Danderman123

Brothels in Pattaya? Oh, my God! I am shocked! But, if you are going to call every bar with short time rooms a "brothel", that would be very confusing. There are different flavors of brothels, a GC being one flavor. Soi 6 has many brothels, not too many gentlemens' clubs there.

Yep, that was the trick.

Lazada offers me 2 options for payment under Lazada Wallet: A link to 3 banks or a TruePay account. The other top approach requires the user to provide bank account information, including Thai Citizen ID, which I don't have. Any idea how to simply add a credit card to Lazada, so I can pay?

I expect a boatload of messages tomorrow morning from bargirls who wake up and realize they aren't going to make any money at the bar. Note that I posted the notice on my Facebook last week, but you can't expect a bargirl to plan ahead. The killer will be when they go to the boy karaoke bar at 1 am (March 7), but they don't have any money, or at least not enough to buy many boy drinks.

Why are the baht buses so crowded?

Why are the baht buses so full in Pattaya now?

I always thought those were Farang wives looking for their husbands.

I have never heard of a Farang lady going with a Thai bargirl. I have heard of bargirls going with Farang couples, though. And, yeah, I did once see a solo Farang lady enjoying a gogo dancer, much to the alarm of the gogo dancer.

Classic Thai economic planning: if one shop is successful, put in 20 more, right next door.

My point is to explain how there can be more tourists in Pattaya, but the bars are not so crowded: More wives are coming. There are more ex-pats, but they get quickly snatched by Thai ladies.

Traffic is horrendous .... but the ladies are beginning to complain about a lack of customers. Hotels are still pretty full, and Bolt taxis are Scarce. I suspect that Pattaya is going the way of Phuket, most men come with their Farang girlfriends. So the ladies have fewer customers so they raise prices. Even if more single men decide to retire in Pattaya, they get caught by a Thai lady pretty quickly, which takes them out of play for a few months, until the Thai lady announces she is too old for boom-boom. And then the Farang can only go to bars discreetly. It's getting to the point that Pattaya is so busy that nobody goes there.

no. After he accepted my Bolt request, he sent a message asking for 60 baht extra.

I just had a driver ask me for an extra 60 baht for a pickup.

Bolt is acting very strangely. There are drivers nearby, but decline to pick me.

Perhaps someone could inform us whether places that sell ganja will be closed on March 6.

Everyone will survive, I am just providing information.

but closed on March 6.

We can agree that the venues where most people go will be closed on March 6, even though we might not all personally approve of those venues. There will be exceptions, of course, but for planning purposes, better to stock up ahead of time.

Practically speaking, if you expect to be able to hit the bars on Soi 6 or the gogos on Walking Street on March 6, you will be disappointed. Cue the usual questions about whether the bars and gogos will open at 12.01 on March 7.

Restaurants may stay open, and some serve beer in paper cups or tea cups.

Macha Bucha day is March 6. You may register your complaints here.

I have 30 girlfriends, one for every day of the month. How does that count?

You are correct. There exists at least one Thai lady who gets money from a Farang who does not "lend" to their Thai boyfriend. Of the ladies I know who receive money from sponsors abroad, there is maybe one who went home and does not have a Thai boyfriend (that I know of). That one wants me to come visit her, though. If I run through the others, they are all involved with another man in some form of relationship. One lady I know who is sponsored up now can afford to go with young Farang men who don't pay her. One lady who is sponsored by a Farang who lives in Pattaya went to Brazil with me for 3 weeks (!). Since she told me that he is a sponsor, not a boyfriend, I was okay with that. Bootom line: if you are not in Thailand, and you send money to a lady, you are a chump. Even if being a chump makes you feel good.

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Bolt is nonfunctional even during the day, so it seems to be a problem with lack of drivers, not so much too many customers.