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Evil Penevil

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  1. There won't be any problem getting a room on short notice in September in the LK Metro area or anywhere else in Pattaya. If the establishments you name all happen to be full at that time (very unlikely), there are many, many others that hold the same standard and price level. There's no reason to be worried. Evil
  2. Opey De Place on Soi Lengkee fills all your requirements except inroom safe. It does have jumbo-sized safety deposit boxes in a room behind the front desk. These boxes are big enough for a full-sized notebook as well as camera equipment. They also have hasps for attaching your own padlock for extra security beyond the lock built into the box. Only disadvantage is that the safety deposit room isn't accessible between 10 p.m. and 8.00 a.m., but that was never a problem for me. It's one of the better hotels I've seen for under 1,000 baht (rates range from 750 baht/night for a standard room
  3. I've been in the past and it is indeed a fun event. Picnics and outdoor barbecues are the sort of U.S. celebration that can be transposed well to locations abroad. One year I encountered the legendary Bernard Trink at the July 4th event in Bangkok. Evil
  4. I wonder what she had planned to steal from Disneyland. She could always take her kids to Disney World in Hong Kong or Tokyo. Evil
  5. I had a great time in Babydolls about 10 days ago - really had fun with the ladies. Did nr 63 get her watch back? She had forgotten it in my hotel room. She was excellent company in every way. Kudos to the mamasan for recommending her to me. Evil
  6. I do the same on Narita flights. Last trip I even met a BM in the Northwest Club lounge. A more basic difficulty with taxi share for me is the time it can take for different passengers to clear Customs and Immigration. At that time of night, I don't feel it's worth a few hundred baht to wait around for the person with whom I'd share a taxi. If we clear the formalities and reach the taxi queue or pick-up point at the same time, great, but I want to get into either Bangkok or Pattaya ASAP. Evil
  7. I arrive on the 17th around noon, so I'm out for any taxi sharing. But on my last few flights through Tokyo, I saw guys who were trying to line up a taxi share in the departure lounge at Narita before the flight took off. One was walking around with a sign that said "Taxi to Pattaya?" I've also been approached at the baggage carousel at Swampy about taxi share or even in the taxi queue. You have plenty of chances even if it doesn't work out through the forum. Evil
  8. Good for you, BigD. I wonder if the overbooking is a sign that the total number of seats on flights to China has been reduced so far that demand is exceeding supply. It usually takes the airlines awhile to work out the balance. Evil
  9. Could be quite an attraction: The Missouri State Sugar Bears
  10. The Fraser Suites on Sukhumvit Soi 11 has some special offers, but I'm not sure if better rates are available through the various booking agencies. The Fraser is another facility on the "serviced apartment" model. It offers great value for money. I posted pics from the Fraser in one of my T/Rs: link Evil
  11. Citadines has four properties in Bangkok and Centre Point has seven. Some Centre Point properties have rooms ranging from 30 sq m studio rooms to two and three-bedroom suites. Certainly not all rooms at Centre Point were regularly available for 2,500 baht/night prior to the airport closure. Perhaps the smaller rooms at one property were, but the one-bedroom suites at Suk Soi 10, of which I posted the pictures, went for at least 3,000 baht/night. I got it for 2,200 baht/night. At Citadines, through www.thaihoteldiscounts.com , every studio room in all four of the properties can be
  12. The Centre Point on Sukhumvit Soi 10 is one of seven Centre Point properties in Bangkok. They function on the serviced apartment model, with daily or long-term options available. All are good, but the one I like best is on Sukhumvit Soi 10. The one-bedroom suites are a roomy 73 sq meters (there are also some 89 sq m one=bedroom suites) and are very well equipped. They even have a washing machine. The only downside is the long haul to the Suk, but you can walk it in roughly 10 minutes or take the tuk-tuk than runs 24 hours a day. There's a mini-mart and beauty/barber shop on site. I paid
  13. The Riverfront Residence has serviced apartments that are available on a daily or long-term basis. It's located on Rama III Road (close to the Silom and Sathorn Roads' business district), with spectacular views of the Chao Phraya River. I paid about 2,500 baht/night in late January for a one-bedroom suite, but I'm not sure that price is still available. Highly recommended if you want to stay outside the Sukhumvit area. I had some business meetings nearby, so it was convenient for me to stay there a few days. It's a bit of a haul to the Suk, though, whether you go by BTS or by taxi. Not much
  14. I wasn't comparing the discounts to the rack rate. Except at the peak of the high season or when there is a special event in town that keeps the hotel booked solid, you can almost always find a better deal for any hotel than the rack rate. I was using rough figures for what you would normally pay at some hotels and stated clearly the steeper discounts are at the more expensive hotels. Neither Citadines nor CentrePoint fall into that category. Normally a one-bedroom suite at the CentrePoint property on Suk Soi 10 can be had for about 3,000 baht/night. At the beginning of February, I paid ab
  15. A lot of Bangkok hotels are offering special deals which may last through the autumn, as bookings are reported to be down 30% to 40% this year from last year. It's mostly high- to mid-range hotels that are offering bargains, so it means you can get a room that normally costs 7,000 - 8,000 baht/night for around 3,500 to 4,000 baht/night or a room that usually goes for about 3,000 b/n can be had for 2,000 b/n. However, rooms that ordinarily go for 1,500 or less aren't being discounted by much if at all because profit margins are already low at that level. The Landmark, Grand Hyatt Erawan,
  16. Aero Svit is a Ukraine-based international carrier. I've never flown with it, but it gets very poor reviews at Sky Trax: Aero Svit reviews. Apparently no need to buy a biz ticket, just pay economy and offer a flight crew member $100 to move you to the biz section. also, the schedule to fly from New York to Bangkok is inconvenient, with long layovers and even an overnight stop on the way back. On a more positive note. I just got a flight on China Airlines JFK to BKK via Taipei for $846.38 all in with tax and fees. Departure is mid May, returning middle of the first week in June. I c
  17. TripAdvisor has published its lists of the dirtiest hotels in the world. In the Asia Pacific section, three Bangkok hotels - First Hotel, Woraburi Sukhumvit Hotel and Resort and the Royal Pakview Hotel - make it into the bottom ten Dirtiest Hotels in Asia. In fairness, there are far dirtier hotels in Bangkok than those three. The travelers who submit TripAdvisor reviews aren't likely to stay at the super-dumps. But there are much, much better options in Bangkok than the three "list of shame" hotels. Evil
  18. A few hotels in that area, with links to their Web sites. The Darjelling is especially goof (stayed there last week for afew days). Evil : 690 – 1,500------------Honey House Hotel $25 – $35 ---- ----Honey Hotel 900------------------------D'Pelican Inn 1,200 – 2,000----------Town Lodge (Reservations: townlodge@gmail.com) 1,200 – 1,300----------Bourbon Street Hotel 1,400 – 1,800----------Queen Lotus Guest House 1,550 – 3,150--------- Davinci Suites 1,700 – 2,500----------Sachas Hotel UNO 1,800----------------------Baan S
  19. I just reserved a one-bedroom suite at LK Metropole for 10 nights in January. They answered me within 6 hours of my email through the "card" function at the bottom of the first post in this thread. That's service! The rate was very attractive, certainly better than I could have gotten through any online booking agency. But they did say that LK Metropole only had two one-bedroom suites available for the days I wanted, so with my reservation, only one left now. Whatever the decrease in total tourist visitors, it doesn't seem to be hurting the LK hotels. Evil
  20. The Bellagio is the only hotel that would place on a list of the 25, maybe even 50, best hotels in the U.S., no where near the 10 best in the world. And Circus Circus and the Ambassador City Jomtien? Evil
  21. The list below is an update and expansion of the OP. It is intended as source of information about guest-friendly hotels in the Bangkok's Sukhumvit area. Its purpose isn't to review any of the hotels, but to note what's available in various price classes. If you want further information about a particular hotel, click on the link to go its Web site or search the board for comments, reviews, etc. I've listed the hotels in price order - from cheapest to most expensive - and divided them into two geographical areas - Closer to Nana Plaza and Closer to Soi Cowboy - with Sukhumvit Soi 13
  22. Not all of the dogs at Rudy's are free and they aren't very hot, either. But enjoy Loy Kratong. I had a great time last year. Evil
  23. Here's another pic of Rudy's Bar & Grill. The pig mascot has been around since the bar opened in 1933. It was the first bar in NYC to get a liquor license when Prohibition was repealed. Evil
  24. There are four reasons I can think of: 1) A cash advance via an ATM is a loan from Amex and there are some fairly hefty fees involved. Amex doesn't have it's own dedicated ATMs in Thailand, but you can use Bangkok Bank's network. It's at least 5% of the withdrawal in fees before you count in any interest that accrues over time. Amex does not charge its customers any fees for cashing a personal check (it has to be a personal check, written by the customer on his own checking account. Amex won't cash a check written by a third party to a customer.) The last personal check I cashed at Ame
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