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Is the American owner the Farang guy (DJ Max?) that sits at the bar playing the music, or is he a different guy?

My understanding is that the 69 Show, 89 Show and Imagine79 shows are quite risque and show more than the average cabaret show. They show to Chinese tour groups, Thai customers are not permitted to enter, and all phones are forbidden and must be secured in lockers before entry. The only tickets for sale on Klook seems to be 50 USD: https://www.klook.com/en-US/activity/82014-pattaya-69-show-rave-pub-join-day-trip-pattaya/ Please don't blame me if you see no cock and have your eyes blinded by seeing womens bits!

Sounds like this could be a good topic for a thread in itself. I remember you had a few posts recently on wills, insurance etc., so would be curious as to where your mind is now on a relocation. You mentioned selling your house in London, would you not downsize to a flat/apartment so you always have somewhere to return to in case things don't work out as planned, and have a base during visited to home?

Unless you are staying 5*, I would imagine that its cheaper to book in to your downtown Silom hotel the night before you arrive and inform them of your late arrival, than it is to rent a short term room at the airport hotel There is also the option of a capsule hotel (aka coffin hotel!) near the train station in the basement of Suvanabhumi: https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g644049-d15189940-Reviews-Avagard_Capsule_Hotel_Suvarnabhumi_Airport-Bang_Phli_Samut_Prakan_Province.html

My understanding was that Candy was a splinter from M2M, and that any transfers were on one way tickets only?

In most bars the bar gets 150 and the boy 100 from the 250b boy drink. If you have a bottle of whiskey open already, then there is no actual boy drink and they just drink from your whiskey and its is 150b pure profit for the bar. If the boy is popular, then you may have to buy more than 1 drink for them to join your table for the hour. Often a bidding war erupts and boys can go for up to 20 drinks (5000b) if a wealthy customer decides they wont be usurped by a rival bidder!

boy drink in karaoke is usually 250 per drink per hour so safe to say your BF ordered 3 boys and bid 2 drinks per boy per hour over your 3 hour visit = 4500 Whiskey accounts for the rest, although sounds like you were on the JWR and not 285 assume that if you didn't go home till 7.30 am, the boy was finished work and there was no need to pay an off fee

Just spotted Squirrel house when looking on booking.com for a pre-songkran room for my April trip. On my dates: Squirrel is €107 for a standard room Raya is €127 56 Surawong is €97 So seems pretty poor value against 56 and Raya Not stayed in 56 yet, but think i might give it a try. Raya has been our go to Silom hotel since ~2017, but the last room we had (711 last month) was awful with a smell of must/damp, evidence of water egress in multiple places and peeling paint everywhere. Also a pretty dangerous layout with awkward steps close to the key card slot for power. It was a very disappointing stay. Anyone have any feedback on 56 Surawong??

i would have thought Balcony and Telephone/Circus on Soi 4 is the closest thing to what the OPs friend is looking for? The "boy customers" tend to be quite old, but there are definitely some there that are looking to freelance if the opportunity arises

Not sure about the rest of you, but i have noticed that the pricing for accommodation in Bkk/Silom and Phuket/Patong has definitely gone up by significantly more than 15% since 2023?

@Londoner if you are on Facebook, suggest that you join and post on the Pattaya Expats Club group there. There are lots of active brokers/agents on that board who will provide you with a quick turnaround of quotes Robert Jackson in particular is one i often see being praised in comments

Some of us are very jealous (myself included) as we have none left to cut or dye! Nor am i, but in the US and elsewhere they use a clamp and cut around the penis in a circular motion, leaving that scar all around the glans in the Pinoy version they slice along the top of the foreskin, poke the glans out and leave the skin dangling Links below not for the faint hearted! Western version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision Pinoyversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal_slit Yes turkey gobble is the exact term i was trying to think of (my Irish friend uses it) and its due to the excess skin I have noticed that a lot of the younger Pinoy guys on twitter have a cleaner cut, i assume that this is because it has been done by a medical professional and not the village witch doctor like in bygone times. This clip below is def NOT for the faint hearted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkCFxFPP0M Sounds to me like Mactan Newtown is definitely not the best place for a regular gay sex tourist to stay so!

i stumbled across this thread last night and binged on it, thanks for all the efforts @bkkmfj2648, its a pity that most posters will miss out on this extended TR with it being buried on the Philippines forum. Perhaps ts worth creating a cross post on the Thailand forum to help readers find this gem. Some initial thoughts: 3 hair cuts in 35 days, your hair must grow crazy fast! That botched (from a western perspective) Pinoy circumcision has always put me off their cocks. Traditionally they don't remove the skin and instead perform a dorsal slit, a single incision along the upper length of the foreskin from the tip to the corona, exposing the glans without removing any tissue. I notice that your body count went from an average of 1 a day to an average of 0 a day when you were in Mactan Newtown. Why do you think that was? was it distance from the mainland, lack of quality available? And if so would this factor into a decision to live in Mactan Newtown?

April is the best month to go! Songkran!!

My observations for the gay scene : Early December to Mid Feb=> High Season, this takes in Christmas and both Western and Chinese New Year After that things quieten down but have a decent bump at Easter and Songkran in mid April Small Bump in tourist numbers in July and August due to European summer holidays, noticeably more so first 2 weeks of august Small bumps in tourist numbers at Loy Kratong, Fireworks festival,White Parties, the various gay prides etc. Looking at Pattaya in general over the last few years, there is only really a low season on the gay scene, elsewhere there is a High and Mid Season. The numbers of people travelling, shopping in malls, occupying restaurants, songtaews and hotels are pretty constant outside High Season.