There were more bars and therefore greater variety of choice
They were more fun
The boys on stage were more engaged in giving patrons a good time
There was a better selection of boys
Shows were generally more interesting/sexy
Shows were MUCH more interesting/sexy
Mamasans were less pushy/obnoxious
I usually left feeling I had had a good time
The boys I offed seemed more interested in giving me a good time
I had fewer duds when offing a boy
The first bar I visited in Phuket in 2001 was Super boys. All the guys on the floor were naked and sporting erections. They were swinging from the poles like monkeys!Originally Posted by goji
One guy sat with me pointed at himself and said "me beer" still no idea to this day if he wanted a beer or was introducing himself as Beer! Naturally he was swiftly bought a beer!
Buffalo me die! Send Money!
It was 1988 when I startet to spend my holidays in Thailand. And it was great. But now, whenever I mention that the bars were WAY more fun 25 years ago, people keep telling me that I was 25 years younger back then!
Which is absolutely true of course. You are more impressionable when you are young and visit a new place for the first time. Everything is striking and overwhelming when it's new for you.
But not only me grew older. The bars and their staff changed as well. Back then, the boys were playful and full of energy. They were even dancing on stage! And they did everything to get an off.
christianpfc (March 9th, 2017), fountainhall (March 8th, 2017), TaoR (March 8th, 2017)
1997 was even before Sunee bars. BBB was there across from LCR. The baht had a great exchange rate of 42.
Wish I had started vacationing there even earlier.
stkyricesf (April 6th, 2017)
I don't know why but I keep thinking that someplace on the internet is a forum where Thai guys, Thai money boys, gogo boys, and such all share their memories of how good the good ol' days were....
They probably complain about how old all the customers are today and how cheap they are. Where they trade stories about how many water buffalo's they could score in a month...
Just imagine the sex tales they could tell. I am sure some could tell tales that would make even Latin blush....
christianpfc (March 9th, 2017), fountainhall (March 8th, 2017), Surfcrest (March 8th, 2017)
As a matter of history, the Baht was fixed to the US$ at $1 = Bt. 25 from 1984 until July 2 1997 when the Asian Economic Crisis exploded starting in Thailand. On that day the Thai government gave up all efforts to maintain the rate and it immediately crashed to 30. In then continued to slide downhill till it reached around 55 in January 1998. So before July 1997 you'd have been a lot worse off exchange-wise! On the other hand, in the years 2001 - 2003 you'd have been better off.1997 was even before Sunee bars. BBB was there across from LCR. The baht had a great exchange rate of 42.
Wish I had started vacationing there even earlier.
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Clearly not, given the responses so far. I accept that the list of answers is the arbitrary choice of the OP (in this case me!) and none of us know how accurate the results of any such poll really are - after all we have no idea who is actually voting. It has to be based on a degree of trust. But already we can see that two issues are slightly ahead - the bars were more fun and the shows were much more interesting/sexy. I honestly don't believe this is a result of rosy-tinted spectacles. I also don't think it's a result of a less free gay atmosphere in the rest of the world. That would have been far more true of the early 1980s than the late 1990s.
I'm sure you and I appear in those stories somewhere!!
My regular partners in Pattaya over the years have all been veterans of the Sunee Plaza bar scene. I've heard lots of stories about their encounters with farang customers and believe it or not, they tell me that most boys haven't had any problems of note.
The talk is based around how much the customer pays and whether or not he was a nice guy. That seems to be it.
I'm sure they've got more interesting things to talk about.
But if you ask, you'll hear some interesting stories.
arsenal (March 8th, 2017), christianpfc (March 9th, 2017), TaoR (March 8th, 2017)
Back then I occasionally heard tales of boys who had an aversion to Japanese customers - not because they were not polite but because they could not understand the tipping system and often undertipped.
"Smartphones didn't exist back then" would be my answer. There were no alternatives to the bars
christianpfc (March 9th, 2017)
a447 wrote:
"The talk is based around how much the customer pays and whether or not he was a nice guy. That seems to be it."
Exactly. Well said that man.
TaoR (March 8th, 2017)
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