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  1. we'll all be fighting over them for sure. Although I just discovered that Kuwait Airways has canceled their route from Washington so that puts a bit of a wrench in my current plans. I'm waiting to hear how they plan to accommodate me...
  2. I stayed at the Sukhothai a couple of times on my first few trips to Bangkok. Impeccable service and very comfortable. But the location was a little awkward to me for getting around on foot. MRT not too far though which helps. I agree that Le Meridien has a very good breakfast and decent rooms. The spread at the Crowne Plaza always impressed me as well although I haven't been there in a while. I would imagine that the W hotel probably has a pretty big breakfast. The photos online look good. No one seems to talk about the W much though. Location is basically on the corner of Sathorn and Narathiwas - around the corner from Chong Nonsi BTS. I've read some praise for the breaksfast at The Standard hotel at the MahaNakhon tower. Of course given their rates it should be!
  3. I am in the midst of planning a trip for January and have been checking on these sorts of things. If you search on Google maps for hotels in a certain area it will give you a listing of rates from several different suppliers for each property. I agree that Agoda typically has good deals. But I have been booking directly with the properties instead. Most of the time they have the same deals and will sometimes throw in some other perks. I know Agoda has a loyalty program of sorts, but the benefits usually have to be used within a short amount of time. I've never bothered to try, but I think if Agoda has a significantly lower rate I might contact the hotel directly to see if they will match it.
  4. judging from the photos this is not a traditional place
  5. I've never been a "beach person" either. Although I will say that the Thai way of having loungers and umbrellas makes the whole beach experience a lot more bearable than just putting a towel down on the sand in full sun like here in the USA. I think this is a big part of why I can only take Pattaya for a few days at a time. I can only spend so much time at Central Festival...
  6. maybe the bar doesn't want to publish such a document because it could open them up to some sort of legal jeopardy? More likely they're just in a rut of tradition. Given the myriad number of languages in India it might be difficult, but I suppose they could just do Hindi and presume that anyone traveling from India likely at least has some rudimentary English knowledge. Such a device would need to be VERY concise
  7. I was watching Steve Rosse's new video last night and he mentioned that having wealthy police (before they took the job) makes people think they are not as corruptible because they don't "need" the money
  8. sounds like blackmail... For a guy who wants to be the top cop the idea that he's going to sit on incriminating evidence seems a little odd.
  9. definitely some sort of police in-fighting/rivalry going on. But why does he have so many houses?
  10. and of course there are still the Soi 4 gogos. Tawan and Moonlight still in their locations.
  11. I agree with the caveats listed above re: location of your destination and amount of baggage. But I also typically book a car service. Yes it costs more. But you are in a very comfortable vehicle even when traffic is heavy. After a long flight it's nice to just relax and not have to worry about anything. And it's door to door service. I've been using SP Limousine for years so they give me a small repeat customer discount.
  12. I presume you understand the potential side effects, etc.
  13. given the huge percentage of handsome Thai guys it's interesting that anyone ever goes viral
  14. December is a great time to visit. I would choose a hotel inside the old city which makes touring around on foot or by tuktuk easy. I was there in December several years ago now (in 2012), I'd have to dig to find the hotel I stayed in. It was a nice traditional decor sort of place. Indeed lots of temples in the city and Doi Suthep. There are also some interesting caves if you like that sort of thing. The Royal Park Ratchaphruek is very pretty. This cave is called Mae On.
  15. I had never heard of the place but it does sound fascinating! I read that experts and archaeologists are concerned that the place has no infrastructure to handle the number of tourists who will be trying to go there now. And that it was the most looted site in Thailand during the 70s and 80s so they are worried that this new attention and lack of planning is going to make it a target all over again as there is a large part of the city that has not been excavated.
  16. He already has plants in China that make a large percentage of his cars. I think they might even have a plant in Xinxiang https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-china-made-ev-sales-july-down-31-mthmth-2023-08-03/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/business/tesla-china-sales-surge-intl-hnk/index.html China's government offers subsidies for electric vehicle production which is helping reduce the price of the cars.
  17. Actually he means all users. He's claiming again that most users are bots and that the weed them out he wants to charge everyone a few dollars per month.
  18. did they fix that? Because a couple of months ago they started requiring you to be logged in to see anything
  19. See I thought about the bankruptcy angle as well. But he has lots of powerful investors who underwrote all of those loans he took out and they might not be so excited about lighting all of their money on fire. However they had to know the odds weren't good that this money-losing business he was overpaying for was going to be a good investment in the first place.
  20. Bangkok Pat takes us to some vanishing places, including Soi Twilight and Babylon
  21. Maybe they mean those Visa stickers that take up a whole page of the passport?
  22. He's a good con man, essentially. He built a cult that has made him very wealthy. He did see the importance of electric cars and managed to muscle his way in to running Tesla. And promised all kinds of things he never delivered. And he was smart enough to corner the market on satellites and taking astronauts to the space station.
  23. I'll miss the porn, but I suppose I'll find it somewhere else
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