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Yesterday morning I checked in Bay breeze hotel. Last time I was here is more than 15 years before. Rooms become clean and no more extremely slow lift. The new lift moves up and down speedy at the same place of the old one. The room safe which is not installed before is convienient for me. The pool is in level 3 and is very small, but clean, already some guys were swimming. Yesterday morning I came here at about 7:30. I thought Pattaya is different from what used to be. Check-in time may be 1:00 or 2:00　o'clock, so I prepared to go to short time hotel to spend the

Now you can see amazing shunga-pictures at British Museum、London. If you dont know what is shunga, click the link below, you can see some famous Utamaros. ---------------------------------------------------- Shunga Sex and pleasure in Japanese art At British Museum, 3 October 2013 5 January 2014 ----------------------------------------------------- This is the link to British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/shunga.aspx There is a special issue of monthly magazine showing pictures exhibited at the museum, which is Geijutsu Shincho Dec. 2

Smog blankets northern Thailand By Digital Media http://www.thaivisa....thern-thailand/ CHIANG MAI, March 14 - Health-threatening smog, rising levels of airborne dust particles, is now threatening the northern provinces of Thailand, which could affect the health of local residents. Prayat Ananthapradit from the centre to prevent smog in the upper North reported today that yesterday the level of dust particles in the region was reported at a level which could impact residents' health. Three provinces are at risk with dust particle levels measured higher than 120 micrograms per

I stayed in Sea View Suites of Inn House hotel at end of May, 2008. Walk-in rate was 1800 Bht/night without breakfast. The Sea View Suites is located at 8th floor. Two rooms ( I suppose two standard rooms) are connected to suites; one is for a living room and the other is a bedroom. The two bath rooms are remain, one in the living room and the other is in the bed room. Each room has each TV and each air-con. TV sets are big. An in-room safe is in the bed room. Water pressure was not enough, but shower is OK. A pool is on roof-top and is small like a big bath-tab. The

In Pattaya there are some hotels which have rooms for handicapped. But most of the rooms are not big. Pattaya bay resorts has big rooms for handicapped, such as Standard Room (28 sq. meters), Deluxe Room (42 sq. meters), Mini-Suite (56 sq. meters), One Bedroom (50 sq. meters), Presidential Suite (56 sq. meters). I stayed at a mini suite in end of May, 2008. Room rate was 2500Bht/night. At the entrance to the bath, the floor is slightly slope down from the living to the bath. The entrance to the bath is about 65cm, or 25.6 inches, width, it is narrow for a wheelcha

You can see movies showing a suite room and a standard room of Sandy Spring on soi 3. This was taken on Mar. 13, 2007. http://www.sakai.zaq.ne.jp/dufgi200 A link to the movie is at the bottom of the page. The room charge is shown on http://www.scandibar.com/

travlling Almost every visit to pattaya, I buy a　transformer at Carrefour. I use it for 100V electric apparatus. It may be 220/100V 50Herz. So called capacity is 500VA, but doubtful. I only use under 100 watts, but it reaches a high temperature. So I use stainless cup to cool it. The price was 1179Bht. They had only one type.

I stayed Sun Shine Vista with my wife in wheel chair. We stayed in exective studio but I saw the room for disabled person. I don't remember exactry about the room. But I have a vivid recollection of my thought that the bath room is very small. - a minimum 76cm (30 inchs) width in doorways I am not sure but I think the door width is more than 76 cm. But in the bath room, I remember, you should walk a few steps to the toilet as the entrance of the toilet is narrow. You shoul drive very carefully in the bath room----you cannot turn the chair so you may need eyes on your back.

>I looked at the rooms last year, and they were about the same as Sabai's 'Superior A' rooms - little run down but okay. There is no safety deposit box, though - just a locker and you have to bring your own lock. Trvlr, you already knew what you want to know. My friend in Bangkok likes this mansion very much, he always stay here when he comes to Pattaya. I stayed two nights here in the begining of last year. I like better Bay-breeze(spel ?) hotel which is about same room rate, What I don't like is the bathroom is narrow. When I take a shower, the whole toilet waterlog. I feel we

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My friend want to buy a Jim Thonpson's Bag. Please let me know where　is the bag available ?

New Places I am now staying in Nova　Park. Nova Park is 50m father than Leelawadee from 2nd road or Big C, or Leelawadee has a rear gate that is 100m walk from 2nd road, but it is not open all day long. In night, I see a security guard there so he may open the gate for you. Yes, Leelawadee is big, you must walk 3 or 4 minutes from the rear gate to the front gate. All building is 3 stories and there are no elevator. In front of the Leelawadee, there is a Dang Apartment, and Next door of Nova Park is Jameson's Apartment which will open in Jan. The place is convenient to live, Bi

In Bangkok,I usually stay in Park Hotel in soi 7. It is guest friendly. It offers good rooms and bad rooms with same room charge. I don't care whether I get a good room or a bad room, I like it's location. Refurbished rooms are very good. Clean spacious room with IDD phone, big TV, digital temperature setting of air -con,,,,. While non refurbished rooms are bad, worn-out carpet, leaking tap water,,,,,. I hear big bed rooms are only 10%, every time I asked a big bed room, but never.

In Aug. when I saw rooms of Bella Villa Prima, staff said it has installed a wireless lan. The wireless PC-card is lent. At the time, hotel guests can use it free as it was the time of test running. If you are interested, ask the hotel, bella@loxinfo.co.th

My wife is in wheelchair and we stayed Pattaya from July to begining of Sept.. Walking around with wheelchair is really hard, especially beach road with side walk and beach side preasance is　under construction, so our way is closed at every where. I know there are three hotels have handicaped friendly rooms. They are, Woodland resort http://www.woodland-resort.com/en/index.htm Thai Garden Resort north pattaya rd. http://www.thaigarden.com/t3/english/index.htm Sunshinevista serviced apt. http://www.sawadee.com/pattaya/sunshinevista/pictures/ There is a step at the e

I have just come back from Pattaya. I usually travel alone, but this time I was with my wife. Quality of Buildings in Pattaya is very poor, the insulation of the sound from another room or corridor is very low. Pattaya is a place to have party till late night or through the night. This time I stayed at Mike Orchid Resort on soi 4, Cond in Markland Hotel and Sun Shine Vista. Though it is low season now, but we were suffered from noise from neighbor room at mid night or at early morning. You had better to avoid hotels which are used by single man travelers whoes time sensation is

When I visited Bella Villa Prima on soi 4 in beginning of Aug., the hotel provides a radio LAN internet with free of charge as it was a test running period of the radio LAN system they installed. I don't know how long is the test-run period lasts. I bought a 12hours + (2 hours for beginning OR 4 hours for refil) loxfinfo card by 160 Bht at the net cafe in Big C 2nd floor. The hotel (Sun Shine Vista) I stayed charges 10.7 Bht for one connection that disconnects at 30 minutes. I bought 2 Loxinfo cards, and I connected 30 minutes every time, so my connection is 14hours(28 halh

You can see what is going on near the Sunshine Vista. The photo was taken on July 4th. The left building is Sunshine vista, and right is Mike orchid resort in soi 4. The building under constraction is an apartment house of Mike orchid

For me noise from the A/C unit or the fridge fan is no problem. The lights are not sufficient for reading. They say 1000B for a night officially. It's just an official rate.

I stayed 4 nights from Feb. 02. They are still under construction, but you can stay. Every thing is new, good for money. All hotel staffs except one or two are also new in this business, all are very friendly. I really enjoyed staying here. The hotel is about (1/3) of soi 4 from the beach, The room is spacious, about 30 sqm, it is 20 % bigger than my usual room I stay in Pattaya. Flooring is wood, very clean. Bath has a tab, hot and cold water is sufficient. There are 2 telephone consent, one is for telephone and the other for internet. No in-room safe. TV channel is poor, many

I stayed at Grand Inn on Sukhumwit soi 3. I never return there, very noisy as the soi 3 is a main road, there were so many heavy cars in the early morning, and the lady at the reception was not friendly. I usually stay at Park hotel on soi 7. Good location; Beer garden, Foodland, Bamboo bar, Galliver, Nana, Thermae,,,, all are very near. 1150 Bht/night.

After the proud announcement of success of their manned space vehicle, Chinese Government said China is still a poor country, need ODA,;The success of manned space vehicle is not a reason to cut AID from foreign country. Japan is one of countries they deliver big monies to ODA, for example in 2001, Japan give ODA money of 686 million US$ to China, which is about 9.21% of Japanese total amount of ODA. I think these must be applied to another countries those are suffered from more serious poverty. So, by reading the news I give a big hand to PM Thaksin Shinawatra. ------------------

At the hotel you can get ,with free of charge, some booklets introducing touristic places in Pattaya, in the booklets you can find some maps with rough scale. Click the URL, you can see one of the map copied from the booklet. The scale is in meter. http://homepage3.nifty.com/usan/mapwithscale.JPG

Here is a map, on the map big blue rectangular is Don Muang airport. http://www6.big.or.jp/~ozw/thai/bkk_ah.htm Jumbotel 34/5-8 Chaengwattana RdADon Muang, BKK 10210. Tel: +662 573 1240 Fax: +662 574 1008 TK Palace Hotel 54/7 Chaengwathana RdADon Muang soi 15. Tel 274-1588 Don Muang Mansion 118/7 Soranakom Rd. Telephone (662) 566-3023A FAX (662) 566-3514

I stayed Jumbotel several times. It is 10 min from the airport by a taxi. The room charge was around 1000Bht for Farang in 1998. For Thai it was 200 or 300 Bht cheaper. If you are with a Thai lady, you can get a cheap price. The room is OK, it is almost same level to Eastiny or Flipper in Pattaya. In front of the Jumbotel, there is TK Palace Hotel. This hotel may be little pricy than Jumbotel. Jumbotel is difficult to find, but you can find the big neon sign of TK palace. There is Don Muang Mansion. It was 600 Bht in 1998. I hear this is 2-star hotel. You can walk