Lotus Hotel, Chiang Mai, recommended
April 29, 2009 at 02:11 | In Gay Chiang Mai, Hotels and transport, Mack's reports | 2 CommentsTags: Lotus Hotel Cnx
March 2009:
There’s another hotel with a similar name – Lotus Pang Suan Kaew – which is not gay at all, and one has to be careful when arriving in Chiang Mai to make sure the tuktuk takes you to the right one.
“Lotus Hotel,” I said, adding the name of the street, “Thanon Viang Bua.”
He assured me he knew and after a bit of bargaining, lopping 20 baht off his asking price, we were off.
It’s a small hotel with, I think, 10 – 12 rooms, with verdant trees and bushes giving shade to its front porch.
The interior was furnished in dark wood and subtly patterned wallpaper, giving the rooms a heavy feel and harking back to a period with more florid taste. Still, it had all the modern amenities that one could expect for its affordable price, including an electronic safe in the room. Continue reading Lotus Hotel, Chiang Mai, recommended…
One, two, oops
April 21, 2009 at 23:24 | In Gay Chiang Mai, M2M massage, Mack's reports | 1 CommentTags: One-2-Come Massage Cnx
March 2009:
“One-2-come, I know,” said the tuktuk driver waiting for passengers near Chiang Mai’s Thaphae Gate. I was surprised – do all tuktuk drivers know the locations of even smallish gay places? – and not a little relieved that he did, for this massage place had an address that was difficult to decipher. The map on its website also looked too simple to be trusted.
Eight minutes later, I was there, greeted by the sight of a charming garden house, on an unnamed soi off Changklan Road. Even more charming was the boy I spotted in the garden tidying the spirit house. This should be good, I said to myself. Continue reading One, two, oops…
Chiang Mai update – March 2009
April 18, 2009 at 21:22 | In Gay Chiang Mai, Gay host bars, M2M massage, Mack's reports | 1 CommentTags: Free Guy Host Bar Cnx, Circle Pub Host Bar Cnx, New My Way Host Bar Cnx
March 2009:
Things change. In Chiang Mai 14 months earlier, there were “barely concealed” hard-ons in the bar shows, as I wrote in the post Chiang Mai bars update – January 2008. What modesty there was was provided by the thinnest of sarongs or loincloths. This trip, even that pretence at modesty was done away with.
The shows have remained similar though – relatively static affairs, perhaps because the stages were too small to do more.
One thing I did notice this time, however, is that, to Chiang Mai’s credit, all the three main bars had comfortable seats and nice clean toilets. Circle Pub, and to some extent, Free Guy, seemed to have put in real effort at dressing up their rest rooms. If you have seen the cramped, grotty, smelly toilets of, say, Hotmale or Future Boys in Bangkok, you will weep with joy in Chiang Mai. Continue reading Chiang Mai update – March 2009…
Witching hour in Chinatown
April 16, 2009 at 21:36 | In Gay Singapore, Gay dance clubs, Mack's reports | Leave a CommentTags: Zirca Club Sgp
March 2009.
I first noticed him on Sunday night – a young man, maybe early twenties, about 170 cm tall, very handsome face, in a dance club full of beautiful men. This was Zirca, a club in Singapore’s Clarke Quay district by the river. Zirca is almost 100 percent gay Sunday nights.
With his shirt half-unbuttoned and a wide smile on his face, he walked towards me, as if we had met each other before. I was confused. I’ve never seen him before, have I? Was he approaching someone behind me? I looked, but the group behind me was completely engrossed in a conversation among themselves, leaning together, ears to friends’ lips, trying to hear something above the loud thumping music.
He must be walking towards me, then. Should I know him? Continue reading Witching hour in Chinatown…
Bangkok gogo bars update – March 2009(1)
April 15, 2009 at 00:44 | In Gay Bangkok, Gay gogo bars, Mack's reports | 1 CommentTags: Boys Bangkok Gogo Bar Bkk, Dream Boy Gogo Bar Bkk
March 2009:
What a difference two weeks made. This month I went into Dream Boys and Boys Bangkok twice each. I hadn’t intended to, but it was interesting nonetheless.
Doing my regular rounds soon after arriving in Bangkok in the early part of March, I caught the shows at Dream Boy on a Saturday night and at Boys Bangkok (its twin bar) the following Saturday.
Dream Boy was largely unchanged since a visit in mid 2008. The show consisted of many items I had seen previous times; the bar nearly full. Continue reading Bangkok gogo bars update – March 2009(1)…
Descending into old Ambassador
April 12, 2009 at 01:09 | In Gay Bangkok, Hotels and transport, M2M massage, Mack's reports | 7 CommentsTags: Ambassador Hotel Bkk
March 2009:
It was everything that I drearily expected. As it is, the Ambassador is a musty, tired hotel, its decor terribly dated, the spaces cold, dim and echoey. This cavernous place must have been an impressive destination once, the place to be and to be seen in, but now its faded glory is just pitiable, sustained only by package tourists.
Passing through its lobby and corridors, the only guests I see are fat Arabs and their veiled women walking a few steps behind them like so many camels, and loud Indian tourists trying to keep their families together and on time for the day’s program. Continue reading Descending into old Ambassador…
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