On 14th April I made a one-night stopover in Pattaya & was greeted by hoards of water throwing Thais & tourists partaking in the Songkran festival. I was completely drenched when I finally got to my hotel on Soi 8 Beach Road. Groups of people lined the roads & sois with buckets & water drums & water guns, that there was no way of avoiding them. Luckily they stopped their water games at sunset, so the evening was relatively dry.
After a dinner & movie date with a Gayromeo contact, I headed to X-Boys Bar in Boystown for their last show past midnight, but didn't get to see much as I was distracted by Rocky, a smallish but sinewy guy from Nakhon Phanom who quoted 1000baht for short time(2 hours). After paying the 400baht off fee we headed for the open bars at Soi 8 where the girls are to be found. We had quite some fun dancing & singing with the girls where drinks were much cheaper than in Boystown gay bars.
Everything went well until we triend to go to the room. Apparently the Eastiny hotel chain management are less welcoming towards ladyboys, but openly welcomes female prostitutes(the reception later clarified that the hotel had some bad experiences with ladyboys previously, or perhaps some straight guests weren't too comfortable with ladyboys). Rocky had too much make-up on & was thought to be a ladyboy, but in the end the hotel security relented & we had some happy times together.
The previous night I was in Bangkok to join the huge crowd in Silom. To escape the water & powder combination attacks, I took refuge in Dragoncastle 3, a ladyboys & girls bar in Patpong. How the drinks were so much cheaper than in gay bars!(100baht for host, 120 baht for guest & 160 baht for mamasan). And it was totally acceptable(I was encouraged) to check out the physical attributes of the hosts! A 100baht tip was warmly accepted. Girls can be fun actually( at least visiting ladyboys bars).

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