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All bros should read .....A very very good FR from KATAMAN
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Hat Yai
This is just to get you prepared for what you will see and experience in Hat Yai. These are my observations.
HY is a very new city with the bulk of it's growth coming in the last 20 years. It is the crossroads and transportation hub for all of the SE Asia peninsula and also a border crossing with Malaysia.
There are many large business's and lots and lots of agricultural projects as well as the largest fishing fleet in the Kingdom, based in Pattani, the Province south of Hat Yai. Most of the business is geared around fish canning, rubber, prawn farms, palm oil, rice production, etc. Actually besides those kinds of business the only other real serious industry is the sex business here.
HY is not like other Thai cities. There are no beer bars. There are only a few soapie's. 90% of all the sex industry works out of karaokes. None are sing a song type places just names and you go only to book a lady or ladies.
There are literally 100's of these around town and they vary from really cheap to very, very high end.
There are very few farang tourists and ex-pats here. Most all tourists are Asian and the bulk of those are Malaysians and Singaporeans. Most of the working girls will never have been with a farang before. Consequently not too many speak much English although from my observations the most beautiful all speak English to some degree. You will have better luck with Hokkein, Mandarin, Malay and Singlish.
HY is really cheap compared to places like Phuket, CM and BKK. You can get a nice hotel room for 400 baht and the best place in town is around 1,400 a night and that is for a suite. Same for the ladies, there are lots of low end brothel type places and SW who charge 500-700 baht S/T and most karaokes are in the 1,200-1,500 L/T range with the fresh ones going for 2,000 L/T.
Booking is generally done early say from 10-11 AM thru about 3 PM. The ladies will be with you until the next morning. The Basic SOP is she comes with you to the hotel for a quick pop and then she either stays there and you go out with your friends or she goes back to the "office" and waits for you to call her to come back for the night and morning pops. Up to you.
There are also plenty of places to pick up ladies at night. There are pubs, discos and nightclubs and most of the karaoke girls not chosen hit these places as freelancers around 10 PM. Then it is 1,000 baht all night for those freelancers, they will ask 2,000 but will take 1,000 and that is the real price.
There are tons of great places to eat and all at very cheap prices. You can get a great meal for 60-100 baht.
The town is flat with high hills outside of town. It is easy to walk around in but most of year it is hot all the time even at night. Motorcycle taxis (20 baht) and tuk tuks (10-20 baht) are everywhere.
The bulk of the population is Thai and Thai/Chinese. Most of the working girls come from the Northwest, either CM or CR regions with a few from Isaan and also there is a good portion from Myanmar and Laos and these are mostly in the Channivet area. Since the majority of the customers are Asian they want white skinned ladies and that is where they come from. The Isaan (Northeast) ladies who have darker skin and are favored by farang and so go to Phuket and Samui and Pattaya. There are also a large number PRC (mainland Chinese) ladies working in various places and areas of town.
Because it is mostly an Asian customer base that means the service has to be a higher quality here and I generally find that to be the case. One thing I have found here generally speaking is that the younger and more beautiful the girl the worse her service is. They think just because they are young and beautiful they do not have to do anything but lay there. So I have had some with very poor service but 22-28 year olds seem to be awesome almost every single time.
There is very little sight seeing but there are some cool places to go to and have fun. You may have heard that there has been violence in the areas but that is all about 200 KM away much further south from here. There are many Muslims in the area but they are all Thai-Muslims and so much more docile and there has not been any violence of any kind remotely close to here. So if your friends and family are worried then just let them know you are far away from anything bad happening.
HY is 35 KM from the Malaysian border, 25 KM to the Gulf of Thailand and 60 KM to the Indian Ocean. Dinuk and Sadao are close by and directly on the border and another great place for ladies is Betong and that is 200 KM further south directly on the Malaysian border and about a 3 hour van ride from HY.
There are many areas for karaokes with the top two areas known as SKY (See Kim Yoong) and Channivet. These two areas are relatively close to each other. You can tell the tuk tuk or taxi driver to drop you at either the Daichi Hotel or the Hat Yai Garden Home Hotel and this will put you in the middle of SKY. For Channivet just ask to be dropped at the SK Hotel and you will have many choices and options in this area. If you do not do this and let the driver take you to a place the price will go up 500 baht for his commission so use your big head.
The high end places are SC Heritage Hotel, go at 3 PM, walk in the lobby and go to the 5th floor to room 511, this is the mamasan's room. She is not open for business until 3 PM but try to get there around that time. She has 12-20 ladies and she will call for a "cat walk" and all the available ladies will appear for you to choose. Very, very few of these ladies will go with a farang in fact most times when I take my clients there only 1 or 2 will even consider it. Price is 5,000 baht. This is an acquired taste and not for everyone. The ladies come down from BKK and generally switch every month or so.
The other high end place I like is Kiss Lounge on the second floor of the Hat Yai Garden Home Hotel. They open at 7 PM and have on most nights about 30-40 ladies. There is a band and singing and also private rooms here. Prices vary and there are usually 3-4 mamasans who will help you decide. Drinks are expensive here so be warned. The lady prices are 2,500 S/T and 3,500 L/T.
There are also many pubs in town with the best being Kiss Channel. Best bands and packed with people every night. KC is a bit away from downtown but everyone knows it. There is also the Sugar Beat Bar out in the same general area but I am not fond of this place. Then there is Pub Row, directly downtown you will find The Pub, then Odean Pub downstairs, then Post Laser Pub, then West Side Pub. All these places are within one block of each other downtown. The pubs in town are cheap for food and drinks and no cover charge. There are lots of other places but the ones listed above are the most popular and easiest to get to. There is also a pub called Paragon that is on the other side of town and this is mafia run place that caters to the bad guys from Malaysia. You will be safe if you go there but you will for sure be the only westerner there. There is a band and really, really loud with tons of freelancers working every night. This is also a place that is raided regularly by the police and they make you do a urine sample to check for drugs so be forewarned.
If you want to really impress your lady tell her you want to go to Pub Wan Dang, this place is also owned by the Kiss group but it is across the tracks and the music is Thai. Even knowing about this place will put you in good with the ladies plus it is a pretty cool place, large and only about 2 years old.
There are a few soapies and brothel type places. Pink Hotel (this is downtown) has a nice soapie on the second floor. Chaophaya 4 out by the Sugar Beat Bar is the one high end soapie in town. There is also a soapie in SKY called Paradise and is on the second floor. Prices in these places are 1,200-1,300-1,500-1,800 and Chaophaya 4 has some high end ladies for 2,500. All are 90 minutes and the rooms are decent to great (Chaophaya).