So, what is happening at Soi Twilight?

[werner]

This has become a meandering thread dealing with all sorts of issues.

Could some one please provide more information about what is happening in Soi Twilight now? For example, is Dream Boys still active and full of hot guys?

[I know that some members dislike Dream Boys and think that it is overpriced, but during almost every trip to Bangkok, I have met some great guys there.
And I have my own gripes about the place: I find the owner cold and curt, even though I have tried to talk to him in several languages--French, German, and English}

Most of the information on the Gaybutton discussion is outdated and irrelevant.

[frequent]

This has become a meandering thread dealing with all sorts of issues.Could some one please provide more information about what is happening in Soi Twilight now? For example, is Dream Boys still active and full of hot guys? .

There's a really, really simple explanation, werner, when you think about it. Those who post here are either tourists or residents. The vast majority of tourists apparently go to Pattaya, and a significant proportion of residents live in Pattaya. The only point of Pattaya is the sex trade. Therefore you'll get detailed information on gogo bars in Pattaya from Pattayans or visitors to Pattaya. Those of us who live in Bangkok do so precisely because it is not centred on the sex trade and our trips to Soi Twilight (at least in my case) occur infrequently and because we're hosting a visiting friend who wants to go. Therefore our information will be patchy and incomplete. The most pertinent comment in this thread for you is post #25 from blueskytoday. He and NIrish both comment on the expensiveness of the gogo bar visit in Bangkok. If you want actual descriptions then you'd have to rely on another visitor, a447 - but he prefers the Golden Cock/Silom 6 area. I can't recall him mentioning Dream Boys, although there's a niggling feeling that he has reported on success with the Swede who owns Dream Boy and Bangkok Boys (and G.O.D. and ...). For myself I've never understood the need to chat with a bar owner, whether a gogo bar or somewhere like Connections, Stranger, Telephone or Balcony, but then I don't consider myself to be needy

As for what constitutes a "hot guy" - it's entirely in the eye of the beholder. For a friend of mine a "hot" guy is one who looks like a geek. Another won't touch a boy with tattoos, while a third will only go for a guy with extensive tattoos

[werner]

There's a really, really simple explanation, werner, when you think about it. Those who post here are either tourists or residents. The vast majority of tourists apparently go to Pattaya, and a significant proportion of residents live in Pattaya. The only point of Pattaya is the sex trade. Therefore you'll get detailed information on gogo bars in Pattaya from Pattayans or visitors to Pattaya. Those of us who live in Bangkok do so precisely because it is not centred on the sex trade and our trips to Soi Twilight (at least in my case) occur infrequently and because we're hosting a visiting friend who wants to go. Therefore our information will be patchy and incomplete. The most pertinent comment in this thread for you is post #25 from blueskytoday. He and NIrish both comment on the expensiveness of the gogo bar visit in Bangkok. If you want actual descriptions then you'd have to rely on another visitor, a447 - but he prefers the Golden Cock/Silom 6 area. I can't recall him mentioning Dream Boys, although there's a niggling feeling that he has reported on success with the Swede who owns Dream Boy and Bangkok Boys (and G.O.D. and ...). For myself I've never understood the need to chat with a bar owner, whether a gogo bar or somewhere like Connections, Stranger, Telephone or Balcony, but then I don't consider myself to be needy

As for what constitutes a "hot guy" - it's entirely in the eye of the beholder. For a friend of mine a "hot" guy is one who looks like a geek. Another won't touch a boy with tattoos, while a third will only go for a guy with extensive tattoos

Frequent,
Thanks for your interesting comments.

I always like to get to know --and chat a bit-- with the owners of the restaurants and other places I patronize. In Europe, the U.S., Japan, I have often gotten to know the owners.

By the way: Isn't the owner of Dream Boys, German, NOT Swedish? And does anyone know whether or not this go-go bar is still in operation? How many go go guys now work there and are available?

Yes, yes, there are great differences in what might be considered "hot. In the past, Dream Boys always had at least a couple of really hot guys.