Pattaya Ladyboys take over 260,000 Baht at local hotel

The headline is a little misleading, but here's the story:

PATTAYA: -- : With no police involved, over 40 Ladyboys, assisted by several foreigners are reported to have collected in excess of 260,000 baht and got wet in the process.

 

Pattaya’s Ladyboy community came together on Saturday afternoon at the Areca Lodge hotel in Soi Diana Inn, to participate in a water sports competition, raising money for two worthwhile local charities.

 

Teams from 8 bars competed for the Ladyboy Water Volleyball Championship under the guidance of the competition organiser, Englishman Tony Sales and, together with the evening event, raised over 260,000 Baht which was presented during the evening to the Local Rotary club’s water purification programme for remote villages in Thailand and to Pattaya orphanage.

 

Tickets for the event were totally sold out well in advance and, in a city where the Ladyboy image is often tarnished by grubby street thieves, the promoters of the event were excited to be able to display the other side of life with the third gender.

 

This, the very first of such events, is expected to become a regular feature in the city.

 

After the fun and games of the water volleyball, the teams retired, obviously to the hairdressers, before re-appearing at a ticket only, banquet in the evening, now dressed to the nines with newly fashioned hair and makeup.

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