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Party Bar Pattaya Hot Babes

February 1, 2015 by David Herd

Great night with sexy babes

Party Bar Pattaya

Party Bar Pattaya

Party Bar Pattaya had a re-opening Monday January 26 2015, a new partner bought into this little business so it was time to sing, dance and celebrate. So that’s what my friend Hamish & I did, minus the singing & dancing, we concentrated on drinking & checking out the pretty ladies.

Just a little corner bar

Party Bar Pattaya

Located behind the Avenue shopping centre on 2nd road. Nothing too flash just a little corner bar where you can have a beer and watch the passing parade. In many ways people watching is why I also like the Cherry Bar on the corner of Soi 3 and 2nd road North Pattaya.

Party Bar Pattaya Lovely Noi

Party Bar Pattaya

Noi has just become part owner of the Party bar, drop in sometime and say hello.

Surrounded by gorgeous creatures

Party Bar Pattaya

What time can I start having fun?

Pretty ladies

Party Bar Pattaya

Great smiles certainly brighten up the night.

Lovely cowgirl Kung

Party Bar Pattaya

On this night all the girls wore cowgirl outfits and looked terrific, sadly now however they have reverted to normal clothes. It’s a shame really because any little back street beer bar needs to make sure customers remember them, so a point of difference that separates you from the thousands of similar places in Pattaya can only have a positive effect on the business. Walking streetLK Metro & Soi 6 have the passing traffic but most of the little back street bars don’t, so my message is loud & clear, dress the girls in the western outfits, they look terrific. 🙂

Check out my post on Seven sexy American restaurants and see how they do it, the yanks are masters of promotion.

Party Bar Pattaya & dinner is served

Party Bar Pattaya

One thing Thai girls like to do is eat. 🙂

Some great looking babes here.

Party Bar Pattaya

A very happy looking bunch.

A lesson for the Farangs

Party Bar Pattaya

Not all Thai ladies are available in Pattaya for foreigners like myself merely because you have a few thousand Baht to burn on a night out. I was quite impressed by this gorgeous lady so I gave her my card and later in the week tried to arrange to meet her for a drink. To her credit she had too much style to be seen with a fat old Farang like me, so she made an excuse that she was sick. Good luck to you Yuie, stick with the younger cooler dudes. 🙂

Yuie likes to drink and dance.

More Sexy Thai girls dancing in Pattaya Party Bar

 


 

 

Never too young to party at the party bar.

Party Bar Pattaya

This little guy was happy to be in the action.

Never too old either

Party Bar Pattaya Hot Babes

Good luck to Party Bar Pattaya, I hope they have success, fun and make a lot of money.

Sabai Wing Soi 1 North Pattaya

Party Bar Pattaya

Sabai Wing Soi 1, 3 swimming pools and nice rooms, 100 meters from BigC, great value at only $23 usd per night as of August 15. I live in the high-rise in the background, Markland. For a great room rate book here.

For a more upmarket hotel on Beach Rd

Party Bar Pattaya

Just use THIS LINK for a terrific rate at the Wave Hotel.

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Best Pattaya short travel guide

January 9, 2015 by David Herd

Best Pattaya travel guide gives you quick access to a number of my most popular travel blogs to help you enjoy the wonderful seaside city of Pattaya in Thailand.

Best Pattaya short travel guide

Food in Pattaya

Pattaya Luxury Five Star hotels
 
 

Pattaya Hotels

Siam @ Siam is one of Pattaya’s most interesting hotels

 
Pattaya Luxury Five Star hotels
 
 
 Hilton Pattaya spectacular Sky Bar

Pattaya budget hotels

 Soi 7 Pattaya Pubs Bars Babes
Click here for a great golf venue.
Kantary Hotel Kabinburi Golf Course

Click here for the Beach Rd ballet. 

Hello welcome Pattaya Beach Rd Thailand
Pattaya 24/7 webcam

April Songkran celebrations

Hooters Pattaya charity bike wash

Click here for some Russian babes in Pattaya. 

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Check out Soi 6 on Xmas day 2014

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World famous walking Street
Walking St Pattaya
Pattaya LadyBoy show

Tropical storm floods Pattaya

Beer bar locations

Best Pattaya short travel guide

Dentist, Doctor, Car rental etc.

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Best Pattaya short travel guide is probably an exaggeration, however I do hope you can get some good ideas through it.
 

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Holiday Inn

Best Pattaya short travel guide

Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.

Pattaya Hilton

Best Pattaya short travel guide

This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate. 

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Bangkok canal cruise longtail boat

January 7, 2015 by David Herd

Bangkok canal cruise

Bangkok canal cruise

Bangkok canal cruise in a long-tail boat, which is known as Ruea Hang Yao, a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia, which uses a common automotive engine as a readily available and maintainable power-plant.

As you can see many of the waterfront homes resemble shanty towns, unlike other parts of the world including the Gold Coast in Australia and Fort Lauderdale north of Miami,where any home on the waterfront is usually an expensive mansion.

No luxury here

Bangkok canal cruise

In real estate terms this is what we call the poverty pack.

The daily catch

Bangkok canal cruise

Lunch is ready. 🙂

Bangkok canal cruise in a longtail boat

Bangkok canal cruise

The craft is designed to carry passengers on a river & may include a lightweight long canoe hull, up to 30 meters long, and a canopy. There is a great variation among these boats, some have evolved from traditional craft types, while others have a more improvised look, the sole defining characteristic is a second-hand car or truck engine.


What a huge engine

Bangkok canal cruise

And bloody noisy as you can imagine.

Waiting in the lock for the water to rise.

Bangkok canal cruise

Until recently, the canals of Bangkok accommodated many social, cultural, and commercial activities, functioning as important public places for residents of Thailand’s capital city. Dating from the founding of the city in 1782, the canals in Bangkok are of cultural importance to the Thai people, having originated as a means of providing security against attack, as a source of sustenance (food and water), as the focus of religious ceremonies and celebrations such as the Loy Kratong Festival, and as a site for recreational activities such as swimming and boating activities and competitions.  

Luxury waterfront home, I don’t think so.

Bangkok canal cruise

Faced with the combined threats of land subsidence and rising temperatures and sea levels, the World Bank has predicted that Bangkok’s flood risk will increase four-fold from now by 2050. Bangkok is among the top 10 cities in the world facing the biggest potential impact from coastal flooding by 2070. The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.

She does not instill confidence

Bangkok canal cruise

The river and canals are very busy with water craft buzzing past at a rapid rate, on this day out driver was not at all concerned, but I can assure you we were. 🙂   Not everything goes to plan when you take a Bangkok canal cruise, here is a story from a Thai lady who works for the Bangkok Post.  So my advice is if an operator seems angry of unfriendly simply try another one until you are comfortable with your choice.  

Bangkok canal cruise Wat Khun Chan

Bangkok canal cruise

    From the Phasricharoen canal  

Wat Khun Chan Buddha

Bangkok canal cruise

Lots to see on a Bangkok canal cruise.

Genuine Louis Vuitton copies?

Bangkok canal cruise

A little river shopping for a bargain.

Waiting for a customer

Bangkok river buildingsIn the distance is Iconsiam shopping mall.

That’s all folks.

Bangkok canal cruise

Many thanks for joining me on  my Bangkok canal cruise photo blog.                             

Not everybody is happy on the river  

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A Vietnamese cargo ship ploughed into riverside houses along the Chao Phraya River in Phra Pradaeng district yesterday April 5t 2017, damaging three homes.

Residents fled to the streets in panic as the cargo ship loomed over them. Three houses were damaged, one badly, but nobody was injured.

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Bangkok Budget Sukhumvit Hotels

When I’m in Bangkok I like to stay in Sukhumvit Soi 11, here is an excellent budget hotel, if you USE THIS LINK you will get a great rate of around B1100 per night, or $30 USD.

 
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Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.

Pattaya Hilton

Pattaya hotels, Hilton & Holiday Inn

This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate. 

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Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

January 6, 2015 by David Herd

Pattaya Hilton

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel dominates the skyline in central Pattaya. Perched above Central festival shopping mall the location is perfect.

Even better at sunset

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Certainly one of the best locations in Thailand to watch the magnificent sunsets while enjoying a cocktail.


Captured the flash

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

What a fluke, I managed to take this photos just as the flash activated. 🙂

Hilton Pattaya Spectacular decor

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

The modern architecture is absolutely stunning.

Lounge near reception

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel is as modern as any hotel I have ever been in.

Cocktail bar and lounge

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

The Hilton Pattaya is in a perfect location opposite the beach and above Pattaya’s best shopping malls. Central Festival has a huge amount of restaurants and shops so you never really have to leave the building.

Check out this link to see some of the very humorous sights you see every day on Beach road.

Horizon’s on the top floor.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

There is a happy hour here every night between 5 & 7 pm.

Horizon’s on the top floor.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

As you can imagine it is a great place to watch the sunset.

Looking south from Horizon’s.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

Looking toward Walking Street.

Looking north from Horizon’s.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

The building with the green neon sign is the Holiday Inn.

Entree at Horizon’s.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

The food is exceptional as you would expect, however take plenty of money because it is priced accordingly.


Far better value at the Edge restaurant

Favourite Pattaya restaurants

 

The buffet here is available for lunch or dinner 7 days a week.

The Edge buffet

Favourite Pattaya restaurants

 

An excellent choice of food as you would expect.

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel is perched above Central Festival shopping mall.

 

With friends at the Edge buffet

Hilton Pattaya five star hotel

 

A mix of American, Australian, English & Thai.

Desert at the Edge

Hilton Hotel Pattaya Thailand chocolate masterpiece. Part one.

Making desert part 2.

Hilton chocolate creation by beautiful Thai lady. Part two.

 

Every morning opposite the Hilton the Para-sailors fly around like mosquitoes

 

Chaotic & crazy Parasailing in Pattaya

Thanks for visiting my Hilton Pattaya five star hotel photo blog.

Here are some great views of Pattaya

 

Another interesting hotel Siam @ Siam

 

Another option is the Holiday Inn.

 

 

Pattaya – Hua Hin Mini Van

If you are in Pattaya and want to go to Hua Hin there is now a daily minivan service, they have offices in Pattaya, Hua Hin and Cha Am, for Hua Hin the mini van leaves at 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and takes 4 hours to get to Hua Hin, priced at only 400baht.

The Pattaya office is on South Pattaya Road, if your heading towards Sukhumvit road go over 3rd Road and past Soi Ko Pai/ Soi Bongkot and it’s on the left hand side at soi 10, which is around 300 meters or more from Sukhumvit Road.

Pattaya Office 088 709 2365
Hua Hin Office 088 709 2364
Cha Am Office 089 254 1399

Bus leaves Pattaya 8:00, 10:00, 12:00

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Holiday Inn

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Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.

Pattaya Hilton

Pattaya hotels, Hilton & Holiday Inn

This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate. 

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David Herd Thailand 2014

December 29, 2014 by David Herd

Looking north at Pattaya beach

David Herd Thailand 2014

David Herd Thailand 2014

David Herd Thailand 2014 was another eventful year. Starting with a wonderful trip to Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cape Town & Sydney. I have called this 5 week adventure my seven super cities trip.

I flew to Adelaide in October then drove to Philip Island along the Great Ocean Road before staying with friends at the winery in Dromana.  A couple of days wandering around Melbourne I flew to the Gold Coast for a week to catch up with friends.

This is not part of my travel blog, just lots of photos from 2014 featuring friends, family & trips.

Drinks at Cherry bar

David Herd Thailand 2014

My brother Warren and his good friend Lenny at the Cherry bar. 

Sadly we lost Lenny early 2016 after losing a battle with cancer, RIP.

Here is my webcam

 

 

Para sailing

David Herd Thailand 2014

 

They buzz around like little mosquitoes. 

My condo building is 3rd from the left

David Herd Thailand 2014

This photo was taken from the Dusit Tani.

Golf at Kabinburi

David Herd Thailand 2014

This was my only game of golf in 2014 at Kabinburi, I just find it too hot to play regularly in Thailand.

Lunch with Macca and Herbie

David Herd Thailand 2014

John MacDonald hails from Melbourne and Herb Pastor come from Las Vegas.

Friends at Gullivers

David Herd Thailand 2014

Brad Robbins, Roland Bonicci and Por.

Mata Hari with Irina and Roland

David Herd Thailand 2014

Another terrific night at Mata Hari.

My friend from Ukraine Irina.

David Herd Thailand 2014

Here we are enjoying a cold beer on Koh Larn in November.

Koh Larn ferry with Irina

David Herd Thailand 2014

 

The ferry takes 40 minutes and costs B30.

Foot massage

David Herd Thailand 2014

One of the joys of living in Thailand, I probably average five each week, one hour just under $10.

Margaritas at the Beach Club

David Herd Thailand 2014

 

This great song by Glen Frey sums up where I am right now.

Pumps to clear storm water

David Herd Thailand 2014

Beach road pumps really did not make any difference trying to clear the storm water.

Friends drop in

David Herd Thailand 2014

Gordon Shanks from New York and Jonathan Whiting from Brisbane.

David Herd Thailand 2014  having morning coffee

David Herd Thailand 2014

Au Bon Pain at the Avenue with Gordon Shanks from New York.

Doug & Geoff from Australia

David Herd Thailand 2014

These guys really push the envelope when they hit Pattaya several times a year. Their favourite street is Soi 6. 🙂

Talking about Soi 6, here we are

David Herd Thailand 2014

A great bunch of guys, and can they drink.

David Herd Thailand, face under repair

David Herd Thailand 2014

Using Efudix to repair damage from skin cancer.

Crane mishap in Soi 3

David Herd Thailand 2014

I took this photo from the roof of Markland where I live.

Photo shoot in Soi 6

David Herd Thailand 2014

I can spot at least 2 LadyBoys here.


David Herd and Hamish Elton

David Herd Thailand 2014

Here we are in Soi 6 on Xmas day after lunch at the Mantra.

Xmas day at the Mantra with Benjamina

David Herd Thailand 2014

Another great Xmas lunch with Benjamina our beautiful hostess.

Relaxing at Koh Larn

David Herd Thailand 2014

I have to tell you, life is very good in Thailand.

Drinks with Barrie Comfort

David Herd Thailand 2014

A nice Pommie guy who also lives in Markland. I have given him the nickname “Butterfly Dundee”, because he is always photographing butterflies. 🙂

Kayo flew over from Tokyo for a visit.

David Herd Thailand 2014

I have known kayo for around 10 years, we met in Australia when she and I were living on the Gold Coast. I caught up with her in Tokyo in February and she flew to Thailand for a few days in August.

Welcome Inn Soi 3 North Pattaya

David Herd Thailand 2014

One of my favourite places to eat in Pattaya, close to where I live and the food is terrific and very cheap. Sadly it was demolished June 2015.

Greg’s Kitchen

David Herd Thailand 2014

My brother Warren and Lenny Schorsy at Gregs Kitchen. Sadly we lost Lenny in April 2016 to a brief illness, RIP.

Mike Beard the cartoon man.

David Herd Thailand 2014

Mike has lived in Pattaya for 20 years and produces some of my favourite cartoons.

Siam @ Siam with Oy

David Herd Thailand 2014

A gorgeous girl who used to work at the Cherry bar.

Phad Thai at Siam @ Siam

David Herd Thailand 2014

Very good food at this unique hotel.

Bill Edge, Wayne Dent and Greg Clee

David Herd Thailand 2014

Three happy guys who love Pattaya.

The new Holiday Inn

David Herd Thailand 2014

 

A world class hotel opposite Pattaya beach.

Roland Bonicci and I at Drinking St

David Herd Thailand 2014

 

Roland is a very happy Sydney barrister who often visits Thailand for business reasons.

Ooa a gorgeous girl at Drinking St

David Herd Thailand 2014

Sadly this gorgeous babe went back home to the country about a month later.

David Herd Thailand 2014 at Drinking St

David Herd Thailand 2014

A week or two after this photo was taken sadly this beautiful young girl decided to leave Pattaya and go back to her home in the country.

I just ordered a double Jack Daniels.

David Herd Thailand 2014

I leave a bottle or two at the Cherry bar then pour my own at my leisure. The charge s only $10 and the girls provide me with ice & soda. Life is good for David Herd Thailand. 🙂

 Roasting pigs in Soi 3

David Herd Thailand 2014

Street cooking in Thailand is legendary, this guy charges 100 Baht for roast pork and crackling.

 David Herd and Brad Robins.

David Herd Thailand 2014

Brad is a Townsville solicitor who loves Thailand, in 2016 he bought on of the best condos in Markland.

Looking north to Wongamat

David Herd Thailand 2014

North Pattaya and Wongamat.

Young girl at Cherry bar

David Herd Thailand 2014

Just under 17 and learning the ropes at the Cherry Bar.

Big storm coming

David Herd Thailand 2014

 I love too see the storms roll in over Pattaya bay.

It’s now 2017 and here is Glenn Frey to tell you exactly how I feel today.


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Holiday Inn

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Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.

Pattaya Hilton

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This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate. 

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Holiday Inn Beach Road

December 16, 2014 by David Herd

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Holiday Inn Pattaya Beach Road, opposite the Beach in North Pattaya. Consisting of two huge towers, several swimming pools and all the usual five star facilities. The tower on the left opened in October 2009 and the one on the right in August 2014.

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Click on the photo below for a terrific room rate, you can book now & pay later, plus enjoy free cancellation if you change your mind. Pattaya is a great seaside city, come & enjoy the fun. 🙂

Great location

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Away from the crowds and madness of south Pattaya the location is more peaceful and quiet yet only a 10 Baht bus ride to get to the action.

Looking north to Wongamat

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Just north of Pattaya is Wongamat where there are some nice bars and restaurants.

 November 2007 Holiday Inn Pattaya

Holiday Inn Beach Road

There are 367 rooms in this tower.

Here is what you will see from your hotel window every morning.

Great vision of Parasailing in Pattaya, Thailand

Holiday Inn beach Road

Holiday Inn Beach Road

There is another on the terrace as you enter from the street. A 4th pool is in the executive tower in the new building.

Flow Coffee shop

Holiday Inn Beach Road

This is one of my favourite places in Pattaya for coffee and cake. At 7pm they offer sandwiches, cakes & pies at 1/2 price.

Delicious cakes & good coffee

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Here is an example of the terrific Holiday Inn cakes.

Sunset at the Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn Beach Road    They make the best pizzas in Pattaya here.

Assorted cold cuts

Holiday Inn Beach RoadIf you don’t want a pizza there are lots of alternatives.

Terrazzo

Great pizzas here, half price if you order before 5 pm, and half price all night on Tuesdays.

Havana bar at Pattaya Holiday Inn

 Holiday Inn Pattaya Beach Road

Holiday Inn Beach Road

What a fantastic looking building.

 Room with a view

Holiday Inn Beach Road

As you would expect the rooms at the front have an amazing view.

The executive tower September 2013

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Construction begins on a new tower.

Executive tower opened August 2014

  Holiday Inn Beach Road

The finished product really doubles the size of the Holiday Inn.

Holiday Inn Pattaya

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Great outlook by the pool and across the road from the beach.

Executive club on top floor

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Happy hour from 5 to 7pm.

Executive club on top floor

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Great facilities for hotel guests.


Executive tower restaurant

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Here is my live webcam overlooking Pattaya beach in Thailand.

Wonderful view to Koh Larn Island.

Holiday Inn Beach Road

The wonderful view from the Holiday Inn.

From 2nd Rd May 6th 2014

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Holiday Inn twin towers on Beach Road Pattaya.

 Amari hotel, Holiday Inn and Markland Condo.

Holiday Inn Beach Road

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn.

There is no doubt Agoda has the best deals for Holiday Inn Pattaya

Saturday night seafood buffet.

Holiday Inn Beach RoadGood value at B999 or $40 AUD.

Holiday Inn Beach Road

Holiday Inn Beach RoadThanks for visiting my Holiday Inn Beach Road photo blog, as you can see it’s an excellent hotel in a great location.

Click on the photo below for a terrific room rate, you can book now & pay later, plus enjoy free cancellation if you change your mind. Pattaya is a great seaside city, come & enjoy the fun. 🙂

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Any time I write about a hotel I’m reminded of a favourite song from 1979.

Holiday Inn

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Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.

Pattaya Hilton

Pattaya hotels, Hilton & Holiday Inn

This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate. 

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Nana Plaza Bangkok sex sin sleaze

December 15, 2014 by David Herd

Sex in the city

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok sex sin sleaze it’s all there. I have been a frequent visitor for 20 years & have seen the LadyBoy population rise from 10% to around 40% today. This does not suit me at all, give me the sexy young girls any day. 🙂

Was Lollipop, now Suckers

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I prefer the name Lollipop but I guess they are now referring to the people who enter the premises. 🙂

Here is the name a few months ago

Nana Plaza Bangkok

This post is going to show you the old and the new Nana Plaza Bangkok

The more things change the more they stay the same. Can you believe it’s 2018 & Lollipop returns. 🙂

Nana Plaza Bangkok Lollipop just refuses to die.

 Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok seems to be forever changing not always for the better. In fact Soi Cowboy is more spectacular and the girls seem friendlier, the downside is that it is more expensive.

December 2014 with friends

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I like to stay at the Dynasty Hotel which happens to be only 40 meters from Nana Plaza so it is a very convenient drinking spot for me. In the photo above is Bow, Matt Harkness and Roland Bonnici.

The Plaza comes alive after 9 pm

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The later it gets the busier it becomes.

Entrance from Soi 4 to Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The plaza does not look too appealing in daylight.

Spellbound

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok is square-shaped, with a single opening on the west side, and consists of a ground floor and two additional floors. It started as a restaurant area in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s, a few go-go bars appeared and gradually replaced the restaurants.

The composition of the bars has changed over the past few years; the last non-go-go bar, the Woodstock Pub, was sold in 2005 to the Rainbow Group and reopened as “Rainbow 4.” A few bars offer a more pub-like or beer bar format without dancing; as of late-2009 only the Cathouse remained. Three short-time hotels operate on the top floor. Short-time hotels rent out rooms by the hour or more to the NEP patrons to take a bargirl (or kathoey) for commercial sex.

Most bar girls working at bars in Nana Plaza are willing to leave with customers upon payment of a bar fine.

Spellbound is now Bangkok Bunnies

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The more things change the more they stay the same. It is a never ending cycle at Nana Plaza, one business goes bust and another steps in. Bangkok Bunnies is one of the largest clubs in the complex. The photo was taken February 20 2016 as was the following YouTube video.

Now in November 2018 there has been a name change.

Big Changes Nana Plaza Plus Soi 4The more things change the more they stay the same. I first came to Nana Plaza in 1996, & here I am again in October 2018 drinking ice cold Tiger beer & listening to the Eagles sing Hotel California, the perfect song for this incredible venue. “You can check out any time you want but you can never leave.”

Nana Plaza Bangkok at sunset

My favourite Nana plaza girl

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Her name in Phung but to me she will always be Cleopatra. I met her at the Plaza in 2001 and for the next 7 or 8 years each time I would visit Bangkok I would look her up. She left the Plaza 3 or 4 years ago and I believe she now lives with a guy in Europe.

Kathoeys or LadyBoys

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Most bars in Nana Plaza do not employ kathoeys, but several do so exclusively. As of mid-2013, these venues are Obsession, Voodoo (ground floor), Casanova, Temptations (middle floor), Carnival and Cascades (top floor). With the exception of Voodoo which exclusively employs post-op kathoeys, the staff at the remainder are almost all “pre-operation”, in contrast to the kathoey bars in Patpong. A number of post-op kathoeys can be found at other bars managed by the Crown Group, namely Lollipop,Hollywood Rock, Fantasia, and G-Spot as well as the independently run Erotica.

Here is Cleo in June 2006

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Hard to believe 15 years has flashed by.

September 2006

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nana Plaza Bangkok with some Australian friends in 2006, from the left is Tony Murphy, David Herd (me) John Sinclair & Brian Rawnsley.

Sinclair has a black list.

Nana Plaza Bangkok There are quite a few of us on s black lit so I thought I would design a shirt in appreciation. 🙂

 More friends at Nana in 2008

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Good friends Nick & Sharon from the Gold Coast and Rod Perrin from the NSW central coast who lived in Pattaya. RIP

Here is a quick video from 2008

Nana Plaza Bangkok 2008

Nana Plaza 1999

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Poor quality photos from the early digital cameras.

Nana Plaza 1999

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Very different now in December 2015.

 Nana Plaza 1997

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Nineteen years ago and nothing much has changed.

 Gorgeous girls in Nana Plaza 1997

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Nana Plaza in my opinion was much better in the 90s.

My gorgeous Jane

Nana Plaza Bangkok

  I met Jane in Nana Plaza Bangkok in 1999  and I took her to Pattaya and Koh Samui.

Here is beautiful Cleo saying goodbye

Nana Plaza Bangkok

I have great memories of time spent with Cleo.

Hooters arrives in Nana

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Right opposite Nana Plaza Hooters on December 23rd 2015, it may prove to be a little too expensive for the Soi 4 Nana Cheap Charlie’s.

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Hooters Bangkok Nana Plaza

The entrance to Nana Plaza, Hooters and the Hillary bar.

This photo says it all. 🙂

Nana Plaza Bangkok

Quintessential Nana Plaza. Here is the my history over the last 20 years.

When I’m in Bangkok I like to stay in Sukhumvit Soi 11, here is an excellent budget hotel, if you USE THIS LINK you will get a great rate of around B1100 per night, or $30 USD.

Nana Plaza Bangkok

The best Bangkok budget hotel I have ever stayed in.

Check out this link to see the surrounding area.

  

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Well you have now seen the old and the new Nana Plaza Plaza Bangkok, thanks for visiting.

 

                  

                     

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Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

December 14, 2014 by David Herd

Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok playground is in my opinion the best of the red light areas in this great city. Nana Plaza come in 2nd place with Patpong Rd a distance third. Located near Sukhumvit Road, between Sukhumvit Soi 21 (also called Soi Asoke) and Soi 23, within walking distance from the BTS Skytrain’s Asoke Station and the Bangkok Metro’s Sukhumvit Station. The Pullman Grand Sukhumvit Hotel is nearby.

The go-go bars follow the pattern common in Thailand, lots of alcohol is served hundreds of women in bikinis dance on a stage topless or even nude.

Country Road

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

The soi was given its name by longtime nightlife columnist Bernard Trink, after the late T. G. “Cowboy” Edwards, a retired American airman who opened one of the first bars there in 1977. A tall African-American, Edwards got his nickname because he often wore a cowboy hat.

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok playground Spice Girls

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok 

When Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was elected in 2001, his government instituted a “social order” campaign. As part of this, all bars, nightclubs and restaurants had to close by 2am, later changed to 1am for all areas not officially designated as “entertainment zones”. (Unlike Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza were not so designated). A mandatory midnight closing time was even discussed.

Over the years this policy has eased, and as of 2012, some Soi Cowboy bars stay open as late as 2:30am.

And here are the Spice girls

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Soi Cowboy Bangkok is more expensive than Nana Plaza, it is also more spectacular, a Jack soda is 180 Baht, when you buy a girl a drink it costs 220 baht. These clubs love to rob you, so Roland & I tipped the girls 100 Baht cash instead of giving it to the club. Out of the 220 Baht for a ladies drink the girls get 50 Baht and the club keeps 170.

David Herd and Roland Bonnici

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Here I am with my friend Roland who is a Sydney Barrister specializing in criminal law. He has more energy and staying power than I do so I now call in the Bangkok Energiser Bunny. 🙂

Lovely face at Soi Cowboy

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

A sweet girl who Roland bought a few drinks for, he charges $300 an hour to represent the Sydney criminals so $8 a lady drink is small change. 🙂 She of course spun him the usual line saying ” I have only been here for one month after leaving my home in the country. Roland being such a nice guy believed her, naturally I got into his ear to quickly explain that 80% of the girls use this tried & true  line of B…sh…t. 🙂


Move baby move

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

She could really move, should have taken a movie.

More Spice girls

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

The girls are patiently waiting for customers.

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok playground

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Soi Cowboy Bangkok is really a lot of fun, some of the bars have rock bands playing far too loud for my liking, however most geriatrics like myself usually prefer the volume to be low enough to be able to communicate this those around you.

Hellooooo baby, where you go?

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

You will probably hear this question 30 times a night if not more. 🙂

Back to Country Road

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Bright lights & gorgeous girls.

 

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

But looking at them just gives me the blues. I can handle this bright noisy scene about two times a year, usually when friends come to town and want to see the sights.

It really is deja vu for me

Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

I guess I have just been hitting the night spots in too many cities for too many years. These days I enjoy myself more in a good restaurant with nice people and soft music in the background. One thing is certain in Bangkok there is no shortage of terrific restaurants, and anything else you want for that matter.

Here is a link to some Bangkok restaurants

Another link to the surrounding area

Roland loved Soi Cowboy
Sexy Soi Cowboy Bangkok

Just check out the look on his face to see how much he loves this wild Soi Cowboy Bangkok scene.  

When I’m in Bangkok I like to stay in Sukhumvit Soi 11, here is an excellent budget hotel, if you USE THIS LINK you will get a great rate of around B1100 per night, or $30 USD.

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The best Bangkok budget hotel I have ever stayed in.

                 

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Three Thailand trips 2009

December 1, 2014 by David Herd

Is Thailand fun? You bet it is. 🙂

Three Thailand trips

Three Thailand trips

 Three Thailand trips in February April and July. The best was certainly in July when my good friend Phil Thomson arrived with his 21 yo son Michael to introduce him to life in Thailand. Michael’s mother is Japanese and he speaks the language fluently. Being a young good looking guy the girls in the bar made quite a fuss of him.

The two girls above are Anne & Jaeb from the Cherry Bar.

This post focuses on the July trip with Phil & Michael Thomson.

Michael, Jan & Phil

Three Thailand trips

I think Dad is having more fun than Michael. 🙂

Yes here is proof Michael’s dad is a party animal

Three Thailand trips

Of course Dad had no fun at all. 🙂

Anne and Michael

Three Thailand trips

Anne was so pleased to find some young fresh meat she latched on for a few days.

Nana Plaza and everyone is happy.

Three Thailand trips

We found Muk in “The Office” off Soi 33.

Pizza in Soi 33

Three Thailand trips

Good Italian food here, about 200 meters along Soi 33 on the right.

I met this lovely lady in Soi 33

Three Thailand trips

Her name is Muk and she now works in the country at a 7 11 shop, we sometimes chat on Facebook.

Nana Plaza, game on.

Three Thailand trips

 

Michael is very happy to be introduced to Nana Plaza.

A rainy night in Soi 33

Three Thailand trips

 

Nice Ferrari outside the Office.

This cheeky lady is named Ice.

Three Thailand trips

I met Ice a couple of years ago when she was dancing in a club  in Nana Plaza, I try to catch up with her each time I come to Thailand.

Herbie and the Thomsons at the Mantra

Three Thailand trips

Herbie Pastor is a very interesting guy from Las Vegas who now lives in Pattaya. He has some terrific stories from his days of owning a casino there as well as a well known New Orleans strip club.

The Honey Pot in Soi 2

Three Thailand trips

This was one of my favorite drinking holes, air conditioned and great music. Sadly now in 2014 along with all the other Soi bars it has closed.

Another reason I liked the Honey Pot.

Three Thailand trips

I rest my case.

 While we are on the subject

Three Thailand trips

  I can never show too much of Jan, in my eyes she was the most gorgeous Thai girl I knew.

Did I hear you say you wanted more of Jan?

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Well so did I, more & more. 🙂

Near the Dusit hotel

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Now in 2016 the footpath around the rock wall has totally collapsed.

Dusit at North Pattaya

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  You can see the Cove under construction behind the Dusit Hotel

 The Grand Palace in Bangkok

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A must for anybody visiting Bangkok.

Manhattan’s steakhouse with Trevor.

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This was one of Pattaya’s best restaurants, sadly it closed it’s doors in 2014.

 

Cherry bar with Pothole and Greg Clee

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Greg Clee is a partner in a go go bar in Walking St Pattaya, Pothole aka John Martin is I a guy I have know for many years. 🙂 Three Thailand trips in 2009 was a lead up to me moving there from Australia in October 2011.                     

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Flying high fifty years old

November 17, 2014 by David Herd

This is not a travel blog, it is part of my personal photo history . 

Flying high fifty years old

Flying high fifty years old

Flying high fifty years old living in Surfers Paradise, working for Metway bank & living life to the max. A great trip to Berlin & Prague with a stopover in Bangkok on the way home. Helen & Helenka are in the photo having Birthday drinks at Broadbeach tavern, can’t remember the name of the girl on the left. 

I’m also getting a great buzz re-visiting some of my fantastic years. Some of the photos contain nudity & certain comments may offend the narrow minded, so if you are in this category it’s probably best to close the page & move on.

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Flying high fifty years old with my great old friend Harley Bradstreet

Flying high fifty

Harley and I have been friends since about 1968.

Female bouncer at Cocos.

Flying high fifty years old

This well built is the only female bouncer I have seen working in a nightclub. As you can see she took no nonsense from Harley. Then again Harley could talk underwater with a mouth-full of marbles so she may have just been trying to shut him up. 🙂


Stacy at Rio’s in Orchard Avenue

Flying high fifty

Stacey was absolutely gorgeous.

Georgie, Sonya & Dave Hamilton.

Flying high fifty years old

Dave was the owner of the club, a wild Scotsman who was always getting himself into trouble, mainly street fighting. Sonya was a Kiwi who was as mad as a snake. Georgie was a gorgeous blonde singer from Perth.

Steve Jones (RIP) & Dave Barnes (RIP)

Flying high fifty years old

Sadly both these lads have passed away, Dave in early 2016 and Steve about 10 years prior to this.

Beautiful Kelly Davis

Flying high fifty

For a few months in 1993 I was lucky enough to be taking out this gorgeous lady. This is proof that I was flying high in 1993.

Kelly Davis

Flying high fifty years old

Say no more.

Japanese for dinner

Flying high fifty years old

Great dinner opposite the casino at Broadbeach with Kelly Davis, Sandy Ansell & Helen Burke. Kelly & I went home by boat, I dropped anchor in a quiet part of the river & enjoyed one of the most memorable hours I have had with any woman in my life. 🙂

Happy friends at Marina Mirage

Flying high fifty years old

On the left is an American guy called Henry Geller, 2nd from the right is Tony Sweurs a guy I knew in Sydney who is now living in Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

Jill McCrossan with Tony Sweurs & Lorana from Brazil

Flying high fifty years old

What time can we start having fun?

Andre Buzek on Chevron Island

Flying high fifty years old

Andre was one of my best friends and a total party animal. He told everyone, especially the cute girls he was French when in fact he was from Prague in Czechoslovakia, sounded more sophisticated I guess. 🙂 Sadly within a years of this photo being taken he lost his life in a car accident in Cuba.

Andrea from Rio de Janeiro & Andre Buzek

Flying high fifty years old

One two occasions when Andre traveled to Rio de Janeiro he bought back to Australia an exotic Brazilian girl for a holiday. Andrea was fairly calm compared to the one he bought out the following year who was younger and wilder.

Flying high fifty years old with Andrea from Rio.

Flying high fifty years old

Here is a funny story, I had a day scheduled to visit Metway bank branches in Lismore & Ballina so I generously took Andrea with me to see some of the Australian country. We stopped for lunch in Byron Bay and were hitting it off famously. Knowing the reputation of many Brazilian girls I made sure we arrived back at my home a couple of hours before Andre finished work. Well it took no more than 10 minutes for this gorgeous tall Brazilian to shed her clothes & drag me into the bedroom. By the time Andre arrived to take her home we were composed and innocently awaiting his arrival. 🙂

Coral Knowles, Andre Buzek & Helen Burke.

Flying high fifty years old

One of my favorite photos, Andre’s eyes always lit up around attractive females. Also around some that were not so attractive, it never mattered to Andre as long as they were female & breathing. 🙂

Eddy Bonaventure , Jill Mc Crossan & Andre Buzek

Flying high fifty years old

WOW! Did we have some fun in those days? Yes we did, you better believe it. 🙂

Flying high with the Melbourne girls

Flying high fifty years old

The parties & barbecues seemed to never stop all through the fabulous 1990s.

 Another Sunday lunch at home

Flying high fifty years old

A typical lunch at Upton St.

Two beautiful Koreans

Flying high fifty years old

I feel like a rose between 2 thorns. 🙂

The big guy is Graham LaRoche aka Biff.

Flying high fifty years old

Harley & Biff are with another one of the lovely Korean girls who enjoyed out parties. There is a terrific story about these two guys on my 1982 post called New Year’s Eve 1981, the Great Escape.


Another Sunday lunch at my home.

Flying high fifty years old

You will notice how Harley always like to dress up in his army fatigues.

My favourite song from 1993

Winnie Andre & Harley.

Flying high fifty years old

Winnie was from South Africa, she loved a party. Andre of course was always in the thick of the action. Harley in this photo looks a lot like Col Gaddafi.

Eugine Korin has company at Kooralbyn

Flying high fifty years old

Kooralbyn was a great gold course which sadly has shut down in the last few years.

Two Tonys Murphy & Bonner

Flying high fifty years old

This was Coffs Harbour where Murphy was working & Tony Bonner was in a motorbike rally.

Family Xmas at my home on the Gold Coast

Flying high fifty years old

Of course this was Xmas 1993, many of my nephews & nieces now have children of there own. Here is a Xmas gathering in 2006.

Family dinner NYE 1993 at Marinas Cove

Flying high fifty years old

It was so good catching up with all the family.

Catherine Bonetti NYE 1993

Flying high fifty years old

So many women and such little time.


Roberta Aitchison still runs the meter maids

Flying high fifty years old

Roberta was originally a meter maid herself, she still runs the company today in 2021.

Crazy Sonya

Flying high fifty years old

Sonya was a Kiwi with very few inhibitions, check out the photo below if you want to see her in her birthday suit. However please remember my warning at the start of this post, in case you have forgotten……

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Sonia in all her glory

Flying high fifty years old

Andre is also going nuts on the slideshow, check it out before they censor it. 🙂

I told you he was crazy

Flying high fifty years old

I will never forget you old mate.

Sexy Suzie is on the slide show as well.

Flying high fifty years old

She was as cheeky as they come. 🙂

Why wait, here she is. 🙂

Flying high fifty years old

Just like little apples.

Sexy Jill Mcrossan

Flying high fifty years old

Jill was a lovely sexy lady who was always fun to be with. She now lives in Sydney and I  bumped into her at Manly about 3 years ago.

Patpong Road Bangkok

Flying high fifty years old

On my way home from Prague & Berlin I stopped in Bangkok to meet my dear mother who was on holidays there with a friend. Naturally I had to visit Patpong for some R & R.

At Coolum with Robert Allemby

Flying high fifty years old

May as well finish where I started, playing a round at Coolum with Robert Allemby, is that like 15 minutes of fame. 🙂

Henry from California & Kelly David

Flying high fifty years old

Lunch with nice people.

Once again, so many women & such little time. 🙂

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    Oh well, a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. 🙂    

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