Can you recommend gay friendly hotels on Silom-Suriwong area with no joiner fee ?
Can you recommend gay friendly hotels on Silom-Suriwong area with no joiner fee ?
Can you please give us an idea of your budget and the period of travel. Rates vary considerably between high and low season.
Check out Le Siam Hotel on Soi Convent...about 65 U.S. near gay soi 4 and Suriwong....also a wonderful French restaurant near the hotel.....Also in a gay neighborhood 45bht taxi to Silom is a nice inexpensive also gay friendly hotel with a pool, 24 hour restaurant..The Malaysia Hotel about 30 U.S.
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
Le Méridien is gay friendly no joiner fee; upscale hotel.
MFAS - that's lame of you.
There's a world of difference in your attempting to winding up fellow board members just for the hell of it and you suggesting a restaurant on a gay board to to members where you KNOW full well that there have been several accusations of almost violent homophobic abuse against gay people by the owner - that's just not on and not fair to the visitors who may read this board but not the other posts pertaining to that place.
And yes fine you can say you'd no issues there, good for you, but you DO know others have and so your post is reckless and dangerous in the extreme.
It's certainly not in the interests of this GAY board in that is seeks to be a resource for good and SAFE advice for gay travellers when Bangkok - your little game with some board members could well be putting every day readers of the board and ordinary non board members / ordinary every day gay people at risk - and you KNOW it.
You should delete that part of your post - or at least put a caveat on your post that some gay people have had issues there - this isn't about this board and your ongoing playing with some of it's members ( personally I don't care and am happy you had a good time here, like I said good for you) but this is about the SAFETY of gay people in general and you shouldn't fuck about with THAT just for your own amusement. If your recommendation leads to someone's night being ruined ( or worse if that owner is drunk and violent) and someone is assaulted ( as very nearly happened in our case) then they will ( or should) be on your conscience - and this board should be embarrassed if it was every discovered the recommendation for that place came from here - a gay board for gay people, actively promoting a homophobic owners business. Shame on you for playing games with such an important issue for your own amusement.
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Nirish makes a valid point....As the experiences greatly differ from the past to the present at this restaurant you would be well served to read the reviews on this topic!
And given that we have discovered this week that Bangkok's worst homophobe manages this place, by all means go if you wish to. Just don't be surprised if he attacks you as being gay if it takes his fancy. Yes, the food is good (but pricey). But are you as a gay man prepared to patronise an establishment run by a total homophobe? MFAS is, but then we know he does not care about the LGBT community where his stomach is concerned. Reviews tend not to mention this.
On the other hand, Le Siam is a splendid little boutique hotel. Nowhere near on a par with Le Meridien - but then far cheaper.
Once again one should read the reviews both past and present before they pass judgement, the sins of the father shall not be passed on to the son.
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
The sins of the father? It's the father who owns it! And MFAS clearly does not realise that official reviews rarely if ever discuss an owner's attitude towards the LGBT community. His stomach matters more.
Thank you for the addition MFAS and whilst that's welcome I think you should be looking equally at why you even thought to "play" with this subject on the board as of course it's damn all to do with recommending a restaurant as there are many equally "good" eating places there but more just to get a rise out of people / troll the board, that's a bit pathetic man, you should think on about that and have your fun by all means and if others want to rise to that that's their choice but don't do it at other ( strangers) expenses perhaps next time. And before you say "why you rose to it" - I didn't your posts dont bother me one bit - but I felt it important to correct your dangerous "game" for others reading just - as to why you even bother totally escapes me, you must have little to do.
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