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What is the closing time for bars now?

Au contraire, gender is unimportant for receptionists as their main job is to make change for my bill. As long as they can count accurately is all that matters. In fact an ugly/female receptionist will save me money from giving them extra tips, which means more budget for the actual specimens on stage.

Also very true for the rentboy market

Telephone Bar in dire straits Chayanggurn Ardam, 54, the owner of Telephone Bar in Silom Soi 4, said he has now reached breaking point. His bar was heavily affected by the "service venue" ban in the first round during which he estimates he lost 90% of his customers, nearly all of whom were foreigners. "When the border closed, everything started to collapse," he said. A shareholder of this 34-year-old bar decided not to carry on, which left him in a vulnerable position. https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2064135/round-2-hits-just-as-hard

This is why Pelosi pushed so hard for impeachment. A simple majority of Dems (which they have) can bar Trump from running for office again in 2024. Highly unlikely they can recruit 17 Republicans for the two thirds needed to actually convict.

No evidence either that Sinovac in particularly (reportedly the lowest rate of efficacy among all vaccines bar Sputnik V from Russia) eliminates COVID. I suggest you still travel with extreme care Randomly, in blind trials I assume they would notify you at some stage what you received otherwise placebo recipients would continue to be vulnerable?

Could you share what hotel you were in? Did you get to choose?

Such a pleasure to read a full report. We have been starved all year

I saw this too. How to obtain COVID insurance, have it clearly documented and acceptable to the Thai customs is a mystery to me.

New sign at Moonlight. Doesn’t Babe look...disproportionately large?

There are some hot guys at Prince since my last visit. This one in particular caught my eye

Absolutely, but this is due to the pandemic rather than the desired target audience. My understanding is that there are gay bars for a local audience and before the pandemic the Thai customers mostly steered clear of Silom gogos. The boys themselves told me that Thais rarely come to the bars and they hardly had any Thai customers. Now, all customers are Thai with the exception of expats. My assumption was that the prices were a deterrent but equally possible Thai customers don’t like being in an environment packed with farang and Chinese. I was recently told as well, Thai customers who are drinking in the go go bars get concessions like waived cover charge and bottle discount because often they are friends of mamasan or owners. Regardless I am grateful they are keeping my favorite bars in business

Or are employed by the business

I have always felt very welcomed at hi-so clubs and in fact made aware of how desired foreign dollars are. So I think dual pricing is just an effort to squeeze as much money from foreigners who have limited clubbing options which are easy for English speakers. Even local clubs are welcoming though slightly taken aback if you do not speak Thai at all. Not xenophobia like Japan which is true.

The rub is that go go bars are actually designed for foreign not Thai audiences. The entry fees are priced to deter Thai customers who have other local options that foreigners will not know about. Only the well-off Thais will be willing to pay this entry fee and drink prices which is exorbitant by local standards. And for the truly wealthy gay Thais, well there are on-call options aplenty if you know what I mean. The premium go go boys go go to them. So if they started discounting prices for Thais then it would be warning bells that they no longer considered us foreigners their best source of revenue. And as you know, Thais go to drink with a million friends so pretty soon we would be squeezed out by loud ladyboys en masse. This happened once at Moonlight. It was not pretty. They were fondling some of the boys who hurled themselves at me and my friends in desperation.

I stand to be corrected. Should Jupiter or Moonlight or any of my favorite bars try to enforce double pricing I would be furious

The reasoning for cultural sites and certain attractions is that citizens pay taxes which contribute to its upkeep, therefore they in return receive free entry. This is common practice globally, where museums and cultural sites offer free access to citizens and sell tickets to others (eg Louvre, Versailles for EU residents - at least when I was there several years ago. It may have changed since). Also a more historical theory is that cultural monuments should be freely accessed by the people they were built to serve, no matter income brackets so that no one should be deprived of culture and hygiene. This dates back to the Romans. Free access to culture was also one way of affirming the legitimacy and might of the rulers, for instance Napoleon trucking back sculptures from Egypt to awe the masses. I agree this altruism has been distorted in Thailand, where nightclubs can in no way be seen as great cultural monuments nor is the taxpayer argument feasible here! I wouldn’t go as far as saying xenophobia but greed and discrimination, definitely particularly at national parks etc. For nightclubs, I have no sympathy for foreigners complaining they can’t afford entry. Don’t go.

I think this dual pricing practice has been going for a long time extends to tourist attractions and other venues too. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1949692/foreigners-take-aim-at-dual-pricing

This is nothing new, foreigners are ID checked at most major nightspots and ordered to buy bottles at the door. They also have an uncanny ability to distinguish other Asians from Thais, and spot go go boys entering with customers. The boys are welcomed like old friends, their customers are shown the priciest drinks. Fortunately DJ Station is exempt from this practice ! Babe from Moonlight is a fan of Barbarbar because it is sufficiently hi-so!

This doesn’t make sense. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines are all exploding with cases despite being on the same latitude. Singapore is a case study, having controlled the virus extremely well in the general community but huge numbers in the closely confined dormitories. Conclusion can only be that it is about hygiene, precautions, isolating patients, mask-wearing, government regulations and proper social distancing. Not about warm countries.

For fans of Jack Maitri he has a nude photobook and video with Labour BKK. And from his interview with Moonlight apparently he is 193 cm tall.

Turns out this charmer has a police record in Missouri. With this history, the hotel manager was very lucky that the only thing fired off was a bad review. https://thethaiger.com/news/national/the-man-who-wrote-the-bad-reviews-for-the-koh-changs-sea-view-resort-has-a-criminal-record

Being stabbed might be too much of a challenge

I am told the customer handing out money garlands is a customer of Babe. No idea if it is a man or woman.

Did you stay for the show though? I believe more customers come at show time. I hope you don’t wait too long to off Babe! Your chances are highest now when the bar is still relatively empty. Was your twink from Moonlight or another bar?