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You've never had the pleasure of handling filthy greasy well-used small-denomination banknotes from somewhere with an exchange rate of several thousand to the dollar/pound/euro? At least plastic notes are washable.

Heads or head, you still didnt change, I would even say it got worse Thanks for all the infos!

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When you’ve got rooms at your disposal, guests with “friends” suddenly have somewhere to go… and so do I. The Do Not Disturb sign wasn't the prize, what went on inside was....🤐

On a similar vein, when working for The Dirty Digger (Rupert Murdoch), the chief Accountant at was then News Group Newspapers, told me of the monthly line item covering the cost for re-carpetting the News of The Screws ( News of The World) editorial floor. So he visited one Saturday evening to understand the issue. Whilst all the hacks (journalists) were smoking and eating their various take-aways at their desks, as the only canteen at the time was reserved for the actual print floor staff, should a story break, then desks were cleared by pushing the ashtrays, food wrappers / boxes, plastic cups, whiskey & beer bottles and newspapers onto the floor which was duly smashed and trodden into the carpet by all the fervent activity, leaving just the typewriter and space for a notebook. The problem was later averted by moving to a new office with a full staff canteen, lino and carpeted (the reserve for Management) and banning food at desks.

A specialist! Won the Miss Do Not Disturb prize every year he was in service. 👸💃🥇🏆

Don’t worry about the TM-30. When you stay in a hotel they have to file it. When you stay in apartment the landlord has to file it. I have an apartment in Jomtien under a 6 month lease. My landlord filed the initial TM-30, however they charge a few to do additional filings. Last week I travelled to Vietnam and then back to Thailand. The landlord gave me a the documents I needed from him and I went to immigration myself and filed a new TM-30. A little confusing since the first time I did it but the people there were really helpful. If I leave and come back again the filing will be easy. My apartment has good security and there are people coming and going all the time. Some people have regular boyfriends, others are boys from the complex. Either way, there is never a problem.

'Twas ever thus.

TM30 refers to the document that should be processed by law by any hotelier, Accommodation host / owner / manger notifying Immigration of any staying foreign national. The action should be processed with 24 hours of their arrival. A courtesy confirmation should be given to the foreign national. In the old days this was a manual process, ie physically attending the local Immigration office, nowadays this is carried out on line. It's the reason why hotels and law abiding guest houses / establishments ask for your passport at check-in. Failure to comply is a fine to the establishment. However, it's not unheard of for Immigration to fine the farang as well. The 30 refers to 30 days, which links into the Hotel Act (2004), covering short stays. For those staying longer we have to adhear to the TM90, ie update Immigration every 90 days. TM stands for "Tor Mor", the Thai abbreviation for Immigration Bureau.

In the days when they were still a newspaper, just!

A good old Fleet Street expression from the Daily "NoWhereFast".

These situations are tragic. But there is little comment about some people who put their own lives at risk, and importantly, those of their rescuers by being foolhardy or stupid. Recently a big rescue attempt was mounted to rescue 2 'climbers' from Ben McDhui, the second highest peak in Scotland. They had no equipment, and were wearing jogging bottoms and trainers! They set off at 6pm, temperature at peak -15C! I think there is a case for charging such people.

I think the Gofundme ad deserves an older fashioned English response, "pass the sick bag Alice".

Ho, ho!

I said you were the expert! Very interesting.

It's not as straight forward and easy as say Brasil..... but some people like the chase/danger lol

You mention the Jomtien Palm Beach Resort. I stayed there last January for 4 nights when my preferred hotel in the Complex, the Agate was full when I arrived with no reservation, but could offer me a room for the rest of my trip. The Palm Beach is a huge place with impressive facilities , including indoor bowling. I checked on arrival and was told that there would be no problem with me having boy joiners in my room, but it seemed to have mainly Chinese tour party guests, so I would not recommend it for gay single men like you and me. I transferred to the Agate after the 4 nights.

Unless you’ve already slept with them and they’re watching you bring someone else back. Or they want to sleep with you. Or they messaged you on Grindr. Or they know someone you’ve been with. Pattaya runs on sex, gay and straight. That doesn’t eliminate jealousy, whether real or feigned. It just makes it more passive-aggressive. 🤷‍♂️

I had a great time in the Hamman that I went to in Marrakech. The guy was delicious.

There are so many variables at play. First, hotel philosophy. Some hotels would rather let rooms sit empty than dilute their pricing and brand positioning. Others, like me when I was running hotels, were very much “heads in beds.” Not to be confused with getting head in bed. That often meant a lower ADR (average daily rate) but a higher RevPAR (revenue per available room). Different strategies, different risk tolerance. Asia, and Thailand in particular, can feel especially erratic. That probably surprises no one here. Then you have distribution strategy. Some hotels have exclusivity agreements or best-rate guarantees with specific OTAs. Others negotiate lower commissions with certain platforms. Agoda and Trip.com are generally much stronger in Asia than Expedia or Hotels.com, so inventory and pricing often skew in their favor. On top of that, hotels allocate room blocks to OTAs and wholesalers. For example, Agoda may get an allotment of 10 rooms. Once those 10 are sold, Agoda will show the hotel as sold out even if the hotel still has rooms available elsewhere. That alone explains a lot of “disappears and reappears” behavior. Hotels.com is notorious for continuing to sell beyond allotment and letting the hotel sort it out at check-in. They are essentially betting on cancellations or no-shows. If it goes wrong, they relocate the guest or refund them. It’s very similar to airline overbooking logic. They lose occasionally, but overall they stay ahead. As for pricing a 4-star above nearby 5-stars, it is not always about “hoping for stupid people.” Sometimes it’s about maintaining price integrity, pushing demand to direct bookings, rate-parity games between OTAs, or simply a revenue manager testing elasticity. Sometimes it’s also just bad revenue management. Peter is right about dynamic pricing being most sophisticated in airlines. Hotel pricing is dynamic, but far less algorithm-driven, especially once you factor in ownership structure. Using Hilton as an example, Hilton only owns or leases about 50 hotels worldwide. Roughly 800 are managed, and over 6,600 are franchised. That means thousands of independent owners making their own pricing decisions, sometimes rational, sometimes not. So yes, dynamic pricing exists. But inconsistency, allotments, OTA politics, owner psychology, and uneven revenue talent explain most of what people actually see. In your case, what you experienced with The Quarter is completely normal. You just happened to catch the pricing pendulum swinging back in your favor at the right time.

Ah very true☺️ The OP could also try view talay 2B although it's difficult to sometimes cross the busy road and long walk through carpark🚗🚘🚘 As you don't want to be in a hotels🏩 near the bar area we can rule out Zing, the Agate ,the Venue , Dorothy's guesthouse ( a lovely owner and much respect to him🙏🏿 You could try the Sansuk sauna hotel but is a 5 minutes baht bus ride away 🚌up on the hill followed by a 5 minutes walk 🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️

Maybe a hotel expert can enlighten me: I am observing prices for The Quarter Silom. I mostly book it on Agoda. But then they stopped offering it on Agoda. I checked booking dot com and prices where 150-300$ instead of "normal" 60-70, I am talking about low season. Whats the point in raising prices of a 4* hotel over the prices of 5* hotels? Hoping to find some stupid people? I started checking other offers like Trip.com and the hotel website, where prices were more moderate but still more than i was willing to pay. Do they want to get more bookings from their hotel website? But shouldnt they then at least renew the certificate of the website so browsers don't say it is an unsafe website lol? In the end I booked a different hotel, but suddenly in the week before my arrival the hotel reappeared on Agoda with for me acceptable prices, so I cancelled the other hotel and booked The Quarter.

I've been enjoying Heated Rivalry. Can't we start a war with Canada over that? There are far too many guys in Canada who are pretty and Gay. How fucking DEI is that? Some of em are no doubt Black or Asian as well. Ugh! I suppose it helps that some of the pretty Gays play hockey well. But too well. They must cheat. That's a good reason for a war with Trump. Of course, the pretty Gay one likes to suck Russian cock. At least Trump can relate to that part. Maybe there's hope for peace. .

Isn't is called something like dynamic pricing - and it extends from hotels, airfares, theatre tickets and a whole host of other items where there is a fixed supply and a fluctuating market? Not sure if they are still on the go, but there used to be websites for both hotels and air fares where "last minute" offers were available. I had a friend in London who always purchased from these shops - and almost always got tickets/rooms. In the old days in Britain, for air tickets they were called "bucket shops". Rather than offer discounts themselves, airlines would give them a bunch of tickets which they would not expect to sell for a particular route on a particular day. I remember a return flight to Milan on consecutive days for about a third of the usual price.

Until I read the clip, I assumed the GoFundMe was a result of his being driven out of the Celebrity Big Brother House! Reading it, the man is clearly in the present situation as a result of walking away from his career at what has been called the height of his fame. Clearly he was earning a considerable amount of cash. Many of us change careers or jobs and we do not end up about to lose our home. How his considerable success as an actor could translate into similar success as a boxer, I toitally fail to understand - but then I abhor boxing. If everyone whose own choices have resulted in the possibilty of losing their homes opened a GoFundMe page, I wonder what the world is coming to. Sure, many need and deserve assistance. From what I read on that page, I do not believe Rourke does. Mickey’s life never followed a safe or protected path. At the height of his success, he stepped away from Hollywood in search of truth and authenticity, choosing risk over comfort. Boxing—real and punishing—left lasting physical and emotional scars, and the industry that once celebrated him moved on quickly. What followed were years of struggle not defined by spectacle, but by survival: health challenges, financial strain, and the quiet toll of being left behind. Today, Mickey is facing a very real and urgent situation: the threat of eviction from his home.