In the mid 90s I was a young sailor in the Navy and while on deployment we were scheduled to pull into port in Phuket for three days. I was so excited. All of the older sailors would tell us stories about the place that seemed too good to be true. I was amazed by…

Let me start this story by giving you a bit of background on myself. You can call me Bill. I’m an American and was in the U.S. Navy from the late 1980s through to the mid 1990s and I saw quite a bit of traveling to Europe North Africa the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. After…

I never had the desire or interest to visit Thailand. It was never on my radar. In 2008 I was traveling in India for almost two months and ended up in Kathmandu Nepal with several friends. We were basically killing time there until our flight left. I talked to the airline to see if there…

The first time I came to Pattaya was in February 2019 for a 10 day holiday. I met a girl called Om. Back home we kept in touch on Messenger. She dreamed of going to Jomtien but had never got the chance. I said ‘As it’s your birthday present I’ll take you to Jomtien.’ She…

I wanted to share an experience I had in Phuket two years ago. My parents live in Phuket so I normally visit during the holidays every year. I come back to train at a Thai gym where I meet many different people from around the world. I went to Kudo Beach to have dinner and…

After hearing many of your subscribers’ stories I thought I would send you mine as I think it’s an amusing lesson and that I pretty well got my just desserts. It could have ended a lot worse. This was about 15 years ago. I was on holiday in Phuket staying at the quiet Laguna area…

Before I get to my next story one thing I’ve asked myself is why do I keep returning to Asia after so many tours in 35 years of doing so? Well I’m not a drinker nor do I do drugs which I mentioned in my first submission so hanging around a bar getting plastered is…

I’m an Asian female raised in the UK who has British nationality. I decided to spend the summer vacation with my Thai girlfriend. She was on summer break from university and I had a lot of leave still left over from work. We decided to do a big road trip around the south of Thailand….

After graduating from business school in France in 2006 I moved to Thailand to work for a large French company that was operating in the country. Back then it was my first time in Asia and I didn’t know much about Thailand back then. I just thought it was a nice exotic destination and of…