blackhorse

Booked a month and left a week early and would have kissed the ground arriving back in bangkok if it wasn't so grimy

If you want to be tucked in bed by 9 pm reading a book then chiang mai is for you!

Insomnia night club is worth a visit on walking street. All free Lancers but don't go before 11pm

Tiffy tablets are excellent. Hardly feel the flu when using them

Vietnam doesn't even have a gogo bar, Your friend was coming here for pussy and you sent him away? What sort of friend is that

The PM has just spent a lot of time reassuring the Chinese they are most welcome. He will be gutted to hear this bad news.
I have a friend in Australia who was thinking of coming to Thailand. I told him not to bother; the Prime Minister is only welcoming Chinese tourists. I suggested he go to Vietnam which welcomes all tourists except Chinese.

 
    You have to be rather desperate to need to pay a girl so that you can touch her .
Its sad that you have to pay someone to sit next to you 

Tiger draft is 55 baht not 60...

Most places are OK. Plenty of Schwarma kebabs around too. Nickys on Soi Buakao is good....Eat in Royal festival food court downstairs or 5th Floor. The noodle chain MK restaurants.  The french restaurant on Soi 6. The Thai place at the end of soi 6 on Beach Rd. A taste of Thailand next to i bar on WS and soi lenkee. Mays diner Threpasit all the fish places jomtien..Oh The Pattaya beer garden just before WS...definitely try there. Girls, music  good sea views authentic food, good price etc. Dont bother with the fish restaurants in WS but do try the Issan bar second on the right. Then head to Electric Blue Soi 15 WS and Heavens above Soi Diamond and the Windmill.  WS starts at 8pm till 3am. Ibar 8 till 10 cheap bottled beer.  Never drink draft in Thailand. Ibar great sea views and girls. Look out for pies on wheels..Excellent. Thai fast street food Moo ping..thin pork kebabs like sate  10 baht each. The Russian market...Pratumnak soi 5. 

Huge oval shaped bar with free Lancers for around 1k depending on how "hansum" you are

After months of those ridiculous '' Honest taxi driver returns wallet'' staged stories......this I believe!!!..what a disgusting driver..

40 sqm, but only use Aircon in the bedroom, aircon in living room used about 10 hours a month. This month I used 138 units, 497baht. 

Staying in a condo, follows the government's pricing. 1 Aircon on 14+ hours a day, a fridge, charging electrics and daily usage.
Highest bill I've got so far is 497baht.

Who cares how much it is the west? In the west minimum wage is not 330 baht per day 

 

    130 Baht for a ten minute grope ?

130 seems outstanding value

OK but please explain why the price of a lady drink is a 500 600% mark up... Used to be add 30 baht for the girl,  now it's add, 130

I use mine 24/7 and only pay 700 baht

Sorry just wanted to be the first to say it [emoji16]

Vietnam is well worth a visit. Danang, Dalat and Hanoi all interesting places. Did not like HCMC ( Saigon ).
Food is a bit blander than Thailand, breakfasts have the French influence. Hired a scooter, no problem wherever I went.
The coffee in Vietnam is among the best around. I thought for a Communist country the police and army presence was far less visible than Thailand.

Here's a funny thing. A billion and a half people are not going to entirely vanish, even when the next great depression hits, and it will.  
If you are upset about something or someone, they are in your consciousness, you notice them or it.
A lot.
The Chinese don't bother me, I don't 'see' them. 
Try to not let them live rent-free in your head, life's too short. 

But it's a rubbish figure, a wishful prediction, pulled out their arse. They cannot possibly know. And Thailand won't fix their safety record any time soon. And therefore other disasters will occur. And so it goes, until or if they start to invest seriously in safety on land and sea. 
 

 
I’ve been commuting from Thailand to Vietnam 3-4 days per week for the past 18 months. So I see both sides quite regularly. But with regard to visas that foreigners can get for long stay, this is one area where Vietnam excels compared to Thailand. Visas are super easy. None of the stupid rules of financials and hours and hours spent standing in lines to deal with loads of unnecessary paper work and bribery and changing rules and all the rest that we all love in Thailand. You just go online, choose the duration and class (business or tourist) visa you want, pay for it with credit card or even PayPal, and then receive it from agent who meets you at the arrivals hall at the airport, then in and out multiple entry visa good for a year. You can get a 1 year multiple entry business visa for about $500. You can work with it, live with it, open bank accounts, everything. There aren’t the stupid rules prohibiting foreigners from working. If you go to a french restaurant, it’s quite refreshing that all the staff are French, same for Argentinian, English, Moroccan, etc. It’s a million times more foreigner friendly and business friendly than Thailand. The rest are just lifestyle issues which you’ll need to see and compare for yourself.
 
Personally I find the cost of living similar, give or take a few things. There is much better nightlife in Vietnam. I find Vietnam food to be better and cheaper than Thai food, and foreign foods about the same quality and cost, depends where you go. I do find Vietnam much safer, much less crime, and driving is a million times easier and more refreshing without so many kamikaze motorbike drivers as in thailand. Amazingly, there are more motorbikes in Vietnam as compared to cars and almost no accidents at all.

130 for a small San Miguel light in a music bar in walking street not long ago.  More than 3 times retail seems excessive IMO.

In what way do AirBNB and the others offering the same services check who the actual host is?

In what way do AirBNB and the others offering the same services check who the actual host is?

I don't think it's a bad thing that a pm would step in. Most other nations wouldn't bother

Absolute rubbish, a pint of real beer Abbots Bitter in any Wetherspoons £2.25 equates to approximately 100 baht.