DonTron

I don't know with the countries of your guys, In Denmark the police would have arrested the guy with the gun and put him in prison for up to 3 years, and they would have praised the guy on the knees for remaining calm not escalating the situation. In Denmark the girlfriend would not even be considered a factor in this case.

Arrrgh! Just got scammed at the Pattaya Tai Shell station 20 minutes ago.

I forgot to check that he reset the pump and he managed to fill more than the size of my tank charging me 50% more than I usual pay.
When I complained he told me to drive away, or else...
I filed complaint with their head office and they actually called back and confirmed my complaint.

We tried them all..

Tony is for slum, scum and tattooed bikers

Wow California should change its name to WOW KATOEY!

There is only one great Gym in Pattaya... FAIRTEXT on North Pattaya Road.

It has professional friendly staff and every kind of sport you can imagine:

- Weights, machines, cardio

- MuaiThai instructors for beginners

- Tennis courts, Squash courts, Basketball court, football court

- Indoor batminton/tabletennis hall

- Rock Climbing wall

- Olympic size pool

- Yoga, Zen, Arobic (and all those things)

- Raw Food restaurant (quite good actually)

- etc.. etc.. etc..

Usually you pay 15,000 for a whole year with unlimited access to everything (even instructors included)

We have a company discount so we only pay 13,000 pr. person pr. year.

We been using Fairtex for 4 years now and we are VERY happy...

Its worth every penny!

(and I lost 15 kg in 7 months there - pretty good for a lazy fatty like me :-D)

I got the same bad treatment at WoW California. They refused to even let me see the gym until I had filled out papers etc. So I left.

Today I am a member of Fairtex on North Pattaya Road. 10,000 a year for full membership and you get access to EVERYTHING!

Here are some of the sports I tried there

- Squash

- Tennis

- Batminton

- pingpong

- Basketball

- Swimming (olympic size pool)

- wall climbing (that was tough, im a pretty heavy guy hehe)

- Spinning/Arobic/Martial Arts/Muai Thai etc...

and of cause, the usual gym equipment (weights, machines, treadmills, bikes etc etc..)

There is a huge bonus - they got a Raw Food restaurant just out side. This is GREAT tasting food with 0 carb, 0 fat, 0 sugar and super healthy!

Fairtex is GREAT! Staff is sweet and helpful. I totally love it and to me its worth every penny!

To me there are too many unknowns that I do not have control over...

- Current market conditions, will there be enough buyers willing to pay the price?

- Delay in project completion, this happens way too often that it goes 4-8 months over time.

My strategy is different. Wait until the project is completed and the units are being transferred. There are always owners and especially flippers who don’t have the cash to make final payment and risks losing everything back to the project owner/seller. That’s where I step in and often buy 10-20% below pre project price. I then furnish the condo and rent it out (I can manage both short and long term periods)

And let me tell you... there is nothing sweeter than those rent payments ticking in on the account month after month after month... Sure a unit might be vacant for a month, and yes it is slower cash since most of my rental units only yield 7-12% ROI - I could probably flip to much higher ROI, play the stock market or gamble at the craps table in Vegas. But I like this very steady, controlable almost passive income, and whether condo prices go up or down, I don’t care, and that makes me sleep like a baby every night

Pattaya has been sliding further and further down hill over the years

With tourism up from 5 mill in 2006 to 11 mill in 2009.. add to that the explosion in real estate which has made a lot of us very wealthy (thanks Russians hehe). I would hardly call Pattaya sliding down.

Pattaya is growing fast - and growth hurts, especially when nobody follow the rules and nobody enforce the rules.

(example when they closed down Polo, they fired 120 employees with out compensation, many of them had been working there for 8-9 years)

All we need to get a higher quality of Thais here is to make everyone follow the law, give them social security, medicare, resignation payment etc. like the government and law say that we should. Of cause Pattaya would then become a LOT more expencive, but at least we avoid most of the hardcore poor people.

YES!!! Forget about all the drug dealers in front of Royal Garden, McDonals and on Walking Street... lets focus on something REAL important.... like arresting people in Pattaya for having sex - ohh what a crime!!!

tsk tsk tsk....

gguy - My company gets paid in Euro and today it dove to 39.59 THB/EUR which is really scary (I actually get 410,000 THB less pr. month than I did in December 2009)

Do you know why the euro is so weak and if/when it will recover?

(a guess would be nice)

3 people on a bike is for amateurs... try this one instead:

(yes, they are 8!!!)

I thought we were not allowed to say the word "drugs" on Thai Visa.

Last time I raised the concern about the walkingstreet drug dealers whe topic was closed.

What has changed?

As usual on my way to Walking Street I walked past the 3 drug dealers in front of McDonalds listening to their... "Marijuana, Coke, Jaabaa.. cheap price" (still didn’t figure out what that Jaabaa is?!?) - anyway I stopped across the street for a coke (of the cola kind).

10 minutes later I saw 3 boys in brown come running towards the drug dealers... ok here we go, now someone is gonna get caught.... but no, they ran right past them (didn’t even notice them) and continued their pursuit of AN OLD FLOWER LADY!! I’m not kidding, 3 BIB´s chasing one of those old ladies who sell roses.

So I guess sniffing drugs is ok - just don’t go around smelling the roses!

UN-fair Properties are very hard to deal with. They have no idea what the word "integrity" means.

I use Town & Country for all my deals. So far they been 100% reliable and trustworthy.

What about silver? Investment grade silver 99,999% pure.

I havnt been able to find anyone who sells that.

tax free rental returns in the 12-16% range....

Note to self, KEEP bying properties in Thailand

I whish they would have done it to the huge bunch of +18 flee infected soi dogs who terrorize our street, attack people on motorbikes and kill my cats, instead of doing it to your privately owned puppies.

If anyone out there wants a free soi dog, then please come get them at Naklua Soi 16/3. I will even pay you 1000 baht for each dog you take with you.

(unfortunately I dont have the heart to poison animals, not even soi dogs)

We were all having a great time on walkingstreet, everyone happy, everyone smiling and laughing and partying.... until some idiot tatooed thai guy threw a bunch of 50 huge firecrackers into the street. I would say that approx 40-50 people were hit by sparks and ran for their lives.

After that everything was quiet, no laughing or smiling or partying.. just people looking scared watching for the next short minded fool to do the same.

Such a pitty

I love all these bar and club owners on walking street... they all do the same mistakes and nobody learns from them...

The 3 golden rules of a successful business...:

1) Find out WHAT the costumers want

2) Build WHAT the costumers want

3) Promote and Market THAT to your costumers

And this is what 90% of all bar/club owners on walkingstreet do...:

1) Build what ever the owner think is cool, or what ever everyone else has already build

2) Throw some 35 year old tatooed women with stretchmarks on to the stage

3) Put in huge speakers and play techno.mp3 on endless loop at 100% volume

4) Hope and prey that someone bothers to enter your club

How many times have you been asked the following questions by a bar owner:

- "What do you want and exspect from a good bar/club?"

- "What captures your interest when you walk down walkingstreet?"

- "What would it take to get you to enter my bar/club?"

And once the club/bar has been build, and you leave it after your first visit....:

- "What did or didnt you like about my bar/club?"

- "What could we improve that would make you come back again?"

- "What could we do to make you reccomend this bar/club to your friends?"

Who here have EVER been asked those questions?

A bar is a business! - make it the way we want it and we will come!!

I dont get it... there are 3-4 drug dealers standing in front of McDonals/Starbucks advertising and selling drugs night after night after night... and they go after the disco's

What am I missing here?

Its the same with the FINDIG ´shoe chain. I bought a pair of shoes for 6000 baht, they broke the same day when I was trying to put them on, I brought them to the store and they refused to take them back, change them or even just refund the money.

Now I buy shoes in Central Festival, some of the brands (like ECCO) have a 4 year guarantee... and they keep it! (yes I tried it out)

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Not bad actually (Naklua, North Pattaya via TRUE)

Their new 8Mbit lines are NOT WORTH THE MONEY!!

They dont even get above 1Mbit to Europe and the upload speed is 0.

I completely agree Tropo.

If they dont have the budget/ability to properly train their bouncers then perhaps they are not the right people to run the club.

Also they should put CCTV everywhere so if they have a trouble maker, escort him out and hand him over to the police. Then offer them a 200 baht flash drive with a copy of the survaliance video (takes 10 minutes to make). A good CCTV system usually keeps the bouncers in line.

Hmm.. I wonder if the club owners are responsible for the act of their employees?

This is not the first time I saw the Violence-Guards of Incomnia's iClub beat up tourists (in this case Koreans?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iTwh1m3tL4

Perhaps they need a bit of training? - A bouncers job is to escort trouble makers out the door, not pull them down the street, gang-up on them and kick them while they are down.

Ahh well - at least this is one way of getting your club closed.