Phuket - Well just wanted to say hello to the board.

pancake31 · #1 30-10-2003, 18:09

Hi!!

Well I have not been to phuket since 95, the last time I was there.

I have to say that during all my stays there I have always had a lot of fun. I dont think any of the girls that I know is in the scene anymore.
I have been in thailand alone(you really never are alone) and with friends.

I dont think that I ever will go back to thailand since you dont bring food to a restaurant. I can tell you that I have spend a lot of money on some trips and been economical on others. Well when I was there in 95, I think my daily budget was around 300 US$ at that time.

To give you an advice dont save money on your vaccation. Tip the girls if they are worth it. I had one friend who when we arrived to do some diving thought it was too expensive to do the diving trips so he stayed in the hotel instead. Well it aint that cheap but the waters are worth it.He didnt have much fun I can tell you that. DONT BE CHEAP.

I have always loved christin massage and I still have some badges at home with letters and numbers on. I stopped counting on how much money I have spend there. The official price was 1800 superstar and 1500 normal in 95. Well I usually bought the girl out at 10PM. When I craved for something extravaganza. I think my total massage encounters are somewhere around 100 times. MY advice dont be shy when you go in there and tell them what you want. Listen to what "papasan" had to say. Especially if you are in the mood for a 3way or 4way -> 2x2 or 2x4 if you have a good friend and you are not shy and have some money that are burning in your wallet. They are not always truthful but do ask to see the "book" with the stars in. Each star represent a customer that the girl have had during the day. I tried to pick a girl with none or just one customer for the day when I was there. It helps to speak thai not that my thai was that good but good enough to avoid being scammed or conned. There were only a select few that knew that i could understand thai and thats was exactly how I wanted it. I had a friend living in phuket who was a swiss and worked for a travel agency and spoke fluent thai so that opened many doors that were normally closed for us foreigners.

Actually my best place beside christin was the karaoke bars in the outskirts of phuket town. My friend and me was always the only white people in the place and there was no english on the menus. Hence no white tax either. And the girls a just stunning gorgeous there. Well you have to work for it there since money doesnt talk there. I remember a big dark karaoke place, dont remember the name but it was like a thai only place. No english there either. I the swiss and the manager of the guesthouse I stayed in and the limo driver used to go there. It was the only place that was so dark inside, just like some BKK clubs are. Well I dont want to go x-rated on this board but it was always fun to have sex in the dark there.

The go-go and the beer bars, well I was there but very rarely did I pick something up there. I did go to banana disco and some freelancers were worth it. Titanic was the other disco that was around at that time I think. I still remember when my buddies where there since one of them have a problem with thai girls. He used to go to Kenya but that another story. Whenever he met a nice girl in phuket that he wanted to take home he always said that he was hung like a horse but the girls didnt belive him. So he ended coming back 20 minutes later when the girl realized that he didn't lie. He met some girl at banana disco who could take it all and he stayed with her for the reminder of the trip. Yes he brought his own condoms with him but even the xxl was tiny so he said.

One night I met an aussie there at the katoy bar, well it wasnt my favorite bar but my swiss friend liked it there. He told me some stories and I didnt belive him. I think was my 4th journey to Phuket. So I got puzzled of what he said that. So i decided that I have to try out a katoy to see if what he said was true. I had a post-op katoy it didnt really matter if it was post or pre since I was only interested in a BJ.
I took the same katoy that was with the aussie after he departed. The katoy spend all his money on surgeries and he looked like a woman, almost too stunning for a woman. Well to get back to the story....
I had a BJ and the aussie was right god dammit. It was the best BJ I have had to this day. Sure if you are with the same woman for a long time you can train them/tell them to do it your way. But this was without any guidance at all. This is a BJ I will remember for life. Well it was actually more than one. But it was only for one night. I was afraid to get hooked on this katoy. So I stayed out of soi katoy for some days.

One of my favorite food places was the swedish restaurant charlies opposite cadillac guesthouse. I always had my pancakes there on thursdays. I could close my eyes and eat the pancakes and I was home in sweden for a couple of minutes. I did try out a lot of restaurants but I dont remember all the names. Seafood was pricey but it was worth it.

I still remember the first time I ordered tom-yam-kung(thai way) and I was sweating like a pig and my mouth was burning. If you eat spicy food keep a plate with plain white rice next to you and if it burns just eat some white rice to sooth your burning mouth. Fluids wont help much.

Well do I have some bad experiences ?

Well if you have a friend that changes girls daily or several times each day. Do yourself a favor and take a vaccation on the vaccation from him. I dont know how many time his girls were involved in cat fights. All I know that darwin was right"survival of the fitest". I actually think my friend enjoyed so he could go home with the winner. My friend had a sexdrive that is not of this world and yes we didnt use any pills. I didnt see him that much since he was shagging the whole time.Still to this day I would never use any pills to get it up. It got sore anyway and no pill can cure that.

OR

when a girl climb into my balcony and my room and discover that i'm in a 3-some with 2 other girls.

So what did I do when I wanted a vaccation from him ?

I went to phi-phi island for 4 days and changed my behavior. I lied and talked BS for 4 days with backpacker girls. I actually ended up in a 3 way with 2 british broads. Well one of them was not so good lookin, so it was like a package deal. They said either both of them or nothing at all. So I left phi-phi still sore.

I dont really know what is more fun going to christin or the karaoke bars or lie to the back packer girls when they ask if i'm a so called sex tourist when I'm in phuket. Sometimes its more fun to work on it. Like when the kings mother died in thailand I think and all bars closed at 1 am. I was in line to banana and there was this greek girl who got a one week vaccation from her parents. She was alone and didnt know anybody and she had 3 days left and she told me that it was so boring in phuket.!!!!
Well she had taken the tours each day like kajaking and james bond island and she went to bed early. Well we had some serious fun the last 3 days she was there. I got letters from her the following year asking me to come and visit her in Tessaloniki but I didnt feel for it. She was hot really hot after I shaved her. I dont like a rainforrest between the legs. "Det ska vara kalhygget" ---> clean shaven. Is the way to go.
Well even today I wonder if I made the right decisions in my life.

I was close to get married to a thai girl but logic prevailed.

A friend of mine took a thai girl home and she went to school in sweden to learn swedish and some other stuff but when you live in sundsvall it get winter early and pretty cold. But it wasnt that that broke her down eventually it was the family and all of her friends in thailand. She got a job as a hairdresser in sweden. Same job as she had in thailand.

Sure i like warm temperture but I dont think I could live in thailand. I miss snow too much. Well I live in sandiego,USA no snow and extremely little rain here. I can always go to big bear if I feel that I need to ski a little. But I cant do that in thailand. Today i'm married with kids and all I have is sweet memories of the wild side of me.

Protect yourself:

Well I have never had any VD's but I have been foolish. Dont take chances. Since I have been lucky, mostly maybe since I avoided the bar girls. Condoms do crack sometimes. The christin girls are said to be checked BUT its better to stay safe than sorrow. Always have condoms with you and have plenty of them with you. Or buy them if the lust comes and you dont have any. I think i used condoms in 95% of the intercourses. Bj was usually bareback. There were always the unplanned sex that was foolish, like when you are on the beach in the night and an urge hits you or on the viewpoint between patong and karon beach when the girl back on the bike was rubbing it. No store and no condoms what the hell lets do it witout. There was this girl at christin that I never used condom with. The blue pill didnt exist at this time and when you are going several rounds its get hard to do it with a condom on.
She always insisted of finishing me off in her mouth while looking me stright in the eyes. She was one of the few that really enjoyed oral sex and I had a lot of 69 with her.

Well I have a lot of memories to tell not just from thailand.

Here comes a question that I will answer in the next posting here on the board. Its from my memories about the cheapest BJ ever.

A ****** once approached me and asked me if I wanted a Bj. I asked how much is it going to cost me and she answered ##########.

PS ! I'm married to a filipino woman if that means anything

Thaiger · #2 30-10-2003, 22:22

That was a post after my heart!

Very long, very interesting, and I can't wait for the next posting!

Please give us some more, pancake31 !!!

Thaiger.....

Bobby · #3 31-10-2003, 13:39

300 $ / day ???? Umh !!! In 4 days, you spend more than what 1 earn in 1 month ????

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Originally Posted by pancake31

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I dont think that I ever will go back to thailand since you dont bring food to a restaurant. I can tell you that I have spend a lot of money on some trips and been economical on others. Well when I was there in 95, I think my daily budget was around 300 US$ at that time.

Cheap charlie no good ! Welcome back Jimmy !

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Originally Posted by pancake31

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To give you an advice dont save money on your vaccation. Tip the girls if they are worth it. I had one friend who when we arrived to do some diving thought it was too expensive to do the diving trips so he stayed in the hotel instead. Well it aint that cheap but the waters are worth it.He didnt have much fun I can tell you that. DONT BE CHEAP.

pancake31 · #4 31-10-2003, 18:33

Well I ended with a question...

A ****** once approached me and asked me if I wanted a Bj. I asked how much is it going to cost me and she answered 4 marlboro ciggs.

Location for this offer ? Tuzla, Bosnia 1993

Price for 20 Liters of diesel: around 100 DEM
Price for one box of marlboro: around 130-140 DEM

Black market prices....

Well a reply said that I had a lot of money to spend. Well to reply back to you is that if you dont spend money you get a lot of money.

I was a UN-Troop for 2 years didnt spend much money other than to 4 pack a day smoke and some whisky or beer.

To side track a little bit since this is a phuket board. I will tell you about how it was in Tuzla 94. Well I met the pimp that arranged for ******s in Hotel Tuzla. You might imagine that the pimp is an old geezer with a sidearm and some other heavy duty weapon. You will all be wrong.
It was a kid on 12 or 13 years old, maybe since he spoke english fairly good. SO what about the prices... Hotel and 2 ******s was around 190 DEM at the time or 140 DEM for one. We swedes were not allowed to check in there for our 60 hours leave. But the Norwegians were.

One thing that I have learned is where ever there are war there are also prostitution. Take the Jordanians who bought marlboros in the PX and then traded it for sex with the locals. Even I wont sink that low.
I didnt even accept the cheapest ******* (4 ciggies) other than free off course. Well I wouldnt feel any teeth at least if I went for it, since my baby has more teeth than what she had. She wasnt that old maybe around 30-35 something. I know MP was hounding the jordanians and some got caught with their pants down. Well if you felt desperate you always had sucking Sigrid(swedish woman) on the swedish camp. The guards saw some action there with their night vision equipment. There were rumors that some of the interpreters who was working for us was ex ******s at hotel tuzla but nothing is confirmed even to this day. I think one of the interpreters got married to a swedish captain. Even though the batalion order prohibit us from socially interact(socially intercourse) with them. Strange that the batalion order changed after a while and this rule was then omitted.

In part 3 I will tell you a little bit about prostitution in Zagreb.

The reason my budget was high in thailand was that when you are in uniform you are always horny. The pants are fluffy and big and is always rubbing my rod. haleluja haleluja haleeeeluuuujaaa. So when i did have my leave I wanted to feel like a king. Well you can feel like a king with a lot less money than I had. but you need the money if you take the christin girls out.

But did I live fancy while I was in thailand ?
I lived in a place called shamrock park Inn and I payed less than 200 Baht a night. No fridge just a fan and no hot water. The bed that was made to shag in and 2 chairs and a table. But it was like a mansion to me, who normally have to share the same space with 3 other guys.

It seems that no one of the girls complained about my room. And yes I always had the same room whenever i got to phuket. And in the long run that is NOT GOOD. Ex girls comes and nock on the door but instead of taking the girls home. I just went to their place--> problem solved.
(I hear you knocking but you cant come in,(old song)Another thing is that when you go to their places you get a little bit more insight about the girls.

I was with one thai girl who was the barowner or leased the bar. I didnt really inquire since I didnt care but she was the top dog. She had a couple of girls and I stayed with here for some time. Most people just see the fasad or the front of this prostitution but I know the back side as well and thats the ugly side of it. The youngest bargirl she had was 11 but the girl itself said when she was being picked up that she was 19.
I dont remember what have happened with her parents but something did happen and she had to provide the family with money. I didnt know if I was going to cry or laugh when the farrang took her away for the night. She wasnt my type anyway. But i'm pretty hard to please. You line up 100 bar girls and I might find 3 or 4 that are attractive or shaggadelic. This bar owner was a shaggadelic woman. She was a couple of years younger than me and she was wild. Lucky I didnt have anything else on the side while I was with her. She demanded a lot.
Well I was fit at this time not a sixpack but no flabby fat either. Today the lovehandles are there and I have a small KEG in the front. We used to have sex inside her bar where she does the paperwork etc to make sure that the girls get the right commision for drinks etc. She would either ride me slowly or I would hide under the desk and give her my tongue. She liked to dress in a leather skirt with no panties on. She was the one who liked to ride my rod while on the bike traveling between patoon and karon or kata. She was a hot tempered girl normally but I didnt feel any wraith from her. She had her goons if someone treated her bar girls badly. So she said. But she explained for the farrangs the "rules" when they paid the bar fine and took some girl out. There was never any problems with the bar girs during my time with her.
The next time i came to phuket she was not there and her room-mates just said she left to BKK. Well I was not that infatuated with her but I sure missed my hot bike rides and her moaning sound. I bought her some gifts and clothes but hey i got free food free beer and free rod service and I even stayed at her room but I never checked out from my room.
I just have nice words to say about her.

I used to label the girls with color from the thai money. So a purple girl was 500 and a white was 1000 then a double white was 2000.

Another thing I read on this message board was that every bar have at least one stunner. Well thats in the eye of the beholder. I my mind its maybe 3 stunners in each soi of soi bangla and thats being optimistic.

I have always liked to play pool and during my early visits there all bars basically closed early and the pool halls was the only place that was open 24 hours. I always bought an ice bucket and a bottle of mekhong and some cokes whenever I started to play pool. I'm about average pool player but beware there are thai pool sharks and most of them are girls. Did I really care if I lost some baht at the pool table ?
Not a chance. But I had some serious fun there. So I'm about to tell you a story about what happened one night.

I started the evening as usual with the bucket and the mekhong and I put my name up on the chalkboard. There was not that many names on it and i knew all of them who were playing. In comes a new girl, which I have not seen before. She was one of the few that was shaggadelic.
My time was up and i got the cue and I won my game and then some more so she was up to play. She said You want to play a 500 baht game, why not. I ended up winning the game and got 500 Baht. She signed up on the chalkboard. I lost eventually to some other player and when she was up, she won her game. She said again 500 baht and I said ok. I won that game. She was good but she didnt have lady luck on her side. It started to get late and there were only me and her and 2 others and the girl that worked there so serve beer and set up the balls on the table. So the next time her and I played she said a 1000 baht. Ok I said and then I lost the game. I was even. I was buzzed but not drunk. RULE NO1: NEVER GET DRUNK WHEN YOU DONT HAVE FRIENDS WITH YOU especially when you are outside of your hometown. The next game we played was the last one I will play since I said that I was going to get some sleep. I was not that sleepy but i just wanted to relax. So she said last game a 1000 baht. I said the bet sounds boring. I said if you win I give you 2000 baht but If I win you come with me to my room for the night. She said something in thai to the girl who worked there and then accepted the bet.At this final game there was only me and her and the girl who worked there. Needless to say I won the game and she kept her promise. Would I be mad if she didnt ? nah .She actually stayed with me for a couple of days but we didnt do any more pool bets.

I have always been a happy camper, just like my baby and we have all heard about happy ******s. But what about angry ******s or unhappy ******s ......
Some are even better than actresses and can cry on command with tears and puffy eyes if you dont pay them what they want. I have seen this behavior so many times and its always kind of funny when you see him pull up some reds or a purple how the girls suddenly shine like the sun.

ANOTHER GOLDEN RULE: Do the business before any action take place if you want to be on the safe side.

I like to know the girls better and usually talked some time, before getting to the room. So I knew what they do and dont know when we come to the room.

pancake31 · #5 31-10-2003, 18:35

(Had to split my posting since it was longer than 10000 characters)

Have you checked the girls handbag when they come to the room. Nah you probably say I'm a gentleman I dont poke around in their handbags. Well I dont do that normally either but if you do, there is a big chance that you will find a razorblade in there.... and it not used to shave their body with. Some girls who have had a bad experience that blade is the only defense they have. I have seen girls that have been beaten up and its not a pretty sight.

Some girls are using drugs as well to cope with it or sniffing some glue stuff. So if you find glue in her handbag......

Publicly you wont find that many angry ******s who have been scammed out of their money since its embarassing for them to say that they were cheated out of their fair share.

Like one of my friends said I dont pay the ******s to come to my room.I pay them to leave.

Some ******s are really smart. Its them you need to be careful about. I have heard some farrangs say when i talk with them at the bars. That they have the girls for free etc. or they didnt want any money. Then they get to know the guys and when its time for departure she has his address and sooner or later it will come a letter and say that the family cow has died or someone is sick and please can you send some money. You then think well she stayed with me for free so why not. After a while you are making small monthly payments to her. Or she has a business proposal for you ----> renting a bar or buying one or opening a karaoke bar etc. thats the big payout for them if you send them the huge money for that investment. Since you probably will never see them or the money again.

A friend of a friend was investing in rubber trees with a thai girl and to keep the story short he didnt even get rubber for one bicycle tire. He was scammed. Well she did purchase rubber trees but did he get anything out of it ? Nada zilch nothing. She still lives in phuket and so does he. Well he scammed american express and she scammed him. So it is what they say "easy come easy go" "what goes around comes around". When a scammer scams a scammer and get away with it. She in this case must have been a good scam artist.

I have had several proposals to rent a bar. The cheapest one was 20000 Baht for 6 months I think it was. I declined as always. I'm not interesting in that kind of stuff. BUT if I did I would have some golden rules.Treat all girls equal and DONT have sex with any of them. I have seen enough barowners who constantly are having fights with the girls and takes one of them home on an alternate basis. When I was there I spoke to some of the owners and some of them were just huge jerks.

I dont think they are there but they were 2 cabby drivers from Stockholm, Sweden. One got married to a thai girl and bought a bar on the soi where playschool a go-go was. I wonder if that had a happy ending ?

Well I think this was all I had to type today... More to come.

peejay · #6 31-10-2003, 23:25

I enjoyed your posts very much.
Thank you and keep writing!

Nicke · #7 01-11-2003, 03:37

Hi Pancake,

I dont have any comments to your texts but I also enjoy reading them very much. Thanks for your contribution.

About barowners and their girls, I can say I never go to bed with the girls working for me, there are so many girls around so there is no reason to make problem for myself in that way. And I have gf most of the time too, maybe 50% of my time spent in Phuket.

Andi · #8 01-11-2003, 05:12

GF 50% of my time....? What a beautiful comment! I will use that nxt time. 50% GF outside LOS and 50% BG in LOS. Go Nicke.
No I'm just joking. But how many of you Forum guys have something outside LOS? Or are you all sooooo lonely outside LOS???? I don't think so. But when you got a taste of LOS, damn!!!! It hard to stop wanting more. ////Andi

richie007 · #9 01-11-2003, 17:47

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Originally Posted by ALi

GF 50% of my time....? What a beautiful comment! I will use that nxt time. 50% GF outside LOS and 50% BG in LOS. Go Nicke.
No I'm just joking. But how many of you Forum guys have something outside LOS? Or are you all sooooo lonely outside LOS???? I don't think so. But when you got a taste of LOS, damn!!!! It hard to stop wanting more. ////Andi

I have a GF outside LOS......but I just can't help myself

Pancake I really enjoyed your posts. You seem to have some great insightful info.

Good stuff!!

pancake31 · #10 02-11-2003, 17:45

Hi Again !!!!

To start with..

Well i wanted to say some precautions about the road conditions in Phuket especially between Patong and Karon. You probably know this already or you are being told this when you rent a bike. The roads get VERY slippery when it rains there, most people know this who are returning travelers. (Maybe the roads are better today than when I was there) But nobody told me this the first time I was there. Lucky I had a big bike at that time and I skidded a little bit but I dont drive fast so it was not a major deal. I was probably the slowest 750 cc in the whole Phuket. But I like the sound of the bike. All times after that I always rented the normal scooter(100 or 125 cc) but they are fast belive me or I rented a 125 cc dirt bike for trekking. The speed that I was driving I could have manage on a 1 hp 50cc 30 km moped. Its not really about money why I rent a bike when I'm there vs taking the local tuk-tuk.
I trust the tuk-tuk drivers less than my own ability to drive and off course the convinience of not having to look for tuk-tuk when I need one. You can always have fun in back... If you are only 2 there but usually the driver picks up more passengers and the fare get a little less. I dont remember the price for a tuk-tuk between patong and kata but I do remember something like a two-way trip was equal to the daily rent for the smaller bikes. I didnt consider renting a car since its just way to hard to find parking space. I dont mind driving from the right side otherwise. Today its probably way to "touristi" to be in patong with all new hotels and resorts. More housing as well. So I assume that the newer roads are in better condition than the old ones

If you have a TV in your room and a vcr and just want to relax some days and just kick back. I suggest that you go and rent some movies. If you dont have a vcr you can rent one at the videostore. Tough luck if you have the hotel type tv where you cant unhook the cable. Videos to rent were dirt cheap AND They do have a huge selection behind the counter of selected movies. They even have movies that are in the theaters in USA but they are low in quality of picture. The same kind of movies that you can download on the internet today. Adult selection exist as well. So why not skip the the pill and got natural instead and have some slow video foreplay or have a group therapy sex session instead, if you are not shy. Thailand copyright protection was non-existent when I was there, might have changed today.

If you are a group of people there are houses to rent, fully furnished but I dont know so much about it. But I remember it was comparable to a hotel room if you were 4 people +. Check the webpages for more info since its way more fun to stay in a house than in a hotel room. Imagine just walk nude the whole day indoor with your buddies and the girls. Fun way to have group sex and watch each other during the reload. For people who still need a supplemental intake of stimuli after wathing live sex I can only think 2 reason for doing it. Either you see something you dont want to see or you are just step away from the grave(better hurry home to arrange the funeral)

BTW I have seen some awesome live sex in some clubs in BKK. The room were so dark that you could get a Bj or regular intercourse and nobody will know about it in the club, if its done nicely. Well we do have swinger clubs here in USA. But I dont think they are that popular in thailand. The best lesbian show I have ever seen was in Budapest in a club called the blue angel. The girls used toys and whipped cream on each other. The price was for one hour, 300 DEM(1993) and they used a timer. Thats what I like with thailand no pressure and I have never seen any girl using a timer or clock to tell me that the short time is over.

THE four F:s (doesnt really apply to ******s)
1. Find them (easy)
2. Food them (either before or after depending on the mood/urgency
3. F**k them (dont go too deep if you have a large equipment, ask first or feel the vibe from them)
4. Forget them (maybe the hardest one if you find a rare stunner)

Well I have a lot of pictures but I only have one picture left here in USA from all my thai traveling. My car got stolen a couple of years ago when I was a student here and all my pictures where in the trunk.
I still have all negatives in Sweden so its not a major disaster.
My wife have not even seen that one. I see if I can scan it and post it here later on.

One thing that I really liked in the morning (or noon deping on how you look at it)beside sex was coffee and STRAWBERRY MILK. Still buy that to this day here today in USA. Yummy.

Peace out until the next post

PS!! Of all the girls that I have had sex with in thailand only a handful wanted to do IT in the dark. Well I usually knew this information before I decided to take them home

r3aps · #11 03-11-2003, 01:36

i enjoyed your posts keep em comming.
thxs steve

pancake31 · #12 03-11-2003, 20:44

Well is there anything to shop in thailand ?

Well according to my beliefs there are several items that are a good buy.

Clothes: Shirts(silk), Suits(silk or heavy silk)(tailor made), Kimonos(silk)
Good quality at good prices. There might be other stuff as well that might be considered a good buy if you like like crocodile skin stuff.

Unfortunatly I no longer fit most of the clothes i bought when I was there.

I'm tired of buying kimonos since all female friends wants one, so pile them up for someones birthday etc.

Certain brand items that are fakes. Like lacoste shirts or zippo lighters ,rayban etc. Just be aware about the quality, that might be low compare to the original.

THE HAGGLE: (especially from street vendors)

If you like to haggle you will like thailand since this must be the haggeling mekkha. Personally I was so tired of it. I didnt really go for the absolute lowest price I could find. But low enough to make it worth my time. The chance that you will many vendors that sell the same item are 100%. In my example i will use a zippo as a reference.

Vendor 1: You ask the price for the zippo and he say 500 baht. You then say 400 if he accepts you say that you will be back later.

Vendor 2: he say 500 you say 350. If he accepts you just tell him that you will be back later.

You work yourself down in price from vendor to vendor until you say a price that no vendor will accept. Then you have a faily low price of the item. Depending on how much time you want to spend you can haggle around like a maniac. I dont want to spend to much time so I went to only a couple of the vendors. But if you like doing this then go for it and spend some hours to save a couple of baht and have fun at the same time. If you buy many of the same kind you will also get a better price.
I was not that good with this, so ask someone you trust to help you save some time and money. The girls usually helps out since they think the better price you get the more money for them. The price also depends on where the vendor is located etc.

I personally like to pay cash for my items no matter where I bought it.
Credit cards and passports are big business there and I dont want to give them my plastic number.

Continue later

pancake31 · #13 05-11-2003, 17:21

Well I remember when I was there talking to my swiss friend. That people do sell their passports if they want/need some extra cash. Then they go to the embassy and get a new one. I dont remember the exact price but it was actually a lot of money you could get for it. Same with credit cards you report them as lost 24 hours later.

I'm still pissed that I didnt arrive 2 weeks earlier on one of my visits to phuket in 94. They were shooting the movie cutthroat Island with Gena Davis and Matthew Modine and my swiss friend was in it and so where some other people I knew as extras. The pay was 100 US$ a day. But they worked hard 0700 to late in the evening. Van damme did a movie there as well about the same time. My swiss friend know the guy that arrange for extras to filmcrews in phuket. It would have been so cool. They were shooting there for 2 weeks. Not a huge pay for all the work they put into it. My friend lost several kilos due to all the training they had to do with the fencing. But imagine poping in a dvd and pause it when you see yourself. What will your friends will say....

There were some students at the school here in sandiego who were in the titanic movie that was filning just south of the boarder. One guy actually had 3 parts in the movie and he even had some lines in it.

Well i watched myself on CNN an early morning when I did the journalist trip outside of Belgrade when I was a un-troop. That was my 5 seconds of fame.

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