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You should be selling your movie scripts to a porn producer and make some money off them.

@jimmie50 In one of your earlier posts, I think you said something about taking it easy since you have seven weeks. Going by your accounts, you seem to have thrown aside all thoughts of a leisurely holiday, and now appear to be challenging @vinapu for a title. 🤣

Wouldn't you have some indication from seeing which countries those guys on Rentmen are from -- those that interest you? Also, while Rentmen may be reliably based on real humans, if you're seeing muscular East and Southeast Asians elsewhere on the internet, beware that many are AI-generated. The Chinese are particularly good at it. Re costs, I think @floridarob has given good advice, heed him.

This is good news, though I was anyway half-expecting they would re-open. They had a lease, and I didn't think it would be easy to just give up and get out of the lease. I would be nervous however if they still stuck to the same old business model which your report seems to describe. And now that the name of the bar has changed, we should open a new thread with the right name.

They should offer private dances too.🤪

Then they have expanded. Even on my last visit they only had the first floor, not the ground floor. Now they've taken up the ground floor too, it seems. "most of us"? You must be American 🤣 In many places around the world, the floor aligned with the street is referred to as the ground floor (French: Rez-de-chaussée; German: Erdgeschoss; Spanish: Planta baja) First floor is the first floor above that. (French: premier étage; German: Erste etage; Spanish: primer piso). I particularly love the totally logical way some lifts are numbered in Europe: (yes, lifts to me, not elevators). 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2

Phayathai BTS station, use exit 2 at its southeast corner. Walk down to pavement and continue walking south for about 100 metres. Look out for Pathumwan Resort, walk into its private driveway and follow the row of shops/cafes on the driveway's north side. Some distance in, the door to Ganymede's stairs should be on your left. I don't think the sentry box is ever manned. Even if it is, the guard won't bother with pedestrians.

Surely these two can't be the same human?

I noticed that since 28 February, Prestige no longer lists boys at their Sukhumvit location. They're all now at their Sathorn branch (what I call the Chong Nonsi location). Either they're remodelling the Sukhumvit shop and will reopen later, or they've decided to give it up. If the latter, you might have been one of the last customers there.

@Olddaddy Are you referring to the host /cabaret bars of Jomtien Complex specifically? I know the title of the thread says Jomtien, but we often stray from the topic, so just checking....

Assuming it's the same boss (Arthur?), we should give this guy credit for persistence. Interesting too that a different business model appears to be on the way. I never quite liked the logo featuring a mutant, aggressive, over-steroided feline anyway 😂

@jay3w Love the granularity in your report. Also glad for you that you're having a good time. @Ian here Beware the insufferable day temperatures in July. Day maxima reach 36 or 37 degrees with nearly 100% humidity. After sundown, it's better but still doesn't fall below 29 or 30 degrees until maybe 9pm.

There's a difference between recommended tip and minimum tip. Arena tells you the recommended tip, which includes sexual activity. TCS and other upmarket places advise on minimum tip -- which does NOT include sexual activity (or, at most a handjob with the masseur remaining fully dressed). TCS will not discuss sexual activity with you; it has to be privately negotiated in the room with the service provider himself.

I notice you're not even mentioning USA carriers. 🤣

@emiel1981 I've been staring at your photo of chicken & cashewnuts. I can hardly see any chicken 😆

I agree with @Moses. There are no massage shops in Pattaya, not even Paradise, where you can reliably expect a high standard of massage complemented by extra service. There may be a few places, e.g. in Terminal 21, where trained therapists work, but (a) the shop will have a strict policy against anything erotic and (b) you're almost surely going to get a woman servicing you. For the latter reason, I have never bothered to try.

He probably said "body to body". As @Enchanted_Elixir said, 900 baht is the going rate for B2B. That's usually as far as S'Sense boys would go.

😒 Always good to have these first hand reports. Crowd-sourced info with multiple data points always useful. You said "two of us". Why was the other party disappointed?

Thanks for the mention. Here's the review from a year ago: https://shamelessmacktwo.travel.blog/2025/05/18/down-in-the-crypt/ in case others are interested. Once inside the massage room, the night market feels very far away. There was no noise at all. Was that your observation too?

@Tomontheroad Consider Prestige -- another place where you're likely to get a good massage plus some non-penetrative fun. I say "likely" because my understanding is that Prestige does not have an in-house trainer (at least not on a regular basis) and the boys I've met had received their training elsewhere before joining Prestige, so it can happen that a few of them are not as good as one would expect. The places on Silom Soi 6 (see exceptions further down) are also good bets; I have generally been satisfied with the standard of massage, and as far as I can recall, all my visits to the these places had extras added on. However, it always involves in-room negotiation re the rates. Some members here dislike having to negotiate. However, there are two exceptions with Silom Soi 6. One is Prime - no chance of extras. The other is 9-teen. In my one and only visit, extras were offered but I declined. The massage was not great either.

Could you tell us something about the traffic situation around your hotel in Petchaburi Road? Few members of this forum stay there and so we have very little information in this regard. The one time I went to a hotel in the area (perhaps 20 years ago) was to meet a friend for dinner; he was staying there. And I found the traffic to be very frustrating. I often stay in hotels along the Sukhumvit stretch, and the traffic is intolerable too. Grab drivers don't want to be around this area, so it's a bummer. Fortunately, there is the BTS line running the length of Sukhumvit Road and there is the interchange with the MRT line at Asok/Sukhumvit. However. the Petchaburi Road area has no rail transport (unless you're close enough to Makkasan and Petchaburi stations). Has it been a problem getting from your hotel to the fun places?

Sounds like you're having a great time. But initial advice toyourself -- pace yourself-- should not be forgotten. You have seven weeks and you don't want to be jaded too soon. Are you planning some excursions out of Bangkok? I find it a good way to recharge my batteries after about a week in the city.

Which branch of TCS are you booking with? Anyway, sounds like you're having a great time.

Thank you for assuring me that I am not very old.... 🤣

You must have either read wrongly or remembered wrongly. It's 3,500 baht for 1.5 hours, all-in.