Minimum Tip Increases

[Olddaddy]

On 11/27/2025 at 3:35 AM, ChristianPFC said:

still go for 500. 

When I was in Myanmar in January, prices as low as 30k MMK (about 6 USD) tip for one hour massage and happy ending. 

Wow 😲 😲 

I must go there !!!!

[Olddaddy]

On 11/28/2025 at 4:26 AM, vinapu said:

I never been there at night although I know where it is and visited during daytime.

I don't want to sound too picky but we are at end of 2025 and what happened there   back in Aug 2017 may or may not have any relevance to situation today.

Hope Christian will chip in with update  but for me it looks that 2017 occurrence was last I heard about anybody had trouble there.

Since I live where I do there were 2 gun murders in the building across from me. Considering that we are talking 35 years , it doesn't make my neighbourhood dangerous or gun infested so lets not extrapolate too far dangers at Saranrom.  AYOR of course applies but hat applies everywhere

 

You sound like a psychologist 

You mean obviously the word "catastrophise" the dangers 

[ChristianPFC]

Different prices for Farang and non-Thai Asian: Stickman put it that way, for lady bars, that non-Thai Asian are more likely to accept the first quoted price (which be an opening point for negotiation), whereas Whites are more like to negotiate.  

On 11/27/2025 at 8:22 AM, PeterRS said:

Is Saranrom still in existence as a cruising place? I know it was years ago and the price then was Bt. 500. I also know it could be dangerous as shown in a vdo posted on this Board around that time. If it is still on the go,  how has the price remained unchanged for around a couple of decades? Have you recently taken someone off from there?

I wouldn't call it a cruising place, it's a place of prostitution. Apart from incident in 2013 (analysis here https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2024/08/dating-thai-boys-98-at-wrong-end-of.html) I consider it safe. I have taken 5 different boys over the last two years, two of them more than once. Details in my blog under gay activities of the month, or label street trade.

There is a short time hotel S hotel เสาชิงช้า nearby and I recommend taking the boy there. It's just 200 THB and if you take a boy back to your room, he would ask for 100 for taxi back. 

The area is now easy to reach with about 10 min walk from MRT Sanam Chai to Saphan Hok (Lifting Bridge) สะพานหก, which I would say is the center. The boys are along both sides of the canal north and south of the bridge.

Most speak little or no English. I once spotted a Chinese ? customer using translation on his phone. When they are in groups, probably one can speak some English and translate for the one you like. Keep in mind most boys are straight, which limits activities. 

Most customers come by car, however I prefer walking. It's busy from 8 pm on (which is different from 10 years ago, when it started 10 pm). 

[Olddaddy]

17 hours ago, ChristianPFC said:

speak little or no English.

It's 2025:...why isn't the Thai education system teaching them

[jimmie50]

6 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

It's 2025:...why isn't the Thai education system teaching them

The tour guide on my recent trip said that while English is mandatory in the public schools, what they teach is written English, not spoken English.  If that is, in fact, the case, it should be the reverse.  They should focus more on conversation. 

[Travelingguy]

8 minutes ago, jimmie50 said:

The tour guide on my recent trip said that while English is mandatory in the public schools, what they teach is written English, not spoken English.  If that is, in fact, the case, it should be the reverse.  They should focus more on conversation. 

That is the same thing all over the world unfortunately, including in the US.

Language acquisition is how we gain the ability to speak, by…you guessed it, speaking.  But most school based instruction is vocabulary, grammar, verb conjugation.  You learned all of that from your family before you were able to read.

Language acquisition is really interesting. 

[macaroni21]

7 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

It's 2025:...why isn't the Thai education system teaching them

The same can be asked: it's 2025: why isn't the Australian/US/British education system teaching Chinese?

Let's not get too anglo-centric here.

 

[Keithambrose]

4 hours ago, macaroni21 said:

The same can be asked: it's 2025: why isn't the Australian/US/British education system teaching Chinese?

Let's not get too anglo-centric here.

 

Arguably, it would be more beneficial for more Thais to speak English, especially in the hospitality area. In the UK, two of my family are being taught Mandarin.

[mauRICE]

15 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

It's 2025:...why isn't the Thai education system teaching them

Well, why don't Australia lead by example and teach their own citizens English so that the rest of the world can understand them for a change. 😏

[Travelingguy]

Now, now.  Australians contribute a great deal of colorful terms and phrases to the English language. 

[Ian here]

21 hours ago, Travelingguy said:

Now, now.  Australians contribute a great deal of colorful terms and phrases to the English language. 

The term 'No worries' is a very popular phrase I hear all over...... when I'm travelling.

[BangkokDreamer]

On 11/21/2025 at 4:36 PM, zazzu said:

Cock size, specifically the circumference/thickness. S54 is pretty common from what I've seen in the ads, with several S52's and S56's.. S60 is more rare. I'll attach a pic that Fafa spa recently sent out on Line.

https://www.pulse-clinic.com/h3-how-to-measure-the-penis-to-find-the-right-condom-size

 

How does it correlate to inches? Is this more like width? 

[daydreamer]

15 hours ago, BangkokDreamer said:

How does it correlate to inches? Is this more like width? 

Here's a good chart that shows condom sizes frequently shown in Thai massage ads, with measurements in both centimeters and inches, and the corresponding penis circumference sizes.  

The measurements quoted by massage shops are the width of condoms, as shown in this chart in the condom width column. 

 

[PeterRS]

On 12/3/2025 at 4:21 AM, Olddaddy said:

It's 2025:...why isn't the Thai education system teaching them

I can attest that the Thai authorities do import teachers of English for short periods - athough how much good that does obviousy depends on the teachers and how they are selected. I only had one experience meeting up with one. I was at Siam Skytrain station about to visit Paragon. A large middle-aged (I guess) African American lady in a dress that was clearly too thick for the heat was looking around and clearly very confused.

I asked if I could help. Frankly, I found it a little difficult to understand that she was trying to find Paragon but she told me none of the staff seemed to understand her. I asked her to turn around as Paragon was just there. In thanking me she told me she was from Louisiana, it was her first visit to Thailand and she taught spoken English!! Turned out someone at her school in the US had asked for volunteers to spend theee months teaching in Thailand. She though it might be fun. She was clearly well-meaning but I felt sorry for the Thai kids who tried to decipher her very southern pronounciation.

[Travelingguy]

One positive to learning English form a US Southerner is that they tend to speak slowly.  Also, the accented parts of words are more emphasized.  That might make it easier for a non English speaker to keep up.

Could be worse.  They could be recruiting from Northern Scotland.