A Newbie’s First Trip To Pattaya
My name is Tamas. I was born in Romania and I lived in multiple European countries escaping poverty. I started working at the age of 13 in construction while also going to school. So I can relate to Thai girls who do everything for their family for a better life and their struggles.
At the age of 26, I moved to the UK and started to work as an HGV driver, which I have done ever since. I have been in multiple relationships, got engaged and got cheated on like many people. So at the age of 33, I decided that I would visit Thailand for the first time in October 2025. I do not like spending money on myself I’ve always spent it on others helping out family back home. So I thought it was my time now to treat myself.
First Night In Pattaya
My first trip was straight to Pattaya in October. I was overweight at 133 kg at the time, smoking, sweating, and when the hot air hit me, it was something I’d never experienced. I went straight to Soi 6 and tried to bar hop, but the ladies could see that I was a newbie and lured me in easily to their bars. I bought a few lady drinks, had fun, and after a few hours, the jet lag got to me, so I decided to go back to the hotel to sleep.
The rest of the holiday went similar. During the day, I did tourist things, but I picked up company from the bars in the evenings and Thai Friendly.
The Underage Suspicion
One girl that I found on Thai Friendly told me she was 24, and when she got to reception, she looked way too young. So I hesitated a bit, knowing that reception checked their ID. I believed her. When the security guy checked her ID, I asked to see it as well, but he did not let me. I was a bit put off, and I remembered stories where sometimes they set underage girls to foreigners and asked for money. So I just paid the girl 1,300 baht and sent her off without any interaction because it was suspicious and I did not want to argue.
The rest of the holiday was okay. I went clubbing, bar hopping, met a lot of lovely ladies and one ladyboy who I had no idea was a ladyboy. So I used the knowledge from what I had learned I pretended to be sick, paid, and sent them away without any argument and without them losing face.
On my last two days, I got really sick with food poisoning. After flying back to the UK, I had to spend one week in hospital. It was really bad. But other than that, I am going back on May the 3rd, 2026 for another 2 weeks but as a much healthier man. I have lost 23 kg and quit smoking after 20 years.
Jealousy Hair And A Go Go Girl Who Saved Me Money
My first trip to Thailand was at the end of 2024 going into 2025. My friends and I planned to take a four-week vacation to the Land of Smiles as well as the Philippines.
Landing In Pattaya And Meeting Jim
I landed in Suvarnabhumi Airport in the afternoon. I called one of my friends that has already been there for a few days, and he came to meet me in the lobby and told me all about what he’s been doing since he landed. He was telling me all about the ladies that he’s met, the nightlife, and what the other guys have been up to.
A few hours later, one of my friends called me to tell me that he wants to take me out and show me what Pattaya is all about. At first I declined because I still felt exhausted from all the traveling, but he finally convinced me when he said, “Why are you sleeping on vacation? You’re here to live it up and party, so get up.” And with those words, I told him, “You’re right. Give me 15 minutes to shower and get changed.”
A few of our friends decided to take a stroll to the infamous Walking Street and went into one of the go go bars. After a few beers and looking around, my friend waved this girl down. I thought she was very attractive, and she came over to me and danced for me. For the sake of this story, I’ll name her Jim. I took her for a short time.
After our session, I told Jim that I would see her again if I stopped by her go go bar. She’s relevant to this story, and you’ll see why a bit later.
The Stunner At The Second Bar
A few hours passed, and my friends and I decided to go to another go go bar. We sit, order a drink, and this absolute stunner immediately sits next to me. We chat. I order her a drink, and she asks me how many times I’ve been to Pattaya. I tell her this is my second time here just on vacation for a few days, then I’ll be going to Bangkok afterwards. We talk some more, and as I get more of a buzz going, I tell her and the mamasan that I would like to take her for the rest of the night.
She was fun, but I felt like I had a better aerobics connection with Jim the first go go girl I took for a short time that night.
Bangkok And The Thermae Cafe
After being in Pattaya for a few days, we decided to head up to Bangkok and check out the nightlife there. We went to Nana Plaza, but I didn’t find it as amusing as what Pattaya had been. Then I told the guys about a place that I had researched before coming to Thailand it was the Thermae Café. I explained what it was to them, and they were amused. So we went there to find some girls that we liked.
It didn’t take me long to find a girl that I liked literally in about 5 minutes. The girl I asked to go with me said, “Why you pick me? There’s lots of girls in there.” I told her straightforward that she looked like this K-pop idol that I listened to and I thought she was cute. She smiled and said, “Okay, how about I stay with you all night?” Her name was Ang.
After a few days in Bangkok, we decided to head back to Pattaya. We rented out an Airbnb, and I messaged Ang to come to Pattaya because I enjoyed her time that much while I was in Bangkok. That was a mistake. Not because I fell in love with her, but because after just one night, she started getting on my nerves. She got way too drunk that first night, accidentally dropped a liquor bottle in the kitchen, and was just a hassle to take care of. But since she and I had already come to an agreement, I just had to deal with it.
Back To Jim And The Jealousy Episode
That night, the fellas and I went out again, hitting up the same go go bars, and of course I decided to go into the go go bar that Jim was working in. She recognized me immediately and came over to sit. I decided this time that I would take her for the rest of the night and asked if she’d like to leave right now. To my surprise, she told me to wait another 15 minutes until midnight so that the bar fine would be cheaper. That caught me off guard, but in a good way here is a go go girl who, instead of trying to get all the money out of me, told me to wait a bit so that I could save an extra 1,000 baht on the bar fine.
Jim and I stayed up playing Jenga, drinking, and waiting for the rest of my friends to get back. After some time, the rest of my friends came back with some girls, and Jim and I decided to head to my room. We get up to my room and she sees extra hair that was left over from another girl it was from Ang’s hair.
She says to me, “Babe, whose hair is this? I know you have black hair. My hair brown.” I tried lying and said, “That’s your hair. I never had anyone else here but you.” But she just gave me a death stare and didn’t believe me one bit. After explaining myself a bit, she calmed down, and we enjoyed each other’s company.
The next day, we woke up, and as I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was Jim’s eyes staring daggers into my soul as if I had committed the worst crime ever. She eventually got over it, and I did see her again a few more times after that situation on the rest of my trip.
The Pickpocket On The Baht Bus
I am in Pattaya now for a few days. I often stop here on my trips between Asia and Europe. I’m from America and in my mid-60s and working as a consultant. I normally carry one wallet with some cash and an ID and a credit card and leave the rest in my safe when I go out on the town.
The previous night I was taking the local baht bus around midnight towards my hotel up to Soi 2. There were two other younger guys on it. Two unattractive girls got on around Soi 5. One with greasy light brown hair was probably a ladyboy. Both wore those K95 type COVID masks, and one had a dark blanket or long coat draped over her shoulders.
I was sitting at the end of the bus. The one girl sat next to me on the right, and the other stayed on the stand up bumper to the left. After a few minutes, the standing one came and sat next to me. They were together, so I moved across the aisle so that they could sit together. The ladyboy with a blanket then jumped over and sat next to me. She had the blanket draped around her arms open, which brushed against my pocket, partially covering it.
My senses were all tingling. Something was off. The clothing in the hot evening, the mask, the ladyboy, the unnecessary sitting next to me. I was wearing shorts with my wallet in my zip pocket. And I know it was zipped because I double checked when I left a 7 Eleven at LK Metro. I reached down and checked my wallet sure enough, the zipper was open. I immediately zipped it up again and moved a bit away.
After a few minutes, I figured out how they nearly pickpocketed me: it was her right hand hidden by the blanket while her left hand was on her knee her right hand, hidden by the cape, was quietly opening my zipper pocket.
I got off early several stops ahead of my destination at a busy stop. I did not want them to follow me or be at a dark stop. Fortunately, they continued on their way.
Has Thailand Lost Its Magic
I just came back from two weeks in Phuket and Koh Samui after a business trip to Singapore. I want to share my insights.
I’ve been to Thailand four times twice with my family, once with my wife (no kids at the time), and once with our daughter. I visited the entertainment areas every time I was there with various mongering adventures taking place. I don’t drink, so go go bars and buying lady drinks have never been my thing. Soapy massage shops and freelancers worked for me before, so I decided to stick to that.
I will be 55 this year. I do yoga and weight training two to three times a week. I don’t drink or smoke and keep to a strict healthy meal plan. I’m told that I look between 38 and 45 years old. I never had issues getting attention from girls, and I have been very selective in my choice for female company.
In my opinion, when it comes to female entertainment, Thailand is not even a shadow of what I saw and experienced back in 1996 and 2004 and even as late as 2007. The great prices, smiley stunners, and the sheer variety of female company are all a thing of the past. Have all these stunners gone abroad? Is it that the hot girls are now using dating apps as opposed to being out there in the streets, bars, and massage parlors?
The Disappointment In Phuket
I reached my hotel at Patong Beach, which was 3 to 4 blocks away from Bangla Road, at about 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. I went out and about looking to get a bite to eat and to get a feeling for the place. Boy, was I disappointed. It was noticeable that the average age of the bar girls seemed to be around 35 to 40, with a few young grandmas added into the mix. Most were glued to their phones most of the time. A few freelancers, obvious ladyboys here and there, but no younger female freelancers in the clubs or walking around. I would say that maybe just one out of 20 girls were hot, but already taken up with some guy.
I went out again around midnight, but more of the same older girls covered in tattoos and ladyboys in the bars. I had visited Christian Massage in 2004 for a session and remember having a hard time choosing a girl paid around 1,500 baht or so for 90 minutes at the time if I remember correctly. I took a peek twice to check out the merchandise the week I was in Patong. But again, more oldies nose, cheek, and lip jobs, braces on their teeth, covered in tattoos, very skunky looking charging 2,500 to 3,000 baht for a 1 hour session of aerobics.
I was extremely disappointed and felt that I had wasted my money.
Body To Body Massage In Phuket Old Town
I decided to visit some body to body massage places in Phuket Oldtown. I was pleasantly surprised, but again, I got the feeling that what I saw in years past was the past and that Thailand had seen way better days. I ended up visiting three times. Prices ranged from 1,500 to 2,500 baht.
Back in Patong Beach, I also walked along the massage parlors and got LINE IDs from two girls, but only engaged one as the other one turned out to be a he.
The 4,000 Baht Stunner
I strolled along Bangla Road every night of the week that I was there and only came across one stunner the only one that had not been taken. She was at a beer bar. I asked her for a LINE ID, but she said I’d have to buy her two drinks to get it a total of 350 baht. I agreed and chatted for a few minutes. She was 23 years old and from Isaan. She also said it would be 1,000 baht for the bar fine and 4,000 baht for her for only a short time aerobic session. She came across as all routine and was unfriendly and only willing to do things on her terms.
Given her looks, one would assume she was busy, but I guess the prices and her attitude were a turnoff for most guys.
The Grandma And The Hottie
I walk past a massage parlor close to the back of Koh Samui’s Central Mall at around 4:00 in the afternoon, and I see an old lady in traditional Thai clothes and a hot looking girl in a very short tight green dress both sitting outside the shop. Pretty odd pair, I thought.
I asked the young girl to see the massage menu, and I go for a real Thai body massage for 300 baht. Both ladies escort me into the shop, turn on the air conditioning, and close the main door. The hot one went upstairs, and the old one asked me to climb onto a bed on the ground floor. The old lady got ready and proceeded to start massaging my feet, closing the curtains little by little and dimming the lights a tad.
I kept thinking the hot one would join or take over at some point. I was really hoping grandma would pass the baton on to the young one eventually. The older lady worked her way up my body, and it was around 30 plus minutes into the massage when I started to think the younger lady would not be joining us. So I asked the older lady if her friend would be joining us. She said, “No, she only does aerobic sessions. No massage.” Then her eyes lit up and asked me if I wanted that. I said yes, and she got off that massage table faster than a 10 year old getting out of bed on Christmas morning.
Granny asked me to pay her and that it would be 2,000 baht for the other massage from her friend. I had to use my phone’s flashlight to look into my wallet and counted out 300 baht for the massage. She said, “Could you give me 400 baht, please?” So I did to be nice and to help her out. I also prepped the 2,000 for the smiling hottie who was already waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs.
Picture this: I’m in my underwear trying to get off a high massage bed and finding it hard to walk as my feet were oily. Couldn’t see a thing. Somehow I negotiated my way up to the end of the shop as it was dark.
Overall, I’d say I had an okay time, but kept wishing I was back in 2007 with better prices and a wider selection at hand.
Bar Girls Are Not Always Lovely And Can Be Dangerous
As described in my last story, the bars I’m talking about are located in the south of Thailand, close to the Malaysian border, and did not try to sell lady drinks but rather flowers which were in fact a string of imitation flowers. Each flower cost 100 baht. So if you liked a girl or you wanted to have a chat or drink with her, you simply purchased one or more plastic flowers to give to the girl, which she could exchange for cash later on. I was a regular say two or three nights per week over a period of 3 years at those bars. In other words, many of the bar owners, mamasans, and bouncers knew me. And in all instances, I think I was considered harmless and perhaps a little more generous than the average customer.
There was this one particular girl I’ll call her M who I used to take out regularly for about one to two months, and then I got bored and went on to other girls. The first couple of times she saw me with other girls, she would burst out crying like you have described many times in other stories. However, I never ignored her and always did buy her a few flowers every time I saw her. We became friends rather than lovers. A few months later, I saw her outside the bar and asked her would she like to join me and my friend for a meal. I guess it was her day off. She said okay. After the meal, she said she would take us to the bar where she did not work but had a couple of friends there. I agreed and off we went. I was also a regular customer of this bar, so all were welcoming and the fun began.
Once she saw a friend up on stage, she would ask me to buy them a drink a flower which I agreed to do. This went on throughout the night. After a while, my friend and I decided to go back to our hotel. As we were leaving, we heard some commotion in the ladies’ toilets that was just outside the bar’s entrance, which we ignored, and we walked off. About an hour later, my friend started knocking on my hotel door, asking me to follow him out to look for M. I asked why. He told me that he had bumped into one of M’s friends, and she was hysterical, saying that M had been beaten up by some girls at the bar we were in. I discovered later that the commotion we heard in the ladies’ toilets as we left the bar was M taking a beating.
We walked over to where M’s friend stayed and discovered that she had been beaten badly and was in hospital. She was only discharged about a week later and used a lot of money for some plastic surgery in order for her to continue her bar girl career.
The reason for this assault was that she only asked me to buy flowers for her friends and did not encourage me to buy any for the other girls. I assume they were angry that they did not get to earn any money or any flowers from me because of her influence, and therefore decided to teach her a lesson.
The moral of the story is to ensure no one loses face, regardless of who they are. Otherwise, their wrath can take on a very violent turn.
