Last time I was there I didn't get any name cards. I always thought they were a waste of money for the hotel as I'm sure many customers just threw them straight into the bin, like I did. Who wants to give out cards with your real name to bar boys?
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Last time I was there I didn't get any name cards. I always thought they were a waste of money for the hotel as I'm sure many customers just threw them straight into the bin, like I did. Who wants to give out cards with your real name to bar boys?
Right, it's been several years since they supplied name cards at check in. No problem. You could simply give bar boys your business card with full contact details. Then the boys could get in touch by phone, fax or e-mail at any time, no matter where you are. If you did not respond, they might even be able to search out the e-mail address of your director to ask him to relay their message about needing a replacement buffalo or a reminder to bring larger size condoms on your next visit to Pattaya. Or, if the boy chooses to send a fax, and your fax machine is not located next to your desk, think how eager your colleagues would be - having digested very word of the plea from your swarthy Cambodian at Jomtien - to make a donation for support of the boy, just to reward him for supplying the erotic details of your one night stand with a same-sex partner. :))
fax...LOL
Interesting from a447 - it has never occurred to me to give any boy a false name mostly because the need has never arisen. In fact I can only think of 2 boys who have ever asked my surname.
Makes me wonder what kind of nom-de-plume you guys come up with - if I was going to do that I'd make sure it was something fabulous like Fifi Le Bonbon
Hope I didn't just steal Francois' alias
:D
Fifi Le Bonbon...a little prosaic if you don't mind me saying so Scottish. I would choose Baron Highbury of Londinium, Her Majestys' personal Pattaya attache.
Have you thought that through?
Being a Baron would almost certainly put the price up!
:D
Moses:
Not attachement. Attache.
In diplomacy, an attaché is a person who is assigned ("attached") to the diplomatic or administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency. Although a loan from French, in English the word is not modified according to gender.
To return to the OP topic :
I stayed again at the Tarntawan :
Room the same
Breakfast, the same but not 24/24
Less staff, what do you expect of a new owner who has to reduce costs
But I knew all the staff except the young receptionist, clearly inexperienced.
Same warm friendly feeling, which makes us forget the shortcomings of the plumbing.
Left early, 06.00 am, efficient cashier, the lift man doubles up as porter, the hotel limo as usual to the Airport. Same price.
Customers : one family with children, just as last year and many older gentlemen some of them with younger friends.
I have stayed 3 to 6 times a year for the last 8 years, and if there had not been all this buzz, I would hardly have noticed the change, apart from thinking that there had been a reduction of the costs i.e. staff.
Thanks....and its occupancy?
As much as you can judge, people have different time tables, it looked the same. Breakfast busy around 9.00 am. I have never met many people in the lobby. For me, despite the known shortcomings, it's still a very good option in Surawong/Silom.
OMFG - How is the hand dryer in the Gent's toilet?
Is it blowing with just as much force as before or have they cut back on air velocity?
Could somebody post a pic of it please as it's causing me sleepless nights.
Also, "Hoppy" the one legged midget waiter with the lazy eye and the hare lip - is he still the same height or has he grown or shrunk?
Is he still getting ridden like a (very unsteady) pony by a short fat farang with millions of air miles?
"Hoppy" did a runner with some total weirdo from Amsterdam.They have both been barred permanently by the new management.
It was also something to do with using sex aids in the downstairs gents but they won't talk about that part of it anymore.
Well if one-legged Hoppy did a runner he wont be hard to find - he can only go round in circles.
Meanwhile I'm still stressed out as there has been no news of the Tarntawan for 12 hours now:
Are the plants outside still being watered regularly?
Has the frequency of watering increased or decreased.
Is the reception staff doubling up as gardeners to do the watering?
Does the rose on the watering can have the same number of holes as before?
Scottish: Funny stuff and breathing new life into a tired thread. However you're not quite on the money here. Will Smith when talking about Men in Black II said that what audiences want is the same movie as Men in black but different. And he's right. The same applies to the holidays we all have in Thailand. We want exactly the same holiday we had last time, but different. Therefore changes in a hotel, however ridiculous they may seem acquire a greater importance than perhaps they should. Also, it is high season and some/many of the members here will be packing their viagra and multiple medications and heading off to fuck themselves into an early grave you-know-where. So they will discuss any topic that is related to Thailand until it is many pages past it's point of interest. Geddit.
I don't get 178 replies - an Hotel has changed hands - big fucking deal.
Either go and see how it is now or go elsewhere - it's kinda simple really.
Scottish wrote:
"I don't get 178 replies - an Hotel has changed hands - big fucking deal."
Lots of people stay there I guess. It's 181 now.
Arsenal, you've hit the nail on the head.
I've stayed a number of times at the Tarntawan and I want it to be exactly the same when I check in again tomorrow. I don't want to have to get acquainted with new staff, new ways of doing things,etc.
It's my base when I'm in Bangkok and I don't want any surprises.
Clearly we have different expectations of a hotel - for me its a place to sleep, shag, and eat breakfast.
I require it to be centrally located, clean, free of cockroaches, all the lights working (a pet peeve), and to welcome joiners with minimum hassle
I really have no need to be on first name terms with the staff as I come and go - they're actually not my friends and I'm not theirs. If I dropped dead tomorrow and never returned they wouldn't notice.
But each to his own I guess.
I look forward to when the replies reach 500
Enjoy
:D
Well Scottish, in November the hotel manager where I stay in Pattaya described his hotel as my second home and I liked his comment a lot because it is but each to his own.
It took a number of visits and stays at various hotels before I settled on Tarntawan and Ambiance. I feel at home there; the staff know me and I know them. And for the last fourteen years, my boyfriend has been with me and he feels the same .Is there anything surprising in wanting to continue?
The same goes for our choice in Chiang Mai; we stayed at five or six places before finding the one that suits us. I don't wish to experiment. This seems reasonable to me.
At the same time, we were reasonably happy with our choice in Bali three years ago but decided a change may be better in June this year. We were wrong. The holiday wasn't ruined but we were disappointed and wished we hadn't changed.
Certainly NOT a good day for hotel cockroaches. What do you have against them anyway?
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Green Piece
...i actually enjoy trying new hotels...makes the experience kinda new again...same city but different location...I certainly do not see the staff as friends...or the hotel as some sort of 2nd home...how silly.
Smiles mentions cockroaches and Sexual Deviant Latin responds immediately. Irony.
Well, I've just checked in and nothing's changed as far as I can see. I was given a very nice welcome when I walked into the lobby. The chubby guy came rushing over and took my luggage and I got a waifrom the short guy with the crew cut and the ear to ear grin.
Only difference is that Lukas has gone and breakfast and bar times have changed, but none of those things affect me. Oh, and the internet is crap. That does affect me.
BTW, I was charged 200 baht to use the Siam Commercial Bank atm at the airport!
Not in Pattaya. On my last trip I'm sure I only paid 180. Before that it was 150.
Get a Unionpay card. You only get charged 100 baht. In fact if you travel in Asia a lot it would be very useful to have. 192 now Scottish. Ooohhh. I can feel your fury from here. Haha.
Aeon still charges only 180 baht (wowo!). There are only two Aeon ATM's in Hua Hin and every time I try and use one there's a line of farangs 20 deep, only a few of whom know how to withdraw (or any transaction for that matter) money from the damn thing. Like deers in headlights these poor old dudes, and esses.
So, rolling of eyes, I go to the nearest ATM-not-an-Aeon and never having to wait: down 20 baht! (wowo!)
On the one hand we have veered off from:
"OMFG I hear the toilet paper in The Tarntawan is now only 2 ply instead of 3 ply - please can someone go in for a dump and verify this"
But we have now either sunk or raised the bar to:
"OMFG I'm being asked to pay an extra 20B/50p/60c to withdraw cash at my local ATM.
Please tell me where can I travel a mile to and get a bit more melanoma standing in a queue in direct sunlight for 30 mins while a bunch of old coffin dodgers smelling of pish stand at the AEON ATM trying to remember their PIN numbers"
Progress indeed
196 and counting. Of course a fair few of those have come from Scottish himself complaining about the length of the thread. I've never stayed at the hotel in question. What's it like?
Stop stirring the pot Arsenal
:D
I'm not stirring Scottish I am genuinely interested. One of the internet sites (I can't remember which one) was awash with rumours that the softener used in the sheets had been changed from Forest Pine to Norwegian Pine. Can anyone confirm this? Come on, lets go for a double century.
Well, you are half correct, arsenal. Allow me to confirm that the softener used is, in fact, Norwegian Forest Pine.
And I can also confirm that the sheets are still not cum-resistent. More on that in another thread.
This is almost as good as the poo thread on Gaybutton but does not compare to the Model Photoshots on Gaythailand stared by Fountainhall three years ago. At least those threads were of some interest .