Biggles
Yes I agree with you about Sunee and the local farangs dying out. I had to visit the Bangkok Pattaya hospital in July becase I was bitten by a dog. It was crowded with 60+ age farangs suffering from a whole variety of health problems and many looked as if they were at death's door.
(I go to the Pattaya Memorial hospital for my HIV check by the way)
When I started visting Pattaya 7 years ago Sunee was full of gogo's and bars. The one I remember most was Kaos where every night the boys entertained us by showing their cocks on the stage, in exchange for a bucket being passed round for tips. I offed some real cuties from there.

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I remember Kaos well. It was like going into a cage full of wild monkeys - jumping all over the place, playing, teasing, showing all. We were lucky to enjoy those days - the wild bars of BKK and Pattaya are now history

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.... and in Boystown Lucky 7 appears to have closed as well

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It sounds like Sunee and Boystown will soon be ghost towns !.
I think Gayromeo has a look to do with the decline.
Although I'm back home just now I sometimes log on to look at the boys advertising there. Last night there was nearly 150 boys there between 18 and 30. Also many farangs 50 plus looking to use them. What's your preference for Thaiboys ?. I often like a fem but that does not include ladyboys and there are plenty on gayromeo.

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Things certainly do change and that's of course natural

Today the commercial gay scenarion in Bkk, Pattaya, Patong, CM, etc., all very different to 30 years ago.

About 6 or 7 go go bars in what's now Telephone soi, one with around 150 go go boys every night.

CM had numerous tiny hole in the wall go go places with many interesting Northern boys.

One go go venue in Patong (across the street from My Way and further into the soi) had many older high school boys (I'm not saying that OK, one visit only and I quickly departed).

Pattaya was a tiny fishing village, the main boy go go places were Rendezvous and Moonlight bars (both behind where the UOB bank is now located just up from A Bomb), gone a long time ago, and Homex inn in Nth Pattaya, small 2 / 3 star gay hotel with a go go bar in the lobby, working boys from Homex and other boys did freelance activity around the pool in the daytime, great memories all round.

Gayromeo etc., must of course have some impact but I guess there will still be many who enjoy to see the real thing and select and I wonder whether massage venues will eventually quite dominate this part of the puzzle.

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What gogo,s are still,open in Sunee. In November there only seemed to be Mic My, Eros, Krazy Dragon and Happy (Soi VCR)
In July I used to go to Nice Boys. Is that closed?

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All still open (Good Boys closed) and Jimmy's re-badged as City Boys.

New Sawasdii, Euro and Tom Yum closed but some new small beer bars with "back-rooms" have opened.

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Hi Xfun,
You mentioned a bar opposite to MyWay. Suppose you mean MW in BKK. Is there really one more bar in that scrubby small soi?? Have never seen that.
And - is My Way still closed?
Ron

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My Way BKK still closed and nothing else in that soi. I think the reference may have been to the other My Way in Phuket.

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Sorry to cause confusion, I did mean My Way Phuket, which has been there a very long time.

Last time I went to Phuket was 10+ years back. At That time and previously My Way had maybe 80 - 100 go go boys working every night.

For the Phuket locals, visitors, what's it like today?

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