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On the subject of the black girls in Walking Street. I can indeed confirm the 1500 baht LT. The lady I was chatting with was only away from Kenya for a month and she says this is 2 weeks in Pattaya and 2 weeks in Singapore where she expects to make 200 S$ a night. As a matter of personal choice the lady was not my thing for one real reason and that was because her elaborate hair style was unwashed for to long and didnt smell that good.

Sounds like a good deal and whatever else will be fun because thats what Baby Dolls does. I do however have one suggestion and that is that you update the photo collection on the link at the foot of the page. Its a day or two since Ricky was there.

Whatever...thanks for drawing my (and I am sure others) attention to something that was neither clear or generally known or understood. Knowledge as always is power.

What airline dictionaries are there?

My dictionary tells me that the word direct means "Without delay" therefore in strict terms it cannot have a stop or stops of any number.

Here is the new hotel fronting Second Road and Soi 2. Wonderfully enough the Clasroom gogo is still going but for how long is anyones guess. The photo is taken from the Khun Pub (or whatever) with my back to the Sabai Inn

Thanks for explaining that. Shows that I am never too old to learn-only too old to remember!

Direct? Non Stop? Its all a bit over my head for humble Kiwi boy but I thought that they were the same.

Auckland to Swampy. The Australian airlines take over 3 hours extra and stop in Sydney.The Thai flight also gets into Swampy at 8.30 PM so thsatanother night in Pattaya. Yeah!

Same same withThai Air flights out of Auckland. All the recent flights have been half full and I have been able to get three seats or the emergency exit ones where I can stretch out. The one annoying thing is that when I log onto the Thai Air site the prices are 50 % greater than the specials offered by the travel agents. I have till the 31st to book a flight at the equivalet of 31000 return and this is a direct flight and is what I was paying years ago for a one stop flight takeing a lot more time to get there and back.To be honest I am a happy traveller.

I have on a couple of occasions in my life been caught up in scams. Its like auction fever where you are caught up in the moment and the people doing the scamming seem to have a natural talent for it. What is galling afterwards is that in some cases you have genuinely befriended these people, taken them into your home and introduced them to your wife and family. Over my life I have seen some totally amazing skills developed by poor or desparate people and this is just another example and perhaps the correct response might be "There by the grace of God go I"

Remember that at the Sabai you have access to I think 5 pools in total. I did try the Ruen Thai one day but went back to the main pool. There was always seats and shade and minimal noise so no issues. Yes, this is the space that is being built on and I think that old clunker of a pub must be a very valuable site mnow. As far as I am aware its only used as a social club for Sabai staff. One high season change. In the low season there was always a baht bus that would stop for you in the soi but in 4 weeks only one ever stopped. They are all looking for the Russian/Asian taxi business. No issue to me but a small sign of the times.

Having just had a month in Soi 2 I will give this one a go. There is a large new place going up on the corner of Second Road and Soi 2. It sometime works 24 hours a day but there is little noise at night. They are well on with the construction and there have been some large concrete pours in the last month. As for noise, well I had no complaints but the area of the Sabai where the Ruen Thai pool is (the renovated pool nearest to Second Road was too noisy for me but apll the other pools are free of noise. I have to admit stayin at the Sabai Inn on the side next to the the Soi 2 Inn and neaver heard a thing so no complaints for me. In summary, there will be noise in some of the rooms but I cant tell you what ones these are. I had a walk up Soi 1 but ut seems reasonably peaceful to me. I will post some photos of the construction in the next day or two.

Just to tidy u this topic here is my actual experience of getting to the airport. With Bells they tell you to be ready 30 minutes before the listed departure time and I was. When it was only 15 minutes to departure time I got Dao to phone up. "Be there in next ten minutes". So whatever this bus was going to be late. The minibus did arrive and off for one more pick up and onto the station. Got there about 5 minutes late. All the passengers and baggage transferred and we were obvioulsy being waited for so there must have been a hitch with someone on our pick up list. I have to say that they had a clean and well fitted out new bus and there was good leg room. The bus was as far as I could see almost totally sold out so the system still works for them. We got out of the station exactly 20 minutes late. I was a but suprised that they made zero attempt to make up any time. The bus travelled at th usual Bell speed and in exactly 90 minutes we were at Swampy. What can I say other than adequate as I had time up my sleeve but really if you were economising and could share a cab it would be a much better deal.

My suggestion is this. I used to stay there all the time until they did the recent re-build. There are two pools and one seems to be in constant shade and I am unsure if they have any shade on the upper one. Needs checking out. Because of the renovations I do believe that you need to check it out before you commit. Why not call in and inspect the place and let us know. IMHO its too much of a risk without a look-see first. The street should be getting quieter now and this was never an issue for me even in the busy times. I think this is a good location for getting anywhere and if it was OK I might even consider moving back.

Just a final comment on the Belll saga. I never get to use it coming into Thailand so all my comments are regarding Pattaya to Swampy. For me its a shame that they have made it so difficult. The timing works well for me and I am as happy in a bus for a 90 minute trip as a cab.I phoned them up and they will not accept a booking over the phone and if you want to ensure a pick up you have to prepay the by the day before travel. I did have a reason to go to the area of the bus station so I did indeed book. Its really crazy that they ask you so many questions on line (like your home address, flight time and number) yet when you rock up its simply date, time and pick up point. The cost of the trip prepaid is 250 babt, 20 baht dearer than on line but if you have the time and dont mind a bit of screwing about there you have it.

Usually the time from Pattaya to Swampy is exactly 90 minutes and this is just fine by me. I might give it a try phoning to see if I can get them to accept it and I will report back. It might make sense to use a Thai do do the phoning methinks!

I thought that I might log onto the new site and order some travel. OK, the information required seems endless and I stuck to it. The price is now 230 baht and requires pre- payment on a credit card. After fluffing around for ever I eventually put my Kasikorn card number in and it was either rejected or the security code I entered was wrong or as I had taken too long it times out. I really do not have the stamina to start again so unless there is another option its back to the 1000 baht taxi.

I wrote earlier in this topic that as long as you took all your documentation in that this was a fairly easy job. I did however run into a problem and have to accept some of the blame. What I did wrong was to scribble my email address and what she wrote was to add an E as well as a @. I tumbled to it when I did not get a confirming email and it took about 5 days to sort it out! Its all sorted now and everything is fine.

Can I suggest that you have to look at English not only from a dictionary point of view but also from context. In view of the context of the yarn I think that I used the correct word.

The GF and I ate there a few nights ago and she chose item 302 on the PBG menu. I have to admit that we haad a bit of a luugh at the name of the item but when it arrived she offered me a spoonfull. Now recall that this item is on the Esarn page of the menu and purely without thinking when I swallowowed this spicy concoction I came out with, "Fuck You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Dear OP. There have been hundreds of responses to this question of recent times. I will make it really easy for you and anyone else interested. Have the following paper work. Passport. Email address Residence in Thailand (hotel) Some money in any currency. Mobile phone number. Seek out a decent bank ( I used Kasikorn) and wait in line for a consultant. Tell him/her that you want to open a Thai account and have access on the Internet and a shit load of supporting documentation (go back to previous comments) and hey presto its just like magic. I could go on and on but why bother. Let the bank advise you of your needs depending on your wants! OK? Simple?

Please enter your name address and bank account number here.

Some while ago I was travelling through the UK and stopped in a B & B near the Scots Border. I was eating my breakfast and the owner asked where we had eaten the night before. We told he Witherspoons and she replied " Well better than Mc Donalds because all the meat in the hamburgers is cows lips and noses". Hate to say it but that memory has never left and the breakfast lost its taste!

Careful Butch. The AC Mafia will be sent to sort you out for that.