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Walking Street Security

Apr 1st, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Articles of Note, Walking Street Pattaya, tourists

District Chief Has A Night Out in Walking Street.
The chief of Banglamung District, and a team of his officers decided to have a bit of a night out on the town for March 25th and picked Walking Street as good a location as any to wander about.
In the process of checking security they decided to [...]



Internet cafes - a word of warning

Apr 13th, 2007 | By Editor | Category: Pattaya News, Thailand, tourists, websites

General alert with regards to using your Online accounts in internet cafes
As a rule, we strongly advise against this.
It has come to our attention that your on-line security maybe compromised if you access any of your internet accounts, via link-ups in internet cafes.
There are numerous alerts and concerns that have recently been raised about some [...]



Pattaya High Season - over?

Feb 10th, 2007 | By Editor | Category: GoGo Bars, tourists

Perhaps more to the point, did it ever start. I have never seen the city so quiet in the so called high season, November to February. Official sources state that numbers are down between 30% and 50% on last year, although I would suggest the lower figure is probably closer to the mark.
As usual, [...]



Pattaya Toilet Fags

Jan 11th, 2007 | By Editor | Category: GoGo Bars, Thailand, tourists

No - this isn’t about guys cruising in toilets. In Thailand this has another meaning altogether. This is the nickname given to the attendants who work in the male toilets in many of the Thai managed bars and discos. They are universally hated by tourists for the obvious reason, ie, do you really want some [...]



Pattaya Talk Forum

Jan 11th, 2007 | By Editor | Category: Pattaya web sites, pattaya forums, tourists

Pattaya Talk is the largest of the many chat and information forums about Pattaya. As I write it has over 11,500 members and 410,000 individual posts.
Unlike some of the alternatives (pattayaaddicts.com for example) it is owned and managed by one bar - the FLB bar in walking street - so quite naturally there is a [...]



Roads are for cars!

Dec 25th, 2006 | By Editor | Category: Thailand, tourists

Well actually, for cars, buses, baht taxis, motorbikes, bicycles etc but NOT for pedestrians.
I am increasingly exasperated by the stream of visitors who seem to leave their brains behind when they step on a plane and think it’s perfectly acceptable to walk two or even three abreast in the road. I wonder what their attitude [...]