Cheap Charlies In Pattaya Exclusive Thread

[soihok]

Well I think you all must be loaded.

I live in Singapore and gave up toilet paper years ago.

That way I can spend more on beer, just dont shake my hand when you meet me.

[PattayaParent]

Get your drinking water from one of the dispensers inside banks?

:D:D

Anyone noticed how they took away the glasses so you could not get free water at the drinking water cooler at the food court in Carrefour?

Just take in your own bottle and fill up at the cooler before you eat, and top it up again before you leave to take with you.

[powderpuff]

I doubt that.

The government just passed an ordinance requiring fast food joints to offer free water.

Price of ice probably just went up.

[PattayaParent]

^no ice involved, it's an automatic water cooler connected to a water supply and electric mains.

Does the new government ordinance specify that they have to provide cups too? or just the water?

[neilf]

ride about looking for ballons outside bars--------parties and go in and say to whichever lady appears to be boss ' i am meeting a friend-----mick / john / dave-----any name ------here he told me about this place yesterday and how good a bar it is so i will have a drink and wait for him '

then get the cheapest drink and tuck into the grub---------------you need to be doing this about 8 pm ish--------finish drink and say " well he hasnt turned up i will go to 7 to top up my phone and ring him '

then b****r off sharpish like to the next one

i only know the aon in tesco north can you tell me the others i didnt think was any more

Aeon at carrefour ground floor last ATM on left on run to toilets

Aeon at Homeworks south pattaya -outside front door to the right

thanks for that

[sillyman99]

If you're heading out to the bars, knock out 2 or 3 wanks first.

The girls won't look so good and you'll not bother to take one, hence you save money and the AWOTAM ( Another Waste Of Time And Money ) feeling that you'll probably get if you do.

Edited September 22, 2010 by sillyman99

[syd barrett]

SB

If you are going to save B1000 per month buying Red Horse, that is 22 cases a month @ 6% alcohol, how do you even manage to find your way home, much less the liquor section at Carrefour?

25 cases per month as a rule, but some beer is for visiting friends/family not all for me, but I tend to be a steady drinker throughout waking hours rather than a binge drinker intent on getting drunk in say 4-5 hours.

[R123]

Some tips to live as a cheap charlie in Pattaya, Part I:

1. Forget about renting a room , just get a cardboard box and sleep under the flyover at the base of Thappaya road or at similar locations;

2. There is no charge to wash in the sea, I recommend Pattaya beach and you can shit in the water(everyone else does);

3.But if you want a bit of luxury can use the public toilets in the likes of Royal Garden, Central etc, and there is nothing to pay;

4. Spend your day in the free air conditioning of the shopping malls;

5. Food halls in the aforesaid shopping places have many customers leaving plates with food on them, so you can eat for free.

-Forget baht buses as easy to walk to all the destinations listed above.

Part 2, my guide to cheap charlie free sex follows later.

Edited September 22, 2010 by R123

[yeesipha]

SB

If you are going to save B1000 per month buying Red Horse, that is 22 cases a month @ 6% alcohol, how do you even manage to find your way home, much less the liquor section at Carrefour?

25 cases per month as a rule, but some beer is for visiting friends/family not all for me, but I tend to be a steady drinker throughout waking hours rather than a binge drinker intent on getting drunk in say 4-5 hours.

I hope you save all the empty bottles,place them back in the box,and them take them to the local recycling yard, so you can get some money back

I used to do that with all the old newspapers, beer bottles,aliminuim beer cans,coke cans,plastic eveain bottles etc etc saved over a couple of months out of the house,used to get an average 100 to 150 bt back,sad innit

[syd barrett]

Some tips to live as a cheap charlie in Pattaya, Part I:

1. Forget about renting a room , just get a cardboard box and sleep under the flyover at the base of Thappaya road or at similar locations;

2. There is no charge to wash in the sea, I recommend Pattaya beach and you can shit in the water(everyone else does);

3.But if you want a bit of luxury can use the public toilets in the likes of Royal Garden, Central etc, and there is nothing to pay;

4. Spend your day in the free air conditioning of the shopping malls;

5. Food halls in the aforesaid shopping places have many customers leaving plates with food on them, so you can eat for free.

-Forget baht buses as easy to walk to all the destinations listed above.

Part 2, my guide to cheap charlie free sex follows later.

Although I suspect your tips, # 1 & 2 are jokes, your tips 3,4, & 5 have a serious logical sense.

I often use the toilets in Royal Garden because they are clean and have toilet tissue for free and liquid soap and hand dryers and it saves arguments with the Mrs. regarding unpleasant bathroom odours following Red Horse beer and cheap Thai food.

I am not alone in killing a few hours sitting on the wooden benches in Shopping Malls reading newspapers/magazines/paperback books in the hot months, before meeting friends in local bars.

As far as eating peoples scraps; that is more for the down-and-out rather than 'Cheap Charlies' like myself. I have witnessed such behaviour and I am sure that the food is esculent, but I won't be doing that until the baht is less than 40 to the British Pound.

[syd barrett]

SB

If you are going to save B1000 per month buying Red Horse, that is 22 cases a month @ 6% alcohol, how do you even manage to find your way home, much less the liquor section at Carrefour?

25 cases per month as a rule, but some beer is for visiting friends/family not all for me, but I tend to be a steady drinker throughout waking hours rather than a binge drinker intent on getting drunk in say 4-5 hours.

I hope you save all the empty bottles,place them back in the box,and them take them to the local recycling yard, so you can get some money back

I used to do that with all the old newspapers, beer bottles,aliminuim beer cans,coke cans,plastic eveain bottles etc etc saved over a couple of months out of the house,used to get an average 100 to 150 bt back,sad innit

Yes: 12 Bottles in good condition (large)= 8 baht

Yes: 10 kg of paper= 7 baht

[safeandsound]

In the five years of living in Pattaya almost every cheap charlie type character I have had the misfortune of coming across have all been either bitter or hate the Thais or themsleves or all three together, strange that.

None of them have been the smiling type full of the joys of spring or have anything remotely instresting to say other then how life is so crap with a face like their last partner screwed them over for every penny they had.

[473geo]

In the five years of living in Pattaya almost every cheap charlie type character I have had the misfortune of coming across have all been either bitter or hate the Thais or themsleves or all three together, strange that.

None of them have been the smiling type full of the joys of spring or have anything remotely instresting to say other then how life is so crap with a face like their last partner screwed them over for every penny they had.

So they put you off your beer and save you money?

[philliphn]

When their is a special sporting event on the television requiring a special license to watch. Go early to the bar showing the sporting event. This way you and your date can get the best seat in the house. Order one bottle of water and two glasses please. Be sure to say thank you when your refreshment arrives. Then nurse your drink all night long.

"I'll have one bottle of water please, and two glasses. Thank you."

Edited September 22, 2010 by philliphn

[jori]

If you're heading out to the bars, knock out 2 or 3 wanks first.

The girls won't look so good and you'll not bother to take one, hence you save money and the AWOTAM ( Another Waste Of Time And Money ) feeling that you'll probably get if you do.

You are not allowed to wank ,no work permit the immigration police will have you.

[Bizz]

If you're heading out to the bars, knock out 2 or 3 wanks first.

The girls won't look so good and you'll not bother to take one, hence you save money and the AWOTAM ( Another Waste Of Time And Money ) feeling that you'll probably get if you do.

You are not allowed to wank ,no work permit the immigration police will have you.

my old fellow told me, god nest his soul, that if you want a good fuc* leave the drink behind I was 38 before I copped on.

it takes time and Jimmy Hendrix.

I'm gonna have a jam session ill probably get busted at my own funeral and when I die, just keep playing the blues.

[Bizz]

syd toilet paper

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

* Roll of toilet paper

1.

Ask participants to sit in a large circle.

2.

Pass the roll of toilet paper around the circle and instruct participants to take as much as they like. Do not answer any questions about why they need the toilet paper or how much they should take.

3.

Instruct the participants to count the number of toilet paper squares they are holding.

4.

Select a participant to start the game by telling as many facts about himself as he has squares of toilet paper. For example, if a participant has 3 squares of paper, he must share 3 facts about himself with the group.

Tips & Warnings

*

Examples of personal facts participants might share include how many children they have, where they were born or their shoe size.

*

If a participant takes a strand of toilet paper with many squares, do not let him avoid answering the requisite number of questions. He'll have to speak for quite a while to account for all of his squares. But this just means that the other participants will learn even more about him, which is the purpose of the game

Toilet Paper Icebreaker

For this icebreaker game, all you will need is a full roll of toilet paper.

* The leader of the meeting takes the roll of toilet paper and pulls off several squares before handing the toilet paper to another person and asking them to do the same.

* Once everyone in the room has taken some toilet paper, everyone counts the number of squares that they have and then tells everyone in the room that many things about themselves. For example, if someone has three squares, they share three things about themselves.

Edited September 22, 2010 by Bizz

[Asiacat]

Cheap Charlie

Randolph Cohen a licensed money lender and pawn-shop owner counted out the £500 he had agreed to lend Charles Anderson and accepted the customer’s Jaguar XK8 Convertible with log book and keys as security for the short term loan.

At a fortnightly interest rate of 5% which translated into a whopping 355% APR the shop’s proprietor was used to dealing with the desperate rather than the affluent. However with a car worth over £30,000 as security for a £500 loan it wasn’t a risk and after all business was business.

Charles took the money and then made his way to the nearest tube station for the ninety- minute journey to London’s Heathrow Airport where he was booked on a flight to Thailand for a well deserved two week break.

As soon as he had checked in and reached the departure lounge for flight BA009 direct to Bangkok Charles began surreptitiously scanning his fellow passengers. He was looking for single male travelers who could be on their way to Pattaya. He needed to find two he could share a taxi with once he had arrived in the Thai capital.

Charles always prided himself on being able to do with one dollar (or whatever the local currency happened to be) what others routinely needed two or three to do. His own code of ethics meant he would never steal or cheat anyone but that did not stop him from being creative, inventive or to cherry-pick in the way that he spent his money.

Once on the plane Charles located his economy class aisle seat and settled back for the 12 hour non -stop flight.

Ten hours into the flight Charles awoke and carefully studied his diary. He had marked all the regular free buffets in red. Misty’s on Wednesday, Champagne and Shark on Fridays and Secrets on Sundays. At these bars Charles would be able to pick up a meal for the price of a draught Chang and still be able to drink the Chang to boot.

When the plane touched down at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 15:40 Thai time Charles had his hand luggage packed and was one of the first to disembark he half ran and half walked the three hundred metres or so to the Thai immigration desks and then rather than join the queue he just waited .

Once the other passengers had reached the immigration queues Charles set to work. Asking each single male traveler “Are you going to Pattaya?” and if the answered in the affirmative the second question was “Do you want to share a taxi?” After asking eight travelers Charles had his two frugal cohorts and told them to meet him after they had cleared customs.

Once the three of had regrouped some forty minutes later Charles told his new found acquaintances to follow him to the departure hall ignoring the touts and taxi stands in the arrivals hall.

Charles knew that a taxi driver dropping someone off who had travelled from the coastal resort would me more likely to accept a lower than the going rate fare in preference to returning to his base in what would be otherwise an empty taxi.

The occupants of each taxi stopping at the arrivals hall were greeted with Charles’s single question “Have you come from Pattaya?” He found what he was looking for at the fifth attempt. Charles offered 900 baht for the privilege of sharing the taxi driver’s return trip to Pattaya which was gratefully accepted.

Three hundred baht each he told his new-found acquaintances for what others will be paying B1500 for.

Charles had already pre- booked his room B3200 for two weeks in the Canterbury Tales guest house on Soi Chaiyapoon. Whist planning his trip on the net he had seen that Dave the proprietor was offering rooms for B5,500 for a month and figured that he may be willing to let a room for half that period for a little over half the price. He had emailed Dave with his offer of B3, 000 for two weeks and wasn’t surprised when Dave replied saying that he would accept B3, 200. He always let them come back with a request slightly higher than his original offer. It was psychological he understood that. He had to let the other party feel that they had achieved a small victory.

His first purchase after checking into his temporary home was a six pack of bottled water for 25 baht from a shop a couple of doors up from The Canterbury Tales. No point in paying 7 baht a bottle for water from 7/11 put it in the fridge tonight and they will be ice cold come tomorrow morning. And besides that he could refill all six bottles for a total of 5 baht from the aqua water machine around the corner on Soi Bukheaw.

He was disappointed to see that the Friendship supermarket on Pattaya Tai no longer stocked the Walking Street Journal. Fourteen copies and thus fourteen free drink vouchers for Living Doll ago-go would have saved him another B700 over the course of his holiday.

Charles had each night’s drinking carefully mapped out. Tonight it was Baby Doll (45 baht), Fun room (45 baht), Misty’s (50 baht provided he got there before 10 p.m.) plus a free buffet which served as Charles’s main evening meal. Lady drinks - no way, and as for tipping wasn’t that just a place in China?

This pattern repeated itself for the whole of his two week holiday. After studying the Pattaya Trader’s list of go-go draught beer prices and his own astute observations whilst out each night he had an encyclopedic knowledge of Pattaya drink prices, happy hour times and regular free-buffets. In addition he would dutifully check the Pattaya Secrets message board business section for any one-off parties any of the bars were holding. Carefully planning his route and spending so as to maximize the return on his precious currency.

After an exhausting but enjoyable two week stay Charles returned to London and immediately went back to Mr. Cohen’s pawn shop to repay the principle of £500 plus £25 interest.

Just out of interest the owner asked “ You don’t appear short of a few bob. Why did you need to take out a loan in the first place?” “Do you know anywhere else I could park a Jaguar convertible in secure parking in central London for two weeks for just £25?” replied Charles.

[craigt3365]

Wow...glad I don't own a bar or restaurant in Pattaya!!

[contemplating]

Hey Asiacat, that was a great story!

[Jingthing]

Condoms are expensive. Remove before climax. Then you can reuse!

[PattayaParent]

SB

If you are going to save B1000 per month buying Red Horse, that is 22 cases a month @ 6% alcohol, how do you even manage to find your way home, much less the liquor section at Carrefour?

25 cases per month as a rule, but some beer is for visiting friends/family not all for me, but I tend to be a steady drinker throughout waking hours rather than a binge drinker intent on getting drunk in say 4-5 hours.

You mean you prefer to spend 24 hours with a buzz on rather than sober up and thereby save the cost of the paracetamol.

[saintofsilence]

When ready to catch a cab back to Bangkok catch a baht bus to sutkhumvit road and flag one down offer him 500 baht they will accept that sooner than go back empty.

[Thighlander]

Hey, I'm with you guys/gals all the way. The reason that I will retire at 50 is because I know how to get good deals. Been buying property in America for about 20 cents on the Dollar.

I was talking to a couple of thais the other night at a chicken stand. I told them, that my thai partner and I were looking for a Townhouse here. I said under 600,000 THB. She laughed in my face while rudely pointing at me. But, in reality, there were probably zero Thais with that kind of cash within a kilometer.

Here is a CC Tip. If you have the overnight layover for 6 hours at Suvarnbhumi; take the free shuttle to the bus terminal, where there is a mini-mart and a park. I was able to get my mobile phone going, called home, and had a few beers in a grassy area. Then took the free shuttle back at 5am for the first flight to CNX.

It beats the hel_l out of airport bars.

I'm a big fan of Aeon, too. Works like a champ. Thanks to the TV members for pointing that out to me.

[syd barrett]

I would like to share with everyone the fact that Carrefour (Pattaya Klang) has the best refrigerated section of offal in Pattaya.

Everything can be found here, tripe, intestines, pigs feet, sweetbreads, pig's snouts, kidney, liver, brains, everything.

It is all priced very cheap and I bought a delicious Pigs Cheek for 20 baht that after cooking was good for three hearty meals.

Offal is the way to go.

Edited September 23, 2010 by syd barrett

[basjke]

Do some bars in soi 6 or the beach promenade without a condom.Soon you will not spend a dime anymore.

[kevkev1888]

You really crack me up Syd

Edited September 23, 2010 by kevkev1888

[bob4you]

I would like to share with everyone the fact that Carrefour (Pattaya Klang) has the best refrigerated section of offal in Pattaya.

Everything can be found here, tripe, intestines, pigs feet, sweetbreads, pig's snouts, kidney, liver, brains, everything.

It is all priced very cheap and I bought a delicious Pigs Cheek for 20 baht that after cooking was good for three hearty meals.

Offal is the way to go.

Have you really seen sweetbreads (veal)in Carrefour or was that just a generality, if so what section did you see them. I do heart, liver, tongue and sweetbreads found everything but sweetbreads in in Thailand. I even buy Brahma hump meat. (not ofal but unusual

[chickenslegs]

I would like to share with everyone the fact that Carrefour (Pattaya Klang) has the best refrigerated section of offal in Pattaya.

Everything can be found here, tripe, intestines, pigs feet, sweetbreads, pig's snouts, kidney, liver, brains, everything.

It is all priced very cheap and I bought a delicious Pigs Cheek for 20 baht that after cooking was good for three hearty meals.

Offal is the way to go.

Have you really seen sweetbreads (veal)in Carrefour or was that just a generality, if so what section did you see them. I do heart, liver, tongue and sweetbreads found everything but sweetbreads in in Thailand. I even buy Brahma hump meat. (not ofal but unusual

I think I'm going to...

[soundman]

I would like to share with everyone the fact that Carrefour (Pattaya Klang) has the best refrigerated section of offal in Pattaya.

Everything can be found here, tripe, intestines, pigs feet, sweetbreads, pig's snouts, kidney, liver, brains, everything.

It is all priced very cheap and I bought a delicious Pigs Cheek for 20 baht that after cooking was good for three hearty meals.

Offal is the way to go.

This is where you really should be able to read Thai.

The sign says "Pet Food only - Not fit for human consumption!"