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.
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My pet peeve with Thai girls
nkped replied to lovedog100's topic in General Discussion about Pattaya
I'm not bothered by the practice. As Packhike says, if we want to be in on those conversations, learn Thai. And, no, I have not made much progress in that regard, in spite of an on and off relationship with one Thai of many years. It's also not unique to Thailand. Listened to a lot of Korean while engaged in a LLT in Korea. -
To somebody from the great plains (middle of U.S.) an accent from Ontario and points east, is fairly noticeable. BTW Folks from the upper peninsula of Michigan have a similar accent. My fellow wheat farmers from the Canadian plains are a bit harder to pick up on.
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If the reservation included the destination, the OP does have a legitimate complaint. But yes, he should have had for info with him to give to the driver.
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Have to put the Doors in there someplace.
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It doesn't happen on flights to Cambodia, Korea or Taiwan.
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Type II diabetes does not necessarily (or even typically as I understand it) require insulin. But if it does, a trip to Pattaya could pose an additional challenge if you are in the early days of injecting insulin. I'm not in a medical field, but I was around my brother in his first few months of taking insulin. He had at least two or three instances where he did not get enough glucose in the system after the morning insulin shot and almost blacked out standing up. First aid (it worked) was handing him a bottle of orange juice and telling him to drink. Once, he was driving and I was a pass
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The U.S. Embassy's website has an extensive discussion of dying in Thailand.
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Their site has very helpful pics of the rooms which seem to confirm a number of the positive things folks have said. Enough views to allow one to make an assessment of the rooms, other the strength of the AC and whether or not you can hear Villa swinging from the light fixtures in his room . From the pics of the bar posted elsewhere on the board, it looks to be a very civilized place. Will have to check out the bar, if not the guesthouse, next trip.
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In the normal course there would have been Brits living in the U.S., lawful permanent residents (green card holders) primarily, who would have been serving in the U.S. military during Vietnam just as there are non-citizens serving now. They were subject to the draft and were drafted (conscripted). Many would have enlisted just as their U.S. born friends and neighbors did. Without researching the specifics, I have to think some of the guys with their names on the wall held UK passports at the time of their deaths. Could there have been 22 of them? I don't know, but they would have been mem
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When I lived in Anchorage and traveled to the east coast for business, I would tell people I could have gotten to Seoul in the same travel time and guess where I would rather have traveled to. Got some really strange looks with that line.
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Asiana Airlines, Buisness Class? Seattle-Angeles City
nkped replied to wdwflash's topic in Airline Discussion
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whats your proffesion the majority of people on here
nkped replied to louie's topic in Idle Chit Chat
What nick do you use when you are on the clock? No, wait, I know--Villayouth. -
The internet can be scary on occasion. A site for number 1 tunes For me, it was apparently "Goodnight Irene" by Gordon Jenkins & the Weavers.
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No real idea, but it's possible it could have been Sinatra or something by Benny Goodman's band.
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How did you first discover Thailand?
nkped replied to captcraig2's topic in General Discussion about Pattaya
In 1974 the Air Force gave me good news twice over. First, I was going to get to leave South Carolina--believe me, that was good news. Second, I was going to be paid to live in beautiful Nakhon Phanom on the Mekong. -
In my first incarnation as a monger, I was in both the Philippines and Korea when they had midnight curfews that were enforced. You can party a lot by midnight, but you had to get an earlier start. Was in Korea in the early 80s when they ended the midnight curfew and it was not particularly good news. If you were trying to set something up with a bar tender or waitress who got paid by the bar, you had to wait a couple of hours longer to get down to business--BTW, they wore red badges. Also, your target selection did not improve as the evening went on.
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Flew out of SFO in July and all of the screeners in sight were from a private company rather than TSA. Their uniforms looked a lot like TSA but different badge and shoulder patch. I mention that because of the people in the U.S. who think they will get a less onerous security regime if their airport opts for a private security contractor instead of TSA.
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I'm more worried about the workmen's comp claims from the TSA employees who say they got PTSD from having to look at my sorry ass.
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Don't know all the details, but the only people you could pass it to would be those who had already gotten past the inspection booth. Not much gain to it at that point. Then you would have to get past the CBP officer at the exit without your ticket or a stamped customs declaration--that would probably be a problem.
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I was finally stood up by The Limo Pattaya this week for a pick-up in Pattaya at the Residence Garden. Made the booking a couple of days in advance using their web site. Not making excuses for them, but when I did not get an e-mail confirmation from them the next day, should have called to check on it. My equanimity now is due to the fact that I was able to go to the taxi stand across the street from the RG and get a ride to the airport right away. Will probably still give them my patronage in the future, but will be looking for that confirmation or calling.
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Just watched the Remembrance Day ceremony from Ottawa on CBC. They were blessed with brilliant sunny weather. The Empire does this rather better than we do in the U.S.
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On a recent trip to Udon Thani was in Mojo's Restaurant and Bar, one of the farang establishments in town. Happened to glance over at two 20 something TGs who were worth looking at. They were playing chess.
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Okay, MAYBE, now ESPN will show more than two weeknight games from the West coast over the course of the season next year.
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Tiger mostly, and an occasional San Mig Lite. Like Chang but it will kick my butt in short order.
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Also, the ones who really did that sort of thing had it as a core value/obligation to not talk about what they did with strangers and that did not end with going off the payroll.