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Always nice to read such trip reports. I use it to warm up for my own trip to Thailand (Bangkok and Pattaya) in only 3 weeks. Can't wait to be back. Looks great. Maybe I should check it out when I come to Pattaya in a few weeks. Prices are still oke there? I can imagine because of location and how it looks you pay more that it's actually worth...? I also have good memories about Space Hair Bar. I totally agree what your opinion about this bar. They are so welcoming, not pushing for drinks or tips. But still making sure you get the attention you want from those nice boys. The later it gets, the boys will go topless and customers can toch the muscles. Some discrete groping might me possible also. Discrete is the important word here. The boys working there seem the like to flirt and tease. Hopefully it be me a bit more lively when I visit Pattaya in a few weeks. For sure we will find some nice places still!

Preparing my trip to Thailand... But I will never be able to speak or understand the Thai language... Even when trying to follow these Instagram lessons... Haha. 🗣️

Sounds like an interesting place. Even if the guys can't be offed it can still be fun to start the night with a poledance strip show of hot muscled guys... We could go check it out @bkkmfj2648 when I come to Pattaya! Can you give any details @spoon about the options on the menu of services...?

The article has been updated with a reaction from AoT. They say there are new priority lanes in passport control zones 1 & 3 for business and firs class passengers. Hope this is true.

Bangkok: Where to stay When I decided to return to Bangkok and Pattaya and my flight ticket was booked, it was time to think about hotel choices. The best hotel experience I had in Bangkok was Le Méridien. Lovely rooftop pool area to chill out and also the nice bath in the spacious hotelroom was great. But it was just after covid when hotel rates were much lower than normal. The rates of Le Méridien are now too high for me. I've stayed in The Raya before. One of the favourites of this forum I think. But being located next to the building site where Soi Twilight used to be (oh; so many good memories in this street...) I read about some noise disturbances when staying in The Raya. Not sure about the situation at this moment, as these comments about noise were from some time ago. But didn;t want to risk it. Plus I wanted a pool so I can relax during the daytime to save energy for nighttime activities... One time I stayed in another favourite hotel of many forum members: The Tarntawan. But I didn't like it that much. Rooms are a bit older and the room I got allocated was very dark (even with the curtains opened), the bathroom shower was so low I couldn't stand under it. Also see one of my old trip reports: Two hotels still on my list to choose from, and I stayed in both hotels before: The Quarter Silom and Ibis Styles Bangkok Silom. Location of The Quarter is perfect. In the same soi as The One / former Tawan bar. While from the Ibis Styles you always have to cross the busy Silom Road to get to the gay areas. But: I liked the pool at Ibis so much more. As the pool at The Quarter is tucked between two buildings. It feels claustrophobic, while Ibis has a nice rooftop pool area much better for chilling out. Also I like the modern, colourful rooms at Ibis. That's how I decided to book the Ibis Styles again this time. Picture of room in Ibis Styles Bangkok Silom when I stayed there last time While browsing hotels in the Silom area, I found the brand new Nishitetsu Hotel Croom Bangkok Silom, located on Silon Road just next to soi 4. Opening Q4 2024. Rooms are not bookable yet. But this place might be interesting to check when you like brand new shiny hotels. Plus the location is perfect of course! Found out @vinapu also mentioned this new hotel on this forum before:

Since 2012 I've been coming to South-East Asia almost every year. And when lucky, sometimes even twice a year. I always start and end my journey in Bangkok. But every time I try to explore a new area/country also. I usually stay around one month in Asia. For this year, I have planned to first fly to Bangkok for some nights of barhopping and meeting boys. Then off to Pattaya for a week beach- and relax-time. After that I will go to China for the first time, visiting some highlights and sight-seeing. Just before returning to Europe I will conclude with some more nights in Bangkok... Any other forum members around on these dates? Bangkok: October 14 - October 18 Pattaya: October 18 - October 24 Bangkok: November 13 - November 17 Of course I will keep you posted via this topic/thread about my adventures when I arrive in the Land of Smiles... Catching up with this forum now, reading about what has changed and what's the current situation in the (gogo)bars, massage parlours, etc.

You keep getting into nice and sexy adventures... Would you say the Hornet app is better to meet guys in Pattaya than Grindr?

How do you find nice guys in a certain area or city on Twitter?

When I'm coming to Bangkok in October / November, I am sure I will visit The One! On my previous trips I always went to Tawan once or twice during my stay. In my opinion: they don't have the best show, hotter/younger guys are available in other bars, BUT: the friendliness and hospitality you encounter here is something I really loved and I did not see in many other hostbars/gogo-places. Thats why we should keep supporting this business!

Sounds like a perfect day how you describe it in your full post! I never visited an onsen, but after what you wrote about it I think I will give it a try. As I like relaxing in hot pools. And when there is some kind of secret cruising atmosphere and hot guys around, even more tempting! What kept me from going till now, is the fact I am a very shy person when it comes to "public" nudity. Back in the days when Babylon Sauna was still open, I loved going there as it was normal to walk around with a towel around your waist and wearing swimwear at the pool area. When going to the olsen you recommended I would be in the 10% wearing something, but at least I will not be the only one. lol Always nice to read that there are new hostbars / gogo bars around. Like you, I am very curious to hear about any forum members who visited that upstairs room at Circus.

In my opinion and sadly also to my experience, boys who say they are very good in the bedroom often fail to live up to the expectations. Nowadays I tend to go for the guys that are maybe a bit older (in their '30s), but still look good (I like some muscles) and have some more experience and actually know what they are doing and what is actually good sex...

On the twitter/X account of The Master Gallery there's one video where they promote one of their masseurs with some pics. They end with this one... Think safe to say they offer full service if they advertise this way...

Thanks @ggobkk and @a-447 for the reports of their bar visits and adventures. Really gets me in the mood for my travel to Bangkok and Pattaya in October / November.

I never heard of a club/spa called Super Boy in Bangkok... Who has more information?

I started reading this forum again as I booked tickets to LOS in October. It has been too long since I was there! Good to read you're still in the game and still managing to meet some really hot guys. Lol

Some really good looking boys at Jey Spa... I personally like some muscles on a boy...

THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON IN BANGKOK Thank god your lad was right. Closure of the naughty bars only lasted one night. So I could go out again. First on my list was to check out the new DreamBoy location. Big improvement, because there's no big pole anymore obstructing the view. Temperature good, music loud but for me not too loud. Massive stage, full with about 50 (!) boys. All types. Show at 22h30 was same same as always and everywhere. Lots of boys and for sure also some that I liked. But it was still early and wanted to check out other bar also. So to the other side of the street to Hotmale I went. Show there finished already. Only a group of 3 Asian customers with buckets off alcohol drinking with some of the boys. About 15 boys working. I was told 10 boys were already taken earlier that night just after the 22h30 show. Because no customers, no 2nd show tonight. Boys all wearing red long sport trousers on stage. Some even kept their shirt on. Invited a cute smiling boy with good body over to have a drink with me. After some talking, touching (feeling his 6pack) and groping decided to take him home for the night. By the way, if you're going to stay in Quarter Silom Hotel than you could request a room in "tower 3". Entrance to this building is separate, you or/and your boys will not have to pass reception for greater privacy. A NICE AFTERNOON DELIGHT In September I met this goodlooking half Thai / half Dutch guy. He told me to contact him again when I was in Thailand the next time. So off course I did. And this time was as good as I remembered from September. His mouth and hole hungry for my dick. Active but submissive. And very friendly also. A real afternoon delight he was. Even better: he plans to come to the Netherlands for summer to visit his family over there. So for sure we will be able to meet again than... Lol

FIRST FULL DAY After arriving yesterday afternoon and being jet-legged, today was going to be my first full day in Thailand. Noticed the new Sikom Edge shopping center. Which is nothing special. Just again another mall, like there are so many in Bangkok. Good thing is the restaurants in Edge are open 24hr a day. Maybe a good alternative for foodland for a change for a after midnight snack? The new pavement on Silom Road is finished. They even made room for new trees and other greenery. Good to see more and more green in the city. Also Patpong Night Market is back. With the first part on the Silom Road side begin a food market and the old skool market as we know it from before covid is in the second part of the street. In the evening I was first at Hua Lamphong station. This week they light up the facade of the station and some areas inside as part of an art project. And they have two old trains on showcase. CLOSED BARS IN BANGKOK It was still early when I walked from Silom subway station back to my hotel via Soi Patpong 2. It was around 9pm and I noticed DreamBoy and Freshboys (still) being closed and all dark. Strange. Normally by now they would be opening up, even though it would not be busy at all at this time. Back in my hotelroom I asked a massage guy I met last time in September if he maybe knows what's happening. He told me that a friend of him has heard police was checking all bars and massage parlours for foreign boys working there. Later in evening I decided to go out and check if the bars were open again. But they were still all closed. Tawan Bar, DreamBoy, Hotmale, Freshboys and even Jupiter... All closed and all had their neon-lights out. Hopefully tomorrow they will be open again, as I really would love to visit these bars again offcourse... Anybody has any past experience when the bars opened again after police raids? Edit: By the way, the "normal" gaybars were open tonight. Only the "naughty bars" closed.

Because I am switching from a temporary employment contract via an agency to a permanent contract directly with my employer, I had some holiday time left to use before April 1st. What better way than to spent that holiday time in LOS? Only a short stay this time. Two weeks in Bangkok and Pattaya. ARRIVING After a few days in Dubai with an old colleague and friend I was flying to Bangkok and arrived yesterday. I had read some comments on this forum (and messages on English language Thai news sites) about enormous waiting times for immigration at BKK Airport and long queues for a taxi into town. But thank god that was not the case yesterday. Immigration was cleared in about 10 minutes and outside I could walk straight to an available taxi. No lines at all. HOTEL Hotel I booked this time is the Quarter Silom Hotel, in the same soi as Tawan bar. They had good offer and the pictures looked good. Indeed the hotel is very modern. Rooms are big enough for my liking. The design is a bit dark. I like the led lighting that you can control the colour from. I arrived at 2pm but unfortunately my room was not ready yet. I had to wait about 1hr for my room to come available. Downsides: my room has a connection door to neighbouring room. Because of that some noise from that other room is coming into my room. But more concerned about what the neighbours might hear coming from my room when I have a visitor... And like more and more hotels you need keycard to use the elevator. No chance in letting a Grindr boy come directly to your room. Need to pick him up from downstairs, with staff probabaly noticing. But also probabaly not caring. FIRST NIGHT I was tired from missing out on a night sleep because of flight times. After a quick nap I decided I wanted to have a look at the Patpong boybars. Curious about the new Dreamboys location. Still tired, while walking around the area and checking out the re-opened Patpong night Market, some messages came in on Grindr. A guy with nice muscled body was advertising himself as "love to suck deepthroat". In the chat he told me he doesn't only like it, but he's also very good at sucking cock. So I decided to try if this was true instead of visiting the bars. Turned out a good choice. Was long time ago I was given head so skilled. A good first night in Thailand. The bars can wait for tomorrow... That was what I was thinking. Turned out that was not possible. But more about it in my next post. Nice body of my first night guy

Stayed there when it had a good opening offer and liked the hotel. But have to say I have a weak spot for new modern hotels. I loved that shower window a lot when I took home a nice muscleboy and let him do a private erotic shower show for me... Getting in the shower in his underwear, getting wet, stripping... 😈🚿

I lived and worked in Khao Lak a few years ago. I would definitely going there for a relaxing on the beach. Beautiful, not overcrowded and great hotels. I recommend staying in one of the resorts in Bang Niang town as you will have some restaurants and a nice night market there. Better than sitting in one of the many more remote resorts in my opinion. Before covid there was a fun ladyboy cabaret but I was told that place didn't survive the pandemic. Apparently there's a new gaybar in town. But for a remote town as Bang Niang I wouldn't expect too much of it. And you probabaly want to bring your favourite Bangkok or Phuket boy with you to Khao Lak to be sure to have some "fun". When I stayed in Khao Lak area there used to be almost none gays on grindr in the area. Thank god for my regular visits to Phuket and Bangkok during my working months in Khao Lak... Haha! Great excursions can be done from Khao Lak are. Khao Sok National Park, Similan Islands, Sunday Market in Takua Pa old town... Always love reading everyone's trip reports... Can't wait for yours!

Any of you guys visited the out-of-silom host bars? How was the expierence? I am a bit afraid for the Jupiter-effect: very hot and goodlooking guys who are more interested in the female customers who sit down with bottles of alcohol to share with the boys and less interested in us old falang gays looking for a boy to take for the night... Is is worth traveling to such a place or better to stick to the knows and closeby places in Silom?

A bit out of the gay falang favourite Silom area, but while scrolling twitter I found this fetish cafe: 500cafe. Location on Google maps: https://g.page/r/CUrXQRX8mnJ8EBM Looks exciting, something else than the regular places. I'm not a hardcore fetish person, but still looks interesting. Anybody been there? https://www.facebook.com/500cafebangkok https://twitter.com/500cafebangkok https://instagram.com/500cafebangkok

In my opinion reposting a picture that's on a public website (like the one taken from the spa website) is no problem. Because we can also post a link to that particular site so anybody could see the pic anyway. I would be more discreet with screenshot of dating profiles as grindr or romeo. In the past I did post some but always made sure to cut out the boy his face or put a sticker over it. So you could get an idea about how the (body of the) boy looks but won't recognise him on the street. Any ideas or opinions about that?

I always liked going to Babylon. I am getting older and fatter (lol...) but could still have my fair share of groping, getting touched and sucked... But also just liked to aspect of cruising the complex and walking into one of the dark steam rooms. Somehow I didn't really dare to visit another sauna in Bangkok since Babylon closed. Probabaly because me too I have feeling that I might not belong to these places as they might have a different croud. I won't feel comfortable between too much in shape Asians I'm afraid... Makes me think I might be right not checking them out as I might feel out of place... Shame. Liked my little sauna afternoons in Babylon. Somebody can tell me about their recent sauna adventures in Bangkok that might change my mind?