[QUOTE=EdwardAppleby;5418327]No it doesn't. But I take your point.
[blue]Nearly, 720 bucks RT from SFO, 755 RT from lax
A2[/blue][/QUOTE]You can't just fly to BKK for any rate unless that's your stop on the way to a one-week sandbox quarantine in Phuket. (So add the transfer and a week's stay at a quarantine hotel to that rate.) After that, you're free to go back to BKK and actually. Go to Bangkok. Assuming you're vaccinated.
Once there, well, the bars, massage parlors, and soapies, etc. Are all closed. Can you find girls? Sure. It's Thailand after all. But you might end up spending more time fishing girls off of Sukhumvit or off of the two well-know websites for outcall to your room. Not necessarily a bad thing. The rules for girls visiting your hotel in Phuket or BKK are still unclear. But yeah, you can still find girls.
This Phuket "sandbox" opens July 1. I intend to wait a month or two and avoid being on the bleeding edge of this. The rules are changing daily and only a fool would make hard plans that depend on the Thai government.
Anyway, just clarifying. No, you can't just fly off to Bangkok for $600 as an alternative to silly costs here. Not today anyway. Same goes for Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, .
[blue]I'm aware of the Sandbox, I used to spend 3 months a year in BKK. I've got a really good friend who's very active on the ISG that has been telling me availability of pussy is great and prices are back to 1990's levels. It's moved to the internet so the ease (and expense) of Soi Cowboy days is over. Same same soapy places, I will mourn the passing of addict massage till my dying day if they don't return, but he says shit loads of chicks are available.
The US 720 fare was in November. Fingers crossed though I wouldn't be surprised if it's still closed.
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