I will try again = Rose Hotel

I am not able to book the Rose Hotel thru their website - no reply after several requests for one week - I have previously booked thru an agent (but forget which one) can anyone help me out

Tks

[a447]

Hi,
Sorry, it was my fault your question never got answered.
I have just received an email from the Rose, confirming my reservation. Their email is:

therosehotelbkk@yahoo.com

Before I send my credit card details, I have emailed them to see if they charge a joiner fee. A previous email from them said they charged 500 baht. Board members say this is not so.

[thaiworthy-old]

a447 and me4thai: as krobbie suggested, don't forget to book a double room.

They reserved a room for me without credit card details as I won't send them by e-mail.

[dave_tf-old]

I've stayed there many, many times...often checking in multiple times on the same holiday. Granted, it was before the renovation--but they've never turned me away.

[Bob]

Khun Dawit....I don't think you've seen it since the renovation but other than some of the general exterior and some of the hallway floors upstairs, you wouldn't recognize the place. Almost too good for us now...hehe.
And you'd recognize a lot of the same staff from years back.

[dave_tf-old]

Khun Bhop...there is no place too good for us, just some places beyond my budget. And a few that get too persnickety about the hot and cold running boys eager to be entertained.

[Smiles]

" ... And a few that get too persnickety about the hot and cold running boys eager to be entertained ... "
Khun Dawit ... I'll have you know Mr Bob was the epitomy of virginous demeanour while visiting recently. I only had to pull him bodily off three innocents while here for 4 days ... not the fifteen per day I had come to expect from his raunchy and quite lecherous pre-correspondance.

I can't say the same for his (older!) friend though . . . we never saw him again after his first reconnaisance of Red Indian Boy Bar & Massage. I heard it through the grapevine here though that he missed overturning not one single rock in Hua Hin in his quest to relieve the pressure of his precious bodily fluids.
Ya can't take 'em anywhere!

Cheers ...

[Bob]

Khun Dawit ... I'll have you know Mr Bob was the epitomy of virginous demeanour while visiting recently. I only had to pull him bodily of three innocents while here for 4 days ... not the fifteen per day I had come to expect from his raunchy and quite lecherous pre-correspondance.

I can't say the same for his (older!) friend though . . . we never saw him again after his first reconnaisance of Red Indian Boy Bar & Massage. I heard it through the grapevine here though that he missed overturning not one single rock in Hua Hin in his quest to relieve the pressure of his precious bodily fluids.
Ya can't take 'em anywhere!


Hmmmm......."virginous demeanor?" Well, I did photograph a few temples when I was in Hua Hin. And I did get "stringed" by a monk in Chiangmai a week later. Oh yea, I photographed a couple of temples there too. Nevertheless:

(1) I am still chuckling at how schoolmarm Smiles felt the need to escort some drunken slob back to the Fulay Guesthouse. Hell, I thought I could find my way back (or could have at least found a cozy place under the pier to crash for the night!).
(2) Said drunken slob did drink Khun Smiles and Khun Joe (the much older friend) under the table on more than one occasion. And those wusses ended up in bed for a day or more!
(3) Khun Joe (the much older friend) is most definitely a slut. I can say that without any fear that he'll read this as he doesn't own a computer, can't spell "internet", and recently learned how to communicate by carrier pigeon. But he is a nice slut - his offs even come to his hotel to help nurse him back to health after his overindulgence with alcohol (in his case, I think "overindulgence" is classified as two glasses of wine and a slurpy). [Don't worry....I'm printing this out and will later chissel it in stone so Khun Joe can read it].

On a more serious side note, the said drunken slob enjoyed immensely the visit to Hua Hin and especially the time spent with Khun Smiles and Khun Pot. Great people and great fun.

P.S. As a matter of confession, their names were Dum (or Tum) (at Faqthong) and Ton (from Guys). And lovely thai gentlemen. But we never photographed any temples together.....

[thaiworthy-old]

Just a guess, based on nothing, but my hunch is business is so good there, with all the hookers in the area doing "short time", that they really don't need to be bothered with pesky tourists, who would monopolize a room for a 24 hour period, when they can do the "short time" think, and rent out the same room as many as 24 times in one single day.

Have you been to that neighborhood? I mean it's like there is the World Hooker Convention every night of the year. It's as if the Man-Whore Society is in town 365 days a year.

And why does the OP need to stay there that bad? Is there something he's not telling us? Why would anyone have to stay THAT close to all those prostitutes? I mean, if I were the type to want say 5 hookers in one day, I suppose the ROSE hotel would be perfect. So, OP, what kind of person are you?

There is so much simultaneous tawdryness going on over there. And why do they call it the "ROSE" hotel? Have you taken a wiff of the men's steam room there? It makes the Pattaya dump smell like an Irish meadow.... Puh-leese...


Well this is an ironic twist. Someone living in Pattaya condemning Bangkok for its reputation. Or at least this particular neighborhood. Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?

Also, I wonder if there is anyplace in Thailand that is a paragon of virtue? Maybe we should all shave our heads and move into a Buddhist monastery. Nahhhh! I want debauchery. Bring it on!

[thaiworthy-old]

But let's be honest: Bangkok has far more tawdryness than Pattaya... the "Queen of the East"...

Do Noom Lex and Homintern know about this? Uh-oh. Better duck!

[sjaak327]

Nice one, Bangkok bashing, a bit rich considering the basher comes from Pattaya. :)

[PeterUK]

I've just returned from a couple of days at the Rose Hotel and enjoyed my stay there. Room easily booked by phone without the need for credit card details. I took a standard single at 1700B (incl. basic breakfast), which was about medium size and very comfortably appointed, as was the bathroom. View of concrete walls, power cables and a construction site from the window - nothing to faze an old Malaysia hand like me. Some initial repairs required to the door lock and the telephone. While these were being attended to, I turned to a maid and said, 'Cheewit mee banhaa sameu' (life's full of problems), a comment that so tickled her that she promptly went down the corridor repeating it to every maid in sight. The peals of laughter that followed each time made me wonder if I had stumbled on an old Thai saying with obscure sexual connotations. In the end it was decided that I should change rooms and was moved two doors along, where the appearance of the room was identical but there was a much better view of said concrete walls, power cables and construction site. The rest of my stay was uneventful. I hardly saw any other guests on my first day and only a few more on the second. I liked the feeling of tranquillity and being pampered that this gave me. Not a rent boy in sight, though I understand from the friendly reception staff that no joiners' fee is charged should anyone wish to indulge. The pool, as others have said, is very attractive, as is the old Thai house at one end of it which contains the hotel's Thai restaurant. I didn't sample it. Someone asked how many floors are accessible by lift - five, and I believe there is one more floor reached by staircase. I'd say this hotel is a solid three stars and, bearing in mind the excellent location, good value for money.

[piston10]

Thank you, Peter, for your very helpful account of the Rose Hotel. This is my sole gesture towards the topic of the thread, because what interests me is the little human interaction with which you liven it up and which leaves questions in the mind.

You will already have thought of the possibility of your having used a tone wrongly and come out with something wondrously comic. I hope this is not too impertinent, especially as I am in no position to suggest what the tonal slip might have been. Alternatively, could your light, 'London' irony in the face of a broken door handle, intended no doubt to relieve tension and get the matter into perspective, have translated, linguistically and culturally, into an inappropriate, comically philosophical response to a situation that a Thai could not envisage as requiring more than a 'mai pen rai'? How can we tell how your literal translation would have struck a Thai? Or was the maid appreciating an irony of a type she was not used to and sharing it with the others? A speciality of farang humour - weighty comment on an unimportant detail of life? And so on. And we won't know.

This is a very minor matter, but to me it encapsulates one of the most intriguing aspects of visiting Thailand. In interacting with Thais you seem to be always peering between the cultural cracks to establish whether what seems to be really is. So often it isn't; and this I find more exotic than the twirly bits on Thai architecture. In the most recent article on Rice Queen's Diary (which is building up, in my opinion, to be one of the liveliest and most helpful introductions to Thailand for a new gay visitor, though some of it needs taking with a pinch of salt) the writer reports that he has been informed that when a boy gives a piggy-back to another down Soi Twilight in full view of all it isn't horseplay; they are announcing publicly that they are boy friends. Of course, I don't know whether this true; but I hope it is!