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When you come in with a girlfriend, they usually don't watch under her skirts to know whether she's a "she" or not.

Did you take advantage of the suite to organize a ladyboy orgy in it ?

What I want to stress is that whatever method used by the ICAO, the upper authority is the ICAO and the downgraded one is the Thai DCA. FAA and EASA are just subsidiaries of the ICAO in this story.

I am not really involved since I can get tests for free in my country. If this is not a real hurry, I'd like to stress I was impressed by the organization at Burumgrad hospital where I had to go for an insect bite. I have checked if they offer HIV tests and seen they include HIV and STD add-ons in their tests : https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/health-check-up-center-bangkok-thailand-jci-best/check-up-packages As this private hospital is just one block away from Nana Plaza, it's worth mentioninig it. You just need to walk down soi 3 and you will see a trafic officer and a traffic jam at a 7/11 with cars turning right. Follow this soi on 200 m and you will be there. I guess you can arrange an appointment just going there.

I don't know if ther rivalry between American and European companies involves a rivalry between the FAA and the EASA. The fact is that the DCA (Thailand didn't meet the ICAO standards, so they were downgraded. There might have been a process in the ICAO saying that the EASA would help and the FAA would audit, but if the DCA had met the required standards, it wouldn't have been downgraded for sure.

It's all very well to give a website adress, but who is behind the website ? After clicking this adress, I found a homepage with articles dealing with Qantas, TWA (indeed), and Air New Zealand, looking like advertisements, as well as an advertisement for Etihad. IMHO, the Thai aviation authorithy should have a precise denomination, should be a branch of the THai Ministry of Transports and, except the Thai government, can be officially criticized by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) itself or the APAC (Asian and Pacific office of the ICAO). In order to avoid mixing true information and gossips, I made a quick search in Google. The Thai Authorithy for aviation is the DCA : Department of Civil Aviation. In Wikipedia, they say that ICAO "rejected a safety plan put forward by the DCA, which was submitted to ward off an imminent aviation safety downgrade." Although anybody can write any BS in Wikipedia, it seems that ICAO auditors found serious gaps in safety standards and budgets in Thailand.

http://www.dealabs.com/gratuit/cyberghost-vpn-55-gratuit-12-mois/173509 I am not used to VPN and don't like this one. But it's free and might help to connect to the goggle store in the USA. I believed that the email adress that is in the phone would be enough to connect the Google store of your country of origin.

It's easy for the train as you found it. I am older than you and have used a suitcase on wheels. Trolleys are not only for female attendants and weak girls, it's very usefull. If you can't get one, you can go to Ploenchit by train, then pick up a tuk tuk to your hotel.

Are you sure that the skytrain is not faster than a limousine riding in the trafic jams ?

I enjoyed the place. It's a typical corner with small Thai shops. I know that many farangs don't like these corners or daren't order there. I didn't taste the grilled insects. I swore to go back there on the next evening, but I visited Khao San road on the next day and saw that insects were proposed to tourists. Khao San road meant for me all the BS proposed to farangs who don't want to mix with Thai people. I also had a big trouble with a spider bite, so I had other worriesthan exploring this corner.

I found a small area without farangs (nor Arabian) customers at the intersection of soi 3 and Phetchaburi road. the food is a little spicy. Every vendor has his own specialty : soups, sausage, vegetables etc ... I also saw a vendor of grilled cockroaches, grassshoppers and other insects.

Good to know for some one who runs after freelancers.

I take your point, but when Enjoy told me she was on her way with a motorbike taxi, I could walk very fast too. You are right to stress that more and more arabs clogg the pavements, especially early in the evening. This neighbourhood doesn't make me feel comfortable. Did you sometimes meet Cartoon in your hotel's alley ?

For what I can see on the map, it's about the same walking distance, maybe a few steps longer from Unico Express. For what I can read in your post, you don't walk fast or you walk with your bagage like me.

Just my 1 baht (2 cents) information to this thread : I am used to Unico Express, 74 soi 3 Sukhumvit (Bangkok). It's a fairly cheap hotel with small and large rooms, all with A/C. They now have an acces to a swimming pool outside. The hotl has a new owner (an investment company) and is being renovated. I must admit, the larger was my room, the cheaper I paid. (Cheapest THB 900.00, highest : THB 1,600.00) The personal is used to guests, particularly ladyboys. An ID is required for guests, the name is written in a guest book and guests must sign the book when the ID is given back. The person in charge of this operation at the reception in the evening is often a ladyboy. The hotel is fairly close to Nana Plaza. I usually walk there. The first time I was there, I made a ladyboy walk from Nana plaza to the hotel (although it's a long walk for somebody with high heeels).

In the upper corner right, you have a button saying "follow this topic". You can use it to be warned when a new post is added. I reckon I loose sight of topics (particularly in the sister forum where they chat too much or off topic ). I used a trick in badoo : I opened a word document in my PC and use it to store the URLs of the pages I want to visit. I can use my own classification then.

http://www.suvarnabhumiairport.com/en/46-luggage-storage-services

Action is really restricted in Ao Nang. There is a small bar area and a couple of bars with ladyboys mixed with GGs. Hôtels are cheaper than in other touristic areas. You can get a good room with AC in Krabit for as low as THB 600.00 and housing (in Krabi ) can cost as low as THB 250.00. (BTW, I'm a little bit off topic since Krabi is about 10 km away from Ao Nang). If you your budget is as high as US$ 100.00 a night, you should have no problem to find a 2 bedrooms rental. Gogo bars can be found at Centerpoint and ladyboys were reported in soi RCA (where Amy's bar is located). You will find more information about the place in this page : http://www.krabi-hotels.com/ao-nang/soi-RCA.htm# . You might find hôtels and villas in your usual reservation website. Just be carefull if you click on the last link and look for "10 best pool villas in Krabi". A few of them are really far from Krabi. I also found this link : http://www.villas.com/thailand/krabi/ban-ao-nang.html?aid=387750;label=city--3232620-txmL73CI88ejb13l2JGF8wS54537761047%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap1t2%3Aneg%3Afi%3Atikwd-66837700409%3Alp1006410%3Ali%3Adec%3Adm;sid=61733a983cb4f7baabd187b61fc54d4d;dcid=4;checkin_monthday=8;checkin_year_month=2016-2;checkout_monthday=15;checkout_year_month=2016-2;class_interval=1;csflt=%7B%7D;dtdisc=0;group_adults=2;group_children=0;hlrd=0;hyb_red=0;inac=0;lang=en-us;nha_red=0;no_rooms=1;offset=0;or_radius=0;pr=50%2C100;pr_cur_code=EUR;redirected_from_city=0;redirected_from_landmark=0;redirected_from_region=0;review_score_group=empty;sb_price_type=total;score_min=0;src=searchresults;ss_all=0;ssb=empty;sshis=0&;lang=en-us#map_closed . One more advise : the ladyboy scene is really restricted in Ao Nang. It might be advisable to find a ladyboy in Patong and invite her for a long time in Krabi.

You can try Unico hotel in soi 3. Rooms are tiny but prices are reasonable. To get a good price, they recommend you to book before the cheapest rooms are booked. The hotel is located not too far from Nana. I could make a ladyboy walk with high heels shoes from Nana to the hotel. I had found the adress in a website dealing with guest friendly hotels. A ladyboy worked at the reception in the evening. The freelancer I had invited just had to leave her ID at the desk before going in. For my safety, I had a safe in the room and enough place to put my bagage. Last but not least, they had an excellent breakfast with a buffet. I had paid Thb 1,600 in November 2013. How long will you stay in BKK ? Will you stay in BKK only or travel around Thailand ?