AlexCooley

Ban Phe is dead - both bars seem to have noone in! And what a bunch of mardy XXXX the locals farangs are. They seem to have caught that desease....the 'its mine all mine, I dont want to see another farang' afflication.

As I am walking into Tesco, I say Hello to an obvious brit, totally balnks me, ignores what he just heard then tries desperately to say hello to two middle aged women flogging mobile phones who obviously don't know him or indeed recognise him! Strange fruit indeed! Another xxxxxis walking his dog, trying desperately to talk in terrible Thai to a couple of boat ticket sellers. They just try and flog him a ticket whilst he is wildy attempting acceptance by the local commuity - of course, he blanks me when I give him a smile and my nephew says 'welcome to Ban Phe'. Hey well. I guess its just me, 3 Somchais and a bottle of Mekong then.

I like my relatives but I do tire of the Ban Phe native conversations.

After spening the past 3 months in the Rayong area , I have to agree with you about the farangs in Ban Phe. They are not welcoming and seem a bit too proud of their litle association. Although the owner of the bedrock was most friendly and accomodating as was the help. There just seemed to be a few falangs who semed to think they own the place and you need to be accepted by them to be welcomed in 'their' community. Not worth the headache of dealing with A**h***s.

Stay away from Goy's too many hidden charges. I stayed in Rayong for the last 3 months working in Maptaphut. Spent alot of time at Y33. Count your change and be careful. The staff is skilled at short changing you if they think your drunk. Also they quit watching any sports on the telly. The owner said it caused too many problems with the customers. ??? Stopped going there. Then I found Wizards. Its adequete. A little bit dark and dingy.They have a one armed bandit there that the girls use and they constantly pester the customers for spare change to feed it. Very annoying. I saw a couple fights break out , mostly between thais ,one with a falang,the poor bloke was jumped by about 7 thais. Really there are no good places in Rayong. The best place I found is called Joy Bar and its more of a restaraunt. Around the corner from Wizards in front of the Star Hotel. They have good food ,football games on the telly . Ended up spending alot of time there with my co-workers. Never had any problems there. And the prices were cheaper then the other places.