually no actual clients post. - the Skokka boys -- the ones dipping their toes into the game -- are generally left alone. But those ads tend to be more transient in Colombia because there is minimal cost to run an ad. - Grindr is fair game, but they do watch that space for new faces. - the three main "modelling' companies for webcam boys all watch their performers closely for any signs of escorting on the side. It is explicit in their contracts that they should not engage in prostitution. Some of the top escorts in the city got their start there. Not to make it seem like this is all run by some dark cabal, but some interesting insights on the local scene for paid sex, and how the market produces new product, as lots move on to Europe to either escort or do porn or both. Witness Alejo Ospina, Randy Junior. or Santiago Rodriguez, to name a few. Open to a discussion as many of you will insist this is made up BS. Just sharing from a reliable source. PS - he also shared this with me (was a surprise) that many of the top-tier escorts will arrange sex with each other when they want to get off to avoid any hassle.

Yesterday I went to Kmanspa in Saphan Kwai for my two hour appointment with a straight top. I booked the VIP room for 1000 baht. Plus 1200 baht minimum tip. I’ll say that the boy was definitely attractive but i have a feeling his photo might be slightly out of date or ‘beautified’. Still, he was nice and his English skills were impressive. He was naked during the whole massage and i could feel his body on mine which was sensual. We got into a conversation during the massage about various anime shows and he kept talking about football. (soccer to my fellow Americans) At some point the talking stopped and he gave a me super oily massage for about 85 minutes. Then he got me to turn over and got a condom out. Then he said “you wanna fuck?” I confirmed i did and he went for it. I quickly realized that as much as i wanted this to work, that my butt has not been properly trained for that kinda activity so it would be exceedingly uncomfortable/painful for me. He went for entry a second time and got in somewhat but at that moment i decided not to continue with penetration. I let him know and he immediately took off the condom and made a valiant effort to turn me on and get me off that involved kissing various parts of my body. He let me blow him some and then i came. He washed up and then i did the same. I tipped him 2000 instead of the 1200 minimum. He gave me a hug and walked me down what seemed like 5 flights of stairs(watch your head fellow tall guys!). He seemed happy and gave me a bottle of water before disappearing. Overall it was a good experience. For a second night in a row my gogo bar plans have been dashed by jetlag. At about 9:30pm i was in bed and realized i would gain no pleasure from prolonging this night. I still have two nights for some fun and i will be going to Good Boys and Freshboys tonight no matter what. I can see all the hot boys from my hotel room at 9 Teen massage. I walked by them earlier. I think there are 1-2 massage shops next to them as well. It looked like 20-30 guys/boys working there. I’ll give one a try today. I won’t expect HE but maybe i’ll get lucky. Plus i’ll go back to Green today to see if my guy is working. If he is i wonder if this time he would skip to getting naked during the massage and let me caress him for an hour. I think he would. Sorry for rambling post. When i go to Freshboys i might get #20 to sit with me again. I won’t off him though…unless he explicitly commits to certain things. I’d like him to kiss me including use of his tongue. Also i would like to watch him jerk off. Thirdly, i would like him to stay for another round of mutual masturbation even after he already came once. Once we both climax again he is free to go. I wonder if he’d be okay with that. I mean 2.5k baht for maybe an hour of non penetration with me seems like a good deal.

No matter when this finally occurs, it was inevitable as these two parcels represent the most valuable real estate asset in Bangkok’s business district. A forward thinking developer would most likely make accommodation for the Patpong Night Market. It has become such a tourist magnet that it would be foolhardy not to. And I can see venues like Jupiter, and maybe even Stranger Bar, also being included because they would attract international spenders with high disposable income to the new development, demonstrating Thailand’s much heralded “soft power.” Certainly the restaurant bars could compete for a spot if they can make the rent. Foodland saw this coming and already secured a new foothold in the Park Silom building across the way. But I can also envision it opening another space, along with the Took Lae Dee restaurant. As for the boy bars, they’ll have to find new homes. One promising location mentioned above behind Mango Tree is a bit off the beaten path but it may prove ideal. There’s already four gay venues on the soi. It will prove somewhat tricky timing the moves. If you relocate too soon, you may miss out on another year or two in your current, profitable venue. But wait too long and you forgo the choicest properties. And in any case, you don’t want to be last man standing. Just as the closing of Twilight was not the end of the boy bar scene, neither will this be.