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RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-11, 12:22 pm

Mojito
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2 week mongering trip in Thailand (Bangkok and Pattaya)

1st day – Rest and relaxation, older age is finally catching up on me! This whole day was just for recovering from jet lag after a flight from the UK to Bangkok. Nothing special to report.
2nd day – Stayed in Nasa Vegas (as I did the previous day), it was quite convenient to get there from the airport and it was quite a cheap hotel. I believe this is a good starting place to go for a trip. I walked around (for what seemed like an eternity until I finally picked up a decent street walker).
Her name was Apple, she wanted 2000 THB for short time (which included 1 shot and up to 2 hours). I thought that was fine and did not want to haggle as I prefer girls to get paid what they want (as long as it is reasonable) so I can get good service in return.
She had a pair of sexy 3 inch, black high heels on and a black dress. She was a curvy woman, not thin at all. She had a big butt and an enhanced D cup, which actually felt a little hard to touch. But I do quite the like the slightly curvier woman from time to time, so it was no problem for me!
Apple had black, undyed hair with fake hair extensions and the typical Thai whitening make-up powder and a darker shade of red lipstick.
Apple was not a stunner by any stretch of the imagination but she was just what I needed after a long haul flight. I would still rate her 6.5/10, possibly 7/10 with her alluring attire.
She sucked well, albeit a little too hard at times and fucked pretty decently. In between the sex acts, we both felt really hungry and we both ordered some room service (which I gladly paid for). It goes back to my philosophy of making girls happy and being a decent human being.
I enjoyed her occasional licking and sucking my balls, her licking my ears and neck as a form of foreplay and to keep up my erection. She tried her best to deepthroat too and was successful, using her tongue to seductively lick my balls.
After food, we fucked and fucked in all the main positions, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, missionary, doggy style, 69, Bombay roll, alternating every now and then with a handjob and blowjob on my request.
I was pretty tired but after a lot of pumping in doggy style and seeing her ample derriere, whilst feeling her big, fake, albeit slightly hard tits. I finally came and felt like I had unloaded a lot of stress in to her.
She quickly turned around and gave a quick clap and a cheeky smile. I liked her attitude and service. I felt I got good value for money and I enjoyed her company.
She cleaned herself up and I escorted her to get a taxi back to where ever it was that she needed going. She gave me her mobile phone number but I decided to put it in the bin as soon as she had got on the taxi and in to the distance. This was no place to fall in love or be too sentimental. As least I thought so. The cold hearted cynicism would later wear off on this trip...


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Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-11, 12:23 pm

Mojito
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3rd day – scout and reconnaissance. Not much worth seeing around Nasa Vegas.
4th day – Moved to Majestic Suites near Nana.
I met a street walker near Nana Plaza called Bo, she wanted to charge 3000 THB. That was no problem as I was quite attracted to her sexy, tight, low cut and short length pink dress. She also had brown wedged heels which complimented her slightly browner skin colour very well. She matched it with a glossy, pink lip stick and some pink coloured accessories on her wrists. As soon as we got back to my hotel, I whispered sweet nothings in to her ear. Tried my best to get her really wet with some gentle fingering, sucking her nipples, licking her ears.
I started pounding away at her like there was no tomorrow as she was physically more attractive than the first girl and she seemed to enjoy rough sex with the odd “Yes, fuck me harder”. Which upon hearing, made me even more rock hard.
We alternated between vaginal and oral sex and she even offered a 69, which I gladly accepted. Whilst I was tonguing her arsehole and pussy, I tried to do some more forceful fingering...which slowly led to some vaginal fisting. It made me very erect.

As we were approaching the 90 minute mark, I pounded her in doggy style until she started bleeding profusely. I do not know what it was, but in the spur of the sexual moment and the thought of wrecking her pussy with my fingering, fisting and rough fucking...I came very, very hard.
After sex, I could not move for 5 minutes. I noticed how much blood was on the bed sheets and felt a little sorry for her. I asked if she would be willing to see me again tomorrow, but she said no, that she will probably need to go to hospital tonight or tomorrow. She kindly asked for some more money for medicine, to which I quickly paid her an extra 500THB and escorted her downstairs and paid in advance for her taxi to her next destination. I wanted the phone number from this girl, but she did not give it to me.

More to follow...
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-14, 10:50 am

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Wow man, I recommend a test for yourself at the hospital after so much blood. Never a good sign.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-17, 7:15 am

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5th day
Today was one of the best days of my life! I met a perfect, gorgeous Ladyboy who I shall call XXX. I asked her for her name twice, but her response was incomprehensible so to avoid any awkward situations. I did not probe further. We negotiated for a price and she asked for 8000THB for a maximum of 2 hours, possible multiple shots...which became more like 90 minutes. But I did not mind as the session turned out to be awesome. She was the perfect looking Ladyboy, very effeminate but not in a grossly exaggerated way. She wore a very seductive white dress which almost allowed most bystanders to stare into her crotch area! With an accompanying pair of brand new, glossy, matching 6 inch stiletto high heels – it was just divine to look at and made me rock hard. She could have quoted 10,000THB and I may still have gone for the session. She was particularly good at oral, I came in the condom whilst she was sucking my cock – this is a very rare occurrence. But it does show just how good she was at sucking, with lots of sensual, quick, tongue flicks and movements on my most sensitive cock parts.
When we went for round 2, I noticed she had a super sexy, all black, tribal design a la “TRAMP STAMP” on her lower back. This was amazing to look at, we fucked and fucked again. Her arsehole felt so good around my cock. She had prepared in advance, I am guessing she must have had an enema prior and she carried lots of lube with her to make her arsehole very accessible. I came in doggy style and noticed how much cum there was in the condom even though I had already just cum from her oral sex. I was so horny, I wanted to go for a 3rd time, she was just so physically and sexually attractive. We joined in the typical missionary position where the sight of her attractive face, long, beautiful, undyed, black hair, enhanced fake C cups and occasional moans and groans of pain/pleasure just made me unload. I have never cum 3 times in one night, never mind in one session. I actually started to feel like this girl of this kind of girl could be someone I could finally settle down with. I asked for her number, she gave me one – but I later found out it was a wrong number, she had given me a dud one. Perhaps, compared to her average customer – I was most likely “much more hard work”.

6thday
I met another Ladyboy called Angel, she wanted 5000THB. Angel was very different to other working girls I had before on this trip. She was super thin with no real curves at all and fairly tall with extremely angular facial features. She had a great body but she is the type of Ladyboy where people could definitely tell she was a Ladyboy. Her tits were also only an enhanced B cup, but coupled with her super tight body, it actually turned me on. We went back to mine and she started to upsell, blah, blah, blah. I tried to be as nice and diplomatic as I could be. When we eventually started sex, her blowjob was so rough – my penis actually felt very uncomfortable. The blowjob was a terrible, overall sexual experience. I also tried anal on her but she kept complaining of the pain, she kept screaming and shouting about how much it hurt. This actually turned me on even more, but eventually it got to the point where I just felt like I could not continue like my normal 2 hour sessions. I forced myself to cum whilst fucking her really hard in her arsehole, when I withdrew – I did notice some shit and bloodstains on the condom. For anyone who is mongering in Thailand – make sure you wrap up well. You do not want to have the risk of getting any STDs. You can guarantee that some of these girls have had an average Joe Bloggs barebacking them, or some sex depraved addict fucking them so hard that the condom burst. The session stopped after 45 minutes and I firmly asked her to leave, again this turned me on somewhat as I watched her dress up and then quickly leave my room.

7th day
Left Bangkok and travelled to Pattaya
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-25, 3:00 pm

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8000 baht for two hours is way over the top. Not sure how often you have been to Thailand but you need to stop thinking Western prices, Thailand is not Amsterdam. I have never paid in 10 years of visiting Thailand more than 3000 baht and that is for long time, where they will stay overnight. Never had a problem and never been asked for more. Pattaya is cheaper than Bangkok, should not pay more than 1000-1500 for short time and 2000 for long time. I am talking girls from bars not gogo's as I only go to bars. You will have a bar fine to pay the bar but usually only 300 to 500 baht.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-27, 11:06 pm

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I agree with Mike, you really shouldn't be overpaying for sessions in Thailand since it's a buyers market at all times. While you never want to haggle with them over price, they do expect you to negotiate a little and never expect to get more than market price. Any girl that demands more than that likely will give bad service. Fact is the girls don't really respect Farang who over pay and have a nasty little nickname for them. As pointed out, BKK is much more expensive than Pattaya and the girls are not better in either service or looks. You are hard pressed to find a long time girl in BKK, but it's pretty easy in Pattaya. You will also find many more burned out, and mercenary girls in BKK. For go-go girls the going rate for short time in BKK is 3,000, and long time 5,000 (again if you can find one). In Pattaya it's 1,500 and 3,000. The bar fine is getting higher everywhere unfortunately. As mike said in Pattaya beer bars are 300-500, but go-go clubs are often as much as 1,000-1,200 (some places it's still in the 800 range and just about everywhere there is a discount after midnight). Not quite sure what it is in BKK as I always head to Pattaya.

As a word of advice, never argue with a girl over anything. Even if she is going back on her word, just move on and take it as a learning experience. If you argue or heaven forbid fight with her it won't end well for you. You can politely remind them of the facts, and sometimes that makes a difference. If not, forget it, pay and move on to someone different tomorrow. I once had a girl agree to long time which I was very clear about in the bar and she was very clear in agreeing to it. Afterward she wanted to change it to short time and go out with her girlfriends. In fact she wanted me to go along with, but paying for 3-5 girls drinks all night long wasn't something I was willing to do with this particular girl. When told no thanks, she dressed and wanted to get paid for short time work. I told her she agreed to long time and I wouldn't have bar fined her otherwise. While I was prepared to pay at that time the going short time rate, instead she shockingly she gave me a kiss, said goodnight and left without payment. The point being while unhappy about her changing the agreement after the fact, I was perfectly willing to pay up the correct rate and let it go at that.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-03-30, 6:12 pm

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Anything above 2000TB for a ladyboy means your getting robbed...s
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-04-08, 6:23 am

Mojito
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8th – 10th day
Relaxing and recovering, eating/drinking well and some sightseeing...the boring stuff. Nothing to write home about.

11-13th day
Met a gorgeous Thai Ladyboy, I could tell that she was originally from the Isaan region of Thailand. Her name is Po, paid at the end of my trip, 10,000 THB for 3 full days of company and service. It was the perfect ending to the trip. Every morning, when we woke up – she would suck my cock really well until I came in the condom. Every night she would suck my cock again after lots of sex until I shot my load. On the last night – she even sucked without condom and swallowed my cum voluntarily. Amazing girl! I almost fell in love with her. But my brain ruled over my heart and I knew that this was only a holiday fling. Nevertheless, I do not want to write too much about Po – but for all mongers out there in Thailand, be careful. For the less experienced monger, it is very easy to “fall in love” with one of these working girls/ladyboys etc.

14th day
Left Pattaya to get a car back to Bangkok (with a very heavy heart) to catch my flight back to the UK.
Since I got back home, I have of course done a check up and am clean from any STIs. I always protect myself and it is good practice to wear a condom during sex. Only rarely will blowjobs occur without a condom.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-04-08, 6:41 am

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midsmike wrote:
8000 baht for two hours is way over the top. Not sure how often you have been to Thailand but you need to stop thinking Western prices, Thailand is not Amsterdam. I have never paid in 10 years of visiting Thailand more than 3000 baht and that is for long time, where they will stay overnight. Never had a problem and never been asked for more. Pattaya is cheaper than Bangkok, should not pay more than 1000-1500 for short time and 2000 for long time. I am talking girls from bars not gogo's as I only go to bars. You will have a bar fine to pay the bar but usually only 300 to 500 baht.


Thanks for the information midsmike, I have only been to Thailand 4 to 5 times.
I will keep your suggestion in mind to avoid being overcharged. Cheers mate!
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-04-08, 6:43 am

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fastone wrote:
I agree with Mike, you really shouldn't be overpaying for sessions in Thailand since it's a buyers market at all times. While you never want to haggle with them over price, they do expect you to negotiate a little and never expect to get more than market price. Any girl that demands more than that likely will give bad service. Fact is the girls don't really respect Farang who over pay and have a nasty little nickname for them. As pointed out, BKK is much more expensive than Pattaya and the girls are not better in either service or looks. You are hard pressed to find a long time girl in BKK, but it's pretty easy in Pattaya. You will also find many more burned out, and mercenary girls in BKK. For go-go girls the going rate for short time in BKK is 3,000, and long time 5,000 (again if you can find one). In Pattaya it's 1,500 and 3,000. The bar fine is getting higher everywhere unfortunately. As mike said in Pattaya beer bars are 300-500, but go-go clubs are often as much as 1,000-1,200 (some places it's still in the 800 range and just about everywhere there is a discount after midnight). Not quite sure what it is in BKK as I always head to Pattaya.

As a word of advice, never argue with a girl over anything. Even if she is going back on her word, just move on and take it as a learning experience. If you argue or heaven forbid fight with her it won't end well for you. You can politely remind them of the facts, and sometimes that makes a difference. If not, forget it, pay and move on to someone different tomorrow. I once had a girl agree to long time which I was very clear about in the bar and she was very clear in agreeing to it. Afterward she wanted to change it to short time and go out with her girlfriends. In fact she wanted me to go along with, but paying for 3-5 girls drinks all night long wasn't something I was willing to do with this particular girl. When told no thanks, she dressed and wanted to get paid for short time work. I told her she agreed to long time and I wouldn't have bar fined her otherwise. While I was prepared to pay at that time the going short time rate, instead she shockingly she gave me a kiss, said goodnight and left without payment. The point being while unhappy about her changing the agreement after the fact, I was perfectly willing to pay up the correct rate and let it go at that.


Thanks fastone, sounds like beer bars are the places to go. Cheers for the tips and in future, will do my best to pay the real going rate. :)
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-04-16, 11:37 pm

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Overpaying happens to us all from time to time. I have a favorite place for massage in Pattaya, on Soi 13.2. Last time I went the first girl I see wants 2,000 baht for a massage and full service. When I come back a few days later she isn't there so I take another girl instead. She wants 2,500 baht for the same thing, massage with full service. I counter offer 2,000 pointing out that's what I paid two days prior. She could care less, still wants 2,500. Mind you this negotiation is after the massage and while she is stroking me prior to sex as is standard practice in most massage parlors. So at this point I either agree to the higher price or be prepared to leave with blue balls. I tell her I'm ok with just the massage at which point she counters to 2,300 and we agree to full sex at that price. Needless to say she wasn't as good as the first girl who I come back to see three more times before coming home. Honestly it helps to negotiate everything before hand, which is easier said than done, as things do change from time to time. Same trip I bar fine a go-go girl back to my room for the evening (which I do every evening). We agree to long time, but that she could leave early at 5:00am to go home (something I don't prefer as I like I girl to stay later into the morning). After some great GFE sex we settle in for the evening together. About a half hour later she starts kissing me and grabs my unit wanting more (which I'm all for at anytime). After another great go around she gets up and starts to dress (it's about 3:00am at this point) saying she wants to leave early but made sure we did it twice to compensate. I probably would said something but after two times hitting it and it's only a few hours until 5:00am anyway I agree with out complaint. So I go to pay her the standard 1,500 baht short time, she said no she wants 2,000 instead. No problem I pay the 2,000 and we kiss goodbye. Afterward I understood where she was coming from as the 1,500 is standard for short time but keeping in mind short time is one time, not two times which is what we did so the 2,000 was more than fair. Even so, while she was very sweet to me and I did buy her a few drinks over the next week, I didn't bar fine her again as I do prefer a girl who stays longer than 5:00am.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2018-05-04, 1:48 pm

Mojito
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There's something about Thai girls and Thai Ladyboys that I just absolutely love and can't get enough of them.

I always feel their service is good and their blowjobs are absolutely amazing in a very stimulating way!
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-05-23, 5:14 am

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Over 2 years later, I am still thinking of XXX who I met on the 5th day.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-05-27, 6:00 pm

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I know how you feel, I often catch myself reminiscing about a few particularly good girls from time to time. While it's often nice to go back to your favorite club and see her smiling face, it's more likely she won't be there anymore. That goes double for a future trip since just about every single working girl has gone home at this point and some are not likely to ever return. Even if they do, it's probable they will be working a different bar or club.

Which brings up a point for those looking to visit Thailand. While things are still very fluid, the country is still in lockdown through the end of June. The country announce they want to start allowing travel in July for Thai citizens, and hope to start allowing foreigners to visit starting in September. Unfortunately those first visitors will be only from Asia (China, Japan, Malays, South Koreans, etc.). That might or might not include Australians and New Zealanders. It's not expected Europeans and Americans will be able to start visiting again until November (the traditional start of the high season).

It might be sooner since there is a lot of internal pressure to fully reopen the country for international tourism. It makes up a huge percentage of GDP. and even more since a lot of the money is off the books. The shut down has been devastating to the people since the country doesn't have a good safety net for the poor. Personally I'm planning on a return trip the day after Christmas, I figure by then it will be allowed and enough bars and girls will have gone back to work. Hopefully by next spring it will be close to normal again.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-05-28, 3:05 am

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As you say, Thailand is dependent on the tourism industry. It is indeed a huge proportion of their GDP.
However, for health and safety reasons I hope the government does not rush the re-opening.

At the moment, I am using a well known Thai porn website which charges a subscription fee (not sure if I am allowed to mention it here) and a Thai dating website which also charges a subscription fee (again, not sure if I can mention it here) to get my Thai fixes.

I am staying single and ensuring that I have no children (that I know of), for a life of wicked debauchery in Thailand once I retire. I just cannot get enough of them, I see Thais as God's perfect creatures.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-05-28, 9:49 pm

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Not surprising but just today Thailand announced they were ending the lockdown on all businesses, activities and travel starting July 1. They plan to use the month of June as practice on what regulations and restrictions will be in place starting in July. Theoretically we should be able to travel to Thailand starting in July and visit the go-go clubs and beer bars again. Again, theoretically. Knowing Thailand a little, I would not be surprised if there are some heavy rules and restrictions. Problem is Thailand doesn't plan to issue those for a few more weeks, after seeing how June is playing out. Any re-start will be slow since every bar and club is closed and all the girls went back to home. You could show up July 1 and find few bars and clubs open.

The real key will be if there are any restrictions on international visitors. Will there be a quarantine period? That alone is a deal breaker since no one will travel there if they have to stay the first 14 days in government hotel (and yes that's how it's done in Thailand). Just as important, can you come back home without being forced into quarantine? Many counties still require it, heck the UK just instituted it a week or so ago. No doubt Thailand will require masks, hand sanitizer use, social distancing, and local tracing (they use a phone app that you must install and use to even go in a restaurant or the mall). Then of course what requirements will they place on the go-go clubs and beer bars. It might be a lot less fun than in the past. There was talk about only letting in certain nationalities at first, don't know if that will be the case or not.

Hopefully they do drop the restrictions on international tourists. While I'm sure some bars and clubs will never open again, I think many of them will as soon as possible. I know for a fact most of the girls can't wait to go back to work as they have gone a very long time without a salary (from the ones I've talked too). It will be interesting to see how quickly things return to a new normal. There are quite a few bloggers who post almost daily videos on You Tube who live in Pattaya and BKK, we should be able to get a good idea come July and the weeks after.

Hopefully I can slip in a trip (pun intended) August or September. Horrible weather, but its still better to be in a go-go bar in Pattaya than just about anywhere else.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-05-30, 7:33 am

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@ fastone, good luck with your proposed mongering trip in August/September to Thailand. Hope it works out well for you mate! I am whacking off once every day to Thai porn to get myself ready for whenever my next trip will be :)
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-06-01, 5:43 pm

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Yeah well in typical Thai fashion, it's never what it appears at first look. Turns out while the rule banning all incoming visitors is ending, it will in fact be replace by a rule banning everyone who doesn't have a Thai work visa. No tourist yet. The next set of people allowed in will be those with existing long stay visas. Those who were already retired and living in Thailand and those with family in Thailand. It does seem like they will phase in tourists but not starting until July or August. The bigger result is there is little real news or information which would allow you to plan a trip at this point in time. Personally I don't think us normal run of the mill tourist will be getting back to Thailand until the fall, say the September to November time line.

On a brighter note, the country is opening back up. People can visit the beaches again, the malls are open, same with restaurants. Even the pools and movie theaters are opening up. However that said, the bars and nightclubs are still closed. Those will be one of the last places to open back up and there is no timeline on them. Until then, there is no real reason to visit.
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-09-05, 6:08 am

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Currently feeding my habits with some Thai ladyboy and Thai ladies premium porn sites. Cannot get enough of Thailand and Thai ladyboys and girls. Best women in the world!

Any trip reports or any changes to the situation?
Re: RE: Mongering in Thailand
Posted: 2020-09-30, 4:45 pm

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Starting next week Thailand is opening up for tourists, but it's very limited and restrictive. Before you pack a bag, understand Thailand is only letting in 300 people per week and 1,200 per month total (this from a country that was averaging some three million per month). At least that's the plan for now. As a tourist you can no longer just fly in and get a visa upon arrival, those no longer exist. Now you need to get a "Special Tourist Visa (STV)" from you local embassy first. The catch is only embassies located in countries with very low virus rates can give out those visas, and of course Thailand decides who those are. The first group is coming out of China, from an area with no reported cases in the last few months. They fly directly to Phuket. I understand the second or third group will be coming out of Sweden and headed to Kho Samui. Right now it just areas with very low rates of infection. It also seems they want the groups somewhere they can keep them isolated as possible, at least during the quarantine period. As an American, I'm not expecting to travel to Thailand until sometime next Spring or maybe as late as the fall of 2021. Still with Thailand everything is set in stone until it isn't, basically everything is always in flux.

The current rules require you to quarantine for 14 days in a special government approved hotel. You must also fly out on a special charter flight. You also have special covid-19 insurance to purchase, and there are several special fees to pay. There is a ton of paperwork and you have to give them a copy of your bank statement to get a visa. You are also required to stay at least 30 days but that's not biggie since no one would be willing to quarantine for 14 days without staying at least 45 to 60 days anyway. Expect the "special" costs to add some $3,000 - 4,000 USD to your normal cost of a trip. The one benefit is the STV visa is good for 90 days and can be rolled over twice for a small fee to a total of 270 days. Fact is Thailand has publicly stated they currently are looking for "rich" tourists who will stay a long time. All the extra costs and paperwork is part of that weeding out process.

On the bad side, most of the businesses in the tourist areas have closed shop as there hasn't been any dollars for several months. The few ones who did survive did so only because they mostly catered to expats prior to the virus striking. Don't expect it to look the same if and when you get there.

There has been talk that if the first sets of tourist don't have issues, Thailand might cut back on the length of quarantine from 14 days to 7, but it's just talk and it's getting a lot of pushback. There are lots of rumors about making things easier, cheaper and more people but it's just talk at this period.

As an alternative, Cambodia is open but again you need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival, and you need to deposit $2,000 USD into a Cambodian escrow account. An account which they will draw from to pay for your quarantine, testing and such. Any money left over will be returned. There is actually an official listed cost of each item and your expected total is well under $2,000. You also need to pay for insurance but it's only $90 USD per 30 days. That is a lot of money, but when compared to Thailand it's a bargain. Of course many businesses in the tourist areas of Cambodia are also closed up so again it won't be as much fun as you might have expected. I have no doubt the Philippines will open as soon as possible. Problem is they are going through a bad time as we speak but they are desperate for tourist dollars so I would expect less restrictions when they do open.
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