Bangkok Reports

[QUOTE=Garrapata;3042748]Nice report! Midway through reading I added Meet the World it to my saved Google Maps. Then I looked at street view on Google Maps and first thing I saw was Fresh Boys. Moused over to the other direction and saw Dream Boy on one side and Hot Male on the other and ended up deleting it off my map (no offense to guys that like that stuff). After finishing reading your report, I went back and added it back to my Google Maps LOL.

Ah, but just to be certain those were biological girls at Meet the World right?[/QUOTE]These are very biological women.

But there are quite a few gay bars around!

[QUOTE=NRandom940;3040602]
However, something interesting happened. She asked me if BJ with condom was ok. I said no and asked why. She told me because I didn't shower. When I entered the room, she asked if I wanted to shower and I said no because I took one in my hotel before I left (so I had literally gotten out of the shower 15 minutes ago). I asked if she would do BBBJ if I went and showered. She said yes.
[/QUOTE]There's your answer. It's not like an extra shower will kill you, so no point in making it awkward by trying to explain to the girl you have already showered and don't need to shower again because of blah-blah-blah. Just go shower again.

I always do, and insist the girls do too.

[QUOTE=Garrapata;3042748]Nice report! Midway through reading I added Meet the World it to my saved Google Maps. Then I looked at street view on Google Maps and first thing I saw was Fresh Boys. Moused over to the other direction and saw Dream Boy on one side and Hot Male on the other and ended up deleting it off my map (no offense to guys that like that stuff). After finishing reading your report, I went back and added it back to my Google Maps LOL.

Ah, but just to be certain those were biological girls at Meet the World right?[/QUOTE]I always check for details, the science didn't got so perfected yet to replicate the clit. They may put a hole there that requires a ton of lube, but I'm into details. LBs are not my thing.

There is another ladies bar downstairs, next to a LBs one kind of below and to the right of Meet the World, I forgot the name, I made some interesting arrangements with the girls in there.

[QUOTE=Nyezhov;3042772]With massive suitcases? I get an airport hotel for the night before a morning flight.[/QUOTE]I travel with a small backpack with wheels and retractable handle, but I still avoid public transport like the plague, it sucks going up and down the stairs or in a crowded train. When roaming freely around town, public transportation it's all I use. Lately I had lots of last minute Grab cancelations, luckily I added lots of extra time to my airport ride, and I was fine. So far I found out that if I do the feature called "scheduled ride" it's always on time and no cancelations.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;3042845]
AFAIK there are no elevators at BTS stations. Hand carrying it up the high stairs is a pain. I can see how guys with a couple big pieces would have difficulties. For me it's still better than sitting in a Grab car stuck in heavy traffic, missing flights.[/QUOTE]All BTS stations have an elevator.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;3042845]That is the most boring option. I have only 1 carry on that fits in overhead bins so I can deplane and exit airports quickly. Never had to wait around the carousel to collect checked bags.

I would rather spend the last night in Sukhumvit sniffing crotches in Nana Plaza or bull shitting with street girls, may be bagging a few girls, enjoying life to the last minute, go to sleep then roll out my small luggage in the morning.

AFAIK there are no elevators at BTS stations. Hand carrying it up the high stairs is a pain. I can see how guys with a couple big pieces would have difficulties. For me it's still better than sitting in a Grab car stuck in heavy traffic, missing flights.[/QUOTE]I don't think I have ever encountered a bts station that did not have an elevator, an escalator or both that can take you from ground level to the ticket window and from there to the boarding platform. If that second elevator or escalator is not located on one side of the ticket window level past the turnstile then it will be located on the other.

There might be an exception or two somewhere. But I'm doubting an exception would be at any station where travelers, tourists, popular hotels and so on are to be found. Certainly in and around the lower Sukhumvit area and then in and around every station with a transfer option to another line, the mrt or the Airport Rail Link. They are pretty good about accommodating carried or wheeled luggage, people in wheel chairs and so on.

In some cases it might be that the elevator from the ground level is on one side of the street but not on the other side. However, if you look around the area of a bts station, near the steps or escalator leading up to the ticket window from the ground level you will in virtually every case find one.

I hardly ever bother with the traffic jams and delays, expense, potential annoyances and frustrations of a taxi when heading to destination via either Suvarnabhumi International Airport or Don Muang (Domestic) Airport from the bts Nana area anymore since there is a way to get to both on the bts, mrt, walk and wheel my luggage along the skywalk connecting everything now. I can leave my apartment on my own time, never worry about some unexpected accident or construction tie up along the way, never have to Google Translate any BS to and from a taxi driver or anyone else along the way, etc.

Then again, I only take one wheeled carry-on luggage that would fit in. The overhead compartment and a small shoulder bag for any trip anywhere for any length of time and would rather pay a few bucks to get a load of laundry done every few days rather than pack up and bring along half of my closet and bureau drawers to and from another country or another destination in Thailand.

As always, YMMV.

This feature would make sense to service disabled, handicapped riders, people with babies strollers or heavy luggage ect. How else would they climb 2 stairs, over 30 ft high to reach the platform?

I noticed elevators at larger stations, but did not find them at Nana, Ploenchitt, Asoke and Thong Lor. May be I was not walking around, looking hard enough.

Can some bros confirm where to find elevators to strategic BTS platforms at Nana, Ploenchitt, Asoke?

[QUOTE=HoustonPlayer;3042921]All BTS stations have an elevator.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;3042845]That is the most boring option. I have only 1 carry on that fits in overhead bins so I can deplane and exit airports quickly. Never had to wait around the carousel to collect checked bags.

I would rather spend the last night in Sukhumvit sniffing crotches in Nana Plaza or bull shitting with street girls, may be bagging a few girls, enjoying life to the last minute, go to sleep then roll out my small luggage in the morning.

AFAIK there are no elevators at BTS stations. Hand carrying it up the high stairs is a pain. I can see how guys with a couple big pieces would have difficulties. For me it's still better than sitting in a Grab car stuck in heavy traffic, missing flights.[/QUOTE]Some folks at times do have bags. It's unavoidable in life. It took me 45 minutes on Thursday at 11:00 am To get to lat krabang from Ruamchit hotel.

There are no universal rules, rules get thrown out the minute things start happening in one must adapt.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;3042931]Can some bros confirm where to find elevators to strategic BTS platforms at Nana, Ploenchitt, Asoke?[/QUOTE]For Nana you can use the elevator from the building located next to the BTS station (at the exit you would use to go to soi 8). You'll get out (or in) next to all the massage girls from the Nongseeda shop.

On the other side of Sukhumvit there is one not far from Vahsu Exchange (located between soi 7/1 and soi 11).

For Asok you can at least use one from T21 during the opening hours, there are also two escalators on that side of Sukhumvit (the one not far from soi 19 and the one on the MRT entrance) plus you could use the escalator from Robinson Mall (using the entrance near Macdonald's).

On the other side of Suk there are the escalators from the Exchange Tower and the ones from Times Square building.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;3042931]Can some bros confirm where to find elevators to strategic BTS platforms at Nana, Ploenchitt, Asoke?[/QUOTE]At Nana there is a lift from ground level up to the ticketing level in the North West corner (near Soi 7/1) and both lift and escalator in the South East corner (near Soi 8).

Good tip. Will use Nana station in the future.

Thanks.

[QUOTE=HoustonPlayer;3042921]All BTS stations have an elevator.[/QUOTE]Yes, but if you're at the wrong end, you have to walk 1 k to reach it, or you can't find it, and claiming the stairs may seem like a better alternative.

I'm talking from the perspective of an out of shape old guy, If you have the energy, and you're not as lazy as I am then is a totally different story.

I also have the GF in tow and that complicates things tremendously, even if. She's 1/3 my age.

[QUOTE=HoustonPlayer;3042921]All BTS stations have an elevator.[/QUOTE]Maybe? Maybe not = that's a fact.

I'm typically in Thailand for 3 months, so I do have more luggage than just carry on. In Bangkok I stay at a hotel by the Ploenchit BTS station, so I take the Airport Rail Link to the BTS, then just a few stations to Ploenchit. I have not noticed an elevator at the BTS Ploenchit station to the ground. There is an elevator from the ticket booth area to the platform. It is a little bit of a hassle carrying my luggade down the stairs, but it is down, not up. Going up, there is an escalator, but only after 4 or 5 steps on stairs.

I so much prefer the use of public transportation to the taxi drivers who can be scoundrels (but not nearly as bad as Phuket).

A big improvement at Phaya Thai came a few years ago. There used to be stairs between the Airport Rail Link end point and the BTS. No escalator, no elevator, stairs only. That was all changed a few years ago so now one can wheel luggage from the ARL escalator all the way to the BTS.

[QUOTE=BeachDrone;3043017]I'm typically in Thailand for 3 months, so I do have more luggage than just carry on. In Bangkok I stay at a hotel by the Ploenchit BTS station, so I take the Airport Rail Link to the BTS, then just a few stations to Ploenchit. I have not noticed an elevator at the BTS Ploenchit station to the ground. There is an elevator from the ticket booth area to the platform. It is a little bit of a hassle carrying my luggade down the stairs, but it is down, not up. Going up, there is an escalator, but only after 4 or 5 steps on stairs.

I so much prefer the use of public transportation to the taxi drivers who can be scoundrels (but not nearly as bad as Phuket).

A big improvement at Phaya Thai came a few years ago. There used to be stairs between the Airport Rail Link end point and the BTS. No escalator, no elevator, stairs only. That was all changed a few years ago so now one can wheel luggage from the ARL escalator all the way to the BTS.[/QUOTE]The elevator and escalator down to the ground on the even numbered Soi side at Ploen Chit is located in the adajacent building attached by the skywalk. The other side of Sukhumvit there is an elevator but as TConor pointed out it may not always be working.