So Phuket is your preferred location in Thailand?
I only ask because I've never been, and if I ever do make it there it'll have to be with the other half--she's been there many times and I know exactly jack shit about how to get around in that country.
The ladies at the shop where I get my hair done (and only my hair, unfortunately) are all hot middle-aged Thai women, and most of them are former bar-girls and other such industry workers. My regular for the past decade has always recommended I visit, but not Bangkok. Somewhere "up north," is all I remember her babbling on about. Supposedly, better looking girls ("whiter skin," she says) and you can pay them to accompany you for days or even weeks at a time. They cook, clean and of course pleasure you. Is this Chiang Mai?
Not that it matters. If I ever make it to BKK, I'll likely be tasked with carrying all the shopping bags and sweating and bitching about it the entire time.