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    Win 2 Free Tickets To Bangkok (Canadians and Americans)

    in Transport

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    No purchase required.

     

    Eligibility: The Webjet Asiana Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of the U.S. and Canada.

     

    Valid for travel from any Asiana USA Gateway (New York, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) to Asiana operated Destinations in South East Asia including Korea, Indonesia (JKT, DPS), Malaysia (BKI), Cambodia (PNH, REP), Thailand (BKK, HKT), Philippines (MNL) and Vietnam (HAN, SGN, DAD).

     

    http://www.asiahotelandtravel.com/index.php?/topic/115-win-2-free-airline-tickets-to-southeast-asia/

    Bangkok Accommodation

    in Bangkok

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    for around 1500 baht I can see you have the pick of the litter all over. What *I* want to know about is the less pricey spot near the action. Perchance I'll weigh in around Nov 22 with a review of the White Orchid (I was told 500, and have seen 600 I believe or was it 7?) or Da Bed, both on the same lil alley across from the Big Mango as I recall. I THINK the Nana Hotel/Inn is going for 900 now. Agonda said all 334 beds are full on the 21st. Hard to believe. 

     

    Da Bed looks great at that price!  Has anyone stayed there?

     

    http://www.asiahotelandtravel.com/index.php?/topic/2-bangkok-accommodation/?p=405

     

    White Orchid is in Chinatown?

     

    Nana Hotel Inn, are you talking about the place across from NEP where ladyboys and ladies freelance in the parking lot? Thought they charged more than 900 these days/

    Guinness (Arthur's Day)

    in Boiler Room

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    Think this was last Thursday.

     

    The streets of Dublin were likened to the “last days of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

     

    Why bother with Pattaya?

     

     

     

    Day Devoted to Hoisting Guinness Starts to Leave a Bitter Taste By DOUGLAS DALBY

    DUBLIN — Bars across Ireland will be thronged on Thursday with early evening drinkers. Groups of inebriated young people will be staggering around the streets, and hospital emergency rooms will be packed.

     

    No, this is not St. Patrick’s Day. It is Arthur’s Day — an annual paean to Guinness first concocted by marketing gurus in 2009 to promote the 250th anniversary of the drink so intimately associated with Ireland.

     

    But to a growing chorus of critics, it is becoming a national embarrassment. Eamonn McCann, a journalist and political activist, put it succinctly in his column in The Belfast Telegraph. “Has there ever been a scam like Arthur’s Day,” he wrote, “as contemptuous of the people it targets, as disrespectful of the culture and especially of the music it misuses to make its play, as depressing in the extent to which the people made fools of simper with pleasure and cry out for more?”

     

    Diageo, the multinational drinks company that owns the Guinness brand, says the shindig brings together three celebrated strands of Irish culture: Guinness, the pub and music. Its promotional material exhorts people “to paint the town black” — the color of a Guinness stout — and calls the day “a remarkable celebration of those who make things happen.”

     

    The company is promoting the 1759 anniversary year to encourage people to be in a bar by 5:59 p.m. (or 17:59) to raise a glass to Arthur — that’s Arthur Guinness, the brewery’s founder.

    Diageo’s critics say that it is all an empty ritual aimed at promoting the company’s brands, and that there is nothing to celebrate in binge drinking. Although Diageo is at pains to emphasize a message of drinking responsibly, there were reports of a 30 percent increase in ambulance calls in central Dublin after last year’s event. Dr. Stephen Cusack, a physician in Cork, likened the streets of that city to the “last days of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

     

    This year, over 1,000 musicians are scheduled to perform at 500 locations across Ireland, with smaller events taking place in 43 countries including Malaysia, Spain, Singapore, Italy, Indonesia, Germany and the United Arab Emirates. In Ireland, the expected acts will range from local up-and-coming talent to more well-known names like Bobby Womack, The Script and Emeli Sandé.

     

    The 2009 promotion was hailed as a tremendous success, not only by Diageo but also by many hard-pressed publicans, whose businesses have come under severe pressure from the economic downturn, below-cost sales of alcohol in supermarkets, antismoking legislation and, in the case of rural pubs in particular, a crackdown on drunken driving.

     

    In the three years since then, politicians have also been eager to talk up the tourism potential of Arthur’s Day, and the Irish news media have carried overwhelmingly uncritical coverage of the events associated with it, generating enormous free publicity for the Guinness brand.

    But a backlash has begun in earnest, with an unlikely alliance of critics blasting the event on health, cultural and even artistic grounds.

     

    In many ways, the day has been caught in the cross-fire of an increasingly heated debate about society’s relationship with alcohol. Alcohol Action Ireland, a group campaigning for policy changes, estimates that alcohol is so cheap in Irish supermarkets it takes the equivalent of only an hour’s work at minimum wage to buy the weekly recommended intake.

     

    Dr. Stephen Stewart, director of the Center for Liver Disease at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, said this week in a statement that cirrhosis of the liver was reaching epidemic proportions across Ireland, particularly among younger people, the age group most likely to fill the bars on Thursday night.

     

    “We have a progressively worsening relationship with alcohol in Ireland, which manifests itself in the increasing numbers of young people dying from alcohol-related illnesses,” he said. “Alcohol is more affordable than ever. Alcohol is more acceptable than ever. Alcohol is more available than ever. We need measures to address this epidemic. Where does Arthur’s Day fit into all of this?”

     

    Echoing that sentiment, Dr. Frank Murray, chairman of the policy group on alcohol of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, branded the day “irresponsible.”

     

    Yet for many local entertainers who are short of cash, Arthur’s Day provides much-needed income. Many of them express misgivings in private but can ill-afford to pass up a paycheck.

    That changed somewhat this year, when some prominent artists derided the event. Though still relatively few in number, their voices have been growing louder, foremost among them Ireland’s best-known folk singer, Christy Moore. Mr. Moore called the day “Arthur’s Alcoholiday” and questioned the promotion of the symbiotic relationship between alcohol and Irish culture.

    Mike Scott, the founder of The Waterboys, and Steve Wall, the lead singer with The Stunning, have joined those calling for a boycott.

     

    “Paint the town black? My town is already black with unemployment, shootings, depression, a lack of paying gigs and a lack of Irish artists on daytime radio,” Mr. Wall wrote on his Facebook page. “No thanks Diageo ... go paint your own town black. We need some light.”

     

    However, advocates of personal responsibility note that Diageo is not forcing Guinness down anyone’s throat. They claim the day has become an easy target for groups that advocate greater regulation for alcohol.

     

    Speaking this week on RTE radio, a Diageo executive said the company would continue to sponsor the event as long as the public backed it.

     

    And that may be the rub. With the event having generated huge debate this year in mainstream and social media, some commentators have begun to wonder if the publicity-attuned Diageo may ultimately decide that the hangover simply is not worth it.

     

      

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/europe/backlash-grows-in-ireland-to-a-day-that-celebrates-guinness.html

    Buddha days July 22 & 23. Bars closed. But mongering never sleeps...

    in Ladyboy Scene

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    Alternatively I believe hotel bars don't have to close, since they are taking care of foreigners that may not practice Buddha. Can anyone verify this?

    The Pattaya Mail says that hotel bars don't have to close.

     

    Two topics both dealing with alcohol sales have been merged. 

     

     

    The Notification of the Office of the Prime Minister RE: Determination of Days of Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverage Sales (No. 2) B.E. 2552 (A.D. 2009), signed by then Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, specifically prohibits the sale of alcohol on Makha Bucha Day, Visakha Bucha Day, Asalaha Bucha Day and Buddhist Lent holidays.

     
    From 12 a.m. July 22 until midnight July 23, it is against the law for businessmen to distribute alcohol. This includes bars and restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores, department stores, and community retail stores. An amendment to the decree exempts hotels from the ban.
     
    Those caught breaking the law can face up to six months in jail and fines up to 10,000 baht.
     
     

    http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/alcohol-sales-banned-july-22-23-28508

    Info ladyboys Pattaya and Phnom Penh

    in Cambodia

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    Here's a post by xyzzy which was posted to a similar question in the Thailand forum.

     

    The percentage of LBs in Cambo is much smaller than in Pattaya. Not that you can't find LBs but they are not everywhere like Pattaya. You will likely find more natural LBs (no silicon tits) unless they have been sucessful enough at making $$$ or have a sponser to go to Thailand for the operation. You need to know where to find LBs in PP (Pontoon Disco freelancers, Candy Bar and a few more scattered at various hostess bars/places). Not that you can not find some nice LBs in PP but you will have to make a effort to find them as opposed to Pattaya where there are a lot of bars that are LB only bars and LBs are everywhere. I find the hunting interest but if one expects to just walk into bars with lots of hot LBs it just isn't going to happen. I could easily spend 10 days in PP but I would probably mix LBs, GGs and no date nights. 10 days might be a long time if you are hunting only LBs, especially if you butterfly, and if you have a certain style of LBs you like to like to pick.
     
    When I first started going to PP in 2008 all the hostess bars were US$20 ST/$30 LT and bar fine $5. A couple of years ago all the bars on the main bar streets (street 104/136) seem to have gone to $30/$40 at least for old farts like me. A few GGs let me walk away instead of dropping to $25 from $30 so it seemed to me the sisterhood must have decided to hold the line at $30 ST. You can bargain the LBs down a bit below $30 as they seem in less demand. But most bar girls will ask $50 to start to which I simply answer "No" without any other explanation. The Japanese/Koreans will often pay the $50 as they seem willing to spend more just like in Thailand. When I was in PP last month, for the first time in two years, the bar fines had gone up to $10 (on 104/136).
     
    LBs are much less accepted in Cambo that Thailand. If you escort LBs around town you will draw more attention then in Pattaya. That bothers some people more than others. Most of my friends "on the game**" visit PP once or twice just to try a new place and then never return. It appeals to a much smaller section of guys. If you have never been to Thailand or Cambodia and have no experience, I would go to Pattaya and save Cambo for another time.
     
    ** BB you like that better than the M word?
     
    MODS I didn't see his other post in the Cambo section until after I posted this. Might be better to move this reply over to that section? 
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    US Consular Outreach In Pattaya--March 1st 2013

    in Boiler Room

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    Consular staff will be available to provide services on:

     

    Friday, March 1, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the:

     

    The Dusit Thani Hotel, Dusit 1 room

    Address: 240/2 Pattaya Beach Road, Pattaya City, Chonburi 20150 Thailand 

    Telephone: 66 (0) 3842 5611-7 

    Website: www.dusit.com

     

     

     

    The following consular services will be available during our outreach visits:

     

    · Passport renewal applications ($110.00 or Baht 3,410 for adult passports, and $105 or Baht 3,255 for a child’s passport). 

     

    · Notarial Services and Certified Copies ($50.00 or Baht 1,550), this includes income affidavits for retirees in Thailand. 

     

    · Extra visa pages ($82 or Baht 2,542). Note: we can accept applications, but the passports will have to be brought back to the Embassy for final processing the next working day. We will bring prepaid Thailand Post envelopes on outreaches that you can buy from us at cost (Baht 75) if you wish us have us mail your passport back to you. Alternatively, you can pick up your passport at the Embassy. You can also have a friend pick up your passport at the Embassy by giving them written authorization to present to us. 

     

    · Social security, VA, or other federal benefits questions will be limited, but we will try to provide forms and answers. 

     

     

    Please bring exact change! We do not bring cash with us so our ability to make change is very limited. Payment may be made in U.S. dollars or Thai baht. Payment for one service must be made in a single currency.

     

     

     

    Please see http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/service.html for information and requirements for each service.

     

    Consular Reports of Birth cannot be processed during consular outreach trips.

     

     

     

    Appointments are not necessary for consular services during outreach visits. If you have any questions, please email acsbkk@state.gov or call the American Citizen Services Unit at 02-205-4049. Also, please follow us on Twitter by searching our username @ACSBKK.
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