[Keep your mouth shut]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/world/asia/thailand-koh-chang-defamation.html

[Favorite Bars in Gay Bangkok]

Golden Cock.

[Loving the Boys at Jey Spa in Gay Bangkok]

Where is their new location?

[Goodbye, AirAsia?]

3 hours ago, z909 said:

Air Asia has a brand and either Air Asia or their leasing company has all those Airbus aircraft parked up somewhere.

Even if Air Asia were to be liquidated, someone would buy up the aircraft and the brand name.   When demand resumes, the best way to earn a return on the capital invested in all those aircraft is to run an airline.    The airline might have a new brand, but it's probably cheaper to buy the Air Asia brand & operate under that name, to save the cost of respraying all those planes.

 

 

You seem to be an aviation expert. 

[Condom or bare?]

On 6/1/2020 at 9:07 AM, gaperking said:

I do NOT have any STDs so I can't spread them. I feel like that my freedom of expression is incapacitated if I can't unload inside freely. 

Are you a troll?

[Whats New In Bangkok...Not interested in boys]

From a social anthropologist view: Arriving in Bangkok from somewhere in the world to travel on the MRT and Skytrain. Interesting. 

[Samyan Mirtown]

Being so close to a university means all Starbuck seats are occupied by students doing their homework. 

[Gay Info Flyer]

Is dreadedned still up and running?

[New Boy Bar in Sunee Plaza. Dragon 789 Bar]

7 hours ago, kokopelli said:

Not really!   If born a century ago it would have been 1919; then give another 20 years until we reached age 20 and it would have been 1939.  The first commercial flight was in 1924 on KLM.

We could have had lots of fun back in those days. 

And how long would a flight from let’s say Amsterdam to Bangkok take in 1939, and at what cost compared to the average earnings?

Just asking. 

[The Plain of Jars]

Me and my partner rented a 4WD in January and drove north towards Phonsavan via the eastern route. We made an overnight stay in a small village along the way. Roads were fairly good, save for a few kilometres with gravel roads due to roadwork. But, with the road full of chicken, cats, dogs, cows, and children we could hardly drive faster than 40 km/h. After Phonsavan and looking at some of the jars, we took the western route via the banana pancake town of Vang Vieng on the return to Vientiane. Here, the road up until it joined highway 13 (Vientiane-Luang Prabang "highway") was surfaced, but it was a long and winding road. We stopped in a small town about 54 km north of Vang Vieng, and spent the night in a local hotel. No English spoken in neither of the small towns. Road 13 is in a dismal state (picture below), and the heavy truck traffic made it worse. I believe this is the main transport route from Vientiane into China. We did it in three days,, two nights, all in all a lovely trip.

[Khao San rd. to get facelift]

It’s part of the banana pancake trail. It attracts the sort of (young) people who want to meet other foreigners who are travelling. They are not interested in the country they visit nor the local people.  Reminds me of the hippie trail I was on in the seventies. 

[Up for grabs]

I just downloaded the Grab app to ease travel in the Big Mango. This morning I wanted to travel from my condo in Ploenchit to Shangri-la for some nice dim sum. The app quoted 293 baht. Instead I went down to the street and literally grabbed a metered taxi. Even with a little detour down Silom it only came to 79 baht. 

[Sky Boy Bar in Sunee Pl.]

The Sunee landlord (or lady) is not a social worker. 

[Why dont you like Trump?]

You need to take your sunglasses off if you think so highly of Trump.

[Phones in Thailand]

That's what I do. I have a second phone which I use when travelling, buying local sim cards wherever I go. In some countries this is as cheap as a few dollars, in others a bit more. Good for local calls, and even international in some places.

[Wireless Internet]

My MacBook is one year old and so is my iPhone 8. My Sony Xperia is brand new. 9 out of 10 times they're not able to connect, and when I do connect it falls out after one or two minutes.

 

I'm in an AirBnb condo, advertised with WiFi. There is WiFi, but it's useless. So a complaint will be filed.

 

The public WiFi at Terminal 21 works wonders, so that's where I spend a couple of hours every day doing my work. Not exactly what I had in mind.

 

Thanks for all your suggestions.

[Wireless Internet]

I cannot connect using Hotspot, that's the problem. Maybe a 4G dongle is the answer. The dtac shop at Terminal 21 did not have them, so they said. Maybe I should try AIS?

[Wireless Internet]

I cannot connect using Hotspot, that's the problem. Maybe a 4G dongle is the answer. The dtac shop at Terminal 21 did not have them, so they said. Maybe I should try AIS?

[Wireless Internet]

The WiFi in the flat I'm staying is so poor that my MacBook is not able to connect to the internet.

Any good advice other than going to the nearest shopping center?

[Introduction]

Personally I've stopped using Agoda too. Had a couple of incidents, and their customer service wasn't up to standard.

[Jet Lag strategies]

A pale Irishman! so that's what the English meant by "beyond the pale"

A whiter shade of pale.

[Thailand’s roads are the deadliest in Southeast Asia and among the worst in the world]

I'm renting a car for one day to pick up someone from the airport. Wish me luck.

[Airfare Strategies]

Vinapu wrote :

 

I always book directly with the airline, as it allows me to choose my seat at the time of booking. It also allows me to easily make changes. It usually costs a bit more but for me, convenience is more important than price.

For that very reason, and — if any trouble with the ticket, I deal with the airline and not some crappy agent with a lousy customer service.

 

Also: when booking hotels I only use Booking.com or Hotels.com, unless it’s a hotel I’ve stayed in many times (like Malaysia in Bangkok). Any disputes are easier to deal with, and believe me, in some countries one can end up in an argument — like if I’m given a room without window, room is half the size as what is advertised, or there is no room at all despite a booking half year earlier. All this has happened to me.

 

And I stopped using Agoda. Their customer service sucks.

[How crowded is Boyztown and Sunee currently?]

Isan region. Sorry about autocorrect.

[How crowded is Boyztown and Sunee currently?]

More than a third of the total population of Thailand live in the Asian region. It’s also the poorest region in the country. That explains everything.