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That's a shame, back to making my bloody own then, which I don't mind, just trying to be sober is a hurdle.

You mean they actually have barfine able hostess'ss in the place?, was the place busy with punters?. Can't imagine the hordes of cheap ass Russians who hang about the supermarket and the mom and pop beer stores and restaurants nearby going in.

Continental like the rest of all other US airlines are fucking crap. They all have shit biz lounges and their service suck. Inflight entertainment is watching the old grannies prading around as air hostessess serve you food and drink without spilling it all over the bloody place.

Love to find a good Indonesian restaurant in Pattaya, really like indonesian food

Dave are you sure you have not replied to the wrong thread , I would have rated these as tmy personal top restaurants. My worst restaurant experience in Pattaya, has to have been mantra, over priced, shite service and average food.

Um, I would try and convert your wife to eating some Thai food, not only does it taste 100 times better, but it's a damm sight more healthier than Filipino food. in Philippines, if it ain't deep fat fried, then it's had the taste boiled out of it, or just plain sweet as hell from all the sugar. If you do find a proper Filipino restaurant, please tell, as I would like to avoid it like the plaugue. ... sorry having lived there ... i am definitly not a Filipino food lover

Not sure if phw10 is actually talking of experience or from some shite he heard from a drunk sitting beside him in a bar, pattaya is full of experts. When i was looking for a place to buy in pattaya, there was very little difference infact none, in price for decent condo's, if they were Thai or foreign owned. So not sure what phw10 is banging his drum about. I bought my place along with another Board member about 4 years ago and am bery happy with it. It was a purchase from a foreigner owned property, hence why were were allowed to own it 100%. A certain percentage of all condo un

KLM used to be good I was Platinium with their frequent flyer for some time, now try and avoid them. They have beatten Air Asia and Oasis in coming the 1st Long Haul Budget carrier IMO. They are crap. Only nice thing is transiting through Amsterdam. Food and service is just bloody awfull, with old aircraft that desperatly need upgrading. Inflight entertainment system belongs in another era, not this one. Air France and Lufthansa are both good, sadly Lufthansa has pulled the Wifi off their planes as of Jan 2007, it was great passing the time being online at 30000ft. Personally I'd fly Etiha

Great, I have to be in West Palm beach next week and was astounded how expensive US flights are, compared with ones to Europe. Managed to get a cheap biz class fare using a combination of Emirates and United. Thai was just way over the top in terms of air fares.

The US goverment I think is quite happy with the low dollar. Well cheaper exports, more expensive imports. Would like to add if Oil is still sold in dollars everywhere, which is a major thing and one of the contributing factors why Bush invaded Iraq, as saddam was starting to sell oil in Euro's. This is once again threatned now by Iran... however even the Europeans don't want this. As this will drop the dollar even more. What amazes me is how high fuel prices are in Europe, you with think with the exchange rate so vastly in the favour of Europe, people would realise altough oil is sol

As far as I know only Biz class passengers are allowed in the biz lounge and 1st class pax in the 1st class lounge, if they let anyone with a long stop over in, it would be packed. The biz class one in the mornings is pretty busy anyhow. However, it is well worth paying a little extra for that beer or spirit and sit inside the proper bar in the airport, has really nice relaxing seats with cable TV, newspapers and you can smoke. Other bars and cafe's in the central area, you can't smoke and thdey are usually busy.

Hey if you like burger's have you tried Bob's BBQ burger's, they are just past the juction of 3rd road and pattaya south, really nice burgers.

I think the most over rated restaurant in Pattaya is mantra, shite service, for average food , in fancy surroundings, with high prices. I rather eat at these places, better value for money and service: La norte on the south end of walking street Casa Pascal's oposite the Marriot Indian by nature Mata Hari Bruno's. For late night Thai food, it would be hard pressed to beat Kiss restaurant, another place I like is that seafood place just past the Blues factory... some great Thai food late on at night there.

Turkish airlines suck's, well when I last flew them back in 2001 they did, I was working in turkey at the time and it was the easiest way back to bangkok.... I thought the whole plane smelt of stale garlic! The Airport is really nice, quite modern and new, the duty free is pretty good, cheaper than the UK, buy booze, cigs, e.t.c, also have bars in the airport and a smoking area.

As anyone who has meet me will agree my growing girth of my waist line comes not only from drink but of food. I do like tasty well cooked food, wether it be local or farang type food. Here some restaurants that I had taken pics of and thought you might like also (not placed in any rank, they are all good for different reasons). 1st is a seafood restaurant, very cheaply priced, full of thai's as well, so taking your bar fine there will mean she will throughly enjoy it. It is not as far as Bang sarin where I love or the Tarzan restaurant which are also both very good places for seafood.

I am STAR alliance gold with BMI, but now i refuse to fly thai if i can avoid it, rather go with Singapore al or Lufthansa to europe. Thai aw cabins are from a bygone era, crap seats, crap entertainment. Can't belive people ranked them above Singapore AL and Emirates, both are really good in economy, way way out class Thai any day, this year last year and the year before that.

I got stopped getting served anymore vodka on my last time back, was flying Qatar airways, but had missed my connection in Doha, so i was in a real pissy mood when i took off 12 hours later. When they came to serve vodka I asked them could i have a Vodka and coke instead, they then stopped when i drank half the bottle... only one drinking as everyone else was alseep. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was when i went back to the galley and asked the stweardess if she actullay put any Vodka in my drink

Cheers martin, ya I confussed the two

Um, let's see, what standard would that be, letting a un-finished building sit open to the elements from 1997 right through to last year. Then dolly it up and say it's a premier development. Sorry mate no ammount of advertising will convince me it is safe to leave concrete and re-bar open to rain, wind and the atmosphere... especially not for 10 years. If there are any constructual engineers on the board, I would like to hear what they think... is it safe or not?

Just read on the news that they finally took off, after delay's with some Russian red tape. Really good prices at £75 economy and £475 biz o/w, plus you get food, it is this price for the 1st month This is really good, considering Bangkok-Hongkong has loads of airlines flying this route dirt cheap.

I miss the day's when we had smoking sections in planes, that way all the screaming kids sat with their parents far away in the front, now they are evenly spread around my damm ear drums every time i fly

Carefull ... Apple, Dell and a few other's have similar problems. Oh have to say something on this, my apple G4 needs a replacement battery found out from their website, it does run hot, but have been OK so far, however in LOS it takes 1 month for a replacement, not sure about other makes. New models should be OK, be aware about this when buying, as there has been a massive battery re-call by a few manufacturer's

Presently have a Apple G4 bought one for the 1st time in Pattaya Tuk center last year, have never looked back after buying an Apple. Bloody great machines, admit my one does not have everything. But the New version's out now that can run both OSX and shitty windows have got to be the best things on the market.