Can anyone recomend a cheap,clean hotel in the 500-800bt range that has connecting rooms and is close to the action?will not be able to bring anyone back to the hotel so girl friendliness not an issue.
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Can anyone recomend a cheap,clean hotel in the 500-800bt range that has connecting rooms and is close to the action?will not be able to bring anyone back to the hotel so girl friendliness not an issue.
[QUOTE=Berty Boy]Can anyone recomend a cheap,clean hotel in the 500-800bt range that has connecting rooms and is close to the action?will not be able to bring anyone back to the hotel so girl friendliness not an issue.[/QUOTE]Berty boy,
Flipper Lodge soi 9 Beach rd has connected room. You should get room for about
700 baht now slow season. Alot of bar in the area and a nice pool, all Pattaya Hotel is girl friendly, even the big hotel in case you change your mind.
Fast Eddie 48
Forgive me, but the Flipper Lodge is not in Soi 9, there is nothing left in Soi 9, there are 2 Flippers 1 in Soi 8 and 1 in Soi 7.
Peacock hotel guest house on Soi Buakao inbetween Soi Hunny inn & Soi Diana Inn its 500 baht just been there excellent!
I left my wallet in the bar downstairs when i returned they returned it with 7000+ baht intact!
I would recomend this place to anybody its nr siam sawadee hotel which is not nice & family mart , next door to a clothes shop not many of these places left in Siam 99.9% would have been back in Issan with my wallet.
I was going to stay at this hotel in May but changed my mind and checked into Bay Breeze Hotel in the same soi (and nearer to the beer bars).
The reason? The two girls at the reception desk were unmannerly, indeed, downright rude. I couldn't understand their 'English' and when I politely asked them to repeat what they'd said they simply waved me away and turned their backs on me. I would discourage any one from using this hotel.
You can't indict a hotel based on the actions of two receptionists. The receptionists for the most part in these cheap little motels/hotels are for the most part minimum wage earners and change out as often as McDonald’s employees. Some of them are down right rude, some may be having a bad day, who knows what their issues are, but most are helpful. In a situation like that ask to speak to the manager, and if the manager is not available return the next day to explain the situation to the manager.
These people are in business to make money, not to turn away potential customers, they will appease you if you present your complain properly. I checked into the Sawadee Hotel in Pattaya and the idiot at the desk tried to overcharge me for the room. Had to let him know that I am not new to this game and in the end got the original rate of 450.00B.
[QUOTE=El Culion]I was going to stay at this hotel in May but changed my mind and checked into Bay Breeze Hotel in the same soi (and nearer to the beer bars).
The reason? The two girls at the reception desk were unmannerly, indeed, downright rude. I couldn't understand their 'English' and when I politely asked them to repeat what they'd said they simply waved me away and turned their backs on me. I would discourage any one from using this hotel.[/QUOTE]
R M
For your information, this is NOT my first negative experience with this hotel. I'd had a negative experience with them last December but decided to give them another try, because I did like the room I had then.
So it wasn't even 'once bitten, twice shy'!
Besides I've read on the Internet that others have had similar experiences.
I've been travelling to LOS for over 10 years now and this is the only hotel where I've been treated rudely.
EC
If all that was in your original report, I wouldn't have bother to respond, but hey, do what you do. There has to be a reason why they are so rude to you. Ironically we just checked in to the same hotel yesterday and everything seem to be fine so far.
I have stayed at the Intown Holiday Inn regularly over the last 3 years. I like a lot of things about the hotel, and think the low season rate is a great value. Two complaints, the long tile hallways carry noise. If a patron is drunk and loud returning to their room (it happens regularly) it can wake up everyone with a room on that floor. The second is the seeming systematic rudeness of the reception staff. I have taken periods away from staying at the hotel, not in the mood to put up with aggressively offensive attitude of the reception staff.
Take care,
Pass
Checked out of the In town Holiday today and am headed back to BKK, Asia Bangkok Hotel. Nothing remarkable about the stay here, it's a typical low budget Motel. There was a male receptionist that checked me out and again, nothing was unusual, he wasn't extremely kind, but he wasn't rude
There are so many of these low budget Inns/Motel/Hotels in Pattaya that if people are being treated rudely by the hotel staff or they are not satisfied by the service they receive, it incredulous that they would want to return to the same place. If people are rude to you let them know about it, especially when you are paying them to provide you with decent service.
The fact that one hasn't been treated rudely doesn't prove that the staff isn't rude. They show their impoliteness when there's an issue. If you stay there and just leave/receive your key when you go out/return and pay the bill when you check out, you won't be faced with their lack of manners.
The first unpleasant experience I had with them was in December when my flight arrived early in the morning and I checked in at about 4 am. On checking out, I saw they'd charged me for the previous night too. When I protested they became nasty and when I asked to see the manager, they said he wasn't in. I didn't want to start a scene for B500 and just paid.
As I wrote before, I didn't find the price/quality ratio of this hotel bad. When I returned to Pattaya in May, I thought it wasn't fair to blame the hotel for the behaviour of two receptionist, who perhaps had stopped working there, and went to check if they had vacancies. When I went up with the bell boy to check out the room they wanted to give me, I found that the curtains didn't close properly so that the sunlight had free play in the room. The boy told me that there were many other empty rooms, but when I told the receptionists that I didn't like the room they'd offered, it lead to the incident I described earlier.
It isn't worth the trouble of having your day spoilt by an argument with hotel staff in a place with an abundance of hotel accommodation. Instead of taking part in an altercation I prefer to take my bags and move on.
I have no need whatsoever to test out my assertiveness on hotel receptionists in Pattaya! I think most people feel like that. That was the reason I wanted to warn other mongers to stay away from this hotel!
To each his own, I'm done with this but will repeat that if you are paying for a service and people don't provide it, you let them/management know about it. It doesn't have to be an altercation, stand your ground and be as polite as can be, kill them with kindness, if you have to, the more annoyed they get, the calmer you stay, believe me this will have an effect on them.
Hell, return the next day and ask to speak to the manager privately, by addressing the issue you will not only help yourself but future Hotel patrons too, by ignoring the problem, you add to it because then it becomes acceptable and the norm to the people who you say are being rude to you.
The fact that one wasn't treated rudely does prove that a blanket statement cannot be applied to the entire establishment and the blanket warning was not necessary because of ther actions of two receptionist. Can't speak for anyone else, but I will return to the Intown the next time I'm in town, hopefully I won't experience any of those issues.
Pattaya hotel and tourism sector calls water problem a crisis
"Government hiding the truth"
CHONBURI: -- Hoteliers and tourism business operators in the popular seaside resort Pattaya of Thailand's eastern province of Chonburi meeting on Friday said they would ask their members of parliament (MP) to petition Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for a solution to the current water shortage.
Speaking at a panel discussion on water shortage in the country's eastern provinces, Thanet Supornsahasrangsee, President of the Pattaya Travel and Tourism Association, said the government is still hiding the truth about the reality of the water crisis.
The true extent of the water shortage is more severe than what the government portrays, he said.
Pattaya needs 120,000 cubic metres of water per day , Mr. Thanet said, but East Water Company and the Royal Irrigation Department now provide the city with only 80,000 cubic metres a day.
The 40,000 cubic metre shortfall, must be made up by residential customers and the business sector themselves who are forced to buy directly from commercial water supply trucks at 100 baht per cubic metre.
He said the association would work with local MPs to negotiate an immediate solution to the water shortage crisis by meeting with the prime minister, warning that the problem, if prolonged would affect the local tourism and cost the nation billions of baht in a loss of tourism revenue.
Dear forum members,
Planning a trip to Pattaya soon, looking for a nice and clean room hotel (girl friendly as well) around 1000 bht. Also comes with in room safe too. Within walking distance to Walking Street.
Where are the must visit beer bars and agogos in Pattaya (been to BKK many times but not Pattaya)?
Looking for some recommendation from all.
TQ
[QUOTE=Member #2065]Dear forum members,
Planning a trip to Pattaya soon, looking for a nice and clean room hotel (girl friendly as well) around 1000 bht. Also comes with in room safe too. Within walking distance to Walking Street.
Where are the must visit beer bars and agogos in Pattaya (been to BKK many times but not Pattaya)?
Looking for some recommendation from all.
TQ[/QUOTE]Well good luck for the 1000b with safe. I'm paying 1800b a night through hotelthailand.com for the sabai lodge. This was based on the info from the fellow mongers on this site. Do a search on my name and you'll see. I asked aprox the same question that your asking.
Hope his help and Keep it covered LOL.