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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I mean, the great thing about traveling is you could hear five different opinions on a place and they could all be right, it's up to you to go and see for yourself. Just sharing my experiences, every public beach I've seen is filthy but maybe I'm just spoiled by Australia. However here in Patong (Phuket) the vast majority of massage places have the girls sitting in plastic chairs on the corner touching your arm as you walk by and flirting constantly. Every block. The girls are like 19 and wear tiny tank tops and daisy dukes, they don't look well versed on anything "traditional". My friends and I went to two places that were the most legit looking we could find and still had to tell our masseuse both times to stop going at us.
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Ah, fair enough. Patong is one of the two cities in Thailand (along with Pattaya) where your generalization about rub and tugs is mostly true. That's a shame, because nothing beats a good Thai massage for under $10. The beaches in that area aren't my favorite either, but Kata is at least a little better if you're willing to take a tuk tuk 15 minutes to the south.