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and meet the objective to keep more of the tourist money in the Thai economy. Lately, the Thai baht has strengthened to around 33 baht to 1 USD - when back in October it was 38 baht for 1 USD. Let us see how high the Thai baht will go during this run ???

wow 12is12 - 2 things: 1.) I am impressed that you did not cancel any vowels in that above wonderful message. 2.) and having met you in prima persona, I can say it is true what you wrote :>)) I would add an additional proverb that may help in these street walking moments: "Eyes are the window of the soul"

WOW - that is really generous. From today until the end of this year, 31-Dec-2023, that would be 353 days or 11 months and 19 days. so, to go from 30 days to 353 days is INCREDIBLE!!

unless of course the purpose of your flight is to retire forever in Thailand - then it is a one way ticket (with a cheap outbound throw away ticket to a nearby country to make the bureaucrats happy).

There is a new Paradise Massage in the Jomtien Complex - I have not been there nor heard about any massage reviews. However, there have been some rumblings about a bad bathroom that can be accessed via the Paradise Massage for the customers in the nearby bars where there are NO bathroom facilities. I cannot comment on this hearsay NOR do I know if this new Paradise Massage place is affiliated with the one in Bangkok.

To lighten things up a bit regarding Covid - Jimmy Fallon from the Tonight Show in the USA doing a B-52 rendition of the Covid variant xbb.1.5

I attended this PCEC meeting and Barry Kenyon's presentation was excellent and VERY illuminating.

To lighten things up a bit regarding Covid - Jimmy Fallon from the Tonight Show in the USA doing a B-52 rendition of Covid variant xbb.1.5

I am happy to hear/learn that they change their underwear often :>))

Wow, this guy's Twitter feeds are full of interesting reviews of massage shops as well as masseurs. Twitter handle = @massageinside3

Just so you know I did have sex with one of the SiamRoad tour guides. I hired him and his partner and we had sex for 6 days. However, I understand that for many tour guides they do not wish to mix 'sex' with 'tours'. And that is ok, as their primary purpose is to be our tour guides :>))

Thanks to the primary 3 Thailand forums I have hired guides over the years that let it be known that their services are available. What I found were 2 different types of situations: - guide was ONLY for non sexual services - and I still enjoyed their company, knowledge sharing, tour guiding, etc. All of this was true with ONLY 1 exception where I encountered a non sex guide in Ho Chi Min (Saigon) city and when I finished with his good services I moved onto Phú Quốc island and he insisted to be my tour guide there as well. I told him NO - that I prefer to hire local tour guides as it renders the tours to be more meaningful in my opinion if the guide is from the local place as they can offer more insights and historical facts (this guide had NEVER been to Phú Quốc). Well, this guy would not take NO for an answer and after I arrived in Phú Quốc, he also arrived (me by air and him by bus/ferry). I refused to meet him and let him know where I was. So sad, as he was a really good guide in Saigon - but he became too possessive. Anyway, I hired a local guide from Phú Quốc, and he was GREAT (also non sexual but gay) - and thanks to him I had one of the BEST seafood meals that I ever had in my life in a rural fishing village. Two of these non-sexual gay tour guides made arrangements for me to find/have sex each evening - as they could arrange these encounters for me once I gave them my sexual program criteria. These happened in Hong Kong and in Seoul. In all counts, everything was perfect. - guide offered both sexual and tour guide services. In ALL cases these guides were great. We would tour all day and then at night we would have sex in the hotel -OR- he/they would take me to the local bar/club where we would off someone together. Their guide skills were excellent and in fact one was for a 7 day / 6 night tour all around northern Thailand where we drove around in their car. Again, an excellent vacation that I will always remember.

It is actually pretty amazing. The "top" carries around the "bottom" to various parts of the bar and continues to fuck him during each stop. I did not notice if he continued to fuck him while they were in-transit. The fucking became more intense once he placed the bottom onto a chair, customer's lap, etc. They would move from person to person after receiving the requisite tip.

I am confused Vinapu -- they were fully dressed in your bed ? is this a new fetish ? 55555

I hate this. The last several times that I have been there - there were perhaps 20 to 25 guys standing there on stage where only 3 or 4 were shirtless. And then at the end of the night by closing time - the only remaining guys on the stage are the ones still with there shirts on - as ALL of the shirtless guys had already been offed. I love BBB --> BUT, the last time I was there in December with fellow member, @spoon the music was truly unbearable - it was so loud I got a bit nauseated - the first time in life that loud music made me this way - I am sure that the decibels were WAY over the permitted limits. Consequently, I now prefer X-Boys in Pattaya - as the music is played at a more reasonable level and the guys who work there are more willing to be nude and more sexual. There is even the live fucking show where they fuck in the audience - even on your lap if you let them..... This is still on my bucket list - to bring a group of fun guys over to Koh Larn to have a day or two of fun.

I am glad that you met the charming Paul over at the Coqtale bar. I also have noticed that sometimes Paul's guys are taking off their shirts - perhaps it is a result of the "stiff" competition emanating from the shirtless (after 10pm) Double Shot guys. Hopefully I will see you soon at the Coqtale bar!

yes - that is what I did in the end. I had to cancel my subscription on my Grinder which was installed via the Google Playstore in the USA to my new Google account in Thailand using the Google Playstore Thailand app for Grindr - which is free. One of the benefits of meeting up with other forum members who are passing through - one of them (his privacy shall be respected for showing me this cool trick) proudly showed me how to get around the Grinder GPS limitation (or on any other app that has such limitation) - on the free version (where the view that you have is restricted to x number of KM from your current location) was to use a product called: f*a@k#e_G!P+S remove the non alphabetic characters from the above bolded word and you will find this amazing program to install on your phone.

I cancelled my paid Grindr subscription yesterday. My mother died last year and I had to have an extended stay in the USA in a suburban location without much gay life - so that is why I joined Grindr. The monthly fee in USD is more than the annual fee for Hornet - crazy expensive and I don't see that this premium pricing is getting me more sex. I get most of my sex via my main Thai massage guy who organizes encounters with other sexy guys for me. Back in Europe, I got 95% of my sex from PlanetRomeo. In Vietnam it was mainly from Blued. So, Grindr was chucked into the waste bin as part of my many New Year's resolutions.

Something I have ALWAYS wanted to become a club member of but never happened. The closest that I ever got was to have the privilege to live in the "Mile High" city for 13 years. You were DEFINITELY Father Christmas to this guy - very nice!!

Your wish is granted Vinapu. Those 3 guys are in fact ALL offable. The one with the peace sign I got to know thanks to the guy here in Jomtien that organizes my 4 hands massages for me. I had a crush on him and through subsequent 4 hand massages without my main guy - I got to know his "partner in crime" - the one standing behind the sliding glass doors. They do EXCELLENT synchronized 4 hand massages and the ending is like a New Year's Eve firework display :>)) For the other 2 that you nominated I have not been with them but it was made clear to me that they can be offed :>))

Since I am still fairly new here in Thailand as a recent retiree - I would like to share with you my first Thailand New Year's Eve period to get your feedback. Part ONE - New House Blessing On 29 December and 30 December - a gay couple (Thai + Lao) that I know bought a new flat in the Life City Park over in Bo Win in Rayong. They can be seen in the below first photo - the one in the green t-shirt making the peace sign and his partner inside the house standing up and pointing. The monks were coming to the home early on the 30th so they asked me to sleep there on the 29th to guarantee my presence. I still don't have a car or motorcycle and we checked BOLT and its dependability on big distances like this during the crowded holiday period would not guarantee my arrival in time. So, on the night of the 29th about 30 of their friends and family stopped by or slept there ( 16 people slept in the actual house as they also came from far away ). They finished the food preparation for the next day and we celebrated by eating some of it for dinner on the floor on floor mats. At my age, it takes me some effort to sit like that as my body is now more rigid than when I was young. Are you able to sit and eat like them on the floor ?? The food was really good and I ate some things that I NEVER have eaten before. They even warned me to NOT use the hot sauce but I insisted on trying it anyway - and yes I sweated after eating it. Morning came and the 5 monks arrived and they sat in the living room on the floor on special mats that were delivered from the local Buddhist temple. My friends had to move out of the living and dining room areas all of their furniture. Conveniently, as this is a new housing complex, the house immediately next to them is vacant so they used that patio to put all of their furniture. While the monks were praying and blessing inside the house the most important people of the 40 in attendance were busy preparing the monk's meals in special silver ornate metal bowls - also delivered ahead of time from the local Buddhist temple. The part that most amazed me was the "opening of the third eye" - like right out of a science fiction film - as we don't give much attention to our individual third eyes in our Western world. So, the designated Buddha statue is given to the main primary monk where he makes this statue "operational" by opening up its third eye with a special Buddhist blessing. I believe that the third eye is like an antennae to our higher spiritual being (or creator). While the monk was performing this exercise, the hairs on my arm stood up as I found it so moving. I need to discover more about our dormant Western third eye. Do any of you reading this use your third eye?? I believe that it is located in the center of your forehead above your nose. Then the BIG event - the primary main monk got up on a chair above the main entrance of the house to paint / etch with a special golden pen a symbol that, according to my Thai friend, states that this house has been blessed and that evil is not welcome here. This process of etching and then placing seals on the etched insignia took quite a while and the gay couple had to stay on their knees for quite a while to support the chair that the monk was standing on to ensure his safety. Lastly, the monks then went through each of the rooms sprinkling "holy" spiritual water ( it is probably sacrilegious to use the word holy to describe what I saw in the Buddhist religion ) and then they exited the house to sprinkle this religious water on each of us to bless us. They used a type of bamboo bundle of sticks to do it and I was told that the religious water is prepared back at the Buddhist temple. Have any of you had similar Buddhist monk experiences in your time in Thailand ? This ends part one of my lead up to my Dec 2022 New Year's celebrations. Part TWO - Condo holiday party etiquette About a week ago the condo where I live solicited for donations to pay for a New Year's Day party for the staff (maintenance, security, gardeners, administration, etc.). What I found weird is that the notice was directed towards condo owners. So I felt excluded as I rent here. So I called the number and I spoke to the organizer and she told me - well we don't include renters - as our past experience is that renters don't want to make donations as they are not owners. I asked her if I could make a donation as I am made to feel VERY welcome here by all of the condo complex staff here. She was quite surprised that I even cared about the condo complex building staff - as she said that they even have difficulties in getting donations from the actual condo owners. The condo staff offer a great service. For example, if I am having difficulties coming home from shopping they are right at the BOLT taxi to help me get into the elevator and up to my condo - you never have to ask them. If they see you coming for the elevator they hold the door open to make sure that you can enter. Two times that I needed maintenance in my condo - the maintenance team was at my condo within 1 to 2 hours after my request. Every day when I go in and out they are always smiling and saying hello. We used to have this kind of concierge service in our large condo buildings in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s - before the ravages of self-service in the USA came and all of these types of normal services were either taken away as cost cutting measures or made to be very expensive for the select few who could afford them. Living here in a Jomtien condo building is a real treat - especially if you are a baby boomer who remembers the good old days. Being in the holiday spirit, I decided to take a personal initiative where I would prepare and give each condo staff member a personal card from me saying how much I appreciated their professional service and as a new retiree here that they make me feel special, welcome, and belonging to a great condo complex. Firstly, I had to find money cards. These are easily found back in Europe and in the USA during the holiday season. I had great difficulties finding something equivalent. I traveled over to Pattaya city and walked around until in a Mr. DIY shop at the Pattaya Avenue complex I found ornate Chinese money cards ( as the Chinese New Year will arrive at the end of January ) that were perfect and super cheap. Then onto my home computer to write the perfect thank you message in English and then to translate it from English to Thai and then back from Thai back to English to see what could be tweaked to make sure that I deliver a correct and meaningful message. Then the printing of the messages in both English and Thai that would fit into the size of the small money card envelopes. Then the ironing of the baht bank notes that I collected so that they would feel crisp, clean, and new. And then the assembly of the complete package - illustrated in the below photo collage. Before heading over to Bo Win for the above mentioned house blessing I went around lunch time downstairs to the main floor where the hive of activity is by our condo workers and I started to distribute them to everyone I could find. And when I could not find someone the staff were already calling them from their work duty station to come to the lobby to collect their holiday note gift. The smiles on their individual faces and kind words in their limited English - truly made my holiday the best!! In fact, one of the security guys - every time he sees me he taps his shirt pocket ( as he showed me that he stored my note in his pocket ) and says thank you - I will never forget you. Truly a blessing to live here as a new retiree. So, do any of you who live in a large condo building have any similar experiences? I am curious to know how your condo building team that takes care of you every day is treated. Part THREE - New Year's Eve festivities Around 10:30pm I headed over to the Jomtien Supertown Complex to join my 2 Thai friends at the massage shop where they work - they had already been drinking for quite a while and kept asking me when am I coming to join them. I wanted to start late as I was sure that I would suffer a hangover the next day. They were already dancing in front of their massage shop and I immediately joined in - and got about 20 minutes of dancing in. We drank until 11:45pm when we headed over to Dongtan beach to watch the local fireworks and the massive launching of the flying lanterns - the sky was amazingly alit and the beach was full of happy people. -->> sorry about the crappy third photo - as Koh Larn is quite far away - my mobile phone camera did not do a good job of capturing the amazing Koh Larn fireworks - but with the naked eye they were still breathtaking. What was also amazing to note is that there was a dual firework show put on by Pattaya city with simultaneous fireworks on Koh Larn. From Dongtan beach we could see the fantastic (although distant) Koh Larn island fireworks. However, from Dongtan beach it was not possible to see the Pattaya city fireworks due to the curvature of the beach and Pratumnak hill. So we were truly immersed in 2 sets of fireworks and floating lanterns. We hugged and kissed at the conclusion of the countdown and remained a little while to take in all of the amazing sights. Then we walked back into the Jomtien Complex and walked through the main covered section which by now was heaving with a TON of people and there was a blockage in the main walkway as The Palace bar had constructed a dance floor that protruded out into the main walkway. You had to kind of climb over one of the edges of the dance floor to proceed to our destination, which was the Coqtale bar to say hello to our friend Paul and then to hopefully dance in the Double Shot bar. At this end of the complex - near the Poseidon hotel/restaurant the complex had a reasonable noise level and we could truly talk with each other and hear each other. My fantasy to dance in the Double Shot bar was not going to happen as the Double Shot bar was kind of subdued in my opinion ( whereas, on other nights it was more energetic and there were some people dancing ) - so dancing was not on the menu tonight. The only dancing would be to return to the madness of The Palace and the loud noise so we just decided to remain at the Coqtale bar until closing time. Before I knew it, Paul (the bar manager) said to me, hey you need to go as we need to close the bar before the police come. I looked at my phone and it was already 2:30 in the morning. Wow!! the night flew by. So I said good by to everyone and then walked home - and woke up very late the next day with a hangover. Had I been able to dance - I am sure that by dancing I would have burned off some of the excess alcohol and I would have had less of a hangover. How were all of your New Year's Eve celebrations ?

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Excellent New Year's resolution. I look forward to reading your (and all forum member) future trip reports. Happy New Year!!

What you write is true. The structure of the 3 primary forums: GayButton, SawatdeeNetwork, and GayGuides are not curated in such a way to put things into their proper sub categories. The categorization is too broad and consequently, the ONLY way to obtain the information that you are looking for needs to be manually done via the search query functions within each of the 3 forums and then to try to find the relevant information that you are looking for. To curate and manage these 3 forums at this late stage would require a TON of painstaking work and would probably be best suited to librarians who have worked on book cataloguing. Of course, the 3 forums would need to be categorized into unified subject/topics (massage, offs, boy/guy bars, lodging/hotels, retirement, visas, etc.). Currently they are categorized into regions - like South America, Asia, Europe, etc. If these forums were to be reborn today - it would be SO much easier to get them to where it would be easier to ferret out the wonderful and useful information that is already stored in these archives. This topic reminds me of the final scene in the film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" infinite warehouse......

Thanks Moses for sharing this Woody update with all of us. You may remember that many years ago I suggested that Woody become a part of your Siamroads.com initiative. I cannot recommend Woody high enough. I have done 2 trips with Woody - the first one was in January 2014 for just a couple of days. Please see my below 2014 trip report with Woody: Woody Chiang Mai tour January 2014 And my 2nd BIG trip with Woody in July 2015 - which I believe I hired Woody for 5 nights and 6 days where we saw a large portion of the north western part of Thailand. Woody July 2015 mega tour (6 days) Enjoy