Siam Man

I stayed here in June after reading OTS review. I stayed here and Maninakorn and I liked P21 much better. New property, friendly staff, maid service will clean you room late if your one that likes to sleep in and er you know. You will want to have there address on hand at airport as most drivers had no clue where it was and had to ask around. It's tucked away in a quit alley which keeps noise levels at a minimum.
 
I don't think they plan on putting lifts in so that is really the only drawback. It's only 3 floors and a really a pretty small hotel. Conveniently located near nightlife, Night Bizarre, Sunday Night Bizarre, Restaurants, and the moat (Thapae Gate). Another thing I found was a laundry just to the left out the front door of the hotel. Just 30 baht a kilo. Free WiFi, and two computers in the lobby if you don't take a device. I rented a motorbike which you can park right outside the hotels front door. Mini bar is free and has water, juice, and soft drinks.
 
I guess the best endorsement of P21 is that I'm going back in August and staying there again.
 

 

 

 
 

I met a gurl at a clothing store on Sukhumvit my last trip I mentioned her in my last trip report how I walked into someone when I turned my head back to check her out after I walked by her. She laughed at me which broke the ice.In my June trip I saw her working in the same shop. She actually remembered me. So I asked her if she wanted to join me for drinks after she got off. It went well so we went out again the next night. She was getting off much earlier at 7 P.M. which gave us enough time to take in the Early Bird Show at Club Daeng Cabaret. It's the same deal 888 baht each and all you can drink Beer, Whiskey, Wine or Soft Drinks. She loved the show. I thought it was a bit shorter than the first tiem I went back in December.
 
Some different gurls out front than I remember from the last visit.
 
Performers out front trying to rustle customers in for the first show.
 

 

 

 

 
Two of the performers who came out to socialize with us.
 

 

 
Femboi Poi and the gurls and me.
 

 

 
We were the only customers so the show was for us.
 

 

 

 

 
 

Well we have both stayed there a couple of different stays since this post. It seems like quite a few LB and GG mongers have found this sweet sport at the end of Soi 7/1. Besides Randyandy checking in the day I checked out I saw a ladyboy from CL come in when I was in the lobby. I was sitting in one of the lobbys comfy chairs online while my room was being cleaned (They work around your schedule well) and she came in and looked at me as if I might have been the customer who called her in. Guests put down their ID which they hold and photo copy. When the guests leave they sign the photo copy of their ID and the desk calls your room to see if everything is okay.
 
I have only had a few minor issues with them. they always give me the same answer when I address them with them "We small hotel" I did have them empty the mini bar after being charged for a couple items. It was no problem as they sent someone up and cleared it out which gave me more space to put my own stock in.
 
My advice is book online as Mardhi mentioned earlier. It ends up being about 1280 baht all up instead of 1500 baht for walk up.
 

I booked this hotel for one night only / I spent some miles and pay 11 euros only , agoda price is round 80 euros /. I´ve booked 1 bedroom suites 64m2. Very nice room, spacious, comfortable bed, small kitchenete, working desk, wardrobe and spacious bathroom with bathtube and shower. Good restaurant on the ground floor, nice swimming pool. Very lovelly staff also. I didnt have so much time to enjoy the hotel but I´d like to come back again. Good location, close to suk soi 11. The hotel right is behind the Citadines where I stayed before.

I had read about some of those things about her so I had my guard up but an interesting thing happened during our session. I found she likes it hard and rough.
 
Another shot just to show off the room a little more of course.
 

I had to do a visa run to Lao last week so thought I'd check out the VIP bus option from Bangkok described by mardhi.
 

 
I sat in the downstairs compartment which only houses 6 passengers, had a solo seat. Not only do they have a serious recline but they have buttons you press to give you a massage as well!
 
We left Mo Chit at 20:30 and arrived in Mukdahan at about 06:45, I think we only stopped in Korat which was about 3 hours into the journey. The roads were very quiet, especially with the midnight curfew still in effect as well.

Kendo may know of a setting that does this. I'm not a fan of anything moving on avatars and signatures and find them distracting from the post. Always gives me the push to skim the content instead of fully reading it.

Grabbed a card off their desk last night

Last year Fox News claimed that it was a fact that both Jesus and Santa Claus were real and white. Fuck knows what they're drinking!

This is a good topic and I will be moving it to Health Issues section of the forum. We also have an older thread in that section dealing with Tap Water which relates to this. Tap Water
 
Someone told me (I sound like Fox news with no source LOL) that it's good to eat Yogurt in Thailand because it has natural enzymes and bacteria that fight the local bacteria. It made sense to me so I have picked up some when I think of it at 7/11's and family marts. Always pinch a couple when they have them at breakfast buffets at some of the hotels and throw them in the fridge.

This is a good topic and I will be moving it to Health Issues section of the forum. We also have an older thread in that section dealing with Tap Water which relates to this. Tap Water
 
Someone told me (I sound like Fox news with no source LOL) that it's good to eat Yogurt in Thailand because it has natural enzymes and bacteria that fight the local bacteria. It made sense to me so I have picked up some when I think of it at 7/11's and family marts. Always pinch a couple when they have them at breakfast buffets at some of the hotels and throw them in the fridge.

Stayed there in March this year and i know it is GF but i do not know if it is LBF (but i suppose it is as i never had any problems bringing guest). Stayed in a superior double. Very good service and would stay there again but not next time as i like to try a new hotel now and then
 
 

Hi,
Can't see any reviews for this so I thought I add one given I stayed here for a couple of nights. I usually stay at the JW mariott as I travel for work and they pay but this time I had to book a room for a couple of night at my own expense. I then moved to the JW Mariott on Soi 2 so it worked out OK... nice to stay at both ends of the magic strip from Soi 4 to Soi 21.
 
Jasmine is more serviced apartments as opposed to a full hotel but it has a restaurant and a gym and a pool. As far I can see the complex used to be split into the Jasmine Executive Suites and the Jasmine City Hotel and there are still two websites but on Agoda it is all listed under one heading of Jasmine City Hotel.
 
Location: Just at the junction of Soi 23 and Sukhumvit main road. It's about 100M walk to the Soi Cowboy and 100M to a stairs leading to Asoke BTS, MRT, Terminal 21. Good location for transport and easy to get to and from airport by train.
 
General impressions: Somewhat confusing layout. It's basically two connected towers where the suites start from Floor 10 up to 30. The lower floors are part of a mall and a car park so you enter it via a very small lobby off the car park entrance where you take the lift to the 10th floor. The 10th floor has the formal lobby where you check in. Depending on which part you are staying in you can also get to your rooms by a choice of three other sets of lifts directly off the car park entrance.
 
This is the picture off Agoda and you can see the two parts of the complex. The tall tower on the left is Executive Suites and the building on the right is the City Hotel.
 

 
Rooms: Room was nice. I booked an Executive Jacuzzi suite because it was on special offer at 2500 Baht (no breakfast) but to be honest it was not worth the extra over the normal deluxe suite which was on offer for 1900 baht. The Executive suite I got was on floor 11 and had a jacuzzi as well as a shower and had more space but in fact the extra space was of no use as you can see from photos. There are other room stypes including proper 1 and 2 bed suites. Prices seem to vary a lot ... I had seen prices ranging from 2000 to 10,000 baht for the same room types over the space of a few days ! I think the recent downturn in tourist travel due to the protests has hit this place so I seem to have booked at a good time.
 
Bedroom with nice sofa (put to good use ) :
 

 
View from bedroom back to entrance. Bathroom has a window into room and you can see the 'living room' with a kitchen in the middle. This extra space was badly laid out. It would be much better to have it incorporated into the bedroom and have a nice couch there with a table.
 

 
OUtside on the same floor as the lobby is a smallish swimming pool with a coupe of small terraces around it for sunbathing. The pool area is between the two towers and faces East-West so I bet there is not much sun on the pool in December. This picture was taken at about 11:30AM in mid April :
 

 
The Gym is small but good range of equipment and I did not eat in the restaurant as I worked most days and got breakfast in the office.
 
Guest Friendly : Very much so but if you want the reassurance of a hotel taking a girls ID and checking up with you then this is not the place to stay. If you are the opposite and want somewhere where you can treat your room like your own apartment then I would say it's ideal. You just walk into the car park entrance area and go to one of the sets of lifts and head up. This is based on where I was staying on floor 11 of the City Hotels block. I can't say for certain about the other block but I think its the same. You get a lift and there is no need to stop on the lobby floor..you can go direct to your own floor as long as you use your room keycard.
 
The place felt almost abandoned it was so quiet and it has a weird layout as regards lifts to rooms. I never saw anyone around after 8PM and I took a few guests back over the few nights I stayed there and we never met a soul. If you can get a good price and like the whole serviced apartment with minimal customer service and staff interaction then it's a good place to stay.

Brand new hotel opened right in the heart of the nightlife area.
 
It's that new that the lifts are not working yet.
 
Will give a better review when I have stayed my two nights. But first impressions are stunning

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Due to the protest site at Asoke I decided to stay at the JW Marriott this time around instead of the Emporium Suites which is my usual haunt these days. The protest site is actually very quiet, but it makes the late night taxi journey from Nana to Phrom Phong a bit of a pain the ass, hence the decision to change for this trip.
 
This isn't the first time I'm staying at the JW Marriott, it used to be one of my favourite places to stay in BKK until I got tired of paying a lot of money for rooms that are nice but need a bit of upgrading. What speaks for the JW is the near perfect location, a 2 minute stroll from the hustle and bustle of Nana, and its extreme tolerance to guests, be it LB or GG; not an eye is blinked by security and there is no need to leave ID's at the reception.
 
 
 
First impression: huge lobby with some comfy seating areas and a bar. The hotel had arranged a driver to pick me up from the airport and about 10 minutes before getting to the hotel he rang reception so that everything was ready for a speedy check in; nice touch I thought. The AC in the room was on when I got there, which always makes for a pleasant entry,
 
Location: right on soi 2 in spitting distance of Guess Bar, NEP and Check In bar. Plenty of restaurants, coffee shops around the hotel as well as a 7/11 make for easy pickings if you're hungry or thirsty. The closest BTS is Phloenchit, which is about a 5 minute walk.
 
Room: nice room, around 65m2, a living room with a comfortable sofa and large flat screen TV, a bedroom with an extremely comfortable king size bed and an OK bathroom with a shower cabin separated from the bath; no rain shower which is a miss in my opinion for a hotel like the JW. The best for me was the fact that there was absolutely 0 noise around and the curtains blocked off all sunlight. For a light sleeper who is sensitive to light like myself this is perfect...
 
Pool/Gym: a good sized pool which gets sun until about 3pm. The Spa and sauna/shower facility is truly great, but the massages are way over priced as far as I'm concerned.
 
Bottomline: I would recommend this hotel for shorter stays if your budget allows it. I found all other aspects of the place perfect, including very fast and reliable wireless internet ( I'm a Marriott Gold member, so get that for free, not sure if it's charged otherwise). It's totally Guestfriendly for LB's and GG's alike.
 
 
The lobby

 
The pool

 
View from the room

 
Living room

 
Bedroom

 
Bathroom

 
Tub

A search of the forum brings up this post by DrDamage stating it is LB friendly :
 
 
 

The American Diner is called Angel City Diner. It's located directly across from Citadines hotel. I dragged my gurl there. She had her usual papaya salad while I tried to order a french dip. "finshed" Then a roast beef sandwich, "finshed" So it was the roast turkey which they had. The sandwich was good although a little light on the turkey I thought. The bread was good and the fries were too. Can't beat the free refills just like America. We were the only customers there the whole time. I noticed they no longer had the daily specials. They must handle the room service for Prime 11, but I can't see this surviving. Perhaps another name change or theme is in the cards. The service was excellent but I think that's due us being the only customers.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Found a good video showing a room at Majestic. The room in the video is the 40 square metre room(deluxe)
 

I stayed in CITADINES soi 11 last august. The hotel is located in the heart of night life close to the all bars and night clubs. The room was clean, spacious, with small kitchenette, workig desk and sofa. The bedroom was separate with movable partition. LCD TV in the bedroom. The window is situated to the small soi and there´s no noise from the street so I could sleep very well.
Wardrobe contained ironing board which makes me happy, coz last times I could find someone who could iron my shirts
Staff was lovely and helpful. I took 2 guest 2 times via undergroung parking directly to the room /both of them had a car/
On the top floor is small gym and nice swimming pool with view to the ALOFT hotel /LEVELS club/, which is located oposite and President palace on the left side.....
Next to the reception is a MULLIGAN´S pub. I recommend this place......
 
 
 
 

I stayed here for just the one night about a week ago. http://www.starinnhotelbkk.com/
I booked it last minute based on low price and location and for being very guest friendly since i intended to bring multiple girls back. (there were no issues with my 3 some or extra charges)
 
Well i guess you get what you pay for price wise which hits you straight away with the 'mind the step sign' by the lift as its a good bit lower than it should be on each floor- fine so long as you don't have bad legs I guess or as they said, roll in blind drunk.
I would guess some of the working girls also use this hotel some times as ST rooms for punters.
 
Staff were friendly, almost too much so, rooms were basic but clean enough though I was annoyed I didn't get a room with mirrors that I though i would get.
The one reason I would not stay there again though was the noise, though it maybe quieter if you get a room out back. The window kept no sound out at all and might of well of been made of paper.
There is a club open late just next door which kept me awake... until not long before dawn when the soi gets noisy with vans, street hawkers and people opening up their business for the day. I got no sleep and can't blame the ladyboy with me for that!
 
So, if you want cheap and close to soi 7 and nana, its ok if you are deaf or get a quieter room.
I would even consider using it again but purely as my personal ST room for CIB and sleep somewhere a bit nicer 555.

This is one that I didn't learn until i left BKK the first trip and saw several taxis dropping off people at departures.
 
Would like to recommend to everyone arriving and needing a taxi to avoid people offering taxi service outside baggage and arrivals.
For an example if you going to Nana, Sukhumvit they will charge you around 600-700 baht. If you go outside to get a metered taxi, they have to pay an airport tax (surcharge) straight away. This journey can be up to 450 baht.
 
However by just going upstairs to departures you can easily catch a taxi that just dropped some on off. Just insist on metered and this same trip can be done just under 200 baht. Don't let them try to add on a service charge or airport tax, becuase they didn't have to pay it, by not getting in that que downstairs.
 
They have elevators as well that you can easily fit a luggage trolley on. You get those trolleys at baggage claim for free.
The escalators are moving sidewalk types, not steps. You can fit you trolley on them easily as well. When you get up top and go outside look to your right and see the metered taxis. They are across the first lane. Keen drivers will actually be looking for you, and be more than willing to assist you with your bags. Just make sure you establish that your on meter rate.
 
Once I had one try to get an extra 100 baht on top of meter after arriving at my guest house. I asked why and he said for airport tax? I told him he didn't have to pay it, so I'm not either. He was happy to take his meter fare only. For him it was worth a try, thinking the average farang doesn't know any better.
 
I have done this several times now. Thai governement had recently had a big crackdown against the illegal taxi services that were operating which has helped from what I have heard.
 
When you get to the top floor which is departures, you just cross these lanes of traffic. you can actually see the taxi's who have just dropped off people sitting with open doors waiting on the suave travellor.
 
In my case I had a driver searching me out, and on the way to taxi did the usual questioning of meter. 190 baht to Nana. the driver in the center Taxi is actually looking for a suave customer using the departures drop off. I have also used this same principle in Viet Nam (Ho chi Min ) Airport paying about 5 USD instead of $15.

I have about 15 Thai restaurants in my town, and all are fully stocked with either farm fresh Thai students or bitten n twisted Thais who married for visa and are divorced who hit the bar and casino scene. Finding a happy medium in the middle can be tricky
 
As for food, two of my good friends own a few of these restaurants and I have often said to them that they are out-pricing themselves to attracting the mass market. They all said though that the most Thai ingredients are generally imported once a week into the UK and can be quite expensive. They said they can go for general ingredients to try and make it cheaper, but less authentic, but whilst business ticks over nicely, they don't want to take that gamble. The other thing that makes it pricey for the customer is the food prep time which keeps small food expensive.
 
They said the costs of good Thai cuisine shouldn't be compared to Indian/Chinese restaurant prices (the most popular in the UK for Asian food). They said many Indian dishes are derived for cheaply sourced dried spices and Chinese is terrible for its saturation of MGS as the 'accepted' taste of Chinese food. To balance out Thai food properly isn't cheap when most foods are imported.
 
As for the excessive fried food, one restaurant tried that here and they closed down within a year as the competition was too strong.
 
Whilst I don't disbelieve them, I still think they could reduce their prices by around 15-20% or so and still make a decent profit ! (but then again, Im not the one paying the ridiculous council business rates )

While looking through Jimbos photos I came across this disturbing shot. I wondered how others felt about augmented asses specifically. I thought about making this into a poll question, but I just hate whent he thread gets bumped up by some lurker that can't be arsed to comment about it even when asked to share a comment.
 
So piss off lurker this one is for discussion only.
 
Personally I like the natural small ladyboy booty. I know they get it to look more like a woman. Unfortunately they accomplish that, which is a look that most of us don't like. (Large thighs, fat asses, big hips)
 
I saw a waitress at resteruant yesterday with the smallest little ass. The type I would like to palm with one hand, give a good tonguing to a tigh bung hole before watching my cock slide into into. so small of an ass that it makes your cock appear much larger than it is.
 
Some ladyboys really over do the procedure. Check out all the jabs on this ones ass. It already looks big to me. If they only knew how we really felt, would they go ahead and do it in their quest to become more like lady. Similar to the post ops thought process.
 
Since I put this in the Health section of the forum, the health risks should be mentioned. Sure Thailand has mastered most procedures and do them so regularly. I still read about deaths, botched procedures, and harnful side effects.
 
Too me the ass injections are a pain in their butt that I can do without.
 
Whats your view on these injections and your preferences.

+1 from me for all the great intel and the time it took you to write this all down for our benefit. thanks.
 
i was married to a GG years ago and went through hell at the interview in 2000 when we were denied, despite all the photos and letters (pre email) showing we had been together as a couple for a long time, my work permit from a Thai Hotel Chain, my passport that showed i had resided in TH for 8 years at that time, a letter from my Senator (head of the foreign relations committee) requesting the visa be granted, a letter from my employer stating that i had a good job and was welcome back after the holiday in the states, and wife being able to speak English fairly well the embassy staff told me we were denied because it was my country's duty to protect me from myself, and what he perceived to be a passing fancy and infatuation. there is actually a rule that was implemented during the Korean War for this because so many guys wanted to bring Korean women home.
 
my wife had a child by another farang (an asshole who left her when she was 5 months pregnant) and the closing comment from the dick at the embassy was, i also think you are going there to leave the child with your family to be raised and go to an american school. despite the fact that the kid was going to a reputable international school in Pattaya at the time and we had told them during the interview that the reason we were going home was because my father was gravely ill, hospitalized, and we wanted the family to see the my wife and child before he passed away.
 
knowing that i was never going to get them the visas i ended the conversation by telling the ass that i had no intention of leaving my child and that all though the schools in america may be good, i did not want my child to be at risk of getting shot at school. he then told me to leave, the interview was over, and he went to lunch.
 
maybe his farang wife burnt his toast at breakfast, who knows.
 
the point is, that no matter what you do or what you show them, its all up to some low level public servant who may have an attitude.
 
SO FOLLOW THE OPs ADVICE AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DONE ALL THAT YOU CAN TO PREPARE, YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE. and if its better to wait, wait.
 
EDIT: i might add that my wife felt that she had lost so much face at that interview that she suffered self-doubt for a very long time and got depressed for months. she felt that she was responsible for us not getting the visas and that she had ruined the whole idea of going on the trip, and that she was a bad girl in the eyes of my family. i also forgot to tell you that we had a DNA test done on the kid and myself so that when we told them the child was not mine, thinking that would show even more commitment, that they would ask for the DNA test, and we would already have it.
 
i hope this is not seen as hijacking, i really wanted to reinforce what you said about being prepared, and basically getting one chance.