Gay activities Taiwan Apr 2019

Gay activities Taiwan Apr 2019

Gay activities, gay saunas, public transport and accommodation notes from my recent trip to Taiwan. Filed as “Gay activities April 2019”, but covers 18mar-18apr2019. Exchange rate at time of writing: 1 EUR = 35 TWD, 1 USD = 31 TWD, 100 THB = 97 TWD.

Getting to and from Don Mueang airport

Many years ago, I took a taxi from my room near Malaysia hotel to Suvarnabhumi airport and the driver took a detour that was twice as long (both in distance and time) and twice as expensive as the usual way. 
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Complete story reported before https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2015/06/taxi-myths-debunked.html
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Another unusual taxi trip. From Sathorn to Suwarnaphumi on Tue 10.05.2016. Driver asks policeman who directs traffic at intersection for way to Sathorn road, which I find strange (better go to Rama 4 - Klong Toey expressway). Driver tells me he will go Rama 2 and outer ringroad because toll is cheaper there. But I wonder how much longer we will drive for that cheaper toll. Beyond Taksin bridge, I check google maps: fastest would be via Rama 4 - Klong Toey expressway, but now there is no way back. Later ask driver why he didn't take that route. He never went that way! In total it took 7:58 - 9:23 am, 77 km, 40 Baht toll and 639 Baht fare to get to the airport! In addition to not knowing the best way, he cannot calculate either: I gave him a 1000 Baht note and he handed me 440 Baht change, and I corrected him.  
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That, combined with their reluctance to use the meter, even at 4^th floor arrival (I once had a driver who initially agreed to use the meter, then changed his mind and took me back there – 4^th floor arrival – for free), made me not take taxis to/from airport for years.
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But now I had luggage that I didn’t want to drag along the road. Taxi from my room to Don Mueang 17:07-42 for 203 THB plus 50 THB tollway (part of the trip on tollway, part on normal road), so fast and reasonably cheap, not worth dragging suitcases along the road, and changing bus/train/MRT, and waiting. Taxi 35 minutes, 253 THB.

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On return take bus for comparison. Wait for bus A3 Don Mueang – Lumpini park 19:23-35. Take bus 19:35-20:23 for 50 THB (was it 30 just a year ago?). Then taxi 20:25-37 from Lumpini park to my room 43 THB. Bus A3 and taxi 74 minutes, 93 THB.

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Mon18mar2019 Taipei

For a 30 day stay, I can’t spend days staying in hostel and looking for accommodation, so arrange accommodation by internet in advance. My flight arrives 00:25 and I had planned to stay at the airport until the first train in the morning. But there are people who sleep late, so I message my landlord and she is still up and I can come now! A good start.

Take bus from airport to Taipei Main Station (railway station in town) and taxi from there. The driver reads and understands the address that I wrote down in Chinese (he spoke no English and my spoken Chinese is poor), switches on the meter, and has change for a fare of 165 NTD, paid with a 1000 NTD note.

Imagine you arrive in Thailand as a tourist and take a taxi, any time, at the airport or railway station! The driver trying to sell you his wife, daughter, son, cow for sex would be the least of your problems!

Tue19mar2019 Taipei

My accommodation turned out to be a homestay, which is a bit unusual for me. Doors and walls are thin as everywhere in Taiwan, you can hear what people next room are talking. A language exchange partner (Chinese-German) from last year comes to my room. This serves as well as a test, to get my landlord and her family used to me having visitors, some time with door open so they can see we are studying, sometimes with door closed to block out noise from living room and to get them used to me being in my room with another person with closed door.

Wed20mar2019 Taipei

A fuck buddy D from last year comes to my room. Some general chat, then to bed, all fine.

Thu21mar2019 Emperor Spa gay hot spring

Emperor Spa 19:23-20:56. Entry 250, and you need 2x10 coins for locker.

A White friend repeatedly reports good results (gay activities in the steam room) in Emperor Spa. I can confirm those activities, but I never had luck there.

Another poor visit, both for facilities and customer base. I don’t like that you have to pay for locker, and you can lock it only once. The locker is rather small; I barely manage to squeeze my backpack and clothes in. There are no towels provided, I forgot to bring a towel and had to dry my body with a hair dryer, like everyone else does. The drinking water fountain is out of order. The water in the hot tub is slightly acidic and burns when it gets in my eyes.

In all aspects (facilities and customer base), Soi 13 in wins hands down. It’s twice as expensive, but easier and faster to get to. And if you divide entry price by fun, Soi 13 in comes out as winner as well.

Sat23mar2019 Soi 13 in Sauna

Soi 13 in 19:52-21:26. Entry 500. Several cute but none of them interested. So-so.

Mon25mar2019 Taipei

I had a date with a boy P from gayromeo, no show! The first no-show in Taiwan. Wait for half an hour, then go home. The meeting place was 5 min walk from my room, so my investment in time was only little. He forgot and was offline, try again another day.

Tue26mar2019 Taichong

Take train to Taichong where I’m going to meet a fuck buddy from last year. His parents are away, so I can stay at his place. Great!

Arrive at the railway station, message him: not read. Have dinner. Call him: no reply. Think of alternatives (return to Taipei or book hostel online and continue my trip as planned), check if the location he sent is precise enough to find the house and knock on the door (it is not). Sounds like Thailand?

Call again: finally reply. Go to his place and will spend two nights there. However, he had various stuff to do, we would go to bed at different times and get up at different times, and while we would sleep in the same double bed, we would do just that: sleep in the original sense of the word.

But some interesting conversation. He is sexually attracted to Whites, Arabs and Latinos, but not to SEAsians.

Wed27mar2019 Chang Hua

Sightseeing in Chang Hua. Arrive at the railway station and go to toilet for peeing. My neighbor looks at me and at my dick, so I do the same and his is big! But he is too fat for my taste, so I just smile at him and leave it at that. When I wash my hands, he looks around the corner and beckons me to come back. I do, but only to tell him that I’m sorry and I like slim men. My first toilet cruising in Taiwan!

Minutes later spot the first glue sniffers in Taiwan.

Sat30mar2019 Taipei

Meet P from gayromeo (no-show on Mon) in restaurant near my room. Interesting conversation, he would take it further, but I have to tell him he is not my type.

Sun31mar2019 Taipei

Meet E from hornet near his place. Interesting conversation, but not my type.

Tue2apr2019 Taipei

D comes to my room. So-so. Baby cries and general household noise in living room, construction noise from outside, I can’t have good sex under such conditions.

Wed3apr2019 Soi 13 in Sauna

Soi 13 in 19:31-21:50. Already in steam room one nice encounter (big cock, but hairy balls). Later in hot tub one with no hair on balls and crotch, but he doesn’t want to take it further. In the end, have fun with hairy balls in the darkroom.

Fri5apr2019 Kaohsiung accommodation

I wouldn’t spend money on a hotel in Taiwan, but hostels/dormitories are within my budget. For two nights in Kaohsiung (my first trip there, 2^nd largest city in Taiwan with several gay saunas) I choose Single Inn for price and location. Walk-in price would be 600 per night, but online I can get it for 475, so I book online.

I should have looked closer at the pictures. I ended up in a 32 (!!!) bed  male dormitory, with not curtains for the beds, and not table or elsewhere to put and sort my stuff. No lockers. As I had the upper bed, I can’t even sit on the mattress and have my feet on the floor. Next time, pay attention to such details.

Around 23, the ceiling lights are switched off by receptionist (and following morning about 8 switched on), and everyone has to use flashlight or mobile phone to find his bed.

They have an ample washroom/sauna/hot tub area, this place used to be a bathhouse/spa. Guests are not shy, some are naked in the bathroom area. The shower cubicles are frosted glass, but no lock. You could get in with two and nobody would be able to see how many are in and what they are doing.

Fri5apr2019 Kaohsiung Hi man sauna

Location for this and following see google maps. Entry 400. Stay 19:53-21:50. So-so.

1^st floor = ground floor entrance to building.

3^rd floor (lift) reception, locker, group rooms and 30 private rooms, sauna, large steamroom with window to urinal (no light in steamroom, looking from urinal you only see a dark wall and don’t know someone could be looking at you peeing), showers with hot water (too hot!), labyrinth and darkroom. Free cookies and orange juice.

About 50 customers throughout with a good turnover. One cute and three interested in me. The cute one was an asshole (as a general insult, which I use very sparingly, but here it fits). First he was wearing underwear and shirt whereas everyone else was just in underwear, and he took his mobile phone into the dark room and when he turned on the screen, probably to better see, I and probably everyone else was blinded from the sudden light. I hope some day someone will grab his phone and throw it on the floor!

Sat6apr2019 Kaohsiung King sauna bath

Daytime sightseeing, at night gay sauna.

King sauna bath. Entry 450. Stay 18:20-19:39. Poor.

1^st floor = ground floor entrance at street level.

Basement reception (looks like in a hotel, two women, one of them speaks good English), large restaurant (customer smokes!) with free cold water and tea; sauna and steam room, large pools with water of different temperature (cold, warm, hot 42 degree Celsius). Vast cinema (but no movie played) with about 50 upholstered reclining seats (all in flat position). From basement one floor down a kind of dormitory with 14 double decker beds.

Large lockers, large towel of good quality. There were about 10 customers during my stay, all too old and fat for my taste. I think this place is more for spa/relaxing than for sex.

Back in the dormitory, I try to get water out of my wristwatch. A while ago I got a trace of water in my watch, which forms mist on the glass. Take off the back cover and repeatedly heat the glass with hair dryer and let cool. Thus, I have a legitimate reason to enter the male bathroom over 10 times (it took that often to get all water out).

Subconsciously I notice another customer (at that time I mistook him for staff waiting for his shift, as he was wearing pajama with the name of the place) going to toilet twice. Either he has a weak bladder or he is looking for something else in the toilet!

When I go for peeing, he stands next to me, looks at me and my dick and I do the same and smile at him. He is stroking his dick and is hard, I do the same but can’t get hard under such circumstances. I like what I see, and we could go to the toilet cubicles just a meter behind us, but I got some urine on my fingers so have to wash my hands, and anyway don’t like the idea of having sex in a toilet cubicle.

Chat him up in the lounge, no English and not very responsive in Chinese either. Lost him due to cultural or other misunderstanding! On hornet, someone else messages me and asks if I’m staying in Single Inn. So there are opportunities, but where to go?

Sun7apr2019 Kaohsiung Galaxy Sauna

Daytime sightseeing, evening gay sauna.

Entry 400, stay 16:49-17:52. So-so.

1^st floor = ground floor entrance and reception.

2^nd floor lockers, shower, toilet, steam room (no light source other than gap between door and frame, can accommodate about 10; sauna with window towards shower area, can accommodate about 5, bathtub with water of room temperate can accommodate about 5).

3^rd to 5^th private and group rooms, karaoke.

Rooftop garden smoking area.

Two big and one small towel of good quality. Shower gel, shampoo, single use toothbrush and razor, toothpaste and shaving cream provided.

Most customers too old and fat for my taste, setting a negative record in Kaohsiung. Play with one shapely in steam room, but he does not seem to want to take it further (it seems he left afterwards, can't find him elsewhere in the sauna).

Wed10apr2019 Taipei

Meet a boy P from Beijing from blued in Daan Park, then to his hotel room nearby. Fluent in English and interesting conversation, and we got to bed but he is a bordercase (a bit on the fat side) and talks too much.

Fri12apr2019 Soi 13 in Sauna

Soi 13 in stay 19:43-22:26. Steamroom brimming when I arrive, almost empty when I leave. The steamroom next to showers is first indicator of how many customers are there, and in busy times you can’t get in because it’s full with estimated over 50!

No clear hit, but some interesting conversation. But towards the end a clear hit Jack. Have some fun in the steamroom, then exchange Line to arrange a date on the weekend.

Sat13apr2019

I was hoping Jack knows somewhere to go (short-time hotel), but he does not know and cannot host (stays with his family), and my place is not optimal either, so we meet in Soi 13 in again to make use of their private rooms.

The light is poor (from ceiling, when you lie on your back it blinds you, and when you stand you can’t see what’s in your shadow), I don’t like the music either. Nonetheless, we have a reasonably good time, spending about 2 hours in the room. And this constitutes my first date in Chinese! Jack speaks only little English and used google translate, whereas I wrote and read Chinese with only little help from dictionary.

Tue16apr2019 Taipei

D comes to my room where we would spend 16:00-19:18. He has 10-15 hairs on each nipple, some bizarre shape and quite long, I wind one around finger to pull out. Talks too much and wet kisses, in addition finger- and toenails too long, unpleasant every time they touch my skin. Us two in single bed is a bit crowded. Skin temperature and humidity fine throughout. I locked my room door, but still can hear household noise of a family of 5 from living room.

Ask him about short time hotels. He doesn’t know any, but once went to a cinema that has private rooms with a date.

Tue23apr2019 Bangkok

My favorite barber (i.e. the cheapest in walking distance) has a note “away 17-20” on his shop, but the shop is still closed and neighbor says he will be back tomorrow. Next year, I have to give Songkran an even wider berth to avoid itself and all inconveniences associated with it.

Summary:

5 free sex: D, D, P Bejing, Jack, D.

0 paid sex: I didn’t look for it and on the apps there are no hints for money (whereas in Thailand about 25% of profiles on gay dating ask about money in their profile, and another 25% will ask for money once you start chatting).

1 no show.

3 no sex: P, E, my friend in Taichong.

2 toilet crusing: public toilet in railway station, toilet in hostel.

1 hot spring: Emperor Spa.

7 gay sauna: Soi 13 in 4 times (one just for the room), Hi man sauna, King sauna bath, Galaxy Sauna.

(They can be found under these names (bold) on google maps.)

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