Olddaddy

Friday evening Tawan  bar packed for the show at 10.30.had few, Ok, four, boys sitting with me and one of them noticed that i'm only one of three farangs in audience.
Show included ,ahem, special show ,passive was one of their  twinks  of whom I counted six including original one ,Mas. Again I think it's friendliest bar of them all, BananaClub ,surprisingly perhaps considering fearsome Lucy is mamasaning there  being second.

just go, it's only 1 hr flight, certainly worth day or three. Take massage at Classic House. If you lucky one of their boys may even ask you to buy him a new phone. Happened to me and strangely perhaps I was happy about it, extracting free long time and some commuting in the city

Let's say i have a reason for a somewhat positive opinion of Dreamboys - perhaps the only reason for going there every visit to Bkk 😀😀. Mind you my time inside there was limited as I had spent at least 30 minutes wandering the Soi outside hoping to catch a glimpse of famous Colonel Sanders look alike who I understand patronises nearby world renowned eatery

talking about yourself ? is not  gentlemanly to boast about one's achievements

I did not know people live that long

The people who run these companies want to know if you had a poor experience so they can make corrections. You don't need to write a 3 page letter, but if the driver is doing unsafe things the owner should want to know about it. If something bad happens it would ruin their company

I've always found a good fantasy to be  the safest, easiest and cheapest answer to such problems.

And write a 3 page complaint letter 👍

💚 I feel for you
I hope you can get over this , it happens but doesn't mean it will happen again 
Gay saunas are another alternative to Grindr 
Believe me it's happened to a lot of us even in places like Thailand 

Yes, X Boys show at 23:00 in Pattaya.

Website at X Boys says show at 11:00/23:00.  I will ask my friends who went and enjoyed the show.

Not Bangkok, but in Pattaya heard that X Boys has a sexy show.

You think I wanted the last word ?  Dont be silly, whatever would make you think THAT ???
 
Feel free to carry on and knock yourself out, I don't retire until I'm 66 and based on reading your drivel posts YOU seems to have plenty ( WAY  TOO MUCH) time on your hands anyway, so I guess if it keeps you occupied you just carry on there my good man !
 

Let me start by saying how much I really enjoy @macaroni21's posts and longer comments on the shamlessmack site. I still have copies of his guide to masseur types and the ground plan he posted years ago about his ideal Bangkok go-go bar. if only someone could have taken him up on his suggestion!
As for Bali, I agree with his comments about Ubud. I now find it much overrated but then my memories go much further back, although not nearly as far as @Marc in Calif. My first trip there was in 1981 when I stayed in the Campuan Hotel just over the bridge at the end of town on the way to Sayan. It was merely a large wooden building which incorporaed the admin offices and an open dining room. Each accommodation was a simple hut on the hillside with gauze for windows and buckets with holes in the base for showers. The hope was you could raise the bucket high enough to get some water before it emptied!
Yet I loved that hotel and its wonderfully friendly staff. There was a western style bar nearer the bridge and just over it Murni's Cafe with superb honey drenched yoghurt with fruit! I returned 10 times over the next five years. Wandering through the rice paddies you could make out the sound of gamelin playing in several villages. There was virtually no sex but it was the culture of the island that totally gripped me. Yet it was starting to become clear that more and more tourists were visiting. So I stopped going. The charms of Bangkok had won me over some years earlier and so I concentrated my future visits in Thailand.
I did return in with my bf in 2005 as he was desperate to see Bali. I was reluctant but gave in. I found the island almost overrun and the peace I had enjoyed two decades earlier had all but disappeared - even in Ubud. But then that is just how tourism works. I was saddened by that visit, but remain thrilled at my meories of earlier times.

Yes, the website Utopia and the gay and lesbian Utopia complex off Sukhumvit were both operated by John Goss.   Utopia had a building with a bookshop, guesthouse, and a cafe on Sukhhumvit soi 23.  The building currently houses a Thai restaurant named Jutharos.  It is located a couple blocks from soi Cowboy.  The exact location can be seen on Google maps at  https://tinyurl.com/ybnb8jvn

I stayed in one of the Utopia guesthouse rooms in either 1995 or 1996.  I had offed a boy from the Hippodrome Bar in Saphan Kwai, and we stayed at the Utopia guesthouse room for a few days before we traveled together to Ko Samui.  

Incidentally, the boy that stayed with me at the Utopia guesthouse turned out to be a model featured in Midway magazine, one of the publications mentioned earlier in this thread.

I remember the Utopia cafe served a very tasty khao soi, the Lanna Thai noodle curry soup that is somewhat difficult to find outside of northern Thailand.

John Goss also took the hundreds of excellent photos for the book "Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture" by Philip Cornwel-Smith.  The book is available on Amazon.  It is worth a look if you are interested in Thai culture and everyday Thai life.
 

They ask for a deposit via bank transfer before booking anyone.

I’ve been following this shop on Line and find myself impressed with videos. 
LINE: Apollo Massage BTS Bearing
 

There were indeed quite a few of these booklets, often with interesting information. But with respect I think your memory is not quite accurate regarding the Australian taken to Court. If we are referring to the same incident, there is an excellent report of it here - https://web.archive.org/web/20050606015724/http:/www.yawningbread.org/arch_2005/yax-435.htm 
For those not interested in wading through a very long article, the bare bones were these. Some may recall a travel company in the early 2000s named Utopia Tours with its office based in the Tarntawan Hotel (it actually started business in 1998). It organised gay-themed tours to various parts of Asia with gay guides, although only the guides for the evening tours took patrons to gay venues. I remember it well because it organised excellent tours to Phnom Penh and Luang Prabang for me.
In March 2004, police raided the company's office alleging they were on the lookout for companies arranging sex tours for pedophiles. This was total nonsense. It was based on the flimsiest of grounds and only because they had seen some free gay magazines on a table in the shop. It was titled 'Thai Guys'. All the company's computers and files were removed and all but one of the staff detained overnight. As is usual in this country, the following day there was a media conference with the 'evidence' placed in a table in front of the accused directors, Douglas Thomson, John Goss and Robert Scobie, whose apartments had been raided. And again as usual, the police painted a lurid picture of the men engaged in sexual enslavement of children and arranging prostitution.
Had it all been so simple and the full facts discovered, perhaps everything might have died down. Unfortunately Robert Scobie had been on the Australian Federal Police Watch List, although his fellow directors were not aware of this. While Deputy Ambassador in Hanoi in the 1980s, Scobie had been linked to questionable photgraphs sent in the diplomatic bag. For several years, according to the article, there had been a "simmering paranoia" about Australian pedophiles in Asia. Questions had been asked in parliament. It was alleged there were at least 20 diplomats engaged in such activity. It seemed that Scobie was being "nailed", rightly or wrongly. For a time the Australian police had a team based in Thailand to investigate the general accusations. It is even suggested that once Scobie had been arrested, the Australian ambassador went to the Immigration Department to congratulate them on the raid on Spice Trade travel (the formal name of Utopia Tours).
Goss, a US citizen, and Scobie had their passports confiscated. Eventually they were returned and the case basically dismissed!
But the Australians were incensed. Pressure was put on the Thai government and the case was reopened - to be heard not in the High Court where cases regarding pedophilia would normally be heard, but in the lowest Thai Court which would normally hear cases dealing with traffic offences. The trial took place in November 2004 before one judge. Extraordinarily, he gave an order that the media could not take written notes on pain of imprisonment! Scobie's private files from his home were entered into evidence even though they had nothing to do with the Spice Trade trial.
At the trial it was established that Spice Trade did not publish Thai Guys. Further that the publishers had not been arrested. In Thailand porn is not acutally illegal. Trading in it is. Yet, Thai Guys was a free magazine! Scobie was sentenced to 7 months in prison and a fine of 10,000 baht; Goss got 8 months and 20,000 baht. But both were suspended and some employees had work visas cancelled. By now the Tourism Authority of Thailand had become involved. It suspended Utopia Tours licence to trade for 6 months. Perhaps oddly, the Thais really wanted the case to disappear. It was the Australians who kept pressing for more and more action. 
Utopia Tours eventually returned under a rebranded name (I believe it was Purple Dragon). But the damage had been done. It could not last. The company died.
John Goss gave his own version of the story with much more detail in another very long article - https://web.archive.org/web/20050731080446/http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2005/guw-098.htm

I will try the Senso massage next month when I'm there .
According to their website massage 1500 baht   90 minutes, minimum tip 1500b

Fantastic 👍👍loved the report 💚 
As for Mike's I find it convenient & reliable.
I couldn't imagine walking &  getting a baht bus up to the bus station with a suitcase then a bus to Airport.

How exactly is that assertion manifested ? Harmless yet dried out  water bombs of comments such as yours do nothing worth raising one‘s head from the Inisherin pint for. 

What answer? I copied a report made to admin in order that members be aware of the misanthropic antics of others. There was no query? I asked no question other than a line of inquiry directed at the moderators. Let’s just speedily enter these here his Éire lordship’s Belfast posts in the Blarney Baloney pageant inn’t. 

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Rude. Clueless. Disingenuous. I did get it right. 

@Riobard   As many Thai boys have been known to say........"you think too much"
Relax, we're all going to be dead soon, nothing REALLY matters.
Have a great day.

i refer the honourable gentleman to the answer i gave some moments ago