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.
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…
My name is Kurt and I’m from Germany. I’m 43 years old. I’m living in a suburb of Frankfurt. I work as a controller for several hospitals doing mostly financial and cash flow reports for management. I’m not rich I have a small house and I’m making decent money. I am six feet tall and…
I started going to Thailand about 12 years ago. I love the place. I have experienced many stupid and crazy things over the years and I have traveled a fair bit around the kingdom. In my 35 plus visits to the country I always seem to end up in Pattaya. I took a few beautiful…
The story starts in 1997 when I stopped over in Bangkok. What an assault on the senses that was. I knew basically nothing of Thailand. Thailand back then was very different to it is today not as modern and efficient and definitely more pollution especially in Bangkok. I knew nothing about bars or go go…