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Sure but one is Bt1450 a day with 2 pools and so forth and the other is Bt2900 a day and offers no pool and few facilities. I don't think the RG is the best value in Pattaya but for a separate bedroom and kitchenette facilities it has to be considered. Perhaps a better analogy would be to say just where you think is worse value at Bt2900. Taking obvious stupidity aside, I'm not sure.

Over Suk you should be ok for a basic Thai style condo or even better at 5k. 7k gets you a house.

How did the prices compare to direct or telephone / walk in rates ?

Seems a touch down from Jet though with a similar BKK-BOM leg on small often cramped planes which are no comparison to the LHR-BOM leg. Jet were running 777s from LHR-BOM.

Thanks for those ideas.

Even after I left View Talay, I would drive past and pick up some soup noodles from the cart roughly opposite VT2 and a little down the hill, but before the turn. Great dumplings in the noodles and top soup taste. Often sold out though unfortunately. As for food starting in VT2, well the restaurant next to the pool in VT2 always did quite reasonable food, simple, but decent Thai stuff. You certainly wouldn't have to travel outside id you were being lazy to get fed. Pan Pan blows hot and cold or did for me. However, they deliver to VT2 and if you eat in their restaurant, the food seems

If you had clowns using the aircon at 16c 24/7/365 you'd be putting their rent up or asking them to leave. I could say your place is expensive at 16k compared to a condo of equivalent standard but that is down to the services, the electric being the largest. Transparency for the punters is a good policy.

I've always wondered about the attraction of that place as I thought it overpriced from when it opened. Large enough to be sure but I can't see how on earth it is worth anywhere near Bt2900 a day or 40k for 2 weeks. I can't say your report has changed my opinion, only perhaps to reinforce it. It is twice the price of the RG and hardly compares.

Daft pricing IMHO. The Bt50 extra over what people have accepted as the bottom line, Bt300, is largely worthless and will only serve to piss blokes off. From your pricing changes, you are obviously going after the cost concious and not many of those will pay 8 times the price of a beer for a barfine.

I could shift two of those on a good day ! A proper cooked English breakfast is one of life's true luxuries. However, it is the quality of the sausage which makes or breaks a breakfast.

The place never knew what it wanted to be. Bar to the left when you went in, then a bloody huge fish tank, then a pool table and then they tried to make the back table up on the dais a sort of restaurant. No wonder punters didn't have a clue ! Some Thais had a go at it the last I heard and had huge banners out with the offers on etc. What it really needs is to feed off the UK grub trade and become a boozer with food as a restaurant is never going to work. Then again, most folk out there are looking for beer offers and could not give a fuck about anything else. When you need to run aircon a

It is a total cost calculation you have to make. I'll rent you a place for 1 baht a day but charge you Bt1000 a day for the electric, water, tv and cleaning. That makes it 30k a month. Same same with all monthly deals. Some places do all inclusive on monthly deals but not at a steep discount to 30 x daily rate. This place quotes Bt1100 for the 45sqm 17k a month room. So you have 30*1100=33000 versus 17000. Something has to give ! Electric at Bt8 is a piss take. Commercial electric is I understand more expensive but many places which are commercial are still running on domestic meters.

So 6000/1.07/3.5=1602 units of electric. I never got anywhere near that usage either in a studio (unlikely I know), 1 bed condo or 3 bed 4 aircon house. Not saying its wrong but the usage is very high, even for the hottest months. Still, you have the luxury of paying domestic rates direct. At Bt8 a unit, your 1600 units would have cost you 12,800 baht !

If you actually wanted a smaller screen than a laptop, surely you would buy a netbook for a fraction of the cost ?

I use it all the time. Not from the PC, but from a Philips DECT hands free phone with Skype capability. Also have Skype on non Thai mobiles.

The biggest studio I've got is 46 sqm and that is just about big enough to create a break in area between the bed and a daytime area with sofas and table etc. though as a studio, it is all in one. I cannot imagine a mere 14 sqm more with a separated bedroom and were I designing it from scratch, I'd make the bathroom larger. Different shapes do work differently I confess and perhaps a longer, thinner condo would lend itself to a bedroom more than a rectangular or square unit. After living in condos and then houses, I am not sure I could easily go back to living in a condo again.

Apparently it used to be owned by the son of the former Chelsea director, Matthew Harding, whose helicopter fell from the sky in 1996. I used to live near there and my mate owned the Pioneer bar roughly opposite and though we occasionally dropped in for a feed and the food was routinely good, especially the massive mixed grill, the place was always devoid of any atmosphere and ended up with the Thai staff having their friends in which of course rather fucked the place.

The Continental Bakery seems to have been delivering top quality bread at very reasonable prices since inception. It is widely used as a supplier to many places and often runs out well before closing. They have apparently worked out that getting good bread isn't rocket science as previously thought. As for Bob the Burger, wasn't he latterly getting his bread / rolls from the Marriott bakery ?

It is well known that the major couriers get stung but you cannot just put Rolex watches in the regular mail. Personally, I would not put them in Fed Ex or UPS but would have someone bring them over for me.

Not clueless at all. Simply bright enough to know that his clientèle will not pay a mark up.

Town houses which look as though they came off the production line in a factory like the Chokchai huts are 10 a penny and they won't rent at all on some estates as they are just too tightly planned. I know some ones where the owners have spent loads with extensions and fully kitted out to very high standards and they get 8/10k. Regular ones would hardly fetch 6/8k. House renters can stay longer but they are harder to find, thus depressing your yield. Also, you'll probably lose a month a year to an agent just to find you a tenant. It has been a renters market forever but top places do rent,

I would always advise the 800k option because if they ever change it, history has shown that if you are already on that level and they raise it, you are grandfathered in under the old scheme and your rate stays as it was when you signed up. Some people are on way less than 800k a year.

The Post Office has mail boxes, and Mail Boxes Inc has offices in Carrefour and on 2nd Road but you can just get it sent to wherever you are living. Sent to where you pretend to be living back home and then forwarded on under disguise is the best way if your people won't sort things out for you. However, now is the time to plan. Get a bank with a presence in Thailand. HSBC is probably the best. At least that way you have a Bangkok contact. Citibank as well. For money, you would be best served sending tranches to a Thai bank and using the Thai bank for every day things. You can get a Thai b

Great stuff !

Go post that on Pattaya Live !