As of yesterday Lukas was still at the Tarntawan. I emailed the hotel about airport transportation and he answered! They do continue to provide airport transportation.
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As of yesterday Lukas was still at the Tarntawan. I emailed the hotel about airport transportation and he answered! They do continue to provide airport transportation.
Sorry to tell you Lukas does not work there anymore ,I think they still use his email address.
I was there a week ago and asked the staff about Lukas and they told me he is not there anymore
That may be so but I did not send Lukas an email but rather addressed it to the hotel email address located on the current hotel web page.
So who knows??
really? you found a web site for the new trading entity Tarntawan Surawong Hotel? I knew they had a registered domain name tarntawansurawong.com but did not know they had a working web site or published email addresses yet - perhaps they are using another domain name? do let us know the URL and email address you found
they are of course on some of the hotel booking sites, eg agoda.com and booking.com has them listed - perhaps confusingly as Tarntawan Hotel Surawong and Tarntawan Surawong Hotel respectively
I assume you're not confusing this with the previous trading entity Tarntawan Place at URL www.tarntawan.com and email address tarntawan@tarntawan.com? both the URL and email address are still active
Monty Python fans will probably by now be wondering if all this was set up as a parody of the antics of the Judean People's Front v's the People's Front of Judea in Life of Brian.
bkkguy
The end of an Era
and hopefully the end of this Thread.
Time to suggest some other Gay-Friendly places in BKK
Besides the long list we have known before...
Would be good to know since I may be there in February.
GWM in USA
I've never understood the phrase "gay-friendly". What does it mean in a Thailand context? People don't glare at you when you come down to breakfast with last night's prostitute in tow? Why should you care? I've even seen gays glare when someone is "letting the side down" in that way. Fuck 'em, I say. People are far too sensitive.
Why is it the 'end of an era' why is it time to suggest some other gay friendly places? Virtually nothing has changed at the Tarntawan. Sure the mini-bar content is next to nil, but that is because the new management have to wait or decided to wait to introduce their own 'system'. What else is 'different'? well you have to re-register because apparently all the previous customer info was not available. So my bf and I had to fill in two lines on a sheet and handover our IDs as usual. Breakfast in rooms is now NOT 24hr, but that said...one of the previous staff was happy to oblige at 5pm, as the change was unknown to me. There was no info in the room to advise of changes, apparently the breakfast details were in the lift which I never use if only on 3rd floor.
The business/office has moved within the reception area to the left rather than straight on from the reception desk, has usual 2 computers and working printer I used for boarding card print. Papers available. Both lift/ID retainers still working there although have to double as bell-boys, security. We arrived went in to register and our luggage was up in our room, car parked and key left with security by the time we got to our room minutes after arriving....just as efficiently as normal. Less reception staff, but how many people does it take to hand over a room key?
'Well built' doorman/bell boy, 2 lift/ID guys, room service lady all same as before. 2 new staff behind reception desk.
My normal 'friends' rate was given along with a decent room on the 3rd floor. WiFi worked fine as usual. Tea/coffee/kettle in room as normal. Towels/bedding as normal. GAY FRIENDLY attitude as normal.
As usual there was a mix of other customers coming and going, some Korean, Chines, 6 Japanese golfers, gay gentlemen with boy thai friends, Japanese men with female Thai friends......
Personally I neither saw nor experienced any real negatives that would require me to look elsewhere for my brief stays in Surawong. Best indication for me was when I told bf as we were driving down Suriwong what had changed with Tarntawan...later he said he noticed nothing except mini-bar was light. We ordered food on room service menu, I had usual pork stew and mash (after weeks of rice and rice was craved) and bf had two Thai dishes prepared and tasted as before...very good.
If my next visit end January substantially changes to the point where we don't enjoy our stay, then that may the time to re-think. As for now, we'll stay with it.
By the way......ALL of the various staff members retained and now reliant on returning customers to keep their jobs intact, went out of their way to thank us for returning to stay at the Tarntawan. BF said when I was out and room service delivered the lovely lady we have known for years...went well out of her way and chatted a while with him to thank him for returning.
Newalaan2! Great report! Thanks for all the news and notes about the hotel. Still sounds good!