riverdee (March 3rd, 2023)
maump (March 5th, 2023)
I have my own transportation - but buses run 24/7 to/from Bang Saray (20-60 baht).
I have my own condo - but condo rentals are typically 20% - 30% less than Pattaya.
I have my own boy - but hundreds are available for rent 25 minutes away.
Beach is pristine - great for swimming.
Plenty of good restaurants, bars, massage parlors (girls), etc..
NOTE:
As nice as Bang Saray is, If you don't have a live-in boyfriend and/or prefer spending your evenings at the boy bars you're better off in Pattaya.
maump (March 5th, 2023)
tbh....bang saray doesnt sound that far away...in the good old days when we had fuck shows 3 times a night in every gogo bar all the action was in boyztown and sunee....i prefered to stay in jomtien as that is where I spent the mornomgs and day on the beach...it is about a 20min baht bus ride away taking in all the stops...so add another 5 to 10 min and bang saray sounds great of u want a quieter less commercial scene...
Bang Saray used to be a pleasant 25 minute motorbike amble away ending with a right turn shortly after Nong Nooch.
However it's now a building site all the way from Jomtien due to the fuck off huge overpass motorway being built. The traffic gets snarled up and you need to go further on and do a U-turn.
However, Bang Saray itself remains glorious and Ruantay restaurant us perhaps my favourite restaurant in the whole world.
So it's worth it.
maump (March 5th, 2023)
made the mistake of staying once in boyztown at the ambiance...impossible to sleep before 2am...and during the day the surroundings are little more than a slum...lots of the gogos seemed to live close by so it wasnt unusual to see a few dazed looking ones up and about by 10am...offed a few too...even though im not a morning person...but when a butt that cost 2000 the night before is now on sale for 800 i cant turn down a deal...
maump (March 5th, 2023)
I stayed at the Ambiance last year and my experience with late night noise was different - there wasn’t any !
For many years it was my hotel of choice as a gay sex tourist, until the dreadful noise from an early morning karioki developed about 5 years ago when I switched my stays to the Jomtien Complex.
After Covid gave the place another chance and had good nights of sex with a selection of boys uninterrupted by noise at all.
The entry on google maps is misplaced, try Phra Tamnak instead.
maump (March 7th, 2023)