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only if he agrees to scare away the annoying pigeons who like to come and shit on the balcony. he was able to scare away Peter's crows - no crows here - but too many pigeons...

come join us gay retirees here in Jomtien - the more the merrier :>))

Please be careful with video calls on the gay pick-up apps. More than once I chatted with someone super sexy on Grindr to have them try to get me on a video call and/or move me over to another app to chat more. I always declined as I was very aware of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam I would suggest that you be very cautious - as I have read that these "supposedly sexy guys who want to meet you" are sometimes working in a scam center trying to "pig butcher you" for your eventual financial slaughter via capturing your biometric data.

This is why I prefer the Hornet app In the Hornet app you can see a list of his followers which is a good indicator if he is real. And using the "birds of the same feather flock together" principle you can see with whom he is associated with, and this is also a good indicator about his authenticity. Additionally, in the Hornet app each member is assigned a user id by the system, which is searchable and very useful when you want to meetup again with a hot guy. In Grindr there is no such equivalent that I am aware of. The banning process is less hostile than it is in Grindr. Who has enough money to buy another mobile phone to restart their Grindr life after being banned? Lastly, the price for a 1 year subscription in Hornet is about what Grindr costs for 3 months.

@aaroninatl and another fun and cheap way to move around in Bangkok is to use the canal boat system = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlong_Saen_Saep_boat_service Especially on the Chao Phrya river.

Unfortunately he passed away: This SawatdeeNetwork thread discusses some extra details but there still remain many unanswered questions about Rush: how did he pass away, what happened to his partner NOM. https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?21705-Dancing-with-the-Devil-in-the-City-of-Angels&highlight=bangkokbois+rush+died After Rush passed away I was very saddened and on one of my trips to Bangkok I specifically went to HotMale to try to learn about where NOM was. Unfortunately, nobody at HotMale was able to help me identify this NOM character who supposedly worked at HotMale - the love of his (Rush's) life. That made me even more depressed - as it made me think that perhaps NOM the character in Rush's blog was just a virtual character? @hank75 and @kram987 What do you say?

Yes you are correct. I loved Rush and his exciting BLOG - his writing style was so addictive. Thank GOD for the former owner of the SawatdeeNetwork for agreeing to host the archives of Rush's bangkokbois wordpress blog. I believe the below update from 2011 discusses this straight boy being a bottom topic: https://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.com/2011/04/19/getting-a-straight-boy-to-go-gay/

That should be my most favorite year - as that activity is such a pleasure....

Have you met her yet? She is the BEST - one of the most friendliest people that I know. And she trains her staff to be super friendly - already when I eat there I feel like we are all family. and in my humble opinion - the BEST place in all of Pattaya for REAL bacon

As reported many times previously in this Gay Pattaya section of our forum - this PSA is to make all of you who are: planning vacations/holidays in the next imminent high season (October 2026 - February 2027), seasonals who will return to Pattaya / Jomtien, or live here and are very aware about the situation. This project commenced in 2020 much further down south in the Na Jomtien area (under Phase 1) and is now in Phase 2 - as of today (August 2026) has reached the police box where Dongtan beach starts (heading northbound). View from my balcony where Dongtan beach starts I believe that they will enter into the area of Dongtan beach either later in September or early October. Watch the below 2 videos from the We Love Jomtien facebook page to understand what the sand replenishment looks like up close and personal: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DMGGni77Z/ Bulldozers pushing the sand that has been piped onto the beach from the off-shore dredgers https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19JAPvNXhg/ Note the white pipe with the inbound flowing sand coming in from the off-shore dredger pump boat The locals have explained the sand replenishment/nourishment process/procedure to me as follows: clear the existing beach of the vendors / beach establishments, erect a fence on the beach sidewalk so that people don't inadvertently walk into an active operation and get hurt, scrape back the existing top white sand, dredgers off-shore port the sand that they have dredged / collected from the bottom of the sea is transferred onto the pump boat, off-shore pump boat has a long white pipe attached to it where the pump boat pumps the freshly dredged sand onto the shore, bulldozers move this dark sand onto the areas of the beach that need to be widened - or as they say locally, "nourished", bulldozers try to cover the darker sand with the previous white sand - often there is not enough white sand - so I heard (not confirmed) that there is another process where a ship goes to some of the many offshore uninhabited small islands and "borrows" its white sand to cover the darker sand on Jomtien beach. everything is smoothed out by the bulldozers, restored and enlarged beach is reopened to the beach vendors and beach goers, mother nature continues her natural erosion process. The end result is very impressive and if you take a walk southbound towards Jomtien Beach / Na Jomtien - you can see what the beach looks like after this amazing beach erosion transformation has been completed. Before and After - as displayed in the above drone photo The purpose of this PSA is to hopefully answer the question, "will this negatively impact my planned vacation (return to Jomtien)?" Yes, but only in 300-metre sections - as the beach sand replenishment nourishment project is moving northbound (towards the gay beach area) in 300-metre segments. Since the area north of the Dongtan police box extends for approximately 1.7km, divided by 300 metre segments, which means that the project will move around 6 more times until its completion - with it completing each 300 metre section in about a 4 to 8 week window. So, to enjoy your vacation - just move to an area that is not yet impacted - OR - has already been completed. One caveat, Grok is telling me that the tract from the Dongtan police box up until the northern point of Yin Yom beach (north of the gay volleyball area and Pattaya Park Tower) is out of scope for this project. We will know very shortly if this is true - because the dredgers have recently moved to where Dongtan beach starts. In my personal opinion, the Dongtan Beach does need to have its beach erosion repaired because whenever we have an intense monsoon rain storm - the sand underneath the beach sidewalk gets eroded away and can collapse. Recently a small section, near where the daily Dongtan aerobics takes place collapsed and they already replaced the sand underneath the sidewalk foundation to keep it from collapsing further. November 2025 related article as published by the Pattaya News is linked below: https://thepattayanews.com/2025/11/17/pattaya-advances-jomtien-beach-nourishment-with-318-million-baht-project-to-add-300-meter-sections-over-900-days/

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Thanks to @emiel1981 during his visit to Thailand in December 2025 I was able to accompany Emiel and visit my first Sky Bar in Bangkok = Akara Sky Hanuman in the Phloen Chit (Lumphini) area of Bangkok. I truly enjoyed our time there and I have desired to do it again. Yesterday presented that opportunity as I decided to celebrate my birthday at the Zama Sky Bar - here in Jomtien - which sits on top of the 38th floor in the D Varee hotel. As of now, August 2026 - it is the highest sky bar in all of Pattaya - as the other sky bars only reach 34 or 32 floors. But, there is a lot of construction going on in the Pattaya area and I believe that the Grand Solaire will be the tallest when completed at 67 floors. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWGogKhERsG/ I invited the 3 players from my Jomtien Complex TenPin Bowling Competition, where I sponsored the Sunee bar, my Thai BF and his best friend - so it was the 6 of us. During one of my health walks last week I had visited to make the reservation and as it was in the late afternoon they let me walk around the 2 different distinct floors to choose the best table - which I chose on the upper level which was in the extreme corner where the sweeping views of the Jomtien Beach skyline and Koh Larn are beautifully visible. Unfortunately, during our dinner it lightly rained on us but we resisted to be moved to the lower floor to be seated in an internal space. As it was so cloudy, the sunset was almost non-existent. We started off with our mocktail order from their fabulous drink menu: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzMU3uEEQ4vQHHWBI0HLPc89-zteP4vh/view?usp=sharing While we were enjoying our drinks, the maître d' presented us with a nice bottle of Welland Barossa Shiraz - I was perplexed - and the maître d' explained to us that one of my friends back in Europe had instructed the Zama Sky Bar to surprise me and present this wine to us. This was truly an incredible surprise and very much appreciated. Afterwards, we ordered our dinner from the menu - note that the menu is only in English - which made ordering somewhat difficult - as all of my guests were Thai - but they were great at using the translate feature on their phones to help them decide what to order. Here is a link to the menu: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RD_69JRMsGeykialGNYAVef3qd8oU68V/view?usp=sharing We had to dedicate one chair at our table to hold the lovely flowers that were given to me as well as the presents. Our food was served and during our meal - it was time for the Zama Sky Bar show - where the bartender is juggling flaming bottles and bongo drum dancers are circulating around the restaurant going to each table. Eventually they reached our table and Khun Dew "volunteered" to be the lucky one to beat the bongo drums - it was very entertaining. Zama_Skybar_Bartender_show.mp4 Zama_Skybar_bongo_drum_dancers.mp4 After finishing our meal, our waitress delivered 2 birthday cakes to our table - another perplexing moment for me. I had purchased a cake earlier that afternoon and gave it to reception when I arrived and with the 2 numbered candles I told them in which order they needed to be in to express my proper new age. Unbeknownst to me my Thai BF had also delivered a cake to the restaurant when he arrived - he arrived after us as he came directly from his job. So, the waitress had placed 1 of the 2 birthday candles on each cake - so "double your pleasure". The restaurant staff comes to your table and sings the obligatory Happy Birthday song. There were many birthdays last night being concurrently celebrated. My Thai friends enjoyed their meals - but they would have preferred dishes that are more spicy - and with the menu only being in English it made things somewhat difficult to understand what dish could be the most spiciest to their liking. As this is mainly a tourist type of place - it is geared to the palate of foreigners. Anyway, they enjoyed themselves nonetheless as they had endless opportunities to update their social media feeds with these exciting photos and videos. Afterwards, we went back to Supertown in the Jomtien Complex to continue the birthday festivities, first at the Sunee bar and then we finished at the M Bar. I share this "review" with all of you in case you may want to do something different and unusual during your stay in Jomtien - that is very similar to the many skybar entertainment places found in Bangkok.

Well, now the Supertown bars in the Jomtien Complex are getting into the hype. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HSL6XmSyE/ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DUmujdnm9/ I guess that we will see later this week if this Supertown marketing has been successful

The root cause for this type of behavior can be because the papasan/mamasan: provided a loan or advance on salary to said guy and wants it paid back and pushes the guy to make the deal/sale, controls the guys contract and/or documents to live/work/exist in said bar and wants the guy to make the deal/sale, needs money and is going to get a commission on the deal/sale for services rendered, or what happened to me 1 time at X-Boys Pattaya - the head papasan urgently sat next to me AFTER I had arranged an off of one of their lead star guys (he was 50% Thai and 50% French and super sexy - as I often like mixed race Thais more than 100% Thai guys) and negotiated with me to relinquish the off because one of their superstar rich clients from China wanted the same guy that I was offing. I was ok with it because sex for me is best done between 9am and 9pm - as all of my systems tend to function at their maximum during these operating hours. So, I arranged with the head papasan that the guy would visit me in the late afternoon on the following day in my condo and I did not need to pay the off fee - as I was doing the bar a favor. Win-win for everyone, me, bar, rich Chinese prime customer, and the guy who is being offed - 2 sales in 1 go. When you get to know the guys at various bars it is truly amazing what you can discover about the relationship between the guys and their employer (bar) and intermediary (mamasan/papasan).

Last year when I was staying in an AirBnB in Cebu (Mactan Newtown) there was an iron burn mark on the sofa covered up with a blanket. On day 1, I immediately took a photo of it, as well as a video of the entire condo unit, and I wrote to the condo owner via the app to establish with her that I was not responsible for the iron burn mark. She replied to me - thanks for bringing this to my attention and she confirmed to me that her cleaning lady had already brought it to her attention and that it was the result of a previous AirBnB customer. The owner and I, we really hit it off and she helped me write my Gayguides trip report for Cebu when I had to compare, based on sqm. the comparison price per sqm. for rentals between Cebu, Da Nang, and Jomtien.

It was on the outer perimeter of Supertown near the Primo restaurant. If you are still in Jomtien you can walk by it and see that it is no longer operational, and you can still see the 7 Days Cafe signage. note that this map is an old version of Supertown and is only being displayed now to be able to answer @Olddaddy query.

Wow - what you wrote is 🍆 powerful 💦 - maybe it will get crazy here like during Songkran 💦💦💦

Hahaha As I have been reminded many times by other forum members over the many years that I am a member: I do not intend to ever work in Thailand - as I am not permitted to work as stated in the terms of my non-O immigrant visa. Just in case somebody out of the blue wants to remind me again - as I have never ever had any intentions of working in Thailand.

@emiel1981, I believe that you and @vinapu are CORRECT. It is our former sex-bomb Max who used to perform at The Best Bar. That was during the period that Vinapu suggested that I increase the value of my Vinapu-tuck that I gave to Max from 100 baht to 500 baht and I remember forever in my dreams when he took my hand and put it inside his sexy bathing suit to explore the goods - and it was definitely something to write home about - EXACTLY as displayed in his Instagram post = https://www.instagram.com/p/DUkjfgJE-Lm/?img_index=1 I am kind of embarrassed that I did not recognize him sooner - like you guys did. His dance style, tattoo and the outline of his member at the POK Model contest are the SAME as what I saw and touched at The Best Bar in March 2025. Max_dancing_17Mar2025_The_Best_Bar.mp4 The Best Bar (video) - on St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025 I wish I truly knew more about Max - but unfortunately I do not. He is super hot. Both @floridarob and myself, we exchanged our LINE contacts with him and even wrote to him with only delayed (ghost behavior) polite responses from him. The Best Bar (Max) - on St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025 So Emiel - if you can think of any creative ways to meet him - let us know. As of today, via this thread, we now have Max's Instagram and Facebook contact information.

and if you can truly create an environment that is not the boring "farang sit - farang drink" experience - I will be your BEST customer. I want fun and excitement in my old retirement years.

Yes - this is all everyone is talking about here in Pattaya and Jomtien. I will even look out onto the horizon on the beach to see if I can see the humungous carrier coming into port as it is only like 20km from here. What is funny is I read somewhere that a Thai government official stated that the port where the carrier will dock = Laem Chabang is also available to be used by Chinese and other nations - as the government did not want to be seen as favoring the USA military. When I discussed this with my Thai friends - they did not get the same 🍆 excitement 🍆 of 5,000 Chinese military roaming the streets of Pattaya - When I asked them why - they said - you Americans are crazy and like to party like us Thais. That perplexed me - because I have witnessed with my own eyes that the Chinese also like to be crazy and party.... What did I miss?

Happy shopping: https://www.facebook.com/groups/134393279939477 Having lived here now for 4 years - try to purchase or rent a 1 bedroom unit that faces the sea with a balcony seaview. Otherwise why live here. It will give you endless amounts of joy - believe me. Plus, when the weather is going to get bad - you can see it incoming from a high floor (and plan your day accordingly) - at street level or away from the beach - you are clueless that a nasty rain storm is about to wreak havoc.

Neither was I when I first came to Thailand many years ago. Why? I was shy and intimidated and I did not like having to negotiate via a mamasan/papasan intermediary. But, I did not shun going to these EXCITING unique places; gogo-bars, host bars, show bars, etc. because the fun is in the EXPERIENCE. Don't deny yourself that fun - you only live once and you stated that you came on this first time trip to Thailand because you want to evaluate if this could become your retirement host country. So, try to enjoy your stay in Thailand to the fullest within your given financial boundaries.

Lonnie is a GREAT guy and is one of the primary reasons as to why Supertown remains successful. Long LIVE Khun Lonnie. We are hoping that @Olddaddy himself will also be another reason as to why Supertown is a success once Olddaddy opens his new business entity in the Jomtien Complex.

I attended the screening of HEALS last night and it was truly a great biography film - as it was directed by the Thai-American Emmy Award winning film director = Pailin Wedel. I encourage all of you to go and see it when it would be available for viewing in the area of the world where you live. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EdHCakazi/ On a sad note, when I walked into the SF Cinema at Central Marina Outlet where the film was being screened - there were hardly any people in the 230 available seats - and the film was free as it was part of the Pattaya International Film Festival event. In the weeks prior, as I already reported earlier in this thread, I tried in vain to get the local kathoey - drag community to come and see the film. There just wasn't any enthusiasm which was truly disappointing as Pangina Heals - the drag character in this film tells her/his story of what it was like to come out in the world of drag in Thailand and also within a conservative Thai-Chinese family (Father is Thai and the Mother is Taiwanese). The story is a powerful story and could definitely give inspiration to the local drag / kathoey community of Pattaya. https://x.com/PanginaHeals/status/2075413734164463739?s=20 ☝️ Pangina Heals (Pan Pan Narkprasert) out of drag ☝️ After the film, as is typical in many film festivals around the world, the director, Pailin Wedel asked us what we thought of her film and we were encouraged to ask questions. I was truly happy to see Mark, owner of the Candy Bar in the Jomtien Complex at the HEALS film screening. Afterwards, they were all going to dinner with the director, Pailin Wedel and her team and unfortunately I could not participate as I had a conflicting engagement. Tonight is the Awards Ceremony black tie event for the Pattaya International Film Festival which is being held at the Colosseum Cabaret venue. For those interested in watching it - below is the related Youtube of the event. In closing, I have written to both Pailin Wedel and Pangina Heals (Pan Pan Narkprasert) asking them if there is any way that this film can be given more awareness in Thailand within the drag / kathoey community. I also asked them to promote the film at the next round of competition to host the 2030 World Pride event, which will take place in Phuket in October - with the hope that this would help the deciding committee to award it to Thailand instead of Barcelona. https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40069419