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OP comes from Canada, after 20 odd hours sitting on the planes, standing on the train all of the sudden becomes one of little life pleasures you can bring CAD, no need to lose twice on exchange CAD to USD and USD to THB. ...... no problem with ATM although keep in mind every time you withdraw money there's fee of 220 baht on top of what your bank may charge you at other end. Bangkok Bank ATM have 25000 bht withdrawal limit, Kasikorn's only 20000 I meantime I believe ggobkk woke up and is readying to prepare materials for next report , LOL

likely later, May or Jun is my usual time when I went to Thailand so yes , I should be there. In fact I landed in Swampy exactly one year ago to a day. This year though life intervened or I should say multi-intervened and I can't plan for more than 2-3 weeks ahead. But as they say, hope dies last

1 mile is exaggeration but not by much , from furthest gate to immigration it may be as much as 700-900 m I guess. After sitting who knows how many hours in the plane you will be grateful for the walk , believe me. There are toilets on the way and conveyors if you not inclined to walk . Don't exchange money until you will hit railway station level in the basement unless you really must. Rates in air terminal are worse, not disastrously so but worse. no restriction in luggage but OP concern was likely hauling heavy luggage down and up the stairs on BTS (overhead rail ) and MRT (underground ) I agree with reader , you will be hitting rush hour so taxi is not necessarily fastest option and being stick in traffic is almost guaranteed. Getting from immigration to railway station is easy - there are escalators , just keep going down and down. Booth with good exchange rates are right at railway station to you left, at least 4 of them. You can but ticket for train (45 baht ) in the machine which gives change or in ticket counter. Rabbit card is valid on BTS only ( two thick green lines on your map) . Airport train ( thin red line) and MRT ( everything else ) has separate ticket system and so do two SRT train lines not on your map and so does BTS Golden Line , two stops only to Icon Siam mall 9 short appendix on your map along the river. Buying transit ticket is no problem but at times , specially on BTS there are substantial lines so Rabbit card is good idea, it costs 100 baht and you must load it initially with at least 100. After that you can add value on every BTS station. It is valid 7 years and I'm still using one I purchased before Covid. there's also day ticket valid on BTS only any questions , just ask

place deserves mentioning it's full name : Unesco Heritage, 7.5 Michelin star awarded Foodland Patpong ........ another post supporting my firmly held theory - go and see for yourself, pics and recommendations will not replace eye-to eye contact and will not provide that smile

welcome home! reading this got me salivating for Bangkok and many guys and places inside it. haggling over price by Swampy taxi driver sounds like novelty item, not that I have much of experience taking taxis there, as noted I like the train. very refreshing to read how somebody sees Silom ghetto after such long absence, as you do next round you will notice even more changes. Leaving hotel turn left on Suriwong and after 2 or 3 short blocks you will see XOne in the corner , in last few trips consistently having the best exchange rates. Intrigued to know what that Tawan BDSM is, other venue under their umbrella? or it's just ad location across the bar? Tempted to jump on the plane to check myself . nor surprised you carry tea to China, Sri Lankan is better Have fun and don't forget about us !!! p.s. you not only one missing Yoyo

you have a good heart !

I wonder how your first day went

certainly there's danger at one point in future USA may find themselves lead by somebody like Brezhnev of USSR or Mugabe of Zimbabwe, both hardly uplifting examples

yes, the same like passengers in last few row of airplane. Stewardess is asking " do you want a meal ? ' , passenger answers " do I have a choice ? ", she answers ' yes, yes or no". But on more serious note I hate to admit I agree with Moses although omitting both insulting labels. Americans are presented or even more accurate, are presenting themselves with questionable , mostly age related, options. We all remember crash landing of Soviet Union after putting at helm string of aged, increasingly out of touch, leaders. China learned the lesson by putting 10 years limit but abandoned it and chances are will pay for it in the future Nation of 300 000 000 should certainly do bit better.

in grade 2 when asked by teacher " how much is 3 plus 8 " and he answered " surely more then 10"

happy arrival in Bangkok and don't worry about anything, after all you are not flying there to get drunk, do you ?

certainly nowhere

that statement supports my advice I always voice often and loudly - go and check for yourself no matter what you hear and read elsewhere. And another - that all we need is one bar and one boy in it as long as it's boy we like

my prescription to avoid such situations is : wear multipocketed shirt and trousers / shorts spread your cash among those pockets, preferably with fixed amount in each leave your wallet in safe box in the room limit amount of cash you have on you to what you think you will spend before returning to your room plus tip for your possible companion that way even if one will be robbed , highly unlikely will lose everything not to mention bulky wallet clearly shows target to a potential thief so far served me well with one possible exception (not sure I lost 500 or got it stolen in crowded BTS ) I'm always amazed to see patrons paying their checks , pulling out wallets clearly packed with week's worth of spending money like there are no other ways to impress people around

we are in XXI century , not XIV

" so we can pay even higher fees in the future " he forgot to add

o, yes, whole 6 minutes lazy walk from Freshboys

some people have all luck in life waiting for report impatiently but with patience

Grindr will be opened and I assume one can stock on Chang between 11 and 2 like every day , no?

ask discretely at Tawan, Freshboys or Screwboys, they may have it on some nights. Or arrange your own show, hire boys and ask him to find f''k his mate subject to your approval , invite them to your room and enjoy the spectacle or even join in

certainly it may end happily for tester's estate beneficiaries

him too big?

that was my point and advice ,find somebody older so no problem with legalities and he still will be looking looking much younger than his ID shows. I can confirm your findings. On my last trip I offed guy whom I offed also in Dec 2021. Since I saw him advertising on Grindr being 23 I kind of thought it was a case. Anyways, for some reason we started discussing age, he pulled his passport and what I saw? age 32 !

or take easy and safe approach and find somebody older

not yet, life derailed plans a bit