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I keep some money (300 Baht) separate from my wallet. In case my wallet gets stolen, I still have money to get transport back to my place. I am thinking of using two wallets. One with a few hundred Baht for normal expenses (transport, food), the other one with a few thousand Baht and other stuff (ID, business cards).

I am interested in reading other people's daily expensive, and encourage everyone to post more of it. It shows what a wide range of tastes Thailand can cater to. Hotel rooms from 10 to 1000 USD per night, pick up from airport by your hotel for "only" 3000 THB (sorry, cannot resist), airport limousine to Pattaya or public bus for 134 Baht. I use hotel rooms for the three "S" (sleep, shower, sex), and can get a room that fulfills my requirements for less than 800 Baht in Bangkok (that was two years ago, now I rent by the month, currently 8000 Baht per month), and less than 600 Baht elsewhere in Thailand.

Short trips (a few days around Thailand, even one week in Cambodia because hold luggage would have incurred higher costs at Air Asia), I just take a bag pack, around 5 kg. Travel between Europe and Thailand, one suitcase, 15 to 20 kg.

I really tried to sleep in the prayer room. The light was on all night (can't sleep with light), and even worse I got cold feet (had to take off my shoes), so I went somewhere else (low light, shoes on) to sit and doze. (The Christian (name) - Christian (religion) was a pun, glad you got it.)

Those who know I'm gay get the truth. Those who don't know I'm gay get the usual sightseeing, weather, food, temples... It's interesting to see their reactions. People who have never been to Thailand and don't know that I'm gay have heard of the sex industry, one commented: "be careful, there are pretty ladies in Thailand" (original in German: Sei vorsichtig, da gibt's flotte Miezen).

My standards are so low, I have a look at the room (in once case recently I noticed smell of cigarette smoke, so I asked for a non-smoking room) and take it. I plan my travels to arrive in the afternoon with light luggage, so I can walk around in daylight and look for free rooms. Waiting in the airport? Oh yes, I did this once in Paris Orly. Had a morning flight before public transport started, so in order to save estimated 30 to 50 Euro for taxi, I took the last bus and slept at the airport. Fortunately, they didn't kick us (there were more) out, because the airport is closed at night. This raises the question: is it appropriate for a Christian who is not Christian to sleep in the Muslim prayer room? I often drive past Nasa Vegas. It has direct connection to Ramkhamhaeng station, but there are no trains at night.

I don't pick any accommodation from internet. I haven't booked a hotel for two years, only walk-in. Did some preparatory reading for Phom Penh and Siem Reap, but preferences are price and location, not others' comments.

Temporarily or permanently? I am all in favor of closing some bars during low season (in this case easy because they have the same owner), so other bars have more staff and more customers.

Off topic. I had to look up the past participle of scar (scarred) not to confuse it with scare (scared), but in this case both apply (now I am scared of encountering more un-offable boys, which I will only learn when I want to off them, no mamasan will tell me when I enter the bar which boys are un-offable). This provides as well a lesson in English phonetics: the final (mute) e in scare changes the pronunciation of the a that is two positions before it (scar-scare, similar not-note, hid-hide, more examples?). Not much different from Thai where vowels are writen after, before, above, below or around the consonant they belong to. In English there are 17 ways (or some more or less, depending on dialect) to pronounce "ough", and in Thai there are 17 ways to write a final "t" sound. This shall serve as an encouragement to learn Thai: If can speak English, you can learn Thai!

Not a loss of face in the bar, but on the boards (but it was my choice to write about this episode, to warn others). Everyone is laughing at me because a boy doesn't want to go with me. (I made this up, my sense of humor.) This episode has scarred me for life. I can never again go into a gogo or host bar and expect everyone on stage being available, as I did before.

No. You were just asking about active, let me extend my reply that I use condoms for all kinds of anal intercourse. (And let me add that asking about barebacking is good for trolling.)

Is the nationality important? For the average tourist, no; for me, yes. If my Thai is better than the boy's English, I switch to Thai. Many foreign boys speak good Thai, and I can't hear where they come from, so I wouldn't notice. But if I ask them to spell their name in Thai, or which province, and then which amphoe, they come from, I realize they are not Thai. After one Vietnamese boy in a gogo bar in Soi Twilight who wanted 2000 Baht for short time three years ago, and the non-offable boy in Scorpion, I am wary of Vietnamese money boys (just bad luck that I had two out of two bad experiences with Vietnamese, no generalization; a friend offed boys from Scorpion and was happy with them; Cambodians and Lao everything was fine for me). Walked past Scorpion yesterday, over ten boys, several good looking, but with Byzantine offing procedure and short time tips as high as 3000 Baht expected (second hand information), they completely lost me. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. As far as I figured out (with help of friends), the boy who didn't want to go with me seems to be selective in choosing customers, doesn't want short time for 1500 Baht, rather someone who regularly sends money from abroad and buys mobile phone; and he has correctly assessed that I am not the one. This whole episode was a big loss of face for me (to speak in Thai terms; in English we would say they fooled me, or pulled my leg, or have shown total disrespect for me as a customer). I can watch, but not touch? I can have that in my room, with free porn from internet!

I assume you mean sex. Massage. There is Bamboo bar in Jomtien which is open in the early afternoon. Gayromeo and Grindr. Sansuk Sauna gets busy in the evening.

No need to plan, I went to Lopburi, Bueng Gan and Buriram and my contacts organized everything. I wouldn't even book a hotel, either you can stay with him or he will recommend a hotel close to his place. You should give some hints about sightseeing. Car rent should be about 1000 Baht per day (car and driver including petrol). Never been to Korat (only travelling through), but all other trips, eiter alone or visiting friends, were success and welcome break from usual Bangkok/Pattaya. Beware of different sleep-wake pattern (bring a book, in case you wake up at 9 and your friend sleeps until 12), and extended drinking/eating (not of much interest for me to sit for hours while others eat, drink and chat in Thai).

There are printed maps (but not very detailed, as far as I remember resolution 1 to 100,000 or similar for whole Thailand) sold in book shops. I find googlemaps very useful (and let's not forget there is Here by Nokia and Bing by Microsoft and Openstreetmap; however googlemaps seems to have the best coverage). I often ask locals for the way (easy when you walk and speak the language).

I don't drive car or motorbike, I do drive bicycle (when you can rent one, like in Ancient City or Siem Reap or Phonsavan/Xiengkhouang, I don't own one, might try Pun Pun Bike Share in Bangkok some time).

For me, there is not much to do in Pattaya in daytime (a friend however says he finds Bangkok boring and heads to Pattaya directly to the airport), that's why I keep my stays 3 days 2 nights (arrive in the evening, first night, one full day in Pattaya, second night, depart in the afternoon). There are malls, massage, beach, cinema, walking or doing sport around the hill, sometimes I meet farang friends during day. I have been to most tourist attractions in and around Pattaya, a list is here: http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2014/03/daytime-activities-in-pattaya.html

Did you take your bicycle from Thailand to Singapore?

"La Tana" Silom Soi 6 is no more. A pity! I ate there several times, alone or with friends, and I/we were usually happy with their food. Some weeks ago, there was corrugated iron in front of the shop (blocking the view), to separate construction area from public area. Now the restaurant is gone, the vneue looks like massage, and there was traffic of massage boys to and from Thai Prime.

Let me present my condolences for your internet problems. Where I stay now, there are some problems as well, so I can commiserate. I have some flexibility, so I can do something else if internet breaks down for a day (which has happened).

Haven't heard of this bar. Homophobic trucker however is no surprise, a friend worked in the transport business and told me he stayed in the closet towards his colleagues, they would not have accepted him if they knew he was gay. We should wait for confirmation by other members of this forum. Even then, I think it's inappropriate to post a picture of the owner. There is a difference between catering to a certain group (backpacker guesthouse vs. luxury hotel) and discrimination against certain races, religions, sexual orientations.

Same for me. This way I don't spend half a day awake on a plane (10-12 hours flight time from Europe). I watch one movie, have a meal, sleep (but have to get up for stopover somewhere in Arabia, flights with one stop are considerably cheaper than direct flight, anyway there are no direct flights from Berlin to Bangkok). Overall, I watch two movies and spend the rest of the time in a slumber. Another note: eating on a plane in economy class is quite an exercise, not much room to move your arms, look like preying mantis. Writing on a laptop would involve similar awkward arm positions (for economy, if you fly business it might be more comfortable).

Good to know it's available, one day it might even be free. Until that day, I call the price "prohibitive" and anyway, I spend too much time on the internet (most of it not urgent or important), so I enjoy some days without internet from time to time. For me, movies on the plane is enough to keep me entertained.

The word is from bangkokbois blog, and I didn't get it at first and asked if it's a typo. #46: I can see them through the T-shirt. I have honed my skilles, I just need to see a few square centimeter of leg or neck to guess if some is my type, or full body far less than one second. There are a few exceptions, where a boys whose stats are not my type wins me over by character or way he approaches me (I asked my favorite from WWB, he is 52 kg and 157 cm, if I had read these stats on gayromeo, I would have skipped, too fat - or too short or too heavy, whichever way you see it). My posts in this thread are meant to express how wonderful it is that all of us have different preferences, there is someone for everyone. I posted a very few pics of boys I paid for (I can think of only two: Kim from Krazy Dragon 3 or 4 years ago and Tom from Eros this year, after someone else started). But I'm not sure if it's right, I would have to ask them if it's ok and explain to them what these forums are (and then, it wouldn't be much different than posting pictures of stuff I bought at 7/11). So I keep the pictures I take for myself or share with friends when I meet them in person (but enjoy looking at other's pictures like this thread, kind of a contradiction). I won't post pictures of boys who go with me for free.

Some people don't understand my sense of humor. No offense or negativity. I would never pay 3000 Baht for airport transfer, because I could have 3 boys from gayromeo, or eat two weeks, or, or, or. I take the bus instead. But each to his own. If 3000 Baht for airport transfer is "only 3000 Baht" for you, fantastic, count yourself lucky that you can spend that amount without any hesitation for an airport transfer.