I'm visiting there for first time in September...I don't do AMP's or cathouses, I avoid agencies and generally go for a more upscale experience, but *still* I would love to hear any Thailand experiences, the good, the bad, and (hopefully) not the ugly!

I mean, golly, when am I ever again going to have the opportunity to have two thin 19 year olds vying to polish my belt buckle with their foreheads?

...a couple years back and learned a couple lessons that you might want to know. You probably know enough never risk going uncovered there when you play. A couple of things that are different from here in the US community:

1) GFE- When I was out there, GFE was the like full trips here. The girl would be with you your whole time playing "girlfriend". You pay expenses and she plyes compainon and guide.
2) Bring a girl to back to your hotel and the hotel may ask to see here ID. I understnd that this is not to bust your or the girl for prostitution but to see if she is on any black list as a cash and dash or worse. The sex trade and hotels have a understanding there not found in the states. The hotels know enough to try and protect visitors and their rep of course.
3)Bring a girl up for the night and she may leave in the middle of the night and then come back. Chances are is that she was with another client and this is not unusual from what I was told.

Of course this was a couple years back so things may have changed but bottom line, another country, some different rules. But damm ,thai girls are fun!!!!

If you've never been, might I suggest that you check out this link. Find the reader's submissions and peruse them. Submissions date back many years right on up to today.

If you've never been to the "Land of Smiles" this is one resource that you will find provides many different perspectives on not just the bargirls, pay for play and the nightlife but a whole range of topics that might give you some different perspectives...FYI

I lived in Bangkok for four years but didn't have the opportunity for overnights or weekends.  If you wander into a bar in the Patpong area or any of the others, remember ALL the girls are available, and the quality runs the gamut from presentable to spectacular.  If you take a girl from a bar, avoid the seedy bars and look for upscale ones -- generally she will know where a nearby love hotel is and can usually be trusted.  Nevertheless, always keep you wits about you and don't leave your valuables in temptation's way.  
Also, you don't do AMPS but there used to be a few of extremely high quality, and if you asked for the "B course" you got a spectacular girl who did spectacular things, of course for more money, but it was worth it.  That system may have changed.  It will pay to spend a few hours at least looking around once you get there, checking out places, doing your own due diligence.  Getting around Bangkok used to be a pain because of traffic, but it's better now.  But it's a good idea to select an area and then you can explore it on foot.  I hear Patpong is still great, but there are others too.  The resort of Pattaya is also an excellent hunting ground.  Whenever I arrived in Bangkok after being away for a while, I was usually so horny it was all over by early afternoon.  So take your time, make sure your choice is what you really want, and be nice to the ladies -- they are memorably fun.  Let us know what worked for you, and what didn't.  Good luck!
A final note -- If you haven't read any of John Burdette's Bangkok series, do that before you go or read one on the plane.  He has the bar, bar girl, and underworld scene down perfectly, and they are great reads as well.  Of the first two, Bangkok Tattoo is the best.  I haven't read the new one, Bangkok Haunts.

This is also  good web site for visitig Thailand.

I got pretty lucky on both of my trips. I was in Phatthaya at the Holiday Inn both times, and there was a guy working with the concierge who provided ladies if requested.  Perfect choices and experiences both times, 2nd time with two girls.  Now, this was in 78 and 80, so STDs were not so prevalent and went BB all the way (thinking with the wrong head, obviously) so YMMV compared to mine, but I can tell you that the experiences would have been just as good without.  Some of the best providers in the world (2nd only to Phx of course).

I have been twice – once in 2000 for 10 days and again in 2004 for 17 days. It was heaven. Divided my time about evenly between Bangkok and Pattaya.

I will vouch for the Stickman's site and John Burdette's novels (I enjoyed the "Bangkok Haunts" more thanthe first two, both of which were great) as mentioned in earlier posts. Two other excellent source of information can be found at the Thailand forum at http://www.internationalsexguide.info/ and the Pattaya Pages forum at http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/. Both have daily reports and discussions from mongers currently in Bangkok and Pattaya. The FAQs will tell you current prices for the girls, where to find them and good hotels to stay.

I second the advice about treating the girls well and respectfully. I found a good approach was to try a few girls till you find one who speaks good English (usually means she's been in the business a while) and clicks with you, then keep her for several days and let her show you the city and the sights. She will treat you extraordinarily well and will show you places tourists seldom see. Ask her to take you where she usually eats dinner and you may wind up at a picnic table down an alley, the only farang in sight, with some guy cooking fabulous food at a grill at few feet away. She will bark food orders at him in Thai, protect you from the traditional hot spices, and fork food into your mouth from her own plate. Later, in your hotel room she will fuck you and suck you till you can't take it any more and wake you up in the morning with a bbbj.

You will come back with incredible stories to tell and, sadly, no one to tell them too.

Here’s a sample from the journal I kept on my first trip in 2000:

Monday, April 10 – Home again. My last two evenings in Bangkok and the woman I was with were the best of all. Her name was Taa – Thai for “eye.” She was 25 years old, slim and small-breasted with beautiful long legs. I have a photo of her dancing naked on my bed at the Nana Hotel. She has the biggest, most beautiful smile that lights up her face.

Her hips and mine resonate to the same natural frequency. I’m sure I gave her a real orgasm, and I know she gave me my best orgasm of the whole trip.

I met her at Voodoo in Nana Entertainment Plaza. It was the first place we went our first night back in Bangkok after Phuket. It was also the only place I visited that night. Even though it was a Friday, the place was fairly empty, and I was enjoying the girls, thinking about who to barfine and waiting for one of them to show some interest in me. There were several beauties. I remember one very slim beauty dancing naked at the far end of the bar. I liked her look, but she was too far away for any eye contact. I’ve since decided she must have been Taa.

As it turned out, none of the girls was aggressive and made eye contact. I noticed Taa when she sat at the bar in front of me and to my left, where she visited with another dancer. After several minutes, she moved to the other end of the bar and visited with another dancer. She exchanged a few words with a customer two stools away, but another girl took the stool between them and he took up with the new arrival.

A few minutes later, Taa got up, and as she walked past me, I leaned forward and offered to buy her a drink. I was rewarded with the world’s biggest smile. She sat beside me, ordered a coke and almost immediately was smiling and touching me, lightly stroking my arms and thighs. I, of course, returned the compliment.

A few minutes later, one of the mama-sans asked me if I wanted to barfine her. Of course I did, but I hadn’t yet got to the point of asking. For one thing, I was uncertain if a girl that beautiful would be interested. But I took the mama-san’s question as an assurance of Taa’s interest and said yes, after first asking Taa her long-time fee. She said 2,000 baht, and I simply said yes without further negotiation. She was well worth it. For the record, I gave her 2,500 baht each night, including 500 baht tip, and the barfine was an additional 500.

I took her out of Voodoo and sat her down at an empty table outside at NEP so we could talk and hear each other. I suggested we go to the NASA Disco, which at the time was supposed to be the largest in Bangkok. But first, we made a swing by the Thermae where some friends, Mark and Dan, were supposed to be. They weren’t there, so we jumped in a cab, and she gave directions in Thai to the NASA Disco. When we got there, it was closed – totally shut down – and this was a Friday night.

Taa turns to me in the back of the cab, makes a little dancing gesture with her hands, and asks, “Thai music?” Thinking that I had been in Thailand for a week and hadn’t yet heard any traditional Thai music performed live, I said yes. She gives the driver new directions, and we land about 10 minutes later at a place called Esan Tawandang (this is how the sign inside spelled it), which appears to be a Bangkok cultural center for Thais from the Issan region, which is where Taa was from.

We walk in, and she takes us directly to a ringside table at the edge of the dance floor not 20 feet from the stage. I look around. We’re in what appears to be a beer hall that also serves food. There are about 400 Thais. I am the only farang. It was great.

The music is live and wonderful. Far from traditional Thai, it is Thai rock and popular music. The instruments are electric guitar and bass, drums, congos and electric keyboard. It was like good Western rock peppered liberally with high-pitched whistle- and bell-like sounds.

We ate, drank and danced for a couple of hours, then left the Tawandang around 2:30 a.m. and stopped back the Thermae. This time Mark, Dan and Pokey were there. We visited with them and their girls for a while, then went back to the hotel for round of good sex. Afterwards, we slept and cuddled till about 7:30 a.m., when her cell phone went off. It was a boyfriend calling, apparently from Norway. After the call, we were both awake, so we had another round of sex. She came first, then gave me my best orgasm of the whole trip. The natural rhythm of her hips during sex is the same slow, easy gait that I like. She was perfect. She got on top and would raise and lower her hips, slowly stroking my full shaft from top to bottom. Sometimes, at the top of her stroke, I was afraid I would pop out, but she was in full control. The result was a long, achingly slow build to an incredible explosion.

She was with me from the time I barfined her Friday evening until 3 a.m. Sunday morning when I left the hotel for the airport. Saturday, I took her to breakfast, then we went shopping with George and Tuk. I bought her an inexpensive gold ring with a T on it and a top that looked great on her slim body. We spent the afternoon in the hotel room having sex and watching WBA boxing on the tube (her viewing choice).

Saturday evening, I took her to dinner with the group. One of the guests was the Stickman, who got lots of compliments on his Web site, which he keeps on Mark’s server. I told him I considered his Web site the best online introduction to the ins and outs of Bangkok night life.

After dinner, around 8 p.m., I took Taa to the Voodoo to pay her barfine, have a couple of drinks, and let her visit with her friends. She showed off her new ring and top, and told them about our visit to the Tawandang and our plans to return that evening. A couple of other girls asked me teasingly to barfine them and take them too, but I didn’t need the emotional confusion. I was focused on Taa.

Before we left the Voodoo, a guy came in selling roses. He had about four dozen in his arms.  I thought it would be a nice romantic gesture to buy one for Taa, so I asked him how much. He said 250 baht. I countered with 150 baht, and he said, “For you, special deal: 200 baht.” I said OK and dug into my wallet for the money. I counted it out and looked up to discover that he had given Taa the whole four dozen roses. I thought I was just buying one. We took them all to the Tawandang, unwrapped them, and while the performers were signing and dancing, Taa and I took them up to the stage and gave them to the performers. She gave one to each of the men, and I gave one to each of the women, who all rewarded me with wais from the stage.