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It seems to be gaining momentum and popularity.... Does it fit in with the new societal mantra that Pattaya is a family friendly destination now ?

Now if only they would reinstate the former 1 year visa that they used to offer citizens from the USA prior to the Covid pandemic ....

I am glad that I missed this chaos by leaving the Philippines 1 week prior.....

@Dannyxxx I truly enjoyed that you shared with us: Your Tokyo guy adventure. He sounds exactly like the type of guy that I would like to hire as I like his type of personality and the sex options are those that I am very much aligned with. I had a similar adventure as yours in South Korea - back in 2017 where I employed 3 different Korean guys to be my tour guides and sexual masseurs during a 12 day period. Each one was employed for 3 days each and the last guy - my favorite was employed for 5 days. He was an amazing stud, gently, manly, sexy, and a great tour guide. His massages each night before we went to bed after touring each day were so enjoyable. Also, sleeping and cuddling with him was very emotionally rewarding. But me - like you - I can get emotionally attached - and of course on the 5th day when I had to say goodbye to him I lost it emotionally and I cried -- even though I wanted to be more manly. Oh well - I will always have his pictures and memories with me forever. Sharing with us about what happened to you at the Osaka DG branch is very thankful and extremely valuable. This is what makes this forum great - as the expression = “Forewarned is forearmed”, can save a lot of us forum members from having to experience this awful experience. So, I thank you for warning us and sparing us any uncomfortable and ugly situations. If I may, can I write you a DM to learn about how to contact your Tokyo guy? I am already infatuated with him via your excellent storytelling skills and I do not yet know him......

Yes, I agree. I have only used the Don Mueang (DMK) airport from Pattaya 1 time (for my trip to Cebu) and it was more painful than going to Suvarnabhumi - as the traffic and smaller roads that you need to use to get to DMK are much more congested than the nice big tollway to Suvarnabhumi. So, a bus to Sukhumvit Road in Pattaya is still acceptable - as long as the bus rider realizes that he/she will need to transfer to another type of ride modality to reach his/her final destination in Pattaya. Which is also true for the other bus if one is not staying near the Jomtien Complex.

I have a couple of virtual cards. I started using them when I started to feel uncomfortable displaying my physical card details when making sensitive transactions. You never know with all of the millions of unseen and anonymous cameras and smart phones around us constantly - who is surveilling us when we make transactions. In my recent experience with my SKRILL debit card being compromised while I was in Cebu where the fraudulent debits were happening at first in Dubai, then in the USA, and then in Canada - it was quite alarming. With the SKRILL fraud team we believe that my debit card details may have been compromised just before I left Thailand for the Philippines, when I received an upsell email from Cebu Pacific with a weblink, which I clicked on, to upgrade my luggage allowance. I remember that my Thai boyfriend was here in my condo room with me and he was helping me to photograph from the weight scale my weight before (not holding my luggage while I was on the scale) and after (with me holding the luggage while I was on the scale) so that we could calculate the delta of the weight difference. Cebu Pacific's base weight limit is 20kg, so I bought additional weight to the maximum of 32kg - even though I only had 28kg for my 62 day trip - as I wanted to have some spare kilos available to me for the return flight in case I bought souvenirs and presents back to Thailand. So, SKRILL thinks that when I entered my debit card details into that weblink to buy more luggage kilos, that my debit card details were somehow compromised. Below is a random image that I captured from the internet - but it illustrates what anyone of my virtual cards would look like in the bank and/or debit/credit card provider app. They present it as looking as the physical card (with certain details intentionally hidden to keep prying eyes and/or surveillance cameras from taking a quick snapshot of your debit card details) - I would imagine because that is what we are all familiar with. To reveal the details of the hidden numbers within the app, you usually need to enter in your password or in more strict cases perform a 2-factor authentication and/or enter in an OTP (one time password) that you would receive either via; email, SMS, or to your WhatsApp number. --> Note that if you are traveling abroad do not accept the use of the OTP methodology option via SMS (text message) - because your home country's SMS may never arrive to you internationally and/or may become very expensive to receive because of roaming charges. I have found that OTP via WhatsApp as being the most reliable and best option. Below is what AI says about virtual debit cards - as it can explain it better than I can. The only limitation that I have encountered with the virtual card is if you would desire to use it at an ATM to withdraw cash. I have heard that some sophisticated ATM machines have a way to read from your virtual card to allow you to withdraw cash - but I have never seen it in practice. When I ask Google - it says that it is not possible: But yet here in Thailand - I have seen with my own eyes certain ATMs where you can withdraw cash without inserting a card. I am not sure if the end-user is using Apple Pay or Google Pay via NFC (for contactless payments) to perform these types of ATM transactions. Google states the following possibility to link a virtual card to your Google Pay or Apple Pay and withdraw cash at an ATM in Thailand using the contactless payment feature: I believe that its life is as long as your physical card is (until expiration date that is stamped onto your physical card). You have the option within the app to set the virtual car limit to ZERO - thus rendering it useless. I am not sure if you can "turn it off" - without it being canceled. Anyone here reading this know ?? The physical card and the virtual card are independent of each other - from the point of view of being active or not.

I thought the same thing when I read that. Then from Sukhumvit Road you would need to hire a Grab or Bolt to get to your final destination - tacking on another 100 to 150 baht for the privilege. Consequently, the predecessor Suvarnabhumi to Jomtien bus, that terminates almost at the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown) still remains, in my opinion, the better choice - at 143 baht to get to Pattaya. https://airportpattayabus.com/ 7 minute walk to the Jomtien Complex from the end-point bus station in Jomtien

Great on Amex. In my case, it was the SKRILL card and they made available to me a new virtual card ready to use on the same day that I made the fraud claim in Cebu. So, I was also impressed with SKRILL.

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After I translated the FB invitation in Google Lens --> I got the feeling that it was: 1.) Written by one of the Thai staff and/or boyfriend, 2.) Target for invitation was intentionally towards Thai readers whith an emphasis on those that work in Supertown, 3.) I am guessing --> to create goodwill within the Thai complex community? 🤔

If you use Google Lens to translate the above Facebook Soda Massage birthday invitation, it states that the birthday invitation was open for EVERYONE who desired to participate. This was a very generous offer by the I believe farang owner of Soda Massage. How does he afford such an expensive affair? Hmm, perhaps because he has 30+ boys working for him and is clearly the BIGGEST gay massage shop in the Pattaya area? I wish him a happy birthday and the best of luck.

Same thing happened to me during my 62 day stay in Cebu. It is very irritating and annoying. Thank God that I had other additional cards that I could use. My new replacement card arrived to my former condo in Budapest (it is a card that is only issued to EU residents) and one of my ex employees lives there now and he will ship it via DHL to me here in Jomtien.

It was the Soda owner's birthday party. Perhaps it was him who you saw up on the stage.

I can only comment for the Dongtan gay volleyball from sunset until 10pm. Just bring him there and ask any of the guys on the sand volleyball court if your Filipino boyfriend can play. It is that simple. However, note that there are sometimes 3 separate volleyball courts - and the guys who are more serious may be reluctant to let someone that they do not know join in right away. So, I would suggest that he try at the other 2 adjacent volleyball courts. If the guys who are more serious are in a jovial mood then they will probably ask him to play right away. They tend to get serious when they have an upcoming important match and they need to be serious. But if there are no upcoming matches then I am quite sure that they will let him play. For the Jomtien soi 12 volleyball which usually runs from like 2am until sunrise - I am not sure how one inserts himself. But my boyfriend recently told me that of recently more non Thais have started to join them. This volleyball is kind of casual - unless there is an agreed upon match for money or some other type of competition. Below is a very general map of the Soi Jomtien 12 area: I have only been twice - arriving via motorbike and kind of intoxicated - so my memory is not perfect - but I remember the D Varee Jomtien hotel being nearby.

Me too. He was/is a breath of fresh air for our forum 🙏😇🤩

Yes, amazingly cheap at 143 baht one way. If you have time to kill - then it is a good alternative. I only learned about this bus from Vinapu during my boot camp training last year. https://airportpattayabus.com/ It departs from the Suvarnabhumi airport and brings you directly to Jomtien where the big FoodMart supermarket is - about a 7 minute walk to the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown).

This sounds like a propaganda article in my opinion - as certain interest groups are HELL-BENT on artificially changing the image of Pattaya to something that it is not yet there..... Based on what I highlighted above - YES the Thai birth rate is down and this VOID is being filled up with the guys from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Why are all of these SEA nearby foreigners servicing the local Pattaya community? Because there is a DEMAND - which this article alludes that DEMAND is diminishing. Consequently, this article feels like it is trying to twist the on-the-ground reality that sin city is still vibrant in Pattaya even though there is now a HUGE movement to say that it is not.....

I believe that you will LOVE it!! The grounds are very nice and the individual Thai style bungalows are old Lanna style. https://www.facebook.com/rabbitresort.my/ When you exit the Rabbit Resort grounds onto Dongtan Beach - you are immediately in front of the gay beach - right smack in the middle = excellent location. To your right (walking north) are the Dongtan gay volleyball sand courts - perhaps a 5 minute walk. To your left (walking south) is the Supertown in the Jomtien Complex - perhaps a 10 minute walk. Regarding the taxi services - I have noticed that their pricing is MORE expensive when they need to enter into the middle of the Bangkok traffic jungle (like Silom). Whereas, the price to Pattaya from Suvarnabhumi airport is cheaper - because with the super highway out to the coast where Pattaya is they can avoid the Bangkok traffic nightmare....

PFC ? Quick and easy to become a new member...

outch, I thought the SAME thing....maybe behind that gayguides.com nik = Zipper --> is Ben Stiller ?

wow - I love the translations on that noodle menu: Crazy hard, super hard, etcetra.... Ask your guy if these hard adjectives can also be used to describe someone's state of excitement? 🍆

Almost exactly what happened to me, when I arranged my first 7 days of traveling together with Woody and his partner Non. I had specifically told Woody when making the plans for this trip that the MOST important part of the to-be trip was to cross over into Myanmar. Well, that day arrived - perhaps it was back in 2013 or 2014 - I wrote a previous trip report about this - and when we got to the exit Thailand gate - Woody was told that if he crossed with me that he would not be allowed back into Thailand - as Woody was still a refugee from Myanmar (now he is all legal with proper documents to live in Thailand). Woody insisted that I cross over anyway - but I would not go without my precious Woody. So, still to date, I have not yet entered into Myanmar - and like most of us here - wee are waiting for this never ending Myanmar conflict to end. Woody saw how saddened that I was and he surprised me by taking me to that exact same point where you can overlook into Myanmar (this was before they built the glass Sky Walk overlook) AND Woody invited one of his friends who lives in that Myanmar border town = Tachileik to cross over into Thailand and join us for lunch up on the overlook - so that this Myanmar guy could explain to me about what we could visibly see in Tachileik. We were originally supposed to eat lunch with this guy in Tachileik and he would give us a tour. So, in lieu of our original Myanmar plan, I was still very happy and appreciative. And, how could anyone be angry with adorable Woody.....

Vinapu - please show us a photo of your "protector on bare feet".... I am very curious as to what they look like. Us readers may also want to use this technique.... or is it patented like the Vinapu Tuck....

I am sure that it would be hysterical. Because the ladyboy caught me off-guard as I was crossing from the beach side of the Dongtan beach walkway to the security entrance to my condo complex. At first, I thought that she was one of my Thai boyfriend's many ladyboy friends so I was in a "friendly nice to see you state of mind...", but then I quickly realized that I did not know this ladyboy - she was very pretty - but she was very aggressive about "acquiring some business..." - so, I whipped out my ---- NO - stop what you are thinking - I quickly whipped out my security gate FOB so I could quickly get into the condo complex before she was able to get off of her motorbike...... Then I stared back just to make sure that she did not have her own FOB key - as I learned that many of the local money boys here in Jomtien have their own FOB keys. In fact, I wanted extra FOB keys for my occasional guests and I asked to my real estate agent and at the Juristic Office and both of them told me that there were no more FOB keys available. But this being Thailand - creative solutions are always available - so, someone told me about this FOB key duplication shop over near Tukcom and you just give them one of your existing FOB keys and he reads the signal from your FOB key and makes you a duplicate. Amazing Thailand!!! So, so much for feeling safe.....

I can leave you and your guy in the hands of my boyfriend - as I am sure that he would enjoy to be a "tour guide" for the soi 12 adventure.... Just realize that it is an expansive beach area with pockets of guys sitting on their beach mats and/or portable beach chairs sitting, drinking, and chatting. Some of them play volleyball off and on throughout the night. Also, for purposes of your Vietnamese guy - there is also the gay Dongtan beach volleyball, which starts daily about 30 minutes prior to sunset and goes until around 9pm to 10pm.