2004 Bangkok Reports

[Jimmy Red Cab]

OuchMe,
If you need a hotel, look no further than Majestic Suites, totally girl friendly with an in-room safe.
One minute walk from Nana Plaza, Sky Train goes past the front door (these trains are silent by the way). De Luxe room is 1500 baht---air-con, TV with CNN and mini bar at sensible prices. Best to book in advance, essential in high season.
www.majesticsuites.com

[Giotto]

Ouch me,

CM2 is worth to go, if you like discos, if you can approach girls, chat, small talk, make them laugh, buy a drink, and ask them then if they want to go with you.

Thermae is IMO not worth to go, and it is dangerous because of STDs. I mentioned that many times.

I don't rate girls, sorry, cannot help you with that.

Japantown - I don't know where that should be. I know Chinatown here. There is a road in Patpong with a lot Japanese clubs, and an area close to Thong Lo, with Japanese and Korean clubs either. But - I don't think that you find Japanese girls there - may be you should travel to Tokyo?

Hotels: --> Hotel section.


Giotto

[Giotto]

Q-Bar.

Q-Bar takes a cover charge of 600 baht per person. That means, that regular Thai women and the beergarden Soi 7 girls usually do not go there, except - the girl wants to find someone who returns the cover charge to her plus some "return of invest".

It is furthermore a venue for younger people, students, some hi-so girls, you not see many customers older than 40 in there.

At least half of the girls in there are in the business. Groups of girls from Soi 33 and also from some Nana gogos pay bar for themselves and go there, to pick up customers, if Soi 33 / Nana is not busy. The beergarden / Gulliver girls usually shift to CM2, Novotel later in the night.

Most of the rest are semi-pros. They are looking for long time relationships / sugar daddys. Many students - part time pros in there, too.

I never saw Russians there. Russians can be found in CM2.


Giotto

[Alejandro66]

El Colorado,

Non asian girls in Q-Bar are basically cabin crew members or western tourits visiting Bangkok.

I go to Q-Bar once a week (friday or Saturday night) since december 2002 and I never see a russian prostitute in Q-Bar.

About the rate of pros, semi-pros and non-pros thai girls in Q-Bar it's really hard to give reliable figures but I can tell you that the non-pros girls are just a few. But some of the pros and semi-pros are very good to let the farangs think they are juts students out for a night with friends. But reality will come out soon.

If I have to give figures I would say:

pros: 50%
semi-pros: 40%
non-pros 10%

Regards

Alejandro

[Draco]

I've heard that Saturday, August 28 is election day and that bars are closed. Are all of them closed all day?

I'm on a short visit and regret my timing. What are the alternatives? Other places to hook up with FL?

[JuiceSpike]

Colorado,

I think a very small portion of the girls at the Q Bar are pros like you would find in other clubs. I have been there a few times but always with company so I was not looking. I have never seen Russian pros there either.

juice

[Coma Boy]

Yes, every Russian girl I have met at Q Bar has made me an offer within five minutes of chatting.

[Ouch Me]

Giotto and Jimmy Red.

Thanks for the tips fellas. So, CM2 is worth my time given my limited days? And Thermae is worth my time also? What would you rate the girls that usually walk in? Sounds like a cool place to hang out. More relaxed and less glitter than a gogo or beer bar but some quality of girls, almost?

Did I read that there's a Japantown in BK? Do they have Japanese girls there looking for action also? Damn, that would be just the icing on the cake.

My trip to LOS is in 8 days and I'm having trouble sleeping already.

Hey, can you boys offer me some advice too for 1st timers? Hotels that guest friendly and with in room safes would be great info.

Thanks

[El Colorado]

Are the non-Asian girls in the Q Bar Russian pros? What portion of the girls there are pros, semi's and non-pros?

Thanks,

El Colorado

[Giotto]

I was out yesterday and realized, that we are obviously in the pre-election law- and order period.

All bars and discos are closing at 1 o'clock in the moment. I am not sure about Patpong, Ratchada and RCA, I not go there, but the Sukhumvit areas, Siam and Thong Lo venues are all closing doors that early now.

It should have something to do with the election of the Bangkok governor next weekend. Then it normally changes back 1 or 2 weeks after the election, but somehow I am not sure that this will happen this time. After the PMs failed attempt to close all bars on midnight earlier this year and the new zoning of entertainment areas this could be the implementation of earlier closing time through the backdoor. It would not be the first time that the government is doing it this way.

Luckily it is only a Bangkok phenomenon in the moment. In Pattaya, Samui and Phuket the closing time of bars is still 2 o'clock.


Giotto

[London Lad]

Capt JB,

The last time that I had dentist treatment it was in Bangkok and I was very impressed. I paid over what I could have done in Bangkok, but I didn't want to risk poor workmanship on my crown jewels!

The place is a taxi ride from Sukumvit but worth it. The lady in charge of the practice is the director of endodontics, UCLA School of Dentistry in LA, California. She travels frequently between Bangkok and LA.

As I only needed standard treatment (fillings, cleaning etc) someone else did it, but it's a top notch practice. It wasn't cheap by Thai standards but compared to the UK, it was a great deal.

The practice is D Dental Clinic based in the KPN Tower on Rama 9 Rd. PM me if you want the phone number / email address or more details.

LondonLad.

[Frankfurter]

Do you want to see my extremely skilled hair dresser from BKK, no I'm serious. Great fuck, not extremely young anymore, but the more seasoned ones are really wild. She told me, that she hadn't had sex in four month (yeah right)

[RCA Knight]

Those litter catchers are on the bridges in front Central World Trade, in Pratunam, in Siam, be careful. They are always on the bridges looking down. I have seen them distorted 2000 bahts from some helpless old Japanese tourits in front of world trade.

And about police random checking farangs for ID. I just saw it 3 days ago in front of a bus stop on Petburi near Payathai. There were 2 young farang kids about 18 or 19 years old waiting for the bus. One was smoking cigaretts. And a patrol car came and 2 police got off and asked them for passport. I was nearby and I was afraid they will check me as well so I retreated to a more distant location and looked at what happen.

These 2 police checked the kids bags and pockets and i think the kids did not have passports and the police asked them to get in the car. And I did not know what happen after that. It was scary they can check foreingers randomly for doing nothing. Maybe they picked this 2 farang kids because one was smoking at a bus stop and they look very young.

The incidence at Q Bar was scary too. It could be you or me getting stuck in there and geting packed in patrol truck with all 120 others and with your passport in your condo and have no way to get it except yourself.

I have been in and out of Thailand for over 10 years and have never seen things like this until recently. I think its good to arrest the outlaws but the police do it too rough that infringe the rights of the 99.9% of the good folks. Thailand still is a very third world in this sense.

[PosterLion]

Giotto,

LOL to your last comment. Mr. P is safe and sound.

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Poobah and Migrant One,

I photocopy the page of my passport that has my picture and general information and also the page that has my entry stamp. I have it done at a print shop. They make the copies and laminate it for 20 baht.

The other day a couple of cops tried to suck me up for 500 to 1000 Baht by accusing me of throwing my cigarette butt on the street near Siam Center. It was a false accusation as I am a stickler about littering. I spent a lot of time in Singapore, understand.

Anyway, I was damn glad that I had my photocopied information with me, because, even though I am a polite guy that knows a little Thai, they kept looking at me like I was a 500 or 1000 Baht note.

They asked me where I was going and I said to A.U.A. They pretended they did not understand what that meant and kept looking at me with those greedy "I need to buy my wife a present" eyes.

Luckily for me I had a receipt of payment for thirty hours of A.U.A study time and I produced it and handed it to them. The officer looked at it and said, "Oh you go A.U.A." Was not that the same thing I just told him?!

After that they wanted to know the names of my teachers and luckily for me I was able to give them two names. After another one or two minutes of starring at my passport info and my A.U.A receipt, they let me go.

I recommend that everyone carry a photocopy of their passport and perhaps a hotel card (written in Thai) or something like I had (an A.U.A receipt).

poster

[Poobah]

migrant one,

you would be amazed at what you need if they decide you need it. i've never been questioned for my passport, but never been a part of a police round-up either. if they've decided that they are going to get the farangs without passports that night at a certain pub/disco, then you are going to get nicked. now that being said if you can speak some thai, or are just a really polite guy (getting into a thai policeman's face is going to have the negative results, just trust me on this), or better yet a polite nicely dressed guy who speaks thai the copy of the passport might be enough of a reason for them to let you go. then again it might not. remember they got dinged the amound of 25 bucks and lost time. i'm not going to substantially change my behavior for that.

given the odds, i'd never carry around my real passport. the chances of me losing it and having to fuck around with the us embassy are too high compared to the slight chance of being caught in a drug sting.

i believe they are using a simple reagent for [CodeWord109] that measures only methamphetamine but am not sure. i got that info from a thai cop but never confirmed it. it does make sense though. the reason for this comes down to cost. the more things you test for, the higher the overall cost. there are some things that [CodeWord109] doesn't detect anyway (like e or lsd). you would need some pretty expensive tests to check for that (ie gas chromatography).