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My experience with Thai, and I have flown a lot with them, is that the bargains have dried up and you need to jump in quick if you see one. It is a year since I was on a flight due to the greatly increased fares. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

I bet that in addition to this the food was cold assuming that you want to eat it. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

No problem with different tastes and opinions at all. I did go to the Palace and it was mainly empty and for my tastes, boring but as I am well aware that was a few minutes and everything can change quickly. I am balanced enough to believe that the next time I visit it will probably be packed and brilliant! Sent from my XT1033 using Tapatalk

Well I would like to take a contrary view. One of the reasons that I rarely go to Walking Street now has been that the girls are starting to get to look as if they all came out of the same mold. They all seem to be in the early twenties bracket and I can bet that the Happy group almost have a formula when getting staff. Sure, if you are into"Gabor Girls"this is fine and his preferences are very well known. The thing is that there are a lot of older guys like me that have a preference for older, wiser and in the case of Pandoras, raunchy. I can honestly say that I have had more real FUN in Pandoras that any other place in Pattaya. I have no issue with going to a club for fun rather than ogling 20 year olds. This is Pattaya and its strength is diversity. This is why there are gay bars, katoey a'gogos and places where for the Japanese a 3 -3-3 experience is a bargain basement deal but where some of the longer term stayers find out of their league. I would have thought that you would have embraced diversity and applauded yet another option in the Pattaya scene. I think that Rick is doing his best to establish a business in a not so easy time in a not so easy soi. I would also add that the smaller environment of Pandoras is better for Ricky to mix and mingle than in the bigger places of the past and he has been a champion host to me this trip.I have also bar fined from the place and was very happy with the choice that I made. We need IMHO more Pandoras and less Spice and Baccara.

I have just finished an interesting book. I really enjoyed Andy McNabbs earlier books but he has now moved onto futuristic fiction. I read Fortress and I swear it could have been written by Donald Trump. The tale revolves around a plot in Britain to bring the Brits and the Muslims living in the UK into conflict with the aim of repatriating the Muslims to wherever they came from. All this is to be financed from the US by people with similar aims there. Does this sound familiar?

I was thinking of getting a bar crawl team to visit the Philharmonic in Bangkok. Names and contact numbers please.

Both my daughter and son in law are smokers. Neither of them are particularly healthy and I think that they use this to some degree to justify the habit. It keeps a lid on weight gain for some people (especially if they are too lazy to exercise) however here is the rub. For the last four years the tax on smokes has gone up ten percent each New Years Day and a pack now costs around 500 baht but they, and presumably most of the serious smokers in Pattaya will still be buying if and when they are 500 or indeed a 1000 baht a pack. This really is another sad side of smoking as so many smokers simply cannot afford them, forgetting about the health issues.

Looking at the tariff I guess that I would never use a metered taxi from Swampy to Pattaya when I pay 1000 baht to Mr T and this covers tolls and most of the drivers know Pattaya well, why would I? Really, I wonder how important it is to the average boardie it is unless he is visiting Bangkok.

Nothing gets my motor running better in the morning than a mug of coffee and a 7/11 ham and cheese toastie.

Thanks for that. If any ladies phone up asking for my address so that they can send me roses please PM me for my details,

Eight hundred views and 37 replies and I am still not sure if on balance the place is loved or loathed. I do realise that I will probably never get to know as 500 baht for a hamburger when there are some fine ones available for a fraction of that in Pattaya even if the girl that serves them is a bit on the plain side. They probably wont even get upset if I ask them what they are doing after work!

I got the feeling that when I flew with them that they had little experience of Euro passengers and their expectations.I was however sure that after a few months of complaints and training they would sharpen up their game.

Yes, international laughing stock. It even ended up in the New Zealand papers.

Thanks everyone for the good advice. It took ten seconds to fix by turning off that extension. I hope that I have learned something. I do by the way run Malwarebytes every week but that seems to have by passed it.

I am wondering if the following issue is as a result of installing Windows 10. I did look on the Internet and there are issues however no matter how many times I try to reinstall it still does not work correctly. All I get is a little square logo and the when I click on details I get the following. Can anyone come up with a solution please? No webpage was found for the web address: chrome-extension://ceopoaldcnmhechacafgagdkklcogkgd/stubby.html

Some years go I had to use a scientific calculator as part of a course. These were not invented when I went to school. I ended up looking in the local paper till I found a moonlighting maths teacher. It was interesting that I only needed two hours with him to come to grips with beast and trig in general. We learn a lot more than we ealise even if we dont use it.

Unlike Butch I have no issues at all with the airline. It did everything right. I would use them but the flight times are not suitable but more importantly there are few bargain flights and when I have tried to get them they disappear from the Internet in a flash. As for the baggage issue. This would have been hell for me. When I arrive home I am lugging my flight bag, laptop and duty free.

I heard that when the cops pulled them up the girls told them "We have a perfect right"to which the cops replied, "You have a perfect left as well but you still need to cover up".

As usual I enjoyed starting my day with a feed of Monkey Food. Thanks as always. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

Just read the following on the Internet. Oh dear, next thing they will do is fine the smokers! Thailand has long been as famous for its "anything goes" tourist hedonism as for its natural beauty, Buddhist culture and excellent cuisine. But as two young female visitors discovered on the holiday island of Phuket, the days of Thai authorities turning a blind eye to the excesses of Western tourists are over. The women, an American and an Austrian, were each fined and given a stern lesson about Thai culture after a video emerged of them leaning topless from a vehicle during New Year celebrations on a packed street. The Thai junta is pursuing a crackdown on scantily clad tourists as part of a "morality cleanse" begun by the ruling generals. Police began a hunt for the tourists after the clip - of them in a vehicle in Patong flashing their breasts as they doused themselves with water - went viral on social media. The women, named as Adrianna Martin, 20, from America, and Camille Prymann, 25, from Austria, were tracked to a guest house and charged with indecent public exposure. Each was fined 500 baht ($20.55) and given a lesson in Thai culture and morality by a female police officer. "We explained to them why such behaviour was inappropriate and charged them with public nudity," said Lieutenant-Colonel Sutthichai Thianpho, of the Patong police department. In November, Phuket city police forced three sunbathers lying in a park in bikinis to put on more clothes. Yet while Thailand is determined to crack down on the display of too much skin by Western visitors, prostitution continues to flourish in tourists spots such as Bangkok, Phuket and Pattaya. General Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Prime Minister and junta chief, said: "Foreign tourists should not have a perception that they can come to Thailand to commit illegal activities as often portrayed in the movies." However, Prayuth had to apologise after he appeared to suggest tourists in bikinis could be putting themselves at risk - unless they were not attractive. "Can they be safe in bikinis ... unless they are not beautiful?" he asked. Amid international condemnation, he quickly apologised and said he was simply urging visitors to "be careful".

Just passed by this thread and thought I would mention the following. Whilst I have not stayed there I do use the eaterie side and the book exchange is a focal point for many of us visiting Pattaya. Thanks for the service as I manage to get through quite a few books every trip and usually find replacements there.

Funny what you remember. The flights were fine but the warm bottles of Chinese beer still haunt me! Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

Just bumped into a lawyer friend of mine. As we parted he tells me that he is off to buy a hat with, " BAH HUMBUG on it, no kidding! Ah well, it takes all sorts to make a Merry Christmas. Best wishes to all. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

I tend to arrive between 9 PM and 1 AM. I stood in line four times last year and in every instance beat the luggage out of the chute. I cannot see me paying a premium for the odd few minutes now and again.

Your contribution is as always appreciated. Thanks for the time and effort