Nana Plaza and a Rookie Mistake
I stayed on Sukhumvit Soi. After spending my first day being a tourist I got myself ready to go out to Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy. I first walked around the plaza trying to spot the one I wanted to spend my time with. Unfortunately nothing really jumped out at me so I took a stroll up to Soi Cowboy trying to remember what it was like the last time.
When I got there either my memory failed me or the place had changed slightly. I didn’t recognize where the Corner Bar was where my friend and I played pool or the bar where I met Nang. I wasn’t expecting to see her or even recognize her and vice versa. Anyway nothing really took my fancy.
So I walked back to Nana Plaza walked around all the levels and just chose a random go go bar on the ground floor mostly because the girls outside were wearing sexy clothes.
I was shown to a seat by a staff member where I ordered a Coke as I didn’t drink alcohol at the time. When the drink arrived I almost choked on the vodka disguised as a Coke. She must have noticed the look on my face and exchanged it for a non alcoholic drink.
She then encouraged me to check out some of the most beautiful girls I’ve ever seen on the stage. And there she was the one. An absolute stunner.
I told the staff girl her number and she left the stage to join me. She was gorgeous light skin her hair was in pigtails she was wearing white lacy lingerie and she told me she was just 21. Almost half my age.
Paying Before the Hotel Room
After the usual chit chat in broken English I paid her bar fine and we walked back to my hotel which wasn’t far away.
This is where I made a rookie mistake. When I got into my room I gave her the money we discussed for her time. After the shower and a little roll about we got down to the aerobics. This is where my mistake became evident. She claimed I was too big for her.
Why would she go through with the aerobics if she already had the money in her purse? I tried a few times but me being a gentleman accepted it. We got dressed and I walked her out of the hotel. I returned to my room frustrated but making it up to be an expensive learning experience.
On my second night I went to watch a boxing match at a large stadium. On my way back I was checking the girls out on an escort site and booked a nice looking girl to come to my hotel room. I waited for her in the lobby of my hotel and when she arrived I was speechless. Her photos on her profile didn’t do her justice. She was absolutely gorgeous with her long black hair and slim body great backside and fake breasts.
Probably had the best aerobics I’ve ever had. It was the full girlfriend experience. A much better experience as she spoke amazing English and it didn’t feel like a business arrangement.
The next morning I was on a plane heading to Siem Reap only a short one this time. But the next one will be for my latest trip when I will visit Pattaya.
Story Two The Laptop Smasher A Cautionary Tale
I was staying at the Woraburi Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi. I went out for a walk and met a freelancer from near Nana Plaza. She seemed nice so we agreed on a short time price for a massage and strolled back to my hotel room.
The hotel is nice and I’ve stayed there many times over the years but I haven’t recently because for some reason they have increased their prices.
Anyway this girl gave her ID to reception and we went to my room. Everything changed quickly. Upon entering my room she immediately demanded that I pay her the cash. She stood in front of me and demanded it. I told her not to worry she would be paid. However her attitude became unfriendly and demanding.
I know that she is working and only wants what’s due but I didn’t like her demeanor anymore. So I said ‘It’s okay I’ve made a mistake. I think you should go.’ After all we had only met a few minutes ago and walked a short distance so it wasn’t that much of a waste of time for her.
Whether I am right or wrong about this I’m not sure. But I wanted her to leave because she had killed any lust or longing that I’d had for her and the atmosphere was uncomfortable.
However she just got really angry and said ‘No.’ I asked her to leave again. She then picked up my laptop from the table and held it above her head. I shouted ‘Put it down!’ She said ‘Give me my money!’ I said ‘No.’
Laptop Smashed in the Hotel Room
What happened next surprised me to say the least. She threw the laptop hard against the tile floor. It shattered the screen and broke the laptop. I was shocked and she ran out of the room leaving me standing there with my broken laptop.
I quickly came to my senses and thought about what to do next. I hadn’t done anything wrong myself other than not paying her up front. So I ran downstairs and caught her at reception. I told them that she had smashed my laptop and not to let her go. They didn’t give her ID back and called the police.
So she I the manager and two policemen sat in the manager’s office. They asked me to bring my laptop so they could assess the damage. While they were checking it the girl was glaring at me and making an ‘I’ll cut your throat’ gesture with her hand running it across her neck like she was holding a knife.
The policeman asked me what I wanted to do. I had no idea to be honest. She kept staring at me with a dagger looking death stare. Eventually I told the police to do whatever they wanted but I didn’t want to be involved. I said I was going to my room and for me the case was closed.
I never saw the girl again but I do know she walked out of the hotel scot free. I ended up staying in for the rest of the night because the last thing I wanted was to bump into her or her friends or even motorcycle riders who knows. I barricaded myself inside my room for the night moving the table against the door.
The next day I flew to Phuket where I got my laptop repaired for about a hundred pounds.
Police and an Expensive Lesson
The moral of the story is to be careful but don’t be afraid to involve the police if you feel wronged. This isn’t England or America where they might judge or even charge you for taking the girl back in the first place. Also it made me think about how vulnerable girls might feel entering a stranger’s room. So if a girl asks for money up front now I give it to her.
Story Three Mission Driven for the Redhead Dancer
My first time was at the age of 24 after completing my Army service. The year was 2015 and it was the first trip alone for me and two of my friends from the service. We arrived in Phuket but on the northern part far from Patong Beach. The first few days were very calm and we took some trips to see some nature.
After a few days we headed to Patong Beach and boy we were blown away by the nightlife especially Bangla Road. One of my friends almost got into a fight with a group because we were not used to their friendliness and the way they touched you right in the middle of the street. When she put her hand on him he brushed her off quickly and a little bit roughly. Luckily they just said something to us in Thai probably cussed at us and went away. Since then we learned to decline politely.
On Bangla Road we fancied a particular club with a stage and there were dancers on the stage. The main one was an older girl and she led all the clubbers in a dance. The ones who danced well received a t shirt with the club logo on it. She was really funny and it wasn’t like any other place. I still have a few shirts.
Also I liked one of the dancers. She was the second lead and she had cool red hair obviously dyed an undercut and some tattoos. I was really infatuated with her. The problem was that she was so popular. Lots of guys bought her lady drinks and she usually vanished during the evening. I guess she went out on short time bar fines.
We stayed at Patong Beach for about four days and then went to Phi Phi Island. I only had a very sensual dance with her once during those nights.
After Phi Phi which is a great place we returned to Patong for three nights before heading to Bangkok. I made it my mission to spend the night with the redhead dancer.
Chasing the Redhead Dancer
On the first night she wasn’t at the club. I was worried that she didn’t work there anymore or had gone on vacation with some guy. So I just found another girl.
On the second night she was at the club but one of the customers kept buying her lady drinks. I decided to continue my night elsewhere a little bit disappointed. But I had one more night and I was mission driven.
On the last night in Patong I arrived at the club with one of the friends who was with me on the trip. The redhead was there. My friend went over and said hi. He told her ‘My friend would like you to join us.’ My friend is a pro wingman.
She saw me and replied ‘I saw him here. I like him too. I would like to join.’
We sat at the table and had a really good time laughing and joking. After two lady drinks she told me ‘Let’s get out of here.’ We went out and had some Thai food and she wouldn’t let me pay for it. Later on we went to my hotel and hung out there. We talked and had a good time. She told me she was a professional dancer and showed me a Thai music video in which she danced a few years ago.
Of course there were some great aerobics which was great. The morning after I had to get up early since we had an early flight. We got ready after some morning fun and she was leaving as I had to get ready. When she was out the door I gave her 2000 Baht. At first she said she didn’t want it but I told her I’d had a good time and I would like her to have it. Keep in mind I hadn’t paid a bar fine.
Leaving Phuket After the Mission
That concluded my first time in Phuket. I came back to Thailand about half a year ago and had a great time. It was even better than the first one. I’ll make sure to send stories from that visit as well.
Story Four A Friendship Lost in Pattaya
I first came to Thailand in 2015. I had a longtime friend my first roommate in college actually that had been going to Thailand for about 10 years. Much later I recognized him to be a sexpat though I’d never heard the term before. He would come back from his travels and tell us his stories during monthly poker games. We enjoyed his adventures but I didn’t think much about it after the game.
I retired in 2011. My friend retired in 2015 and as promised moved to Thailand. I decided to take advantage of having a friend in an Asian country and planned a trip a couple of months after he arrived. I literally knew nothing about Thailand never thought about it. My friend was my only connection. I researched things as you do as a tourist like going to the Grand Palace Wat Pho and Ayutthaya.
He met me at the airport and after I checked into my $75 a night five star hotel a great deal at the time he walked me down Sukhumvit Road on the Skytrain walkway. I instantly fell in love with Thailand. I loved the climate in contrast to the chilly San Francisco Bay Area fog. I loved being able to sit out at night in shorts and a t shirt. Bangkok looks fantastic at night with all the lights. I just felt the freedom.
That first night I took a walk around the area near my hotel which I often do when I travel. I had walked quite a ways around the block when I saw some bright lights. As I turned right into the soi I was assaulted by a gauntlet of scantily clad women grabbing at me. I had discovered Soi Cowboy. I’d never heard of Soi Cowboy so you can imagine the surprise. It was a pleasant surprise but a bit overwhelming. After making my way down the soi I returned to my hotel.
The next night my friend met me at my hotel and we walked the short distance to Country Rose Bar in Soi Cowboy. He had been a regular for many years. We were there early and there were about 20 girls sitting there looking at their phones waiting for customers to arrive. My friend’s girlfriend Nang arrived and he introduced me. Then Jang came up to make my acquaintance. She was young and beautiful and not at all being subtle.
Nothing like this happens in the U.S. and I was happily married at the time. She was really all over me and as a newbie I was once again being overwhelmed. When the girls left to get us our drinks I leaned over to my friend and said ‘I’ve got to get out of here.’ He understood. He later told me he just told Jang that I went out for a phone call.
Moving to Bangkok and Pattaya
Fast forward to 2017. There are plenty of stories to tell in the intervening period but this is not one of them other than that I had made two more month long trips to Thailand and traveled with my friend to Myanmar and Indonesia. In 2017 I was fresh from a divorce moved to Bangkok and had a living Thai girlfriend.
My friend had moved from Bangkok to Pattaya and was now very committed to dating ladyboys because ‘Thai girls are crazy gold diggers.’ I actually introduced him to ladyboys but that again is another story.
I had been to Pattaya twice previously. The first time was with a bar girl from Country Road and we went to the Temple of Truth and Nong Nooch Gardens with her cousin and nieces. It was a nice day trip and we never saw central Pattaya. The second time with my girlfriend was during one of my vacation trips. The King of Thailand had died the day before so while everything was open there was no music and everything was subdued. So I got to see the heart of Pattaya for the first time but in unusual circumstances.
My third trip to Pattaya was Songkran 2017 just after I moved here. My friend’s number one girlfriend he had about five ladyboys in his roster and we met them all worked at a bar on Soi Six. My first Songkran was an over the top experience great fun. I will never forget it.
My next trip to Pattaya with my girlfriend was about three months after I moved to Thailand. It was my friend’s birthday. We went down there and started the celebration by going to the show at Tiffany’s. My friend brought both his number one and another ladyboy friend. This is a surprisingly great show don’t hesitate to go and see it.
After the show we went to her bar on Soi Six where they were drinking and having a great time. I remember sitting there and marveling how he could balance his attention to his girlfriend and all the other girls in the bar who were showering him with attention. Of course he had been coming to this bar several times a week for a year so he was the ultimate regular.
Birthday Night in Pattaya
I’m not a huge drinker but that night I was stone sober. I had had a kidney stone attack in Bangkok the day before and I was taking medication. I was advised not to drink alcohol so I didn’t.
We were there quite a while and my girlfriend and I were getting hungry. We all finally left to walk to a seafood restaurant just off Beach Road. We’d all been there before. It was a bit of a walk and the girls walked ahead of us as usual. I walked with my friend. At the restaurant all was normal as usual. The girls ordered a ton of food.
After we finished eating we walked up to Rolling Live Bar one of my favorite bars in Pattaya. Same as before the girls ahead of us and we not far behind. At the bar I sat next to my friend and the girls were separated. It seemed like a good time to me. I left with my girlfriend and we returned to the hotel.
We returned to Bangkok and soon started to get distressed texts from my friend. His girlfriend was upset about something. Another ladyboy friend of his was also annoying him. He had just purchased a condo and was fixing it up and he was pretty busy. He was supposed to come to Bangkok that weekend but he abruptly canceled. More weird texts from him. Then I got the text ‘I quit my job and I’m now illegally staying in Thailand.’
Some background my friend had been an IT project manager at an insurance company in the U.S. When he was planning retirement he discussed the possibility of setting up an office in Thailand but the discussions fell through. He retired anyway. Once here though they contacted him for a temporary consulting job which turned into a continuing job. It gave him something to do and the extra money meant he could live a little bit above his means.
As we all know you’re supposed to have a work permit to work in Thailand. But he was working online for a U.S. company with wages deposited in his U.S. bank account. So who was going to know? Of course all his girlfriends knew he worked online at night and so did my girlfriend.
Immigration Threats and Lost Contact
I was there the night of his birthday but whatever happened I completely missed it and so did my friend. He said he noticed his girlfriend was unusually quiet after we left. Later the next day he claimed that his girlfriend went crazy and it was due to something that my girlfriend said presumably while they were walking to or from the restaurant.
Their fights spiraled downhill into his girlfriend’s friends being very angry with him for hurting her emotionally and threatening to report him to immigration for working in Thailand. He freaked out and quit his job immediately. He later said that the story of him hurting his girlfriend made it to the dark web. It seemed like everyone in town knew he was a jerk. I’m sure he wasn’t. He had just purchased a condo and now had nowhere else to go.
I got a few more weird emails from him accusing my girlfriend of saying something that set his girlfriend off but he would never tell me exactly what happened. He was so angry and depressed that he soon just went dark on me. He wouldn’t answer emails or texts and he blocked his phone. He also cut off all his close university friends in the U.S. I had lost a friend I had known for 40 years.
Every six months or so I would go down to Pattaya and knock on his door to see how he was doing. Sometimes he would see me sometimes not. We met for dinner once on the first night. He was still tense and closed off but I considered it progress. However the next time he wouldn’t see me. The next time I ambushed him in his condo gym. The next time 2020 he let me into his condo and we chatted for about 30 minutes during which I informed him that I had married my girlfriend the year before. He hasn’t seen me since.
All of us from college decided I wasn’t showing concern anymore. We were and still are concerned but I was just annoying him.
I’ve now been in Thailand for six years. We have been happily married for four years. In 2020 we built a house in the Isaan countryside. However I’ve had no more contact with my friend. I tried for years to find out what happened that night of his birthday and the weeks after and in what way my wife was involved. He has never explained it. My wife would love to know too.
Losing a Forty Year Friend
I’m sad to have lost a friend but happily he introduced me to Thailand.
Story Five The DJs First Thai Massage
Over 20 years ago I had the good fortune to be able to fly to Bangkok to work for a few days. As a big fan of Southeast Asia I felt like I had won a small lottery. I love the food the culture the history and of course the women. As far as I’m concerned Asian women are the most beautiful in the world. Some people incorrectly describe this preference for Asian women as a fetish or ‘yellow fever.’ I disagree with both descriptions. Asian women are not a fetish by default.
I received an offer to play at a big nightclub in Bangkok for two gigs some money travel costs a five star hotel plus extras. The club in question catered more to Thais than to tourists. Yes it just gets better.
I have a friend who worked for the club and looked after me a fellow European who grew up in Thailand and went to a Thai school. So he’s Thai in his head but looks like any other Caucasian white guy. What a fantastic advantage it was to have a friend who speaks reads and understands the local language like a local. I never got scammed ripped off or anything of that effect thanks to my good friend of many years now.
The owner of the club had his fingers in many local businesses not just the nightclub but also a five star hotel in which I stayed massage parlors a sports and aerobics club to name a few.
I must admit in addition to enjoying the local food the temples and the sites I was offered sports and aerobics at the sports club and great massages at the parlor. Here I am in Bangkok for the first time young and single as I had recently split from my wife. So all of a sudden I am the kid who got locked in a toy and sweet shop one day before Christmas.
I remember my first ever Thai massage as follows the massage consisted of me laying on my front watching a James Bond movie while smoking a cigar and drinking a cold beer as the woman massaged and walked on my back.
First Thai Massage in Bangkok
Yes there is a man’s heaven on Earth and I am sure women have one as well somewhere on this planet.
The manager and his team really looked after me. We even had a short outing into Pattaya with some of the staff and resident DJs. I have been back many times to Thailand over the years but mostly to Khao Lak and Phuket. I also got the chance to play in Japan Taiwan and travel to Singapore and Hong Kong. But Thailand will always stay in my mind in a very positive way.
