Bangkok and Pattaya, Nov/Dec 2025

[mauRICE]

12 minutes ago, vinapu said:

you never fail to cheer us up

And this time with chocolate. 😏

[floridarob]

59 minutes ago, mauRICE said:

And this time with chocolate. 😏

🤐

[mauRICE]

3 minutes ago, floridarob said:

🤐

Awww you got  it. 👏🏅

(The joke that is, not the chocolate. 🤣)

[hank75]

13 hours ago, mauRICE said:

Hasn't this always been their story? "No customers, no offs, no money, many bills to pay..." What would you rather hear? "Hey Mister, you're my third customer of the day. I'm all spermed out but for 2,000 Baht I'll put up with your fat arse for the next hour or so and dream of my girlfriend or the bar girl opposite while going at it?"

They are not only there to sell their bodies but also the illusion that you're their one and only John who's come to "save" them, a tactic that works well with white men who come to Asia with a modicum of guilt and a saviour mentality.

The sun may have set on the empire but the burden never ceases.

Except this wasn’t an unsolicited story of woe but my own observations over several days reinforced by chatting with a couple of the guys. Also with another 10 or so breathing down my neck waiting to be invited for drinks due to lack of customers. Boys with no offs sit clustered along the Jupiter stairs, anyone who has been to the bar is familiar with the set up. 

It is high season now so I hear Fridays and Saturdays are improving but far from Jupiter’s heyday. 

[jimmie50]

This is probably a dumb question, but I see posts referring to high season all of the time.  What is considered 'high season', and is it different in Pattaya than in Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, etc.?   

[mauRICE]

1 hour ago, jimmie50 said:

This is probably a dumb question, but I see posts referring to high season all of the time.  What is considered 'high season', and is it different in Pattaya than in Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, etc.?   

Not a dumb question at all. We all started somewhere. High season refers to the high tourist season, usually from November to February, with a peak in December and a moderate rise during the Chinese New Year period with more Southeast Asian and East Asian tourists visiting. It's more or less the same throughout Thailand. The Songkran festival in mid April will also see a significant rise in the number of visitors in the major cities. The cool season in the north and Songkran in Chiang Mai are also very popular with domestic tourists. Certain provinces, for eg Phuket during the vegetarian festival in October, will see a surge in tourists. Prices for accommodation and domestic flights are usually higher during the high season and festival periods.

[vinapu]

1 hour ago, mauRICE said:

Not a dumb question at all. We all started somewhere

+1

my parents used to say , there are no stupid questions, there only stupid answers