Moses

So many owners think what every one knows where Jomtien Complex is. Why just don't put also address and phone # in addition to nice picture?

Last year it were 2 teams UAE and USA

Monks. They will be offended if you will try to leave tips to their hands. )))))

bkkguy, sometimes traditions are more strong than law. I know countries where workers even have to PAY to owner of service for to work and earn only tips.

With shop price 250 Baht masseur will have only 100 Baht. So I tip masseurs if I like massage 100-200 baht to keep them working in this shop. It is about normal massage. By the way: Ef still is working in Pattaya and makes good call-out massage, but he doesn't make "happy ending", at least for new clients . Take a look at http://thaimasseur.biz I miss his massage a lot since I'm not in Thailand now

Pattaya isn't "part of Bangkok" Thank you for good photos Michael

I suggest to visit Beijing, XI'an, Sanghai. Some tips: - in Beijing: Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, circus, Great Wall (best - Shimatai section even it is twice more far from city) - in Xi'an: old city, Terracotta Army - in Shanghai: TV tower + museum of history of Shanghai (directly in tower's basement) + oceanaruim (just in 300 meters from TV tower) Transportation btw cities is best (imho) by night train in sleeping cars (we bought all 4 "seats" in section of car and had total privacy), travel takes B-X 8 hours, X-S 10 hours. Besides romantic travel you will watch China from window - very interesting. Sleeping cars are very comfortable and cheap (about $250 for whole section).

Transaero + Air Berlin (via Moscow) in opposite direction now cost only about 175 Euro

fountainhall thank you for great and fast report!

Dreamworld Park in Bangkok

Yes, but the main dif. btw. Govt.Mafia and formerly "Russian Mafia" is - "Govt. Mafia don't works behind borders of Russia - they have no interest for it. About flow and statistic - it was about 2012/2013 season: it will start from 1 of November with "winter" schedule of flights. If at past season prices started from about US$300 two-way MOW-BKK, now lowest prices are starting from US$750.

Let me fix some "legends", as I'm living in Russia. 1. "Russian mafia" don't exist, at least in Russia - since Putin took 1-st chair in Russia at the begin of the century, all secret services in Russia got "green light" to destroy mafia here and... took mafia's place at the market. Process was quick and very strong. Alot of criminal was just killed without any court. Result: no mafia anymore inside of Russia. For sure criminality exist, but they arent whole-country organized criminal groups. 2. Point 1 leads us to next: mafia in Pattaya can has russian members, but anyway - it isn't "russian mafia" but something international. 3. About russian flow to Pattaya (and Thailand) - you can breath freely: this season flow of russians will lower than in 2011 - airlines rise price for tickets almost twice, so budget travelers from Russia will switch their ways to Egypt and Morocco again like 3 years before... 4 One more word about "russians": not everyone who is speaking russian is Russian (i.e. citizen of Russian Federation): after USSR has been divided to 15 countries almost 100 000 000 exUSSSR citizens got foreign citizenship in their countries. They aren't "russian" but about 70% of them are native russain speakers. 5. Last legend about 13% taxation of income in Russia. Yes it is 13%. BUT before worker will receive his salary company will deduct from salary 36% of taxes to govt. pension fund and medical insurance. Only after it from rest money will deducted 13% and only then worker will receive salary. P.S. I'm sorry for my limited English

I heard rumors: this Starbucks is closed already. Can anybody confirm or decline?

As I saw many thai boys use pokets linked by metal chain to jeans to avoid to be pickpoketed..

Thank you In fact: I don't care about smoking cuz I'm smoker as well. One only thing with smokers can force me to leave: dirty smell of cheap cigars or cigarillos...

When I buy insurance for travel I don't care about company name, but assistance company must be International SOS - it is the best IMHO in Thailand.

Thank you for your review To be honest even when I stay in Bondi - I take a breakfast in other places: breakfast in Bondi is "about nothing". But Bondi and Van Holland are the best places to take a sip of coffee. Good western breakfasts are in Tui's place also they have unforgettable pancakes. The best Thai style breakfasts IMHO are in Moo place (just next door by D.D.Inn) - there are just 2 tables, but large kitchen: they serve orders from almost all Jomtien beach with hot food.

My turn-off for bars from hi to low: - pushy staff (leave immediately) - loudly music (leave in 1-2 min) - bad ventilation (leave in 5 min) - no cute boys (leave in 10 min) - no staff to chat (leave in 20 min)

Yes, vinegar is good for first AID. In general words - ANY acid will work good. For example - juice of lime or lemon will help too. It also will help with injuring by spines of sea urchins if parts of spines were broken and left under human skin. It is hard to extract, but easy to "melt" by acid.

The same here... I block it by antivirus's firewall at next day.

Do you trust to review from Tripadvisor??? There are so many fake reviews: exist even special websites where you can buy fake reviews - ppl from India or Bangladesh will be glad to write it just for US$3 per 10 reviews. That why European hotels have so unproportional q-ty or reviews from South Asia in comparing with q-ty of tourists from this countries in Europe. I trust only to reviews at booking.com: there is possible to write review only after confirmed stay in hotel.

One more suggestion: I use gmail service to filter spam... Google IMHO has best filters ever. All my post from other mail-providers and from own domains is going via gmail.

there should be something as a "mark as spam" button in Yahoo

It is easy to do: just change name of "Ignore" button to "Fuck Off"

fountainhall, doing this you just confirmed what your mail-address is still actual... I never answer to spamers and never click "unsubscribe" link or button: it is used mostly to confirm e-mail by spamers... To avoid spam I use "black list" in Outlook or at Google's Gmail...