Travellerdave

I’ve stayed at the Sansuck several times but not since Covid. An attraction was that staying there included admittance to the gay sauna of which, like Olddaddy, I took full advantage. However there are no recent descriptions of this facility on this site. The rooms were fine but the place is rather far (well over a mile) from “the action” in the Complex with an uphill walk to the main road where using the baht buses was sometimes difficult (often full) i had Zombie’s problem last January with the Complex hotels not having availability. I easily found a room in the Jomtien Palm Beach Resort which is the big hotel nearby on the beach. I asked about joiners mentioning that for me they would be boys and the reception replied “no problem”. After a good week there I did eventually find availability at the Agate on Expedia for the rest of my stay. Maybe the Palm Beach is worth considering.

Vinapu’s brief advice is spot on. I would be surprised if the Agate is fully booked. It’s a lot larger than its outside appearance would suggest and during my stay there in August I sometimes got the impression that it was 90% empty. Perhaps try a direct reservation by email or telephone if rooms are not available on the platforms.

I very much agree with Vinapu that things have changed, certainly since I made my first trip to Thailand in 2000. Then you were very much more likely to get harassment from a minority of aggressive straights whilst out and about with younger Thai men. I still am wary of taking boys around the Soi Buakhow area in Pattaya. You occasionally see women in bikinis sat in gay sections of the Dongtan Beach presumably for the same reason Vinapu mentions.

The Complex today differs from Sunee of a few years ago in another way and that concerns str tourists. You never saw them in Sunee which was overwhelmingly a ghetto for gay men looking for sex with Asian boys. The Complex on the other hand is mixed particularly in the hotels. I’ve stayed this year twice in the Agate and once in the Zing and in both the guests were a mixture of gays like myself and str families/couples , whereas that was definitely not the case in the one hotel I used intermittently in Sunee. I have been occasionally conscious of stares and glances from strs when in the lobby/lift/restaurent and round the pools when I have a boy in tow. This does bother me at all, but from the point of view of strs, I wonder if they are misled by the reports by guests on Booking.com etc where there is hardly a mention of the orientation of the Complex and it’s bars and hotels.

About what year would that Be ? It obviously features the Complex quite a long time ago showing the Ganymede Spa and Massage which has been the Agate Hotel for some time. Just noticed that one of the bars advertises a Songkran party in 2014 so not that long ago. During 2014 Sunee was still going strong but starting to decline. But of course Boyztown was very much the gay place to be then

I’ve stayed at the Agate three times this year so can very much relate to emiel1981’s complaint about the massage boys and their calling out whilst you are walking past their nearby location. However I would not call this stalking rather just a nuisance and something you have to put up with whilst staying in a popular gay area and I wouldn’t base my choice of hotel on that basis. Having said that I admit to having used the passage to the main road when conducting a boy back to the Agate from a visit with him to the beach. I didn’t want a non-English call out perhaps relating to a massage I had had the previous day.

Thinking back to Sunee in the early 2000’s when I was a regular visiter I very much remember Krazy Dragon and Eros but not Goodboys. For a while my favourite Gogo was Euro Boys where the boys danced in briefs between two lines of elevated seating holding ropes dangling from the ceiling. During a couple of trips I stayed in a hotel within the Plaza named “Elephant” or something like that. This avoided the walk back to Boyztown which offed boys did not care for and had rooms for short time.

Great enjoyable account of your 3 day visit to Bkk which I loved reading. My last three trips have been to Pattaya, latterly staying in the Complex, so I’m planning to make my next one to Bkk, so your story of sex/massage, gym exercise, food and the night market is very relavent for me. All the activities I enjoy in fact !. Grindr seems to have been a fruitful source of mb’s. Have an equally good time in Taiwan.

Happy Boys Yes I seem to remember this boy bar, particularly the mezzanine floor, where you could go to be entertained if the ground floor was not raunchy enough for you. It was in fact a short distance outsides Sunee using what could be regarded as the “back entrance” to the plaza on maybe Soi 18. It looked from the outside more like a shop rather than a Gogo. I don’t think I visited more than a couple of times and I’m sure I never offed from there. I can’t pinpoint when in closed but it probably did so when Sunee had not started it’s decline.

I go to Pattaya because I’m gay and love Asian boys, but have enjoyed guys from Madagascar. During my trip in last February I ‘had two of them separately, each for 2 or 3 nights. They have slim brown bodies and perform well in bed. They were both on student visas in Thailand, but learnt more about gay sexual practices than their study subjects.

Good suggestion khaolakguy but not for the uninitiated as there are no ATM’s actually in the Complex . But that does not trouble the bar boys as they have another source of ready cash not requiring account names , passwords and PIN numbers !.

During my recent 2 week stay within the “area” I never heard any mention of “Supertown” by any residents or workers there. It was always “Jomtien Complex” right from my arrival at the Jomtien Bus Terminal from where I wheeled my bag to the Agate Hotel and subsequently there and in conversations on the gay beach and in bars and with motor bike taxi men. I can’t remember any mention with boys - probably they have their own name.

I used poppers quite often about 10 years ago when I transitioned from being a 100% top to being more verse. For a period I had a Thai boyfriend with a big Isaan cock. They helped. I occasionally brought a small supply from home but was never stopped at airports. I know that they are widely available in gay venues and some mb offer them.

I’ve seen all three episodes number 1 featured mainly Khai Sarn Road and the canabis boom. Présenter nearly got arrested in Soi Cowboy Number 2 visited Soi 6 Pattaya. Further difficulties with the police Number 3 tye 20 year old female presenter found paradise on Koh Panyan no mention at all about the gay scene