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  1. Baybreeze 600 baht/night, not to far from beach and soi 8, should suit you.
  2. In Udon Thani looked for left-handed clubs at a golf course, drinign range and a couple shops selling used clubs. Not a left-handed club to be found.
  3. It's been raining every day in Udon Thani and Khan Kean. The rice fields are green and wet. Pattaya should catch some of this wet weather.
  4. Ken, I am very likely to be visiting an acquaintence in Chiayaphum within a few days. What is the name of a good hotel there for a foreigner? Thanks. Tom
  5. This past week may have given me some insight on opposing comments (good value vs. crap) on the Bay Breeze hotel. I've mentioned before that I've been patronizing the Bay Breeze Hotel for the past 10 years and was a satisfied customer. Being the low season, Bay Breeze has many empty rooms and I had a chance to look at half a dozen. The room I was originally given was clean and in good shape. But the airconditioner blew a fuse, leaving the room without air or lights. No problem - they transferred me to the room next door. However, adjoining room had the "dive look." There was a hole in th
  6. Bay Breeze Hotel at 600 baht has shower/tub and in-room safe. It has a small pool on the third floor. A large room is 800 baht.
  7. I am so sorry to hear of Om's passing. She was such a sweet Thai lady. Maybe I shall shop for a very good helmet for my Thai girl friend. A pretty one, so she might wear it occasionally. I do not think she owns one. Very sad.
  8. For the past ten years I've been arriving at the Bay Breeze Hotel without a reservation. One time they were full. I went to a nearby hotel for a day, moved into the Bay Breeze the following day. It is very unlikely they will be full except for mid-December through January and the week of Song Khran in April. All the decent hotels will say they are full during those weeks, but there will be vacancies here and there. I always stay in Bangkok for at least one day. I take the bus to Pattaya, arriving in the afternoon fresh enough so that it would not bother me to walk or take a taxi to ano
  9. The Second Road enterance onto Soi Honey Inn, where the Bay Breeze Hotel is located, has a (green and orange) Seven/Eleven on one corner and a bank on the other. If you are arriving in a baht bus look ahead to your right. You will pass the Apex and Diana hotels on the right maybe 15 second before you get to the Seven/Eleven store. So when you see one of these hotels get ready to push the buzzer to stop and get off the bus. It's about a fifty paces (or yards) from Second Road to the hotel steps. I've had an inexperienced taxi driver (not baht bus driver) who had never heard of Bay Bre
  10. Seems many realized, as I just did, that the Vientiane is my favorite Pattaya restaurant, the one I don't want to change.
  11. It's been over a year since I ate there, but it's likely that at Uncle Charlies Bar and Coffee Shop it's business as usual. It's across the soi from the Bay Breeze Hotel. If you walk past it in the morning, all you will see is the ubiquitious rusty, rolled-down, steel door. It doesn't have much farang business other than the two steak days. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting around 1800, Uncle Charlies offers large (16oz?) T-bone or porterhouse steaks with baked potatoe, corn-on-cob, roll and salad. A plate of Isarn food for your date is best secured from next door. The proper accompani
  12. Papa

    E-tickets

    Greg, Thanks for the information. This is what ANA posts on their home page: "We have the perfect tool for busy travelers! You may now register your e-mail address and we will e-mail the following information to you when you make a reservation directly with ANA: 1. Itinerary Information Your itinerary will be sent to your registered e-mail address. 2. Notice of Waitlist Clearance E-mail will be sent to you when seats are confirmed from a waitlist. 3.E-mail with e-Ticket Itinerary Receipt Your e-Ticket Itinerary Receipt will be e-mailed to you in PDF file. To take ad
  13. Folks, What does a newbie need to know about e-tickets. My ticket purchases have always been through an agent who provided me with tickets well before my flight. My guess is that the usual tickets will not be sent to my home address. Do I get email that I need to print out and take to the airport? Can I confirm my reservations? What informs me that my e-tickets are being properly processed? BTW ANA offers a credit card with an annual fee that accumulates mileage at a rate of a mile per U.S. dollar charged. The past year ANA had several promotions that enabled me to pick up about
  14. There are several Pattaya sites showing condos on the market. I believe Gabor has a Thai homepage with links to these. Ken of KenandLat also has good links. There are some good FLB threads discussing both buying a Pattaya condo and the cost of living in Thailand or Pattaya. Recommend you do a thorough search for this. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for you to get a Thai mortgage. It is also difficult for any foreigner to earn a living in Thailand. Thai law prevents a foreigner from performing any work that a Thai can do. Teaching English seems to be the major opening
  15. Fonz, Bobby Joe's Sixties Bar is on Soi Zero about a hundred yards off Beach Road. Soi Zero was sometines called Soi Bowling Alley because of the bowling alley at the 2nd road end. It may be best known becaues of Bruno's Restaurant. Some also call the road Soi Busstop. Some may remenber when the Sixties Bar was located on Soi Pattayaland two next to the Blue Parrot bar. Bobby Joe moved his bar about 2 years ago. Bobby Joe's Sixties Bar remains one of my favorites.
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