Thanks for your thoughts Skogis. Nice to hear from a seasoned monger who doesn't seem to have an agenda, an axe to grind or a fight to pick. As for Elena, the Subway fixture, what's the story with her, if you know? She seems a hard working working girl. I'm guessing she might have an impressive skill set.
[QUOTE=Skogis; 1397582]It is obviously we live in different worlds when it comes to Bangkok and its freelancemarket. I have been rather active in this market the last 7-8 years, so naturaly I can not speak of how things were prior to this. I can also admit I have not been so much in the Nana parking but been in the area browsing and walking. My normal pickup places (Climax, CM2, Bangkok Beat, Thermae, Insomnia (infinity) , Mixx, Shock, Spasso, Beer Garden, Gullivers, Q-bar, Levels (rather new) and on rare occations RCA are and Route66 and so on. I have also sometimes (not so often) picked up girls from the streets but I have been around so I can spot them from a distance as well even if I don't pick them. I also like to add in almost 50% of my time spend in BKK I have a fairly number of regular girls I like to hang out and in with to add certain normality into my life. I am in BKK 10 to 15 times a year (avarage) so I would say I am in possition to atleast add my 2 cents when it comes to quote actual poster.
I have in all honesty not seen a dramatic change when it comes to number of ladies and beauty (and yes I am aware that beauty is in the eye of the beholder). Even prices haven't changed much in my listed places. There are no problem to meet girls ranging from 6 to 9 in these places. Prices may vary from from location to location but have been the same many years (I talk about girlprices).
So even if I never have seen the hordes of SW around Nana I still feel there are atleast the same ammount of girls to choose from in my type of mongering. Evenings in Soi 11 I also see a lot of street girls ready for pick up. You also have quite a lot of girls standing outside Thermae and I see some pick up girls every now and then walking from Soi 11 toward Soi 3 (odd number side). But this is not meant to argue your post just enlighten readers of my observations as I think things are not so negative. And Elena sitting outside Subway in Soi 7 will allways be around.
Ofcourse Thailand in the future will change and most likely to worse for us with untreatable mongerhabits. But so far still good.
I pay on avarage 3K for LT sessions exp from Spasso (4 to 6K LT). LT sessions are without timelimitations but will range from an allnighter until, in rare cases, the break of afternoon. ST sessions (and in my case mostly for daytime use) I pay 1 to 2K. Mostly picked up from Beergarden or Gullivers (late afternoon).[/QUOTE]