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  1. 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.

  2. 2 hours ago, TotallyOz said:

    I did not tell him we were flying Business class until we were at the airport. He was beyond thrilled but did not realize totally why until we were on the plane. He was so happy he became part of the Mile High Club and I was happy to make him happy and he was happy to make me happy (so to speak).

    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.

    2 hours ago, TotallyOz said:

    it felt good to help a boy that I know will never be a bf but just a friend. He is on the trip of a lifetime and just knowing I had a little something to do with it, is a nice feeling.

    You were DEFINITELY Father Christmas to this guy - very nice!!

  3. 1 hour ago, vinapu said:

    2. three guys on the first plan with exception of yellow shirt look handsome and highly offable  (if they were in another setting of course)

    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  :>))

  4. 13 hours ago, 12is12 said:

    May u have a happy year of travels and sex,

    Bring happpiness to providers who make us happy,

    And share here tales of said happiness!!!

    Excellent New Year's resolution.

    I look forward to reading your (and all forum member) future trip reports.

    Happy New Year!!

  5. 1 hour ago, young11 said:

    a lot of info available here but in many different posts, so hard to keep track of them and find what you really want because it takes forever to find the info. I think it might be better if we find a way to sort information so that someone new to the scene can get it done quickly.

    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......

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  6. 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

  7. 3 hours ago, vinapu said:

    There are also clouds on horizon, not sure is owing to my attitude , age , perceived stinginess or God knows what , certainly not lack of hygiene, but I had few times when boys did not want to go with me , at least initially or after 1st encounter weren’t keen on repeat even if I was. Sore example  was Senso guy who took pains to avoid looking at me altogether next time I visited. Perhaps I should take more seriously my  own advice to hire only and exclusively guys who are smiling at me. That’s my New Year resolution, honestly.

    Oh Vinapu - I also recently had this dilemma here in Pattaya.  @spoon is a witness during his recently completed visit here.  We went together a couple of nights to X-Boys and we had GREAT times there.  It was their 13th anniversary and one of the nights it was full house with NO empty seats.  So, I get so goo-goo gaa-gaa for one of the X-Boys dancers.  I call him over to sit with us and we start caressing and kissing (I rarely kiss like that) each other in the bar on 2 distinct nights.  I made @spoon crazy by only talking about my X-Boy guy.  As I prefer afternoon or early evening in-home encounters I invited my X-Boy guy to my place.  Well, guess what - he is cold and not kissy or romantic at my place.  I am so confused - as he was the complete opposite in the X-Boy bar and even showing off when we were together to his other X-Boy colleagues.  One night after the bar closed - he asked me to stay and he danced on the stage pointing to me.  To this day, I cannot figure out what went wrong?  I have to admit - that with my clothes on I am a fairly good looking guy.  However, when I am naked I am less attractive (no gym and resulting belly) - so perhaps him seeing me naked put him off ?

    So, even though he was smiling at me - like you write - something just did not work out when the big moment arrived in my place.  Did we have sex?  Yes.  Was it good?  Yes.  But, it was more cold and mechanical and was missing the "romantic" part that he displayed within the walls of his X-Boys bar.  Perhaps that is the way he fishes?  The temporary romance is part of the charm (bait) to capture his prey (fish)  ???

  8. 23 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

    Seventh. With one or two exceptions, the bars have failed to accept that their market is changing. They can not exist by continuing to try appealing to ageing farang. The new Immigration financial requirements brought in 3 years ago rule out retirement in Thailand for more than a few. Brits, for example, who used to make up quite a number of the Pattaya expat community. I have no idea of the numbers now but most older Brits can not meet a regular monthly 65,000 baht income; even less have the ability to lock up 800,000 baht for 5 months of each year and 400,000 for the rest.

    Lastly, the copycat mentality whereby one bar is more or less the same as the next virtually ensures a continual downhill slide.  To quote the late great Ethel Merman, "you gotta have a gimmick." Bar owners need something that marks them out as different and appealing, just as Barbiery was different from Twilight in the early 1990s. It seems Nice Boys has it, although virtually all the boys seem to be straight. Winner seemed to have it with its concentration on twinks. As for others, all I know is what I read here.

    I @PeterRS - I think your 2 above points really hit the nail on the head.

    You see this at play in the Jomtien Complex - each bar - one after the other - repeats the same format - as if they are cloned.  Then they all start with the same mantra, "falang sitdown - falang drink" - I like to stand for a while when I enter a new place because when I am encouraged to sit down I start to feel lethargic and my energy rapidly dissipates.  I even try to push back by saying why does falang need to sit?  The response is that this is the desired format in the Complex.  By who??

    Also, in discussing this issue with one of the bar managers - as to why the format is expected to be the same amongst the bars - the response was to not upset the apple cart and to keep a single type of unified format - as he said that in the Thai culture it is not recommended to go against the grain.  But I replied, many of these bars are owned or financed by falangs - surely they can influence the format to be different - as they come from many different Western countries ???

    The only bar that I see pushing the envelope towards something "extreme" (for Jomtien Complex - as this would not be considered extreme in other places like Sunee, Boyztown or Bangkok) is where in the Double Shot bar the masculine hosts take off their shirts and remain bare chested from 10pm forward.  You can even have these guys sit with you and they encourage your to touch/play with their nude torsos.  When the other bars push back saying that there must be conformity as that is the Thai way - I say, well - what about Double Shot?? - they are not following the Complex standard ???  Then there is silence and the conversation goes dead.

    So, @PeterRS, this leads me to believe that the Ethel Merman / Barbiery approach could still work - you just need to have the courage to do it and to go against the established grain.....

     

  9. 1 hour ago, vinapu said:

    We developed procedure in May and sticked to it so no threesome but two sets twosomes through the night.

    I used a similar procedure many years ago when I took 3 guys back to my room from Nice Boys in Sunee.  They would not do it with each other so we did one at a time until I was super exhausted.  It was truly a lot of fun as the guys were crazy comparing notes between our intervals.

  10. On 12/19/2022 at 8:19 AM, vinapu said:

    This visit to Laos was fourth part of my trip to SE Asia which started with very short stay in Bangkok reported here:

     https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38515-shortest-trip-ever-but-still-blood-pressure-rising-report/ 

    Followed by 10 days in Cambodia reported here:

     https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38619-guys-and-ruins-ruins-and-boys-trip-to-cambodia-in-oct-2022 

    and then 8 days in Thailand reported here :

    Vinapu - firstly, compliments on your thread handling for all of your trip reports.  I would suggest that your trip reports serve as models for us to be the standard - as you provide for proper navigation between segments - especially when you have many trips (multi country) occurring in one single visit.  It makes for great navigational continuity and more importantly, will be useful as the years pass and we need to recall the history and/or trip report out of its archive as we are going to plan our own trip to the related areas.

    Secondly, thanks for augmenting your trip reports with your lovely photos - as the images help reinforce the words being expressed.

  11. 1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

    Finals have traditionally been pretty drab affairs as neither team wants to lose. Last night Argentina took to the pitch and dominated as though determined to win. Could the French have come back without Mbappe? Messi crowned his career and will retire from international football a Club and national hero. Celebrating his 24th birthday tomorrow, Mbappe is unquesionably the hero of the future.

    Yes - Messi finally got what he deserved and can retire with a BIG happy smile.

    Mbappe will be interesting to follow especially with his alleged transgender partner !

  12. 52 minutes ago, vinapu said:

    I like my guys older so usually they are long in teeth when comes to their job, this time it was refreshingly different. I also liked to see my gentle side , lol. It was rewarding to see hesitance melting and even more when  time come to give a tip. Smile was wide and I have feeling ever since he will like his new calling. I walked him, visibly relaxed and happy it’s over back to the bar

    It is nice to learn / hear about your gentle side  :>))

  13. 2 hours ago, foresttrip said:

    It sounds like the scene in Phuket is still pretty quiet, so I might just go to Pattaya instead. I thought it would be fun to find beautiful beaches and cute twinks in Phuket, but if there are better boy options in Pattaya, I'll just do that instead.

    Hello foresttrip.

    Since your original objective was to meet cute twinks and see beautiful beaches in Phuket - and now you are leaning more towards going to Pattaya - please read my trip report (see below hyperlink) from November where I visited beautiful Koh Larn - the island that is directly in front of Pattaya city - which is only a 20 minute speed boat away or 40 minute ferry ride.  The beaches on Koh Larn are beautiful - but not as beautiful as in Phuket.  However, Koh Larn has transparent turquoise blue water with wonderful white sand beaches.

    my recent report on Koh Larn - the island that is directly in front of Pattaya

    If during your visit to Pattaya you want to make a day trip or overnight trip over to Koh Larn - let me know as I am itching to return to Koh Larn.

  14. 12 hours ago, macaroni21 said:

    What we need are a couple more places with the easy-going atmosphere of Tawan, but differentiating themselves by having twinks, boys-next-door, etc so as not to compete directly against each other.

    Not only in Bangkok but also over here in Pattaya - Jomtien.

    As a newly retired guy here in Jomtien - what is disconcerting is the lack of synergy to sustain the 3 distinct areas - Sunee, Boyztown, and the Jomtien Complex.

    ONLY the Jomtien Complex has a unifying website augmented with Twitter feeds to promote their 30 bars and social activities that take place in the Complex.  Both Boyztown and Sunee are intentionally left out of this website and consequently, Boyztown and Sunee need to fend for themselves.  Sunee is almost dead and lifeless and Boyztown is much smaller than in the previous decades.

    10 hours ago, floridarob said:

    There is no one behind us replacing us.....When I'm traveling in the US, I rarely see young guys on the apps.....like the quote below shows, they don't know how to socialize and with all the free porn online,,,,,,

    Researchers have found that Generation Z is less likely to be having regular sex than their parents and grandparents. At least one expert has linked this phenomenon to increasing rates of social isolation in the current “loneliness epidemic.”

    This is something that I cannot understand.  Don't the generations that come after us also want sex ?  relationships?  to travel and live in places outside of their native countries ?

    I fear that we (us in these forums) will be the last men standing and then after we die - everything will just evaporate as dust into the wind.....

    Or, is it that the youngsters of today have found other destinations? (Canary Islands, Mykonos, Ibiza ??)  even this list is probably dated - as I have no connections with the younger generations.

    I do note that there is a large contingent of young Russians here in Pattaya - Jomtien - so perhaps they will maintain our institutions (Sunee, Boyztown, Jomtien Complex) when we die off ??

  15. 1 hour ago, vinapu said:

    I was left with no option that drawing  his attention to fact that being glued on the phone all the time and ignoring me is not what I’m paying for . Answer was quiet and composed “ If I can’t use my phone  I’m going back to Pattaya “.  “ I won’t be holding you back” I said. In few minutes  he was packed , said “ have a good luck” and was gone. I don’t know why but I gave him his 4000 for the time as agreed originally.

    I was not upset nor pissed off, in fact I felt sad for him as clearly this addiction spinned out of control and beyond logic. Who that way would waste  option of making 12000 in 3 days ?  In fact it would be 4000 more since my plan was to give him 1000 extra per night if all will go well. Obviously one of  my most favorite guys of all time is in deep trouble but I can’t be taken for a ride to that extend. I’d feel bad for myself. So when he left I was relieved that I cut short  such affair.    

    This guy definitely has a social media addiction.  Having met him with you when you were here BEFORE either of us knew about his addiction - he is definitely one of the TOP hotties in BoyzBoyzBoyz (BBB).  He is one of the FEW guys who takes his shirt off (with his impressive torso) in BBB lineup when the guys are making themselves available to the audience.  It is SO sad that he is most likely not even aware of his addiction and how it is negatively impacting his future earnings.  Since you left, each time I see him in BBB it all comes back to me this story that you shared with us today .....

    To be honest, I wanted to chase after him (as he is also my type) after you had left Thailand - and I knew that the he would be available - but I just could not - as this story was too much of a turnoff for me so I just moved onto other hotties....

  16. 44 minutes ago, vinapu said:

    last December , post-covid that spirit was revived when Castro and BBB co-operated to have one show in the soi , outside of bars. Actually it was fun, show ended well before midnight so no sleep disruption. 

    why did they stop?

    Was it a temporary cooperation because of covid restrictions ?

    they should reinstate this co-operated behavior - it would make BT a more happening and happier place.

  17. 12 hours ago, vinapu said:

    Third consideration is length of stay. Resident has is easy as has time to search and even more important has time to built pool of  available  guys , not to mention getting volume discount.

    This is SO true.  Now that I live here I can take it slow and decide with whom I want to make my regulars.  Prior to retiring here - I felt rushed to take an off because each day that I did not was a day closer to when my flight to return back to Europe was approaching.  So, I tried to maximize my acquisitions during my vacation.  Now, I am lucky if I have 3 per week and that is ok with me - no rush, better selection, and less pressure.  For the monetary part, I pay on the upper acceptable range as I have got to know many of the guys and I check up on them regularly and their income streams are VERY erratic.  It is VERY rare that they "get lucky" every single day.  Sometimes they don't have a customer for 4 days.  I definitely feel for them.

  18. Dear 12is12,

    These were GREAT daytime adventures that we had together.

    They are witness to the fact that there is SO much to do, see, explore, and experience in Pattaya - Jomtien OUTSIDE of the nightlife scene.

    Also, this is a GREAT response to OldDaddy's previous post when he questioned, "What do expat retirees who live in Jomtien do beside staring at the beach from their condo balcony". Implying that we would get bored.

    I am now here 3 months and I can attest that there is always something to go and see and do, and there is little time to be bored.

    And yes, I do also cherish my time sitting on my condo balcony staring at the vastness of the beautiful sea.

  19. Perhaps this place that I walk by almost every day might have what you are looking for.  

    Mai Pang motorbike - VERY close to your hotel The Agate - and right next door to the famous Soda Massage in the Jomtien Complex.

     

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