JohnnyK

It won't change anything to do with visas. The train will simply deposit you on the other side of the bridge. One day perhaps they will extend the line to Vientiane, until then there is really not much different.

GHouse next to DiDi Inn (used to be Ajay GH, sorry I don't remember the new name). Its in the small soi where Shagger Bar is. Get off the baht bus just before it turns to go along the beach road. Walk in to the little soi right behind the main road. ST room must be ok, the local cop used to use it a few times a week when the Aussie guys owned the place.

Ask a bar girl, they know where the 1500/month places are.

Two weeks ago the signboard said 590 baht with wi-fi.

Try the overnight train to Penang then train back to Surat Thani and boat across to Samui. Usually best to go first to your farthest point.

Good job. Nice to read an honest review that reports observations and facts without either syrup or vinegar. Reviews like this actually help people make a choice.

IMO, 1000 baht is hotel territory. Fancy lobby drives up the price. GHs should be priced well under 1K.

I mentioned my room simply to compare 500 baht rooms. I did say it wasn't big enough to play soccer in or go bowling, but I'm not there for the acreage and my exercise tends to be horizontal. While I can't run laps around the room, I CAN sit on my balcony and have my morning coffee au naturel. I can also stay home on a warm afternoon and read a book without feeling depressed after 8 minutes. I do like natural light. I'm 1/2 way between 2nd road and buakhow which gives me great access anywhere I want to go. Bottom line for me? I'm very happy at 500 baht for this room and the convivial, non

If you follow your nose very good value can be found here in Pattaya. Here are some pics of my 500 baht room in The Captain's Bar & guesthouse on soi 11 (Honey Inn). Its not big enough to play soccer or go bowling. It is big enough to shit, shower, shave and shag. Features include: Bolted-down in-room safe Excellent inside-outside bar playing oldies (no techno shite) Very good English brekkie 90 baht and good pub grub (chili, shepherd's pie, pork chops, sandwiches, 24/hrs) Beer 50-55 baht: Chang, Tiger, Heinie, Sing, San Mig. First-rate Brit-Thai ownership (Gerry & Lek) on the

Mucked it up, I did. Re-sized now.

Guys doing a 10-20 stretch for armed robbery might think Skytop has a familiar look to it!

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28 contact hours?! Fuck, you must be exhausted. I won't do more than 20 absolute max.

Schools promise work permits but somehow there are always "delays". When they do produce one they keep it, its not transferable. Beware. 40K in BKK is nothing. Schools will try to screw all sorts of unpaid hours out of starry-eyed falangs. Assemblies, weekend events, overtime, conferences etc etc. Late pay is another dodge. Huge classes (40+) of screaming little Somchais who can do no wrong will exhaust people by noon. Lack of materials is another and if you don't have materials its a bitch doing lesson plans. Trust me, I've been doing ESL for 12 years in Canada, France and Taiwan. In t

Statistics from around the world confirm that capital punishment does not lower crime rates.

3 minutes straight down soi 7 to 1) Pig N' Whistle 2) Rosie O'Grady's

IMO Intown is better value. Rooms are now 800... but there is an elevator! And a rooftop pool to get out of the afternoon noise and pollution. Rooms on the backside are perfectly quiet.

yes.

!!!!! Is this a real question? Why would they do this? They don't know you. Your bank is thousands of miles away. In a foreign country. WTF can be easier than using an ATM?

most authentic? food carts best? everyone has different tastes/standards go away from falang areas would be my advice.

I went to KK hospital 5 years ago with an eye infection. They quickly found someone who could speak English, hustled me through registration, opened a file on me and got me a bar code number. Then upstairs to the eye/ear/nose/throat dept where I waited about half an hour before seeing a young doctor who spoke excellent English (I think he had an American MD). He examined me, wrote out some scrips, told me what the problem was and sent me to the dispensary on the other side of the floor. I was given eye drops and two kinds of pills with instructions in English. I paid the bill the

They can't really be compared. Pattaya caters mainly to foreigners and sex is its main business. HH caters mainly to middle class Thais who come from BKK on weekends (main road is clogged with Mercs and Bimmers on Friday night) though there are about 3000 falang residents. HH has been a resort for 80 years or so while Pattaya was a fishing village until the VN war got the sanuk industry under way. There are bars and girls in HH, to be sure (it is a Thai town, after all) but nowhere near the scale of Pattaya (100 bars or so v. 2000 or so). HM The King lives pretty well year-round in H

Kitchen is ok for all the cooking you are likely to do when food is good and cheap everywhere outside. Install decent window treatments - shutters or drapes/blinds. Get some fabric into the place so it stops looking like a clinic. Put stuff on the walls!!!!! And paint some colour, warm it up. White is for colour-blind people. All the above is pennies.

The guys who did this weren't morons. They were pretty smart, IMO.