Jump to content
Displayed prices are for multiple nights. Check the site for price per night. I see hostels starting at 200b/day and hotels from 500b/day on agoda.

Billions

Participant
  • Content Count

    1,209
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    15

Everything posted by Billions

  1. A scan of the stamp mentioned above.....lower left corner....no big deal,but for information,this is what you get for staying a few hours extra in country.
  2. I got flagged leaving Bangkok yesterday,tourist visa expired on 24 Feb and it was 25th. I was escorted behind the passport booths to a table where two serious Thais studied my passport and previous arrival/departure stamps. They stamped a new message,with the number 24 in amongst the text,I was was sent on my way. "No fine because less than 24 hour overstay" was all they said. No smiles,no looking up,I was waved away to continue my passage out.
  3. Very strange atmosphere on Walking Street tonight. Five of the seven Russian clip joints dark.....no lights,no touts spilling out across the road,no Ludmilas dancing in the elevated windows. Word is that Crazy Russian Girls,Deja Vu and Applesin up by Soho Square have pulled the plug,along with Virgins (opposite Alcatraz) which only lasted a month. Moulin Rouge was other place closed,unlit and not populated by Olgas. The other two,Galaxy and XO (owned by the same gangster) had the lights on but no dancing girls on podiums or in the glass cubicles and no touts in skyscraper heels handing out
  4. Thanks MM. Well,today I set off to Thapprasit. I had a moment of madness when I briefly considered walking from Central Pattaya,but the blazing heat soon wore me down. I hopped on the tail of a departing baht bus on Second Road by the school and hopped off a couple of hundred metres short of Thapprasit (a guy on the bus told me the wrong jumping off point). That was a fair old journey....ten baht fare well worth it....walking would have been a bad decision. However,I thought the keyshop was only a couple of hundred meters further along,so made the wrong decision to yomp in the baking s
  5. Thanks for the help given above. Today I started the mission.....three keys need copying.....a safe key,a very old automobile key,and a more general key for window locks. The only reason I want the third copying is the price....in Thailand key cutting prices are roughly one tenth of what they cost in my home city. First port of call was a roadside stand opposite the entrance to LK Metro on Soi Diana. The stall was open,but no-one on site. A bar worker called the key cutter on her phone and a few minutes later he arrived. A few head shakes and a lot of tut-tutting and off he went again,
  6. ...but of course not everything fly-posted is culturally sophisticated :
  7. Saw this (old?) poster on a concrete post on Pattaya Tai this morning.....not sure what year its from (some fly-posters stay up for years!)...but another example that its not all sex,drugs and rock'n'roll around these parts.
  8. Wasn't there a brass colliery band from Yorkshire playing a Pattaya concert last year? Definitely a change of scenery for them.
  9. No idea....maybe a skirmish?? Also,door staff tend to mess around like kids in a playground....perhaps they destroyed it when their rough and tumble got slightly out of hand? But....I've worked out why the place looked abandoned.....there's no illuminated signage on the exterior walls now that the flimsy channel lettering has been vandalized.. The lightbox they have is on the inside of the front door....so,there's nothing visible when the premises are closed. When they are trading,the door is pushed out ninety degrees revealing the signage that is then illuminated. At other times,its just
  10. Well,they were open tonight....a couple of scraggy bints at the mouth of the soi. A shabby looking operation but still trading.
  11. Just pigged out at Diceys again.....fabulous buffet as per usual. Arrived just before 13.00hr....and was lucky to be seated. A big crowd in there already,and just one empty table. Not everyone was there for the Carvery....a group of UK squaddies were planning the hiring a boat and were eating burgers,a big crowd of Americans were there drinking water and having a question and answer session about something or other,and the bar was populated by single men drinking pints and playing on ipads. Otherwise,the all-you-can-eat 399 thb was the main event. Plenty of seats outside,but the sun wa
  12. Had an early morning stroll around Walking Street earlier,and noticed that Wildcats on Soi BJ seems to have closed. Just about every other Go-Go in WS is decorated in balloons,banners and hearts,but not this one. All the signage seems to have been removed,with the exception of a small devilish logo stuck on the wall. A Wildcats sign is torn up,on the floor outside. They seemed to be struggling anyway....the Hello Girls were down to one,looking lonely as she stood there with a scruffy sign night after night. The big sign in the street corridor is still there,but probably only be
  13. Good report...thank you! I might pop over late afternoon and prowl around too with the camera.
  14. So,how was it KM? Worth a trip up there? I saw a photoreport on another forum....and nearly all the photos were of cars and not bikes! And for some reason,Thais dressed as Native American Indians.
  15. The guys that park up outside hotels have conspired to charge minimum flat rates for airport work..which is often all they are interested in.Asking other drivers in the queue to use the meter is pointless as they are all in on it.Sometimes they wait for hours for a customer,which probably means they are missing out on normal street work and having queued up for ages aren't going to agree a 50 baht fare and lose their place in line for little reward.
  16. In my recent experience the only time a Bangkok taxi has refused to put the meter on is around Patpong late at night.All others run the meter from the outset (or at least when you remind them to turn it on). More of a problem is getting them to agree a particular destination if they don't fancy the direction or traffic conditions.
  17. Plenty of outlaw 1%er backpatch clubs in town tonight. Saw a group of Thailand Hells Angels go into Marine earlier,followed a few minutes later by a flock of Bandidos.Anywhere else on the planet that would have led to World War Three but no violence whatsoever.The biker wars aren't part of the Thailand biker scene (apparently).
  18. Seems like the Powers That Be have decided to respond to a sea of complaints and are demanding taxis in Pattaya and other named cities start following the rules and stop ripping tourists off. Action within two months apparently. I did some research on getting around Pattaya prior to my first visit and read somewhere that the taxi guys wanted to use the meters,but were petrified of upsetting the baht bus mafia,and had to charge outrageous prices to keep them non-competitive and parked up most of the day. To use the meters would mean war. The recent rules regarding motocy rates doesn't
  19. Yeah. Was a textbook case of how to rob an unsuspecting traveller by teaming up against him and moving in on pockets using four empty shopping bags as Shields and having another party going for the dip.The play failed in so far as it was recognised before it was acted out.But it will play out every day at all hours on baht buses.When you see a woman or ladyboy holding a stack of empty bags on a baht bus you are probably then being set up to be done over.The bags are the tools of the trade. Remember how it works.Might save you drinking money or prostitute fee by simply being alert.
  20. Masters at pocket billiards for sure.
  21. Is Robins Nest in Soi Diana under the same ownership as The Sportsman? I'm sure I read that somewhere but might have been a while ago. Anyway,spurred on by this report I went in search of pork ribs at Robins Nest last night (thinking common ownership might mean same product) and for the first time in several visits there was disappointed with what they served up.A very very very fat-laden product. Very unlike what is illustrated above. Might try the Sportsman soon if it's not too busy outside...the smoking on the terrace tends to put me off eating there even though it has an outside s
  22. In theory,yes...but it wasn't that straightforward. When I hopped on the parked bus,the two wrong 'uns where sat close together on one of the side benches. My first act was to transfer an expensive looking camera from around my neck and into a shoulder bag. This was done in full view of the tag team,and resulted in the ladyboy jumping across the bus to sit close to me,but leaving a small gap.She then invited me to sit in this gap,but seeing all the empty bags my danger awareness reaction kicked in,so I stood back on the footplate,looking forward and watching what might happen next. The lad
  23. ....the bahtbus was an old one,and had faded SugarBaby A Go Go advertising panels on the tail end.Seeing as the driver was part of the scheme it might be worth being extra cautious when riding one with this advertising.Forwarned is forearmed after all. (Trying to make up for not warning the Indian what was afoot)
  24. A little heads-up on the baht bus pickpocket operation. Its a well documented modus operandi. Saw one playing out early this morning at 02.45 am. Two people on an otherwise empty baht bus,as it waited to load up with travellers at the junction of South and Second Road. A ladyboy in a blue t-shirt,hair pulled back in a bob,and a skanky Thai lady,aged in her late thirties.Unhappy and unpleasant looking people. The ladyboy and her partner-in-crime shifted seats a few times,and the lady tried to organise where other passengers should sit as they climbed aboard. Seeing this in motio
×
×
  • Create New...