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Carlton Pattaya Hotel
Jack Master Mansion
Billabong Hotel
Thanks[/QUOTE]
csun,
re:JackMaster -
I stayed in a std room, bed is very hard, had trouble with the saftey box.
front desk reception run by a LB, sorry just not my thing!
location : on soi diana, closer to soi buckhao actually
[QUOTE=MilesToGo]csun,
re:JackMaster -
I stayed in a std room, bed is very hard, had trouble with the saftey box.
front desk reception run by a LB, sorry just not my thing!
location : on soi diana, closer to soi buckhao actually[/QUOTE]
Thanks, that leaves 2 hotels.
Also can someone tell me what does ABF mean. It is mentioned after the price.
Meanwhile I am finding more hotels. Someone had suggested that I should just pick any hotel for 1 night, then walk around to see other hotels in person after I arrive. I am coming on Mar 1st and staying until March 6. I am just worried that most of the hotels will be booked up if I only reserve 1 night. What is your opinion on this.
Sorry to be such and pain and asking all these questions however just worried about traveling to a place that I have only read about.
[QUOTE=Csun213]... Also can someone tell me what does ABF mean...[/QUOTE]
American breakfast, I guess.
ABF= American Breakfast included. .....The thing about this forum that newer folks need to remember is that there are many of us here. ALL have varying degrees of tolerance and needs. Some folks are pampered spoiled rotten and others are looking for medium or even cheap accomodations. Always try to determine the responders position before taking their word as gospel. Here is a good example. And I'm not flaming the guy. Don't even know him. He has a thing for Lady boy receptionists so he won't stay there again. News flash, If you can't stand LB's don't go to Thailand! Maybe more LBs than real ladys there! ALSO What is a hard bed?? Some like that, others not. And what does that really mean anyways , A hard bed to one may be perfect to another (not hard at all). I have stayed at JackMaster many times and find it to be one of the best values in Pattaya. Especially room 304 or any other corner room, 404, 204 etc. The point is as with anywhere for a first timer: just book a place that is recommended by someone on the forum that is in your price comfort zone and located in an acceptable area. Boukou is one such area for most of us old timers. Then just walk about looking at the few to many other places to choose from nearby and book accordingly. One will never get left out in the cold in Pattaya. More than enough rooms to rent at any time any place. If one wants to stay in the 600baht or less per night with A/C and Tele Jack Master is definately on the radar, and the beds are not really all that hard there in my opinion. The rooms are only 3-4 years old. As a point of fact, almost all beds in Thailand are hard compaired to home. Some are just softer than others. Newbe's be aware that at least 70% of the folks here on this forum are willing to spend european prices on a room in Thailand. So if your on a budget take what they say with a big grain of salt. They pay big and expect much. Anything else is crap to them.
[QUOTE=Csun213]Thanks, that leaves 2 hotels.
Also can someone tell me what does ABF mean. It is mentioned after the price.
Meanwhile I am finding more hotels. Someone had suggested that I should just pick any hotel for 1 night, then walk around to see other hotels in person after I arrive. I am coming on Mar 1st and staying until March 6. I am just worried that most of the hotels will be booked up if I only reserve 1 night. What is your opinion on this.
Sorry to be such and pain and asking all these questions however just worried about traveling to a place that I have only read about.[/QUOTE]
Thanks Wanderlust, I appreciate you making it clear on different people's opinion on each hotel. And thanks for clearing up ABF since I see it everywhere but no explanation on what it means.
One more point of fact about the Hotels to remember to all newbies in Thailand. This concerns the Hotel room safes and rented motor bikes. Both learned the hard way. The newest scam is stealing your motor bike or setting you up to still the motor bike. It will cost you a minimum of 40,000 baht to the rental place to replace the MB. DO NOT leave your key lying around or let your girl go anywhere alone on your rented MB.
Also alot of regulars don't even know that there are only a very few keys to all the inroom safes in Thailand. My old trick when traveling was to hide my safe key outside my room in the hallway or something OR since I travel usually with friends to trade keys with your traveling partner before bedtime. BUT come to find out my friends key worked just fine in my safe as well!! and just for curiousity sake so did my padlock key with alittle jiggling!! I now only take a room with the type of safes that use the round circle type keys and not the flat normal keys. And also the newer guys need to know that if you get a safe with an electronic combination latch: right next to the keypad is usually a plastic name logo that hides the emergency key hole and all the girls know this. It snaps on and off extremely easy. of course there is always the option to take only short time girls but you still need to watch them like a bad step child.
[QUOTE=Wanderlust]One more point of fact about the Hotels to remember to all newbies in Thailand. This concerns the Hotel room safes and rented motor bikes. Both learned the hard way. The newest scam is stealing your motor bike or setting you up to still the motor bike. It will cost you a minimum of 40,000 baht to the rental place to replace the MB. DO NOT leave your key lying around or let your girl go anywhere alone on your rented MB.
Also alot of regulars don't even know that there are only a very few keys to all the inroom safes in Thailand. My old trick when traveling was to hide my safe key outside my room in the hallway or something OR since I travel usually with friends to trade keys with your traveling partner before bedtime. BUT come to find out my friends key worked just fine in my safe as well!! and just for curiousity sake so did my padlock key with alittle jiggling!! I now only take a room with the type of safes that use the round circle type keys and not the flat normal keys. And also the newer guys need to know that if you get a safe with an electronic combination latch: right next to the keypad is usually a plastic name logo that hides the emergency key hole and all the girls know this. It snaps on and off extremely easy. of course there is always the option to take only short time girls but you still need to watch them like a bad step child.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the information. I won't have any problem with renting a bike since I am not going to do that however I am now worried about in room safe.
I am only going to take a girl short time so I will not leave her alone in my room but any worry about hotel staff getting into my safe? I think most of the hotels have digital safe, is this true? Also what type of safe does Jack Master have in their room? I don't mind LB if they are not aggressive and bothering me. I have actually never seen a Lady boy in person but just in pictures posted on the forums or videos of Thailand.
Jack Master has both round key and flat key safes you'll have to Look at the room/safe before renting. Jack Master has no lockboxes at the FRONT DESK, only room safes. Hotel staff changes regularly but in general they are honest. The two hotels just up the street a hundred feet on the corners of Soi Diana and Boukou both have lock boxes at the front desk, are totally safe and clean decent rooms. Altho the one on the SW corner (600baht-I don't know the name) has hard beds even by my standards.
[QUOTE=Muffhunter]Considering some hotels for 1st time stay in Pattaya.
Armageddon- seems like big rooms, not sure as to how close the the action it is.
Billabong- looks like good price
Eastiny 7
Can anyone help please.
Thanks.[/QUOTE]Went ahead and booked at the Armageddon, since it appears nobody has had any experience here I thought it would be my duty to TOFT.
I will post my findings after my stay.
For those guys that like to stay in 5 star Hotels and still bring a girl back, I can confirm the Holiday Inn is GF. They take the girls ID and make you sign a form that says if she goes crazy it is not their fault.
No joiners fee either!
[QUOTE=Muffhunter]Went ahead and booked at the Armageddon, since it appears nobody has had any experience here I thought it would be my duty to TOFT.
I will post my findings after my stay.[/QUOTE]May not have been such a good idea after all.
They were good at responding to all my inquiries up to the point of the deposit and then no more responses from them.
I asked for them to send me their address and phone # since it is not on the site. No response!
[QUOTE=Muffhunter]Went ahead and booked at the Armageddon, since it appears nobody has had any experience here I thought it would be my duty to TOFT.
I will post my findings after my stay.[/QUOTE]
Hey Muffy can you tell us where the Armageddon is located? OR share the website here so we can check up on it? Are you in Pattaya and have seen the building?
If this is the same place than:
Armageddon Guest House, which is upstairs from the Armageddon Bar on Soi LK Metro, next door to Club Blu on Soi Buakoaw
[QUOTE=Muffhunter]May not have been such a good idea after all.
They were good at responding to all my inquiries up to the point of the deposit and then no more responses from them.
I asked for them to send me their address and phone # since it is not on the site. No response![/QUOTE]
Sorry for not getting back. They did contact me and said that their website was down due to some upgrading.
It is above the Armageddon Bar, in the LK Metro area.
Looking forward to my stay and will post findings.
[url]www.armageddonbar.com[/url]
I have spent 2 days in Pattaya in the Nova Platinum Hotel. I have booked this hotel by Agoda for 32 Euro per day. I got a modern room in the second building. The big kingsize bed was o. K., the room was clean. If anyone has not too high demands it is adequate, especially regarding the prize. And the room in the new building was absolutely quiet. Its girl friendly, the girls have only to show their ID-cards.
They have a swimming pool for relaxing, but it was crowded by Russians. And mostly loud disco music was playing, so I didn't felt much comfortable there. More negative points: The elevator was sometimes out of function. At the arriving day the service for towels came very late, I had to wait for more than 3 hours till after 5 pm Also at the swimming pool towels hadn't been available for long time. And the towels are hanging directly over the toilet. That shouldn't B.
Positive is the free internet access also in the room and the big safe, where I could even put in my laptop.
Walking street is nearby, only a few minutes away.