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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Bimale75 said:

    thanks for this, forums are great to get a different perspective of things. 

    I think you are absolutely correct with this and I hadn’t considered it. Also agree about the hotel workers and couldn’t care what the old couple from the chattering classes think. 
    I was focussing on the  situation with families around etc. wanted to minimise the case of running into a family while I’m with  with an obvious sex worker. Not that I’m paranoid per se, just wouldn’t want to be causing undue questions. “Hey daddy why’s that girl got man’s bits” etc. but I guess the flip side of that is families shouldn’t be in the red light zone. 
    again thanks for the views it’s really helpful

    Sent you a pm BM 

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  4. Posted

    19 minutes ago, gainsbarre said:

    No need you can take the elevator without going via garage anyway not possible as parking is on higher floors

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    Do they not ask for Id Gains ? 

  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, taaseesanuk said:

    After all the years i have stayed at the Nana Hotel I think I may have bagged their best room. It's basically a suite and is pretty much the size of two rooms, but that aside it is posistioned above Hooters and I have three large windows looking down onto the NEP entrance and also where the freelancers gather.....maybe they secretly log your visits and thought his time has come for a bit of VIP hospitality!!...highly unlikely but for just under 1,800B a night it is excellent value! 

    Well done must of heard you had a worldwide property empire ..

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  6. Posted · Edited by whiteshirt

    On 5/4/2023 at 12:02 PM, KIWI66 said:

    Ive been to Bangkok Smile in Asoke, several times, had great service

    A word of advice, I went to Dentist near Tuk Com, (Pattaya), he gave me six filling, and told me I needed a crown on a tooth, he quoted a expensive price, as I was going to meet a friend in a city outside Bangkok I just waited.

    The friend & Guest house owner said go see this Dentist, I went along (everything was in Thai), Dentist spoke limited english, but said I cant see anything wrong, I explained what happened, he said 'only a filling is needed to build up that inside, 300baht walked out a happy man

    Always good to shop around , thanks for sharing 

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, gainsbarre said:

    Just in taxi now
    Plane 1 hour delayed
    Immigration 3 minutes
    Luggage 1 hour
    Damage morethan 2 hours fucked up my whole friday night
    Wanted to spend a couple of hours in cib
    Ok thai airways just saved me 5 to 7K Thb

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    Gutted for you GB 

  8. Posted

    12 hours ago, oliver17 said:

    I have also used Bangkok Airport Limo in the past. There really isn't much difference in price, but only AOT has kiosks at the airport. BAL has greeters who escort you to the car which works just as well. I use BAL for trips to Hua Hin and Pattaya and they have never let me down. 

    AOT has several kiosks in the main terminal after you emerge from baggage claim. They used to also have kiosks on the concourses between the gates and immigration, but I don't recall seeing any concourse kiosks on my last trip. 

    Speaking of BKK airport, let's all celebrate the rebound of tourism in LOS.  It's hard to beat the thrill of going thru immigration

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    Still makes me shudder this sight  as you reach the Ramp …Must be an old photo ..they all have masks on ? .. hope the new gates have sorted queues like this in the future 

  10. Posted · Edited by whiteshirt

    8 hours ago, sydney69er said:

    Landed yesterday at BKK Saturday 10am

    7 minutes to walk from plane to immigration.

    3 minutes through immigration

    10 minutes to wait for my bag and bang in a taxi. No queues at immigration

    Taxi took just over 45 minutes from Old Swampy to Sukhumvit Soi 13, a bit of traffic on the highway. Taxi cost 275 Baht plus 2 tolls, 25 and 50 baht.

    Good to be back!

    Excellent , thank you , have a great trip 

  11. Posted · Edited by whiteshirt

    23 minutes ago, taaseesanuk said:

    I took a Ladyboy from Obsession's back to citrus suites, we had intended to use the NEP rooms but they were still closed after the pandemic,  she was wearing just enough to 

    cover her modesty as she hadn't put civilian clothing on. The guy on reception was brilliant and gave us both a big welcome smile....the Indian couple however, who he had

    just checked in, glared at me like I had  asked if I could shit in her handbag.....made my night that did!

    Haha love it  .. I always give them a visual as I walk past … just pop me hand down the back of pants and give the sheriffs badge a scratch and adjust your undercrackers ;) 

    apologies steely for going ot… back too the landmark :) 

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  12. Posted

    21 hours ago, ipartridge said:

    I stayed here for part of my holiday last year, it's certainly a nice hotel. Bit disappointed with the room for the price, also the pool wasn't great (bit small and crowded). Took a GG back one night, the hotel was fine about it but got some really dirty looks from other guests. Personally not sure I would stay here again as I think you can probably do better for the money.

    Stay at the Nana hotel .. you get a dirty look if you don’t bring one back with her bollox/arse hanging out the bottom of her dress :)

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  13. Posted · Edited by whiteshirt

    4 minutes ago, Nick Bullseye said:

    I did exactly that several times. Absolutely nothing happened.

    I just new it would have been you Nick haha … 

  14. Posted

    6 minutes ago, pennybridge said:

    Not sure where in the world you guys fly from, but it also depends how flexible you are. Mondays and tuesdays are usually the cheapest days to fly on. Example, Stockholm to Bangkok. November 6 to November 20 is 570 usd with Royal Jordanian.

    (June to August are expensive months to fly from Europe)

    Royal Jordanian any good ? 

  15. Posted

    It’s a Shocker LJ …I thought it would have calmed down a bit since the world started getting back to some thing like normal ish … I have a flight that I watching for November it’s all over the shop … £115 up one day £2 down the next … let’s hope it’s not the new norm eh ! 

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  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, lbshagger said:

    Arrived back yesterday at 4 pm. After arriving at immigration I would say less than 5 minutes and I was through. The walk to immigration took longer. Good to see it has all been revamped. Many desks open, no queues. The baggage was fast, no long wait for the first bag to come through. I think all in all from the time I got to immigration it was less than 15 minutes and I was in a taxi. Walking through my front door before 6 pm. Less than two hours from touch down to home is a record.

    Brilliant .. Pattaya is home ? 

  17. Posted

    35 minutes ago, sydney69er said:

    I rate Hyatt Regency, not as the best hotel but the best location (for mongers), on corner of Soi 13 Sukhumvit. Price around 7000 THB per night depending on season. I have seen it cheaper but 7K seems to be the average. Suites go for 13,000 THB per night. Great buffet breakfast, nice swimming pool and gym on level 6 and very cool rooftop bar. I have stayed at Park Hyatt (over 16,000Thb per night for standard room) which was very nice but not the same awesome location as Hyatt Regency.

    Hyatt Regency is a very nice 5 star hotel. 1 minutes walk to Soi 11 with heaps of restaurants to choose from, and Cindy's Secret.

    450 meters - 4 minutes walk to Check-in Bar. 8 minutes walk to Nana Entertainment Plaza, 9 minutes walk to Soi Cowboy. 2 minutes walk to Nana BTS if you want to venture out around Bangkok.

    Street walkers (GG and LB) right out the front most nights.

    When I stay there I very rarely venture further than 450 meters!

    Or Sofitel, just on next block past Soi 13. I have not stayed there but still great location.

    Pics of a King Deluxe Room from my stay at Hyatt Regency in July last yeat

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    Fantastic room /hotel Syd  …the moaning “ how much “ brigade will be along shortly , brace yourself 5555 

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  21. Posted

    From what I remember a good few years back  , Metal steps up to rooms( klip klop high heels all night )   and Indian owned, gobby girls in the bar , noise in corridors was awful, and a strange smell through out everywhere … it came off booking .com for some reason , not sure if it’s still on Agoda , rooms where old and tired 5 years ago .. dunno if it’s changed anyone stayed recently  ? 

  22. Posted

    On 1/24/2023 at 3:43 PM, Bwana_LB said:

    Just spent 8 nights at the Mercure on Soi 11 and thought I'd offer up my take.

    I had a King room with shower and bathtub, one of several options. It's not their largest or their smallest room, but was plenty large for my needs (photos below).

    I arrived at midnight, and check-in was quick and simple. I purchased a room without the breakfast add-on, as I like to explore various breakfast options around town. I booked well in advance, while prices were still depressed by Covid, so got a rate of about $86/night. When I checked in, the rate being offered at that time was about $112.

    My room was on the 16th floor and away from Soi 11, so as quiet as a room will get in that part of town. I had no issues with noise

    A funny moment: I was only interested in sleeping after a 27 hour trip with a 15 hour time change, but could not figure out how to turn off the room lights. I searched everywhere (I thought) for the switches, finally calling the front desk to send someone up. The control for the room lights (nearly all of them) was in the middle of the bed headboard, hiding behind a stack of pillows.

    Description of room:

    The room was plenty spacious, and had pretty much everything I would want. The king bed was comfortable and the bed linens were high quality. Four large pillows. There was a desk with two chairs, and an additional two guest chairs with a small table. Opposite the bed there was a small storage unit with two drawers for clothes, and a flat screen TV above it. TV worked fine and was decent sized, but I never watched any TV. To the left of this, towards the door to the room and the door to the bathroom, was a platform to set luggage on, a small fridge (not a minibar), and then a closet with a decent sized safe (big enough for a laptop). Across from the closet was the door to the bathroom. As mentioned, the bathroom had both a glass-enclosed shower, with adjustable/handheld shower head and a rainfall shower head. Across from the shower was a full tub with an adjustable/handheld shower head (for some reason, many Thai girls seem to prefer to shower in the tub...I don't get it). Tub had a wall mounted soap dispenser, shower had wall mounted soap, shampoo, and conditioner dispensers. Next to the shower was a toilet with the essential bum gun, and next to it a shower and sink with ample room for storage of toiletries.

    Pros: 

    1. Comfortable bed
    2. Good AC that was easy to control air speed and room temp
    3. Great hot water. It was easy to control, and never ran low.
    4. Two large bath sheets and two smaller bath towels
    5. Plenty of seating for guests. Chairs came in handy for sex as well.
    6. Housekeeping was responsive to requests for extra towels, hangers, etc. I tipped daily.
    7. Good reading lights by the bed.

    Cons:

    1. Lighting was hard to control. No dimming, and ceiling lights were either all on or all off.
    2. No power outlets next to the bed! Charging phones had to be done at the desk or on top of the fridge. This was a nuisance.
    3. Aside from liquid soap, shampoo, conditioner and body lotion, there were no other amenities in the bathroom. No plastic hair cover for the girls, etc.
    4. Fridge was on the small side. Room for a few drinks and not much else.

    The Hotel:

    The lobby is nothing fancy. From the driveway you walk through sliding glass doors, across a seating area with a concierge stand, past the elevators (one left, one right), and to the actual reception desks. One of the two hotel restaurants (Lily Fu's) is on the ground floor to the right of the hotel entrance, and can be entered from inside or outside the hotel. Another restaurant (Gaucho Argentinean Steakhouse) is loosely affiliated with the hotel and is just to the left of the hotel.

    The hotel has a parking garage (4 levels), a pool, bar, and gym that sit above the parking garage, and 16 floors of rooms (1-16, minus 13th, plus a Penthouse level). I spent a fair amount of time at the pool. One of the better pools I've used. There are actually two pools: a smaller and very shallow splash pool for kids and a larger pool, still fairly shallow (1.2 meters) for swimming. The pool is surround by ample seating of various sorts with shade for the sun-averse. The bar sits at one end of the pool, and has a decent drink and food menu. Neither cheap nor overpriced. The gym, glass enclosed and looking out over the pool, was also very good, with plenty of cardio and weight machines.

    Pros:

    1. Lobby easy to negotiate. It's a decent walk (of shame?) to the elevators, but you have the option of skipping the desk and taking your guests straight to your room. Elevators require a room key to get to a particular floor, so no surprise guests will appear at your door (as has happened to me at other hotels).
    2. Breakfast buffet at Lily Fu's is excellent, at 299 baht. Egg station, all the usual options for American/English breakfast, tons of Asian options, good selection of fruit, juices, breads and pastries, coffees and teas, etc. One can sit open air in the front of the restaurant facing Soi 11 or sit back further inside or at the bar.
    3. In the evening, Lily Fu's is a bar/restaurant and is pretty active. Good drink options, reasonably priced, and usually quite crowded. The food is primarily pan-Asian and good, but there are better options, so I only had a quick meal there one time when convenience was key.
    4. Gym was great and never crowded.
    5. Pool would get busy, but there was always ample seating.

    Cons:

    1. The hotel is definitely a family hotel. Not exclusively so, but if you're a shy monger just know that you'll be dealing with lots of couples on vacation, families with kids, and so forth. The clients were incredibly diverse, a little United Nations. Didn't bother me at all, but I know some here prefer hotels that cater primarily to mongers. I'm afraid there are fewer and fewer of those, and they are generally not the best hotels.
    2. Pool area could get noisy when a few families with kids would show up. The pool is my reading area, and shouting kids are distracting.
    3. Come on the early side for breakfast. At least while I was in town the restaurant got quite crowded by 9:30. Fortunately, I'm an early riser.

    Conclusion:

    Depending on the rate I can get, I'd definitely stay again. Did I mention that Cindy's Secrets is about 100 yards from the hotel, and that it's a short walk to Check In Bar? And that Soi 11 really has lots of options for food at any time of day, and plenty of nightlife. By 9 pm freelancers show up along Soi 11 closer to Sukhumvit. I definitely preferred staying here over Soi 4. Soi 11 is now also the hub for the mobile marijuana dispensaries. There were at least ten vans selling marijuana along Soi 11 (and tons of dispensaries along Sukhumvit), including two vans parked in front of the Mercure in the evenings. Didn't imbibe. I liked getting in walks to the skytrain from the hotel (maybe 5 minutes), and Terminal 21 is just a 10 minute walk.

    The morning I left, at 5 am, there were four girls from Cindy's sitting in front of my hotel, so I went out and chatted with them. The street was still pretty active, but mostly filled with bargirls and freelancers ending their nights by getting something to eat or drink. I don't think Soi 11 ever sleeps.

     

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    You should send this review to the hotel sir , it’s is exceptional they probably use it somehow and give you a nice upgrade ;) , thank you very much  Bwana 

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  23. Posted

    57 minutes ago, Girthworm Jim said:

    My 30 day extension says on my passport stamp “permitted up to the 20th Jan 2023” - would you take that as I’d be ok to fly out on the 20th? Thinking of spending a night or 2 in Laos then coming back to Bangkok. 

    My 45 day stamp said 15 January I left swampy on that day no problems mate 

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