Pattaya - the good and the bad (but not the ugly)
Spent a couple weeks in Pats recently. Here's my take, in no particular order.
First, a general comment. Pattaya is a serious, hardcore, sex city. I differentiate between sex and mongering. For me, mongering is an experience of the entire thing, from leading up to the sex to after the sex. Pattaya, in my view, ranks pretty low on the experience category. Partly because it's so pushy, partly because the major sex areas are pretty gross (I mean filthy), and partly because it's a place where most people go to have as much sex as possible, and not much else.
It's not at all uncommon for a girl to promise LT and then run out after the first pop. You'll also hear, "what's your name? Where are you from?" more times than you can count. Most of the girls have little more to offer conversationally than that, and if they did they wouldn't really bother anyway. It's all about the score, for both sides.
The discos are packed, loud, dark, and 100% WG's. Not the Bangkok type where some of them might be open to it but not full-time WG's - these are all 100% WG's on a mission. I also found that the disco girls can actually be fairly picky, which is a bit odd. An interesting dichotomy at least. Some of the girls in the discos can be a bit more interesting (and sometimes hotter) at least, and for people on a budget it avoids the barfines. Also, I found pulling girls out of discos to be both the best and the worst experiences (in a variety of ways, including some real headcases) - maybe partly because you have a hard time seeing and learning what you are getting in those dark, loud places. But YMMV.
The go go's break down into three categories:
1. Pretty, boring girls (Super Baby and Super Girls, Heaven Above (though this one can be a bit more fun), Diamond, etc.)
2. Mix of girls, mostly not very good looking but a few diamonds in the rough (the vast majority), and environment varies but pretty much just "pick a girl" because you're not really gonna have much more fun than that in there.
3. Places with short-time rooms.
The girls will mostly expect to be barfined or push you to do it pretty fast, though it can be a fun delay or deny the barfines and just have fun with them for a while. This is a LOT more fun with friends than solo.
Which brings me to a point - amazingly, or ironically, I didn't find Pattaya to be a good place for single guys at all. It can be a really lonely place after a few days.
However, if you want as much sex as humanly possible in a short amount of time, Pattaya can definitely satisfy that!
I didn't do too much in beer bars (or "bar beers"), although I felt that might have been a mistake. However, the few times I did go in I got immediately bored by the same shtick as I'd heard a million times elsewhere - "what's your name? Where you from? You barfine me?".
I enjoyed the BJ and short-time bars a bit more than most places. They are certainly not really what I'd call a great night out, but there was a lot less BS and some of the girls were actually pretty good looking and talented. Much less trouble too. Bringing a good one home is always the best (and sometimes off the hook), but the bad ones are pure headache, or worse. And I'd put odds of getting a really bad one at about 1 in 3 or 1 in 4. Again, YMMV.
There are exceptions, and there is definitely fun to be had here. Some of the performances at my hotel were pretty spectacular. Also, some of these things might appeal to others. I'm not judging. To each his own. But overall I did not find Pattaya to be a really fun place - just a place for massive amounts of fairly cheap sex.
Hope that's of use to you all.
-B-
