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I love the sound when I enter a 7....calms me down. Makes me happy....cow jai ?

I agree with BigDUSA about the power strip..get one and bring it with you. Yes you can plug your laptop/netbook directly into the wall in Thailand but the jolts a times will fry it and everything...I talk from experience...I had my very new Sony laptop up in Korat (in a village) and everything was OK for a day or so, and then the light in the house and the village when on and off a couple of times and my pretty new Sony went to either heaven or hell OR neither if you are into buddhism. sp ilovethailand

Aloha...I stay at the Whitehouse all the time, never a dirty room.

Any new information about a medium price hotel ? Thanks

Well I live in Thailand 15ish days a month for the last 20 years or so. Takes a lot of planning but you guys are for the most part young...easy to do, just make a plan. Also, learn to speak thai from the many internet sites when you are back home !!!!!!!!!!!!! Back home in the USA or England etc. you have lots of free time to dream about Thailand...LEARN THAI !

I love my timeshare, it makes me get off my fat farang butt and travel to some new place every year as I trade my week in Hawaii for almost any place in the world. I'm just to cheap to let my week not get used ! If I do the "numbers" yes I could do better I guess but I really do love the many new parts of the world I go to every year and the new color of the new girls.

The new McDonalds...wide open as of a couple of weeks ago and fast.

I have built 3 small houses in the Korat area with good success and I am now looking for a small "cheap" plot of land with electric water and telephone in place within a 10 minute drive from the main bus station in Pattaya. My partner is thai and we use a thai lawyer for the purchase. I live in Thailand 2 weeks per month and will next be in Pattaya March 17-31. Thank You.

I have stayed there a few times, a nice place if you get a nice room. One suggestion, ALWAYS ask to see the room first at any hotel before you check in. Hope this helps.

Tai-Pan hotel. Walk in cowboy from Asoke all the way to the end of cowboy. Turn left and walk about 500 meters or so, on your left. You will read posts about not being BG friendly etc. not true. I have stayed there 30+ times and use it for my secret place in BKK. Hope this helps.

Any one know of any good Internet radio stations from Pattaya other than www.pattayaradio.com ? Thanks

This is a great topic for us guys in the US, please keep it going with as much information as possible. THANKS !

Really good fresh hashbrowns are my thing for breakfast. I live most of the time in Bangkok and would love suggestions on either Pattaya or Bangkok...THANKS

I just posted most of this stuff on another thread but here goes... never never use a hole in the wall internet cafe in Thailand, or America or Spain or any place !!!! bring a laptop with wi-fi or buy a new Acer for 18,000 baht ($500 -+).... Get a throw away credit card with a under $100 limit...... Find a good wi-fi place like starbucks etc.... Sign up at www.jwire.com !!!!!!!!

I am in the same business as FAIR PROPERTIES, I do resort consulting. Over the years I have had many of my customers use this company and have only good reports about them. A lot of people on the discussion boards seem to attack the big rental and sales people in Thailand with out ever coming toThailand. Yes there are exceptions, but my experience is most of the very big names in real estate in pattaya or totally on the up and up. Please PM me if I can help you with a real estate question.

Actually I really enjoy going to 'the village' for a few days now and then. I hated it in the beginning when I sort of had to go for face. I totally catch up on my sleep, drink ALOT of beer and get some of the best sex because she is soooo happy walking around the place holding my very white hand.

THANK YOU Braveheart !

I live in LOS half of the time and what I miss is American style hash browns for breakfast, with some Jimmy Dean patties.

Lucky guy I would love to be mao at the moment...I am using my cell to read this at HNL and can not do a search with this connection.... so pleasssse tell me.

I arrive Monday night and forgot to book a car, anyone have toom's email ? Thanks

I like www.x-rates.com Easy to remember and works really well for baht conversion.

I live in BKK and go to Pattaya at least once a month. I usually stay at Sandy Spring or near there. Saw a ad in The Nation offering a "local" discount for Hard Rock, around 2900 + tax. Small room with a very small outside balcony, interesting bathroom with a sliding window into the bedroom ? I checked in with my long time older gal and they gave us wrist bands to put on, never put them on and never had any problem with the staff coming back very late at night with a extra friend and my girlfriend. Bottom line is I really liked the place, at least once. I thought the food was only OK but ove