Tom Tit

I just remembered reading somewhere (a few months ago, online) that bars would be temporarily closed in Bangkok at some point during February 2019 (think it was 23-24 February) due to 'elections'. Didn't bat much of an eyelid at the time, but, wouldn't you know it... Despite frantic googling, I can't now locate the article in which I read that, and there appear to be no Thai elections planned next month. I did just find a (presumably) fellow mongering alcoholic on TripAdvisor posting the same query a few days ago, however... False alarm? Hoping so. Yours seeking reassurance with a potential February trip on the horizon... :unsure: Tom Tit :blink:

That place looks great. Tom Tit :blink:

Hope that's not totally unhelpful. Have fun. Be nice. Tom TIt :blink:

Christ, I wish I'd been using those apps when my bird here got hold of my phone and found some salty snaps of one of my Thai ex-regulars. That was months ago and I'm still dodging the flying crockery. :( Tom Tit :blink:

Re SeaFood Soi One is apparently the name of the open restaurant type 'fish market' (if you're walking from Nana area) before the turnoff for Soi 1 on the side of Sukhumvit opposite Nana (see link to Google map and photos). I've walked past that place many, many times. Delicious smells coming out of it, and some cute server gals beckoning, but never gone in and eaten. Reason is, I've always been on my own and (more importantly) on my way to Nana/Cowboy with a thirst on and a bulge in my pants. Wonder what it's like (Re SeaFood Soi One, not the bulge in my pants). Anyone been there? Tom Tit :blink: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Re+SeaFood+Soi+One/@13.7426689,100.5511833,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x30e29edd79563469:0x5b2c7dd01cfc9f8f!8m2!3d13.7426686!4d100.5517305

Grunter, Waggoner reassures me somewhat. As I wrote (though not very clearly), I haven't stayed at the Nana Hotel since 2015, so some if not all the things I was down on might well have been fixed. It seems that some of the rooms have been renovated/renewed (at least, given a makeover) since then, and the plumbing (at least in those rooms) is now sorted out. If that's so, and if you're a seasoned monger looking for basic guest-friendly accommodation, a step up from a hostel, right in the middle of the action, then, if you get a renovated room, I think you'll be happy there. Some rooms (even pre-renovation) were okay; some were shit. The bathroom/shower/plumbing was the giveaway. Mouldy smell and trickling cold shower. The times I was shown to s shit room upon check in, I had a shifty then refused to take it, asked for a better room. That worked for a year or so. But then (as I wrote above) there seemed to be a sea change in staff attitude: like they dropped the pretense of 'respecting' you and just rolled their eyes, insulted you in Thai, then gave you an alternative room that was a shit as the first one. Or maybe they just ran to fo rooms that weren't shit over time: it's an old building, noticeably falling apart. The breakfast is 'hearty' and filling, right enough. I always enjoyed that. And the pool area itself gets the sun. To be honest (and selfish) the main reason I decided to give Nana Hotel a long-time body swerve is its proximity to the Soi 4 beer bars - the fact it's impossible to go out without being seen from the bars at the end of Soi 4. I had some trouble with a regular from that area, and I didn't want her or her many mates reporting my whereabouts and activities on a daily basis, so I took my trade elsewhere... That was the straw that broke this camel's back. The rudeness of staff was also increasingly irksome, and the rooms I was given just got too worn out and grimy at some juncture - a line was crossed - so I pulled the plug. I realized I didn't enjoy staying there any more. I pay a little bit more now, and enjoy myself immeasurably more elsewhere. It was better the devil you know for a long time, and then I realized the devil really was a devil. I stayed at Aloft Hotel on Soi 11 last month. Would recommend it. In fact, I did. http://www.bangkok-addicts.com/forum/topic/8165-aloft-hotel-soi-11-recent-reports/?p=109806 Have fun. Tom Tit :blink:

I'm always interested in up-to-the-minute appraisals of the Nana Hotel. I stayed nowhere else in BKK for many years, then it went just too far downhill for even broken shameless little mongering me... In the mists of time, I wrote: 'Last couple of times I've stayed there have been a drag: brown water belching from the shower attachment, smelly room with TV and Wi-Fi on the blink, and one particular bloke on reception (probably about 60 years old, stocky, neat side-parting, dyed black barnet) that's always drunk after midday (nothing wrong with that, like: so am I) refused to give me my room key one time as I didn't have the wee bit of card on me that they give you when you check in: christ I've been staying there for over 20 years and most of the staff know me by name, soft lad... Okay, I should've had it on me. Was awkward and embarrassing though (I was polite and calm: he wasn't). I showed him ID and got my key eventually, but he was aggressive and needlessly rude, never mind obviously inebriated. And none of the other two or three staff on duty (all sober, all know me well) waded in to vouch for me, while several other residents gawped on disapprovingly, unfairly marking my card as a troublemaker, I imagine. One fat twat queueing behind me to check in was tut-tutting under his breath. Fuck that. Plus the daylight walk of shame out of the Nana Hotel past the Soi Nana bars onto Sukhumvit (Morning Night & Stumble Inn) is nowadays too much of a white-knuckle ride for me if even marginally sober: all that shrieking and hollering from horror-film gals I've presumably shagged at some drunken point in the past. Not the best way to start the day. (Not a bad way to end it sometimes, if sufficient drink has been taken, like... ...I've stayed there at least once a year since 1995, but of late Nana hotel's gone too far down the pan, even for an unchoosy old salt like myself. Last stayed there last year. Room was filthy, stained carpet, stank of mould, shit-colored water coming out of shower and basin taps. Staff were unfriendly (no wonder, given the way a lot of the residents were behaving), and, as the feller says above, some of the guests behaved like pigs. Unless you're going to spend your visit pissed out of your brains 24/7, shagging any car-park freelancer with a pulse, staggering around the hotel lobby at 10am in flip-flops and a football shirt red-faced and loudly swearing your head off, and never venturing any farther from the hotel than Morning-Night or NEP (taxi to Soi Cowboy at a stretch) i.e. unless you want a hotel that'll let you openly behave like a drunken sex tourist (nothing wrong with that, of course, if that's your thing), then the Nana hotel is not for you.* The pool is filthy, by the way. And the 'jacuzzi'? I'd rather sit in a sewage tank. * Disclaimer: that paragraph fairly accurately describes some of my own visits to Bangkok in the distant past, but I'm older now and can't be bothered with that shit 24/7...' I also heard it'd been 'renovated' to some extent of late. Hmm. How's it looking nowadays, I wonder? Tom Tit :blink:

I stayed at Aloft for 4 nights. No complaints. Reception staff were helpful, charming and sincere (and, in the case of the bird who checked me in, 10/10 drop dead gorgeous). Room was large (I switched on the patter with Drop Dead G and got upgraded) and clean. Huge bed. Wasn’t noisy at all (Levels nite club in basement rocking till 4am, so I was worried about the noise after what some folks said above) though I was on a high floor (25th floor, trivia fans). Slept like a log. ???? Good strong shower, no problems with water pressure or temperature whatever the hour. Pool is nice: not huge, great views, good sun trap, and a large shaded chill area adjoining, scatter cushions and couches and newspapers and whatnot. Gym with new equipment that nobody was using. I didn’t take any birds back but it was definitely guest friendly: one bloke had a different two obvious tattooed tuppenny tarts with him at breakfast every day. Buffet breakfast is also great. Clientele very nice, pleasant folks. Mix of Asians and Westerners.Younger mongers (apart from your old Uncle Tom and the other feller with a different tart twinset daily, natch), family groups and honeymoon couples. Couple of young single white chicks, one of whom I chatted up beside the pool. Blonde Dutch chick traveling solo, early 30s, slightly chubby but very sexy with great tits, Got her Line address. Reckon she’d have been game for some beer and a ride but she was checking out straight after the sunbathing and heading to Hua Hin... ???? Will definitely stay there again. Refurbished Mercury, across thee road (which someone mentioned above) looked very good too. Tom Tit :blink:

Yup. Much more info needed. I'm sure someone (even myself) might be interested if you can describe what's on offer more clearly and comprehensively. Tom Tit :blink:

Thanks, mrfreeze! In Bangkok still? Wow. Nice. But if your '1st day was drunken than a Tom Tit on a Bangkok weekend bender', I don't fancy your chances. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on, and best book a bed in rehab now for when you finally get home. Anyone else got any recent info on this place: Aloft Hotel, Soi 11? Come on, lads! Looks good. I've not press the 'cancel' button on my booking yet. Tom Tit :blink:

Never stayed here before, but just booked a couple of nights in July. Scant info on here. Someone was asking about it a couple of months ago, but nobody piped up. Seems girl friendly, according to Mr Google. That's good, then. Anyone stayed there? Your old Uncle Tom likes a clean gaff, pool that gets the sunshine, a hearty breakfast, and cheerful staff, how-yoo-this-maaaning-saah!, no questions asked etc. etc.. ^_^ I know exactly where it is, have walked past a few times: location, coupled with price for what you (seem, according to photos) get, is what I chose it. Can cancel free of charge, tough, if anyone wants to tell me it's shit. Come on, lads! :) Tom Tit :blink:

Okay. Spoiler alert: I finally got there. My April 2017 trip was postponed, but I booked and stayed at the PARK PLAZA SOI 18 in December 2017. That's this one: https://www.tripadvisor.in/Hotel_Review-g293916-d2049177-Reviews-Park_Plaza_Bangkok_Soi_18-Bangkok.html I didn't stay at this one, the PARK PLAZA SUKHUMVIT: https://www.tripadvisor.in/Hotel_Review-g293916-d939455-Reviews-Park_Plaza_Sukhumvit_Bangkok-Bangkok.html However, it is VERY confusing. The taxi driver from the airport took me to the wrong one (it's on Rachadapisek Road) and dropped me off there: it's 20 minutes' walk (or 30-40 mins in a taxi: yup, taxi takes a lot longer - one way roads, in heavy traffic) from the fucker I wanted on Soi 18. The one I stayed at was okay as accommodation. Room clean. Spacey. Pool passable, if minute. Wi-fi okay. No problem with bringing birds back: everyone knows the score, lots of wink-winking from the bloke on the door (who was a cool dude). I think ID card was always handed over (was royally pissed once or twice so can't recall). I never brought more than one bird back at once. BUT... the young birds on reception (two or three of them, always the same team) were a right pain in the arse. F*cking rude uppitey bitches. Slow as shit, terrible supercilious attitude: they spoke about customers (me, and anyone else they were serving) in Thai, saying sarky catty stuff that my (crap) This is good enough to understand wasn't polite or flattering, Really pissed me off. The kind of women you take an instant dislike to because it saves time. They really stressed me out, and as I checked out I gave it to them with both barrels. Of course, I heard then sniggering and calling me a cunt in Thai as I walked away. But I won't be going back. (The PARK PLAZA SUKHUMVIT, by the way, looked better than the one I stayed at (though I only saw the lobby and reception area. And the staff there were VERY kind and cordial. If it's guest friendly, I'll stay there next time.) Tom Tit :blink:

This place looks/sounds really good. Great prices too. Surely the big question is: IS IT GUEST FRIENDLY? Edited to add: Er, try reading ALL the comments before you stick your oar in, Tom, you stupid clot. :rolleyes: Tom Tit :blink:

I said the same thing about the 'wizard's sleeve' of a snatch on an old banger I barfined from Soi 7 Beergarden last December. :ph34r: Tom Tit :blink:

That's good to know. But really? They 'don't have the right to ask you this type of question ... the only thing they're allowed is to ask you questions to establish that you are the rightful holder of the passport'? Hmm... Well, the latter sections of the document you linked to state that, as of 2008, UK Border Agency 'immigration staff' dealing with 'British Citizens' at the 'primary checkpoint' have 'additionally been conferred with certain Customs powers' and 'may therefore ask questions with regard to goods in baggage and ... ask the passenger the origin of their flight/journey' which leaves it nicely vague thus giving the bastards veritable carte blanche to make your life a fucking misery. :angry: To clarify, having racked my addled memory... In Japan, it's not the dudes at passport control ('Border Agency': that check your entry visa, before you pick up your checked-in baggage), but rather the folks at Customs (as you go through the 'Nothing To Declare' EXIT bit with your suitcase) that have stopped me and quizzed me about Thailand in the past. These clowns (probably wanting to practice their shit English, though I only talk to them in Japanese) almost always glance through my passport and check my Jap Resident card then ask a question or two (usually 'What do you do in Japan?' and 'What did you do in Thailand?' before waving me through, no worries. :P But in the UK, I've flown into London via Thailand. I've been asked a couple of times at the initial passport check (Border Agency) 'Why do you go to Thailand so often?'. I also once got a connecting domestic flight to Manchester (I think it was). A uniformed bloke at the baggage carousel (so, a Customs officer I presume) stopped me as I made to depart with my case. He asked me where i was arriving from, took my passport, flicked through it, and started asking me all sorts of shit: where I'd been in Thailand, what for, how many times had I visited Thailand in the last 12 months... He then took me aside and rifled through my case, asked me to open my laptop and show him images in the photos folder... He then asked if he could test my hand luggage for 'narcotics'. I said okay. He brought this prod-like scanner stick with a bit of cotton wool at one end that he rubbed around the inside of the bag, Lights flashing and buzzers buzzing: Your bag's tested positive for narcotics, he says. Why might that be? I can only imagine that your machine if not correctly calibrated, I reply. He tries again with a new bit of cotton. This time no bells and whistles. He says I can go. :wacko: Never been narcotics in my bag as far as I know. Maybe he was just trying to freak me out: scare tactics, so I'd panic and blab if I had a greased condom full of cocaine stuffed up my arse or whatnot? Well, I didn't, and I didn't. ;) Tom Tit :blink:

Joeyb, I'm a UK citizen based in Japan (EU Passport). I made about 12 or so weeklong mongering visits to Thailand (about one list every two months) over a 2-year period 2013-15 (which sounds a bit like what you've got in mind, and is highly recommended!). Got the free 30-day visa on entry each time, no problem. BUT... I did get hassled quite a few times at UK entry point or on re-entering Japan (I'd stay in Thailand on my way to or my way back from UK). 'You visit Thailand very often, Mr Tit. Why is that?' (They no doubt suspected I might be a druggie (understandable given some of the disheveled states I've been in after a week on the piss and on the fanny on Soi 4..).) I always told them I had a British pal in BKK and visited him and his family on my way to and fro, and they were okay with that, though once they laboriously went through my carry-on luggage at Heathrow. No big deal, but just to let you know what possibly to expect... (I find the Thai immigration folks very affable, as long as you're calm and polite, and a smile goes a long, long way. I've seen punters get stroppy with them, and it never ends well. Even if they whisk you away for an 'interview' (as they did with me when I visa-overstayed this January), keep smiling, say sorry, pay the fine, and you're on your way.) Tom Tit :blink:

I wrote in another thread last November: I've stayed there at least once a year since 1995, but of late Nana hotel's gone too far down the pan, even for an unchoosy old salt like myself. Last stayed there last year. Room was filthy, stained carpet, stank of mould, shit-colored water coming out of shower and basin taps. Staff were unfriendly (no wonder, given the way a lot of the residents were behaving), and, as the feller says above, some of the guests behaved like pigs. Unless you're going to spend your visit pissed out of your brains 24/7, shagging any car-park freelancer with a pulse, staggering around the hotel lobby at 10am in flip-flops and a football shirt red-faced and loudly swearing your head off, and never venturing any farther from the hotel than Morning-Night or NEP (taxi to Soi Cowboy at a stretch) i.e. unless you want a hotel that'll let you openly behave like a drunken sex tourist (nothing wrong with that, of course, if that's your thing), then the Nana hotel is not for you.* The pool is filthy, by the way. And the 'jacuzzi'? I'd rather sit in a sewage tank. * Disclaimer: that paragraph fairly accurately describes some of my own visits to Bangkok in the distant past, but I'm older now and can't be bothered with that shit 24/7. ....... Looking for an alternative? I wrote in another thread last December: I stayed in Sukhumvit Soi 2 Solo hotel in November and will stay there again later this month. It is great. Very good deals on Expedia/Agoda etc. Staff extremely friendly. Girl friendly (I was there for a week, brought about 4 different birds back on different nights (one per night, so dunno about the 'not more than one bird' rule) and they didn't bat an eyelid, no joiner fee, took ID and called room after bird left to check all okay. Majority of clients seemed to be non-mongers, young couples of pairs of blokes (including some obvious poofters), but nobody tut-tutted (staff or other guests) when I rolled down for breakfast with an obvious tart on my arm. It's quite a way down Soi 2 (free tuk-tuk upon request 24 hours a day to Sukhumvit though, and will pick you up anywhere on Suk and bring you home if you phone the hotel). Very quiet. Breakfast nothing special but okay. Room service quick and cheerful. Very clean room, strong shower, all good. Rooftop pool very small but a good area for sunbathing. Only pennies more than the Nana hotel, but infinitely quieter, cleaner, and staff less rude, so a true gem and a real bargain. Which is why I'll never stay at Nana again, will always use Solo henceforth. ....... Hope that helps. Tom Tit :blink:

Perfect. Thanks so much. It's a sale! Tom Tit :blink:

As long as you A. smile and relax and get into the spirit of it, and B. don't wear or carry anything you don't want ruined, it's fun. Lovely to see the wee Thai kids having fun. Once i probably enough though. I had my 'once' about 15 years ago; avoid it if i can now (more a reflection on me than on Songkran). The only genuinely annoying aspect of it is the drunken tourist numbskulls who take it too far then (in an instance I witnessed) loudly demand a fight when some unsuspecting soul on his way to work dares to grumble about an inebriated piss-artist drenching his iPhone and work papers as he innocently crosses the street. The Thais will make eye contact and check first that you're game for a soaking (and graciously leave you alone if you don't look like you're part of the party); the idiot falang drunkards falling out of the bar with 3 litre pump guns and no idea what the festival's really about will fire first and ask questions later. Like life, it's what you make it: make it great, and you'll have fun. Up to you. Tom Tit :blink:

Park Plaza Hotel's on this recent Youtoob video of Soi 18. You first see it (next to Windsor Suites?) at 8:44, then get a decent look at it at 10:30 and 11:25. Looks good. Tom Tit :blink:

Ha ha, it's the same hotel and, despite what the Agoda website claims (it was that that threw me too, Crash69) it is on Soi 18. It's own official website says Soi 18, anyway. (I laugh not at you lads, but at the fact I already just mixed up Centre Point on Soi 10 with Centre Point in Chit Lom and managed to book the wrong one... If there'd been TWO Park Plazas I'd have thought this was some kind of conspiracy! :( ) Now we've worked out here the fucker is, hey Hermansen, how's about some of that 'I can provide information in detail' stuff? Would be greatly obliged. Reviews online seem universally positive. Only (minor) grumbles appear to be 'location' and 'small swimming pool': well, I know where it is and it's close enough to NEP and SC for me, and I'll file the pool objection under 'so what?' ​Bottom line: Is it 'guest friendly'? Cover charge? Walk of shame? Clientele mostly beery mongers in flip-flops and soccer tops (see under Nana Hotel and also under 'Tom Tit-kettle calling the pot black') or a mix? Thanks in advancefor any tips, Hermansen (and anyone else who'd like to chime in). Tom Tit :blink:

Thanks for that SJ. Being a moron, I just provisionally (free cancellation, thank f*ck) booked at Centre Point Hotel Chidlom in th mistaken belief that it was the Centre Point Hotel on Soi 10 (yes, the Chidlom in the name should've bee a giveaway but, as I said, I'm a moron). The Chidlom CP sounds great and I got a very good price (about 2500 baht per night, deluxe room with breakfast), but it's a bit far away from the NEP/SC action for my liking. I can't remember why I abandoned ship on the Park Plaza idea, but your post has got me regretting it. I'll have another look at Centre Point Soi 10 and Park Plaza... Always got the Chidlom place now as a back up. Tom Tit :blink:

Anyone stayed here and can recommend it? Some good current internet deals right now. I've never stayed there. Last mentioned on here 3 years ago: a short thread and a couple of one-liners, all basically just saying it (was) girl friendly. That's good, of course, but ... anything else...? (Remember lads, old Tom Tit likes a hotel with a good pool, so he can pack his speedos and his sunscreen (deluding himself that he's gonna be sober at some time during his stay and not 24/7 boozing and chasing skirt) then unpack said items unused when he gets home.) Tom Tit :blink:

Not sure what forum this should properly go in — sorry! shift it if it's misplaced, Mr Moderator — but something's rotten in the state of Tomtitland of late regarding my viewing of this goodly electronic parish. It all starts well. Opens smoothly, purrs like a kitten as I read a few new posts and make a couple myself, then... it all goes pear shaped. Usually after I've looked at half a dozen threads and make one or two posts myself, so I'll have been on about 30 minutes total, everything suddenly slows down to the extent that a page takes ten minutes to open. What's up with that? If I open a new browser, or exit the site then start again, it's the same slowdown. Other sites I'm simultaneously browsing open fast and good as gold, but this one's choked up. Same at home or at my office. Doesn't matter what tome of day it is. Phone or computer: same story. (Though, and here's the rub, if I'm on th computer and it's slowed down, if I then open this site on my phone it loads and reloads at normal quick speed.) Can't be my Wi-Fi, then? Must be a problem at the other end (as the bishop said to the actress). Maybe I should count this as a blessing. If this didn't happen, I'd spend two hours a day on here instead of 30 minutes (fine in an ideal world, but I've got work shit to do...). Anyone any ideas? It's a mystery to me: I know as much about computers as I know about celibacy in Bangkok. :P Tom Tit. :blink:

Ha ha, my glass is NEVER half full, mate. I'm a fall-down drunk: my glass is either full or it's empty. :) Tom Tit :blink: