Pattaya Reports

[QUOTE=Triklook;1214265]How do motorbike rentals work? Do you need a driver's licence from your native country? And I don't know about Pattaya, but Jomtien has no freking streets labeled.[/QUOTE]To get a motorbike you only need to let the rental place copy your passport. They will charge you 1000 baht deposit plus 150-200 baht per day for the bike. Make sure you always have your driver's license when you are riding the bike or you risk a ticket from the cops. You can find maps in the back of any free guide book that you may see in hotels and travel agencies. Or you may look online at one such as.

[url]http://www.phuketadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pattaya-map.gif[/url]

[url]http://teakdoor.com/view.php?pg=pattaya-maps[/url]

[QUOTE=Triklook; 1214265]I'm heading out of Jomtien to main Pattaya to hit up the gogo's and go in for some real mongering. I'm interested in BabyDoll's, and any other exciting gogo. Could somone sugest a 550 baht hotel that's next to tons of gogo's where I can do plenty of ST butterflying? I'm thinking soi 6 post office would be a good start from what I've read on the boards. Maybe I can find a hotel in soi 6 and just take a taxi to babydolls when I'm feeling even more frisky.

How do motorbike rentals work? Do you need a driver's licence from your native country? And I don't know about Pattaya, but Jomtien has no freking streets labeled.[/QUOTE]Queens Victory Inn is located on Soi 6, Soi Post Office, I believe that is 13/2, have a few go go not very popular but closer to Walking St. There is a guy renting (Farang) bikes nearly the beginning of Soi 6.

LBM

Hi guys,

I was just about to buy plane ticket and make hotel reservation for my holiday in Pattaya in early Jan 2012 when I froze hearing critic news.

May thai flood jeopardize it all now? I know bad weather didn't affect Pattaya at the moment, but would clouds and rains move there in the next weeks?

It seems it has been raining for months in Thailand, how long is it going to last?

I don't want to run ten thousand miles and concern about the weather. I want my sun!

Anybody got a link to accurate wheater forecast in Pattaya in order to monitor situation there?

I'm also scared of price hikes and I wouldn't like to wait for weeks before buying my plane ticket to see if it's getting better because I'd rather avoid possible further increases.

Thanks for your support.

[QUOTE=LittleBigMan;1214323]I believe that is 13/2,[/QUOTE]Could you define this term?

[QUOTE=Sexual Healing; 1214360]Hi guys,

I was just about to buy plane ticket and make hotel reservation for my holiday in Pattaya in early Jan 2012 when I froze hearing critic news.

May thai flood jeopardize it all now? I know bad weather didn't affect Pattaya at the moment, but would clouds and rains move there in the next weeks?

It seems it has been raining for months in Thailand, how long is it going to last?

I don't want to run ten thousand miles and concern about the weather. I want my sun!

Anybody got a link to accurate wheater forecast in Pattaya in order to monitor situation there?

I'm also scared of price hikes and I wouldn't like to wait for weeks before buying my plane ticket to see if it's getting better because I'd rather avoid possible further increases.

Thanks for your support.[/QUOTE]Quite a dilemma you're in, you should stay home or go to Hawaii for nice weather but then you miss out on cheap and easy poon. Here is the WC link and a BR pic.

[url]http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/THXX0015[/url]

[QUOTE=Triklook;1214382]Could you define this term?[/QUOTE]In Thailand, you will find streets and then "side streets," or side Soi (meaning streets). So, Soi 13 will be followed by Soi 13/1, and then Soi 13/2.

[QUOTE=Sexual Healing; 1214360]Hi guys,

I was just about to buy plane ticket and make hotel reservation for my holiday in Pattaya in early Jan 2012 when I froze hearing critic news.

May thai flood jeopardize it all now? I know bad weather didn't affect Pattaya at the moment, but would clouds and rains move there in the next weeks?

It seems it has been raining for months in Thailand, how long is it going to last?

I don't want to run ten thousand miles and concern about the weather. I want my sun!

Anybody got a link to accurate wheater forecast in Pattaya in order to monitor situation there?

I'm also scared of price hikes and I wouldn't like to wait for weeks before buying my plane ticket to see if it's getting better because I'd rather avoid possible further increases.

Thanks for your support.[/QUOTE]Google "weather in Pattaya". It will give you all kinds of links to past / future weather patterns.

Where is the stock market going to be at in January? Who the F knows. Just like none of us can predict the weather for that time.

[QUOTE=LittleBigMan; 1214323]Queens Victory Inn is located on Soi 6, Soi Post Office, I believe that is 13/2, have a few go go not very popular but closer to Walking St. There is a guy renting (Farang) bikes nearly the beginning of Soi 6.

LBM[/QUOTE]I wouldn't usually post unless I was in country but the hotel you are referring to is called Queen Victoria. The people there are very quick to respond to emails and were good enough to accept western union as payment when I didn't want to pay by visa card.

I'm formulating a plan as back up in case I have to leave during my visit next month and would encourage others go do the same. It's a short flight to Phnom Pehn from BKK and I will go there if the flood is a problem but to be honest I don't think it will be. It's right on the sea right? Pattaya. Drainage won't be any sort of issue.

And also you have to take media reports with a grain of salt. In the end they are trying to get attention and sell newspapers or get ratings. Further more, a friend of mine in Bangkok said that Sukhumvit area is dry and theres a lack of customers. She even asked me to come sooner. LOL

Dear Senior members,

I was wondering if there is any Russian / Ukrainian / Uzbek girls (sex workers) are available in Pattaya? If yes, where can I find them? What are their going rates? Are there any special hotels where they stay?

Thanks in advance

"It's right on the sea right? Pattaya. Drainage won't be any sort of issue."

You might want to review such things as gravity, the tendency of water to flow downhill (meaning to sea level), and the tidal wave that leveled Phuket in 2004. Just as a quick review, drainage tends to be [B]more[/B] of an issue at sea level as opposed to at higher elevations. Of course, sea level can vary, as was discovered in Phuket in 2004.

For a brief refresher course, google "tsunami Thailand 2004."

Note that if airports are flooded, planes have difficulty taking off, and ground transportation has difficulty arriving at them. You may want to arrange an amphibious vehicle just to hedge your bets.

[QUOTE=Dickhead; 1214590]"It's right on the sea right? Pattaya. Drainage won't be any sort of issue."

You might want to review such things as gravity, the tendency of water to flow downhill (meaning to sea level) , and the tidal wave that leveled Phuket in 2004. Just as a quick review, drainage tends to be [B]more[/B] Of an issue at sea level as opposed to at higher elevations. Of course, sea level can vary, as was discovered in Phuket in 2004.

For a brief refresher course, google "tsunami Thailand 2004."

Note that if airports are flooded, planes have difficulty taking off, and ground transportation has difficulty arriving at them. You may want to arrange an amphibious vehicle just to hedge your bets.[/QUOTE]You are right. I just meant as opposed to BKK where there's no sea. Less chance of stagnant water. No idea what a Tsunami has to do with anything but Ill just hope one doesn't come then.

I will just assume you are from Perth, and hope that at some point your government decides to adequately fund primary education in that state.

Just to say that I arrived last night. Met by Mr T taxi, which sped me to Pattaya in just over one hour (1000BHT). Staying at the Pattaya Bay Resort (1400 BHT). There is construction work going on in a nearby sort (reported elsewhere) but I can't hear a thing from my room. No sign of flooding anywhere on this side of Bangkok. It's sunny and there is a typical high-season holiday atmosphere. Plenty of girls and plenty of visitors.

[QUOTE=Dickhead;1214608]I will just assume you are from Perth, and hope that at some point your government decides to adequately fund primary education in that state.[/QUOTE]Hmm thats even more puzzling. Don't know what your on about. Anyway, I for one won't be canceling my trip. More fun for me. I hope the crowds are way down compared to other years. Even a slight reduction welcomed.

Dickhead, if your around late December the first schooners on me. There arent too many states they call them that. Hint hint.

[QUOTE=Luvpuss;1214463]Who the F knows. Just like none of us can predict the weather for that time.[/QUOTE]Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Of course I'm not asking anyone to tell exactly how is going to be the weather in Pattaya in two months, but what happened in Bangkok is serious and I think it didn't come out of the blue.

I read something about heavy monsoons blowing east behind this calamity. Maybe they will calm down and weather in Thailand will overall get better, maybe they will rage more furiuosly and it will get worse. I was a weatherman I guess I was dealing with these data and I could forecast something. It's quite is to find a good weather website giving you a proper sun / rain schedule for the next 15 days, but not so to explain in words what happened and how it is going to evolve now, in order to guess a further scenario.

I was just asking this and I was wandering if anybody of you knows a site, a forum or a blog where finding more deteailled information about these issues.

Thanks