anddy

yes it is open, but currently closes at 2am, same as DJ, which makes it pointless IMO

Apparently the developers are having problems with the last Eurotrash tourists refusing to remove their towels from the sun lounges around the pool…

The question I ask my friends.....when you were in your younger years, how did you treat the older guys in your "fun zones" and how do expect them (todays younger people) to treat  you now 🤔 
I'm glad there are massage shops, saunas and go go bars for that reason.

I find if I give equal weight to seeing that my partner has a good time, my chances of same go up, also.

I don't think rimming so alien to Thais, I see it in Thai porn, both semi-professional and home-made amateur stuff all the time. Maybe they just don't like to do it with hairy farang asses? Very understandable, I wouldn't either! It's a matter or, as it were, taste after all 😉

Fully agree with you, makes zero (political) sense and is the epitome of hipocrisy. However, this pretty much explains it - "this is how things are done around here"

Fully agree with you, makes zero (political) sense and is the epitome of hipocrisy. However, this pretty much explains it - "this is how things are done around here"

Fully agree with you, makes zero (political) sense and is the epitome of hipocrisy. However, this pretty much explains it - "this is how things are done around here"

I don't think rimming so alien to Thais, I see it in Thai porn, both semi-professional and home-made amateur stuff all the time. Maybe they just don't like to do it with hairy farang asses? Very understandable, I wouldn't either! It's a matter or, as it were, taste after all 😉

I don't think rimming so alien to Thais, I see it in Thai porn, both semi-professional and home-made amateur stuff all the time. Maybe they just don't like to do it with hairy farang asses? Very understandable, I wouldn't either! It's a matter or, as it were, taste after all 😉

Fully agree with you, makes zero (political) sense and is the epitome of hipocrisy. However, this pretty much explains it - "this is how things are done around here"

Fully agree with you, makes zero (political) sense and is the epitome of hipocrisy. However, this pretty much explains it - "this is how things are done around here"

you can have gonorrhea in your throat (an in fact in your anus, too) with hardly or no symptoms at all. A camera won't find that (stupid doctor to do that), but a swab with lab test. Very easy

you can have gonorrhea in your throat (an in fact in your anus, too) with hardly or no symptoms at all. A camera won't find that (stupid doctor to do that), but a swab with lab test. Very easy

you can have gonorrhea in your throat (an in fact in your anus, too) with hardly or no symptoms at all. A camera won't find that (stupid doctor to do that), but a swab with lab test. Very easy

that's true too, but guess I am not the right audience for that, then  
 
Again, I personally liked the John Burdett series, as well as the "22 Walks in Bangkok" already mentioned by Christian, excellent book and highly recommended. It's not simply sight-seeing walks like in a travel guide as you might expect from the title, but gives in-depth background to context and history of buildings and entire neighborhoods. Highly informative and yet not boring at all.

This could have been a very cool, atmospheric article, yet in my view it fails to accomplish that. I, too, read the Book "Bangkok Days" and have to agree with Christian in not having liked it. Not for the factual errors which I neither noticed nor would have cared about, but for failing to achieve what forrestreid said the purpose was: "what he was trying to get at was the SOUL of Bangkok". The fictional series "Bangkok Eight" by John Burdett (5 books) does a WAY better job at that. 
 
Both the book and the article are incoherent gibberish that pretends to try to capture soul and atmosphere by overusing weird adjectives. There is no theme, no story, no leitmotiv, no nothing. Thus, both left me wondering: what, exactly, is it that he wants to tell me here? The article fares slightly better in the second half, but still I fail to see the point. 
 
But thanks to forrestreid for sharing anyway!

joining the app just yesterday rings yet another alarm bell. DO NOT DO IT. 

joining the app just yesterday rings yet another alarm bell. DO NOT DO IT. 

joining the app just yesterday rings yet another alarm bell. DO NOT DO IT. 

spot on analysis. There were, in fact, some people and banners about political issues, especially gay marriage, legalization of sex work, but also and critically, issue 112. My Thai friend I was with, who is very royalist got very upset about that, asking what that had to do with gay issues. I tried to explain that gay issues are very political indeed in many respects and have always been ever since pride became a thing some 50 years ago. Prime example is gay marriage, doesn't get more political than that. But also various freedoms including a general freedom of expression and press freedom, which is let's say underdeveloped in Thailand (for 112 reasons, among others) and which the younger generation yearns for, gay or straight. But such arguments count for nothing for the "conservative" people if some holy thing is being involved.

joining the app just yesterday rings yet another alarm bell. DO NOT DO IT. 

I’m simply saying—as a gay man who has repressed his sexuality— I now can appreciate the cost of those years.
I’m heartened by the courage I witnessed on Silom yesterday by those who believe that change is indeed possible.
To quote T.E. Lawrence, “Nothing is written.”

Recently went to Thailand (mid May) and here are a few observations on what was a different Bangkok but also reassuringly familiar.
Thai Pass so easy and airport arrival and entry smoother and faster than ever.  
Bangkok is still really quiet, which brings advantages of low accommodation costs and always getting a seat in a restaurant. At times it is too quiet, that buzz of a big city and nightlife not there, but then there are advantages…..
I thought I was done with the Grand Palace and Wat Pho but an instinct it might be crowd free led to an 8.30 arrival with board member vinapu. And what a visit. It was like a private viewing!  We were less than six people in total viewing the Emerald Buddha, and had the hall of the reclining Buddha and many courtyards to OURSELVES. I now have some amazing photos recorded digitally such was length of time since last entry.  When we caught the boat back they had to radio for it to stop so few were the passengers waiting to head downstream.
I enjoy the show bars for the entertainment rather than the taking off and here they were largely reduced in spectacle but the glass half full were how many were trying their best to get going sometimes with very low audience members.  In Jupiter there were perhaps 25 brazing the air con at best and Moonlight on a Saturday had 15 at best and a much shorter show from only the models themselves.  There does seem even more of a clear demarcation between the more no holds barred (Tawan/Hot male) and the fashion model parade (Moonlight, Jupiter, New Twilight).  Be interesting to hear what relaxed opening and bigger visitor numbers brings. New Twilight has some money and energy behind it and is the most comfortable viewing experience, be interesting what next for them.
maybe half the massage shops are empty or gone but plenty of choice at the others and walk in spaces at Prime which is the quality offering. MBK really shows how hard times have been with less than half the units occupied esp the smaller outlets
I have some Thai friends and this saw a visit to Fake Club. This required a 120 baht swab test for entry with a nurse administering on the door.   Felt very down beat on entry to be literally first customers at 10.20pm, buy by midnight it must have been 100 plus and was good fun with lots of time to chat to some very attentive models including Spai who appears to have transferred from Jupiter.  A visit to DJ station on a Friday night with several Thai friends was the other extreme as it was so busy there were times you literally couldn’t move. It was like a subway train in peak rush hour. But this novelty was kinda fun after nearly three years.   Bit bizarre to wear a mask all week on empty streets then no mask in a packed, indoor night club.
As ever good to meet some new faces as well as the irrepressible @vinapu and also to catch up again with super guy and knowledgable @paulsfand @anddyover the week
My last night saw all bars closed for an election, so took chance to try the local Sauna Mania. It was very busy and 120 baht to enter and as probably the only Farang there lots of interest and opportunity  with no feeling of exclusion.
I did find the heat and humidity a bit constraining and wouldn’t rush back in May but once again found my time in BKk, and the few days spent exploring the North, as rewarding as ever.
So my advice is you only live once. go now before the world has come back, enjoy the quiet, and add to those special memories.
 

I always thought california kings or oversized beds in some hotel suites were irrelevant for most people but now i see the practical use of this lol