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Indeed, tourism has a strong lemming-like quality, resulting in invasive damage. Now Koh Samui is likely the next target:
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If I were you I would quickly try the same route using Grab and see how that works out in comparison, preferably on the same day of week so it factors out traffic variability by day of week. It is 16 km (10 miles to Americans) and even if the car managed no more than 30 km/hour (20 miles/hour), it should only be half an hour. If one were living there, it's not a trip one would need to make every day. One can plan for twice a week and get all downtown chores done; the Grab costs twice a week shouldn't add up to that much.
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In terms of the space and fittings, 56 Surawong is alright; in fact it is quite spacious. As @vinapu said, no safe. No closet either (not that it mattered to me) only hangers. Its front-facing rooms get a bit of noise from the road and Patpong soi 1 (especially when they are dismantling the stalls after midnight) so if you're a light sleeper who wants to go to bed early, ask for a rear-facing room. On one of my two stays, there was a sewer smell coming into my rear-facing room. It was bad each time I entered the room, but disappeared after running the airconditioner for 15 - 20 minutes. I would have insisted on a change of room if I had been staying for more than one night.
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Had a similar "encounter" with Buddhist clergy in Sri Lanka several years ago. He was the tour host for visitors to the temple, so we got to talking. Invited to his room after the tour, in which was a desk, a bed and a wall full of shelves and books. Had some non-penetrative fun, but the trouble was that there was no attached bathroom... so could only wipe up and goodbye. It would be far too obvious for a visitor to be taking a shower in the common monastic bathroom!
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Turkish Man Loses 25,000 baht After Pattaya Beach Encounter
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That explains Thai journalism. No ned to go out to find the news. Just wait for the authorities (or companies) to send a statement. What about theft by day? -
Dragon & Koi comes to mind as possibly the nearest thing to what you are asking for. See It's a host bar, though there's only a fine line between "hosts" and "freelancers". Customers cannot take Dragon & Koi's hosts out while they are on duty, but these boys seem ready and willing to entertain clients by private arrangement on their days off. See also https://shamelessmacktwo.travel.blog/2025/01/09/will-booze-and-english-make-a-winning-formula/
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Didn't this site use to have the feature of putting up a multiple choice poll? What's happened to the feature?
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Hunting for information is as much fun as hunting for boys? ðĪŠ
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Ok, before your Filipino story goes back to Cebu, a few more questions about Boracay. I am not interested in retiring to Cebu, but I may be interested in visiting Boracay. 1. Did you see any money changers or ATMs of international banks? 2. What was the ratio of domestic to foreign tourists? Were packaged visitors (e.g. from China or Italy) numerous? 3. (You may not want to answer this question, I will understand). Did you and Mr B share a room, and if so was it twin beds or a double bed and was there any reaction from hotel reception? 4. I see from Google maps that Boracay doesn't really face any big expanse of water. Certainly it doesn't face the Pacific ocean, not even the south china sea, but it is sort of behind some other islands. How much wave action was there? Like Jomtien or less than that? Calm seas may account for the algae bloom. 5. Any idea when is low season?
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Well, at least you seem to have the discipline of taking notes each day, so even if the forum goes into freeze mode for a few days, the information is still with you. (I am assuming you've got notes seeing how you're able to write trip reports several days after the actual date). I try to take notes myself when I am travelling, but I'm not always consistent about it. I remember a few years back, I tried to write a trip report directly into this forum about M-star massage in Silom soi 6. The first gremlin was my referring to the place as M-sense. Fortunately I realised my mistake before I clicked SEND. While I was editing the post, I saw more mistakes, including referring to Soi 6 as Soi 8. And then I was mortified to realise that my description of the M-star visit was heavily confused with a separate visit I made to 9-teen massage across the soi. In trying to clean up the post, I got the 2 visits more and more confused, and without any notes in hand, it became impossible to disentangle the facts. The only thing I could do was to delete the whole thing ð
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I beg to differ. I don't think it's a good idea to pin threads. Firstly, a thread is seldom of value to all readers. For example, those of us who are frequent visitors to Thailand see no new information in such a list of massage places in the Sukhumvit area, we already know about them and have visited. Secondly, conversations in threads evolve. Sometimes they go off topic entirely. Thirdly, the information in the opening post may change from correct to obsolete quite quickly. Pinning gives the impression of permanent information, when this is not the case. Fourthly, if different people with different interests ask for posts and threads catering to their interests to be pinned, there will soon be a long list of pinned threads to scroll past before we reach active threads. It's a bloody nuisance. If any post contains information that one person finds useful, then it is better for that one person to save the information on his private computer. Please don't inflict a pinning on everybody else.
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Typos and confusion are one of the main reasons why I prefer to blog over at Shamelessmack than put trip reports here. I need the luxury of time to proof read and make corrections. Like so many others, an instant post here on this forum will usually contain multiple typos and mistakes. Just look at my post about scam centres on Myanmar border. Embarrassingly full of mistakes. For example, I typed "reploying" instead of "redeploying".
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I asked them on Line whether their Sukhumvit branch is open again, and they confirmed it is. So, the December notification about closure seems to have been reversed. I don't know the reason why they reversed their decision but maybe their business fell off sharply when they expected customers to travel all the way to their other shop in Lat Phrao.