Right.
What did you do, drag your bags from the airport and walk door to door? It's hard to imagine a situation where I would walk into a hotel and attempt to book a room. When I was single maybe....
I'm sorry. I thought/think in the context of the thread it was clear.
Calling for ceasefires, accusing the IDF of indiscriminately bombing civilians, making excuses for the 10/7 atrocities and drawing a moral equivalence between Hamas and the IDF is not well intended criticism.
Everyone is ignorant about most things.
So better to stay home and be ignorant? That makes no sense.
You probably don't travel much because you like staying home. Nothing wrong with that, it's my favorite place to go.
Everyone scouring the internet for the lowest possible room-rates or whatnot and then moaning about the poor service.
Book direct with the hotel. They answer the phone and are generally helpful.
What you said was: " Loved Phuket when I went there about 25 years ago. Really loved Pattaya, esp. the great attitude of the girls back then, first time I went there 23 years ago."
Now why might the attitude of the girls be better when you were younger?
I think Israel is at a turning point. I think if they do not finish it with Hamas now. it will be the end for them, particularly if the next US election goes as I assume it will.
What do the people criticizing Israel think they should do?
What are you, a college professor? They don't lose money on the booking, they lose money fulfilling the booking. An occupied room costs the more than a vacant room, for a number of reasons.
One would hope