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  1. It's threesome friendly & rooms look good ...I will be staying there next week.
  2. What specific food locations would you recommend on Sukhumvit Willow? posting google street view links is probably easiest: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/11+Thanon+Sukhum+Vit,+Khwaeng+Khlong+Toei,+Khet+Khlong+Toei,+Krung+Thep+Maha+Nakhon+10110,+Thailand/@13.7402372,100.5562363,3a,75y,190.28h,85.71t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scGFBu4kxEHjbsB7vp8cOeA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x30e29edd79fb460d:0x4c8b558d39810a4e?hl=en
  3. I've not experienced trains stopping at stations for any length of time. Not sure if you can hop off at random stations then hop back on the next day or whatever ...but you could phone the train station and ask them as they tend to speak reasonable English. Not been on the Chang Mai train before, but the sleeper to the Lao border is excellent.
  4. Not been in LOS for a few years now, but always bought my tickets a few days before at the train station to get the best seats.
  5. ^^First time I went to Thailand was with my gf and several other couples(boo hiss), my friend( who was living in LOS ) booked us into the Federal Hotel at the top of soi 11 & picked us up from the airport etc, we were all very naive about Sukhumvit, none of us spotted the FLs, young girls standing around in short skirts are normal street furniture in western city centres, I remember one night coming out of the Federal and walking past this young girl who was standing around & my friend made some joking comment about finding another hotel further from the main drag which confused us...it wasn't until my 2nd trip out that I understood what he meant and the girl was actually a FL. The gogo bars were more sleazy looking walking past, young girls sitting on an older western man's knee or calling out to passing tourists...it wasn't until he took us on a walking tour of Nana/SC where things became completely obvious ...you have to remember we look at things through the eyes of experienced mongers & FLs are much less obvious...almost invisible to uninitiated civilians. You're right about the transition and how these Thai families will then support themselves, but lets remember a lot of these families own farms or come from rural areas so could easily go back to farming if there was no other option, they migrate to bkk for money if that money is no longer available they will simply migrate back to where they came, however a lot WGs speak good English and have a black belt in the way of Falang, so posses many transferable skills for working in a futuristic family friendly tourist zone as service staff. I wouldn't worry too much about the Thai economy suffering, if nothing else the Thais are astute business people, they wont do anything to jeopardise their revenue streams, the resilience of the Baht is testament to this....when the Baht starts to devalue because of military actions/reforms that is the time for thais to worry. ------------------ e2a: nobody really knows what's going to happen so we're only discussing various possibilities I'm glad to see we can do this without any bad vibes ...things seems to be getting a little heated on this topic/thread over on PA.
  6. Jumping to conclusions? lolz, sry. Depends who you ask, most mongers might agree ...but families walking past with kids in tow might see older sex tourist preying on younger socio-disadvantaged girls who might even be underage, their only point of reference might be that documentary they watched about poor northern farmers selling/leasing their teenage daughters to Bangkok pimps, some others might see a western pedo scene of some kind, don't underestimate the power of appearances, venues like this would face resistance in most western cities for much the same reasons. ...bkk already has a bad reputation on a global level for such things. I would say the opposite is true, street walkers are way more discreet, sometimes you have to look twice to make sure ..whereas go go bars etc are way more obvious. Yeh, mongers, pimps, wgs, mafia ..but the majority of thai society would welcome it imo. Sounds like wishful thinking, the article does say, aiming to eradicate all prostitution ....but I guess we'll have to wait and see how that plays out.
  7. That might be you ...thats why I used the word "could"
  8. This could be the pilot for the crackdown.
  9. hmmn good point, I've made a reservation at the prez palace for a west facing top floor room..if it's noisy it will just be the one night only, glad I didn't pay up front now.
  10. Take a look at my thread here also: http://www.bangkok-addicts.com/forum/topic/4410-7-10-days-bkk/?p=47771 I was also looking for a high floor at a reasonable price & booked with Presidential Palace after some extensive research.
  11. So that's why they are not answering my calls, .....I feel a little choked up looking at those pic, lots of great memories from staying there.
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