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[KhunLA]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:13 AM, Hummin said:

Report it and get it removed 😄

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Just glad it's a really boring town with no nightlife, except mediocre surfside restaurants, without AC.   Hot ... DAMN HOT

 

If sitting surfside,  choose wisely to avoid the smell of sewage ... oops, I mean storm water run off.   And definitely don't walk on the sand barefooted, or at all.   I won't let my dog walk on it, it's that gross.

 

Head over to Ao Manao to swim in the shallow, bathtub warm, unrefreshing, keep your ears out of, surf 

 

You'll need to self drive, as no public trans.   All keeping PKK, nice & quiet.

[Hummin]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:22 AM, KhunLA said:

Just glad it's a really boring town with no nightlife, except mediocre surfside restaurants, without AC.   Hot ... DAMN HOT

 

If sitting surfside,  choose wisely to avoid the smell of sewage ... oops, I mean storm water run off.   And definitely don't walk on the sand barefooted, or at all.   I won't let my dog walk on it, it's that gross.

 

Head over to Ao Manao to swim in the shallow, bathtub warm, unrefreshing, keep your ears out of, surf 

 

You'll need to self drive, as no public trans.   All keeping PKK, nice & quiet.

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Nice base for sure, enjoyed one of the beach side older hotels there with great view for a decent price. They gave me parking litteraly inside the recpetion/restaurant for our bikes. 

[susanlea]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:22 AM, KhunLA said:

Just glad it's a really boring town with no nightlife, except mediocre surfside restaurants, without AC.   Hot ... DAMN HOT

 

If sitting surfside,  choose wisely to avoid the smell of sewage ... oops, I mean storm water run off.   And definitely don't walk on the sand barefooted, or at all.   I won't let my dog walk on it, it's that gross.

 

Head over to Ao Manao to swim in the shallow, bathtub warm, unrefreshing, keep your ears out of, surf 

 

You'll need to self drive, as no public trans.   All keeping PKK, nice & quiet.

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Not sure about that. Plenty of farangs there now.

[KhunLA]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:32 AM, Hummin said:

Nice base for sure, enjoyed one of the beach side older hotels there with great view for a decent price. They gave me parking litteraly inside the recpetion/restaurant for our bikes. 

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Yes ... been visiting for short week, couple days, just a pit stop over the 15 years before living here, and not much has changed.   Hadthong hotel was the go to for a long time.   Have 2 new ones, past 5 years.

 

Usually a stop on the way to Phuket, 10 yrs running, then simply stopped going to Phuket, and spent our 'beach' holiday at Ban Krut and or Thung Wua Laem, where you can actually go in the surf, on the Gulf side.   Phuket just not worth the extra drive ... been there, done that, 2X a year, and now way too crowded.

 

Never was a fan of Ao Nang, Krabi.  Strangely, never popped around to Railay beaches  PP was way too cool, and Khao Lak was a regular pit stop also, but both pre tsunami.

 

Phuket was bliss during covid, but now back to, rather more congested than ever.  I await the next pandemic before visiting again 

[KhunLA]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:45 AM, susanlea said:

Not sure about that. Plenty of farangs there now.

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Yea, but not the sexpats or sex tourist type.   Just a bunch of ol' farts, socializing, sipping a few nightly, surfside at a couple spots.

[Hummin]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:58 AM, KhunLA said:

Yes ... been visiting for short week, couple days, just a pit stop over the 15 years before living here, and not much has changed.   Hadthong hotel was the go to for a long time.   Have 2 new ones, past 5 years.

 

Usually a stop on the way to Phuket, 10 yrs running, then simply stopped going to Phuket, and spent our 'beach' holiday at Ban Krut and or Thung Wua Laem, where you can actually go in the surf, on the Gulf side.   Phuket just not worth the extra drive ... been there, done that, 2X a year, and now way too crowded.

 

Never was a fan of Ao Nang, Krabi.  Strangely, never popped around to Railay beaches  PP was way too cool, and Khao Lak was a regular pit stop also, but both pre tsunami.

 

Phuket was bliss during covid, but now back to, rather more congested than ever.  I await the next pandemic before visiting again 

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Thung Wua Laem is a natural stop for us after Hua Hin, and then Ranong next. A few days at the Island out there, and down to Ao Nang, Satun, and then cross over to Surat Thani for Koh Phangan is a nice roundtrip in the south. 

[georgegeorgia]

  On 7/14/2024 at 9:49 AM, scubascuba3 said:

You can multitask, I'm watching LIV Golf and Tour de France, whilst on here and Facebook 

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And pulling your old gherkin at the same time 

[KhunLA]

  On 7/16/2024 at 8:05 AM, Hummin said:

Thung Wua Laem is a natural stop for us after Hua Hin, and then Ranong next. A few days at the Island out there, and down to Ao Nang, Satun, and then cross over to Surat Thani for Koh Phangan is a nice roundtrip in the south. 

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I haven't done much on the lower Andaman side.  Islands that is, and just stayed on the mainland.

 

Ko Phayam off of Ranong was bliss, 20 yrs ago.  Haven't been back.   Smaller islands kind of concerned me, with the wee one, and if bit by a snake.   Evan on Ko Phayam, one gal I know chased a cobra out of her bungalow 

 

Now we got the dog to complicate things  

[susanlea]

  On 7/16/2024 at 8:11 AM, KhunLA said:

I haven't done much on the lower Andaman side.  Islands that is, and just stayed on the mainland.

 

Ko Phayam off of Ranong was bliss, 20 yrs ago.  Haven't been back.   Smaller islands kind of concerned me, with the wee one, and if bit by a snake.   Evan on Ko Phayam, one gal I know chased a cobra out of her bungalow 

 

Now we got the dog to complicate things  

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Kradan is nice.

[Hugh Cow]

  On 7/14/2024 at 2:16 PM, thainet said:

Wow...perhaps a few too many coffees today

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You are a perfect example of why it is probably injudicious to share ones private thoughts on a forum.

[georgegeorgia]

  On 9/21/2024 at 10:26 PM, Hugh Cow said:

injudicious

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A new word?

Please explain 

[Hugh Cow]

  On 9/21/2024 at 10:46 PM, georgegeorgia said:

A new word?

Please explain 

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Indiscreet; unwise

[thaibeachlovers]

  On 7/16/2024 at 7:58 AM, KhunLA said:

Never was a fan of Ao Nang, Krabi.  Strangely, never popped around to Railay beaches  PP was way too cool, and Khao Lak was a regular pit stop also, but both pre tsunami.

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I was lucky enough to stay in Ao Nang before it became a horrible tourist hell hole. Loved Railay, and spent many holidays there. Stopped going because I preferred NE Phangan.

I also stayed on P P long before it became "too cool". Last time I went was after the tsunami, but they were rebuilding the same <deleted> it was before the tsunami ( as with Patong ). Greed never learns.

 

I never got to Khao Lak before the tsunami, and after, the stories about the rich people stealing the resorts put me off going.

 

IMO I had the best of Thai beaches on NE Phangan, as no airport to allow the flashpackers easy access- IMO flashpackers were the death knell of every once great beach they contaminated.

[ModdaPunk]

  On 7/10/2024 at 1:09 PM, susanlea said:

Born naked with nothing. When you die you don't get to take stuff with you. So why do people accumulate so much junk? 99% of everything you own is junk.

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Trash cans accumulate junk. That's the way it is.

[Mark Nothing]

Because most suckers have been brainwashed into believing getting more junk equals more happiness.  Which effectively enslaves them.

 

Your nonphysical soul is immortal so it makes more sense to focus on perfecting that then to acquire more material junk.

 

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  Socrates

 

[still kicking]

Why does anybody replies to this troll who has his name changed again.

[saintdomingo]

Which one.?

[save the frogs]

  On 9/24/2024 at 5:22 PM, Mark Nothing said:

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  Socrates

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Was it also socrates who came up with "Life's a bitch, then you die"?

 

[Hummin]

  On 9/26/2024 at 4:52 PM, save the frogs said:

Was it also socrates who came up with "Life's a bitch, then you die"?

 

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Life's a bitch, then you marry one, and then you die!