Many of these will be common sense. Several of them you’ll have thought of yourself already, or you will have watched other videos and discovered things for yourself. And I’m sure many of them you haven’t thought about. Hopefully you’ll take these tips onboard when you go to Thailand for the first time, and they’ll…
I’ve been going to Thailand for years, and along the way, I’ve learned the hard way and by watching friends get caught out that there are scams everywhere, especially in the entertainment areas. This guide runs through the most common scams and, more importantly, how to avoid them. Some of these are obvious. Some are…
1. The Thailand Expat Who Only Talks About Girls and His Latest Conquest When I was younger, hanging around the bars at 36 or 37, the talk of the day was which girl you met, which bar you met her in, and what she was like. But when you live here constantly, it becomes so…
Somebody was asking me the other day they’ve never been abroad actually and they said to me, “When you first arrived in Thailand, what did you find strange about the country?” I was racking my brains, thinking back about it. And as I’m going quite often, I can still remember because I see these things…
Once again, I packed my bags and headed back to Thailand, a place that had started to feel like a second home for me. I was really hoping to relive that amazing moment I had with a woman working in nightlife, the last time I visited, just 6 months earlier. Unfortunately I was one of…
She owns the bar, and as far as I know, she does not and has not worked in nightlife. She is very business-minded well, that’s what I thought at the start. And she also has houses that she rents out to tourists. She has other properties up and down the country, including real estate and…
The Lads’ Holiday My story starts at the end of 2017 when I went on a lads’ holiday with a couple of friends to Thailand. This holiday was meant to be just a lads’ holiday just to clear our heads. Not having a getaway for over 5 years, it was long overdue. Me and my…
The Early Years A Newbie in Pattaya I am a single European man and first went to Thailand in 2001. Back then, Thailand was still dirt cheap, and I could easily go for annual vacations without breaking the bank too much. I had a strong urge to go to Thailand after I had broken off…
I used to holiday in the same place for years. There’s a little town in the Algarve in Portugal called Albufeira, and that was the place I liked to go more than anywhere else in the world. I haven’t been back for a long time since these events unfolded, but I can picture the steep…