Olddaddy

Your review is not very exciting 🙄🤪😆

you would be busier joining them

Day 21.
 Morning air and view was quite crisp. Being good friend I went to the lobby to say goodbyes to my friend whose car was already waiting then returned to my room to pack little I have  since I won’t be returning there after the tour. My van arrived at 10.00 as promised but it took more than hour to collect all other participants from 6 or 7 hotels.      
 That is one of reasons I’m not big fan of this type of tours but my time at Phuket was short so decided to do some shortcuts. Hiring car with driver would be more expensive but also more time efficient.
As usual it was blend of tourist sights – Big Buddha, Wat Chalom and Phuket Old Town and commercial part – honey farm, cashews farm and jewelry shop plus two animal tormenting sites _ Tiger camp and elephant  camp.
 Big Buddha is impressive site with beautiful view but was very crowded, Wat Chalom newish but very colorful and old town the same like Buddha Hill , colorful but crowded.
 




 
I did not bother with neither tiger nor elephant  concentration camps , I don’t like this type of entertainment even if I’m not animal lover I don’t support enslaving and drugging them for somebody’s entertainment.
 From commercial part I like some offerings at cashews farm- they sold cashews in several different flavors, I found truffle one particularly tasty but not exactly cheap.
All in , I still enjoyed tour as it gave me some idea how Phuket looks like.
 Since I’m changing hotels I alighted in Patong’s center and walked to Paradise Complex where my hotel The Corner is located. Looked as newly built or renovated place intended to work as budget version of Royal Paradise Hotel , towels  even bear that hotel signature. I can recommend place as location is perfect , on the , you guessed it, corner of soi where ZAG and new CRUISE gay clubs are located. Aquarious hotel and sauna and massage spas are all within 100 meters or less.
Paradise Complex main soi, The Corner is where those green planters are
 
Cruise club across the soi from my hotel, The Corner

ZAH club

Royal Paradise Hotel is truly landmark, picture taken from door of The Corner

 
As budget place had some , how to say , simplifications? No elevator, no kettle and no safety box but otherwise everything was perfect, AC was working , bed was comfortable and definitely I would stay there again.
After setting in I went to eat something, bought  cruise to James Bond Island for tomorrow and stroll soi where M to M  massage shops are located where I spotted nice looking muscular guy so enrolled him  for massage. For some reason he was in rush to finish session , in about ½ he we were done , massage , afters and stamp collection .
 Second massage in Phuket and second not so special . Too bad as guy was good looking ,  muscular, exactly of  type I like and if he took better care about business I was ready to invite him for private sessions of length of his choice.
After dark I went to ZAG  for few drinks and watch the show outside. Had  fun as on eof their waiters was kind of cruising me and I was cruising him, you know , drink here, wandering hand there. After 11 all were invited to move inside where show continued on the stage broken from time to time with models parade.
show at ZAG


I tipped two of them  red notes and as soon as they finished their part they came to my table to thank me , I offered them drinks so more discreet and not so discreet touches but at end of day or rather night nothing materialized . Thay had other adorates as well , waiter was pretending to be  busy so at 2 am I went to hotel alone.
 Bit excited decided still to do some walking and went to Bangla Road, Patong’s main strip and I was shocked indeed to see how busy at that late time it was ,  imagine Siam BTS station at rush hour.
 It was probably 3 when I returned to the room to catch few hours of sleep.

Very wise. Covid is still with us....and TB always has been and is often to an indication of HiV infection. i hope Win has recovered.

I guess you have to do it slowly .
No use retiring from your job in UK Australia or USA after 30 years service and immediately moving to a condo in Jomtien forever 
The first few weeks would be ok then the same ol thing everyday without a purpose 
Then you slowly go mad 

The presence of so many cute guys around the Complex is really cheering. When I was a Boyztown regular I recall wandering through the JC after an afternoon at the beach and thinking how dull it was; not now. 
And I agree about Soda. The guys there are always so friendly even to those of us just passing by. And there are invariably plenty there, even in the early afternoons.

sad story, I must say I appreciate American Airlines decision from November,. We were about to pull from gate in Miami when captain announced we need to delay it in order to remove passenger who suddenly decided no to fly due to sudden outburst of some illness. It took while as they need to remove his/her luggage too but at least continued uninterrupted after taking off.  
few years ago there was guy , bit controversial but prolific contributor to gay boards who died on the plane on his was to USA. I think his name was Neil
 

My favourite go go bars is Winner boys 
I doubt the owner makes a profit though but very nice man.

Day 18 , back in Bangkok
 Alarm clock at 5.30, coffee and shower. At 6.20 our car arrived with one tourist already in and we set off for an airport. We missed breakfast at hotels  but small restaurant there was opened so we managed to east something decent. Then we killed bit of time by checking dinosaurs on display across the airport. In waiting room itself there were coffee , tear and water plus some simple snacks available free for waiting passengers. I must say Bangkok Airways does excellent job taking care about their passengers at that airport.
Few pics from the airport




 
Going back  I had feeling I could stay longer , specially if I brought some company to warm bed at night. Again we were treated with full breakfast on the flight.
 My friend K was supposed to stay  in the same hotel but his reservation was messed up and since they were full he was forced to search for free room in another one nearby. My room was not ready at that early hour so  I went to soi 6  for massage with N at Maha .
When I returned room was ready , so after refreshing I headed to Happy Beer Garden on Suriwong where I was supposed to lunch with ichigo. It was our first meet and we had nice chat and boy information sharing session over  the lunch.
Afternoon was very lazy , one of those days when  I feel it’s best to be busy doing nothing, bit of Grindr and forum , catching up with e-mails and some reading , in short lazybuming in full. At 20.30 I was supposed to dine with Anddy from the forum at Madrid Tavern so went there by BTS but they were closed already. Since he arrived on his motorbike it was easy to switch to G’Bangkok in soi 4 and have nice chat over dinner.
 From there to Hot Male where I treated P, the waiter with drink. K , my Sukhotai companion joined me there and we went to Moonlight. I hoped Y will be there and he was , we chatted over drink but it turned out he is already booked for tonight so I felt bit empty handed.
After 3 nights of fasting it would be nice to have somebody beside thought I and decided to see if P is still there in his bar hoping drink I bought him will bring some benefits. He was and it did, 600 off fee and soon we were in my room.
 

all my life I wonder what is wrong with that other  that fashion mafia's fascist phobia. 
no, nothing personal as I wear sandals without socks only because I like that way .I like be barefooted wherever possible .  But when I know I'll meet somebody who believes  socks and sandals don't match I make sure to wear both.

Plenty of cute guys in that area. The massage places are open during the daytime too. The guys sit outside and so it's easy to choose.

http://www.shenyun.com
Well seems the SHEN YUN are coming to my City 
My partner has asked me to take him.
Described as "Chinese culture dance before Communism"
PS- Just looked at the ticket prices!😳😳

I stayed at the Siam Heritage a few years back and loved it 
It's a "old fashioned" service type hotel ,I found the staff friendly.

I find as I get older I don't like crowds or noise , it's not something I like though ....to be that way.
I get invited by friends to a Gay Mardi Gras pre event party ,I declined , years ago I would if loved going but not now,
I really envy the guys I see my age who are still out on weekend nights partying , I wish I could still be like that .
Every year up till about 2015 I went to Songkran , loved it , splashing water , face painting but as years went by my "spark" started fading ,no idea why , then crowds started to annoy me.
I miss those days 😭
 
 

you are telling us people no longer pee in the sea?

Go up to the top right ,you see those 3 short line box 
Click it on ,go to Account 
Clicking Ignored users 
Type in the profile name you want to ignore 

Though not over-impressed, I am  always happy to see my beloved Thailand  on the screen.

Just use the ignore button like I do 👍

No wonder you are so unpopular!

Last time I was there a few months ago I didn't see any "gay" section as before.
I think it's great everyone is mixed in together.

Love it 😁I wonder if they would consider us older guys as part time dancers?
what was the name of that movie back in the 80's with the old guys stripping ?
on a serious I would love to visit this place 😊sounds like fun.

Touchy chap, aren't you. 

slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago.
On serious note decision to retire  will come naturally based on my experience . I was not planning although I'm well  past retirement age,  then it dawned on me that time is running out  like somebody commented on another forum - longer you save for the future , shorter that future becomes.  

Unfortunately the "left "or Antifa are only blaming the Christian groups never the "religion of peace" (Muslim) 
I haven't got time for any religion actually 
 

There's no black bigots against gays ?they're all white ?