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Well, literally millions of people do each year...and how many have come to grief? Get real!

Who,in heir right mind does nowadays?!

In Pattaya the BAR fee is usually about 400 (~100) baht.In BKK a couple of hundred more. EXCEPT for rip off Dream Boys who are best avoided anyway.

100 %

The Come In Bar in Sunee Plaza is to close permanently after business,tomorrow, Thursday 22 December. What a crying shame as one of my best mates has been a barman there for 14 years and the bar has been there a lot longer than that. I'm beginning to think that soon Sunee Plaza will consist of only the Double Shot and Ting Tong complex....

Can't see an Edit button. Forgot to say in Pattaya

My Phamasist tells me they don't do ear syringing in Thailand. That right? I need one doing...anyone know where it's possible, if at all?

Has the Beeb been booted out of Thailand? I can't get them in my Condo any more.

Which bar for the muscle please?

I believe Sunnee closed tonite for Kings Birthday (?) but not BT. So a barman in Sunnee tells me!

I was in Tawan last week and it was busy during show times. Plenty to choose from. Had a good off. Dreamboys now 480 bt for drink. Leave it for the mugs. Other go go bars 400 bt...bit too steep for me. Beer bars 120, but all done and dusted in Soi Twilight now by 1.30am. Whole street in darkness. Nothing like it used to be, don't believe the threads that tell you it's all back to normal there.

P.t taxis. No problem. 1000 bt including tolls. P.t.taxis@hotmail.com 0863921240 or 0854 466035

Well I beg to differ, Soi Twilight is pitch dark from 1 am whereas it was usually full swing in the drinking bars until at least 2 am and sometimes longer. Things there are certainly nothing like "back to normal".

Anyone know what will be happening?

Fortunately my Kasikorn Bank is also the one at Tukcom, so I will go there when I arrive and present the new passport. I might as well cart the old one around too even though I have enough shite to think about! TiT! I thought it best to update them just in case they need to see the passport for anything...

Anyone renewed their passport recently? What do I do to inform Kasikorn Bank, just show them the new one...with the new number?

"In BKK the main meaning of that change was that everything dies at midnight. All the boy bars held only one show each night. DJ station was open till midnight and G.O.D closed." Is that still the case, everything, all bars closed at midnight? Will it be the case in early December when I arrive, do you know? I had planned 4 days in BKK before going to Pattaya, but may go direct if it is all finishing at midnight

Thanks Colmx and others. The dark Sois don't put me off but they may my "offs"! I'm therefore inclined to carry on with Yensabai, and all its problems!

Thank you, very helpful

Means until they see income dropping... then business as normal

I'm thinking of staying at Novana Residence just off Third Road, for a change of scenery! It's about 200 metres from the Third Road junction with Pattaya South Road in the direction of Jomtien Anyone tried it?

I get the feeling that those responding above are (or were) mostly long term residents of Thailand. No wonder they are perhaps jaded with the scene and it wouldn't bother them if it disappeared. I have been visiting for 12 years, (for about 4 months per year) and feel the complete opposite. As has been written many times in the past there is very little to do during the day in Pattaya and to a lesser extent in BKK too. We visitors therefore become somewhat nocturnal. So, if the scene vanished there would actually be little or nothing for us to VISIT Thailand for. I think its a different matter for those who live, or have lived, there.

Scams ... someone told me no one gets scammed in Thailand ...ah just a moment!

Did it re-open, as promised, at the end of September?

The problem I find is the multitude of different Thai accents, particularly in Pattaya where the population originates from all over Thailand. I went to a Thai Language school for some time and picked up quite a few words. My Thai (such as it is) is probably spoken with a Pattaya accent and therefore most people don't understand it!