On 12/24/2023 at 2:09 PM, Boy69 said:

Location, location, location.

I agree.I will always prefer good decent hotel close to the action then isolated luxurious hotel. In Pattaya you can find very good 3/4 stats hotel with very nice room swimming pool and good breakfast at third/half price of 5 stars hotels, Personally I don't see the point paying so much for 5 stars hotels especially when I hardly in the room most of the day and mainly using it only for sleeping.

My thoughts too. The price differential between 3-star and the upper tiers is way bigger than the value-added (as far as my needs go). Add in the difficulties with transportation in Thailand, location becomes the main determinant. 

I can see, though, that others' needs and understanding of "comfort" varies from mine. Even among my own circle of friends (not just among members of this board), there are some who place a lot of value on breakfast - both in terms of quantity as well as in terms of the the type of foods they are used to. On hotel booking sites, for example, I am often amused to see comments (even those concerning 3-star hotels) complaining bitterly  about the fact that the breakfast did not have a sufficiently wide range of Viennoiseries ("the hotel should know that we French like our Viennoiseries?"), or did not have a suitable range of vegetarian options ("the hotel should know that we Indians are mostly vegetarian"), or no halal food, or too many Asian stir-fry choices, but without six-layer pancakes drenched in maple syrup ("like what we are used to back home"). I have also seen comments like "there is no nutella", "the coffee is not espresso", "the fruits are all tropical fruits" and "I asked for a poached egg, but they gave me blank stares like they didn't know what a poached egg was."

For someone like me who is a yogurt, banana and coffee type of breakfast person, paying for a hotel with huge breakfasts is a total waste of money. 

I also see comments about comfort of mattresses. Few people understand that is this not something with universal consensus. Americans especially are used to deep soft mattresses. They and Europeans are usually the ones complaining about mattresses being too soft. Asians are used to harder mattresses and I have seen them complain that a 5-star hotel's mattresses were too soft. 3-star hotels in Thailand tend to have foam mattresses which are harder than spring matresses, or spring mattresses that are not as deep. Some of us have gotten used to them, but I suppose other members would see this as an issue.

I don't need swimming pools, though having a gym is nice. But then, for short stays, I can dispense with that requirement; in any case there are other gym options.

In my experience, there are two things that make the higher-tier hotels negative value rather than no-value-add.

1. There have been times when I sensed the boy that I am taking back is more uncomfortable walking through their lobbies (full of hotel service staff) than through a 3-star hotel lobby (minimal staffing). I hate it when they hate it.

2. There was one time (many years ago) when the boy raided the minibar while I was in the shower. And as we know, the items there are totally overpriced. Ever since then, I have been happier to see an empty fridge than a stocked one. I can go to the 7-11 and stock it up with the things I want, at my kind of prices.

Actually, those isolated remote luxury resorts are quite suitable for heterosexual honey mooners who try to make babies, or monogamous gay couples who are anti-social, or daddies who want to lock up the sons to themselves. 

actually the mattress point is a good one. More than once I have complained about the concrete-hard beds of Asia. As a side sleeper I find them unsleepable

Baan Souy gay resort 

On the way to Jomtien

Don't know their website,I guess it's the same as name 

20 hours ago, macaroni21 said:

They and Europeans are usually the ones complaining about mattresses being too soft.

Ooops, reading @fedssocr's response, I notice I made a big mistake in my sentence above. It should read: "... usually the ones complaining about mattresses being too hard."  (but I guess my mistake was obvious.)

2 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

Baan Souy gay resort 

On the way to Jomtien

Don't know their website,I guess it's the same as name 

https://baansouy.com/

From their website, the rooms don't look much different from the hotels in Jomtien Complex, which also come with pools, and which are cheaper too, and closer to the action.

23 hours ago, macaroni21 said:

 

1. There have been times when I sensed the boy that I am taking back is more uncomfortable walking through their lobbies (full of hotel service staff) than through a 3-star hotel lobby (minimal staffing). I hate it when they hate it.

 

I had case in Amara when guy, tested by me few times before, when collecting his tip mused only half jokingly  that I have money for expensive hotel but I'm not generous enough with his tip. Since tip was better than market rate I did not say anything but it was last time we saw each other in privacy of my room

20 minutes ago, vinapu said:

I had case in Amara when guy, tested by me few times before, when collecting his tip mused only half jokingly  that I have money for expensive hotel but I'm not generous enough with his tip. Since tip was better than market rate I did not say anything but it was last time we saw each other in privacy of my room

The audacity hehe. Some boys really thinks they own our money just because we can afford things. I didnt know we need to tips based on our networth? 

1 hour ago, spoon said:

I didnt know we need to tips based on our networth? 

But some clients tip based on what they want the boy to perceive their net worth is  🧐