Long John

Well after much thought and deliberation, I have made an executive decision. After doodling around and finally booking Grand Business Inn, I have decided to make a change. Will spend the last night at Galleria on Suk 10, not far from CIB. Galleria has a pool. Would be nice to just chill out and relax. Anyway the plan centres around spending time with a few girls, maybe 2 or 3, Lily being one of them over the first 4 nights I am in BKK. Those few nights will be at Grand Business, then down to Pattaya for a few nights, then back to BKK for the last day and night before I am off to Saigon. I really want to go out with a bang, so plan to make it something to remember. If I prearrange it can I pay the bar fine and take the girl to my hotel around 2pm, before CIB opens?. Take her out to dinner etc, then maybe back to CIB for a few hours, before retiring back to the room for some gymnastics. Breakfast in the morning then off to the airport. Another trip over.

With a bit of sauce added?.

What I want to know is, why would you want two lb's?

What I want to know SA, is how do you know they are lb's?

Well got news today that my customer might be flying to Italy to watch my event which means he will take the packages back with him and I will be free as a bird with no large luggage. Whoppee!, but I wish he had told me a few days ago. I could have booked a cheaper flight without having to worry about the luggage aspect. Never mind, musn't grumble.

When I was booking my ticket Rome to BKK there seemed to be a lot of flights arriving in BKK around 11.00am to 2.30ish. Unfortunately mine is one of them!. ITA then Thai Air. Not cheap either. With extras it was $840.00 AUD. I picked that one because of the 30kg luggage allowance.

No, I book with Booking.com. I get a 10% Genius discount. First time I have been called a Genius!.

Yes I know. It is where I picked up a little stick of dynamite in November. Sitting on a stool people watching when she took the bait.

Well I checked out Maxims Inn on google earth. Not impressed, so bit the bullet and booked at my 1st choice, Grand Business Inn, Soi 11. Got a grand suite for 7800 baht for 4 nights. More than my scottish heritage would normally allow, but I like the location, the staff are great and the room I booked is large. More than enough to impress the CIB girls. Strangely the Grand suite was the same price as the smaller room. I have 4 nights for the first spell and 3 more when I return after visiting Pattaya. I do like the look on the front desk staff's face when I turn up with different girls each night. As that old advert said, "priceless". The other benefit is that I can get my tasty 99 baht burgers on the corner about 50 meters away!.

Thanks GB

At the moment it looks like Maxim's Inn will be the one. Soi 7/1 Anyone stayed there?.

I checked out Hotel La Petite Salil. Is that the one?. The superior room looks ok. Only problem is that they dont have a free cancellation policy. I always like to have a safety net if plans change.

Haha, you got it right sydney.. I must say I enjoyed staying at Grand Business Inn. They helped me out when Thai Airways stuffed up my flight, but I think I can do better, value wise now. I dont want to be further away from CIB than Soi 7. Lily is such a small thing, I dont want to tucker her out with a long walk!.

Thanks

Somewhere less than 1600 baht roughly, approximately.

Best burgers I had were 10 meters up Soi 11 on the right. A guy about 19 and I think his sister, making burgers in a small stall in front of a small hotel. You can take your food up to the eating area in the hotel no problem if it is raining etc. Now to the burgers. 99 baht for the small and 149 b for the large. Small is enough for me. Very tasty too. If you are used to Big Mac's you may not like them. These are tasty!. To top it off there was a pretty girl serving juice from a cart at the kerb right next to them.

I could not complain about Grand Business Inn, Soi 11. Prices good and rooms good. Executive,(hate that word), suite was great.

Sort of on this topic. Do you guys eat a mix of Thai and western or stick to one?. I tend to mix but do like the English breakfast especially if it is a brunch. Say after 10.30.

I have a set of those arriving in the next day or so. I had to .My old MP3 player died, so I thought it about time to upgrade. Had Sony on the player. I do enjoy listening to music while flying so doing that as well as blocking out most of the plane noise is a bonus. Now to load up the phone with music. Ideas on the best way to do that?. The MP3 had a good collection but you start to replay some when travelling a long way as we do living on the underside of the world. 25 to 30 hours to Europe etc. I have no problem with a collection. Anything goes, within reason. Classical, rock,(Led Zeppelin etc), Beatle, Prince, Stones, you name it. A likeing for Sting too. Here is one I really do like when he teams up with Stevie Wonder. great arrangement.

Yep, stayed at Eleven in April through all the covid shit. Test, the works. Could not fault it. Next trip I am going back to the Grand Business Inn,(Soi 11), which is where I finished off my last trip. Have a large suite for very small money. Does everything I need. I'm a believer,(sorry a bad pun re the Monkees), in not paying big money for a room. Rather the girls got it.

I booked what I thought was a flight on Monday. BKK to Phuket. Booked with Thai Smile and they advertised a service whereby if you paid $4.40 through Trip .com they would hold the price for 6 days. So I did that, but when I went to pay for the 2 tickets today, found out that it was only a price hold not a ticket hold. THere were none left.The bastards!!!. As it turned out it was for the better. The two Thai Smile tickets worked out at $350.00AUD. Advertised price without all the add ons was $104.00!!!. I was on a tight schedule so then had to search for flights that worked for me. Got them on Thai Air. Still cost $300.00. There were options with Viet Jet etc., but by the time you add bags and seat selection, they were more!. I think charging for std seats is a con. Sure charge more for legroom etc., but include std seats at the going rate. No need to add that on. Can't see myself hanging from the wings!.

Are we talking about the Carry On movies from the sixties and seventies?. Those who are not from a UK or Commonwealth background will not understand. On a more sensible note. I am travelling to Phuket/PhiPhi in November for a few days. I am sure I will manage with carry on, but my reg. will need to take a suitcase. You know what they are like!.

Thats what I say to some of the lb's!.

Unfortunately another option has gone out of business during covid. Jennifer had a taxi, and she is a LB!!!!!!!. I chatted with her and because business was nonexistent she stopped driving and has set up a minimart in her home town near the Laos border. Going well she says. Good luck to her.

Was speaking to a guy the other day. He said he bought a ticket Sydney to Frankfurt return for $1200 AUD. About $850 USD. He would only have bought it in the last couple of months. Think he is pulling my tit?. I paid $1450 AUD Tassie to Frankfurt one way. This was about 3 weeks ago. Already gone up about $300 since then.