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Re: Whats happened to Pattaya?

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frank lee bent wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:24 pm
frank lee bent wrote:
I think if you're over 50 it can be alright, but if you're 35 and younger you really shouldn't be there as most girls will be older than you, and not in a good way. I'm no adonis, but I can get way hotter chicks with less attitude than the ones in that hell hole without paying so... What's the point? I had more fun shopping at Uniclo and checking out the malls during the day, lol.
i see what you did there lambknuckle. i did not write that!
i would never say i was not an adonis. no need to state the sad fact.
it would be like saying fire burns or water is wet.
back OT i was in Pattaya about 3 years ago and it was overrun with cute girls in droves, hanging around with 6 or 7 similarly unoccupied girls.
i did not try to meet any being otherwise engaged.
but maybe i am a half full glass kinda guy.
sorry for some reason it misquoted, ive fixed the error mate
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Re: Whats happened to Pattaya?

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theres still loads of cute girls in Pattaya, its plagued with them,
a far greater number of cute girls there than there is in the bars of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh combined,
and thats coming from someone who prefers Khmer girls so im not even being bias
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Re: Whats happened to Pattaya?

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shnoukieBRO wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:16 pm Regarding the Women, well i didn't bother, but there were some nice ones i saw on Coconut, and in the bars. I guess BKL just had a crummy time like i did when i went at a similar time one year. It's probably too busy and awful in December, yet late may it was pretty quiet and chilled. And there was a surprising few good sights.

Yes, i guess you're right, probably easier to pull girls from a Mall. Has anyone done that, have a story to tell ?
We knew it would be busy but it was the only time he was free so I just tagged along. So sure, it theoretically should be busier with tons of tourists, but there should be even more girls. That's the money-making time...

frank lee bent wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:24 pm back OT i was in Pattaya about 3 years ago and it was overrun with cute girls in droves, hanging around with 6 or 7 similarly unoccupied girls.
i did not try to meet any being otherwise engaged.
but maybe i am a half full glass kinda guy.
See below.
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:15 pm theres still loads of cute girls in Pattaya, its plagued with them,
a far greater number of cute girls there than there is in the bars of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh combined,
and thats coming from someone who prefers Khmer girls so im not even being bias
Different strokes for different folks, but I found them unanimously hideous. As in a 1-100 ratio of hot to ugly, whereas here I see cute girls all the time. Here's the deal: I tagged along as his wingman for the duration. However, of course I'm not going to sit alone in the corner for four days. If I'm going to be just sitting there sipping drinks while he's trying to pick up, I want to at least be with an attractive girl (preferably someone interesting so we can chat, laugh and have a good time). So we go looking for bars that'll have a girl each of us likes/finds attractive. It was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find a bar that had TWO nice looking girls. Many bars (50-60%) had NONE, and then the remaining 40% would only have ONE hot girl. So either I would find a girl attractive but he wouldn't, or the opposite (or quite often we both found the same girl attractive as there was only one). We walked up and down Soi 6 until it got embarrassing and the girls frowned (back and forth like 4 times, trying to carefully look into every single bar). That beer garden soi as well, the alleys off walking street, soi LK etc. The only places that were halfway decent were Windmill and one or two of the gogo bars on LK. We must have visited, looked inside or walked past 150+ bars, so something is definitely amiss... I've said this before, but it felt like a prostitute elephant graveyard. Like where all the old hags go to finish off their days so they don't weaken or slow down the tribe. I've been to Nana twice very briefly just for a few drinks, but the girls there were waaaay hotter than in Pattaya. I say this as someone who likes older chicks too, I've never been into the young 19-23 yer olds, even when I was that age. I like 25+... Many I just didn't find my type or my standards are way higher than most guys, I don't know. It boils down to personal preference I guess. I've always liked classier looking girls anyways (even if faked). Like the type that hang out at Oscar and such places in PP and have a sense of style and so on vs chicks with 10" platform heels, a miniskirt too much makeup and are all tatted up. Seems like 40% of the girls there are tatted (some of them had very nice work, but not my style). I dunno, just saying what it was like for me. But seriously, I see probably 30 hot girls per day here, had trouble seeing a single hot one per day there. Will definitely never go back. By day two I was looking at pamphlets for motorcycle tours and the big waterpark out of town.
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Re: Whats happened to Pattaya?

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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:15 pm
shnoukieBRO wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:16 pm Regarding the Women, well i didn't bother, but there were some nice ones i saw on Coconut, and in the bars. I guess BKL just had a crummy time like i did when i went at a similar time one year. It's probably too busy and awful in December, yet late may it was pretty quiet and chilled. And there was a surprising few good sights.

Yes, i guess you're right, probably easier to pull girls from a Mall. Has anyone done that, have a story to tell ?
We knew it would be busy but it was the only time he was free so I just tagged along. So sure, it theoretically should be busier with tons of tourists, but there should be even more girls. That's the money-making time...

frank lee bent wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:24 pm back OT i was in Pattaya about 3 years ago and it was overrun with cute girls in droves, hanging around with 6 or 7 similarly unoccupied girls.
i did not try to meet any being otherwise engaged.
but maybe i am a half full glass kinda guy.
See below.
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:15 pm theres still loads of cute girls in Pattaya, its plagued with them,
a far greater number of cute girls there than there is in the bars of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh combined,
and thats coming from someone who prefers Khmer girls so im not even being bias
Different strokes for different folks, but I found them unanimously hideous. As in a 1-100 ratio of hot to ugly, whereas here I see cute girls all the time. Here's the deal: I tagged along as his wingman for the duration. However, of course I'm not going to sit alone in the corner for four days. If I'm going to be just sitting there sipping drinks while he's trying to pick up, I want to at least be with an attractive girl (preferably someone interesting so we can chat, laugh and have a good time). So we go looking for bars that'll have a girl each of us likes/finds attractive. It was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find a bar that had TWO nice looking girls. Many bars (50-60%) had NONE, and then the remaining 40% would only have ONE hot girl. So either I would find a girl attractive but he wouldn't, or the opposite (or quite often we both found the same girl attractive as there was only one). We walked up and down Soi 6 until it got embarrassing and the girls frowned (back and forth like 4 times, trying to carefully look into every single bar). That beer garden soi as well, the alleys off walking street, soi LK etc. The only places that were halfway decent were Windmill and one or two of the gogo bars on LK. We must have visited, looked inside or walked past 150+ bars, so something is definitely amiss... I've said this before, but it felt like a prostitute elephant graveyard. Like where all the old hags go to finish off their days so they don't weaken or slow down the tribe. I've been to Nana twice very briefly just for a few drinks, but the girls there were waaaay hotter than in Pattaya. I say this as someone who likes older chicks too, I've never been into the young 19-23 yer olds, even when I was that age. I like 25+... Many I just didn't find my type or my standards are way higher than most guys, I don't know. It boils down to personal preference I guess. I've always liked classier looking girls anyways (even if faked). Like the type that hang out at Oscar and such places in PP and have a sense of style and so on vs chicks with 10" platform heels, a miniskirt too much makeup and are all tatted up. Seems like 40% of the girls there are tatted (some of them had very nice work, but not my style). I dunno, just saying what it was like for me. But seriously, I see probably 30 hot girls per day here, had trouble seeing a single hot one per day there. Will definitely never go back. By day two I was looking at pamphlets for motorcycle tours and the big waterpark out of town.
SEA will never go back to the old wild west days,
I must have just caught the rag fumes of em it back in 2010 on my first tour , the whole regions changing for the worst.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:15 pm
shnoukieBRO wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:16 pm Regarding the Women, well i didn't bother, but there were some nice ones i saw on Coconut, and in the bars. I guess BKL just had a crummy time like i did when i went at a similar time one year. It's probably too busy and awful in December, yet late may it was pretty quiet and chilled. And there was a surprising few good sights.

Yes, i guess you're right, probably easier to pull girls from a Mall. Has anyone done that, have a story to tell ?
We knew it would be busy but it was the only time he was free so I just tagged along. So sure, it theoretically should be busier with tons of tourists, but there should be even more girls. That's the money-making time...

frank lee bent wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:24 pm back OT i was in Pattaya about 3 years ago and it was overrun with cute girls in droves, hanging around with 6 or 7 similarly unoccupied girls.
i did not try to meet any being otherwise engaged.
but maybe i am a half full glass kinda guy.
See below.
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:15 pm theres still loads of cute girls in Pattaya, its plagued with them,
a far greater number of cute girls there than there is in the bars of Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh combined,
and thats coming from someone who prefers Khmer girls so im not even being bias
Different strokes for different folks, but I found them unanimously hideous. As in a 1-100 ratio of hot to ugly, whereas here I see cute girls all the time. Here's the deal: I tagged along as his wingman for the duration. However, of course I'm not going to sit alone in the corner for four days. If I'm going to be just sitting there sipping drinks while he's trying to pick up, I want to at least be with an attractive girl (preferably someone interesting so we can chat, laugh and have a good time). So we go looking for bars that'll have a girl each of us likes/finds attractive. It was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find a bar that had TWO nice looking girls. Many bars (50-60%) had NONE, and then the remaining 40% would only have ONE hot girl. So either I would find a girl attractive but he wouldn't, or the opposite (or quite often we both found the same girl attractive as there was only one). We walked up and down Soi 6 until it got embarrassing and the girls frowned (back and forth like 4 times, trying to carefully look into every single bar). That beer garden soi as well, the alleys off walking street, soi LK etc. The only places that were halfway decent were Windmill and one or two of the gogo bars on LK. We must have visited, looked inside or walked past 150+ bars, so something is definitely amiss... I've said this before, but it felt like a prostitute elephant graveyard. Like where all the old hags go to finish off their days so they don't weaken or slow down the tribe. I've been to Nana twice very briefly just for a few drinks, but the girls there were waaaay hotter than in Pattaya. I say this as someone who likes older chicks too, I've never been into the young 19-23 yer olds, even when I was that age. I like 25+... Many I just didn't find my type or my standards are way higher than most guys, I don't know. It boils down to personal preference I guess. I've always liked classier looking girls anyways (even if faked). Like the type that hang out at Oscar and such places in PP and have a sense of style and so on vs chicks with 10" platform heels, a miniskirt too much makeup and are all tatted up. Seems like 40% of the girls there are tatted (some of them had very nice work, but not my style). I dunno, just saying what it was like for me. But seriously, I see probably 30 hot girls per day here, had trouble seeing a single hot one per day there. Will definitely never go back. By day two I was looking at pamphlets for motorcycle tours and the big waterpark out of town.
yeah as you say, different strokes for different folks,
i was last there end of May for 2 weeks, it was quiet, but i prefer that as less riff raff,
a lot of the high season girls had already gone back home to Isaan,
still, there were plenty of girls around, i love the Isaan girls, they get extra attention if they can speak Khmer lol
i stay on the Corner of LK Metro/Soi Diana, so might be why i see more hotter girls,
but there is usually at least 1 girl in every bar that takes my fancy,
but i admit im easily pleased, a girl with french plait pig tails or braces or dimples or all 3 can easily get my attention... Bolueeleh knows hahaha

while girls are a main factor, i like going out drinking and partying, i dont go round shopping, i dont usually need to, things just fall in to place,
planned nights are dull, maybe thats where you and your mate are going wrong,
just go out and enjoy yourself, then you might bump into more girls that take your fancy
if you go out on a mission, you can struggle sometimes...
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:12 pmwhile girls are a main factor, i like going out drinking and partying, i dont go round shopping, i dont usually need to, things just fall in to place,
planned nights are dull, maybe thats where you and your mate are going wrong,
just go out and enjoy yourself, then you might bump into more girls that take your fancy
if you go out on a mission, you can struggle sometimes...
Funny really, but when i was younger i used to go for those chicks and have lots of fun. Maybe cos i'm older it's not important. Dunno, but i simply could 'not be arsed' to bother with that stuff this time!

Different strokes, i suppose. Perhaps i've just had my fair share, or i'm finding the prices/exchange rates steering the deciding factors? Nevertheless, there was some hot chix and i'm kinda a bit 'ooo, maybe i shud of'.... :D

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shnoukieBRO wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 1:55 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:12 pmwhile girls are a main factor, i like going out drinking and partying, i dont go round shopping, i dont usually need to, things just fall in to place,
planned nights are dull, maybe thats where you and your mate are going wrong,
just go out and enjoy yourself, then you might bump into more girls that take your fancy
if you go out on a mission, you can struggle sometimes...
Funny really, but when i was younger i used to go for those chicks and have lots of fun. Maybe cos i'm older it's not important. Dunno, but i simply could 'not be arsed' to bother with that stuff this time!

Different strokes, i suppose. Perhaps i've just had my fair share, or i'm finding the prices/exchange rates steering the deciding factors? Nevertheless, there was some hot chix and i'm kinda a bit 'ooo, maybe i shud of'.... :D

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Good taste :beer3:
Girls are better value for money in Patts lol
and drinking is miles cheaper than in Bangkok!!
Soi Cowboy in the normal rock bar on the corner 175 Baht for a small bottle of Chang!
Scooters bar down Soi 6 in Patts is only 50 Baht
the Gogos down LK Metro have great happy hours
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i think you should come out with us next time haha :beer1:
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:20 ami think you should come out with us next time haha :beer1:
I might just do so, lol. Actually i was hoping to meet some of you's when i was last in Cambodia, but couldn't log into my account. Asked for a password, never got it.

never mind.

What do you think of Bangala road in Phuket. Been there Jamie?
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shnoukieBRO wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:39 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:20 ami think you should come out with us next time haha :beer1:
I might just do so, lol. Actually i was hoping to meet some of you's when i was last in Cambodia, but couldn't log into my account. Asked for a password, never got it.

never mind.

What do you think of Bangala road in Phuket. Been there Jamie?
been twice, hated it, ive only ever been to walking street in Pattaya 3 times mate, over priced tourist hell holes mate

well me, Barang Doa Slae, Bolueeleh and Raybull are all meeting up in Pattaya end of October if youre around,
welcome to meet up for some beers, will be there from the 23rd Oct,
i will be in Patts and Hua Hin for a few weeks then will be back in Cambodia early November
might pop back to Patts or Hua Hin for Xmas
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:46 am well me, Barang Doa Slae, Bolueeleh and Raybull are all meeting up in Pattaya end of October if youre around,
welcome to meet up for some beers, will be there from the 23rd Oct,
i will be in Patts and Hua Hin for a few weeks then will be back in Cambodia early November
might pop back to Patts or Hua Hin for Xmas
If i'm there, i'll give you's a shout. Cheers. :hattip:

Yea, was in Phuket many Years ago, just a few days. Even then it was too expensive. Mind you i've heard that because of that many young dudes are actually pulling the girls in the discos. Maybe free like home?

What about 'ordinary girls', are ordinary girls in Bangkok difficult, if you speak some Thai, for example, or what if you don't? I mean stating the obvious, if the girl likes a man, that's a gamechanger, but obviously in places like Pattaya which is basically a big you know what, it's peobably 'not normal', not to pay, right?
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