Pattaya Reports

[QUOTE=LittleBigMan;1672090]As noted I have no idea about Indians except for the little I see and hear. When you say some dress similar I do not know but they were dressed Western style just like the other working girls. Also is the langage Nepal the same as what Indians speak because they were not talking English instead the girls had no problem holding a conversation which I'm sure was about price.[/QUOTE]No the languages spoken in both countries are different. Hindi is the predominant language (although there are more than 20 languages spoken in different states) in India whereas Nepali is the more common language in Nepal. Due to porous borders between the two countries, several Nepali people are able to understand a smattering of Hindi (and some other languages). I believe the script of the two languages is the same.

For what it's worth, I saw two Indian girls working on Beach Road near Royal Garden Plaza beginning of January. Weird, I never saw anything like that, had to double down and check. Yup, they're working.

For all I know they could have been Nepalese or Sri Lankan.

Beach Road was dreadful otherwise. Hope it's just the New Years day blues and that it will improve.

[QUOTE=PrinceRaj2126;1672063]I read in this forum as far from action in Soi batman and need to go on a moto bike. [URL]http://rockitreports.com/review-telephone-bar-pattaya-thailand/[/URL][/QUOTE]On the rockit map, is the correct location near Soi Batman. I'm not sure how well you know Pattaya, but get on a 10 Baht bus going west on Second Road, going away from WS. Get off when you see a big building on your right that has "TOA" on it's side. Across the street is a small nameless Soi, Go to it, there will be a construction site on your left. Go right at the end of that nameless Soi. Go past the LK Grand Living Place, the road will turn to the left. Keep walking and you'll see the red telephone booth on the left. Press the buzzer to get in. It supposedly opens at 9a closes at 12a. After 12a, walk back to the "TOA" building, next to it is an open air restaurant. MotoTaxi's can be found there. Best of luck.

[QUOTE=JavaMan;1672139]On the rockit map, is the correct location near Soi Batman. I'm not sure how well you know Pattaya, but get on a 10 Baht bus going west on Second Road, going away from WS. Get off when you see a big building on your right that has "TOA" on it's side. Across the street is a small nameless Soi, Go to it, there will be a construction site on your left. Go right at the end of that nameless Soi. Go past the LK Grand Living Place, the road will turn to the left. Keep walking and you'll see the red telephone booth on the left. Press the buzzer to get in. It supposedly opens at 9a closes at 12a. After 12a, walk back to the "TOA" building, next to it is an open air restaurant. MotoTaxi's can be found there. Best of luck.[/QUOTE]You have me confused. 2nd road runs from south to north. Take baht bus east on Pattaya South road running away from Walking Street. One can be caught just east of second road in front of the temple, across from the school. Suggest motorbike taxi on first trip. I was there a week ago. No lookers, much better quality at the boom boom massage places on Soi Honey for about same price.

[QUOTE=Crocodilexp;1672105]For what it's worth, I saw two Indian girls working on Beach Road near Royal Garden Plaza beginning of January. Weird, I never saw anything like that, had to double down and check. Yup, they're working.

For all I know they could have been Nepalese or Sri Lankan.

Beach Road was dreadful otherwise. Hope it's just the New Years day blues and that it will improve.[/QUOTE]Things have started deteriorating rather at an alarming level. I noticed the same thing few months ago, the numbers of FLs were really low and the quailty was in the pits. Makes you wonder why fly around the planet for 24 hours for this kinda scene?

[QUOTE=JavaMan;1672139]On the rockit map, is the correct location near Soi Batman. I'm not sure how well you know Pattaya, but get on a 10 Baht bus going west on Second Road, going away from WS. Get off when you see a big building on your right that has "TOA" on it's side. Across the street is a small nameless Soi, Go to it, there will be a construction site on your left. Go right at the end of that nameless Soi. Go past the LK Grand Living Place, the road will turn to the left. Keep walking and you'll see the red telephone booth on the left. Press the buzzer to get in. It supposedly opens at 9a closes at 12a. After 12a, walk back to the "TOA" building, next to it is an open air restaurant. MotoTaxi's can be found there. Best of luck.[/QUOTE]Find this part of the map on google maps, or try googling "LK grand living place". The 'telephone booth' is right around the corner by "Pipo's" on the map.

[QUOTE=JavaMan;1672139]On the rockit map, is the correct location near Soi Batman. I'm not sure how well you know Pattaya, but get on a 10 Baht bus going west on Second Road, going away from WS. Get off when you see a big building on your right that has "TOA" on it's side. Across the street is a small nameless Soi, Go to it, there will be a construction site on your left. Go right at the end of that nameless Soi. Go past the LK Grand Living Place, the road will turn to the left. Keep walking and you'll see the red telephone booth on the left. Press the buzzer to get in. It supposedly opens at 9a closes at 12a. After 12a, walk back to the "TOA" building, next to it is an open air restaurant. MotoTaxi's can be found there. Best of luck.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=GinAndTonic;1672158]You have me confused. 2nd road runs from south to north. Take baht bus east on Pattaya South road running away from Walking Street. One can be caught just east of second road in front of the temple, across from the school. Suggest motorbike taxi on first trip. I was there a week ago. No lookers, much better quality at the boom boom massage places on Soi Honey for about same price.[/QUOTE]Yes, you are correct sir! It's go east on South Pattaya Rd. I took 2 different mototaxis to it on 2 different occasoons, they didn't know where it was. Language barrier did not help.

[QUOTE=ActionOriented;1672095]No the languages spoken in both countries are different. Hindi is the predominant language (although there are more than 20 languages spoken in different states) in India whereas Nepali is the more common language in Nepal. Due to porous borders between the two countries, several Nepali people are able to understand a smattering of Hindi (and some other languages). I believe the script of the two languages is the same.[/QUOTE]Both Hindi and Nepali are Indo-Aryan languages. They indeed now use the same script which is the Devanagari script. There is a sizable minority in Nepal that speaks Hindi as a first language and a few million Indians speak Nepali as their first language.

Many words in both languages are rather similar it seems, for instance some Nepali words ending in a vowel are the same in Hindi but without the final vowel:

(Hindi - English - Nepali).
dusht 'evil' dush-ta.
raashtr 'nation' raash-tra.
kasht 'pain' kash-ta.
vansh 'pedigree' van-sha.
shiv (the god) shi-va.
indr (the god) in-dra.

So it is very well possible that Hindi and Nepali speakers can understand each other on a very basic level.

But perhaps some of our Indian forum-members can chime in?

[QUOTE=Wolvenvacht;1672281]Both Hindi and Nepali are Indo-Aryan languages. They indeed now use the same script which is the Devanagari script. There is a sizable minority in Nepal that speaks Hindi as a first language and a few million Indians speak Nepali as their first language.

Many words in both languages are rather similar it seems, for instance some Nepali words ending in a vowel are the same in Hindi but without the final vowel:

(Hindi - English - Nepali).
dusht 'evil' dush-ta.
raashtr 'nation' raash-tra.
kasht 'pain' kash-ta.
vansh 'pedigree' van-sha.
shiv (the god) shi-va.
indr (the god) in-dra.

So it is very well possible that Hindi and Nepali speakers can understand each other on a very basic level.

But perhaps some of our Indian forum-members can chime in?[/QUOTE]W, The words you mention are Sanksrit words (which is the Indo-Aryan language you presumably refer to) which are used both in Hindi and Nepali. There are several such words common in both languages. It also helps that largely being a Hindu nation, their language derives several attributes from Sanskrit. Sanskrit, of course is an old language and is not spoken by the masses, a simpler and more derivative language, Hindi, is more prevalent.

In fact, one word in Thai which I remember for "age" is "ayu" which is a Sanskrit word as well which is common to India (there could be some others too). While I will not deny that several states closer to the Nepal border will have people who are conversant in the Nepali language, it is more common for Nepali people to understand Hindi or at least some other Indian language. Also, quite a few Indians stay and work in Nepal, so locals there are more attuned to Indian dialects. Perhaps linguists can clarify further.

My limited understanding of the commonalities in the languages comes from the Nepali WGs that I meet in Delhi from time to time and I have never faced a language barrier (although I can't understand or speak Nepali). These girls are not long term residents but the churn rate is high for visiting WGs.

[QUOTE=Crocodilexp;1672105]Beach Road was dreadful otherwise. Hope it's just the New Years day blues and that it will improve.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Margaya;1672172]Things have started deteriorating rather at an alarming level. I noticed the same thing few months ago, the numbers of FLs were really low and the quailty was in the pits. Makes you wonder why fly around the planet for 24 hours for this kinda scene?[/QUOTE]Beach Road is very hit or miss these days. One day the numbers and quality are low and the other day there are quite a lot of cuties to be found. And last Sunday there was a police swipe once again so that doesn't help either.

Friday and Saturday nights are usually better than other nights. Last Friday I even spotted an Agogo girl there on her day off, and she's a real cutie and only 19 yo.
And yesterday a girl in the 'daytime shift' offered me her 18 yo sister who came over from Chon Buri where she has a 'normal' job. Not a looker and a bit too chubby to my taste (just like her older sister) but very sweet, very inexperienced and very wet.

So you CAN be lucky sometimes but it's certainly not what it used to be anymore. I used to pull almost 100% of my girls from BR but these days I'm 'forced' to pull girls from other sources as well. I've been lucky with some agogo girls (after very carefull selection) and I might as well have a look in the beer bars although I hate them, LOL.

I was in Pattaya early December.

Day 1.

Headed down to walking street and finalized on Airport agogo.

Found something to my liking but she said she doesn't bar fine.

Tried to convince her all night and ran a pretty decent bill all for nothing.

Decided not to ever make that mistake again.

Day 2 coming up.

Day 2.

Headed to Sabai Dee as had tried Honey Massage on my last visit and liked it.

Decent collection. Girls were 2000,2500 and 3000 baht.

I'm guessing they get a lot of Indians here who haggle. LOL.

Because I kept looking at the 3 k girls and he kept asking me to pick 2 k. Cheap cheap. LOL.

I picked a 3 k girl and he was like its 3 k and I was like that's alright and he almost went in shock.

My selected girl arrives. We go into the room. Decent room. We chat a little while the water fills up.

Her English was not the strongest but she used her phone to translate a lot of what she was trying to get across.

Same system follow. Bath-Massage-CBJ-wot-miss-wot and finally came. Showered, got ready and left.

The mirrors on the roof gave a nice touch.

Travelling to Thailand for 20 days planing to take USD! Can someone please help me with the best exchange rates both Pattaya and Bangkok thank you! Please PM me.

[QUOTE=IAmRamesh86;1672602]Travelling to Thailand for 20 days planing to take USD! Can someone please help me with the best exchange rates both Pattaya and Bangkok thank you! Please PM me.[/QUOTE]

I've always gone to the 'Kodak camera shop' along the left side of second road since it was recommended to me over a decade ago as having the 'best rate'. Its sort of opposite Big C there, a little further down, just before what used to be 'Soi Zero', before Soi Zero was closed off.

I actually don't know if their rate is the best, though it is quite good, but there's something nicely dubious about changing money in a supposed film shop that has no film or cameras in it, and no outward sign of being an exchange shop. It certainly makes you feel like it [i]aught[/i] to be a good rate, as it feels very mafia-esque.

[QUOTE=Newser8008;1672498]Day 2.

Headed to Sabai Dee as had tried Honey Massage on my last visit and liked it.

Decent collection. Girls were 2000,2500 and 3000 baht.

I'm guessing they get a lot of Indians here who haggle. LOL.

Because I kept looking at the 3 k girls and he kept asking me to pick 2 k. Cheap cheap. LOL.

I picked a 3 k girl and he was like its 3 k and I was like that's alright and he almost went in shock.

My selected girl arrives. We go into the room. Decent room. We chat a little while the water fills up.

Her English was not the strongest but she used her phone to translate a lot of what she was trying to get across.

Same system follow. Bath-Massage-CBJ-wot-miss-wot and finally came. Showered, got ready and left.

The mirrors on the roof gave a nice touch.[/QUOTE]To Newser8008.

That so funny most people think Indians are cheap but in their culture they like to bargin, I have many coworker in the US very nice people and not cheap I guess if you give him a big tip he will be even more shock.

Fast eddie 48.