Marriot Hotel by Royal Garden Plaza, Beach Road

Any members have experience with the Marriot Hotel at Royal Garden Plaza on Beach Road? Gay friendly? Joiner fee? No joiners allowed? Str8ts only?

[netrix]

Any members have experience with the Marriot Hotel at Royal Garden Plaza on Beach Road? Gay friendly? Joiner fee? No joiners allowed? Str8ts only?

I have stayed there 3 different times. Very nice hotel. Great pool.
Good restaurants and of course shopping / food court / cinema are very
convenient just next door at Royal Garden. A bit pricey but I travel a lot
and earn points at other Marriott hotels and accumulate enough for a free
stay once a year or so.

The hotel is just a block from Boyztown. Gay friendly (as is pretty much
everywhere in that part of Pattaya). No joiner's fee. Your guest won't
have a problem. Security will check your boy's ID and hold it until he
leaves. But no bad experience at all with hotel or restaurant staff.
Nothing but the most gracious and accomodating reception and
management.

The more upscale the hotel is, the more personal attention you can
expect and this is no exception. Turn down service, fresh fruit in your
room, complimentary bottled water daily, friendly bell boys to carry
your luggage to your room. Very comfortable and clean hotel. And
the boys I've taken back there all seem to love it too. Ask for a room
with a balcony and a view on the beach side.

Thanks netrix, good to know.

Stayed there twice in the last 4 years and agree with most of what Netrix says. However my experience there has differed greatly with regard to joiners from one visit to another.

The first visit there was no hassle at all about taking guests in, which I did most nights during my two week stay.

On my second stay there it was a disaster. I took a boy well know to me in on my third night at the hotel but after checking his ID the reception and security on duty gave me an embarrassing grilling in front of other guests waiting in and near reception about the boy I had in tow - (he was definitely over 21 years of age and respectably dressed etc). I asked if there had been a problem with this particular boy before and they said no - just that they disapproved of joiners! In spite of me offering to pay a joiners fee (which I assumed they were wanting as 'tea money') they refused to allow him in. I took this up with the management the following day and the answer I got was that the staff on duty were within their rights to refuse entry to anyone they deemed unsuitable.

Needless to say I checked out that very day and have not been back since.

Well that is a big red flag. I will look elsewhere.

[netrix]

wow, i don't blame you snowkat. i would have checked out too. as i said
i've never had a problem in 3 stays of a week or more with multiple
joiners.

if you come in the hotel at the side entrance from inside garden plaza,
the elevator is right there. the security guard/elevator guy is usually on
duty there and will casually check the boy's id and keep it in a cabinet
right by the elevator without even going near reception. but i've taken
boys by reception to check id's many times there.

also, there's a back entrance to the Marriott from beach road that goes
through the garden and by the pool. the entrance at the sidewalk has a
guard or two at night who may or may not check id's. you can go by the
pool and up the back stairs rather than inside the lobby and up the
elevator, and bypass reception and the elevator guard altogether. i'm
always polite to the guards and reception there and they recognize and
greet me when i come in. like i said, never a problem.

i've even had a couple of friends from online meet me at the hotel lobby
and ask the reception desk to ring my room when they arrived, and
they've always been very polite and occomodating in letting me know
when i come downstairs, "mr. netrix, your friend is waiting over here."

because the hotel is so close to boyztown and walking street, they're
definitely used to joiners of all flavors. i don't doubt snowkat's bad
experience, but i don't have any hesitation recommending that hotel
based on my own experience. the only hotel in pattaya i checked out of
the next day because of rude reception was an exclusively gay, well
known place. pm me for details.

[Marsilius]

My experience dates from 1993 - so may no longer be applicable. The Royal Garden Hotel, as it then was, had only just opened and building work was still in progress. I brought a smartly-dressed boy in a few times during daylight hours with no problem - just walked straight through reception with him - but was, on a subsequent occasion with the same boy, pursued through the corridors by a security guard and the boy was then ordered out. No joiners at all was definitely the official policy then! Of course, a touch of reality may have crept into their consciousness since 1993 - but I wouldn't know as I have never returned.

I have stayed at this hotel for the past 3 years in December and will be there for a 4th year to finish off my month in South East Asia.
This year, I am using 50,000 Marriott Reward Points for 6 day stay as they had a special PointsSaver special.

I have never had a problem with joiners. I just walk happily and and confidently into the elevator with my guest.

The pool is wonderful and the grounds are a great oasis from the noise and sleaze. The fitness center is first class. Great location.

I just walk happily and and confidently into the elevator with my guest.

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