Reply #1 MoJoRocks's post
There are plenty of fish in the sea... particularly the Gulf of Bangkok. And flowmon is right... Don't fall in love... it severely clouds an otherwise tractable business decision.
I sometimes take a woman along when I travel... and sometimes I don't. Here is some of my reasoning.
Singapore is an expensive city to play. So it can be quite cost-effective to fly a known friend from BKK or HCMC for several days. But when I do I'm weighing airfare + nice food + WG stipend versus the cost of playing local options in Singapore. Bringing a woman along also commits me to be with her for several days. This loss of flexibility has a cost. The lack of variety has a cost. If I am with colleagues, the difficulty of sneaking around to be discreet has a cost. But on the flip side there is a benefit in not having to hunt down a new woman every night. And if you really enjoy her company, that's obviously a plus. The bottom line is that I bring a woman with me to Singapore about 60 percent of the time.
Hong Kong would be much the same, except I already have a regular friend (a Thai kik) in Hong Kong. I did once think about bringing a Hanoi GF to HK, but we couldn't swing the visa issues.
Hanoi has an extremely active and satisfying WeChat market. No way would I ever incur the expense of flying a woman to Hanoi.
My sense is that HCMC hotels are a little more sensitive to Vietnamese girls staying overnight with foreigners than in Hanoi (but I may well be wrong). So I did take a Kuala Lumpur woman to HCMC once (and then again on a separate trip to Da Nang). But now I'm a little smarter about Vietnam, so I suspect I would just rely on the local rental market when I go there again.
Similarly, I would never take a woman to Manila. The choice there is whether you want to play the rental market or invest the time and effort to get a Filipina GF. If you are there moderately regularly, you can do well via the GF route (so long as you take care to set the ground rules).
I don't know Jakarta. Can't comment there.
Bangkok... Taking a woman to BKK is the classic "coals to Newcastle" scenario. Women are everywhere in Bangkok. They ooze out of the cracks in the sidewalks. They drip down the walls of hotels and clubs along Sukhumvit. The only reasons to bring a woman along are: (1) you really, really enjoy her company; (2) you're too lazy to make the effort to sample the local options; or (3) you are risk averse and want to be absolutely sure of having a great time on what may be an infrequent opportunity to do overnight play... All of those can be valid reasons. It depends on your preferences...
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