khaolakguy

Agree completely. I haven't come across this before, and I have been buying bottles regularly over the years. I like the ritual and the sociability around it.

Apologies for multiple posts(especially to Keithambrose) whose name I can't delete! Mea Culpa. I didn't seem to be getting an acknowledgement of posting but instead was told that my post was "saved" so I thought there was a glitch, but the glitch was me!

Agreed. Preferably a story too. However I would still rather watch an old Cadinot than most modern porn, even though it's not full screen and a bit aged. Fantasy and atmosphere(and music!) help a lot.

Just like Corporal Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2mCG8trhc

I suspect you may be right, but it's not what is written. The source is the Bangkok Post who are more likely to report accurately than the Pattaya Mail, for example. Although if the officers were in an adjoining room they might not have heard the safe word, unless the wrestler was wired! However hard to find a space to hide a transmitter in a wrestler's outfit.

Not allowing the display of rainbow flags in Laos is the most surprising and disappointing statement in this article.

Indeed. Actually hard to take the whole operation seriously at all, I feel like it's April Fools day. An undercover officer dressed as a wrestler, six policemen concealed in the room, who all popped out when "the "wrestler" said hehehe. What kind of a hotel room allows for the concealment of six police officers!

I don’t think the early days being happily remembered here were particularly free wheeling. The early bars on soi two, Garden, Harries, Ciro were models of decorum compared to the gogo bars of today. In those venues everyone was fully clothed, mostly gay, and no one was paid to be there nor did any venue expect a fee if you made a new friend. Almost romantic in comparison to the transactional nature of most gay bars nowadays! Sounds to me like most of these shared memories are from the 70’s/80’s, at least mine are, when Robinsons had yet to be built. So I think your horrible memory comes from a later era. Here is a link to an interesting history of Bangkok gay bars, focussing especially on Soi Two. It was created by the gogo bar, New Top Man, that eventually replaced the Garden Bar in the early 2000’s, and the article appeared in Thai Guys magazine. https://chaidee.fortunecity.ws/topman.html

I was also struggling to remember the name of the bar next to Harries, but you are right that it was Ciros. Harries was upmarket and full of gay thai guys interested in meeting foreigners, who were very much in the minority there. Some of the Thai were freelancers and some were just looking for fun. There were all shapes and sizes including bodybuilders, as the Thai owner was a bodybuilder. The bar upstairs was called the Garden Bar which opened in the early 70's and was the first gay establishment, probably the first entertainment venue, to open in that Soi, which became initially known as Soi Garden Bar. It had been a speculative investment by Vichai the gay owner of a hairdressers in Silom Road, which became a huge success. It was really a disco marketed at young local gay guys, and some girls, with a DJ, good western disco and soul music and lighting. Some of the crowd were interesting in meeting foreigners and making some pocket money(often spent on clothes), and some were just there to party and dance. But every one loved to dance and the speciality was formation dancing, especially Cha Cha Cha.(The O'Jays/Backstabbers was popular).

Never mind the quality feel the width.

My immediate thoughts also re "9th Floor" club. Perhaps someone who visits the new premises can reassure us.......

Good massage combined with good afters in a good environment is the holy grail of massage venues! I prefer it if the masseur doesn't/can't speak much too so that other senses take over.

Sheez! Two full on massages in the day and still taking a guy home at night! Glad to hear that you had a good time at Best. Passing by I liked the look of the guys outside but subsequently stepping in the small reception area(seemed like an unkempt squat) discouraged me from going further. What was the room like? Sorry that you lost someone so important to you.

Interesting aerial view and appears extensive as you say. Is it actually ongoing? Would that be Rose Apartments in the foreground with the swimming pool?

Surely.... Sorry, I expect someone else can properly answer your question.....

And still posting?

Fucking Influencers, aka self promoters!

Divine Madman, now there is a name from the past!

Having taken steps to encourage long stay tourists by extending the visa free period from 30 to 60 days, we are now advised that although they can come they can't bring their medication with them and beyond 30 days they must buy their medication locally. Is this policy sponsored by Boots(Thailand) inc?

Much better to add your question to an old and very relevant thread than to start a new one. No need to apologise. However I need to as I can't answer your question! Hopefully someone else can.