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On 24/09/2016 at 6:03 PM, rxpharm said:

Dropped in Check In Bar during a short trip a few weeks ago. The new bar is quite nice - good surroundings, and has short time rooms upstairs. Prices are good compared to the Nana Plaza Bars - lady drinks 150 Baht (as compared to 190 - 200 Baht for NEP lb bars and Patpong lb bars). Sukhumvit Soi 10 is just a short walk away from the old Sukhumvit Soi 7 location - about 5 min and across the road. The landmark is the Chinese Gold shop which is right on the corner of Sukhumvit Soi 10. You go up the Soi, and the first left you turn in. Walk  about 30 meters (100 feet) down around the corner and you'll see Check In Bar on the left, past Lollipop Bar.

I went there last night and didn't see the bar in the soi on the first left, mainly because I had not read the instructions well enough. The side soi is U shaped and to get to the bar, you have to go round the right angled bend and therefore you cannot see the sign from soi 10. If you carry on soi 10, you take the next left and it is just beyond the corner. Again, heading away from Sukhumvit on soi 10, it is easy to miss the sign because of the angles although turning round and walking back, it is bloody obvious.

Anyway, it is a nice bar and I did have a good time, although like many bars in both Pattya and Bangkok, it was almost devoid of customers - as an indication, even I have been elevated to the ranks of "hansome man".

The sad fact is that they are killing ("they" being the police and the vigilantes) the small dealers and the users and so far, not the big boys and the kingpins.

However, no matter what you feel about this way of cleaning up their terrible drug problem, there is a much bigger danger of the police and vigilantes killing any legitimate opposition to the president as evidenced by his comment after the killing of a journalist:

"Just because you are a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch"

This month, they are remembering the imposition of martial law by Marcos; it is a distinct possibility that they may be going the same way again.

All very sad

My friend went to Australia and back in March (economy) this year with Malaysian and said that the flights were great, with alcohol throughout the flight...

I took my own - she said she was based in Palawan, but actually was from Palawan but lived in Manila. And turned out to be a total alcoholic which meant from that point of view, the trip was a mistake. But that's another story.

I didn't see many lbs when I was there, but I didn't go to El Nido which is the prime tourist area and where, I imagine, you are most likely to find them.

Yes.

BTW, for anybody following the signs to the May Hotel, it's what they are building at the back of the March hotel.

They have a sister hotel - March suites, soi 5 i.e. just behind April suites. It's new, same service levels, wifi is great but, and it is a great big but (single t), it is noisy both in and out. Inside it's noisy because it is popular with young Chinese who are not house trained in the widest sense of the word. The corridors are tiled and act act as a sound tunnel and the Chinese think nothing of standing in their doorways and shouting at the person standing in the doorway opposite. This can be at night or early morning or when they check out at 6am or whenever they feel like it. They just do not understand the concept of respecting other people's right to a quiet sleep. Maybe it's me, my age or just that I am becoming even more grumpy, but it really bugs me. And judging by the resigned rolling of the eyes when I mentioned it to the front staff, a lot of other people have the same issue

Outside, they are constructing a new building just metres from the back of the hotel with its associated noise; at the front, on a huge vacant lot, they have started to break up the existing concrete which says to me that within a month or two, they will be building there as well.

It's great if you are deaf or have a high tolerance to noise. If not, regretfully it is one to avoid.

The password now is the room number and is valid for the length of stay. My grudge is that only one device can be connected at a time. I have a smart phone, tablet and notebook computer and only one of those devices can be connected at any one time. As a new device is connected the previous ones wifi is auto disconnected.

My point is that they will (or did, 21 days ago) give you a completely different password for each machine in addition to the main password , but these new passwords last only 24 hours. So in my case, I had my room password for my computer, two individual 24 hour passwords for the phone and tablet and a separate 24 hour password for any guest who might be staying with me. Every day, I got 3 new 24 hour passwords.

But some people found this too much already....

But the interesting question is whether Tukcom in P. Tai will close, sell the land for development and move over to Harbor... in the meanwhile, there is now another source of cheaper electronics which will be more convenient for some to visit.

Having said that, the traffic on Klang at the new mall is appalling since they are having to stop the normal flow both ways to allow cars into and out of the new mall, so if you go that way normally, be prepared for some lengthy delays - and no, of course, the authorities have not realised that you cannot slap a new mall onto an existing road and not change the road layout without there being chaos!

Some bigger IT shops are already there and there are plenty of cubicles for the smaller sellers

A new shopping mall has opened in Pattaya Klang, next to Foodland (between Third and Sukhamvit). It is not a thing of beauty, but two and a half floors are branded Tukcom Harbor

 

 

Condoms for oral! WTF???? I hoped to get a reason to go to the PI from your TR, but I guess I'll stay with Thailand! PI seems like a waste of time!  Not your fault but seriously, this TR has just reinforced my opinion that Thailand is so much better and more fun!

The LBs in the PI might speak better English, but they seem to be more reserved in the sex action! "condom BJ" ??? No thanks, LOS is so much more fun!

In my experience, this is most unusual. I have never been asked for oral with condom. Most of them will initiate sex without condoms, not oral with and they react with amazement when they see my condom pack.

As for Thailand being better, I enjoy both; provided you do your homework on Pinalove (sister website to Thaifriendly), the Philippines is a bundle of fun, although I would recommend checking on video before committing to see someone. I have the abiding memory of the busty slim girl I talked to on PL turning out to have lost all her boobs, gained 15 kilos around her middle and changed her job from student to pig slaughterer, complete with video which she insisted on showing to me as we had coffee.

 

 

Note on the Best Western Oxford Suites, nice rooms, however, although free wifi only one device can be connected at a time. Their supplied coffee satchets are only decaf and they no longer supply 2 tea bags.

 

 

FYI. Oxford suites - you can ask at the front desk and they will give you as many wifi passwords as you like, but each one valid for 24 hours so you have to ask again the next day.

Tea and coffee are available, but again you have to ask the room cleaners. Since I tip them every day, extra bits and pieces like this are always available.

Floors above the half way mark have bum guns; lower floors do not (something to do with the water pressure and being an old - and somewhat tired - hotel). Some rooms have been upgraded, some haven't - always worth asking for an upgraded room. This is not the same as you being upgraded to a higher standard room but rooms ostensibly of the same level come as original or upgraded.

Finally, if offered an upgrade to a junior suite, be aware that they are the curved rooms at the front of the hotel. Anything below floor 17 and you might as well be camping in P.Burgos in respect to the noise levels, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights.

Post finally, the doorman called Jericho is a fixer with everything to do with the hotel and a lot outside. A useful person to know and get on your side.

On occasion, in my long distant youth, I used to smoke weed on a shisha, but bubbled through vodka which, being impecunious spotty herberts, we then drank.

I am sure that it helped make me the man I am today – which is probably a very good reason to ban it.

I still find it hilarious that I can't watch porn on my laptop in LOS as its blocked but I can walk a half block in any direction from my loom and acquire the real thing

Get a vpn. Or just walk half a block!

And yes, to those who know me, I am aware me that giving technical advice is akin to a ladyboy promoting abstinence ....

Thanks - I shall report back next week (although to keep things in one handy place, probably on Stealth's new thread about Filippino food /restaurants).

Never mind the ladyboys and the ladies (who one has normally to beat off with a stick), the thing that has always puzzled me about Angeles is this: are there any good places to eat in it? The only place I can remember being more than OK was an Italian restaurant I was taken to, but I cannot remember the name or where it was (it was up a flight of stairs and it was good are all I remember).

So where is recommended to eat in Angeles?

Found this in the Telegraph - and if it is in the UK, I would be very surprised if it wasn't prevalent in Thailand. In the meanwhile, stop barebacking people from the North of England!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11873435/Super-gonorrhoea-outbreak-across-north-of-England.html

Thank you all for the info re Phillies and High Society - I have been to both but never noticed their names.....Me? Self absorbed? Never!

 

 

Phillies is the fl pick up place.

 

Ive also been to high society and its full of pussy..

Phillies is presumably a bar and High Society is also a bar?

I've been to Angeles several times, but don't recognise these names - where are they?

Any help appreciated (since I am going back to Angeles after a 18 month break in October).

My favourite Thaism involved a friend of mine who was going down the street on his bike when a car pulled out in front of him, giving him no option but to hit it. Luckily he wasn't hurt seriously; the police attended and having got all the information from him, the other driver and a crowd of onlookers, went over to him and said.

"This accident. Your fault"

My friend explained again that no way was it his fault - the other driver pulled out in front of him.

"Oh yes" said the policeman dismissively "but if you were not here, there would be no accident".

As my friend said, you couldn't argue against the logic.

Chocolate contains a stimulant called theobromine (a bit like caffeine) that is poisonous to dogs. The amount of theobromide differs in the different types of chocolate (dark chocolate has the most in it). 

Theobromide mainly affects the heart, central nervous system and kidneys. Symptoms will occur from 4-24 hours after the dog has eaten chocolate and will vary depending on the amount of chocolate (theobromine) eaten and include:

• Vomiting (may include blood)
• Diarrhoea
• Restlessness and hyperactivity
• Rapid breathing
• Muscle tension, incoordination
• Increased heart rate
• Seizures

And death in which case, the hair often falls out. So they are right after all!

You can get dog chocolate which does not contain theobromine. Personal experience allows me to say that it is not one of the culinary highlights of the world.

Hm. Having signed up to the organ transplant register, I wonder if they will whip it off on my death. There might be a hamster somewhere that needs a new penis, I suppose,

I wonder what costumes Lita will deck them out in for the party. 

From what she showed me last night, they appear to be white frilly bits and pieces. Can't say I took much notice of them after I saw that they wouldn't fit me.