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Same reply as many others - work overtime, live frugally ( never eat out in the UK, never go to clubs/casinos/expensive bars )- and one key thing - any cigarette smokers in the UK well if you didn't - just add it up!

I'm inn the dehydration school of thought - which implies not drinking alcohol or coffee on the plane - but I find a few gins helps me sleep on the plane. If possible a little nap for an hour or two tends to help, and as son as I can on landing I drink a couple of sport drinks or gatorade.But I think a really good trick is to go to your friendly thai pharmacist and get some elctrolyte powder and have one of them - strong K is definitely the best but olympic runs it pretty close. Whilst you are at it I'd stock up on these because believe me these are also really good hangover cures.

yes, well, as you see disagreement abounds. I often stay in the Nana when I jet in. Rooms can vary a litttle but I've never had a really crap one, and generally they are a fair size and everything works that should. I think the renovated swimming pool is pretty nice, and their breakfast buffet is quite acceptable. And yes it is an experience to stay in what essentially is pretty close to a bordello - on my first visit the first thing the bellboy enquired when putting my bag down was whether i wanred a girl sending up! But the location is the key - it's right where I want to be on Sukhumvit a

It's more or less signposted now - an hour and a quarter is a pretty good guess of the driving time to pattaya ( my wife has a condo very near to the airport). Difficult to actually see the airport even from the tollroad - coming out of bangkokyou go past the big central store at bangna and the airport is past the turn off to lat krabang and before the big tower on the left that is assumption university - the other way to think of it is there is maybe just over 20 minutes left from the airport before the tollroad heading out of bangkok finishes at what i think in effect is the beginnings of t

I believe this story originates from someone who bought 2 of those giant packs of marlborough which are a thousand or two cigarettes I think in dubai duty free, and then walked through bangkokcustoms with his luggage and this huge duty free bag stuffed with cigarettes - pulled by customs, taken off down town and then fined for the fullduty on the whole lot at maximum posible prices (including being fined on the duty free allowance the duty free allowance!).

stayed in cha am for a couple of nights in august at the long beach hotel which we got on special offfer for B1000 a night. It has areasonable beach which kids might like, and quite a few restaurants on the seafront road - but seems to close around10pm. there aare no bars really on the seafront though there may be some on the road connecting to the bangkok highway, We ended up going to Hua Hin each night which has much more going on at night.

stayed there last august - nice clean basic room,ok swimming pool. if you walk down the soi down the side of the hotel to get to second road it's an ok walk and there are some very cheap bars, the dutchbar just past honey inn in particular. If you are frightened of motor bikes too then if you walk past this soi you can turn int the lshaped next soi with all the newish shops which is pretty traffic free and brings you onto soi diana just bby the areca lodge. Plenty of good cheap food in soi chayapoon closeby too

I think maybe I am in the cheap charlie club but I just don't see the point of paying out almost B3000 when the gain from it is so minimal - why payout to stay at the hardrock when you can stay right next door to it in the twin palms, get quite a nice room,a nice quiet hotel at night, adequate car parking if you need it, generally friendly staff, and a nice swimming pool facing out onto beach road, for maybe b800. And if you want to use the gym in the hardrock last year or the year before the hardrock did me a monthly gym membership for b1000 I think it was, and it's not exactly a strain to st

I stayed in the old wing whatever the year was when they were building the new wing. I had a rrom looking onto the swimming pool if I remember right - the room was a bit tired but perfectly OK though it was a bit noisy

JHK - you buy the cards from the appropriate club. You arrange the golf with the bars by calling in beforehand. The cards will simply get you a discount at come of the courses. Different people find they fit in with different groups - a matter of trial and error. Me I'm with the sugarshack, have been for years

Depends what you want to know. It's a good central location, nice pool and grounds, and is pretty guest friendly. Some of the rooms are a bit soso decor wise and the side next to central road/pattaya klang gets a lot of noise from the cat bar opposite into the early morning. if you are going to stay there join pattaya sports club as you get quite a good discount. there is also currently a special offer for it at www.hotelthailand.com i've liked the hotel over the years but think it is overpriced and prefer the twin palms a couple of hundred metres along beach road which is almost half the pr

basically there are 2 types of visa - one to allow the person to settle permanently, with this visa allowing it's holder either 6 months or a year in the UK within which time the holder would have to marry their UK partner, or the other, which you seem to be looking at, which is a tourist visa, allowing the holder access into the UK and to stay for x months ( sorry, not too good on the exact numbers of months without checking back ). My girlfriend has just flown back to bkk having spent a little time in the UK with me on a tourist visa. It's not easy to get a tourist visa - yes a letter o

yes it's the sunshine hotel - I stayed there last year in a very pleasant room. there is a nice swimming pool, the staff were all very pleasant, and it is very guest friendly, but there is some noise from the road. You can book it via www.hotelthailand.com - which in my experience by the way generally has the best prices for thai hotels

me again ! The sugarshack doesn't have a website - it's located directly opposite lewinskys on pattayaland soi 2 ( or is it 1, I can never remember), they golf monday, wednesday, friday, departing at 9. There's board with the venues for the week chalked up. What I like about the sugarshck golfers is that whilst there are a few expat pattaya residents there are a number of people like me who come and go, and it makes it a bit less cliquey than some of the other golfing grous in pattaya, where you can feel very much an outsider. I should have said before to get your PSC membership - if you bri

Well, Laem Chebang is definitely the most difficult course ( and one of the most expensive unless you go on a special offer day ). Pesonally I think Khaw Kheow is wonderful, as a modern designed course. Natural Park Resort ( or maybe it's Hills- they border one another) but I think it's Resort, has some of the most difficult greens I've ever seen, whilst Bangpra is a more mature course which is lovely too. The navy course at Sattahip has some nice 9's and amongst its 36 holes some very trying 9's. To be honest I don't think there is a bad course in the area - my own bete noir is Green Valley