Well on with the tale. This is JBR 9 and it looks like they are going to go up to 10. When I read what others do they seem to have action packed times and mine is always full of booze.
Pattaya…………. Always said that we would never go but well here we where. The beach is not nice and I would not step in the sea at all. It was nice to walk along the promenade and you could walk all the way along. The hotel had a good pool so we were ok there.
We used to go out of the hotel and turn right up past the Dusit Thani and around a headland it was quiet along there and there were a couple of simple eating places with cheap drinks.
Some days we walked the other way and I went a few times to a place called the factory outlet store. There was one place in here that sold tops for 69 baht each I got some really good ones.
The shopping did not inspire me much any where in Thailand this time. At the beginning it was because we could not carry it, and then later because we had seen most of it before. It was same, same ….not much different.
Right back to Pattayas famous night life. We went down walking street a few times and partook in some beverage down there. I could even be found one night outside a bar with a placard advertising cheap beer and shouting WEL----COME, HEEEEELLLOOOO, COME on in. or to really confuse them in an Irish accent Hello dear won’t you step this way. Note to self – cut down on the beer. We had a laugh with most of the bar girls one of whom was determined to educate me by learning me some Thai phrases out of a book behind the bar. I thought the phrases were strange until I looked at the title and it was Thai for lovers. Any of you out there want to be called big boy, do that again and you have a venereal disease in Thai then just ask me!
Talking about the ladies of the night and their customers. I was saying to Dave one night how come these old (sorry) mature gents can manage when a lot look like they can’t raise a smile. So I started doing some research….I really think that I should have been an investigative journalist and I have missed my way. According to the research that I did I was told that you can buy not only the Viagra but a Viagra gel and the later you swallow and it comes in different flavours strawberry lime etc. they were available in the pharmacist for around a 100 baht.
I decided that in the terms of research and so that I can report to you all I would get Dave to get some. After loads of protests about how he did not need it he relented and said that he would try it. Following him in to the pharmacist was toe cringingly embarrassing. Not because of what we were asking for but because he insisted in going in to an elaborate tale about how it was not for him but for a friend. All this told to someone who did not understand much English. It is no wonder they were looking at us more like we needed psychiatric help than any other type of medication.
One afternoon after lunch and a bottle of white we decided to try it !!!!! This is where if you are in a slushy romantic novel they go…….and as they lay there afterwards…..
Not to give you the details but we have been married 34 years and……….. WOW. No, Dave does not need any help but it was like usually eating strawberries and then someone gives you the cream to go with them and a bottle of bubbly.
He really made me laugh that night as he strutted up the road like a 19 year old…bless him.
That may be the reason that so many of the men there have lost their dress sense. I have never seen so many socks and sandals combos in my life there were also stripped shorts with check shirts. No women around or a distinct shortage of mirrors.
We went to the tiger zoo at Sriratcha and I really would not recommend it Dave got quite upset at how many tigers were kept together and there were hundreds of crocs. We were in a mini bus with 2 Korean families and they were really nice to talk to.
We did not really go anywhere else but just chilled and tried to enjoy the last of our trip.
The great thing about Pattaya are the baht busses they are tusk the long ones and it costs 10 baht each however far on the route you go. You can just zip up and down on these and it does not matter if you are further out as long as you are on the route it is not going to cost you a fortune to get around.
We had a couple of trips to Tesco Lotus to pick up things for the grandkids.
Daves mother had been convinced when we were in Thailand after Vietnam that we were in the earthquake in china !!! Don’t ask she had wound his brother up so much that he had rung the consulate because he could not get in touch with us. We finally put that one to bed. We rang her from Pattaya and said we don’t know why you thought we were in China. Oh and by the way she thought we were up a mountain !!!! Me, mountain, I don’t book it if it’s on a slope. Anyway we reassured her on the phone that we were in Pattaya in Thailand and thought that this was understood until ringing off when she said have a good time in Taiwan !@!#
We were by now getting to the end and starting to feel like we were going home I was looking forward to seeing family and friends and in particular the grandkids who I wanted to give a big hug to.
I had been leaving clothes as I went along that were too big for me and at one point I had resorted to wearing Daves shorts. I decided that I needed to leave 2 pairs of Elizabeth Clairbourne trousers as they just fell off me.
We were able to keep the room on after lots of negotiation and got a reduction on the price of one night off because for most of our stay the cable TV did not work and the only TV we got was Thai. This would not normally be a problem but when you are away for so long some nights you just want to go back to the room and chill out.
We noticed in pattaya a lot of Russian and Indian tourist we had quite a few Indian tourists in the hotel. They were really rude to the staff. I was appalled at the way that they spoke to them. They were clicking their fingers and demanding. Not nice at all.
Would we ever return to pattaya? Never say never if it came up at the right price and we knew where we were going I may do. We can at certain times get good deals from the UK. It is also an attractive proposition and alternative to staying ion Bangkok as it is an hour and a half from the airport. It could take you this to get in to the city if you hit the traffic wrong and where staying at the other side of Bangkok. They are also building a new 4 lane highway that will cut the travelling time down even more.
Well we were heading back home and we had booke transport to pick us up at 7.30. A limosine. So 7.30 comes and a clapped out Volvo turns up. Sometimes I feel like it is just us……..someone else booking probably got a dogs doda car. Oh well such is life, ours anyway.
Back to reality…………. To be continued
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Geri,
We checked out prices in Jomtien for September.
The best we could see for Cabbages and Condoms (lovely place) was 4500baht (seaview deluxe, which we had last time but seeing that was Easter I expected they'd be lower in September)
At Rabbit we could get a forest room near the pool for 3600baht.
Hi Jax,
Great report. I must give Pattaya a go on our next trip. Just a question on your field research project....You mention that Dave got the Viagra gel...Do you apply that to the appropriate body part? Which flavour did he get? How much do they charge and how many appliactions do you get to a tube. I suppose that would depend on the size......of the tube.
My God shanek you are keen LOL You take it and they are in individual tubes I think the one he tried was something like lemon. the difference is you don't got the thumping heart apparently like you do with the normal tablets.
If the size of tube depended on the size of the whatsit you would have men all over saying oh I just went and bought 10 litres of that gel for aone application LOL
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"Long socks and sandals" You forgot about the stupid red hair dyes and the even more ridiculous jet black wigs some of the old codgers have! You should sit around drinking with some of them, they were all big time gangsters in their day you know,just chose Pattaya instead of Acapolco lol.
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OK, took a rare look to see how you're all getting on and can't resist coming back for a nano second to ask if the lemon flavour affects the partners heart rate too jaxw. You're more expert than me now!
Intellectual curiosity don't you know...
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This years Thailand trip is already booked for October so perhaps another time. We enjoyed the Rabbit and stayed in one of the rooms by the pool I can't remember what we paid last October... the room was absolutely gorgeous as is the owner Deb.
Cheers Geri