PattayaPete

It could be lots of things. Now you are on broadband its a good idea to set up a good fire wall and run all the spyware finders like ad aware.

Please knock off the blatant spamming, thanks.

Not guest friendly, not customer friendly, full of unfriendly Koreans, horrible food, tired rooms and about the worst possible place in Pattaya that you could stay.

Did you use the "Print The Topic" just uner the title topic at the far right. That will give you a nicely formatted page that is good for printing.

You can use the img button to include a pic that is already on the internet - see how to post a photo in the FAQ. The PM window does not give you the ability to upload a photo from your own computer.

You Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine: The Angelwitch shows-r-us den finally opened its doors to the paying public on Thursday night January 5 in the dog-leg Soi 15, off Walking Street. The opening should bring back a lot more trade into Soi 15 and should augur well for two other dens situated next door to Angelwitch - the Fantasia Showcase shows-r-us palace, and the What's Up gogo. Fantasia Showcase runs a series of 20 shows on a rotation basis, each series lasting just over an hour. The core group involved are a collection of lady-boys dressed in the kinds of garish costumes you tend

Although I am sure it happens, it is a really stupid thing for a bar owner to do. Consider an average bottle of spirits in Thailand at around 600 baht. If you get 28 shots from the bottle and you sell each shot for 100 baht your profit on each shot will be 79 baht. Now if you replace a quarter of the bottle with water the cost of the bottle goes down to 450 baht and the profit margin at 100 baht per shot goes to 84 baht. That's an increase of 5 baht. On the whole bottle that would be an increased profit of 140 baht. Total profit on the un-watered bottle is 2,212 baht and on the wat

The last photo I ever took.

Opened and Closed in 2005: The 12-months from January to December last year must rank as the most frenetic in terms of bars opening and closing, with the result being a net increase in the number of places offering booze and women for sale, despite the overt desire of the governing bodies here to chart a course towards making Pattaya a so-called ‘family’ destination. Walking Street, not surprisingly, retains its mantle as the premier nightclub area in town. At the beginning of 2001, just five years ago, there were 43 chrome pole palaces spread the length of Pattaya-Jomtien. Of these,

Actually, everyone is a newbie at least once and these sorts of questions are relevant to newbies. We can laugh and make fun of them but this forum will always welcome newbies and answer their questions. It's no bother to me and I enjoy initiating yet another new soul into the mysterys of Pattaya. It is possible to do a search and all these questions are covered but newbies always fear that everything has changed in the last two days so want to be reassured that things are still as they have read. On my first trip to Thailand I was severely ripped off in one of the infamous upstair

Where do we go from here?

Coyotee's get less ugly Regular readers will no doubt have noticed a few names of bars cropping up more often than others in this column over the years. The chief reason for this is quite simple. These places are run by managements who understand the value of publicity and make a point of imparting information -as far in advance as possible- about future events and activities such as anniversaries, birthdays, and dance contests. This column has always had an e-mail address appended to it and anyone who wants to publicise relevant information regarding their boozer can let me know and I wi

Please remember that bar girl discussion is not permitted in the open forum. Free Membership Here

Celtic Just so you know the Mercure Hotel is abour 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the action. Although it is a nice hotel it is a terrible place to stay on your own. If you can change it, you should. Deadman It is always worth popping into FLB.

I just did the forced log out. Hope you all managed to get back in OK. Sorry for the inconvenience but it really is something I should do every month.

Periodically I have to do a forced log out. This is to get rid of any internet café machines that have been left logged into the board. I'll be doing this on Monday afternoon and once done you will need to log in with your user id and password on your next visit. If you have forgotten your password get it now.

Walking Street gogos with more agogo Set to Explode: The number of gogos in Walking Street must surely be close to reaching critical mass with no less than five new places opening their doors in recent weeks and another two -including the famed Bangkok operation Angelwitch - set to launch in the next month or so. At last count there were 43 palaces of the chrome pole extant on and around Walking Street . Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why this column tends to concentrate on reporting the goings and comings of this area to the detriment of other nightlife sois; I hardly ever get

It's 35 kilometers or about 22 miles. Takes about 30 minutes by car if you get a good run. Pretty small place and not much there except the naval base (farangs not allowed). Ban Chang with it's infamous blow job bars is fairly close but other than that it does not have much going for it in my opinion. It may well be cheap but not a place I'd choose to live.

They get bigger the more you gogo. The Clayton's Column: This is the column you get when you aren't having a column. Confused? Your liver-wasted correspondent is currently on sabbatical Down Under Last of the Great Contests: The ever-popular Diamond gogo (Soi Diamond) monthly dance contests will be coming to an early end this year with the final 2005 effort to take place on Sunday evening 20 November. Management has taken the view that December will be too busy to stage a contest so this last effort promises to be a no-holes barred extravaganza (did I really write that). Action will

Lots of people have asked about this over the years so I thought I'd write down my thoughts for the new Expat section. Before worrying about work permits, visas, taxes and ownership the prospective business owner should consider the following. Starting a business is a risky proposition. In the west over 75% of new businesses fail in the first year. Reasons for failure vary but I am sure the number 1 reason is under capitalization. New business owners generally under estimate how much money they will need to put in to the business to get through the first year. They commonly have

The license place is near The Regency school on the way to Rayong. Rayong is a further 50 kilometers along the road.

I've had several of these "Medical Certificates". I needed one for a Thai driving licence too. Turn up at the clinic with 100 baht in your hand. Nurse takes blood pressure. Doctor listens to heart for 10 seconds, asks if you have any diseases, say Ahhh, doctor looks in mouth, sign here, done! Takes about 3 minutes.

Is now available for download in the FLB Video section. Ben also has a few copies on DVD for sale in the bar for those still in Pattaya.

Buddhist wedding only, doesn't qualify Sunny.

I have just received my shiny new 1 year retirement visa. When researching the necessary hoops to jump through, I found the info a bit lacking, even on ThaiVisa.com. so for anyone interested here's my experience. I started off by going to Immigration in Pattaya to check what the requirements are. Here's the list - You must be 50 or over. You must have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank. You must have a current Non-Immigrant "O" visa in your passport. Usually you are advised to get the Non Im "O" in your home country but as I was already in Pattaya and did not want to go all the way back