Reader-submitted Thailand stories covering first trips, nightlife, Pattaya experiences, relationships, expat life and successful marriages. Real experiences from visitors and long-time Thailand regulars.
The first time I went to Thailand was in 2010. Like many people who go, I loved it. There wasn’t anything I disliked about Thailand. And no, I wasn’t one of the guys who liked to go to the bars all the time. I preferred doing more cultural things going to the temples, going to…
I had been going to Thailand for many years before I finally made the decision to move there after I was offered a teaching job on my last visit. The job offer was the final push I needed, as far as I can remember I wanted to get out of my own country, so I…
Although I did not lose a lot of money, mainly because I didn’t have any, I still had a wild ride and I think a story worth telling. I ended up in a relationship with a Thai bar girl that was just filled with nightmare after nightmare, a lot of jealousy, anger and emotional wreckage….
The bar was empty. It was empty. I thought it must have always been empty, and that’s why I went in in the first place. If I saw loads of guys in there, there would have been no chance that I would have bothered going inside. I wasn’t very much of a people person. In…
I am unfortunately another farang statistic that, against all the advice I was given, I still tried to chase and be with a Thai bar girl. The fact that I am writing this, you probably already know how this story is going to end. I first went to Thailand in the winter of 2023. This…
The entire experience of Thailand began in a small city in Canada in 2007. I had been dating a Chinese Singaporean at the beginning of my third year of university. We had a very stable relationship and I felt the relationship was quite worth it. Unfortunately, after about a year into it, she was visiting…
I became the nice guy in a Thailand bar triangle. This story is quite different from most of the stories I had heard, and it shows how things can go wrong in Thailand. It really is quite upsetting to hear all the stories about how so many people have had their lives completely ruined and…
If you’re looking for a way to describe me as a person before all this happened to me, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark if you called me green around the ears when it came to all things Thailand. My story starts when I was 42 years old. I was single. I had…
My friend Dave and I were in Bangkok, and we were going to Hua Hin. We are lazy, so we decided to get a taxi. I know the train and bus are a lot cheaper, so we went to reception at the hotel. They got us a taxi, and we negotiated a price of about…