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Out at the airport area, Park Nine has a two person tub in the larger room.

Just a short review on the S33 Compact Hotel.

My 3 trip to use this hotel.  It has a Jacuzzi room and I think more than 1.  I like it.  Cheap but a little basic.  But the jacuzzi is a nice touch.  It is big enough for 3 if only one is farang.  Two Thai ladies and a Farang do fit, and it seems to be clean and in good condition.

Reasonable rate.  Hotel is, as expected, on Soi 33.  Also known as Dead Artists Soi.  Seems to get a good bit of Chinese and Korean trade. 

Good value for the price and close to a lot of the action.  Walking distance from Cowboy, and a quick motorbike taxi ride to the rest of Sukh.  I like it because I am an oily fan and spend a lot of time on soi's 24, 26 and in that neighborhood. 

Just booked this hotel for the first 4 nights when I arrive in LOS. Been 6 years since last trip.

Good to hear the Dream is guest friendly (as I like to have “guests”), but what’s up with the staff taking the “guests” phone? I would think the ID card would be sufficient or has things changed?

 

Knowing a few Thai girls in my home country they all would freak out within minutes without the phone, lol

I am thinking he meant phone NUMBER...  Taking the phone would mean you might have to walk back to Thermae 3 or 4 times to get a girl willing to do without it

I am staying in a similar hotel next month down close to Soi Cowboy on Soi33.  S33 hotel.  Has two sized Jacuzzi rooms.

Anyone stay at both, and if so how do the rooms compare.  This will be my first visit to this S33 hotel.  https://www.s33hotel.com/

This massage advertises Lingham massage. No experience so can't recommend it.

 

kissbangkokmassage.com

Just made a trip there a week or two back.

Recommend.  And this is simply a different way to drain the old sack...  But fun never the less.

Check out that site.  And DON'T go too early.  I would recommend not before 1 pm.  But do go.

My experience was a good while back, but the rooms are quite small. 

They are very clean and well maintained from what I experienced.

The entry is manned and ID's checked, a plus in my eyes.... I don't need trouble.

I like the location best.  I am a FL kind of guy, and hardly  need to get

out the door to find lots on offer....

Location is key.  Late nite second course of ladies just outside the door.  Should not have to walk more than 50'.

Bangkok is truly one of the safest cities around. Avoid the 3 wheel TUK TUK drivers trying to get you to let them take you someplace very special. It is usually special... in that they are going to get all your available cash before you get away...

But safety in the room, do try the safe in your room for your laptop. OR.. ask the reception area to keep it in THEIR safe, even better. More inconvenient but safer. And in either case be sure you do a full back up at home and save the media THERE, not with the laptop. for me, the software is worth 20 times what the laptop is worth. Big inconvenience, but not the end of the world.

Passport copy on you is a good idea. Also the double wallet idea is a good one.

Don't obsess over it, but do protect yourself. Don't wade into a crowd of unknown folks. Walk around them and avoid. Very unlikely what ever it is they are so excited about would even interest you.

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Actually, it seems we may have gone through a software update. When in "New Content" clicking on a topic that I had viewed before used to take me to the last post I had read. Now it takes me to the #1 post and I need to click the button to take me to the last post viewed. So the auto feature is no longer default.

Also, it seems ALL the posts appeared to be new content, like it lost all my record of what I had seen.

Got it all sorted now. I think the PA site went through this change a while back and same thing happened.

Progress! got to embrace it or get left in the dust!! Still my fav site.....

I had only error messages most of the time between Thursday and Saturday 22nd through 24th.

Was it only the USA area that was affected?

I notice many threads are unread now, (7 pages!!) when I normally only see 10 to 20 unread topics. So either a lot of topics were going while I could not get on, or they all got reset to unread from some kind of reset feature...

Seems today all is good, except a LOT of threads to look through..

You might find a good perch to observe along the Suk at some of the small restaurants or coffee shops there. Sometimes they strut by, sometimes they are strutting back and forth. There are a fair few that consider the lower odd side of the Suk their home turf...

Well, on odds, your chances of a problem are probably quite low... But for me, I am not willing to take that chance. Keeping an eye on an open top glass while someone else is mixing it, and people all around moving and talking would keep me from drinking it. Have you ever watched those hand magicians?

For me, I also do not like the taste of most beers as well. But I can manage one or at least part of one. And my plan is not to drink, but to observe and enjoy the atmosphere and the people. So at the end of a stay, I rarely have even half finished my beer.

I guess it depends on your reason for ordering the drink. If you do want to drink, then I would avoid those stalls and get my liquor from a 7-11. If you are there to meet and enjoy the people, then focus on that, and try and be safe about it. I have never been drugged, but based on my reaction to the light doses I have had during a hospital stay or two, they would likely kill me. A simple pain tablet puts me down for the whole afternoon.....

It is the kind of place where that could happen. Stick to bottled beer, and ask to have it with cap on. YOU remove cap and KEEP one hand on it.

I do NOT drink late just for this reason. I stop into a 7-11 and get a bottled water at this time of nite and stick with it. I WILL buy a guest a drink, but I

do not drink from it ever.

For those of us not familiar with the local area names.....

Does this connector train stop somewhere along the Sukhumvit? Particularly the lower end, Soi 3,5,7 area ?

If so, which station name is it I should look for....

If you have a HSBC premier account in another country than perfect they will sort everything out for you, my friend used them last year and were very happy. But if you are just a normal joe bloggs client than I wouldn’t recommend them.

 

In general it seems it is up to the branch bank manager to decide what rules they implement. But I was told that some banks near Robinsons Sukhumvit (Asok) will accept tourist visas to open bank accounts so you might want to do a few forum searches on that.

 

Get yourself down to Pattaya for a few days, its 1200bt in a taxi limo or 113bt on the bus leaving from Ekkami BTS, takes under2hours to get there.

OH, no problem getting down to Pattaya, been there a few times already. It is just that this time, i need to complete this banking piece of business. And I would like to complete it early on, not on the 3rd or 4th day. It takes time for some of the banking services to complete. Like the ATM, some are almost instant, but I know HSBC took 3 days to get it from Bahrain. If they will allow me an HSBC account, it would be an easier transfer from one account to the other. Since there is no HSBC in Pattaya, I would need to get that done in Bangkok. Right now, I have been on the PA board, and found that KBank is very liberal with their accounts, and have no problem issuing accounts with tourists. Their ATM is an instant one as well, and Internet banking takes only one day to establish from all accounts.

The only issue I have with KBank, is a lack of info on what their ATM will do for me. I need to take this ATM, outside the country and still be able to use it. That means it must be affiliated with a big network. visa does some, Starr does many in Asia and the USA. Cirrus also does big business world wide. If the KBank is affiliated with any of those, and i have been told it may be with Starr, then it should work outside the country. That is information I may need to get from KBank, since not many board members would know this. Almost no one would need this service to extract funds from their account in Thailand as I will.

Thanks SeanK..... I may still start the trip in Bangkok to do a run at the HSBC office. I have a regular account with them in Bahrain, nothing special. And as of right now, there is almost nothing in that account. But that is due to change soon, and I want to be able to do transfers from there to Thailand.

I had so much trouble opening a bank account in Bangkok last year.

Some wanted a work permit which I hadn’t received at the time, others wanted a letter from my embassy to say that my passport was real (I’m serious),others wanted 3months of payslips. I tried 9 different banks and branches and all gave me an excuse why I couldn’t open a bank account.

 

I ended up opening a bank account with Kbank in Pattaya (Royal Orchid mall on beach road). They ahve being excellent, the only downside is I have to pay 10bt for each transaction outside Pattaya..

 

Its funny that KBank in Bangkok did not want my money but Kbank in Pattaya had no issues.!

 

They will let you open a bank account on a tourist visa and the card you get will work that day. Give your guesthouse/hotel as your address. The internet banking takes about a week and you can change the address online.

 

No problem with international transfers, takes about 4days.

 

The only issue you might run into is if your passport is not EU or USA

Wow SeanK. That is eye opening... I am due to fly there in about 8 or 9 days, to do just exactly that. I will need to think about changing my plans to put me down in Pattaya instead of Bangkok it seems.

Actually, I posted a similar post on PA a few months back, and everyone was optimistic about getting the account with out problems. They mentioned several banks, all had fairly good experiences, and I never considered that a bank in Pattaya might have different rules than one in Bangkok. I will see how this all works out. I am only planning to be there long enough to get the account started, get my atm cards, and see what they have to say about issuing a regular visa credit card. I was going to look at getting a prepaid visa type account, where I deposit money into the account, and then use a visa card to consume that cash for purchases abroad.

I will look into a few Banks in Bangkok, such as HSBC, which is my first choice as I also use HSBC in another country. If i get no luck, I will try down in Pattaya to see what luck I will have there. I would actually like the bank from Bangkok rather than Pattaya just so it doesn't draw attention when I use it in the States, but what ever works is Ok with me.

I will be making transfers into the account from an account in Bahrain, near where I work, and when I am off work, and back in the states, i would like to be able to use the Thai account to rent cars and such. This is why the ATM is not all that I need. Most car rental companies will not accept an ATM as a payment method for renting cars and such. It looks like my trip to Bangkok just got a little bit more difficult.... we will see in person.

I was working there last year for 8/9 months and opened an account with the Bank of Ayudeha (spelling) it's the one with the big yellow signs. I only needed a passport and proof of address and walked out with an ATM card after 10 minutes and even inputted my own pin number there and then. I had money paid in from the US and never had any issues. Be interesting when I go back next month as approx 30,000 Baht was paid in after I returned, so not sure how the account will be as it's been inactive since January with no other monies going in or out.

Well, as I will be a tourist, I am needing more info about this 'proof of address' thing. On one of the boards, guys are saying they come off the plane, and go set up accounts. That is what I am hoping to be able to do. What if I give the address of the hotel I am staying in? and how would I 'prove' that, exactly?

I was hoping to sign up with HSBC if that is possible, as my account in Bahrain is with them. It would make the money transfers much easier that way.

If not, then I will need to try others. I am hoping that residency is not a requirement, as I was told on the other board. That is key, as I am certainly not lucky enough to have that status....

I am seeing the pic now Whitespider........... great work as usual !!!

:D

Well, Whitespider worked on it, and it did seem to be better, with the images showing again.

But alas, it seems to be back. Probably not an easy fix, from what I can tell.... and I am totally clueless on how these forums work,

Hoping that the mods here can spare some time, to fix this issue. I know this kind of thing takes a lot of time from their schedules, so I am going to be patient, and hope for the best.

Thanks Jaco2..... I thought it was something I had left switched off in my settings or something. But it works sometimes, and doesnt work sometimes.

That kind of eliminates my settings as being the issue I think. I saw the other problem on the Pattaya board, but at least there, you could click the link, and see the pic.... With this problem, there is nothing to click, and no way to force the image to return, at least no way that I can figure out....

Help would be greatly appreciated.............

I am having issues with the board giving ONLY the place holder, "Attached Image" instead of the pics every one seems to see. Sometimes I get the pics, but most times not.

It seems to vary, and I never know if I will see pics till I get logged in and check a topic with pictures. Right now I dont see pics. Only the place holder.

Is this a symptom of getting the kinks out of the new board???

Thanks Bryan, just had no idea how to get to that page.

Got it all done now.

:D

Yeah, free wireless is 100% required for my stay. I am in my own business, and need to be online with people daily.

Ever Rich has wireless , and free. Just make sure before you open up your suitcase, and settle, that your signal is good enough

to do what you need. Some rooms have good reception , and a few have not so good. Just get a room close to the router....

I would like to set up my board preferences, like number of posts per page, etc.

Is that feature ready to go or am I missing it here somewhere ?