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No ping pong balls in evidence when I was at Nice Boys last week (I did look around to see if they had any). Anyway, I’m not sure the boys would look up from their phones if you threw a bucketful of ping pong balls (and maybe even the bucket itself) at them.

I popped in for a solo visit on Thursday evening. When I wandered past at about 7pm, the owner was outside and suggested that I come back at 8pm. So I returned at about 8:15pm, not wanting to appear too desperate, only to find that the place was quite full already. About six other customers, whom I took to be mostly regulars, as they had already hoovered up the best of the boys to sit next to them. The four remaining on stage stood motionless staring at their phones and avoiding all eye contact. I picked one to sit next to me, and I enjoyed his company, although again he totally avoided any eye contact, presumably preferring to imagine he was a participant in one of the videos he watched on his phone. I also had a great view to the left to me, where another customer had assembled a lineup of three boys. He worked through them one at a time. As each one finished, then the next moved over. Seemed like a fun way to arrange things, if budget allows. Staff seemed quite cheery on this occasion, and I enjoyed my visit. I left at about 9:30pm, by which time almost all the boys were “resting and recuperating”. So I have a feeling that the best time to come may be 7:59pm, or otherwise much later, but not in between.

Difficult to be too specific here on a web page that is open to the universe. I see a previous poster described a “kite-flying competition”. 300 baht placed in one of the bins, to be awarded to the first participant to complete the challenge, seemed to do the trick. Of course, that was the illustrious members’ rate, at a time when the place was pretty much devoid of customers. Perhaps it might take more to generate sufficient excitement at other times.

Update on this place, having paid my first visit here on Friday evening at about 9-10pm. Many thanks to other illustrious forum members for introducing and accompanying. Having arrived before them, with a little trouble finding the exact spot (location on Google Maps was out - I have since managed to get that corrected), and finding a seat, I asked for the drinks menu, to which the response was a laugh and “we don’t have one”. Secure in the knowledge we would be in the company of experienced regulars, and having ordered the drink, it arrived but still no idea of price, nor any bin/chit. Only when they arrived some minutes later, did our bin and chit magically appear. About 8 guys on stage, a fairly random selection of types. Shirtless but all wearing jeans or similar that would be suitable for a temple visit. Thanks to said illustrious members for full introduction to available activities here, I certainly enjoyed the experience of this place. I have never been anywhere quite like it (or even heard of). It was very kind of you to take the time to provide the full guided tour. I would certainly come back again, if for no other reason than to “pay it forward” when introducing others to the delights of Pattaya. I hope the place remains, though they could certainly do a few things to smarten it up. But the hiding of pricing was off-putting. If I was on my own, and no prices were available at a place, I would not stay in the first place.

Just arrived in Bangkok for a few days, and headed to Chillax, encouraged by previous comments. Pleased to be able to agree with @reader’s positive analysis. I arrived and requested 90 minute oil massage, and a masseur was “recommended” to me, whom I was happy to accept. Walked all the way up to the top (mind your head on the stairs ceiling if you’re tall) to a very calm and comfortable massage room with en-suite shower. Masseur did not speak a single word of English (not even “hello”) and, touchingly, spoke to me in Thai (I assume) thinking I would understand. Hand signals and use of the calculator app covered what we needed. His massage technique seemed very detailed and knowledgeable, though perhaps lacked confidence. Since Chillax has only just opened, maybe this is his first time working in such an establishment. But I enjoyed the massage very much, and he certainly warmed up with very generous post-massage activities, and I was happy to tip more than he had requested. After returning back to reception, I discovered his name was Big, and I was given one of their business cards in case I want to book next time.