I planned a trip to Tokyo Bangkok and Pattaya. It was the worst trip I’ve ever had. I’ll skip the Tokyo leg and go straight into the Bangkok and Pattaya leg. I landed in Bangkok literally one week ago as I wrote this. My driver took me to my hotel on Sukhumvit Road. I checked…

I’d like to go back to 2010 when I had been single for two years after getting divorced. I went to work every day trudging along with my life having a few dates but none of them giving me any kind of spark. There were a couple of guys I worked with who were regular…

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…

I am a teacher by trade starting my teaching career in 1999 when I was only 18. I taught for over six non consecutive years in the U.S. before getting sick of the lack of pay teaching in California. One night I had a dream about teaching in Japan. I got up in the middle…

I’m quite young compared to your average story hero. I’m now in my late 20s and I haven’t been to the Thailand bar scene before. I have never paid for girls directly in my life and I don’t drink much. I work out and I’m fit. I have a full head of hair there’s nothing…

I was born in Southampton Hampshire UK and lived my early nightlife in Southampton until I moved to Sydney in 1994. Over the last three decades I visited Bangkok many times for work conferences but usually it was a fly in get brainwashed with corporate Kool Aid and fly out certainly no time to relax…

This was my first trip to Bangkok from the US. The year was 2013. I was 56 and had just begun to travel the world and only my second trip to Asia. It was officially a business trip so expenses like hotel and food I had to budget about $100 a day. I had read…

My name is John and I’m a 34 year old American guy. This is my story from my most recent vacation to Thailand. My story begins earlier this year with my first ever trip to Thailand. I was in a relationship for five years prior to this and after feeling ready to begin dating again…

It’s not so much a story as a compilation of what I’ve learned over the last 12 years of living and visiting in Thailand and the Philippines. Being an old dog I can say the more you know the more you know you don’t know. Comparing the Two Countries Since a large part of its…