V N Boys. Hard nuts to crack.

[a447]

In the early days when I was smitten with Boy and his brother I opened the purse strings and was very generous with tips for them. If I wanted them to stay sitting with me I knew I had to keep plying them with drinks. We soon worked out that it was better for the guys if I gave them a tip at the end, rather than buy them orange juice all night ; there's only so many they can drink. So after a few hours sitting with me I'd tip them 400-500 baht each. I even bought Boy a pair of shoes.

When you consider the basic wage is 300 baht per day, then I guess they would have been very happy with the tips I gave them, especially as they didn't have to really do much - how hard is it to sit there and smile?

I occasionally bought drinks and tipped their friends working in the bar. I imagine most guys would have picked up a few hundred baht every night -enough to survive.

Every time I went there I'd see more and more guys hanging around. I didn't know some of them were working at the gogo bars.

So come to think of it, some of those Vietnamese guys were probably earning more than some of the guys standing on the stage at Dreamboys who weren't being bought drinks by customers.

[dab69]

Couple cuties from BBB Inn have recently moved on. Figured "T" and "M-mouse" went back to VN but maybe they just went around the corner to "work" in a bar.
Pan said he would email me when they returned but I figure they will not return.

[goji]

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

It doesn't matter how cute the Vietnamese boys are, once I visited and realised they were not available on reasonable terms, it was time to move on.
There are plenty of other places with fairly cute people who are available.

[firecat69]

+1

[christianpfc]

+1 If I want to merely look at cute boys, I watch porn at home, for free!

The occasional (one a week?) j/o or whatever at 2,000 baht in a short time room at the BBB Inn round the corner would add some gravy to that basic income of around 8,000 baht a month.

I was there on Monday night and spent 600 baht on 5 beers (2 for me, 3 for them) and 500 baht on tips amongst them. Better value than the go go bars at, say, 450 baht for one drink.

But they have to do visa runs, which consumes a significant part of their income.

I can't see any value for money for that!

Another mystery (the first is how they make any reasonable money) is why are the cutest boys (by my standards) from the massages and Scorpion bar often in the snooker/pool/billiard hall in the ground floor of X-Size bar? I rarely see Farang in there, a boy who plays snooker there makes no money for himself or for the place that employs him.

Did they have their customer already and now squander the money? A friend suggested all boys there are foreign, they cannot work in a bar but can play snooker (no problem if police raids the soi, but they are available if a customer approaches them). However I would not approach a boy there, it's not my style. (Similar for Sunee, some cute boys playing snooker shirtless.)

[thaiguest]

Couple cuties from BBB Inn have recently moved on. Figured "T" and "M-mouse" went back to VN but maybe they just went around the corner to "work" in a bar.
Pan said he would email me when they returned but I figure they will not return.

Yes all the VN boys ("massage" boys) have left the BB Inn.

Last time this happened was shortly after the coup when the cleaning out of the BB Inn became a priority issue for the top brass. Thereafter they could tackle less pressing issues like the rice subsidy scandal, the war over the border temple, the southern insurgency and so on.

But perhaps the BBInn management has something to do with their departure too.
They had a crazy fee policy which required a guest to pay something like 1500 baht for a massage without ever confirming that this figure covered the boys' fee. The staff at the desk would unofficially tip you off that the way around this was to "off" the boy for a lesser fee and then bring him to your room as a "guest" rather than an in-house massage boy.
This set-up ment that the massage staff got very little work.

[roguebear]

Maybe they went home for Tet, Vietnamese New Year.

[dab69]

I see BBB page now "M" has returned. He really looked VN. Maybe a good sign. Has been gone for a few months- wasn't expecting a return. He looks like fun.

[neddy3]

There was a cute boy 'dancing' go-go in Hotmale during February. Probably still there.

Quite cute, nicely built, cocky, very aware of who is watching him.
I found him desirable, but thought that he was too full of himself, and would not be a good off, at least for me.

One night he came over and sat with me (uninvited), as he knew he had caught my eye.
We had a chat, he seemed friendly.
But he said that he was Vietnamese.
Unfairly or not, I mentally added that to my other reservations, and decided definitely not.