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Here is your expensive sign without proofreading (near Sunee Plaza on 30.06.2010). Actually, I quite enjoy these mistakes. If you read it aloud, it sounds correct.

The 300 Baht drink price is in (I don't remember the name, I saw the price on a board and asked a mamasan while I was standing in the door looking inside to confirm that it's really 300 Baht and then I left) the first or second bar on the left (when coming from Surawong, so it's either Hotmale or Boys Bangkok), it's upstairs. As for tipping, I do as luvthai: If there is a boy I enjoyed watching (and I might off another time), I write down his number on my map (so I know next time which bars I visited and how many and which boys I liked) and tip him 100 Baht on leaving.

Beds at Howards were comfortable and clean. I never had problems to sleep in hotel beds, so my opinion might not be very helpful. My expectations were: Find a boy in disco or sauna for free or in bar for tip, spend the night AND the next day with him and maybe stay together or move on to the next boy. Until I find one I want to stay with for longer. I know boys are not in time, so I plan delays. But I cannot plan sudden disappearance at 3am, leaving me alone the following day. Or having to get back to room after getting up and having breakfast/lunch together. What is the secret of a successful long-time off AND spending the next day together? Well, I had this with J, but I quickly realized he will go with me anywhere and tell me anything he thinks I want to hear. What I have to offer is long-time tip and full entertainment for the following day at a place of more or less the boy

@ fountainhall: that lady might have a nice looking fur coat, but she can't eat it for dinner (just kidding!) This boy has internet at home (so he told me), but it doesn't make any difference, asking for 3000B is outrageous. Furthermore, he is a dud, so I will move on and meet others. I was initially hesitant about giving money to beggars, but recalling what I read in the internet it's easy not to pay attention to them. The same for touts (yes, there are touts that asked me to buy them a drink).

I was back for holiday in Pattaya a week ago and came across that bar. I even went in to check if some boys I saw in January are still appealing to me. The one I offed was not there. On leaving, Mamasan called me back. She remembered me: "You were here long time ago and gave bottle of whisky. Your friend is at home now. I tell him you came to visit him." That's amazing! After 5 months she still remembers. Probably there are not many farang that bring a bottle of whisky to a bar and give it to a boy.

Trip report 24.06.2010-07.07.2010 Bangkok Pattaya Here I want to share my experiences during my third holiday in Bangkok and Pattaya and ask for advice. People I met are given alphabet letters. “January” refers to my second holiday in Thailand in January 2010, “August” to my first holiday in August 2009. Reconstructed from memory, photos and my notes on all expenses (I write down every Baht I spend). I can’t check the truth of what the boys told me, so I will report it as told to me. GR Gayromeo, “friend from GR” – never met in real life before, bf boyfriend. Abstract: Bars range from deserted (apart from boys and mamasan) to reasonably well visited. Compared to January and August, this is really low season! On this holiday, I was disappointed several times by Thai friends. I could ignore some flaws in my second holiday, but now I’m not sure if I will ever return to Thailand. However, there are plenty (I met some of them) of Thais that are financially independend, have a good education and job and speak good English and have a genuine interest in meeting Farang for friendship or boyfriend. I found the music level in Gogo bars and host bars in Bangkok and Pattaya too loud in all cases, but it’s quiet compared to Thai-for-Thai discos. Whoever complains about music level in bars, go to Thai-for-Thai disco! Aims: Never sleep alone (I do this in Europe all the time), never eat alone (I do this in Europe all the time), spend days with Thai friends sightseeing, have fun with Thai friends. These aims were reached only on 5 out of 12 full days of my stay. Alltogether, half of my holiday was spent enjoyable, the other half I had to follow backup plans or change my plans seriously as Thai friends let me down. Thu 24.06. Airport, Taxi to Ibis Sathorn, arrive in hotel 20:55. A farang friend A (German, now living in Bkk close to Ibis) is waiting for me, we have a chat in my room. He asks me if he can smoke in my room. I inform him the entire Ibis is non-smoking, he doesn’t care. He wants to smoke in the floor, but I tell him I won’t let him enter my room after smoking as I will get the smell into my room. He smokes outside. When leaving, my farang friend A (now I notice he is slightly drunk) is outside arguing with the manager because the Thai guard had stopped him from entering the hotel with a cigarette. Furthermore, it turns out that he is banned from the premises. Slightly embarrassed, I excuse A’s behaviour. We take taxi to Silom and go to Balcony. The waiter informs me that I can sit there, but not my friend A. He is banned from the premises. We leave and argue about how to continue the evening. I leave A alone to avoid any furter embarrassment and go to have a look at Soi Twilight. Return to Balcony later. There I’m supposed to meet B, a close Thai friend from January, but can’t find him. My Thai SIM-card has expired, so I can’t call him. Go to DJ-station, Thai C approaches me. On leaving DJ-station, A is at the gate (now a bit more drunk than before), arguing with the guards who won’t let him in as he wears flip-flops. I take A with me back to Soi 4 (but ask him not to enter the soi with me, to wait at the entrance). Back to Balcony, where I finally meet B. We (I, A, B and a friend of Be) take taxi back to Ibis. B and I have some fun, he can’t stay overnight as his Farang bf (who is in Thailand for holiday and stays in B’s room which is close to Ibis) is waiting for him. He asks me for 300 Baht (“It’s for X, I’m no money boy” – If I get it correctly, he owes money to X). I’m a bit naïve, so I hand him the money, simply assuming that this request is legitimate. If he asks me for money, he will have a serious reason to do so. I sleep alone. Fri 25.06. Go to MBK, get a new SIM-card. (Full story will be told elsewhere). Walk around, go to Central World to see damage. Back to Sathorn, walk around Lumpini. Go to Telephone. Sitting there alone waiting for friend D from GR, suddenly E, a customer from Balcony approaches me: “Excuse me, are you X from Y now studying Z in A?” “Yes, I am! How do you know?” We chatted on GR, but I didn’t remember him immediately because I was looking at his cute neighbour F. Rain interrupts us, after finishing my drink, I change to Balcony and sit with E (after he told me his name on GR, I remembered what we chatted about) and F (after asking him for his profile on GR, I remembered that I saw his profile but didn’t recognize him). After a while, I recognize D at Telephone, he was only 10 min late and didn’t want to disturb my chat with E and F by approaching me or even sending an SMS. I change back to Telephone and sit with D and his friends. Later, I recognize G (a friend from GR) and say hello. Go to DJ-station, where I meet C again. He really seems to like me, althought there are others that look cuter I leave with him and we go to my hotel. We have fun and he stays overnight. Sat 26.06. We get up in the late morning, have a meal at O Ho, go to Chatuchak market, then to Chakran sauna. I’ve been there in January and it was very promising. Again, only two small towels, too small to wrap them around my hip. Large towels are available for 20 B. Annoying! He’s never been there. He likes it. Back to my hotel. He stays at a friend’s place nearby. We meet again later and take taxi to ICK. I’ve been there in January, for him it’s the first time. There I meet H (a platonic friend from January) who studies in Ramkhamhaeng. We watch show. I like the coyote dancing at ICK and SeeK-dance. We take taxi back to Ibis. The driver is a woman. My friend chats with her and translates that she starts work early in the morning and has a job as taxi driver at night because her first job is poorly paid. The meter shows 109 Baht, I give 200 Baht, my highest tip for taxi ever. C stays with me overnight. Sun 27.06. We eat at O Ho. IA, a friend of C who works in Jomtien joins us. In my room, IA descends upon my clothes and shows us a flick of the wrist to fold a T-Shirt within seconds. It’s very simple and effective, unfortunately I forgot how to do it! We go to Wat Saket, The City Parapet Phrakan Fortress, Loha Prasat and Democracy monument. After two nice days with C (he and his friend seem to be good boys, I payed for all expenses, no money changes hands), I decide to spend this evening alone and go to bars to see if I can find someone cuter. Taxi to Surawong, dinner at Maxi’s, footmassage. Solid Bar (Soi Anuman Ratchadhon near Silom Soi 6 or Soi Tharntawan): 10 boys, smoking inside. The arrangement inside the bar is very unsuitable: there is a corner and most of the boys are standing behing the corner, so I can’t see them directly, only through a mirror on the wall opposite to my seat. Mamasan even asks me if I can see the boys and points to the mirror. There is a stage with enough space for all of the boys and that can be seen from all every seat, but only two boys are on the stage and there is a slow rotation of boys between stage and wall. Then to Screwboys. About 25 boys, one is smoking. Music is too loud. I tip one boy 100 baht and leave. My way of tipping: If there is a boy that I enjoyed watching, but don’t intend to off, I don’t invite him to sit with me (to avoid expenses for buying him a drink or to avoid having to refuse to buy him a drink and to avoid expectations for an off), I just hand (i.e. reach him my hand with the bill, not plucking it into his underwear) him the money before leaving. To Hotmale. Plenty of boys. Seconds after sitting down, I smell cigarette. I find myself surrounded by 3 smokers. Have to relocate. After 10 min at the new place, the same problem. Watching boys and looking for a new place without smokers or somewhere where the fan doesn’t blow the smoke in my direction. They finish smoking before another relocation is necessary. Tip a boy 100 B and leave. Now it’s 1 am and I’m still alone. J, one of the massage boys is reasonably cute, despite having some facial hair. He remembers me from GR, I don’t remember him. As I’m not looking for “massage”, but company during night and the following day, I ask him if he can give me massage at my hotel. No problem. In addition, he has no university or work on Monday and can stay with me the whole day. If he wants to leave work before 2am he has to pay 100 B. We go to my hotel. He takes 3 types of pills before going to bed (and again after getting up next morning). It’s against a barely visible skin blemish. Does he have HIV? He stays with me overnight. Mon 28.06. Typical scenario: I wake up at 11am, he is still asleep. I fall asleep and wake up again at 12. We shower and go back to bed again. Some hugging and cuddling, it’s 2 pm. Time to get up and have a meal together. The facial hair was a bit disturbing. I made several hints about shaving. Finally, he tells me that they have many Asian customers and they like facial hair. We go to internet café. Check GR: Now I remember him, due to his facial hair I had classified him as “rather not”. We go to MBK and watch a movie. Back to Surawong just at 8 pm so he can get back to work. I invite him for dinner, but he has to report back to work first and he asks me to wait at Surawong so nobody sees us enter Soi Twilight together. It was not my intention to avoid the fee for the massage parlor when I had asked him if he can come to my hotel, but it finally turned out like this. I gave him 1700 B. 100 B are for early leave from work, the remaining 1600 B are just enough to go to work five times (he told me he studies and lives in Ramkhamhaeng and takes taxi to work 160 B each way, and he doesn’t get paid if there are no customers. Can someone with more experience confirm this story? A massage boy taking taxi to work?). I call G, with whom I had agreed the day before to go to Ratchada tonight. He works nearby and I ask him to come to see me while I have dinner with J in Soi Twilight. G can’t got with me tonight, he has no money (I told him that I would invite him) and he has to change clothes! It takes 1h to get home and another 1h to get back, so it will be to late and furthermore he didn’t seem interested to go with me (despite extensive chat on GR and talking about this the day before). It’s 10 pm and I’m alone. I call C. He isn’t interested in going to Ratchada as he has no friends there. I call K, a money boy that hangs out at the Malaysia hotel frequently. If I understand correctly, he is at Silom. A bit later, I get an SMS “I’m sleeping”. So he lost his chance for a long-time. C calls me, he can come with me. We go to G-star. It’s too loud. Average experience for me, he likes the ladyboy contest that is going on (I don’t like ladyboys). We want to go to Ratchada 8, but you have to order a table and buy a bottle of whisky (total 2000 Baht) to get in. We take taxi to “Welcome”, a Thai4Thai gay disco that closes at 9 am. He meets a friend there. The disco is cramped and the music level is deafening/painful. Will I get my next day’s otitis from this? We leave around 2 am. On the way back, he tells me that he doesn’t want to come to my hotel and goes to his friend’s room. “When you have boy you don’t call me, when you have no boy you call me”. He was right. The night before I was shopping around Surawong for someone cuter. This night, I suddenly was alone as G changed his plans. There are some boys at the Malaysia hotel. I have a chat with them. L asks me for 20 (twenty!) B. I give him 20 B. I remember him from January. I couldn’t fathom what he does there or what his job is, but I kind of like him and he speaks very good English and you can have a conversation with him like with a Caucasian. M asks me for 50 B for beer. I give him 50 B. I had met him first on the last day of my first holiday August. He speaks German quite good. We spent some time in January. There were several disappointments in January (We went to ICK, he got drunk and left without telling me. I was looking around for him and calling him to no avail. He asked me to lend him 3000 B for his rent. He wanted to pay back some days later. I negotiated down to 500 B. He was thinking aloud if he should buy cigarettes or a calling card to call his sister in Germany from this money. Some days later, I offered him to stay with me overnight, just sleeping as I was tired. I asked if I can get my money back. His cheque-book was at home, so he asked me for 120 B (which I gave him) to get taxi home, get his cheque-book and return to me within 1h. Should I add the 120 B to the 500 B debt? It makes no difference as I won’t get any money back. He did not return that night.) So why did I give him 50 B for beer? I don’t know. I sleep alone. Tue 29.06. Check out, leave for Pattaya, taking bus from Ekkamai. Go to Howard’s guesthouse. At 500 B per night, this is really a bargain! The room is larger, nicer and cheaper than my accommodation in England. I sms N (a friend from January whose pronunciation is horrible, speaking on phone is impossible, only SMS. Furthermore, we had this chat Chat with Thai boys, desperate conditions in Pattaya? - GayThailand Forum ) to meet me at my hotel. He writes back if we can meet in Jomtien. I agree and seconds after sending SMS I think: I travel quarter around the world and now you don’t want to come from Jomtien to Sunee? Anyway, I wanted to have a look at the Jomtien area and I had plenty of time to do so as he was late, despite living 5 min by foot from Bamboo bar. We have dinner and he asks me for money. I give him 200 B. I go back to Sunee and do some bar hopping. Euroboys: 9 boys, tip one boy 100 B. Krazy Dragon: O is still there (I had an eye on him in January), I have him sit with me, buy him a drink. “Can you stay overnight?” “Ok”. I off him. We go to my hotel and have some fun. “Are you top or bottom?” “Top only” “Do you like boys or girls?” “Oh no! I like girls, maybe both.” (Note to myself: next time ask such questions when leaving. Then I don’t have to spoil the experience by thinking about how disgusting it must be for a straight men to touch and be touched by another man.) Around 00:30, he wants to leave to meet friends. I ask if I could join, it’s ok. We go to an Isaan restaurant close to the closed Dude Man club where he meets a friend and we have a meal. He tells me he has to change clothes and can’t come back to my hotel. I tell him that I would like him to stay with me overnight. He sends a friend on his motorbike to get his clothes. I’m impressed! We chat what we can do tomorrow and agree on going to Koh Larn. However, the friend goes to a party with girls instead (that’s what O tells me some phone calls later after we finish our meal). I pay for our meal and he asks me for money for short-time. I give him 1000 B and we agree to meet at 11 am the following day. Wed 30.06. I get up at 10:30. I send O SMS at 11:00. He calls at 11:20 and says he will be there in 20 min. Finally he arrives at 12 and tells me it’s to late to go to Koh Larn. Ok, I’m flexible, I can go to Koh Larn with another boy on another day, so we change to Nong Nooch. Taxi return 800 B, entry 2 * 400 B. We have a nice day at Nong Nooch. We have fun again in my hotel room. I give him another 1000 B. He is surprised about my generosity. I’m a fool. Because he didn’t stay overnight as agreed in the bar I paid twice short time (2 * 1000 Baht) instead of once long time (1 * 1500 Baht) . At least it’s money from the rich to the poor. And he has a wonderful body. He goes home and I go to a medical clinic nearby my hotel. One ear is swollen and hurts a bit when I touch it or lay on the side of this ear or open my mouth wide or brush my teeth. It started a day ago, after the painfully loud music in the Thai4Thai disco. Ear rinsing for over one hour, an injection into butt on this day and on both following days and four types of pill, to be taken 3 times a day. 38.9°C fever. But apart from this no further problems. The strange feeling after injection into butt vanishes soon. Go to New Queens bar, have P sitting with me (I know him from GR), invite him for dinner and tip him 100 B. I call N to meet me in Sunee. He doesn’t like Sunee, so we meet at my hotel. On the way to hotel, a Farang from a bar, Q, follows me. He is from Germany and studies in Bkk and is for holiday in Pattaya. We agree to meet again. He has no mobile phone. I meet N at my hotel and we walk through Walking street and along the beach to Dave Man Club and chat. He worked in a gogo-bar four years ago for half a year, met his now ex-boyfriend (“Him butterfly, him lie to me, him many boys”) and now lives with a Farang and keeps his household and gets free accommodation, internet, TV, but no money. “Him §$%&.” It was incomprehensible, even after several repetitions I didn’t get it. Written down it read something like “pormbel”. So finally “Him problem. Him boyfriend lie to him. 30000 B”. I enjoyed Dave Man Club. We go back and he stays overnight. Thu 01.07. We get up and have a meal together. I try to find out what he would like to do this day, but whatever I suggest (massage – I mean real massage, beach, Pattaya park, sightseeing), he doesn’t like it. “So what do you like?” “Maybe disco or cinema – but now no good cinema in Pattaya” (???). “Now I have to go back, do laundry”. Sorry, but I can’t do any more for you. This was an invitation to whereever he wants to go. I give him another 800 B (with the 200 B from 29.06. that makes only 1000 B for long-time, but this boy is a dud in public and in bed, very shy and passive. In January, my experience was similar. I think I will not see him again. But I kind of feel sorry for him because I rarely get a smile on his face.). So I go to the gay beach and spend the afternoon walking there alone. At night, on my way from Sunee to Boyztown, I walk through Day Night area. Without paying special attention, I notice a bar that has only male customers, young Thais and some old Farang. I ask and get a confirmation that is a gay host bar. It’s not on my map and I didn’t find it in the internet. It’s named “Stor Corner” and is adjacent to T&T Karaoke (map available on request). Does anyone know this venue? I have a drink at Office Boys. Go to Boyztown, Toy Boys. This has the lowest music level from all the bars I visited, I could understand the mamasan talking to the guests on the neighbouring table. Mamasan chats with me and point to my neighbour “Him sapen” (I don’t get it) and points to another one “him Mexico” (Ah! Sapen – Spain!). Tip one boy 100 B. Go to Dynamite Boys. A pleasant surprise. The music is a bit too loud, but this is compensated by the fact that out of around 30 boys several are cute. And they all wear different underwear. (I like underwear.) I could have stayed longer, but R, a friend from GR, called that he is now at Family Mart. (We had an appointment an hour ago, but I’m learning and arrange meetings in a way that I can spend the delay doing something I would do anyway.) We have dinner at Café Royale and then go to Copa showbar. There is a good circulation of boys, there are only few tatoos and the boys look happy. Smokers go outside. I go home with R. We agree to go to Crocodile farm and Million years stone park the following day. He suggests a friend can drive cheaper or for same price as taxi. Fri 02.07. At 7 am, he tells me that he cannot sleep (too hot) and goes home now. We agree to meet in the afternoon. I sleep till noon and he comes and picks me up with his motorbike. I see his room (i.e. the room he shares with 5 other family members and which contains a shop as well. There is one bed, in which 2 or 3 sleep, he sleeps on the floor. It’s ok as they don’t all sleep at the same time. The amount of merchandise in the shop is less than my parents have in their larder/pantry.) A friend drives us to the Crocodile farm and Million years stone park. Taxi return 800 B, entry 300 B + 120 B. I invite the friend to join us, but she prefers to sleep in the car. It’s as beautiful as Nong Nooch. We have a nice day. Return to his home. As his friend is with us when we say goodbye, I don’t know how to offer money, besides, there was no hint for money. So, no money changes hands (but I paid for all expenses). Back in my room, I notice he forgot his umbrella. Call him, he comes on motorbike. On saying goodbye we are alone, so I have to ask “Did you come with me for fun or do you expect money?” “For fun.” So there is free fun in Pattaya! Go to Boyztown Star Boys, 10 boys, tip one boy 100 B. Meet S (friend from GR) and have drink in Wunderbar, then in Wan’s place. My friend is a host-bar boy, who is not working at the moment, preparing for a trip back home later in July. To see if I can repeat “for fun” from yesterday, I ask “Do you go with me for fun or for money?” I got an indignant “For fun! We chat long time!” So we go to my room, have fun, hug and cuddle later when he gets a phone call at 2:20 am. He has to go home! A roommate called, a farang wants to chat with him on MSN! He promised to be back at 3 am, but I know this will not happen. This blow/stroke will spoil the rest of my holiday. However, I’m not angry with him. It must be very important. And he knows he made a mistake, he sends SMS that he is sorry and tells me he is sorry when we meet again. Lesson learned: Let the boy switch off his mobile when entering your room! (I knew this before, but now I experienced myself what can happen!). Sleep alone. Sat 03.07. I wake up around 10, call him to meet me later so we can spend the day together. He agrees to meet at 11. I have nothing to do so I walk around Sunee. At 12, he calls me that he cannot meet me today. I call around to meet T (friend from GR), he can meet me tonight. Call around to meet U (friend from GR), he can meet me at the beach. I go to the beach where I see Farang Q again. Take a chair and read and watch boys on the beach. (The gay beach was rather disappointing in January and in June as well. However, there is W, who is very cute and I like his hairdo and his swimmwear. U comes more or less in time, we chat and make a loose appointment for movie tonight. I miss a message from T who wants to come to meet me now (afternoon). V (a friend from GR living in Bkk) sms me that he is in Pattaya tonight and wants to meet me. I go to Sansuk sauna. I don’t recognize T, whose SMS I missed at the beach, and who went to Sansuk instead of meeting me at the beach. He is just leaving and we exchange a smile, he recognizes me and goes back in. He follows me and we go to a room. He is smoker and he had a cigarette before, so we just chat in the room and from the details of his life I remember that we chatted on GR before and recognize him. I tell him that I don’t like smoke and we part and agree to meet later (so he gets the smell off his body). I meet Farang Q again. He is short of money and asks me to lend him 150 B. Despite knowing better, I give him the money. (Why does he go to sansuk if he has no money? A friend invited him!) I meet again with T, who either doesn’t get rid of the smell or had another cigarette. We go to a room and have fun which is disturbed by the smell. As the lights are low on the walls, we can see shadows from the action in the adjacent room on the ceiling. He wants to spend the evening and the night with me, but he has to be back to work by 1pm tomorrow (means if I take him overnight I’m alone the following day). I’m indecisive what to do. I spent the whole afternoon alone and now I have four dates for the evening: T, U, V and Q. I don’t know what to tell T and we just hang around (and I oogle at W). He liked what we did in the room, but now he wants to stay with me. My plans were different! I try to explain to T that S left me unexpectedly and therefore everything changed. I watch the croud and recognize P and X, a boy whom I paid for a “massage” in January. Fortunately, T has to leave, we agree to meet the following morning (I know this will not happen). Now I can focus on W, who is more or less around a Farang, and get him in a moment where he is less around the farang and get his GR profile and phone number. I decide to spend the early night with Q, as we are both German and can chat in German. I invite him for dinner and he aks me for another 300 B. Despite better knowledge, I give him the money. (In August, I met a German tourist at the Malaysia who had his passport and money stolen while he was drunk. He was fluent in Thai and was learning Khmer and Burmese. The same story: first ask for money for hotel room, next meeting for money for something else, pay back in some days when money from home arrives.) Not only the Thai, even the Farang in Thailand are crooks who just want your money! We part and I go to Boyztown. Dynamite Boyz. Dream Boyz: not my type. Kawaii Boyz: around 15 boys, nice dancing. Lucky 777: around 15 boys, too cold! Back to Sunee. Drink in Wunderbar, invite a boy, very limited English (mamasan had to translate), can’t stay overnight, tip 100 B. The bars close and I’m alone! Call P. He is alone. Come to my room in 20min. Arrives 1h later. Shower, hug and cuddle. Sleep. Sun 04.07. Wake up, have fun. We eat. What can we do together? It’s raining and he has to get back to his room so I don’t pursue spending the day together. (Currently living in England, I’m surprised how quick rain is over in Thailand.) I give him 1500 B and we part. I call U to go to a movie. He arrives in time on his motorbike. He invites me to watch “Eclipse” (Taylor Lautner is one of the few cute Caucasians I know). I invite him for a cake and a chat. Drive to the large “Pattaya” sign on his motorbike. He likes Caucasian men, I like Far-East-Asian men, alas, he is not my type! So we part as “just friends”. Go to Funny Boys. Independence day. “4th July 8:30 pm sharp sexy underwear fashion show”. Plenty of boys on stage in different underwear, but just standing there, not moving. 8:40 I ask waiter “When is the show?” “Sorry no show today.” “Ok, I see” – What the fuck? Are you kidding me? Ask another waiter when leaving: no show. Outside I check again: “4th July 8:30pm sharp

Here the results: When I booked on 22.06., the 3-for-2 promotion was no longer available! So I booked 5 nights for 119.64 GBP (instead of 6 nights with 3-for-2 for the same price). This makes 1130 B/night. My credit card is charged with 122.99 GBP. In the reception, 1813 B/night is quoted on the billboard, asking for the price to stay one night longer, I get 1400 B. I ask for discount, receptionist goes to office and returns with offer 1200 B. However, I decide to go to Pattaya (Howard's guesthouse 500 B/night) and to stay in Om Yim lodge (900 B/night) after returning to Bkk.

Tried unhatched chicken, it's edible, but no delicacy. Now they have beetles that look like European cockchafer/June bug/summer chafer/May beetle. Never saw these in January or August. No delicacy, problem is pieces get stuck between teeth. Had soup with dark red spongy substance that were not tasty. Ask Thai friend: made of chicken blood! Surprisingly, only one of my Thai friends eats bugs, all others find it disgusting!

SIM-card for Thailand has been a bit of a nightmare for me. I postpone solving the problem of validity till the last day of my stay in Thailand and then I don't have time to do it. I sent my card and money to a friend in Bkk to top it up to increase validity, the letter got lost. But I was clever, I wrote down and deleted all the numbers on the card before I sent it to him! Back in Thailand, I go to MBK 4th floor and walk around, not sure which type of card and calling plan to choose. A womand smiles at me so I ask her if I can get my old number back which has expired. She can't help me, but she sends me down to ground floor to "Telewiz". There I report my problem, fill in a form (all in Thai, probably registering the number to my name, actually I don't know what I signed there, they make a copy of my passport). She takes a new SIM-card, writes on the form, works on the computer. I ask how much this costs. Nothing! I buy 200 B credit. Finally, I get my old number, a new SIM-card and 306 Baht credit for just 200 B! I ask for one year validity, but she can't arrange this. Now I'm back in England and my card will expire in 4 months. So if I come back to Thailand, the game will start again.

Why not ask him where he would like to go for dinner? I cannot pretend to come to Thailand for the Thai food, but I have Farang food all the year at home. Of course, this argumentation does not apply to expats who have Thai food all the year round and want Farang food for a change. As far as I remember, I always got a suggestion from my Thai friends, never an "up to you".

Sorry to hear that your website caused you trouble. I started reading about gay Thailand last year, so I learnt about your website by chance by reading old posts. Most things on the internet are for free, but the internet is not for eternity. Now I save everything I like, and it already payed off: I have copies of the now defunct websites gayboythailand and pinkvn. In what format are the articles you offer to send by email? Is it just text (word, pdf or whatever) or html with pictures? Do you have a complete copy so you could put the site back whenever you want?

In some old posts (in in recent one), a website www.gaybutton.com is mentioned, which is no longer available in the internet. Why did you (Gaybutton) discontinue the website? What about the book you were writing on?

I spend around one out of three nights of my holiday time in LOS (Land of Smiles) in bars. It's the fastest and easiest way to meet boys, if you are prepared to pay. If I wanted to meet all the guys I met on GR (gayromeo), I wouldn't have time to go to the bars.

LOL! They are not really 100 years old, but I guess you know that. Those I ate are in the picture. The English name seems to be Century egg. My opinion: edible, but I can do without. Century egg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Me too, I don't like spicy. I espicially enjoy dishes with prawn, chicken or noodles. I tried two different dishes with mussels (both prepared with shell), was quite messy and the taste didn't justify the work to get the meat out of the shell. The same with crab. I had something, I think it was banana with a crust and sesame seed, and this barbecued, I would really like to try this again but neither know what it is nor what it's called! I like the fruits, mangosteen and pomelo are my favorites. I can do without durian and jackfruit.

I quite enjoy the insects, exept the large water bug, it is not that tasty. A Thai friend never ate insects because he thought it was disgusting, so I had to convince and to show him that it tastes good! I saw scorpion once on Khao San Road and watched a Farang eat it, but didn't try so far. Maybe the Thais make this up for tourists? The unhatched chicken is on my "things to eat" list. I had sea cucumber and 100-year-eggs in Malaysia, nothing special.

I just had this chat on MSN and as I didn'd find any chats between Thai boys (He) and Farang (Me) in all the blogs and forums I read, why not post it? Furthermore, this is the first time I have been asked for money online (probably due to the fact that I'm not at it for a long time. In January, I led 500B to a friend, he didn't even make an attempt to pay it back. BUT - is there a faster and cheaper way to find out whom you can rely on than borrowing 500B and see if you get it back?) He hi He How are you? Me Hello, I'm fine. He what are you doing? Me surfing internet. And you? He i chat with you and look foodball He tomottow you look germany play? Me No, I don't watch football. He ok ok He you come pattaya 30 june? Me yes, maybe a day earlier or later. (We have this "when you come Pattaya" every time we chat.) He you want me stay with you? Me yes, we can meet and you can sleep in my hotel room if you want. He ok He what you eat tonight?t (Eating never came up in chats with Thai friends before.) Me toast and cheese and later joghourt and grapes. He ok ok He but me not eat 2 day (I hope he means "today" and not "two days"!) Me why not? not hungry? He i hungry He but i not have money buy food He but is ok Me When I'm in Pattaya, I can invite you for eating. He ok ok He you will come bkk 25june? Me I arrive on 24 in the evening. He and stay in bkk 5day? Me about a week in bkk He ok ok He when you have thai number you call tell me ok Me Yes, I call you. (We have this "You call me" on every chat.) He in bkk He we can meet everyday in pattaya? Me I don't know yet. I will go to bars at nigh and meet other boys as well. (Yes,I'm fully booked via gayromeo! On boy to meet every day. And going to bars as well.) He ok ok He when you come pattaya i want you help me He you can? Me How can I help you? He befor i not have money buy food i get go pawn He i get gold go give pawn Me I invite you for dinner when we are together. Me I go watch TV now, I will be back later. He you can't help me? He i want you help me ohly 3000B He you can help? (He was offline when I returned an hour later. So I don't have to think how to explain that he can keep my company for a day, during which I cover all our expenses and he will get 1500B, but surely not 3000B.) I hope the situation is not as bad as it looks from this chat.

I don't care, I don't watch, it's something I have to endure every four years. I ticked "I don't care about the game, but I'll watch the cute players." because it's the closest match to what I think. Cute players? I don't know, even if, too many clothes! The only ball game I ever enjoyed watching was an all-male mainly-Thai beachvolleyball match at Jomtien gay beach. I hope it doesn't spoil my imminent holiday in Thailand. Imagine having to explain to every acquaintance that I don't care!

Thanks for this post, Gaybutton! I always wondered, but never dared to ask. For me, it's simple: Christian is my first name and PFC stands for Private First Class, the US-American equivalent of the last rank I had in the German army. I had a good time in the army, therefore I don't undertand why no one (neither in Germany nor in Thailand) wants to go there! (Yes, we showered naked in groups, but this was long before my coming-out and I'm a ricequeen so there was nothing to my liking.)

That's interesting! On certain websites, there are disclaimers that everyone on photos and in videos was at least 18 years old when the photo or video was taken. I recently came across a comic, even there was a disclaimer that everyone is older than 18 years! I don't know what the rules on gayromeo are, but I would assume that you can't post photos that show you when you were younger than 18 years. At least such a rule would make sense to me.

I do the same! When I meet a boy on GR, I ask about what he works and where, and if in a bar the bar's name, because this will save a lot of time and hassle. I go to bars anyway, so I pop in to his bar and meet him at work. If I like him, I take him with me, if not, it costs just a drink and a tip and no time wasted with arranging a meeting and waiting. (This arises the question: Why don't I skip GR and go only to the bars? Because I live in Europe!)

roasted coconuts - sounds interesting, might try it when I come along. What about "Heart of palm"? Heart of palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Did anyone try it? Where can I get it?

@gaybutton: I had no problem so far with bringing guests to the Ibis, no joiner fee, no ID required, I just walked in. A friend lost his T-Shirt at DJ-station, so he was shirtless when we went to my room, the people at the reception didn't blink an eye. Maylasia: Smoking allowed in rooms - good to know! I wouldn't like to stay in a room where someone smoked before! quote: @z909 No money boys hang out in front of the hotel. I consider the moneyboys in front of the Malaysia as a plus factor!

I just checked ibishotel.com, same rate (19.94GBP / night incl tax/service) as opodo and others. Onyl agoda is still more expensive, no 3-for-2! Om Yim and Malaysia are alternatives, but price is not much different, staying somewhere where I was before gives some sense of security to me. Furthermore, life in front of the Malaysia (exactly opposite to the Ibis) is very intersting, can sit and watch or chat with boys and tourists and expats that hang out there. I prefer breakfast not included, as I sometimes sleep too long to participate in breakfast or get food from street on my way to whereever I go or go dining with a friend after getting up.

So far, I used agoda.co.uk to book my hotel for holiday in Bangkok. Just to see if it makes any difference, I checked opodo.co.uk, and lo and behold, they offer "Stay 3, Pay 2"! The same on hotels.com. In the internet, I read that you can get cheaper prices when you book via a Thai middle man compared to booking directly. Does anyone have any experiences in doing so? The hotel I'm going to stay in is the Ibis Sathorn (stayed there before, liked it), one room for two adults (I travel alone, but for obvious reasons I need a double bed - not two single beds!). I intend to stay 5 or 6 days. Here the numbers: agoda 22.31 GBP room charge + 4.74 GBP tax/service = 27.05 GBP / night agoda 1049 THB room charge + 223 THB tax/service = 1272 THB / night opodo 19.94 GBP all incl / night if 3 nights are booked, opodo 23.93 GBP all incl / night if 2 nights are booked (this doesn't add up with 3 for 2, even if I take into account that I have to pay 2 room charges and 3 tax/service for 3 nights!) hotels 16.94 GBP room charge + 3.00 GBP tax/service = 19.94 GBP / night for 6 nights (why here 3.00 GBP tax/service?)