Having spent a few days in Bangkok we moved on to Pattaya, another of the Thai sex cities and a chance to spend some very relaxing time by the sea. Pattaya is on the Gulf of Thailand shoreline and stretches down to now join up with Jomtien, a more up-market holiday location.
As always, Suzi led the way and I was happy with that arrangement as I wanted her to show me everything and what all the fuss about Thailand was. We stayed at the Queen of Pattaya Hotel on the Central Pattaya Road. It was a basic room in a 3 star hotel but it served it's purpose. You can search for a hotel in Pattaya below. most are very well priced compared to UK prices - the Queen Pattaya was £14.00 per night in 2009! (700 Baht)
As always, Suzi led the way and I was happy with that arrangement as I wanted her to show me everything and what all the fuss about Thailand was. We stayed at the Queen of Pattaya Hotel on the Central Pattaya Road. It was a basic room in a 3 star hotel but it served it's purpose. You can search for a hotel in Pattaya below. most are very well priced compared to UK prices - the Queen Pattaya was £14.00 per night in 2009! (700 Baht)
Our hotel was just about at the northern end of the 'nightlife' scene with Soi 6 just to the north of us and Soi's 7 & 8 just behind the hotel. Soi 6 seemed to be lively from lunch-time and I am led to believe this is where you can have 'short-time' with the girls at just about any time of the day. Soi 7 & 8 is basically a complex of bars and is heaving with young Thai girls looking for some easy ferang cash and maybe some lavish meal thrown in.
This really is the place where I began to see what the fuss was all about as I spent a little time on my own just to wander around the city while Suzi was having her typical Thai afternoon siesta. If I walked passed a bar or massage parlour that was open, it was odds on a stream of girls would jump out and try to coax me in, it was crazy but very amusing at the same time and this is when I started to understand why men who had been divorced (as was I) wanted to come here, we are treated like kings while we are there and spend money.
Our evenings were spent mostly in the Tiger Beer Bar, just off Beach Road on Soi 8, where I got to know some of the working girls pretty well. They could all speak at least some English and certainly enough to answer the question I put to them, which was to find out about their life now and before they came south to ply this trade. The answers will come next week......
This really is the place where I began to see what the fuss was all about as I spent a little time on my own just to wander around the city while Suzi was having her typical Thai afternoon siesta. If I walked passed a bar or massage parlour that was open, it was odds on a stream of girls would jump out and try to coax me in, it was crazy but very amusing at the same time and this is when I started to understand why men who had been divorced (as was I) wanted to come here, we are treated like kings while we are there and spend money.
Our evenings were spent mostly in the Tiger Beer Bar, just off Beach Road on Soi 8, where I got to know some of the working girls pretty well. They could all speak at least some English and certainly enough to answer the question I put to them, which was to find out about their life now and before they came south to ply this trade. The answers will come next week......