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Walk along the Silom and you will find your typos aplenty, if you don't like what you see check soi Twilight offers. And read couple trip reorts on this forum to give you an idea what is available and where. 1 hr should run between 500-1000 for the shop and boy will be looking for about 1000 for massage with extras. What extras will be is open to negotiation

one can only hope that they will not try to digitize transaction between bar boys / girls and their admirers

what is your concern? you will be in heaven already

wherever I travel I try to say close to the biggest attraction of the place . Since biggest / and for my private use I'd say only / attraction of Pattaya is Boyztown I always stay there in the Le Cafe Royale / because is cheapest / But for next trip I'm inclined to try Ambiance just for a fun to see if it's any difference.

you not alone. for both fun and home use statistic purpose on my every foreign trip, not only Thailand ones, I use and compare 4 following methods of obtain local cash: 1. exchange USD cash purchased at home using domestic currency 2. exchange my domestic cash 3. take cash withdrawal from my bank account 4. take cash advance from my credit card not issued by the bank I have account with I gathered quite a sample over the years and while it varies depending of country and surprisingly perhaps, year of travel , I must say in 12 Thailand trips list above is in order of final advantage after accounting all fees, difference in exchange rates etc. While differences are not very big trend is clear for me, 11 out of 12 USD cash proved most advantageous beaten only once by my domestic currency cash. Plastic was always 3 and 4 th so I gladly remain dinosaur using plastic only if I bust my budget , again happened 11 times out of 12 with only 1 st trip within originally planned monetary frame . I don't want to inflame discussion, differences weren't that big and perhaps not worth of much a trouble to average 1-2 weeks vacationer but still worth trouble for me.

since you are there, just go one evening , see and report back here please

everybody can see what you are doing , who is your companion , where you are going with him and for how long etc.

but there's always option one may escape from the ZOO

.....because it looks good on the shelf and you have access to it anytime. Have a safe trip home

you got it right, I'm not easily scarred by the press sensations. I guess living across the street from social housing and being survivor of both Romanian 1977 earthquake and Mexico City's 1985 one helps. Murders by drunks may happen everywhere but Thailand still remains very safe country.

I like your attitude, instead of getting bitter over issue you still see best part of the story. Time will heal and even if you don't find such a wonderful BF again you will still have memories of those good days previous one beautified for you.

good advice , good advice firecat

I'd rather give those 200 saved to the boy than feed bank's bottom line so yes , I pay attention to withdrawal fees and try to use ATM as little as possible.

this is what I 'm always doing and using ATM only at end on trip when my budges is busted already. My favorite exchange place is Natty gems beside soi Twilight, next to Family Mart

I'm glad you had fun there

with one of the highest murder rates in the whole world something musty be missing in this rosy picture

just curious, how do you know?

Definitely I bought my once famous "Bike for Dad" yellow shirt there in the morning so it must be whole day operation

more detailed report would be nice

not to get into discussion about other people preferences but I'd like to note that photos quite often don't do justice to the boys pictured and in the flesh they look much more attractive. and when we off a boy / men we are not offing just his meat and veins but it is whole person sharing those few hours with us. At times he may not be that attractive by the looks but can be still enormous fun to be with. Of course other way around is possible - first class looks , first class body and first class an asshole as one of my friends described Jupiter boy he offed around Christmas 2014

Happy Birthday faranglaw and you Mr. Shakespeare as well

Yes, impossible to miss since market is right on the canal's bank and right on the boat's stop

My choice would be Talat market right on Saen Saep canal route, easy and fun to get to, small, busy and entirely local with corresponding prices. Take boat going west and after less than 10 minutes you are there . Can be combined with visit to Golden Mount temple , steps from next and final stop

I like your positiuve attitude

sometimes theft can be accidental ie. somebody wearing the same make may take yours by mistake, It's why often I place shoes in my day pack instead leaving them on the rack. Since I was one of those board members I confirm that floors were positively dirty in places but it's still far from climbing Mt.Popa near Bagan in Myanmar where one is asked to remove shoes and climb the mountain barefooted on the cemented trail liberally sprinkled with resident monkey's excrements , experience not to be forgotten too soon