All in a review

Written: 1 february 2015
Travel time: 1 — 7 january 2015
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We rested in this hotel from 17.01-30.01. I will not distinguish between pros / cons, I will just write specific facts. 1. Settle immediately - deposit - we gave in rubles-2000. When checking out, if everything is in order in the room, the money will be returned to you, just do not forget to keep the receipt. They give out the keys to the safe, it is located at the reception. Nothing was missing during our stay at the hotel. They give out a map of Pattaya, maybe not the most accurate and understandable, but the hotel guide will then show you everything at the meeting, tell you, mark everything with icons for yourself. 2. Location - essentially the center of Pattaya. You need Walking Street - immediately when you leave the hotel, cross the road and exit along the alley on the street of the "fall". Need a pier with ferries to Colan Island. We went to Walking Street and to the end, until you see these same ferries, then you are there. Want to shop at Center Festival or Center Mike. Go straight from Walking Stirt and go until these very centers catch your eye. 3. Meals-breakfast. It is designed not so much to surprise you with the delights and richness of Thai cuisine, but to saturate your stomach - soup, rice, sausages, ham, bread, jam, scrambled eggs, coffee, tea, three types of instant yuppies (or something like that), fruits -pineapple, bananas, watermelon, rarely papaya. The number of approaches is not limited, at least we have been to breakfast more than once during the day. 4. Cleaning in the room was somehow incomprehensible, they seem to be removed, but not completely - they will make the bed, they will not take out the garbage, or they will take out the garbage, the bed will be made, but they will not clean up the restroom. As for the change of bedding and towels, who knows, you will come, everything is beautifully and neatly folded, it is not clear whether they changed it or not. 5. On the territory there are two pools, small ones, you can sunbathe, but with difficulty, because the sun will not always be able to get you, sunbeds are present, for free, respectively. 6. Livestock in the room is found, I'm not talking about geckos. I saw it with my own eyes, it's unpleasant. From the reception they came with something puffed, did not appear again, this same living creature. There are plenty of ants, everything that is edible must be in the refrigerator, otherwise they will be eaten. 7. Wi-Fi is available, but worked intermittently. If you surf the Internet a little and quickly, that's enough. 8. Noise isolation is so-so - you can hear buses, roommates, and cats playing wild. and you just can’t hear something, but if you dodge in a day, then it won’t matter to you anymore - you will fall on the bed and sleep. 9. There is hot water in the room, soap was brought to us only once, they probably saw that we had our own and decided to save money). 10. A hotel in the Arab quarter, we didn’t even understand it right away, everyone was surprised at first, why there are so many Arabs, they explained to us later. But these are not the Arabs who pester you in Turkey / Egypt, they don’t care about you at all, they just sit and look around who / where / where. They seem to have nothing to do. 11. There is a noisy air conditioner, but thanks that it works at all. We swam and sunbathed everywhere, we tried everything. Pattaya Beach (located along the main street, go straight from Walking Street and choose a place for yourself . . cleaner) - garbage dump, go in for the sake of curiosity. Jomtien Beach (as they left the hotel, waved their hand, a tuktuk drove up, you drive into it until you see the beach strip on your right hand). Not much different from Pattaya Beach, although many say that it is cleaner, well, maybe just a little. The beaches of Koh Lang. To the island by ferry for 30 baht one way. Upon arrival, go where everyone is, and everyone goes to the tuk-tuk parking lot. There the drivers are already distributing you into cars next to the beaches, the cost is 30-40 baht to the beach. Tawaen beach is Chinese, there is nothing to do there Monkey beach monkey beach, not bad, the sea is clean, the sandy strip is wide, this is for those who do not want to take sunbeds, but they are oh so expensive on the beaches. Although the beaches are generally expensive. From time to time monkeys appear on the beach, take pictures with them, feed them. All in all, a little fun. The beach of Samoye seems to be quite good, but there are plenty of sunbeds, you can’t spread your own towel, because we saved on sunbeds, so it didn’t suit us. Tien Beach, for us, turned out to be the best, white sand, azure sea, where you want to go there. Before him, by the way, not far from the beach Samo. Sunbathed, bought and back to Pattaya in the same way - go to where you were dropped off by a tuk-tuk, then on the ferry and you are “at home”. the excursions were serious, then they decided to play it safe in terms of accidents and the like, there is no particular trust in street agencies in this regard. The tours are interesting, the guides are knowledgeable, but again, I think that the street agencies would offer no worse, but a matter of safety. Therefore, light trips - take it on the street. We read a lot of reviews about Cocos Travel, even went to their office, but our hotel guide was very eloquent, so we decided to leave Cocos for the next trip. If anything, his office is located near the Festival Center. We stood facing the center and go around the alley on the left, go and see the sign of Coconut. By the way, depending on how many excursions you take from the tour operator, you may be offered something as a gift - we got the Zoo and the Fruit Basket. Do not dare to buy a fruit basket from a tour operator, it costs 600 baht, and as a result you get one mango, two guava, two dragon fruit, one passion fruit and something else small. THIS IS NOT WORTH ALL 600 THB, you will buy so much on the market for this amount. Judge for yourself kg of mango from 40 to 100 baht is offered on the market. The basket, by the way, was torn with us, however, we stuffed a lot of other fruits into it, so it could not stand the Russian character)) By the way, at the airport, for some reason, they asked all the fruits from plastic baskets (which merchants sell on the market) to shift into packages. Why we don’t know, so ten times you want to check with anyone how to export fruit, otherwise you will be left with nothing. Another moment, we had an advantage, what to do? We did not want to pay, we decided to just leave the fruit. And then we were lucky)))) When we arrived at the airport, we took a trolley for transporting luggage, and that's when we said that we would leave the purchased fruits and not take them with us, where to put them, who should not be left to the registrar to put them on the stock? That's right, the only container we had was the same cart, we put everything into it, and then what? Of course, we towed this cart away and put all the fruit laid out back in the bags. We were also given one piece of advice, but we were afraid to use it if you have an advantage and you know about it. When they enter the airport, they leave bags / packages / bags with an overweight somewhere on the sidelines so that they do not attract the eyes of the guards. We have passed registration and you can calmly approach them to pick up, but this is only in theory, we don’t know how it would be in practice. As for communication, everything was simple, the tour operator gave us a "type" Thai gift SIM card. People, when you arrive, pay attention to what they put in your hands at the airport, and they put a bunch of such cards in your hands for FREE, maybe this is a type of advertising they have, on the balance of 15 baht, a conversation with the house is enough for a few minutes. Activation is as follows: Balance-*101#Find out your number *102#Call your mobile: instead of the first zero, dial +66 and then the rest of the number. The balance can be topped up in the shops of seven ileven (when you see them, you will understand what kind of shops they are) or family mart. But representatives of the tour operator will inform you about this. That seems to be all, because we belong to the category of people who only come to the hotel to spend the night, and spend the rest of the time outside its walls, the hotel suited us, we have no complaints, therefore, we can recommend only people with the same position
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