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I would expand on what you wrote above. Already on Indian social media the Indians are feeling that they are being specifically discriminated against - because there were/are many other nationals causing problems in Thailand and their entry into Thailand rules were left intact within the VFE category, and they were not moved into the less friendly VOA category. From a geopolitical point of view this may have a negative impact on Thai-Indian bi-lateral relations. Here is the short version (2.5 minutes) from one of the Indian social media broadcasters: and below is the longer version (23 minutes): From my selfish point of view, I am more interested in what the negative economic impact may be to the South Pattaya area of Pattaya city. Many Thais work in related businesses that support Indian tourism. Just yesterday, my Thai barber was worried about what will happen to the area of Pattaya city's Walking Street that is referred to by the local Thais as "Little Mumbai". Since covid, the Indians have made huge investments into that area of Walking Street. It is usually not a good idea to give cause to negative VoM (Velocity of Money) issues for the local economy. Instead of targeting a nation because some of its citizens were bad in Thailand, I would have much preferred that: those Indian tourists that were creating problems in Thailand (Pattaya) would have been: fined and/or arrested for their offense, for repeated offenses have them denied future access to Thailand under the VFE and to be only available for future entry under a VOA, eventually blacklisted from entering Thailand if their bad behavior continued. In my opinion, this would have been a much fairer solution (targeting the bad apples instead of the entire nation).

The same endless ads and visible distance of the guys is true for Grindr. I just buy a 1 year subscription for both Hornet (not popular in Vietnam) and HeeSay (popular in Vietnam). The combined fee for the 1 year Premium subscription plans for Hornet + HeeSay is 30% cheaper than what I would pay for a single Grindr Xtra subscription plan (which is still 1 level lower than the Grindr Unlimited Premium plan). I asked Grok to analyze the value for money for the 3 different apps - see below: Grindr is significantly more expensive than Hornet and HeeSay (formerly Blued) for full/premium access, especially at the top tier. Pricing varies by region, platform (iOS/Android), promotions, and user (it can be personalized), and it changes over time—always check in-app for your exact rates. Here's a comparison based on recent US/typical pricing data (as of 2026). app.sensortower.com Grindr (XTRA and Unlimited tiers for "full access") XTRA (solid premium tier: no ads, more profiles, read receipts, etc.): Monthly: ~$19.99–$22.99 Annual: ~$99.99–$149.99 (often ~$8–$12.50/month effective) mashable.com Unlimited (top "full" tier: everything in XTRA + incognito, unlimited profiles/views, more advanced features): Monthly: ~$28–$45 (App Store lists ~$44.99) Annual: Often $300+ (can approach $500+ in some cases; users have complained about high effective yearly costs) app.sensortower.com Grindr also tests ultra-premium AI tiers (e.g., "Edge") at $350–$500/month for select users, but that's not standard "full access."Hornet (Premium / Plus for full features) Monthly: ~$14.99–$19.99 3 months: ~$9.99/month ($29.97 total) Annual: ~$3.74/month effective ($44.88/year) — one of the best value options among the three. datingscout.com Hornet has multiple plans (Premium, Plus, Max), but the core paid experience unlocks no ads, unlimited grid, advanced filters, who viewed you, etc.HeeSay (Premium / SVIP for full access) Monthly: ~$9.99 (US Google Play) 3 months: ~$19.99 (~$6.66/month) Annual: ~$59.99 (~$5/month effective) play.google.com Other regions/currencies show similar low-to-mid pricing (e.g., equivalent of ~$10–$40/month depending on tier like VIP vs. SVIP). It's generally the most affordable. Best value: Hornet annual or HeeSay — both much cheaper for similar core features (unlimited browsing, no ads, advanced filters, privacy tools). Grindr offers a larger/more active user base in many areas, which can justify the premium for some, but it's the least economical unless you need its specific extras (like Incognito or web access). Prices fluctuate and are often discounted for new users or bundles. In-app purchases and one-time boosts are extra across all. For the most accurate/current pricing, open each app and check the subscription screen in your region.

What I have noticed is that there is a transition going on in Pattaya / Jomtien as part of the traditional reoccurring 5 months of low season - but for this low season with the additional challenges of higher jet fuel prices and recent changes with the VFE (Visa Free Entry) and VOA (Visa on Arrival) rules. Consequently, the dominant groups remain to be for anyone who can still get here on the cheap; Malaysians, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indians - but for the Indians, I foresee a dramatic fall in their numbers, as they were specifically targeted and removed from the VFE list and instead inserted on the VOA list for entry, for only a 15 day stay visa for a fee of 2,000 baht - whereas, previously it was free for them to enter and they could stay for 60 days. I fear that this will have a negative economic impact on the South Pattaya environs of the city (which are predominately populated with Indian tourists and related Indian run businesses). Also, who will the ladyboys of the night over on Pattaya City Beach Road target for easy gold removal after the Indians stop coming? Will their business model have to change out of necessity and they will instead target the rest of us? Yesterday, we went over to Koh Larn - via the ferry and it was full on both the outgoing and return trips - however, the beach that we went to, Tien Beach - was fairly devoid of people and when we took the motorbikes over to the hill that overlooks the Tawaen Beach to look down onto what is usually the most popular beach of Koh Larn - it was mostly empty. Of the people that we did see on the beaches, the vast majority were Asian, with some Russians and Indians still in the mix.

When I was in Vietnam (Da Nang) for 4.5 months last year - I had good luck with the Heesay (formerly Blued) app. I reference my Heesay encounters several times in my Da Nang trip report: Have fun

The 2026 annual party has been announced by the MI portion of the former MIMA acronym: MI = Massage Insider MA = Massage Addicted For those not familiar with MI, they are a Thai forum, similar to our gayguides.com forum - whose primary focus is to provide for gay massage reviews, updates and related massage news in Thailand - with their primary focus on Bangkok. It is a paid subscription group via LINE and now with a new Ultra Plus feature that is held on Telegram - as LINE has imposed tighter restrictions about what is allowed to be discussed in this delicate subject matter. With the new Telegram feature conversations are more like what you would find here in our gayguides.com forum = freedom reigns. https://x.com/massageinside6 Anyway, Massage Insider (Ultra Plus) is organizing their 5th Anniversary Eternality VVIP Exclusive Party, to be held: 4 July 2026, at the Joy Zone Silom, https://share.google/Ao1jtyu6owKCvRwS2 from 7pm until 11:30pm, 12 Silom Road, Bangkok Below is what was published by them in Thai - translated by Google into English: Limited to the first 50 people!! 🔥Get ready for the hottest night of the year! We invite all Massage Insider members and VVIP guests to join us at: 🎉MASSAGE INSIDER 5th ANNIVERSARY [ETERNALITY VVIP EXCLUSIVE PARTY] A 5th anniversary party that will get your heart racing like never before! Meet 9 hot male models in comfortable white pajamas, ready to welcome you. Join us for conversation, participate in an exclusive auction, and enjoy delicious food and free-flow drinks all night long. See you on July 4th at JOY ZONE SILOM... Secrets and special treats await you tonight! For members interested in learning more before purchasing tickets, please join the LINE group via the link below: https://line.me/ti/g/rdDaL7z_zu Please only join if you are genuinely interested. Don't waste space for those who are genuinely interested. 🎉 Event Highlights 1. Dining & Intro: Enjoy a meal with our male models and their introductions. 2. Exclusive Talk: Male models in "white see-through pajamas" will have an intimate chat with guests at various stations. 3. Special Auction: An exclusive auction where the winner gets to change the model's outfit from pajamas to underwear. 4. Showtime & Tipping: Tip your favorite male model in "white underwear." 5. Chance to win a grand prize from a famous massage parlor. (Everyone wins a prize!) 🍾 Food and Beverage Menu 🍽️ Food -Main Course: Main course Free-flow Snacks: Snacks available throughout the event 🥂 Beverage -Alcohol: Black Label / Vodka / Beer -Soft Drinks: Soft drinks / Fruit juice / / Soda and water --> Note - no information has been published (as of 26 May 2026) yet about how much a ticket will cost to participate in this party <--

There are 18 contestants to vote from for the Mr. Gay Thailand 2026 contest. I believe that the winner will be announced on Saturday July 11, 2026. You can cast your vote up to Friday July 10, 2026 at 10pm Thailand time. It costs 20 baht to cast your vote** (see below what these funds are used for). https://www.bangkokrainbow.net/en/category/mrgt2026 Who would you vote for? For me, I like #7 - Khun Arthur https://www.facebook.com/mrgaythailand **

with the guy in the above photo I would add: anycure to your above list 🤪

me too - life before the invention of Grindr was truly fun and interesting with a more local grassroots orientation and feeling.

While you are waiting for Grindr to do their "purge", you could try the new hookup app created by the gay.it entity. It's name is AMA. https://ama.gay.it/ Also, have you tried the escort site, HUNQZ that was created by PlanetRomeo? https://www.hunqz.com/escorts

Outch. I did not realize that Apple blocks these kinds of pleasurable things, as I have always lived in the Android world. I am glad that you found a work around.

Hi @joizy, I am so sorry that you are having all of these problems with Grindr. I am not a big fan of Grindr - as it has the most friction out of all the apps that I use and consequently I use it the least. It is also the most expensive app when compared to the other apps that I use. When I lived in Italy for 13 years - May 1999 - Jan 2009 and then again from 2012 - 2016, my primary app to use to meet and connect with the local guys was PlanetRomeo. On my phone, I installed the Romeo Uncut version which gives you expanded access to include the MB escorts. I also used the popular me2.it site - as that was a home grown Italian created cruising / meetup site. Unfortunately it died around year 2017. But its successor Gay.it, https://www.gay.it/ , a gay forum, seems to still be popular. Also, during the years that I lived in Rome, I organized many hookup events via the http://circolodelleseghe.it/ CDS site which is unfortunately no longer operational. I used to organize some of the CDS events at the Il Diavolo Dentro Club in Rome - because the CDS parties that I organized became too big for my Rome apartment. https://www.ildiavolodentroclub.com/ I see that this club is still operational in Rome and is still organizing its theme events: https://www.ildiavolodentroclub.com/serate-ed-eventi Back when I lived in Rome they gave me Monday nights (a slow night for them) to organize my CDS (circle jerk) events. Also, back in those years, https://gaydar.com/ was still semi popular. I also lived in Budapest, and similar to Italy, PlanetRomeo was my primary app that I used to hook up with the local Hungarians. Similar to Italy, Hungary has its own locally created sites for in-country hookups, such as RosszLanyok at: https://m.rosszlanyok.hu/ RosszLanyok is primarily an escort hookup site for heterosexuals, but it also has a smaller gay/bi escort hookup functionality. If you use this site, enter into the section with the label = Fiúk - as that is the word in Hungarian for men. @joizy, I took this opportunity to ask Grok what are the most popular apps to meet other guys and it produced the below list. Unfortunately, it seems that since I left Italy in 2016 that Italy has shifted to Grindr - as Grok is saying that it is now the number 1 app used to meet other guys. I hope that this additional information will help you get the most of your remaining time in Italy.

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Hello @donJ, I wrote the below thread more than 1 year ago about my long stay in Da Nang, Vietnam - a beautiful coastal city. It is very Da Nang centric - and perhaps it will give you a small glimpse on gay life in Da Nang. During your trip to Vietnam please update us here as it would be nice to see Vietnam through the eyes of 2 guys who are in their 30s. Thanks

Would you say that Baguio is the Chaing Mai of the Philippines? If yes, does Baguio suffer from a smokey bad quality air period like Chiang Mai does?

Interesting rankings and results. Spoiler alert: I was quite surprised that Manila did not make the top-5 - as most of our members on our Gayguides forum give their preference to Manila. So, happy to see some of the other places mentioned in the Philippines for this gay retirement report.

Does an internet installation guy count? When I was living in Rome, Italy - I decided to rent a condo in a brand new condo complex - consequently I had to request new internet service from the telecom provider. In those years, I was a big fan and organizer of "circle jerk parties" in the CDS - Circolo delle Seghe internet club. So, I always had this site open in my laptop. The telecom guy came and installed my new internet service and he asked me to test it with my laptop. He was very sexy. He was standing next to me and I opened my laptop and immediately the CDS circle jerk web page (as I had forgot that it was already open) was displayed in all of its erotic glory. I was really embarrassed, as this installation guy was very straight. He said to me, "non ti vergognare - tutti fanno le seghe" - don't be ashamed everybody jerks off. He then said to me - wow this CDS web page is cool. He then asked me = dai, ci mettiamo a prova - come on, let's do it. Next thing I know we both pulled down our pants and we are jerking each other off. It was really hot, but ended quite quickly, as we were both over excited. After our orgasms, I had to sign a document that the internet installation was a success - as we had just proved that it works. I then asked him, let's meetup and do it again and he replied, sorry I can't I am married with kids. What the fuck!! archived landing page www.circolodelleseghe.it - now off line and abandoned successor page seems to now be: https://clubdelleseghe.forumcommunity.net/

Thank you so much for giving us a review of the Bliss Massage shop. You are correct, there is nearly zero information in our forum about this fairly new massage shop in Pattaya - in the east side - which we locally refer to as the "dark side". It is one of the few gay massage shops here in Pattaya that has a proper LINE account that is used for marketing and bookings - like which are common practice in Bangkok. Their LINE account link is: https://t.co/v777mD01W8 Here is their X (Twitter) address: Bliss Pattaya Twitter X account I have the hots for their masseur = Prem - but I still haven't yet made the trip to go to the "dark side". Their outcall fee is 950 baht, so I should make the effort to go and visit them - but I will book Prem in advance so I know that he will be at the shop when I arrive.

For those who will be in Pattaya - there will be a Gay Pride parade on Saturday 27 June. https://www.facebook.com/Prpattayacity/posts/พัทยาเดินหน้า-pattaya-international-pride-2026-จัดยิ่งใหญ่ริมชายหาด-2628-มิยนี้-/1400999792051925/

Years back - I wandered into the home toys when I bought a Fleshlight, jack-pack, jack sleeve, electro-stim, etc. What I found is that in the first 1 to 2 months I was really into them and then their excitement and newness would eventually fade away and I found myself eventually throwing them away or "donating" them to somebody that I knew. What I realized is that there is nothing that can replace the excitement of a new human encounter and the mystery that comes with that.... However, with the eventual advances in humanoid AI technologies - perhaps in our future we might be enticed to buy/rent/lease a sex toy humanoid that is programmed to deliver a new experience each time ? https://landing.candynetwork.ai/lp1?var_text=21&gender=male&uid=903&oid=27&affid=546

You are still too young to talk about elder care: I agree with you about physical fitness - which I still do. But, going to the gym won't help our mental fitness for those of us who may encounter Alzheimer and/or dementia later in life - we may get lost in the gym or on the way to the gym 🤪🤔😟

Part of my pension income comes from the UN pension system, which does not have an EIN (Federal Tax ID number) - as the UN is exempt from this requirement for all nationalities except us Americans. Consequently, the page(s) of the IRS 1040 filing that require the EIN to identify the source of that passive income is NULL - thus blocking my ability to file electronically - as an EIN is a requirement to be able to file electronically. Therefore, that page of my 1040 needs to be printed manually and then a footnote entered onto the tax return, which states that this passive income originates from within the USA but without an EIN due to the treaty signed with the UN Common System. In the many countries (outside of the USA), most governments exempt UN pension payments from taxation. Yes. When I need to try to login to the ssa.gov website I need to use the VPN as if I am from within the USA and to use the FireFox browser - as all of my other browsers (Explorer and Chrome) never work. However, the above strategy only works occasionally - thus needing to do it several times in a day and/or spread out over many days. I am not sure if there is an issue with the time difference between Thailand and the USA? I seem to have better luck when I try to enter in the night time here in Thailand when it is early morning in the USA.

I am not aware of any. But, whenever I need to go somewhere new I use the #hashtag feature in Twitter (X) to find what I am looking for. In the below example, I used the hashtag = #altermanila and many returns were reported. In the Philippines they tend to use the #alter tag to identify the gay world. Just add the city, province, zone after the word alter and you will be provided a query result of all the alters in that area. Below is an example when I inserted the hashtag = #altermakati sometimes the users on X like to name the area with alter afterwards - as in the below example they used the hashtag = #makatialter A lot of what is written is in Tagalog - so you will need to use a translator to decipher what it is they are looking for or offering. good luck.

@brall3 and this my friend is probably the eventual death knell of Boyztown. Truly sad, because back in the day, I LOVED the 9pm sexy red carpet parade march of the nude torso BoyzBoyzBoyz models out on the street, where if you did not already get an outside bar seat by 8:30pm you were not going to have an up close and personal view of the sexy guys. The phenomena currently occuring to Boyztown is similar to when the anchor store leaves a once popular shopping mall. Without a good anchor (attraction) the foot traffic decreases and the remaining stores (bars) struggle to stay profitable. Furthermore, for the annual Pattaya gay pride events - Boyztown's support and participation is often absent. This is sad considering the long history of Boyztown.

This was exactly true when I lived in Budapest for 8 years. One of my main massage guys was a military bi army guy and his wife was ok with it - as long as his customers were male. After many years of getting to know him, I also got to know his wife - as he would often call her to say that he was at my place and I would often speak to her. Unfortunately, that bastard was using me as an alibi to go with other women - because unbeknownst to me he was telling his beautiful wife that he was going to massage me but was instead f$%king other women. So, one evening she called me frantically looking for him and I told him that he was not at my place and that is when everything was exposed. She was angry at him for going with other women and I was mad at him for using me as an alibi to go with other women. On Thursday evenings, at the Action Bar (now closed) in Budapest was a reoccurring event = "Get to know your escort night" and the owner of the bar would invite the many escorts to sit and drink with the customers. I had the hots for one of their regulars who performed in the Oral Academy show on the weekends and he was at the Thursday night event with his wife. I bought both of them a drink and I asked him if I could have a private session with him at my place and he told me to talk to his business partner (his wife) to negotiate the deal. After agreeing on the deal terms I said to her, aren't you jealous? She replied no - I get to manage and approve who he goes with and it brings in extra income into our household. Amazing.

@10tazione - if you will head over to Cebu - note that they have created a fairly new (less than 1 year old) Telegram group = anonymous cebu It has more than 35 channels within the main channel. I highlighted some of the more interesting channels (see below screenshot). As of recently, they exceeded 3,500 members. https://t.co/mm6PgGHxPI --> Use your phone's auto AI language translation feature and activate it - as the postings tend to be 90% or more in Tagalog. This also works in the Thailand LINE/Telegram massage forums. This approach is similar to the recent move of the Thailand LINE massage groups over to Telegram, as LINE has been cracking down on some of the more fun aspects in the Thailand Massage_Insider related groups. Enjoy!