Phuket Reports

[ThaiGoodTimes]

Haha!

You're not meeting my wife.

Well, then you won't get to meet my Thai girlfriend. LOL.

That I'd likely guess will be more your loss than mine.

Seriously.

If you want to do scuba diving more discreetly than contacting me directly.

Find a Facebook group called Phuket Sandbox, and put an enquiry on there about scuba diving.

Many businesses will approach you, mine included.

[CIMguy]

But thanks for the offer! .

So I'm not really looking to pick up from bars or go to MP. I would like it to be a bit more discreet. Ill look into my options as the trip gets closer, and would countinue to be grateful for all pointer! .


Damn! that changes the dynamics. Shame on me for not having considered the costs of tests...
This trip is suddenly looking quite expensive... really really strange... Still, hoping for the best.
Yesterdays announcement was as, um.. confusing.

Cheers!

The extra costs are a pain, but I looked at it like everything else was cheaper and that made up for it. My condo is $9 a night. It's small, but it has a little couch and tv, a small kitchen with 2-person table, and a separate bedroom and bath. I would think the resorts are also cheaper now, maybe enough to make up most of the test and insurance costs?

When I came to Thailand with family, we had to stay in nicer hotels and resorts and it could be pricey, but coming by myself this time is a real reminder of how cheap Thailand can be if you just let it be cheap. I spend $5-6 dollars a day on food, for example, and mostly walk everywhere. If I was still in China, I would eat out once a week and that would be 4 days food here. I would take a taxi to and from the grocery store there once a week and that would be another day's food in Thailand. Then junk food and other costs I've cut out here and I'm pretty much spending less per day here than living in Beijing where my housing was covered for free.

[Meisme]

So, I would be happy to set you up with all your needs.
Yes, you can rent short time rooms, they are everywhere.
Most bars outside Patong have their own rooms on the premises.

But thanks for the offer! .

So I'm not really looking to pick up from bars or go to MP. I would like it to be a bit more discreet. Ill look into my options as the trip gets closer, and would countinue to be grateful for all pointer! .

I forget the exact cost, but I think I remember it being around $220 for the 3 tests total. It's not insignificant.

Damn! that changes the dynamics. Shame on me for not having considered the costs of tests...
This trip is suddenly looking quite expensive... really really strange... Still, hoping for the best.
Yesterdays announcement was as, um.. confusing.

Cheers!

[Meisme]

Funny you should ask.

Scuba shops in Phuket are open.
And I have a PADI dive business in Phuket, as well as being a PADI instructor.
So, I would be happy to set you up with all your needs.

Haha!

You're not meeting my wife.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

So this happened last night. I got a Line message from someone requesting that I add them. It looked like some professional guy in the little pic, so I thought it was the realtor I gave my Line ID to. I add him and open it to find that it is not the realtor. I look at a couple of the pics and I can see it's some guy with the girl I met at sweetie's bar and hung out with a few times (no sex). I was planning to see her when I got back to Patong. I knew she had an ex-boyfriend, so I was pretty put off to be messaged by some girl's ex, especially with my line of work and family situation.

So I sent the girl I met a quick message asking what was up and letting her know I would need to drop her. She tells me it's her boyfriend and it's because she gave him her old phone and the Line IDs were still on it. I am now thinking she is BSing me because 1) she told me she was seeing a woman and didn't have a boyfriend, and 2) why would he need to add my ID by phone number if my ID was already on her phone. So I point out those two things and say I have to block her, but then she says the guy in the picture is actually her GF and she is a tomboy. And that the phone sent an add request to her entire list of friends and customers. I didn't know what to believe at that point, so I just blocked them both. I figured it was safer that way, though I think I believe her after the messages and a closer inspection of his pics. She kept saying, "I promise you it's OK."

I think I was a little on edge with the Thai girl thing because I'm 99% sure one girl was recording our conversation the other day. She acted like it was an accident, but.

Smart move, end it and move on.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

Yes. I'm planning our trip around this expectation.

I've got our flight done to phuket. But no hotels yet. The whole sha+ situation really is strange.

I am expecting it to change for the better too! Worst I loose a small deposit on flights.

If anyone around has chanced a look. Are the scuba dive shops in business?

And is there anything stopping me from renting short time rooms while I'm around (even during the quarentine period)? I would imagine the girls to not have their own appartment available?

Cheers!

Cheers!

Funny you should ask.

Scuba shops in Phuket are open.

And I have a PADI dive business in Phuket, as well as being a PADI instructor.

So, I would be happy to set you up with all your needs.

Yes, you can rent short time rooms, they are everywhere.

Most bars outside Patong have their own rooms on the premises.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

Thanks super mate! May I ask how much do the tests cost? I'm reading 350 bht at someplace called. Phuket checkpoint (dunno if means airport checkpoint or island checkpoint), to 8000 bht (We are in phuket for 15 days. So test on arrival, day 6 and day 13 (Day 8 change hotels / island (and hopefully remain uninfected! .

Bummer if you test positive on day 14 of a 15 day trip. Hmmm.

If sandbox goes to 7 days, test 13 will stop, just arrival and day 6.

350 B is for domestic arrivals by road at the Phuket Checkpoint on the bridge onto Phuket island.

8000 B is for 3 PCR tests (at testing centres), expect this to drop by 1/3rd, maybe more as they are also trying to make the tests cheaper.

[CIMguy]

So this happened last night. I got a Line message from someone requesting that I add them. It looked like some professional guy in the little pic, so I thought it was the realtor I gave my Line ID to. I add him and open it to find that it is not the realtor. I look at a couple of the pics and I can see it's some guy with the girl I met at sweetie's bar and hung out with a few times (no sex). I was planning to see her when I got back to Patong. I knew she had an ex-boyfriend, so I was pretty put off to be messaged by some girl's ex, especially with my line of work and family situation.

So I sent the girl I met a quick message asking what was up and letting her know I would need to drop her. She tells me it's her boyfriend and it's because she gave him her old phone and the Line IDs were still on it. I am now thinking she is BSing me because 1) she told me she was seeing a woman and didn't have a boyfriend, and 2) why would he need to add my ID by phone number if my ID was already on her phone. So I point out those two things and say I have to block her, but then she says the guy in the picture is actually her GF and she is a tomboy. And that the phone sent an add request to her entire list of friends and customers. I didn't know what to believe at that point, so I just blocked them both. I figured it was safer that way, though I think I believe her after the messages and a closer inspection of his pics. She kept saying, "I promise you it's OK."

I think I was a little on edge with the Thai girl thing because I'm 99% sure one girl was recording our conversation the other day. She acted like it was an accident, but.

[CIMguy]

Thanks super mate! May I ask how much do the tests cost? I'm reading 350 bht at someplace called. Phuket checkpoint (dunno if means airport checkpoint or island checkpoint), to 8000 bht (We are in phuket for 15 days. So test on arrival, day 6 and day 13 (Day 8 change hotels / island (and hopefully remain uninfected! .

Bummer if you test positive on day 14 of a 15 day trip. Hmmm.

I forget the exact cost, but I think I remember it being around $220 for the 3 tests total. It's not insignificant.

[Meisme]

I can't speak to the hotel situation as I only know where I have stayed and don't know the smaller areas well. But I can say something about the covid tests. You are supposed to be tested on day 6 or 7 of the sandbox, so you would just need to set up your scheduled test for day 6. Where you might run into an issue is getting your certificate on day 7. I took my 2nd test on day 14 and I didn't get my certificate until day 16. Fortunately, I was staying a few extra days, so it wasn't an issue. That said, I don't think anyone is going to check and, if they do, I think you can explain. You could then maybe have your first hotel send the certificate to the 2nd hotel by email or whatever. I moved to another town and nobody checked to see if I had a sandbox certificate. I'm in a condo so maybe a hotel will check, but I think you can explain the situation if it doesn't arrive in time. I also had some trouble because my hotel booked my tests for me, so the slowness of my certificate may have been caused by me not being in the system. They had to make a phone call to find me each time I went for a test.

Thanks super mate! May I ask how much do the tests cost? I'm reading 350 bht at someplace called. Phuket checkpoint (dunno if means airport checkpoint or island checkpoint), to 8000 bht (We are in phuket for 15 days. So test on arrival, day 6 and day 13 (Day 8 change hotels / island (and hopefully remain uninfected! .

Bummer if you test positive on day 14 of a 15 day trip. Hmmm.

[Meisme]

Hold tight on everything you're planning.
The sandbox is changing and it's "likely" to drop to just 7 days.
Announcements are imminent on clarifying all this.

Yes. I'm planning our trip around this expectation.

I've got our flight done to phuket. But no hotels yet. The whole sha+ situation really is strange.

I am expecting it to change for the better too! Worst I loose a small deposit on flights.

If anyone around has chanced a look. Are the scuba dive shops in business?

And is there anything stopping me from renting short time rooms while I'm around (even during the quarentine period)? I would imagine the girls to not have their own appartment available?

Cheers!

Cheers!

[CIMguy]

I submit that her usual service level is pretty bad. Based on the details you cited it sure seems like it (no DFK, no BBBJ, etc).

However, it was the fact that you inadvertantly "ignored" her messages and, shockingly, kept a Thai girl, a Thai hooker at that, waiting 15 WHOLE MINUTES that put a little fire under her butt to throw herself into it with passion, perhaps one of the reasons she eventually pulled off the condom. Good lord, when I think of the hours we wait past the agreed upon time to meet these ditzy girls.

She had something to prove. You inadertantly had "told" her you were too busy perhaps (in her mind) with other younger, better looking girls on Line to hop to instantly to read and reply to her repeated messages.

For 15 whole minutes she had every reason to suspect she had been forgotten, canceled and abandoned by you for a Better Deal girl who would then get almost an average Thai week's pay if not more for 60-90 minutes of her time instead of her.

She didn't get there until 4:10, so I only kept her 5 minutes.

But yeh, her initial cold reaction nearly made me send her packing. In her defense, when I asked if she was mad, she said no and that was her normal face and people think she is mad a lot. But these things matter and, like I said, anger will quickly turn me off completely. The fact that we had a really nice chat for 45 minutes and she seemed quite different from other Thai girls I have met is the only thing that saved the session. She was a bit of a strange bird, for sure. The actual fucking was fantastic, but all the side stuff of foreplay and intimacy was really not there. On the other hand, the conversation was open and intimate. Repeating is a tough call.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

Hello all and hope all you folks doing well!

I hope it is not rude to be a long time lurker, semi retired mongerer asking for some travel advise from boots on the ground.

Me and the Mrs. Travel to Phuket first week Nov. If I will be having some fun on the side it would not be with blessings! But that not my main concern of this post.

After getting my head round the upcoming 7+7 sandbox rules (still confused on some aspects), I can't figure where to stay. Any help would be appreciated.

Looking for a hotel / resort with a great pool and beach access to keep the wife happy, ideally modern design. We never stay in Patong, too loud and concrete for the both of us. But we do still want some life around, restaurants and stuff, and not be confined to the resort.

- The Novotel in Kamala falls right in budget and gets decent reviews. Anyone here with 1st hand experience? Last we were in phuket (Nov'19 enroute to Lanta) I noticed that the whole kamala area was one big construction site. Its probably still the same? Does it interfere?

- Kata vids on youtube are showing Kata as totally dead.

- Sandbox rules say I need to be in Phuket for 7 days before I can move, and hotel would need to issue release certificate? (wow) Stating guest have stayed for 7 nights / days.

Hold tight on everything you're planning.

The sandbox is changing and it's "likely" to drop to just 7 days.

Announcements are imminent on clarifying all this.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

So a little more reading and recent travel blogs seem to suggest that NaiHarn and Rawai are pretty much up and about as usual. Which is great, cause we have never explore Phuket that down south! And I'm reading that NaiHarn is a reall nice beach.

I'm still struggling to find an in budget SHA+ property which I'm liking. Its all a bit pricier it seem in the south. The NaiHarn is expensive, but maybe I can splurge if convinced its worth it. Even though I am looking at resorts (mostly for a decent pool), we're always wary of resorts / chains. Having stayed extensively for work, there is always that element of cheesy instead of classy that often creeps in. Like restaurant or pool entertainment in the evenings.

The NaiHarn beach resort (Not the Nai Harn) seems like the best bet around here. Unless there is something in Rawai.

I'm reading the picking are good in Rawai too? I'm hoping ill get a couple of afternoon or late night soujourns during my stay. Lets see how that goes.

Best!

Everything you could want is in Naiharn and Rawai.

Patong is good, but the beaches south are better, and the vibe more relaxed.

When they raided Patong and closed Bangla they left Rawai alone.

[ThaiGoodTimes]

I met a girl from TF today in Chalong, but she is from Rawai. I will leave out her name, but message me if you want it.

I got her name shortly after arriving in Thailand and a couple times she messages me in Patong and asked to see me at the last second. I was out or busy both times, so I had to decline. I made the date for 8 pm today, but she messaged at 2:30 and asked if I was free earlier because she was in Chalong. I said I could do 4 and she agreed. It was like 4:08 and I sat my phone down on the kitchen table and sat on the sofa figuring I would have to wait. I expected my phone to chime when she messaged but for some reason it didn't and I guess she message 3 times saying she was here before I saw it at 4:15. She kept sending? When I got downstairs, she was outside looking pissed. If looks could kill, I would be dead. It was a tense elevator ride upstairs. I considered calling it off because anger is about the biggest turnoff to me. But I remembered the nuru situation the other day and decided to roll with it.

WE sat and drank for about 45 minutes before anything happened. I'm glad we did because she relaxed and opened up. She's the most interesting girl I've talked to here. Very quick and forward, definitely not the dimwitted type. We retired to the bedroom after we both had a bit of a buzz and it started pretty quickly. She pulled me over and kissed me pretty hard, but with no tongue, mouth closed. She was really aggressive and was grabbing my head hard as I kissed her neck and nipples. She wrapped her legs around me as I moved down to lick her. But she stopped me and said no to that, so we went on kissing and rolling around for a bit. She was grabbing dick hard, but somehow not hard enough to hurt. I kept expecting her to hurt me because she was so aggressive and seemingly careless with it, but it never happened. It then seemed like it was time for a BJ, but she shook her head and said no BJ without condom. I said, "Really? I've never not received a BBBJ." I decided to just go with it because I really had no choice..

I'm laughing so hard at this.

Rule one with Thai girls, get them off the past, and into the present with you.

They too often have a short temper and a short term focus, don't feed the former, and concentrate on getting them past the latter.