How much do you tip in Pattaya ? (long time)

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How much do you tip for long time in Pattaya on average? Pick nearest figure

800
0
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1000
13
26%
1200
7
14%
1400
2
4%
1500
15
30%
1600
3
6%
1800
1
2%
2000
8
16%
2200
1
2%
 
Total votes: 50

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Re: How much do you tip in Pattaya ? (long time)

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christianpvf wrote:
As far as I know, most boys can be happy if they get one customer per week. Can someone with better knowledge of the trade tell if two customers per day is realistic?
The real hot numbers can get offed as much as 3 or 4 times per night during high season and have a higher earning capacity than commercial airline pilots. I think the average boy is lucky of he gets offed 3 or 4 times a week...and others struggle to survive on 2 or 3 offs per month. Anything less than that and the bar will eventually cut him.

The boys who only get one customer per week are never happy, and it's usually more about "face" than it is about "money."

As far as a boys preference regarding where he lodges for the night, he would prefer being back with his friends regardless of how unappealing and cramped his room is. We are old and boring to them, and no...they don't want to cuddle and watch TV either. They want to hang out with their friends, play cards, hit a little yaba and do what most crazy teenagers do. Regarding sharing a nice breakfast with a farang...don't fool yourself...he would rather be sitting on a curb slurping rice noodles with his friends rather than staring at the back side of a newspaper he can't read anyway.
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Re: How much do you tip in Pattaya ? (long time)

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Gaybutton wrote:
penguin wrote:I'm also surprised that boys would give up on the chance of a comfortable night's sleep in a hotel and a decent breakfast
I'm not surprised. Many people are much more comfortable in familiar surroundings. Despite the fact that the surroundings may be much more luxurious, I can understand why many of the boys would much rather sleep in their own surroundings rather than with a stranger who they know have them there for primarily one purpose. Their own surroundings may be tenements, but that's where they are used to being, where they have their belongings, and where they're the ones in control.

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven” -John Milton
When I read this post, something else occurred to me. Apart from the familiarity of sleeping arrangement aspect, many of us are sometimes offended that the amount we spend taking the boys out for meals, etc. doesn't seem to be taken into account by the boys we off. Well, there is another take on that, I assure you. I suspect what we fail to realize is that sitting down to a meal with us, even in the finest restaurants in the land, is still work for the boys. I know we are trying to be kind but put yourselves in their place and you'll see what I mean.

You've offed them and you're paying for their time, just like with any other form of escort work. They have to eat whatever your restaurant offers - even if they don't like it or have no idea what it is. They have to show their faces in an unfamiliar place they would normally never enter - and where they would normally be considered less than welcome if they showed up by themselves - even in Farangistan, country boys wouldn't feel comfortable in a high class restaurant, especially when accompanied by a foreigner who is obviously with them for only one reason. They have to look interested when they very likely don't understand one-tenth of what's being said to them at any one time - and know that all their countrymen in the big, posh restaurant know that, too.

If you were dragged into an ethnic restaurant where all they had was chopsticks on the table and all they offered was various combinations of unfamiliar, highly spiced and suspicious-looking food at prices high enough to feed your entire family for three weeks, and you had to eat every bit of it while trying to look captivated by the foreigner gabbling away at you, would you feel obligated to offer your client a big discount for using your body later? And that's not even taking into consideration the social stigma aspect of the situation.

I'm speaking from experience here - and it's one reason why I hate to wear anything but a T-shirt or walk into a restaurant of any kind for any meal nowadays. Having been PR manager at various international hotels in Penang, I have had to do what the boys do and make some of the nicest (sometimes) but most dreadfully boring clients (usually) feel as if they were the only people that mattered on the whole wide earth - and do it so convincingly that they actually thought I was delirious with joy at having them for company. I did it for ten years before throwing in the towel - for the same reason the boys do it. To put food on the table.
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