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Good hospital/clinic for Cosmetic laser skin surgery in BKK

I have a back scar I need taken care of. In NA (I was quoted several thousand dollars for cosmetic laser skin surgery). I know bKK is cheaper (but how much cheaper)? I have no insurance.

Does anyone have good experience doing this (and with which outlet, hospital or clinic)?

thx

You can Google Bumrungrad Hospital for more info. They do plastic surgery. If your scar is not too large there are small clinics available in Thailand that offer walk-in service.

Monkey stole my glasses

I had a very disturbing experience last week when visiting a well known local temple astride a hill. As I and my wife – we are both in our late 60s – were going from one building to another, I suddenly heard a “Whoosh” before something snatched the glasses from my face.

Eventually we had no alternative but to leave the car where it was in a lane near the temple and walk down the hill until we could catch a baht bus back to the hotel. Luckily, I had a spare pair at the hotel and next morning we journeyed back to the temple only to find that the car had been stolen. We checked and double checked the lane, but it had certainly gone.

Hmmmmmm?? The car is gone and the monkey is gone, hmmmmm?

In a crime like this one, outside, it's always the monkey that did it! Unlike crimes inside mansions, then it's the butler who always did the crime!

Hi guys,

Which restaurants do you recommend for a single guy in Sukhumvit area? I prefer thai cuisine, but I'm all alone and I dont want to go to a restaurant packed with families and childrens.

If you are single and not a kid right out of school, you do benefit from staying in a hotel on Sukhumvit Road, especially on the low number end (Soi 4 to Soi 19.)

You asked for places to eat, on Sukhumvit Soi 5, go to the Foodland Supermarket. Believe it or not, good cheap food prepared right in front of your very eyes. Most of the customers will be foreignors (Farangs) or some adult locals. Rarely do you see children eating there. Both Thai and Western food served there.

Just past the Foodland Supermarket (Sukhumvit Soi 5) is the Fortuna Hotel. The Fortuna Hotel (1200 - 1300 baht per night) has an "all you can eat" buffet every morning. The cost of this buffet is 119 baht and it is open to the public. I don't remember too many kids in there with their parents, a few "girl friends" sometimes.

Kind of hard to avoid some places with families and kids. A cheap hotel that caters to Farangs may not have a lot of children as guests. The Sukhumvit Crown Hotel (between Suk Soi 6 and Soi 8) is like that. They have an all you can eat morning buffet and most of the other meals are okay.

Personally I usually eat in the same places most of the time in Thailand, even McDonalds and Burger Kings, it's food - it fills the belly, that's what is important!

Hi BKKers...I was hoping to get a tip on a hotel near a BTS stop in Bangkok in the 1000 baht range, preferably not on Sukhumvit. Any suggestions? Thanks!

FL

If you are trying to avoid bars you might want to check out the Honey Hotel. The Honey Hotel is not directly on Sukhumvit, but on the side street Sukhumvit Soi 19. They will have something in your price range, the e-mail address is [email protected]. They have a pool and a free breakfast. Different classes and prices for rooms. Not far from the Skytrain stop.

Who knows the chinese round game "Mah Yongg" to buy in Bangkok? How much is it?

Probably Chinatown.

Hi

I need a pair of Timberland Deck Shoes with the commando sole re-soling.

Anybody know where I can get this done?

- they need stictching not sticking on!

Sounds like a simple "glue and sew" job.

Before you pay big bucks at some yuppie store go to Central Pattaya Road, with TOPs supermarket at your back head up towards Soi Boukhao, on the right side of Central you will find at least 2 or 3 shoe repair guys.

I have had shoes sewed up there (different shoes) at least a 3 times in the last 2 years. Some of the shoes they can work on have really thick soles. I have had no problems with the work! And for only 20 or 50 baht how can you really go wrong?

I don't know the guy's name, he was skinny (big help there, sorry) and may have been a little crippled, a seamstress had her sewing business next to him.

Take a looksee!

Hello,

Does anyone know of Public Storage or a Hotel in Pattaya where I could leave a few large suitcases safely..?

Thanks Rolfe

How long will you be gone? I have left a bag or two with the Bay Breeze Hotel on Soi Honey Inn a couple of times. I was gone not much longer than a week and returned to stay with them again.

The hotels do expect you to be a customer with them when you leave a bag with them and book another room with them when you return.

I wouldn't leave anthing much of value in the stored bag.

I do use a hotel in BANGKOK (free storage) that has kept a bag for me for 2 or 3 months at a time, without any problems. That hotel is the SUKHUMVIT CROWN Hotel, between Sukhumvit Soi 6 and Soi 8. They have a "fan only" room for 470 baht.

You can also store stuff at the airport, if you are gone for a while the fee per day can add up!

I use the second hand book shop above TOP's supermarket in the middle of town, and think it is very good, but I wonder if there are any more in Pattaya.

Anybody know of any?

There is another used book store on either Soi Yamoto or Soi Post Office (forget which is which) closer to the Beach Road side than Pattaya 2nd RD.

There are two book stores on one of these sois, one sells new books and the other sells the "used" books.

Hi Guys, I am staying in the Pattaya Marriott for 3 weeks in the Summer and just want some info on what it is like?

Good rooms? (I am staying in a deluxe garden view)

Nice pool?

Clean?

I will be staying here with my Thai wife so we should'nt get any problems from security guards asking for her ID every night will we?

Thanks everyone.

You can find very good accomodation for half that price in Pattaya and your wife can blow the difference in money for shopping.

The place is good, even better if your company or employer is paying for it!

Lucky woman, she got a rich guy, good for her!

Hey guys

I am coming back to Pattaya after a 2 year absense, and was wandering if anyone could help me out - i usually stay at the AA hotel (at bottom of soi 13) as i like the pool overlooking beach road but was wandering if anyone would have a contact number for them? ive looked on the internet and just cant seem to find anything, would be much appreciated.

Last time i was there the price was 650 baht a night is it still around the same? also heard rumours of a nice hotel next to Lek hotel on 2nd road any ideas of a price on that one.

Thanks in advance for the help (cant wait to get back)

Chris

You might want to check into a room at the Bay Breeze Hotel on Soi Honey Inn. They should be in your price range and they have a pool too. Some people have complained about the electricity or water going off and on - heck that happens back where I live too!

Bay Breeze e-mail address is: [email protected] or [email protected]. They should be lowering their prices pretty soon if they haven't already.

If you like swimming pools, also on that same soi is the Intown Holiday Hotel and the Honey Inn (recent renovation,) they both have pools.

Book one night and go hotel-hunting the next day if you are not happy.

KA

There is a radio station on air in Pattaya called Tourist Radio Station "TRS 103fm", its been up for a couple of years now but a guy who comes to my bar has bought it and is trying to make it bigger and better, It has (i believe) a swedish hour, a little bit of thai and of course english shows and it also has news which is provided by Pattaya Mail and immigration bulletins via a deal thay have with the immigration office.

Its on air from about 8am till around midnight and is certainly better than other previous efforts, Its early days yet but a few guys i know are going to do a few shows on there as well as my band doing some stuff in the club for them to play on air as well as Snowman doing some "blues hour" shows for them to play on air.

Obviously a problem is of course is that not too many tourists listen to the radio

Hope admin don't mind me plugging this and i honestly have no connection financially with this project just a mutual agreement where i will plug the station in the bar and they plug my bar on the radio.

Maybe they should do some advertising on the baht busses, bars, or on the back of the Ekamai/Pattaya bus receipt. I don't recall seeing anything in print mentioning that they even have a tourist radio station in Pattaya.

Maybe she is looking for the "Crazy Ghost Woman" who has plied her trade around Pattaya 2nd RD, Soi Honey Inn, and the Beach Road area for the last 8 or 9 years.

Not so crazy!...........This girl fell from the 3rd or 4th floor of a building and survived. She can be seen in the places mentioned and also in Sois 7 and 8. She powders her face white to look spooky and tells fortunes to the bar girls for 20 baht a time. The girls believe that what she says will come true as she survived this drop.

Exactamondo! Sounds like her. She always has clean clothes on - but the powder on her face gives her a "ghostly" weird look all the time. Saw her in the bank on the corner of Soi Honey Inn and Pattaya 2nd Rd. just last month, she had one of those "little" bank books with her. Business must be good for her!

(Thought it was only Farangs that fell off roofs and balconies.)

Since they have learned to use a meter in Bangkok (in the past it was all but impossible to make them do it but these days quite easy), why not try to encourage the same behaviour in Chiang Mai..?

Here here! There is often a meter taxi or two outside Airport Plaza and in my experience they will only quote a fare. I have it almost down pat now – how much? 150 baht. Meter please? 150 baht. Meter please? 150 baht…….by which time I am almost past them and just keep going to the road, flag down a song taew and agree to pay 20 baht. I no longer expect to get them to agree to using the meter but have to keep trying in the hope that maybe, someday, they will use the meter

I walk out to the street and grab a "baht bus" too. For a custom ride, off his normal route, I cough up 40 baht or 50 baht. I hop up front with the guy and smile a lot.

(Usually I head over to the Montri Hotel, Thaepae Gate area, the Montri will take their customers TO the airport for free on a set schedule.)

I had a electric fly swatter thats shaped like a tennis raquet confiscated from me at Sydney Airport last month,a bloody fly squatter,a real weapon?

I brought two of them back to the U.S. with me a couple of weeks ago. Customs didn't check me, don't think there would be any problem with them - who knows? I got the biggest one I could buy that would still fit in my check-in bag. They were pretty cheap at the Big "C" in Pattaya.

I think those bug zappers are kind of neat, never saw them for sale back in the states. Two of my neighbors want me to pick up one when I return next month.

Whatever happened to good ole battery acid, or a good squirt of ammonia from a fairy liquid bottle. No finness these days.

Back home in the U.S. some women use EASY OFF OVEN SPRAY for self defense. That oven cleaner has some kind of caustic solution in it and can shoot 6 or 8 feet. Wrap a piece of sticky shelf paper around it and it could pass for hair spray.

Anybody know if any place is selling expandable batons? Great self-protection weapons. Carry this along with some pepper spray and you can take down even the most obnoxious drunk.

I see these expandable batons being sold by the vendors on Beach Road all the time. Usually they are on a table with the num-chuks, brass knuckles, and phony pistols. Also saw them for sale in Bangkok on Sukhumvit not far from Soi 11.

I've seen this woman walking around Pattaya, in these long flowing outfits, with a large brimmed hat, and sometimes with a cane or walking stick, or umbrella... usually in a white outfit, with black polka dots... she is a dead ringer for Little Bo Peep, herding her sheep. I've seen her recently at the Royal Garden, and going into the Friendship store, around midnight... I imagine others have seen her too... if you know what her story is, please post here... she seems quite fascinating...

Maybe she is looking for the "Crazy Ghost Woman" who has plied her trade around Pattaya 2nd RD, Soi Honey Inn, and the Beach Road area for the last 8 or 9 years.

He's probably still in shock, so I wouldn't rush to judge the bloke so harshly yet.

Was she wearing a helmet?

Was the headlight switched on, on the bike?

Was the helmet in the basket?

How fast were both parties travelling.

Was he overtaking another car/truck or just another bike?

Assuming it was a head-on we'll probably never know due to bike damage.

Point being that that stretch of road isn't well lit in sections, and a bike without a light on (or obscured) would be very hard to see.

In the UK/Oz/US the police and insurance assessors would want ALL of this info, whereas here you've got buckley's chance of that ever happening.

Did she just pull out suddenly without looking?

Was she driving in the right lane?

This evening I was enjoying a beer in a beer bar on Beach Road, there were the usual interruptions every two minutes; watches, DVD's, stun guns, photo-service, roses, wooden craftwork, etc.

Two hawkers (vendors) were potential thieves; One women with dozens, of red roses, did a rather crafty 'slight of hand trick' by thrusting the flowers into my chest and then attempting to steal my mobile telephone from my breast pocket. She nearly succeeded....so beware.

Secondly; a young child maybe 6 or 7 years of age offered to sell me chewing gum (1 packet) and with the other hand tried to pick-pocket my wallet from my FRONT pocket. Again nearly sucessful.

So, take care, if I had had more to drink I would have lost wallet and telephone.

Just a warning........

That's the way the Gypsies pick pockets in Spain.

How do I find a dog catcher in Pattaya? I need to get rid of these nuisance soi dogs in my neighborhood. Bad for business, bad for noise. They live under my car and when I use the A/C it smells like piss. I don't even like to use it thinking it may blow their contagion on me or one of my passengers. Bad dog!

A Thai man works for me (rather inefficienrtly) who says he knows a dog catcher, but he's been promising to have it done since October.

I don't want to see them harmed - I just don't want to see them. I like dogs when they're properly cared for, but these mutts are another story entirely, nothing to do with "Benji".

Do I advertise in a Thai newspaper, or put an ad in Thai on a bulletin board? Do I call Catwoman?

Thanks

Spread some sheets on your car seats and take the dogs for a ride in the country, far away AND LEAVE THEM THERE!

Buy some air fresheners and air your car out for a week or so! If they come back adopt them, they deserve it!

I seem to be forever replacing the nozzles that are attached to the hoses around my garden.

They just last a few weeks, then give out. Either break, leak or just fly off when I turn the water on.

I have bought many different types from Carrefour, Homepro and Homemart. All no good.

Anyone know of a good hose shop?

Try a different hose. Maybe the threads on the end of the hose are worn out.

You got some good water pressure!

The hotel refused to release further info to who ? The police or just the reporter ?

Many places in Thailand lock the exits (if they even have fire exits). It's to prevent people from skipping out on their rent.

A lot of people from southern Asian countries (India, Nepal, Thailand, ect) take their shoes off before entering a house/shop. Perhaps this guy decided to remove his shoes before entering the afterlife.

Heck of a way to skip out of paying your hotel bill!!!

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(Try typing this word, using capital "H" - H e l l without any spaces, it comes up hel_l.) Kinda odd, isn't it?

Swedish Tourist Stabbed

Mr Hans Robach, a 50-year-old Swedish man, found out just how upset a lady in a man’s body can get when he was stabbed on Wednesday night on Beach Road, just across from Soi Yamato.

The Swede had been walking along the promenade minding his own business when a man in a fetching dress approached him and asked if he would be interested in partaking of some horizontal leisure activities in the privacy of a rented room. The man refused the offer and told the cross-dresser to go away and leave him alone. As soon as Mr Robach’s back was turned the offended ladyboy pulled out a kinife and slashed the Swede across his lower back before fleeing into the night as fast as a pair of stilettos could carry him.

Hades hath no fury like a "woman-man" scorned!

Back during the "Ice Age" you could go to a great little steak house in Bangkok that was called Dominos.

It was a nice place with a piano bar and their standard steak dinner was around 200 Baht.

I doubt that Dominos is still open.

I also doubt that you could find a steak dinner for 200 Baht.

Can anyone tell me where to go for a good steak dinner at a reasonable (1000 - 1500 Baht) price?

FOODLAND, Sukhumvit Soi 5. Pick the type of steak you want from their meat counter. Pay for the steak. Sit down at the lunch counter and for a small fee they will cook the steak the way you want it. Pick a seat near the grill end of the counter and you can personally "supervise" the cooking. Pay for the "sides" you want and you are good to go!

Apparently the local govenment set up free hot spots all over Pattaya a while ago but then stopped this service as no one was using it.

Probably because they did not inform anyone about this service!!!!

Is this something like the big free AirCon bus that the city provides AND hardly anyone uses??