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I thought about it but then again I don't need the hassle of guys who never stepped foot in Sky-Top posting nonsense about a business they know nothing about.

Jack, The reason I recommend Sky-Top isn't because I personally like Pete, it's because Sky-Top is inexpensive, clean, in room safe, TV, AC and fridge. No funny business with the bill and it's girl friendly. Add in a great location on 2nd Road, one block from the beach and spitting distance to soi 6. Sky-Top fits my needs.

Jack, CheshireTom's comments are at best a "tempest in a teapot" he's intellectually dishonest. Man of little consequence. I'm in town next month let's hook up, I've a few juicy tidbits about this guy. You'll get a good laugh out of him.

Your right about my business relationship with the PREVIOUS OWNER of Sky-Top and that was YEARS ago. I have NO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with the CURRENT OWNER other then staying at Sky-Top as a paying guest who receives no discounts or other inducements to recommend Sky-Top to board members. Wait wait, I just remembered that Pete the current owner had bought me a couple of beers thanking me for my recommendations. Once again you take my words out of context and in a lame attempt to spin something that's not there. Me thinks you should change your name from CheshireTom to SleazyTom. Once again what does any of this have to do with limited availability at Sky-Top over the Xmas-New Year holiday period? All you bring to the table is smoke and mirrors.

I don't mind opposing viewpoints up to the point when you start getting silly and yes you did search the forum for post from Pete.

Jack, What I find interesting your long term experience of staying at Sky-Top has no validity according to Tom. Why because the owner moved. Tom was fully aware that Pete had renovated the new building to a higher standard then the old Sky-Top but that doesn't make any difference with the logic Tom uses.

The business lounge in S'pore run by SQ is the nicest one, I've been in. Thai in BKK is very pleasant. Both have a good selection of top shelf free booze. US carrier lounges are the pits compared to SQ and Thai.

Thanks for the 'heads up' on the webcam in Noi's bar. One thing I don't want is to be on a webcam in a bar full of working girls in Pattaya.

When I have a early AM arrival I book my hotel one day early so I don't have to wait around until they get a room ready. For me well worth the added expense.

Because of another current topic on this forum, I checked with Pete the owner of Sky-Top and he has limited availablity over Xmas-New Year. If you need a clean room at a decent price. www.skytopcenterpattaya.com

I may be wrong but I've been told that CheshireTom charges 15 baht per hour.

I've got two recommendations on the low end. Both are within spitting distance of soi 6 and they are located on 2nd Road. Each offer cheap but clean rooms with in room safe, TV, AC, fridge. They don't have a pool or gym but they are good value for the money. www.skytopcenterpattaya.com www.tropicalberts.com

I understand CheshireTom has started cleaning condos to supplement his retirement income. Send him a PM for further details.

Yes when I LMAOAY.

Once again ILMAOAY.

[quote name='CheshireTom' date='Oct 17 2007, 11:48 PM' post='508937 What's all the nonsense about "social welfare problems"? Sounds like you have issues that you are just going to have to deal with. Once again the gift that keeps on giving: EU taxpayer Airbus launch aid

I have a friend whose Japanese married to a Vietnamese women. With their two kids he spoke only Japanese and the mom spoke Vietnamese and their nanny spoke English. The kids are tri-lingual and they speak without an accent.

It's a 30 minute drive with no traffic.

Almost immediately Airbus faced criticism on the A350 project by the heads of two of its largest customers, ILFC and GECAS. On 28 March 2006, in the presence of hundreds of top airline executives, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, of ILFC lambasted Airbus' strategy in bringing to market what they saw as "a Band-aid reaction to the 787," a sentiment which was echoed by GECAS president Henry Hubschman. Udvar-Hazy called on Airbus to bring a clean-sheet design to the table, or risk losing most of the market to Boeing.[2][3] Several days later, similar comments were made by Chew Choon Seng, CEO of Singapore Airlines. Chew stated, "having gone to the trouble of designing a new wing, tail, cockpit" and adding advanced new materials, Airbus "should have gone the whole hog and designed a new fuselage."[4] At the time, Singapore was reviewing bids for the 787 and A350. Airbus responded by stating it was considering improvements for the A350 to satisfy customer demands.[5] At the same time, Airbus then-CEO Gustav Humbert suggested that there would be no quick fixes, stating, "Our strategy isn't driven by the needs of the next one or two campaigns, but rather by a long-term view of the market and our ability to deliver on our promises."[6] On 14 June 2006, Singapore Airlines announced it had selected the 787 over the A350, ordering 20 787-9s.[7] Emirates decided against making an order for the A350 because of weaknesses in the design.[8] When two of your biggest customers bail and the S'pore air complains then Airbus does a very expensive redesign..............................

Wikipedia When Boeing announced their 7E7 Dreamliner project, they claimed the lower operating costs of this airplane would make it a serious threat to Airbus' A330. Publically, Airbus initially rejected this claim, stating that the 787 was itself just a reaction to the A330, and that no response was needed to the 787. The airlines pushed Airbus to provide a competitor, as Boeing had committed the 787 to have 20% lower fuel consumption than today's equivalent types. Initially Airbus proposed a simple derivative of the A330, unofficially dubbed the 'A330-200Lite', with improved aerodynamics and engines similar to those on the 787. The airlines were not satisfied and Airbus committed €4 billion to a new design to be called the A350. The original version of the A350 superficially resembled the A330 due to its common fuselage cross-section and assembly. A new wing, engines and a horizontal stabilizer were to be coupled with new composite materials and production methods applied to the fuselage to make the A350 an almost all-new aircraft. On 16 September 2004, then Airbus president and CEO Noël Forgeard confirmed that a new project was under consideration, but did not give a project name, and would not state whether it would be an entirely new design or a modification of an existing product. Forgeard indicated that Airbus would finalise its concept by the end of 2004, begin consulting with airlines in early 2005, and aim to launch the new development programme at the end of that year. On 10 December 2004 the boards of EADS and BAE Systems, then the shareholders of Airbus, gave Airbus an "authorisation to offer (ATO)", and formally named it the A350.[1] On 6 October 2005 full industrial launch of the program was announced with an estimated development cost of around € 3.5 billion. This version of the A350 was planned to be a 250–300-seat twin-engined widebody aircraft derived from the design of the existing A330. Under this plan, the A350 would have modified wings and new engines while sharing the same fuselage cross-section as its predecessor. Controversially, the fuselage was to consist primarily of Al-Li, rather than the CFRP fuselage on the 787. It was to see entry into service in 2010 in two versions; the A350-800 capable of flying 8,800 nautical miles (16,300 km) with typical passenger capacity of 253 in 3-class configuration and the 300-seat (3-class) A350-900 with 7,500 nautical mile (13,890 km) range. It was designed to be a direct competitor to the 787-9, and 777-200ER. Almost immediately Airbus faced criticism on the A350 project by the heads of two of its largest customers, ILFC and GECAS. On 28 March 2006, in the presence of hundreds of top airline executives, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, of ILFC lambasted Airbus' strategy in bringing to market what they saw as "a Band-aid reaction to the 787," a sentiment which was echoed by GECAS president Henry Hubschman. Udvar-Hazy called on Airbus to bring a clean-sheet design to the table, or risk losing most of the market to Boeing.[2][3] Several days later, similar comments were made by Chew Choon Seng, CEO of Singapore Airlines. Chew stated, "having gone to the trouble of designing a new wing, tail, cockpit" and adding advanced new materials, Airbus "should have gone the whole hog and designed a new fuselage."[4] At the time, Singapore was reviewing bids for the 787 and A350. Airbus responded by stating it was considering improvements for the A350 to satisfy customer demands.[5] At the same time, Airbus then-CEO Gustav Humbert suggested that there would be no quick fixes, stating, "Our strategy isn't driven by the needs of the next one or two campaigns, but rather by a long-term view of the market and our ability to deliver on our promises."[6] On 14 June 2006, Singapore Airlines announced it had selected the 787 over the A350, ordering 20 787-9s.[7] Emirates decided against making an order for the A350 because of weaknesses in the design.[8] [edit] XWB As a result of these criticisms, in mid-2006 Airbus undertook a major review of the A350 concept. The proposed new A350 was to become more of a competitor to the larger Boeing 777 as well as some models of the Boeing 787, with a larger fuselage cross-section able to accommodate 9 passengers per row in economy class. The A330 and previous iterations of the A350 would only be able to accommodate 8 passengers per row in normal configurations. The 787 can accommodate 8 or 9 passengers per row, while the 777 can accommodate 9 passengers per row (or, rarely, 10). There was some speculation that the revised aircraft would be called the Airbus A370 or A280, with Airbus going as far as accidentally publishing an advert referring to the aircraft as the "A280" on the Financial Times website. However, on 17 July 2006, at the Farnborough Air Show, Airbus announced that the redesigned aircraft would be called A350 XWB (Xtra Wide-Body). Airbus achieved its first sale of the redesigned A350 four days after its unveiling when Singapore Airlines announced an order for 20 A350 XWBs with options of a further 20. Its CEO, Chew Choon Seng, said in a statement, that "it is heartening that Airbus has listened to customer airlines and has come up with a totally new design for the A350." [9] Late in 2006 a decision on formal launch was delayed as a result of delays of the Airbus A380.[10] and wrangles about how the development would be funded. EADS CEO Thomas Enders stated that the A350 program was not a certainty, citing EADS/Airbus' stretched resources.[11][12] On 1 December 2006 the EADS board agreed the industrial launch of the sixth iteration[13] A350 with costs mainly borne out of cash-flow. First delivery for the -900 is scheduled for mid-2013, with the -800 and -1000 following on, respectively, 12 and 24 months later.[14] At a press conference 4 December 2006 a few new technical details of the A350 XWB design were revealed, but no new customers were identified and John Leahy indicated existing A350 contracts were under re-negotiation due to increases in prices compared to the original A350s contracted. Billions of Euros down the drain and years of delay. Thank God for the EU taxpayer who has very deep pockets as once again Airbus is looking to

This a hard question to answer as you don't give us enough information. What month are you thinking of? What amenities are needed and last but not least how much are you looking to spend? Check out www.skytopcenterpattaya.com Pete the owner is willing to deal on a monthly rental.