ChristianPFC

Wrong country!

Not for me. My Songkran 2013 was the worst thing that ever happened to me. And this year still some inconveniences around Songkran (limited offer on market, restaurants closed).

A friend had the following information: landlord of Jupiter2002 saw that the business is going well and did not extend the lease, rather let it run our (or ask for an outrageous rent?) and operate a similar business in the place. Can anyone confirm?

From Maya to Adam's Apple it's 2.7 km, that would be 40 Baht in a Bangkok taxi. With aircon! Any time of the day! No haggling! Public transport (songtheos 30 Baht) and tuk-tuks in Chiang Mai are grossly overpriced compared to anywhere else in Thailand I have been, except Phuket and Samui.

When I went in 2013, I had to queue (and so had many others, around 100 waiting outside) in wet clothes to get in. The activities inside couldn't compensate for that. A never-again experience.

Troll or not troll, sglad writes good English and his posts are a pleasure to read. I hope some day he puts this skill into use to post interesting, useful, accurate, verifiable information about gay life in Thailand (and I wouldn't mind tourism, hotels, public transport, food).

Unrealistic. A belated April joke. Would cause as much trouble as changing the side of driving. If they go on, there will be a huge public outcry, could even start a civil war. I applaud the clearing of sidewalk in Silom and some other areas, where only overpriced crap was sold to tourists. (Easy to detect: markets for locals have prices posted. As soon as a wendor wields his electronic calculator and hammers in a number, you know you are going to be overcharged.) But street food is necessary, for millions to get a cheap and quick meal, and for ten or hundred thousands who work as cooks or waiters.

Lesbian bars! I didn't know such thing exists. I did some research into gay saunas, and it seems that one gay sauna is viable for every 500,000 inhabitants of a city. With fewer lesbians than gays (or they just lie low?) you need a much larger number. Let's assume for 5,000,000 inhabitants of a city, one lesbian bar is viable.

With the other pictures being pretty accurate, allowing to easily identifying the place, where was the last picture taken?

Never. I haven't even heard of this before this event. This dynamic pricing is to keep people busy. The same for all other memberships schemes I know of. About 10 years ago, I calculated advantages and disadvantages of membership at supermarket or agoda, and came to the conclusion that it inconveniences me more than I gain. (A Farang friend came to the same conclusion and rejects all discount vouchers and similar stuff.) For me, the anger about changing prices is stronger than the joy about a cheap flight. Anyway, this is all just to trick your mind. Sounds like a conspiration theory, but I think most of what happens nowadays is to either anger the public or to make them happy, just to keep them busy to they don't know, leave alone think, about the real problems. I have flown about 200 times in my life (others probably more, share your stories), and never missed a flight or couldn't take it because something more important came up in my life. For this reason, I don't take travel insurance which is usually 10% of the flight. Taking the risk is cheaper for me. Anyway, I would have a system of the shorter before flight you cancel, the lower the refund. Like 1 month 90%, 2 weeks 50%, 1 week 30%.

Because there is no other choice. Similar to cathode ray TVs and monitors. Do you remember these heavy and bulky devices? Now replaced completely by flat screens, but at that time there was nothing better.

What is the reason for the bar closing? I would say as the smallest bar in Pattaya, Vassa just had not enough volume. A bar twice the size of Vassa and twice the number of boys would pay double for rent and double for the boys, but draw in three times the number of customers. Vassa was simply below the optimum size.

I used the word troll incorrectly. None of your posts were "disruptive or attempting to sow discord", but most of what you write is difficult to believe. However, I'm a scientist, I don't believe, I know or I don't know, verify or falsify facts. But I can't verify everything, especially if logic is working against me. If I meet you in Chiang Mai that proofs that you are there, but if I don't meet you in Chiang Mai that does not proof that you are not there. It's very easy to proof that someone is who he claims, just meet an established forum member. It's difficult, close to impossible, to proof that someone is not who he claims. Welcome to gaythailand, try your luck here! Share your experiences, ask your questions, let's see what others think. I'm certainly willing to give you another chance.

As far as I see when I book flights, flexible flights are about twice the price of fixed (date and time) flights. And fees for changing date and time of flight are substantial, estimated 10-20% of flight price. There is something wrong (morally) in this scheme of overbooking flights. You just don't treat your customers that way (only in airlines and gogo bars - I'm referring to vinapu's reports on boys reneging on settled deals when something better came along - does this pass without customers boycotting the business). We established above that this lowers prices in low single digit percent range. I would rather pay a few percent more and do away with overbooking and dynamic pricing.

On the other hand, it's a buyer's market. Most boys don't have a customer. And furthermore, the customer has the option to have a wank to porn instead of offing a boy, whereas the boy has no other option to get money for food and rent.

Different pricing structure. Girls command short time fees starting at 3000 Baht, from reading stickmanweekly. So drinks are cheaper in girly bars, but short time or long time is more expensive. And there is this awful coyote girl scam, girls that cannot be barfined or command even higher fees, like 1000 off fee and 5000 short time.

This is the address: http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/ Can you open it? If not, I have no idea. But let me know where you are, it might be location.

Singaporean exchange student in Chiang Mai? I have heard that story before: http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?18348-Hey-there! (for those who don't read SGT: sglad was outed as troll and banned there)

After many years of experience (sounds nicer than: disappointments, lies and deceptions) I do long time only if we click and the boy initiates it.

http://www.easyjet.com/en/help/at-the-airport/oversales Can't let this go uncommented, as I think it's a blatant lie. If a passenger paid for a (non-refundable and not flexible) ticket and does not show up, he loses the ticket price and the airline has a empty seat that is paid for, REDUCING their cost (although only marginally: a little bit less fuel needed because the airplane is lighter and little bit less time needed because one passenger less to process). Now they started counting on that out of 100 passengers one a plane, one might be late, die or have other urgent issues between buying ticket and time of flight, and sell 101 tickets. And often that works out, and for 101 tickets sold, only 100 passengers show up. This shows as well that we are talking about a difference in price of 1%. For that 1%, all these hassles and now this unforgivable event. Trains and buses don't overbook, and don't have dynamic pricing, why do airlines? I think all explanations by airlines on this subject are bullshit, like the example above. (And issue that was discusses before with much controversy, airlines selling flights A-B-C and passenger taking only A-B flight and being CHARGED for not taking B-C flight fits in here as well, another example of what strange things go in in airline pricing.)

I had boys telling me during negotiations for short time (writing on Line or calling) that they have to leave soon (at xx / within xx minutes), in that case I abort and tell the boy to meet another time when he has more time. I can't have sex looking at a clock (or my partner looking at a clock). I used to do long time in the past (2009-2013), but then aborted it. Too many unknown, starting at sleeping preferences (I want a quiet aircon at 27 deg C, no light and sound, that means the boy cannot even play on his mobile phone while I'm trying to sleep), to different times of getting up. I don't need that, rather "fuck and go". Nowadays longtime only when we click and the boy (can be free or paid) just stays afterwards, we don't even speak about it. Most get dressed, which is my cue to pay, others get back into bed, and stay over night. I don't understand the reluctance of some boys to do over night (as expressed in several posts), wife, kids, roommates, that all can be arranged and would well be worth the extra money. But if the OP wants LT for the same price as ST (do I read that right?), then I understand the boys.

The problem is, few of the money boys I encountered in Thailand were good. Just off the field, no talent, being lured by the comparatively large amount of money that can be made. The vast majority is unskilled labor, no talent, no training. I do make that comparison (500 Baht for an hour in my room is a good deal for the boy, compared to 300 Baht minimum wage), and get plenty of takers (boys who do not speak English and had little or no contact with tourists before, at least no sex with tourists before. Once they get into the market servicing foreigners, the 500 Baht times are probably over). I happily pay 1000 for the few boys who are good, to come to my room (no travel for me, no drinks, no off-fees), but from experience I can't see that any boy would be worth the prices now paid in Soi Twilight. For the touristy markets, everyone can easily look elsewhere and find the same stuff for half the price, just a few km away in Bangkok (e.g. Patpong night market versus MBK). For male prostitution, you have to travel to Pattaya to find the same service at reasonable prices.

Badboy's June Trip to Bangkok (better with apostrophe) I consider Asiatique a tourist trap. Hopefully not. Bad enough this can be done elsewhere in Thailand, unethical treatment of animal. The lesser known water markets maybe, the famous ones (Ampawa, Damnoen Saduak) are tourist traps. Reclining Buddha (not leaning Buddha, not sleeping Buddha - Buddha does not sleep!).

The amount of money in the wallet is not visible from outside. Songkran 2013, my passport was stolen. The thief probably would have preferred my wallet, and so had I (cheaper and less hassle than getting a new passport). How did that work? Did the thieves return to the same spot, and key the stolen wallet on them? "Stealing for dummies": change locations and instantly hide the stolen item.