The Beach
If I have to travel that far just to get to the beach, Do Son would be my last choice because the sand is dark & the waters murky. There was no attraction except to check out the action.
Someone posted that the seafood is good & it should be since there were many restaurants selling the stuff. For a lone traveler, it’s difficult to check this out without wasting a table full of food you can’t finish.
My attempt to order a fried fish, with a vegetable soup in local Viet style, boiled white rice ended up all wrong. I was given fried rice with pre-fried fish meat in the fried rice, a western style gluey seafood soup (tiny bowl) served before my main course western style, and a stir-fried “morning glory “served after my fried rice was finished. I would say the cooking was ordinary at the place where I ate. The entire bill including a bottle of beer was all of 81,000 dongs. Next to me, the locals were having what looked like a sumptuous meal for sure; it’s all about communicating what you want for sure!
Casino
Strangely enough, there is a Do Son Casino located at its loveliest headland on a hill overlooking the sea. My hotel man was always looking out for me as I wandered around the area and he picked me up on his motorcycle saying some words that sounded like “Casino”. Not knowing exactly what he was saying, (and thinking he was taking me to see women), I hopped on and soon was brought on a ride to the location of the Casino high up on the headland. On the way back, he took me on a road round that headland from where there were lovely views of the Ho Dau Beach Resort, a local attempt to beautify and develop a quality resort here at Do Son.
The rest of the Do Son area is littered with small hotels (pretty decent looking) and small shop house type guesthouses with an average pricing of 150,000 to 350,000 dongs at rack rates. Foreigners without prior discounted reservations would probably pay close to the listed rate. I was charged 200,000 dongs (rack rate 220,000 dongs) for my decent two-bedded room with a balcony and a moderate view of the outside although at that late Friday afternoon hour, most of the place was deserted. It was the second hotel I walked in to enquire.
The Town
Do Son town looked pretty busy as with all Vietnamese towns and MAY present mongering opportunities in terms of Karaoke & other higher end establishments if you can find them., During this short visit, I did not have the time to explore this at all & decided against spending an additional night groping around with no local knowledge since my primary objective of checking out the RLA on the beach was fulfilled.
The Red Light Area by the sea at Do Son Beach
The objective of my visit, the entire RLA is an inverted “Y” in terms of the roads. You can walk there from the main beach area in about 10 minutes. The entrance area consists of low terraced houses on both sides of the Y. The bottom of the Y is a single street with the sea on the right and the terraced shop houses on the left. At the entrance area moving to the bottom of the Y, there are some bigger hotel-like houses on the right. Further in, on the right, there are some open verandahs where you can sit in a breezy location to drink your beer and view the ladies outdoors.
When you enter the area, you will be waved to go into the house by the people outside. It’s best to take a walk in the entire area before deciding where to do your viewing and “heave-ho”.
After taking a slow deliberate walk to have an idea of the modus operandi, I settled myself at one of these verandahs and had a brief learning chat with the mami of the place. She was carrying a cordless handset from her land phone line like all mamis anywhere else in a whorehouse. Despite our communication difficulties, she was more than enthusiastic to show me the girls and started calling out.
Having read that the cost was 100,000 dongs, I indicated to the mami the amount to confirm the price and she shook her head and showed me 120,000 dongs. The difference was not going to change my life so I agreed.
I viewed several girls who she called over and they arrived on their bicycles. The quality was between 3-5 overall and I rejected them all purely because they all looked “sour” and unsmiling.
Somewhere from within, one of the house girls surfaced and was smiling and teasing in her manners with me. Quite far from perfect, I took her despite her many imperfections. I would score her about 4 on a scale of 10. After all, I had come all the way to Do Son to leave behind some of the little wrigglers that my body was producing each day. For the purpose of this report, I will call her smiley since I did not even ask her name.
Smiley sat her down to enjoy a drink while I continued to sip my beer which is a nice fluid I usually consume when I am in viewing mood.
Mami organized the room which to my surprise was not in the house, but beneath the same verandah where I was sitting. I took the room facing the sea and from within the small window, I had a sea view.
Tried my best to imagine I was in the one of the Balinese Villas facing the ocean with a local lass to administer appropriate treatment that comes with such luxury.
The reality was a clean simple room with a double bed and a small television with a video machine. Smiley had gone out to get some videos and soon found an appropriate video for us, two girls in pigtails and schoolgirl outfits servicing a handsome fella with a big one. That might help I thought to myself.
The room had a simple shower room with two small clean towels and some used soap in the receptacle.
She pulled off my clothes and undressed herself while I was on the bed watching the video. To my surprise, she did not lead me in to the shower to wash ourselves, standard operating procedure with all whores in Asia that I have been with.
To my surprise, she pounced on swollen dicky and proceeded to give it the ice-cream treatment it was seeking with a skill level of about 2 out of 10. There was no subtlety nor variety, just pure sucking and licking at the knob without real deep throat. My thought wandered about the lack of oral hygiene and more. I quickly pulled out and went to wash the thing before returning to bed with my trusty pack of rubber in hand. She would taken it “au-naturale” if that was my preference for sure.
Given the circumstances, I did not initiate any kissing nor was I persuaded that DATY was deserved.
For me, this was going to be “wham bang thank you mamm!”.
Gave her some treatment with my fingers before plunging in with my hummer and she reacted by closing her legs. Oh no! I thought, this won’t do! She won’t let my hips get in between those legs so shorty can thrust at will? I pulled out and showed her how to spread those legs. She opened up and closed up again as I pushed in! This went on for a few times so, I let her get comfortable with the shallow shoves as it was useless to fight that move.
Changing method, I clasped her body close and let her insert me at her will. Those legs which first refused to open eased up a little and my hummer began to buzz. I sensed it was my chance to push for home and picked up the pace from there. A young slightly blumpy body with a tight shaft helped me to reach the point of no return. Those swimmers came rushing and I let her have it hard and fast.
When I had expelled all that “poison” from within, I pulled out and went to wash up, staying focused that I am probably in a high turnover heavy duty danger zone so taking extra care is not a bad thing. (This purely my own thoughts).
She went and washed up too and we both dressed up and clowned around a little with the camera. She would not let me take her photos at all. (Something I should have negotiated).
We then went upstairs where I paid Mami the 120,000 plus 20,000 for the beer and red bull. Took my leave and recommenced my wandering around.
Simply put, some houses have house girls while others don’t. If you take their house girl who they will show you, you go into one of the rooms and do your deed which should include BBBJ and FJ or other deeds which you could discuss before you agree to take the girl. Language is obviously the difficulty if you are not Vietnamese as in my case.
There was one house where there were 4 girls inside on the lounge set and I went in and loitered around. Young Papasan came in and he shook his head when I suggested taking one of the girls to my hotel for an overnight session. On my suggestion that I take her for ST at my hotel, he continued to shake his head and pointed me upstairs.
I laughed and said no as my dickie was already dead without possibility of revival for at least half an hour. Sat around & played around with the girls with my pocket translator and they found me funny to laugh at because of the communication difficulties I was having.
Once “thawed” I found the girls without attitude although initially, most of them did not smile naturally. The young papasan and the girls did allow me a few photographs which I took just to show readers the average looks and quality you get here. I would think it would be about the same you get in Cambodia at the low end shacks that have now ceased operations outside Phnom Penh due to NGO action.
On that late Friday afternoon, there were about 20 to 30 girls moving about from house to house and all on bicycles. Customers were just a handful of people like me. I would imagine that in the Do Son area, if someone wanted a viewing, they would go to one of the small hotels within and outside of the RLA and a call would be made for the girl to cycle over for the viewing until a choice is made.
I nicknamed them the “cycling butterflies” and began to enjoy viewing them as they cycled by me each time.
A bad throat (sore & ticklish) in Hanoi was breaking out that day and I went back to my room to sleep. That evening, I awoke at 9.30 pm. Walked back to the location and the same “tour” of the RLA to see if there was more talent at night that late Friday evening.
There were many taxis and cars mostly local people from Haiphong from what I was told. Many people sitting in the lounges while taxis and other private cars were parked wherever there was space. Girls coming and going on bicycles for the viewing. During that walk, I would estimate that there are about 30 to 50 girls in the entire area moving about. The quality that night looked a little better than in the day. It could just be the lighting being dimmer.
A lovely looking cutie who I would rate about a 6 sat on a bicycle outside the house where I had paused that afternoon. She was “horsing around” with the young papasan who was rubbing himself on her on the bicycle. Papasan offered her to me and again, I proposed for her to go to my hotel room. He shook his head. I was not really up to a session and went back to suffer the night in my room alone. If I had not had that bad cough, I would have taken her upstairs for the ST session at that price of 120,000 dongs since she was the best looker in my eyes all day and evening.
If you like ST sessions and are in Hanoi, (with time to spare) I would recommend a one-two night stopover here in Do Son simply for the experience if nothing. 120,000 dongs is the equivalent of about US$20/- I understand that the locals pay around 90,000 to 100,000 dongs a shag.
Getting There
From Hanoi
Via Haiphong
By Train 5 times a day. Only the 5.50am train departs from Hanoi Station, the others leave from Long Bien Station. I was advised not to use the train by my hotel travel desk. To quote the lady, “the train is very uncomfortable and stops many times along the way.”
By bus from the local Luong Yen bus station at Tran Khanh Du – Duong Nguyen Khoai.
The bus fare was 30,000 dongs to Haiphong. On my return journey, I discovered that I had taken the wrong company bus at that station; sort of hijacked by that bus’s runner while the main operator runs a better and bigger bus for only 25,000 dongs at the station.
Also discovered that I could easily have waited for bus along the route which passes a point near my hotel (Tran Quang Khai) and saved myself the taxi ride to the bus station. Both ways, the bus drives at a snail’s pace to pick up passengers along the route as it leaves both Hanoi as well as Haiphong.
It continues to pick up passengers along the route wherever there are people seeking to board the bus. For the return leg, I managed to alight near the area of my hotel on the main road (Tran Quang Khai) and walked to my hotel in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem area saving myself the taxi ride from the bus station.
From Haiphong, there’s another 20 kilometers to go to reach Do Son. A minibus service every 20 minutes from Haiphong gets you there. I could not work out where to get this bus. Since it was my first trip. Hopped into a metered taxi and he took me there. The meter ran all of 234,000 dongs. I made him circulate the entire beach area so I had a good idea of the layout of the place before I sent him away. This also allowed me to locate the “red light area” of Do Son Beach to ensure that I would not have to enlist another “guide” to locate it later. For the return journey, I managed to ask my hotel where to catch the bus and waited for it on the main road. Arriving in Haiphong, I did not manage to alight at a suitable nearby place to the bus station and had great difficulty until a kind mother and daughter put me in a taxi that got me to the station. That screw up cost me a 22,000 dong taxi ride.
My recommendation to anyone with little Vietnamese language ability to have ready to show photographs (in your digital camera) of the bus station and other important destinations or things to help describe what you want to local people. My pocket electronic translator with its words & phrases proved to be less adaptable when I needed it most but, it did help.
Hanoi - Haiphong Bus
Hanoi - Haiphong Bus Ticket
Mini Bus Ticket Do Son to Haiphong
Do Son Beach Front
Do Son Casino from the ST houses road end
Hon Dau Beach from the headland
Shop house guest houses not in RLA
another view of shop house guest houses not in RLA
Entrance to the RLA at the Inverted Y Junction with one WL on a bicycle
View of ST shop house in RLA looking in from verandah
ST shop houses from the road inside
Sea front verandah ST place with rooms below verandah
(Message edited by crazier on September 22, 2007)
