Bangkok Reports

[QUOTE=Sunlover2;1575416]Agreed the main Suprrich branch has slightly higher exchange rates, but it is normally only about 5 baht per $100 USD. So you are talking about. 0015% or so. Unless you were changing thousands of dollars at a time I would not consider a trip to the main branch worth the time or effort.
SunLover. [/QUOTE]I found the most 'convenient' place is the food court at Siam Paragon, opened 7 days a week near rest rooms are two banks with fx exchange. Only downside is sometimes a 10 minute que.

[QUOTE=BionicMan;1575363]All airliners are getting into this, reducing the benefits to redeem miles. [/QUOTE]The airlines have made public statements about why they are doing this. It is driven by economics. Under the programs that are being phased out most of the mileage benefits were going to people who bought low cost long trip tickets. The margins on these tickets are small. The mileage programs ate into these small margins. The new programs are designed to benefit people who buy more expensive (and more profitable) tickets, for example, business travelers who buy full fare open date tickets and people who fly first class. I first read about these changes late last year and have been busy using up my miles ever since. I don't like the changes, but the airlines can and will run their businesses as they choose. Perhaps sometime in the future the pendulum will swing back the other way. One airline will liberalize its mileage program and the rest will follow.

My wingman and me returned to Bangkok a week later after business in Singapore with one more night in the Big Mango.

Again we decided on a strategy of emptying our tanks quickly before spending the rest of the night at leisure reviewing the delights of Nana. We started at about 7 pm and had a beer at Hillary Bar on Soi4. There were a few girls in the bar but none piqued our interest at that time. We headed over to Nana Plaza but it was just in the process of opening up so we went into Strikers Sports Pub. Quite a lot of girls in here but already sitting with customers. My wingman started trying to chat up the waitress who bought our beers.

We sat taking in the scene for a bit until a total hottie, slim dark skinned girl wearing a grey shimmery dress and looking a lot like porn star Nyomi Marcela walked toward our table. I caught her eye, smiled and said Hello, but she just gave me a nervous look and walked by. I turned to my wingman "that's not supposed to happen here, right".

A couple of minutes later we saw her walk back to the opposite side of the bar and stand with another girl. We went over. The other girl was a lot older, mid 40's at least. The older lady explained Nyomi didn't speak a word of English and that she'd just arrived from Isaan a few days before. The older lady was from the same village and was training her up to be a successful hooker! Nyomi's real name was Saa and she was 25 years old. She was due to enrol in English lessons that week. Fuck my luck. Oh well, maybe when I next get to Bangers, she'll have stuck with her new career and learnt enough English to make boom boom. Haha.

My wingman then said he'd met a girl in another bar back up the soi earlier in the day and was going to go back and have a crack at her. I headed into NEP and Erotica gogo. I took a seat and ordered a drink and eyed the stage line-up. About four or five lookers. I then saw a girl with long curly hair, dirty smile and hot body dancing in front of me. I caught her eye, smiled and waved and she was off the stage and over in a shot. "You want me to sit with you" "yes" I bought her a lady drink. She says her name is Jessica, 24 from Isaan (where else? After a few minutes of sexy chit-chat I was happy I'd found my first shag and she says "you bar fine me" We agree on 2000ST. The mamasan comes over and collects the bar-fine and says there's a short time hotel upstairs.

I had no intention of wasting cash on a filthy ST mattress when my hotel was only five minutes away. I tell the mamasan my hotel is near and when I tell her which one she agrees to let me take her there. I was quite impressed that the mamasan appeared to care about her girls enough to make sure she knew where they were. At about this point I get my first warning signal. Jessica asks that as I'm going to take her away from the bar can we make it 2500. I say no, I think 2000 is a decent amount for ST. She hesitates for a second with barely concealed disappointment and says "OK".

She goes and gets dressed and we head out to the street. She has a puzzled look on her face and says "I've been thinking. This is different. Most farang bar-fine me at the end of the night when they're drunk. Not this early. " Observant girl! I say "yeah but I don't want to fuck when I'm too drunk" During the walk to the hotel she's very talkative, telling me how she's always had a lot of sex, even back in Isaan before she came to bangers and how she's expecting a new Samsung Galaxy S4 in the mail any day now from her "Australian friend" "Mug" I think to myself.

Back in the hotel room, we shower and she takes condoms and a tube of lube out of her bag. Warning signal 2 I've generally found that hookers who need lube give worse experience, those who can get wet themselves and get into it are a far better shag! I'm feeling horny and she heads straight into BBBJ. I roll her onto her back and kiss her, only for my tongue to slide across gritted teeth. Warning signal 3, but too late now. She says she's had spicy food and doesn't like to kiss. I slide inside her and start to pump away while she makes all the right noises. After a few minutes I pull out, turn her around and start to pump her doggy. She's starting to question the length of time I'm taking. I can feel my orgasm building up but I don't want to shoot my bolt too quickly and so pull out. This generates some impatient complaining on her part, shattering the moment for me and I lose wood. She appears to take this as a professional insult and says harshly "get hard and fuck" Great, another rush job hooker. I hate time pressure. I failed to regain the moment and she asked "how long does it normally take you to come" I said "sometime two minutes, sometimes an hour" Her next question stunned me for a few seconds "why didn't you take two minutes with me" I explained because I'm not like a car where you fill me with gas and you know exactly how many kilometres you're going to get to the litre! I'm not a machine. She looked at me like she didn't understand a word and said "I'm sorry I did such bad work" took her money and left.

A little later I met with my wingman and it turns out he had a very good session with the bar-girl her chose. Bastard. I told him about my experience with Jessica and he wanted me to take him to Erotica and point her out. I said I didn't think that would be a good idea. Loss of face and all that!

We headed back to NEP. First we hit DC-10 and it's a totally different bar to our first visit with plenty of hot dancers on the small stage. Then went next door to sexy nights. Another small gogo bar with plenty of hot dancers. We ordered a drink each. Quite a few girls came over, pestering us for drinks but as we'd not long emptied our tanks we just wanted to sit, chat to each other and watch the show. After a beer we agreed that we'd enjoyed it so much the last time we headed next door to Angelwitch. Good move. The mamasan recognised us from our last visit and very attentively made sure we got seats in the now full gogo. We got a couple of drinks and sat enjoying the excellent show. I saw a couple of hotties when we first went in, one tall and dark skinned, the other short and paler. They left the stage at a change of dancers and both went and say either side of some farang at the opposite side of the bar. Never mind. We sat and enjoyed the show. 2 am started to approach and we hadn't selected our temporary girlfriends for the night. Then the two girls I saw earlier got back on stage to dance. I pointed them out to my wingman and after a brief consultation we agreed that he would go for dark skin and me for light skin. We told pretty nerdy waitress and she bought them over for us.

I bought a lady drink for light skinned girl. She said her name was "Om" 29, and that she was a traditional Thai dancer from Chiang Mai. She moved to Bangkok about 3 months before to take the job in Angelwitch. She said she didn't really know if she liked it or not but it was good money. I asked her if she she did LT and she said she would as she didn't have a boyfriend! She initially quoted 4000. I said 3500, and she smiled and nodded I then paid the bar fine to the mamasan which in the space of a week had gone up to 700 .

My wingman was having less luck next to me. Dark skin girl said she only did ST. She wouldn't change her mind. The lights came on and my wingman still didn't have a girl. He spoke to the mamasan who said she had just the girl for him! She went away and cam back a few minutes later with a tall, slim dark haired MILF. Apparently she had been dancing at DC-10 that night which is owned by the same company. She wasn't to my taste but my wingman was happy.

Back to the hotel and me and "Om" get down to business. She's relaxed and very GFE, not PSE. She's very sensual and we get into a lot of DFK, body to body and mutual touching. She's moaning a lot. I reach for her pussy and slip a finger in. She's very hot and wet and moaning like cat in heat. I rub her pussy for a few seconds and it's like open sesame. Soon I've easily got all four fingers in and it's like putting my hand into a plastic bag full of warm water. She's rubbing her pelvis against my hand and her moaning is getting faster and louder, while she's practically sucking my tongue out of my head. I told you the ones who don't need lube are the best! I slipped a condom on, she opened her legs eagerly and I plunged straight into her pussy like my dick had his own personal water slide. I pumped away building up a good rhythm and I could feel her wetness even though I had a condom on. Eventually I shot my bolt. She grabbed me by the ears and we DFK'd and cuddled before we both fell asleep. Jessica could learn a lot from Om.

I woke up in the morning with my hand on her cute peachy little ass. I kissed her neck and she rolled over and slipped her tongue into my mouth. I stroked her flank and ass and she reached for my dick. Hard already! I fingered her and she was wet in seconds again. She then headed south and gave me a BBBJ. Nice, but not her greatest skill if I'm honest. I slipped a condom on and she took this as her cue, laid back and spread her legs. I mounted her and again the girl was soaking I pumped away for a bit before pulling out and turning her over. She dutifully got on all fours pointed her ass up toward me and I slipped back into her pussy and pounded her until I came. Wow.

We cuddled a bit and she headed to the bathroom. I heard the shower start. I put her money next to her pillow. She came out of the bathroom, quickly looked at the cash before throwing it into her bag, kissing me and walking out of the door. Worth every baht!

Whilst browsing for Thai related smut I chanced upon a photo of Jessica on Lollipop's facebook page. Maybe she works there as well.

[QUOTE=Ehunter;1575066]The best ATM debit card out there (has been for years) is a Charles Schwab. Schwab-One Platnum ATM card. You will not pay for a single withdraw fee world wide. They all get reimbursed back to you. You will need to open a Schwab one checking account but it has a no min-deposit and no monthly service fees. I have had this type of account for longer than 30 years and have never been unhappy with anything the entire time. [/QUOTE]I just looked online. I don't see the Schwab One checking account. It appears to be called the Schwab Bank High Yield Investor Checking account and is only available when linked to a Schwab One [B]Brokerage[/B] account. Perhaps you were referring to that One.

The Schwab Brokerage account requirements: No fees to open or maintain an account. Other account fees, fund expenses, and brokerage commissions may apply; $1,000 minimum investment to open an account, (waived if you set up an automatic monthly transfer of $100 through direct deposit or Schwab MoneyLink or open a Schwab Bank High Yield Investor Checking account linked to your brokerage account.) There are no monthly or low balance fees for either account when you open a High Yield Investor Checking account linked to a Schwab One brokerage account.

I'm not too Happy with my HSBC account, time to switch. Thanks for the heads up, Ehunter.

[QUOTE=Ehunter;1575066]

The best ATM debit card out there (has been for years) is a Charles Schwab. Schwab-One Platnum ATM card. You will not pay for a single withdraw fee world wide. They all get reimbursed back to you. You will need to open a Schwab one checking account but it has a no min-deposit and no monthly service fees. I have had this type of account for longer than 30 years and have never been unhappy with anything the entire time.

[/QUOTE]Agreed. Been using same for years. Another, if you are USA based, is State Farm Checking. All ATM fees reimbursed. Only requirement is $100 min in account.

Debit / ATM Cards.

I've been a Schwab customer forever but I ordered and received their debit / ATM card before my last BKK trip. Their debit card is excellent and so is their customer service. No foreign fees, no ATM or bank fees, and you get an excellent exchange rate. BankDirect. Com allegedly offers no foreign fee debit / atm cards as well but I don't have a card from them. I do keep $50K in an account with BankDirect and get 5,000 American Airlines miles a month for a $12 monthly fee.

Credit Cards.

Capitol One credit cards are the kings of no foreign transaction fee cards. They normally offer several different cards that have no annual fee. I also have The United Mileage Plus Explorer card (mentioned here earlier) which is good for no foreign fees when used outside the USA You can usually get 40,000 UA miles when you first sign up for the card with the annual fee waived the first year. After the first year there is an annual fee of about $95/ year. I pay the annual fee every year because this card provides primary auto insurance for car rentals. Since I rent cars a lot, this justifies me paying the annual fee.

To save money on a trip to Thailand or another foreign country I would recommend using a no foreign exchange fee credit card for every possible transaction. You will always get a favorable exchange rate when buying goods with a no foreign fee credit card. Some merchants tack on a fee for using a credit card. In that case pay cash, otherwise use a credit card for every small and large purchase.

Traveler Checks.

These are good backup for Thailand in case of emergency. I wouldn't recommend them for many other countries but they are fairly cheap to exchange for Thai baht. Even with a recent increase in stamp fees there. Great for a backup and you can get them at no charge from most USA banks.

As a long-time satisfied Schwab customer I use their Schwab Bank Platinum Debit Card when I travel internationally. Good exchange rates in ATMs and any fees are reimbursed. The epitome of convenience. Actually I carry two separate Schwab cards for reasons of "just in case" And, I always have a few nice crispy 100's as a back up. Seldom need them, but when the one time I did. Priceless.

SW.

[QUOTE=Allover;1575625]Debit / ATM Cards.

I've been a Schwab customer forever but I ordered and received their debit / ATM card before my last BKK trip. Their debit card is excellent and so is their customer service. No foreign fees, no ATM or bank fees, and you get an excellent exchange rate. BankDirect. Com allegedly offers no foreign fee debit / atm cards as well but I don't have a card from them. I do keep $50K in an account with BankDirect and get 5,000 American Airlines miles a month for a $12 monthly fee. [/QUOTE]

Has anyone ever compiled a list of gogo's and the price for short and long time plus the bar fine amount?

I'll start with spankies at nana: bar fine is 600 and short time was 2000. Had a girl stay long time from spankies but I just gave her an extra 1000.

[QUOTE=Allover; 1575625]Traveler Checks.

These are good backup for Thailand in case of emergency. I wouldn't recommend them for many other countries but they are fairly cheap to exchange for Thai baht. Even with a recent increase in stamp fees there. Great for a backup and you can get them at no charge from most USA banks.[/QUOTE]Can they be purchased at a bank in Bangkok?

[QUOTE=Breadman;1575948]Has anyone ever compiled a list of gogo's and the price for short and long time plus the bar fine amount?

I'll start with spankies at nana: bar fine is 600 and short time was 2000. Had a girl stay long time from spankies but I just gave her an extra 1000.[/QUOTE]Let me add.

Baccara, bar fine is 600, short time is 2500.

Suzie Wong, bar fine is 600, short time is negotiable (1500 to 2500).

Was in Bangkok for my 2nd time. Decided to take the cheap route, so no gogo bars and no barfines.

1) Kasalong BJ bar. Went there every day. The girls in the day were cuter than the night girls. 700 baht BJ and 1300 baht FS. Not all of the girls would go FS. Always left happy.

2) Villa Market massage shops. There were some cute university girls on break working in a few of the shops. Chose a beautiful girl who was tiny and had braces for a 400 baht oil massage. Massage was terrible, just rubbing oil all over my back. After the flip, I asked her how much for BJ. She said she didn't do that, but a HJ was 1,000 and FS was 2,000. Talked her down to 1,200 for FS. Had a great time. Went back to her a few times. Skipped the massage and just went for the FS.

3) Nana parking lot. Lots of cute girls after 7 pm. There are really 2 different types there. The first group are the girls that stand around the hotel sign and all the way down to the little pharmacy. The second group are the girls that sit on the sidewalk in front of the coffee shop and going back towards nana hotel. I always took girls sitting on the sidewalk. They are usually shy and just want to make some extra money after their day job. They would ask for 1,000 - 1,500, but I always paid 1,000. Never had a bad experience with any of these girls.

All in all it was a great vacation. I set my budget at 3,000 per day on girls, and that always got me 3 different girls each day.

Hey,

Do any of you know Som's mail address?

I think she used to have it public when her website was functional.

[QUOTE=PinkPearl;1576028]Can they be purchased at a bank in Bangkok?[/QUOTE]To Pink pearl.

Allover is right I always bring with me 5000 USD in Amex express in 500 each buy from my bank in the US manily for emergency use don't like to use atm card, in Thailand it is very easy to change them even at Many money changer rate are better than cash, there is a amex express office in Bangkok can replace stolen check not sure you can buy traveler check from bank.

Fast eddie 48.

[QUOTE=Uwillu;1576781]Was in Bangkok for my 2nd time. Decided to take the cheap route, so no gogo bars and no barfines.


2) Villa Market massage shops. There were some cute university girls on break working in a few of the shops. [/QUOTE]As most know about Villa Market on Soi 11, given the placement of the (one and only) exit, its impossible to escape the gauntlet of message girls. Head west and you run into 10 to 20 girls and head east amd its another 10 to 20 or so. Very oddly Villa's in store music track consists of a single song, played the entire day, the same exact song. Basically shopping muzak, but only the single selection.

i forgot to mention one weird experience that i had. thankfully i stayed at a hotel that required the girls to leave their i'd at the desk (the dawin) this really reduces the chance of a bad experience in my opinion.

one night i came across a stunning freelancer on the sidewalk in front of strikers. as a general rule, the further down soi 4 you go from nana plaza, the quality of the girls diminish. usually 4's, 5's and 6's in this area. so i asked her age and if she had i'd for the hotel. she said 19 and yes she had i'd. so off we go. got to the dawin and she has no i'd! she explains to the girl at the desk that she had just been pulled over for driving a scooter illegally and the police took her i'd. the desk lady told me she couldn't go to my room. we leave and she tells me that her apartment is around the corner and she will show me her i'd there.

i knew this was something bad happening, so i wanted to see where it was going. while we were walking she was texting nonstop. i felt a setup in the making, but not sure what setup, so wanted to see more. we went down a few alleys trying to find her apartment. yes, she had no idea where her apartment was. all this time constant texting back and forth with someone. finally got to her apartment, but it was actually an hourly guesthouse. she told me it was 300 baht for 2 hours. the lady at the desk handed me a yellow post-it note and told me to write my name slowly. the look in her eyes when she said "slowly" gave me a shiver down my spine. at this point i had had enough. i just walked away.

walking away trying to figure out what her scam was i came to 2 conclusions. first, she was under 18 and the texts were to the police to get her a reward for arresting me. second, she would try and extort me for money once in her room for whatever reason she came up with. maybe she would call the police and say i was violent with her? maybe she would say i raped her? who knows. all i know is that would have been one downward spiral of a night if it weren't for my hotel checking i'd's.

be safe out there. there are many great freelancers out there, but if something feels wrong, just walk away.