Bangkok (Oct. 19-22, 2002)-Part 1

I finally arrive in Bangkok at 1:00 am and head over to Nana Hotel. Good news, I have a room waiting for me and quickly get ready to head outside to look for a freelancer since NEP is already closed and everybody’s outside lingering around looking for some action. I quickly find a lovely ying and take her to my room. I’m delighted to find out that she’ll stay LT with me. The next morning I get together with my friend to eat breakfast. After that, I head by to my room to see my girl but she’s still sleeping. After she gets up, I do the deed again since I’m still horny at this stage of my trip. I get a phone call from below from my friend saying that he’s ready to go out and had met up with our 2 other friends that came to Bangkok a day before us. I hurry up and we go out and visit the shopping malls such as MBK and etc. Later that night, we go and visit NEP. After a couple of drinks we get on the sky train and go to Sala Daeng to visit Patpong. The area around Patpong has changed since our last visit a year ago. The night market with all the vendors selling counterfeit designer goods has spilled out in the street that is now closed to traffic at night. There’s so much people around and an endless supply of goods to shop and buy. Of course we go into Camelot’s Castle again, as this is my friends favorite club. He finally takes out a girl and the BF is 400 bahts. That leaves the 3 of us left. So we go next door and have a drink and watch the girls there. I think it was King’s Castle and the talent there isn’t as good as Camelot’s. We notice that it’s getting close to midnight and if we want to catch the sky train back to Nana we had better hurry. We forgot about the crowds around the sidewalks and streets so it took a while to get to the sky train. We were worried that we’ll miss the last train. But we’re in luck and catch the train to Siam and then transfer to On Nut and get off at Nana exit. My 2 friends head to the massage and I go back into NEP and finally pick up a dancer at Rainbow 1 just before closing time.

The next day we take a taxi and head to Pratapang market. It’s my first time there so I go crazy and buy all kinds of t-shirts, silk shirts, and a few other items. During the afternoon after a quick lunch near Foodland on Soi 5, we were approached by a tuk tuk driver that wanted to show us some massage parlors for only 10 bahts. He said that we were not obligated to take any massages and we can just look. He took us to about 3 massage parlors. We looked at each one for about 5-10 minutes checking out the girls and the prices. The charges for massages were a rather steep 2500-4000 bahts at the 3 places. Then we asked the tuk tuk driver to take us back. He dropped us off at Soi 5 and delivered us a bombshell. Instead of paying 10 bahts he said that he wanted $10 for the trip. We definitely heard him say 10 bahts and not $10. If it were $10 we wouldn’t have even bothered going to the massage parlors with him. After about 5 minutes of arguing, the other tuk tuk drivers were starting to get closer and it was starting to get a little "hairy". We finally throw 400 bahts on his lap and walked off to avoid an unpleasant confrontation from developing since we didn’t see any police nearby at that time. From now on I’m going to ignore the tuk tuk drivers and others that flash the massage brochure at you and promise a cheap ride to look at the massage parlors. Events like that tend to spoil your vacation and should be avoided. Later that night we met to go and visit Soi Cowboy. The action there is pretty much the same as previous years. The noise level in the bars are loud. It’s hard to hold a conversation with the girls or your drinking companions. We drink in a few of the bars. My friend especially likes Suzie Wong’s. It must be the uniforms that they wore that attracted our attention. Later, we walk past the Soi 10 bars (new since my last trip, and also there’s a Soi Zero near JW Marriott) but didn’t stop for a drink there. We also checked out DollHouse at Clinton’s Entertainment Center. After that we head back to NEP. We checked out G- Spot home of the nom-yai girls. I just missed the dancer I wanted to check out as the guys on the table next to us grabbed her first. So we go downstairs and have a drink at Hollywood, Obsession, Bottom’s Up, and finally ended up in Rainbow 3. That’s where I picked up my ST at you guessed again-at closing time. The bad thing about picking up ladies at that time of the night is that at 1:45 am, all the best girls are gone already and you have to pick from the left overs.

When the next morning arrived, it was time to pack up and wait for the bus to take us to Pattaya for my next phase of sanuking. This will be covered in Part 2.