Phuket Reports

[QUOTE=El Frances]2000 LT not a good rate. The maximum price for beautiful girls working in bars is 1000 ST/ 1500 LT, plus barfine. I can tell you there are happy to get this price and want to see you again. Of course, they often try to get 2000. It's cheaper late in Discos.[/QUOTE]


I was out on Bangla last night and got quoted some crazy prices, 2 girls wanted 2000 ST 3000 LT and would not budge and a girl in a go-go wanted 4000LT. I walked. If you pay these prices then it goes up for everybody! Any recommendations on where to go to avoid these prices????

Wait until after the bars close and those same girls will probably be walking the streets searching for a customer and happy to take 1000 st, 1500 lt.
Seriously just hang around Bangla Rd or the Beach Rd after closing time and take your pick.

[QUOTE=thenoop]I was out on Bangla last night and got quoted some crazy prices, 2 girls wanted 2000 ST 3000 LT and would not budge and a girl in a go-go wanted 4000LT. I walked. If you pay these prices then it goes up for everybody! Any recommendations on where to go to avoid these prices????[/QUOTE]

Hi,

I will be staying in Karon soon for a few days -- I prefer to stay there (less sex-in-the-face scene than Patong). I have RTFF and got a couple of ideas on the subject but keen to hear about the good places in Karon to find some freelancers.

I know Patong is only a 10mn drive away or so, but I also hear that prices quoted by freelancers are probably lower in Katong than in Patong.

Many thanks in advance.

Tokyo Tiger,

Let us know about Rico's. It looks promising, but since I've not heard it discussed, I'm leery.

Take one for the team. : )

Archie

I never had any particular price problem in Patong Beach, and I've been there five times in two years. So I don't understand why other members have this problem.

The 1000ST/1500LT is considered as a kind of standard price in Phuket. It has been confirmed to me by several girls I picked up in bars or discos that it is a fair price in phuket, not a cheap Charley price. I never go to GoGos, so I don't know the price level there, but 4000 seems ridiculous to me.

Girls usually ask you: "have you been to Phuket before?". If you say "no" (never say no!), they will try to charge 2000LT. If you say "many times", they know you know the price level.

When I see a girl I like in a bar or disco, I go talk to her et have no problem with this price. I don't need to negotiate hard. As I said before, they usually ask to see me the next day.

Contrary to what Gwailo suggests, I don't need to wait late or pick-up girls in the street. I pick them up any time and anywhere! If you wait late in the street or anywhere, you get a cheaper price than 1000ST/1500LT. You can see many young guys in Banana who have little money. They never pay 1000ST/1500LT.

I think there is nothing exceptional with me, I just let them understand I know the rules of the game.

See pictures posted today in photo thread.

Mandiri,

It is now low season and Kata/Karon simply dies. Things will be pretty thin for the next 6 months up there and many of the girls decamp to Patong or go home / BK / Pattaya or bide their time in the bars that pay their salary until its time to go to Safari / Tiger / Tai Pan.

As tuk tuks are now charging upwards of 1 million baht to go 100 meters in any direction ("one way, one way, no good') I would leave that area alone and only stay in Patong if you are mongering. Otherwise when you have exhausted both the fit chicks in Kata/Karon you will end up paying fortunes to go to and from Patong. In this case you will spend more than the highly debateable saving you claim you can make in Kata/Karon.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I've been here ten years and I want you to have the best time when you come.

To my friends in Kata and Karon, c'mon guys, you know its true, low season just ain't there yet. (Although I hope one day it will be).

[QUOTE=Jack Wow]Mandiri,

It is now low season and Kata/Karon simply dies. Things will be pretty thin for the next 6 months up there and many of the girls decamp to Patong or go home / BK / Pattaya or bide their time in the bars that pay their salary until its time to go to Safari / Tiger / Tai Pan.

As tuk tuks are now charging upwards of 1 million baht to go 100 meters in any direction ("one way, one way, no good') I would leave that area alone and only stay in Patong if you are mongering. Otherwise when you have exhausted both the fit chicks in Kata/Karon you will end up paying fortunes to go to and from Patong. In this case you will spend more than the highly debateable saving you claim you can make in Kata/Karon.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I've been here ten years and I want you to have the best time when you come.

To my friends in Kata and Karon, c'mon guys, you know its true, low season just ain't there yet. (Although I hope one day it will be).[/QUOTE]Thanks Jack Wow for the pointers, highly appreciated. Sadly I already booked a 3 day stay mid May at Karon Sea Sands Resort. Well, well, I will do my utmost to enjoy this stay. At the end of the day, I only need one chick to spend some time with me (perhaps the whole 3 days if she and I hit it off well). I will report back if anything meaningful.

Best

Hi Mongers,

Well thank God I will be in Phuket next friday for 10 days. Never been at this time of year so besides Patong what is rest of Island like for bargirls? Will be in Chalong - Rawai area so need to know if I will have to travel every night to Patong. Hate the place BUT needs must!

Look forward to replies and to share my pics with you on return.

A friend of mine took me to the Chistin or Christine massage place in Patong (pink building on the right after you pass the Youngseylon mall on the left.

Walked upstairs and sat down in front of the fishbowl to check out the goods.

A smug, arrogant little sh*t of a Thai guy (the 'papa san') walks over to us and asks the standard question: " Is this your first time here?". Unfortunately, my friend said "Yes", so we were hit with the Farang prices: 1800, 3000, 3200 bath for 75 minutes.

I told the guy that prices must have gone up and asked him if he was charging us the farang prices... He gave us the typical 'take-away': "These are the prices, if you don't like them, leave". ...and that's exactly what we did. Papa san sure didn't expect that judging from the surprised look on his face.

As for the quality of the ladies on display... it was quite bad. The 1800 bath section was supposed to be 28 years and up, but the youngest one I could spot was at least 40.The medium section had some really ugly chubby girls in their mid thirties,and finally the 'top' section had some younger girls, mid twenties, with way too much make up on (red flag) and even then, didn't look appealing.

I saw some other German tourists sitting there as well, and also heard them mumbling about the bad quality vs. high prices.

I've been coming to Asia for over 10 years now, so am able to differentiate between the beautiful, mediocre and plain ugly ones. A lot of first time visitors to Thailand get a boner from any Thai chick they see walking on the street and I can't help thinking that some of the guys who wrote the previous reports about Christin's belong to that category.

As for the other massage shops around Patong: this has been said before, but I would like to reiterate: When you see some very cute girl(s) outside the shops begging you to come in for a massage... she is often not the actual girls that will be performing the massage.

We encountered several times that we would see some cute girls, are led up some stairs to some shitty upstairs room with curtains, and in walks this old ugly massage lady. I then of course ask where the cute girl is, and suddenly she's nowhere to be found (can you say 'bait and switch' ?). Needless to say I get out of there as fast as I can and even downstairs outside, I don't see the girl.

So my advise would be, when you spot a cute girl outside the shop, DO NOT lose her out of sight, and insist outside the shop the she will be performing the massage. Don't be surprised when she gives you some lame ass excuse that she is not able to do it.

So far Phuket (actually I should say Patong) has unfortunately been greatly disappointing. While Patong is interesting to experience at night, good value for money is hard to find. Most of the girls, if not all, (and the many lady boys) all walk around trying to rip off some clueless tourist and suck him dry completely.

BKK or even Hua Hin give much much greater value for money and the in-your-face-rip-off mentality is much less present in those places.

I know a a guy who has lived here for over 15 years and after I told him about my Patong experience, he laughed and told me that the good stuff was to be found in Phuket Town. According to him, most of the sex tourists go to Patong, and the locals find their stuff in Phuket town. He was kind enough to add however that finding your way around in Phuket town as anything but easy: "It took me more than 5 years to build my portfolio of quality action places in Phuket town". I guess the fact that he speaks fluent Thai also helps.

I'm trying to get this guy to give me a tour of Phuket town. If he does, I'll add a second report on Phuket Town.

hello,, folks,

i will be in patong in june. yipeee. i have been there about 20 times now and god i love it. i do agree that the mongering scene is not that great. but i have always been lucky finding girls in regular bars. the only catch is you have to find a girl and stick with her for the entire trip, assuming your trip is for a week or so.

try to find girls in regular bars who are on the border, not full time workers, but who are in between. if you have a few conversations and practice a few times, you will get in the groove of identifying which ones are full-time and which ones arent.

once you find someone like that, ask her if she could accompany you for lunch/dinner/after-nite clubbing/day trip etc. and if you get someone to say yes, you have almost hit homerun. first night spend as much as you can i. e. in terms of buying beers/lunch/dinner etc.

second night and for the rest of the nights shes all yours. total cost for me for the entire week is about 5k. (most of the times).

i do agree its a bit tough and might take some time. but its fun and give it a try if you are there next time. in the 20 times i was there, i had a 60% hit rate on the girl-friendy thing and the rest of the times, i settle for something else.

Hi guys,

Visited Dang Massage yesterday. It's a massage shop just outside of the Laguna resort area. It's close to the Gentlemens Club (ignore that place, no action).

Met this very nice, slim, tall girl called Li. Inside it's actually not bad. No curtains to separate the massage beds but covered glass divider walls. Gives you a bit more privacy.

Li gives an excellent oil massage (300bath/hour). Her skills were so good that half way during the session I started to think that this was a legitimate massage place. When I turned over, I started asking her some questions and put my hand on her behind. That was her cue to ask if I wanted 'naughty massage'.

I asked her for the options and got, yet again, a cold reminder that we are in greedy Phuket: "No boom-boom. 3000 for hand job". I tell you... this town must be full of super dumb, sex starved morons for the girls to ask for these kind of prices... what a waste :(

After some fierce negotiations which almost spoiled the entire mood that the excellent massage had created, she agreed on 500 baht for a HJ + her taking off all her clothes.

The HJ was pretty good and she delayed several times to make it last longer.

A total of 800 baht for an excellent massage with happy ending is not bad but it's still considerably higher than what some of the previous reports are quoting.

The upscale Laguna resort area (Banyan Tree, Dusit, Sheraton, etc.) is probably supplying them with a lot of rich horny husbands that managed to escape from their wives for an hour... but still... asking 3000 baht for a HJ ????? As many people say "Only in Phuket!".

Have fun!

I carry this over from the Bangkok Hotels Forum, where I was asked to provide a bit more information on the Baipho Hotel in Phuket.
All one needs to know is provided here. The place is definitely girl friendly, but not easy to get a room. mostly fully booked.

[url]http://www.cafespatz.com/cooperate.rooms-baipho.html[/url]

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Will be in Phuket for 2 nights tomorrow. Staying at upscale Chedi hotel, and looking for some upscale company, incl. dinner, so needs to be presentable. Or any better clubs in the area? Budget is less of a constraint. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[QUOTE=BBBJ]A friend of mine took me to the Chistin or Christine massage place in Patong (pink building on the right after you pass the Youngseylon mall on the left.

Walked upstairs and sat down in front of the fishbowl to check out the goods.

A smug, arrogant little sh*t of a Thai guy (the 'papa san') walks over to us and asks the standard question: " Is this your first time here?". Unfortunately, my friend said "Yes", so we were hit with the Farang prices: 1800, 3000, 3200 bath for 75 minutes.



As for the quality of the ladies on display... it was quite bad. The 1800 bath section was supposed to be 28 years and up, but the youngest one I could spot was at least 40.The medium section had some really ugly chubby girls in their mid thirties,and finally the 'top' section had some younger girls, mid twenties, with way too much make up on (red flag) and even then, didn't look appealing. [/QUOTE]




All very true but actually it seems a lot depends on luck too. I went to Christin's yesterday just after lunch for the first time in about 4 years. My only visit before had been a hurried affair and I thought the whole thing was overated. This time though I went in the afternoon. The OKT told me the 3 prices 1800 for the bottom, 2300 for medium and 2800 for top. In total there were probably about 10 girls to choose from There were 2 huge grandmas in the bottom category and 2 slim girls in the top category but defintiely not my cup of tea. Way too tarty. So I chose one of the girls in the medium category.
Paid the money and up we went. She turned out to be really pleasant and gave me a really good time. The only thing I would maybe object on is that the bj was with a condom. As I left I gave her a 100 bt tip and she seemed fine with that. A very enjoyable experience.
Having said that YMMV, I went in the afternoon when it was really quiet and in fact I was surprised to see no other customers there and such a small smattering of girls. I think if I'd gone in during the evening I could well have been left with the hoochie mamas in which case I'd have been out of there in a shot!