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Do not arrest me if I'm wrong about the price - but I believe Tim Boutique hotel (near Soi Diana) charges 100 baht/day for using the (great pool) - and that includes one soft drink in the pool bar.

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Villa Market Second Road (the avenue) has them. But expensive, around 30 baht a piece. This must be a good business idea for Thai farmers.

How is the beds? (this has become my number one thing about Thai hotels - many of the otherwise great hotels in PTY have really hard beds that I cannot get a good nights sleep in)

This one has a great overview of the public holidays: http://portalseven.com/calendar/Holidays_Thailand.jsp?year=2012 Not one day in July!! (but I guess there is the election coming on?)

I would also consider Tim's Boutique hotel. A stone throw from Sandy S and much better.

Nice place, but for food - not impressed. Orderede the pizza twice. First time it came out kind of soggy (as in soft, not crisp), the second time - last summer - it came out "not cooked at all". I had to leave it all on my plate, uneatable. "You should have said something to the manger", you may say. Yes, I did so on this forum. But it did not really help. But for cheap drinks and good location this is a great place. For food, not so much.

Any current info/recommendations. I cannot find any of the mentioned dentists at the Bankok Pattaya hospital homepage.

I kind of agree with the main line of thought in this thread. I`m late 30ies, fairly good looking (yea, I have to say so to myself), and been to PTY once a year for the last 5 or so. Always stop by HA once or twice - because they do have very hot girls in there. But I always get the feeling the girls are out of reach, quick onto stage, quick to retire to the back. I understand the concept of getting the girls attention - and in most gogos I have no problem heading to the stage - and look my chosen one into her eyes, smile and make a drink gesture with my hand. She will come over. In H

August suites - great pool, but crappy beds (would otherwise be a good choice) Tim Boutique Hotel - my every year fall-back hotel. Great hotel with great roof top pool, nice bar, friendly staff

I sent them an email when in Bangkok, telling them I would book for a week at 1600 baht with breakfast, as that was what a friend told me was the "going rate". They phoned me a couple of hours later telling me I could get it for "1600 if pay every day - or 1500 baht if pay for 7 days." I said I could pay 7 days, but would have to see the room first. On arrival, they did not offer me to see the room, and I was both too tired and hung over to insist. So I put up the cash for 7 days + 2000 baht deposit (for something else). Bad mistake, could not sleep in the rock hard bed. Told them

I moved from August Suites to Tim because of the hard beds in August. Had heard about the construction, so I passed by to have a look. Lot of work, but construction, not destruction, so no jack hammers. I asked for a room on "the other side" and do not hear a thing from my room. I can sometime hear them from a distance when at pool, but its no annoyance. But it is one of those very unprotected construction sites, so I keep looking up the every time I pass the site, thinking something heavy is going to hit me in the head any moment. Tim (the old woman) told me Friday that the hotel

I stay Tim's Boutique hotel now. Comfy bed. I talked to a hotel manager in Bangkok about this, he runs a small hotel with great beds. He said they had a choice between the 2K baht "rock" bed and the 7k baht bed. They chose the "expensive" one, and that was proven to be a wise business decision . My guess - many hotels are built by Thais (that are used to and like hard beds) or people that save money on the wrong stuff. Buying a 20K baht LCD TV and a 2K baht bed is not the right call.

Yes, most are on the firm side of the scale, some on the rock side. I have stayed in about 20 hotels in Thailand - so far 3 hotels are on my black list for having a rock bed: Darjelin (bangkok) Baipho (Phuket) - I suspect this may be because their studio suites is built on - cement August Suites - pattaya I now stay in Tims Boutique Hotel. Firm bed, yes. But with spring action. Comfy for me.

I stay there now. It ticks all the right boxes but one for me: A very hard bed. I cannot sleep in it. Tonight I had to move to the sofa at 4 in the morning to get some sleep. So I'm moving out today. Other than that it is great, maybe best pool in town.