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I'm going to agree with you. And as usual disagree. I agree that we should rate the post, not the person. I made a pact with myself not to go back and rate old posts. I've also made the statement that I will give positives for posts that I like, much more than negatives that I don't. A useful post that gives us information that helps us in our travel, mongering, eating, sleeping, enjoying ourselves, not being swindled and such are worth a positive. In a topic where me and joekicker disagree politically, you have every right to your opinion, and to try and make me see your perspective. I

I have known several men that travel Thailand and know a few magic tricks each. Amazingly they go over very well with the bar girls. Magic transcends language, and keeps the ladies amused trying to figure out how they were done.

Right behind Big C on Sukemvit road is a row of shop houses, with storage spaces behind them. They are probably bigger than the OP needs. They are big enough to put two big motorcycles in them. I have a couple of friends sharing one for that reason. I don't know the price, they are in PI right now. For someone needing a larger place, or knows someone willing to share space, they may be a good option.

Wow, vicious. I'll agree, a mongers board is not the best place to find a babysitter. However there are expats on the board who may know a stable person that they have seen interact with children, and able to recommend. Personally, I would take Ken's recommendation over someone with no recommendation at all. Of course you could always ask a Thai, who's only interest would be that they get a finders fee from one of them, or a cut of the salary.

I agree with you, there are many sitting with a scowl on their faces, and don't look approachable. Some may only come in with enough money to buy a couple of draft beers, and they know that they aren't going to get any action. I can only add my experience. When I go into a gogo, it's usually with friends or on a bar crawl. I know how to play the game I flirt with the ladies, am playful, and spend money. If within ten minutes of walking in, or after a stage change, I don't get any play, or noticed, I may turn into one of those unsmiling faces just waiting for my friends to finish their dri

Thanks MM

I haven't looked at my list. It's irrelevant, those on ignore, are ignored, and their whole post size doesn't show up as before, just a small line that I don't really notice. Big improvement. Something I don't like is there isn't a button to see my last ten post like before. Also, by others names, there used to be an arrow to click and I could look up someones topics, and posts. That seems to be gone, or I haven't found where it's moved to. The same thing could be done from someones profile. Now it seems that I can only click on their "find my content" and I get topics that they have

nutosf, I really hate to reply again, I don't want to make this about you and me. However, you are not listening. None of us expects you to turn your place into xzone, babydolls, or windmill. What we are saying is that your ladies stare at the mirror, a spot on the wall, or anything other than look us in the eye and smile. I don't want mamasan dragging a lady over to me, when she never noticed I existed, even though I have been sitting right in front of her for ten minutes. I'm not a rapist. I don't want a woman forced on me. I don't care if she is just pretending to like me, I do

Torque, you do know that about 1% of pattaya tourist read the forums don't you? That should give some new meaning to your statement "It would be far more accurate to say that over 99% of tourists need no advice whatsoever about being a sponsor or getting duped into marriage than to say that there is some horde of people needing rescue from it." I have a feeling that your post is aimed at me and my post in the newbie section. I live in Pattaya, as does Bushcraft. Neither of us are stupid. We both agree on this subject. Both of us know many of this forums members. I know many of the FL

The amount is different with different ATM's. Also what your card limit is. Most will give only 20 bills. That is 20,000 baht, however, on many holiday weekends, they run out of 1,000 baht notes, and give you 500 baht notes, so you can only get out 20, 500 baht notes or 10,000 baht. When the US dollar dropped, I had friends that couldn't get 20,000 out because it went over their card limit. When I need extra, I've gone to a different ATM and got more. However MM informed me, that you can put your card right back into the ATM and get another 20,000 baht. I had never thought of trying the

Read it again, it was not out of order. Several men in the last month have had problems with bill padding. I don't care how it was run in the past, and I'm well aware if their reputation. However, something seems to have changed. I gave a warning to keep an eye on the check bin, not black list the place. Because you have never had a problem in the past, doesn't mean that someone else hasn't lately. The detail I may have got wrong was that it was mamasan that went into a rage, it could have been the manager, or the owne. An older woman that defiantly wasn't a hostess and had some authori

That may be, but it just shows that rents are to high, and the land owners need to take into account the economy and drop in tourists, as well as the change in tourists. The Arabs and Russian families are not spending their money in bars and disco's. Lets be real here, Tony has put them on the market because they are not profitable for him anymore. We can be assured that he wasn't paying that kind of rent and key money. If he couldn't make a profit, how could someone else paying so much more for rents? That's not taking into effect that some remodeling would have to be done, as well as

This is a good list. The sailor bar while always being one of the cheapest places to drink, has lately been accused of bill padding by several different people. Mamasan when confronted with the "mistake", fly's into a screaming rage at the customer. Many have always considered it a cheap friendly place to drink. That may have changed, so I would add, check your bin each time something is added to it. Wonderful bar 2nd road, has always been one of my favorite cheap places to drink, I like live music, and the ladies are very low hassle. Tigglebitties soi 17 off 3rd road is another fav

Looks like I guessed it right. In keeping with tony tradition, it also looks impossible to even break even, much less make a profit. Not to mention the ten meter tall picture of himself he plans to put on the front of the building to drive customers away.

Do you get the feeling that it will be vacant for a while?

I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. However I believe there is a member of this board called Dancewatcher that rents condo's in View Telay 6 That may be a good option for you. I'm sure that someone here has his e-mail address or phone number. I would check the members listing for you, but I'm really tired right now. Maybe google has him listed.

That has been my experience as well. I can only remember one time that a lady there even talked to me. It was on one of the bar crawls, all of us were sitting alone waiting to go to the next place. Then I noticed MM had three ladies, and appeared to be the only one not ready to leave. Well, I walked over and asked him how he got the nicest looking ladies in the place, when the rest of us were sitting alone. He passed one of them over to me, she was a hottie, and friendly. I came back for her a couple of days later, but was ignored again. I have no idea how MM does it. Two of the ladies

Okay, this is just my opinion, but you can take it for what it's worth. I only visit your gogo on a bar crawl with FLB anymore, even though I have always found it having lots of stunners in it. What puts me off, and it seems that those that I sit with agree, is, the ladies are not friendly enough. They seldom make eye contact or smile directly at men. Even calling them over gets a cold shoulder. If I just wanted a drink, there are plenty of cheaper places to sit alone and get a drink. That's not what I go to a gogo for. If I were to make an assumption, it would be that most of your ladi

The price of fuel is to high !!

Just a suggestion MM. You have pinned topics. Why not add one to trip reports asking for hotel reviews under that section. Most hotel reviews that I see are in trip reports. It's not easy to look up from trip reports. Even if I tried to look, I'd get sidetracked by pictures and forget what I was looking for LOL

Naklua and Jomtien are where the Russians stay with their family's. I can't really give you any names of hotels, but I'm sure you could find them on your own. If you don't mind walking street, La Fontain on the south end of walking street has a kitchen, living room, bedroom, pool, 2 TV's and a DVD player. I didn't see any family's staying there, but it looks like a place you could at least stay for a few days while looking for some place that fits your needs better. I believe I was paying close to 900 baht a night during high season. The Marriott, Hilton, Hard Rock, Amari Orchid Resort

I thought the same thing. No name, no location, not much use to me. Tony is advertising on TV that he has places on walking street for sale or rent. He makes it almost impossible to have a viable and growing business. Anyone renting property from him would have to have a 10 page contract stopping him from renting out every square inch of property not actually inside the doors of the rental property. Also his adding advertisements of his own, blocking your own sign, or sight of the property. Even street parking, he is likely to rent out to food carts, motorbike renters, or street per

Now that is a good question. How public, is public?

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Royal Thai Police HQ, Bangkok MAY 18 2011 Police in the Thai capital Bangkok today promised ‘transparency’ in an investigation into a massive fraud committed on an Irish businessman on the holiday island of Phuket – which is increasingly being dubbed the 'island of greed' by local expatriates and tourists. 'Police hid file' As a gang thought to be comprised of police, lawyers, and local ‘businessman’ tried to hang on to their newly acquired assets and cash, officers from the Thai mainland who had been ordered to investigate were turned away by local police

You didn't give your price range. That would help, as would the area that you would like to stay in. High end: Hard rock hotel, Beach Road, has exactly what you are looking for. Mid range: Sabai Has several pools, one should be to your liking. Budget: Honey lodge, on Pattaya thai The pool on top of Mike Mall is cheap and a good alternative. You can use the hotel that you like best, pool or not, and then use the Mike pool. Another idea along the same lines is Koh Larn island. It's an ocean, not a pool, but it's big, has shade, chairs, and food and drinks will be brought rig