Sybarite

Funny that, but the dozens of empty seats on recent visits seem to suggest that you were in a desperate need for all the customers that you can lay your hands on...and then some.

I was walking along Soi 15 last December. I wasn't intending to go into Misty's but there was a Thai guy outside saying repeatedly " Lesbian show...come see lady show...lesbian show...come see lady show". But he was almost whispering it to himself, under his breath. I barely made out what he was saying. I think he would have got more customers going in if he had put on a cockney accent and hollered something like "Dirty slappers at work. Inside...lezzie show! Come have a look mate". Anyway I went in and yes there was lesbian, oily show of sorts happening. But the place was empty and whilst I supped on the draft puke in my glass I realised with growing amazement that the lesbian show was doing absolutely nothing for me. How could they make something as genuinely sexy as a lesbian show into something so completely uninteresting. It wasn't so much that the girls that were doing the show weren't so attractive...agreed that didn't help matters...but they just seemed to going through the motions rather than trying to put on a decent show. One drink and I was gone!

Mistyrious Pattaya Blog site eh?... Well here's a 'miss' report from a genuine member of this forum who visited recently

My very first trip was a four day excursion from India so I only took a small bag and carried it on the plane. I just hope that there is no one who comes on this forum to confess that they have caught herpes from unprotected sex or have been hospitalised because of a motor cycle crash and god forbid they weren't wearing a helmet. I can just imagine the outcry from the 'I told you so' brigade. If you take risks and nothing happens then you are liable to keep doing so until something does happen. It's human nature. I know plenty of experienced travellers who say to me, forget about those official check in times - you don't really need all that time at the airport in in practise. They turn up for all flights with 90 minutes or less to go and they have never missed a flight - yet. Lots of guys don't wear a helmet or a condom and nothing has ever happened to them - yet. If you know that guys thousands of guys regularly take risks with their lives in that way why do you find it so hard to believe that someone could take the risk and not follow to the letter the advice about getting to the airport with 3 hours to spare?

I'm glad I started this thread. Although this was the first time that I have ever missed my flight, and it came as a monsterous shock at the time, there have been many occasions before when I was in serious danger of doing so but things just happened to work out somehow and I scraped on to the plane just in time. I can remember the first time that I went to Thailand and I cut things really fine and I was sprinting down corridors with the public address system calling for the one remaining passenger to report to the gate as the plane was leaving. The guys had to re-open the gate as they had closed it one minute before and told the plane that they could take off without me. There have been other close calls since then but 11 flights to Thailand later I still had not missed a flight. This just made me complacent and perhaps I was in need of a wake up call. Yes, I know that I should report to check in 2 to 3 hours before the flight as a minimum but people don't always play safe and follow the guidance to the letter - this is properly a bad example but if people did not take silly risks then no one would bare back.

Mr T. vs. Mr. Toon? One collects you from the airport...the other refuses to go to the airport.

Well I didn't want to prolong this debate but I just thought that I would clear up this last query of yours. Just to make it clear - although I only ordered 4 drinks another 4 were ordered 'on my behalf'. As I mentioned earlier... Then you queried my observation that Mistys never ever seems to be busy whenever I have visited. I had said.. You not surprisingly disagreed.. Well, don't just take my word for it...this is what LBJ observed when he popped in to see the effects of your latest 'Mistys Madness' campaign, only just 3 days ago.

What about my 'girlfriends' who work at Baby Dolls?

Forget the financial costs, it's the thoughts about what you could have been doing if you weren't stuck at home that really hurt.

How are you going to do all that if the girls refuse to meet any of the guy's gaze and carry on dancing with their nose in the air as if they are staring out over the great unwashed...you're going to look a bit silly waving frantically at them to attract their attention whilst they still continue to ignore you

I'm giving some thought at the moment as to asking MM to close this thread. I thought it would serve as a timely reminder to others that no matter how many times you have flown to Thailand you can't afford to become complacent and start rolling up near to the cut off time for check-in...confident that you can blag your way on to the plane if you are late. After all, no one wants you to miss your flight to the land of sin do they?! But people keep mentioning the matter in other threads that I am posting in...and I am understandably getting more than a little hacked off.

If it was 0 baht I would still be complaining why they weren't now giving us money to take the girls away

Alan, I seem to remember about a year ago that it used to be 200 baht after 2am, not 250 baht, and then 100 baht after 3am till close

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