jacko

Always seemed a dubious place for yet another mall, Traffic currently reduced due to the tunnel construction. If they are trying to reproduce the mayhem around the Pattaya Tai Tuk-Com which already keeps me away what a strange idea. I hear this Mall is aimed at kids, including an ice-rink. There is a Harbor Mall in Laem Chabang which is much easier for me to get to. Hopefully there will be some improvement in parking and vehicular access. At the moment I can see it stopping what is already slow Klang traffic, in both directions.

If you feel a need to negotiate, perhaps before getting to the room would be better?

I seemed to get the same impression mostly, except when I stayed at The Nova Park or Residence Garden and they noticed the separate living area and bedroom.

I am surprised you are surprised Atlas, but a good tale anyhow. In my cul-de-sac we used to have a severely disabled guy come around scavenging, pushing a hand cart painfully slowly around the village. I have seen him looking quite pleased with himself when he managed to push said cart down the road containing a refrigerator more than a few times bigger than the cart. Of course many a fridge can be quickly repaired, a simple leak to seal. But even if not, plenty of scrap and recycling value in there. I wonder what has happened to the disabled scavenger, not having him annoy me by stealing all my black bin-bags and tipping the smelly rubbish back into the bin so that the garbage guys refuse the refuse! Perhaps he is further unwell, the heat makes the job too much for him, but I bet that since a certain alcoholic no longer resides in the street, bin-scavenging here is not worth the slight incline.

The on-line menu simply says 'stuffing' which suggests the most common 'sage and onion' is likely used as Fayboyfat says. My mother made such stuffing using the chicken giblets and it never came with roast beef. It is simply breadcrumbs, onion, butter, egg, sage. I have never had a Yorkshire pudding served 'on-it's-own', but a few UK restaurants have served them separate from the main. They are usually large ones and come with a rich gravy. As a frugal Yorkshire man may tell you, it is an attempt to fill you up before the expensive meat is offered!

Caligula

Glad to see a positive review...... For me Yorkshire pudding was always an accompaniment for roast beef rather than lamb. Yours appears to be a stuffed one which I like the sound of.

Already used with Lauren Bacall........ Here is one with plenty of choice..... Murder on the Orient Express

And that gentlemen is how a thread goes somewhat off-track!

I am old and drink, I gotta go pee!

I am sorry to say you may have been given a wrong impression of romantic beaches by a travel brochure. Firstly candles and flowers are easily found..... The Beach adjacent to Pattaya Beach Rd I would say is not really suitable..... You have already booked your hotel, which is a shame, may we ask which hotel? A hotel like The Dusit (perhaps Sheraton) or Cosy Beach (Rabbit resort) would probably help you but some of these are 5 star.

Or enough money perhaps! Sometimes people prefer to pay more to get better facilities or security. There is often quite a gap between a 3 star where you fight for breakfast with the Chinese and have Nigerians climbing into your room to the 5 star that turns down your bed for the evening. In Pattaya and Bangkok that high end is more reasonable, in London or New York, prohibitive.

Xanadu

Only if it has those little sausages in there!

Yes I think you are correct. I was looking for Biz fares the other way BKK-Man and had quite a few that attracted me booking 3 months in advance, I had set a target price that I thought would become possible what with the competition on the route and better oil prices. Never quite got there and I kept leaving it. Then something happened in the UK had me thinking I may need to do an immediate trip...... so I waited to see how that turned out. It ended up being a non-issue and I was back in the market looking for a Biz Class but now only about 5 weeks in advance. My usual Mid East contenders were all well above 100,000 baht now and I got nervous whether I should grab one before it got worse. Booked me via Helsinki in the end, much cheaper but an unknown quantity, also a daytime flight ex BKK when I prefer overnight.

Grease

Viagra?

Where the Swiss Bar used to be.... you can locate it on Google Maps. Very loud when I was in there.

That is an important thing I also noticed about dining 'al-fresco' near to the lake. I was concerned that the hotter evenings would make it uncomfortable, but there has, so far, always been a good breeze off the lake making it OK..

Although the 5 star hotels often offer superb buffets at prices not too far above that. The ability to sample a variety is worth the extra. I have The Holiday Inn in mind which I hear a lot of, but there are others. Pass on the Apex (and The Lek Hotel if they still do it), where flies get too much of it!

Harry and the Hendersons.

I got a dodgy stomach from the one in Big-CX once which has kept me away. I believe it was the mayo style salad dressing.