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 guess you could call me just another statistic, but I believe that’s just too simple. Thailand was always a country that sent your mind racing when you thought about everything that you could do there. My First Time in Thailand, The 1980s My first time in Thailand was in the 80s. I was posted…
A Difficult Year and a New Dream 2019 was a difficult year for everyone. I got divorced at the start of the year and then COVID hit and the world started to lock down. I found myself at home all alone with nothing to do. I’d never even watched YouTube before. But when you’re bored…
After a couple of weeks returning home from Vietnam and realizing that my Vietnam adventure was more lust than love with the girl I spent time with, I went back on Tinder with a paid subscription to match with girls. No, I’m not a drinker, so I generally don’t go to bars which meant I…
Once again, I packed my bags and headed back to Thailand, a place that had started to feel like a second home for me. I was really hoping to relive that amazing moment I had with a woman working in nightlife, the last time I visited, just 6 months earlier. Unfortunately I was one of…
She owns the bar, and as far as I know, she does not and has not worked in nightlife. She is very business-minded well, that’s what I thought at the start. And she also has houses that she rents out to tourists. She has other properties up and down the country, including real estate and…
The Lads’ Holiday My story starts at the end of 2017 when I went on a lads’ holiday with a couple of friends to Thailand. This holiday was meant to be just a lads’ holiday just to clear our heads. Not having a getaway for over 5 years, it was long overdue. Me and my…
The Early Years A Newbie in Pattaya I am a single European man and first went to Thailand in 2001. Back then, Thailand was still dirt cheap, and I could easily go for annual vacations without breaking the bank too much. I had a strong urge to go to Thailand after I had broken off…
I used to holiday in the same place for years. There’s a little town in the Algarve in Portugal called Albufeira, and that was the place I liked to go more than anywhere else in the world. I haven’t been back for a long time since these events unfolded, but I can picture the steep…
By the time I arrived on Koh Samui in late 2024, I wasn’t new to Thailand. I’d been coming to Asia for years. Bangkok, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Phuket, Phi Phi, Koh Lanta, Chiang Mai, Pai, Hua Hin, Koh Chang, and more times than I could count. Vietnam, Bali, China, and Malaysia, too. I knew…