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    Ask the hotel if you can store your luggage there even if you're not staying there again. Most hotels will let you. Alternatively, ask the hotel where you will be staying if you can store your luggage there prior to checking in. Evil
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    As always, I gave the waitress exactly what was appropriate. Not one baht more, not one baht less. That way, I can never under tip or over tip. Evil
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    I don't know anything about the guy in the grey shirt. I can't recall seeing him at LPP any time I ate there. I always thought the guy in the white chief's jacket was the owner, but of course he could have partners. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Evil
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    There is no late evening or night bus service between Swampy and Pattaya. Around 9 pm, taxi is the only real option for getting to Pattaya from the airport. Evil
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    I ate at the Lone Star Texas Grill on Soi Lengkee (LK Metro area) last night. Here's the meal I had: The corn chips and dip were complementary and came with the beer. The chips were homemade and very good. It would have been better with a little salsa instead of the dip, but that's no biggy considering it was complementary. I ordered the Sunday special, which was filet steak for 199 baht. I ordered a medium potato salad (60 baht) and corn on the cob (40 baht) as sides. I don't remember exactly how much the San Miguel Light was, but I think 70 or 80 baht. I ordered th
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    There are a lot of good eating places around TukCom for both Thai and farang food. I'll be doing some more reports on them. Evil
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    All the lounges and day rooms at Swampy are located airside, or within the secure area of the terminal. I don't know if policies have changed, but a few years ago it was possible to use a day room in the itransit area after de-planing from an international flight. However, you have to use it BEFORE going through immigration control because once you exit the customs area, you're landside and can't get back into the international airside area without a boarding pass for an international flight. You can get some info here: Louis' Tavern Dayroom & CIP Lounges. Landside, the Novotel Hot
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    From what I could see from Googling, you need a USB 2.0 Certified A to Mini flat 8-pin cable for a Lumix DMC-FX07. I'd be very surprised if that cable weren't available at Tukcom. You might want to try asking for it in those terms. It is also apparently compatible with some Nikon, Olympus, Konica and Pentax cameras, so you could ask in retail shops that sell those brands if you can't find a Lumix retailer in Pattaya. Evil
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    There's a restaurant a bit further down on the opposite side of Soi Day Night 2 as you walk away from TukCom that bills itself a "French -Thai restaurant." I've never eaten there, though. On the corner of the first intersecting subsoi, there's Le Bordeaux, a bit more expensive restaurant. You can check out the full menu here. If you turn right at that intersecting subsoi , there's the Dolphin Restaurant (also French) in the middle of the block, with a thee-course-dinner offer similar in price to LPP. Evil
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    Excellent! I hadn't heard that one before. My personal favorite is: There was a young poet named McNameter Who had a tool of tremendous diameter. But it wasn't his size that gave the girls a surprise, Twas his rhythm - iambic pentameter. Evil
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    Here's a pic of the Drinking Street sign so you'll recognize it as the baht bus approaches: I've been a several times through the years, but was never very impressed. A quirk of fate put me for a week in mid-January in a hotel on Soi 1 off 2nd Road and I passed Drinking Street two, sometimes three, times a night. A couple of the bars always seemed to have a lot of customers, while most others varied from deserted to busy, depending on the time of night and the day of the week. I was going to check out the bar with the 1,000-baht-BF coyote dancers to see if the girls were as snobby a
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    I can recommend La Petite Planete for French-style cuisine. It's run by a Belgian who knows his cooking. It's located about half-way down a sub soi that runs along one side of Tukcom, the side closet to 2nd Road. It's small and there's nothing fancy about the place, but the food is excellent. For a quick, unpretentious French-style bistro meal, La Petite Planete is a good choice. It also features a limit menu of Thai food and the girls I've taken there who've sampled the Thai dishes gave it the thumbs up. I've never had a bad meal there and more than one truly good one. H
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    This will do wonders to enhance the reputation of Indian tourists in Pattaya. I'd bet every Thai P4P provider of any orientation knows this story by now. Evil
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    I ate there the other night at about 2.00 a.m. I wasn't very impressed. Had a pork quesadilla, Kind of bland and flavorless, roughly the equivalent of the stuff you get at Taco Bell. I won't be rushing back, but if I'm hungry late at night, am passing by and there's nowhere else close to get better food at that time, I might eat there again. It's the way I feel about Taco Bell or McDonalds. Not my first, second or third choice, but also not a place to be avoided at all costs. Evil
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    I'm guessing, but I imagine the Spanky's post in your thread was an unintentional mistake. The Spanky's guy probably hit the "Reply to This Topic" button instead of "Start New Topic." Evil
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    A Jomtien branch opened on Thap Phraya Road in October last year. About the same menu as P & W on Soi 7, but I don't have much experience eating in either of them. Evil
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    This isn't a restaurant review. I've only eaten once at the Pig and Whistle in Jomtien, but the meal I had was very nice at a reasonable price, so I thought I'd mention it. I stopped in for lunch Sunday and choose the Special of the Day, which was a choice of roast beef or roast pork, with Yorkshire pudding, roasted or mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, broccoli and gravy. It came with a small link of sausage wrapped in bacon and a small square of bread stuffing. I haven't had much luck with beef in Pattaya, so I went with the roast pork. It wasn't the most attractive plating of food I
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    A few weeks ago in Jomtien, 22 baht buses went past me in a 15-minute span early in the evening. Eleven were crammed to the last inch with Russians, four had been chartered by small groups and the rest zoomed past empty. A guy waiting in the same spot said he been there 15 minutes before I arrived and it had been the same thing for 30 minutes. I gave up at that point and ducked into a restaurant for dinner. Forty-five minutes later, bus after bus went past without stopping. I started walking opposite to the direction in which I wanted to go, hoping to reach the point where all the Russ
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    I stayed at the Sabai Wing for a week in mid-January (I was between condo rentals). It was good, no complaints on my part. I didn't notice any outside construction noise at all, but I'm a sound sleeper. There was some construction going on inside the hotel itself, but it didn't begin until 10.00 am on weekdays and wasn't that noisy at its worst. That work may well have been completed by now. I have no info on the baht buses on Soi 2 as I always walked down Soi 1 to Beach Road and caught the bus there when heading to points south. Evil
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    I agree. Even with the LAX-BKK non-stop, total flying time from an NYC metro airport is longer via LAX than non-stop flights from NYC via Tokyo or Hong Kong. Since Newark Liberty was a better departure airport for me and I have nearly all my FF points on Star Alliance members, I used the Continental (soon to be United) non-stop to Narita, then on to BKK. Total flying time was about 20 hours, including the connecting time in Tokyo. I never experienced any delays during winter months, although it is a possibility. I once got out a day ahead of a storm that screwed flights up for nearly a we
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    How much you enjoy the festival will depend largely on whether you like the music and to what degree huge crowds bother you. But the girls all love it. Evil
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    I intend to visit family/friends this summer in Europe and on the West Coast of the U.S., with Bangkok as my departure/return point. I looked into a Star Alliance round-the-world ticket that would include stops in Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia, I remember you can fly Papeete to Auckland and Auckland direct to BKK. Depending on the routing you choose, a round-the-world ticket that includes Tahiti will cost you between USD 3,000 and 4,000. Evil
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    Mr Dream is a very reliable driver. I've used him on numerous occasions to and from the airport as well as other destinations and he has never disappointed. He also speaks better English than most drivers. As a side note - I had to make a sudden trip into Swampy a few months ago and Mr Dream wasn't available. I tried one of the sidewalk taxi brokers on 2nd Road near Soi 14. She arranged a car for me immediately - good car, good driver, 900 baht all in. Evil
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    In December, I had 30,000 FF miles on Thai than were going to expire at the end of the month. I didn't want to fly anywhere in Thailand just to use them up, so I decided give a girl I knew a R/T ticket to the airport nearest her home village so she'd avoid a 12-hour bus trip each way. But some taxes had to be paid by CC and I had to go the Thai office on Beach Road to have the ticket "validated." Once that had been done, it wasn't necessary to show the CC when she checked in for the flight. The Thai agent said the procedure would have been the same if I'd bought the ticket for the girl inst
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    I have some recent first-hand experience of the need for foreigners to carry ID while in Thailand. A few nights ago on Suk Road in Bangkok, I was attacked by a crazy drunk farang. Turns out he had been in three or four fights that night and probably mistook me for someone else. I fought back, which resulted in injuries to both of us Cops came, slapped handcuffs on him and took away in the back of a pickup truck. They said I had to go to Thong Lor Police Station as well, but let me ride in a taxi. The police were very peeved that I wasn't carrying my passport or another form of ID (they
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