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I had a good stay in a grand deluxe sky room, here my request: Very well trained staff. The hotel is quietly located on the edge of an entertainment district. The rooms with Sky Lounge access offer additional amenities, in particular a personal check-in service away from the hustle and bustle. After a comment that one room was musty, I was offered another room without any problems. The breakfast is also sufficient for European guests; egg dishes and sandwiches are freshly prepared. Overall a pleasant and relaxing stay.
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DTV is very interesting for people like me, 180 days without leaving (will never happen) multiple entry for 5 years, yearly check if you have 500K THB on your account. is apparently already official on the Thai evisa website https://www.thaievisa.go.th/visa/dtv-visa
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Sorry. I see now that the DTV is different from the LTR. (Even though the LTR has a remote workers category). So my comment above isn't really relevant to this thread.
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for those who are staying longer, i have a data sim with 100GB per month for one year wityh DTAC, cost 1370THB for a full year. even if you stay only a couple of months it is a good deal. Works fine
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The LTR (Long Term Residents) Visa is a welcome addition to Thai Visas. I have no desire to do "digital work" from the Kingdom, but also with the LTR program is a new 10 year retirement Visa and it sounds great. You don't even have to leave the Country every 90 days or do the 90 day reporting. Instead you just report once a year. Considering the 10 year (Platinum) Thai Elite Visa is 1,500,000 Baht, this is a much cheaper option if you qualify.
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Very very cheap including breakfast, great location. Great intel that their WiFi sucks. Definitely a pass if their internet is not good.
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Thanks for the review @Denbosch1971 Was looking at it for a few days at the end of my next trip but will cross it off the list and stick with Radisson suites me thinks. I do fancy giving citadines on soi 11 another go due to having a 1500b voucher to use with agoda.
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I decided to extend my stay in BKK for another week, so after my stay at Solitaire, I moved to the Sawasdee Hotel in Sukhumvit Soi 8. I got a room at the ground floor, which had a small outside seating area for smoking. The room is small, but has all basics. The bed was okay, the shower very poor. A kind of shower with a water pressure, ensuring it will take 3 minutes to get wet at all I had to work in the afternoon/early evening, so I asked them to make up my room in the morning. The answer was: That's no possible! So I think they cleaned my room only twice during my 7 days stay. Working from the hotel wasn't a big succes either, because the wifi sucks ! The breakfast was included in the room charge, so I did book it. Already after one day, I decided to not go there again, because very limited options. After 9pm, you need the room access card to open the front door of the lobby, otherwise you can't get in at all. Bringing guests was no issue. One time my guest had to hand over her ID, the other times they didn't bother. Room charge was approx. THB 1.320 / night (including breakfast). It's very cheap, so if you're on a small budget, probably acceptable. I won't return though, prefer some more service and comfort for which I happily pay some more. Attached photos from their website. Must be there best room, because mine was probably half this size
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I didn't review my accomodation from earlier this year, so here you go. In May, I stayed at Solitaire at the alley between Sukhumvit Soi 11 and Soi 13, for over two weeks. It's actually opposite of the Travelodge hotel, where I wrote about before. I stayed at this place before (February) for a week and at that time, I enjoyed my stay. In February I got a room in the 'old building), which is more at the S13 side. An okay room, small balcony ideal for having a smoke and an awesome huge bed. This convinced me to book again a deluxe room for my May trip. When arriving at the hotel, from the airport I couldn't check in (too early). I wonder what the added value is of providing arrival information upfront, since they don't act on it anyhow. So won't bother about providing it anymore. When I finally got a room, it was located in the new building. The room itself was okay, but unfortunately no balcony nor smoking (although requested). Maybe they couldn arrange a smoking room after 1 week of stay, but never got a notification after that. So deffo disappointing. Very small fridge, but the bed and the shower were good. Also no complains about the wi-fi I didn't book breakfast, because I don't want like to have 'deadlines' for having breakfast. The Coffee Club on the S11 corner is only 1 minute walk away and perfect to have a breakfast for similar price. After a few days the announced the pool area to be closed down for maintenance. As an alternative, guests could go to the pool in another hotel nearby. Far from ideal, so didn't have another swim after pool closure. They have a shuttle service to Sukhumvit Road, but it's almost never available or really difficult to find the driver, so after one try didn't even try using it anymore. The most annoying in the hotel is the continuous hassle from Indian guys at the ground floor, who try to lewer you into a visit of the (overpriced) Indian restaurant on the topfloor. Everyone knows the guys on the street screaming: "Indian food, sir ?" to all farangs walking by, but inside the hotel I expect to be left unbothered. Unfortunately, sometimes 4 times per day they approached me with questions, invitations and flyers. They were relentless, even after saying "no" all the time! Most likely this is the reason why 80% of the guests are Indian anyhow. Room charge was approx. THB 2.530 / night (without breakfast). In hindsight, I would have said too much money for the provided service. Will I return --> probably not. Attached photos are from my Feb-stay, in the old building.
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I've stayed at Atlas on Soi 7/1. They have 2 sites down there, I ended up in the one a little further up on the right hand side. No check in to pass at that site so very discreet (they do have a check in desk at the site on the left hand side btw), and it's right onto the street for action outside. Good price, clean, great location. A bit noisy late at night, so light sleepers may find it a bit much. Also stayed at Ruamchitt Plaza. Again, great location (above Thermae) - very short walk to CiB, lots of options right outside in the evenings etc... A little more pricey than Atlas, but again clean and great location. Much quieter at night too. Plus they have a pool on the roof. Personally I preferred this as an option overall. Both are decent options that won't break the bank, so more to spend on this hobby
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Herehai - 112, 1 Ekkamai Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Rocco replied to Danum99's topic in Restaurants, Places to Eat and nightlife
Ha, it was! Loads of crispy pork cracklings mixed in to put it over the top. I highly recommend trying this place, just be prepared to wait in line. -
Herehai - 112, 1 Ekkamai Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Danum99 replied to Danum99's topic in Restaurants, Places to Eat and nightlife
Hey I'm glad you did. Try my recommendations the next time around. I already called them for reservations for my visit in October. Dan -
Herehai - 112, 1 Ekkamai Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
taaseesanuk replied to Danum99's topic in Restaurants, Places to Eat and nightlife
Blimey....must have been some special cabbage then! -
Herehai - 112, 1 Ekkamai Rd, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Rocco replied to Danum99's topic in Restaurants, Places to Eat and nightlife
I finally made it there this afternoon for the 4pm opening. It was in the top 3 Thai meals I’ve ever had, and I’ve lived here for 6 years. I had the crab fried rice and the stir fried cabbage. Both were just fantastic! Got there about 3:35 and was second in line. Thanks much to @Danum99 for the recommendation!! -
I stayed 3 nights at the Aspen Suites, it's a beautiful hotel. I had a large room of 50m2. The operation of the hotel leaves something to be desired, the cleaning of my room was late 5:00 p.m., the safety box was not fixed, a towel was missing, fortunately I was not given one. paid when leaving. The pool is for children, there was no shower or changing room, the small gym did not have enough towels available. The hotel is a little far from the action, but there are motosay in front of the hotel and at the entrance to soi 2. We need a real swimming pool and review the operation of the hotel.
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Not sure if it is a new rule as I have never read about this but they have a 100 baht/guest policy (I did book a room for 2).
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Stayed here for 4 nights on my last trip, was pretty affordable for the location (around 50EUR/night in peak-ish season), and overall I was satisfied with the stay. I was in the back building facing another building (no view, but don't really care in BKK), and surprisingly this was the quietest room I ever had in Bangkok (maybe even SEA in general). No sound at all from the street or other rooms, could only hear the outer AC hum. Location was perfect for bringing over girls from Nana Plaza (less than 1 min away), and the outside bar is nice for watching the chaos and chatting with other guests and freelancers, you can bring your own food and drinks too. However, I didn't really like the street for daytime coffee/lunch, or "normal" nightlife, so was regularly walking to nearby Sois for that... Would still probably stay here again if my interest was in NEP.
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Is there an alley or cut through to get to soi 4 on Soi 2
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Recommendations for Free Watermarking Software
SAGuy replied to SAGuy's topic in Technology and I.T Forum
Thanks a lot Dan, that recommendation is much appreciated and I will check out iloveimg.com As for the photos, @Singter1 does the hard part - taking the pics and editing them etc. I just add the watermarks and post them, so its not too time consuming. It's my little way of trying to keep Iain's memory going. Cheers SAG -
Recommendations for Free Watermarking Software
Danum99 replied to SAGuy's topic in Technology and I.T Forum
Hey there @SAGuy. When I used them many years ago, I used an ONLINE version called "iloveimg.com'. And I just checked and they are still there. There's nothing to download and there's a free version too but limited usage. We paid a few dollars a month, for the premium pkg when there was a need to use the service repeatedly. I don't know the full details of using it as one of the clerks did the work, but I do know that it is easy to do it. There are many others if you require the work to be done 'in-house" but, as you said, there a software requirement. Hope this helps. So you're doing photo editing for whynot? Don't you have enough work to do? Dan -
I have taken over the Why Not Bar photos management and so need to find user friendly watermarking software. Can anyone recommend software that can be used to add the Why Not Bar logo to the photos that get posted on their thread? Requirements are: The software needs to be a free edition. User-friendly Does not require the software company's logo to also be watermarked onto the photo Can handle bulk photos, not just individual pictures. Runs on a PC, not a smartphone app. There appears to be 101 different vendors selling these applications, so I am looking for any recommendations from BMs who have experience with this. Thanks very much for any suggestions. SAG
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The entrance from Soi 2 and 4 both open. They remodeled it so you have to walk thru the lobby
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Thanks. Looking forward to my trip in Oct. Been too long
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Why do you keep logging in here if you feel that way? You've been inactive for 13 years and now suddenly have decided to get your account deleted but in the meantime are just being unnecessarily argumentative across the board. It doesn't have to be that way if you have issues with the board or whatever, it's easier just not to log on or contribute at all.
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