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    Just arrived in Pattaya- Restaurant recommendations ??

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    Another couple of good but not fancy Thai restaurants in south Pattaya:

    ฟ้าพัทยา: Fra Pattaya, on Pattaya Tai between Second Road and Walking St. The speciality is duck but if you ask for any Thai dish they can probably provide it. The menu used to be written on the walls in Thai only, but nowadays they have a huge picture menu.

    ผักบุ้งลอยฟ้า: Pak Bung Loy Fah on the corner of soi 13/3 and Second Road has a good menu of seafood and other dishes. They don't throw flaming morning glory across the road any more but that's the origin of the name.

    Both do excellent กุ้งแช่น้ำปลา

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    2 hours ago, vinapu said:

    while your advice is sound and spot on I completely disagree with it.

    It's part of travelling fun to find yourself  in alien environment and try to find our way there .

     

    Agreed, and I make a point of getting myself lost and randomly exploring any new city I visit. But not before breakfast.

    2 hours ago, vinapu said:

    Thailand will not have second chance to make first impression when new arrival takes taxi.

    Not so...

    My first experience of BKK culture shock was in a taxi. After traversing what looked like a modern city with multi-lane elevated roads and high-rise buildings, and a litany of strange place names on the signs - Chatuchak, Din Daeng, Rama IX, Ngam Wong Wan, Chaeng Watthana, Sukhumvit, - the taxi turned off the expressway and dived into the bowels of the Khlong Toei intersection, which appeared to have trains mixing with the cars, and suddenly I was in what felt like an impossibly narrow canyon of decomposing concrete with festoons of wires draped everywhere...

    Of course, that was before the ARL, MRT and BTS existed, and meter taxis were still a rare novelty, so the challenge of negotiating  a taxi or tuktuk for every journey was part of that first impression.

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    43 minutes ago, spoon said:

    Makasan-silom would be less people but longer walk at makasan interchange. Phaya thai is a much shorter walk but expect train to be full at rush hour. If you are not rushing, taxi wont be that bad, as u can fully relax in the comfort of the car. If u travel light, train is cheaper and faster indeed

    For the first-time visitor I'd still recommend using a taxi. The train journey requires you to buy tickets, find your way on foot between stations and then from station to hotel, with luggage, in the heat, in a non-English-speaking environment with a weird alphabet, after a long flight, in the wrong time zone...

    At some point culture shock is likely to strike. The "old hands" posting otherwise good advice here may have forgotten what that was like 🙃.

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    Using a local SIM (especially if you want internet access) is usually way cheaper than paying international roaming charges on your home phone.

    BTS (Bangkok [Mass] Transit System) is the Skytrain (elevated as the name suggests). MRT (Metropolitan Rapid Transit) is the Metro (underground). ARL (AIrport Rail Link) is the elevated train from the airport to the city centre. TiT[1] so they don't properly connect and there's no cross-ticketing, so there is no simple rail route from the airport to Silom.

    Yes, a taxi from Suvarnabhumi (pronounced "suwannapoom" [2]) is probably the easiest way to get to the hotel. Ignore touts trying to sell you overpriced "!limousine" services, go to the public taxi counter just outside the terminal building. You should be given a form which is the taxi driver's registration details in case of complaints. Make sure you keep it! The driver will ask you for cash for the expressway tolls (~70B unless they have gone up recently?) and on arrival you pay him (THB cash, no cards!) whatever is on the meter, which should be less than 350B, plus a 50B airport surcharge

    To get cash for your taxi fare, don't change money at the overpriced exchanges in the baggage hall, go down to the basement level (signposted "airport rail link") and use one of the money exchange booths there. (And don't buy your baht before you arrive, either - you'll get much better rates in Thailand than elsewhere.)

    [1] "This is Thailand", a phrase that can only be understood by experience...

    [2] aka "Swampy", but that's not a name a Thai would recognise.

    christianpfc Blog - Gone?

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    11 hours ago, Shonen said:

    He did a violation, will be back.

    Not a "violation". Wrongly accused of violating their "SPAM policy" though I can't imagine how.

    As he says,

    "I could be accused of a lot of things, but spam is the last thing that comes to mind. I asked for a review of their action and hope to be back online soon."

    See recent postings on Gaybutton's blog.

    First time Pattaya

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    15 hours ago, thaiophilus said:

    So why don't you you name them, and their bars?

    Never mind the alleged owners, can you even list the bars in Sunee?

     

    3 hours ago, RobinHood said:

    Winner Boys, Nice boys,

    So when will you be naming the posters here who you claim are their owners and "tricked" you into visiting?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    First time Pattaya

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    On 9/17/2022 at 5:46 PM, RobinHood said:

    the police pretend to make arrests every year,

     

    10 hours ago, RobinHood said:

    The latest arrests of arab kids in their hundreds going down sunee plaza main road was last month,

     

    :wacko:

    First time Pattaya

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    4 hours ago, RobinHood said:

     i think you have expat bar owners at sunee promoting this area in this forum, hence the biased comments.

     

    Really? Perhaps you could name them so in future we won't be swayed by their biased comments.

    And "to get there was a nightmare 30 minutes" ? Via where? Sunee is all of 270 metres from the VC hotel on Pattaya Sai 2.

    First time Pattaya

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    On 9/17/2022 at 5:46 PM, RobinHood said:

    Forget about sunee plaza its a nightmare getting there & their is about 2 hundred idiot arab kids on motor bykes just mindlessly going back & forwards up the same street they have killed tourists in this soi a few times, it was the worse expierence of my life, the police pretend to make arrests every year, but it has been going on their for 10 years, the locals are furious. No matter what anyone says avoid it., honest facts, look it up on google arab kids pattaya arrests the latest this month.

    " they have killed tourists in this soi a few times" "the police pretend to make arrests"

    I think you're over-dramatizing. Many of the regular posters on this forum have a long and intimate acquaintance with Pattaya and their reports don't match what you are saying or indeed my own experience.

    I took your advice and Googled and yes, The Pattaya News has a number of recent articles reporting where the police have indeed made a number of arrests recently. As for "killed tourists" the only ones I found were riding the motorcycles, not innocent bystanders.

    Are we 'ngean'?

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    15 hours ago, Lonnie said:

    I found this for nge...it helps a little... especially for a Thai ignoramus like me.

     

    To hear the word in question, go to Google Translate, choose Thai, paste in the word เงี่ยน

    (here I've done it for you: https://translate.google.com/?sl=th&tl=en&text=เงี่ยน&op=translate )

    and click the "listen" icon 1663324948538.jpg.09f8f14eaee67f7f280f99984db50cf6.jpg

    (ignore the "Ngeī̀yn" you will also see; that's just Google's own weird transliteration which nobody else uses. It's a letter-by-letter substitution for the individual Thai symbols, and doesn't even approximately indicate the pronunciation, not least because it knows nothing about the way Thai compounds 15 vowel symbols to make about 50 different sounds 😕)

    14 hours ago, pong2 said:

    That nguen is one of those works about impossible to pronounce with twisted tongues of farang. Though there are many more words meaning or relating to about same state of feelings. It rymes a bit with ´deun´=walk.

    No, that's เดิน with a completely different vowel (no ย):

    https://translate.google.com/?sl=th&tl=en&text=เดิน&op=translate

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