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Dusit Thani hotel, Pattaya

The Dusit Thani in Pattaya is a big hotel with 457 beds, almost as much as in Bangkok. The place is mostly always well booked, it was fully booked when I went there. No other hotel in Pattaya generates more revenues than them. The only business I know of in Pattaya that is even more profitable is : Bangkok Hospital Pattaya.

I had some kind of sea view room there, nothing special but a good deal for money priced at around THB 6k that time. The view along the whole Pattaya beach was nice, the room is quite modern, the hotel itself looks already a bit older.

At the Dusit Club lounge, 8th flor, you get free drinks from 5.30 to 7.30pm. I always had two starter Singhas there and some fruits to compensate the vitamine loss.
The panoramic views are pretty good of the hotel. I didn’t get a chance to try their Cascade restaurant, the Chinese one, The Peak, I didn’t try as well.

The first, actually larger pool is more old-school and has a deeper water level.

The other one, Lagoon pool, is more adventureous, I went there often, moreover they have a kitchen there where I daily ate some kind of early lunch, I am not sure if that gets prepared inside of Bay restaurant. Mostly I regenerated every morning at the pool from the night before. The Dusit Thani is isolated at the one end of the beach but for relaxing it is really good and you can easily jump on the Baht busses when walking out of the gate.

The Devarana spa is great, similar like in Bangkok. The little garden behind the main lobby was a nice idea and makes it look very tropical. From the spa you can also walk into this little garden.

Every morning at 7am you can watch 9 monks getting food from the hotel. As you know all monks can go wherever they want to optain a food donation and the Dusit Thani is taking care of those 9 monks in Pattaya.
Overall a pleasent stay. The Dusit Thani fulfilled my expectations :

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Sexy Thai chicks @ St. Regis hotel, Bangkok

This post again is for the people who only want to watch the chicks and shit.

Yes and the girls love the place too. Really stylish, they love the decor, only the vibrant lobby is missing. But having a few drinks at the drawing room with such a view is hard to beat. I am a nerd anyway, for me it does not need to be crowded with people, I can easily enjoy it there alone with a few beer.

We had a fun time there. Sometimes you really can feel like Bruce Wayne in the hotel, especially when having such hot chicks around.

Tar said she would like me organize a Bangkok pool party there, I also talked with a friendly British guy there who manages the pool bar who said it should not be a problem. But currently I am really done with events, it is too much stress.

I really liked to have Dome around, I didn’t expect I could actually need a butler but after I found out how fun it can be, I see the value.

The St. Regis got an in-house Mercedes S-Class and Bentley limousine service. They have the new S-class. Next time I try it as well. But Mr. Frank is simply my prefered driver and he knows me well already.

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St. Regis hotel : Feel like Batman in Bangkok

The most unexpected surprise of my reviews of this trip is clearly this hotel. I never expected I would ever rank a hotel in Bangkok above the Four Seasons and Peninsula in this decade and now it happened with a shock.

They are getting an advance praise from me and I am more evaluating them where I see them in 1-2 years : then it will be hard to beat them, at least in terms of accomodation.

The most negative thing is simply that the hotel is really empty, I also doubt that it will ever get as vibrant like in the Four Seasons lobby. The Four Seasons has the advantage that everyone can easily enter it from the street and it is a very open lobby concept.
The ground flor lobby at St. Regis isn’t cool and not fun to hang out, it can hardly be a place where people want to sit and relax.
The drawing room on the other hand, the upper level lobby is smashing, they have a better bar than the Four Seasons and they even got a terrace overlooking the royal sports club. That thing is very different, very modern and not comparable with Four Seasons nor Peninsula.

The international restaurant VIU i didn’t get a chance to try. The pool and gym is great. I totally love the design. The pool is one of the most stylish ones of Bangkok. The spa is on the same flor. The walk ways you take in the hotel are in general very well thought out. I feel very inner-protected there and even the walk-ways to the toilets appear to be just right.

The butler service is outstanding and a great strenghts of the hotel. One my first stay it was Oui and on my second stay Dome helped me with my schedule and calls. The service is truely exceptional.

I got introduced to my room by Natascha who is from Berlin, Germany like me. She is here during the pre-opening phase. The hotel had its soft opening on April, 1st and has its grand opening July, 1st. Before high-season in November things will probably still remain quite there.

The Caroline suite is a fantastic deal for money at THB 30k++. I hope they keep this price level, no luxury hotel in Bangkok prices suites like that one at such a competitive rate. It is just unbeatable : it is brand-new, got smashing panoramic views over the royal sports club and into Ratchaprasong intersection from your bedroom, living room and bathroom. The bed is super-comfortable and the room is equipped with the most modern utilities, switches and electronic plugs. The Jim Thompson suite at Four Seasons costs me almost double as much but can only score on the design side and size in comparison. The Caroline suite has an insane price/value relation.
Mr. Jakobs was also showing me the royal suite, 2411, which costs around THB 120k++. Because it was still under construction I could not yet videotape there but let me tell you already that this room beats even the Peninsula suite, the top room of the Peninsula directly under the helipad. Next time I would like to check it out. He also showed me a few John Jakob Astor suites.

The Minor group is a major investor of the St. Regis and Four Seasons Bangkok. No matter for which hotel you decide in the end, they are going to profit from it anyway…They rule up Rajadamri road now. Moreover they are selling residential property at the St.Regis. This project will be the last chance to get something that overlooks the royal sports club. Another project at Sathorn from Ritz Carlton was planned but it doesn’t seem that likely to ever get realized now. Moreover Sathorn is boring.
Mr. Wanatanakul from the Minor group was guiding me around the residential area which also got an own pool. The units are huge, the smallest unit is 320sm big and costs THB 80 million. For that price you can almost buy a Four Seasons Chiang Mai residential villa.

Rajadamri Road is the best place in my eyes to stay. I also tried a hotel on Thonglor this time and was actually dissapointed a litte, not of the place but of the location. Maybe I was too heavily influenced by Funky Villa close by. I mean, yes it is a nice place, but is it that exciting ? They have a few mediocre restaurants there, the small japanese ones are the only really good ones. I covered the street pretty well during day and night time now and it is in general only Funky Villa that will drive me back. Ekkamai is similar.
So I really think that Rajadamri road is the best place from where you can get into all directions, Sukhumvit is second best, if you want to have it quiet, riverside should be your location and if you want to be really safe and close to foreign offices it could be Sathorn.
The St. Regis is even getting a direct walk path bridge into the skytrain station, they are currently constructing the path : this is really cool and just shows again how intelligent this whole hotel was built. I doubt in this decade another hotel will arise from nowhere which has such a great concept.

The gym is brand-new, they have all the machines and the staff is really helpful almost like in a professional one as WOW California.

I got to know a lot of people within the hotel. They are really good. Of course the Four Seasons staff has more routine and is very natural-friendly – the major strenghts of the Four Seasons Thailand group – but the St. Regis people got a lot of skills. Just give it some time until they have the routine as well in a year or so.

I really love the drawing room, at 6pm they are cutting the champagne bottles with a saber. I always just missed the action within seconds. Next time…

Steffen is a really cool German hardcore guy there taking care of the F&B section. He was born in Hamburg but stayed in Berlin for many years. He also worked for hotel Adlon and the China Club Berlin where I celebrated my 30th birthday. The world is small….
Steffen and Mr.Oberoi, the managing director are two really friendly and easy-going characters. Mr. Oberoi got a really great presence, very much like him similar like Mr. Haksar from Four Seasons. I feel very well among them.

Mr. Jakobs shared a lot of time with me. He is very smart, got a great overview and detailed knowledge of the Asian hospitality market. He got great teaching ability, he explained me a little of the history of St.Regis and we talked about several other hotels and resorts. I learned a lot from him. Moreover he allowed me to explore more than a dozen of rooms of the hotel. In no other hotel I was ever instantly treated that way.

Mr. Selves is the big boss there, I like the tie. The St. Regis really put together a bullet-proof management team there. They clearly rank in the same league like Mr. Stampfer / Mr. Haksar / Ms. Waibel from Four Seasons. I didn’t get a chance yet to get to know the French gentleman Mr. Beliard from the Peninsula, but Mr. Behrens their F&B guy is really cool.

If you stay at either St. Regis, Four Seasons, Peninsula, you really cannot go wrong. They rank in a different world, the next hotel in the ranking is already a step down.

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Bangkok Hospital Pattaya : Not a bamboo hut !

The idea for this video was to show the hospital in a neutral, authentic perspective of a touristic outsider.
You will see people walking towards and away from the camera, strange and “unwanted” things are not getting cut out. Of the 1 hour walk I originally was planning to cut a 30min video but I liked all so much that I actually only cut out 10min of some longer walks. This just shows how authentic the whole video is.
My motivation for this is : I simply love Thailand, if I can help a little a good place like this one, it makes me happy. I am not doing this for everyone, only if I really consider something to be worthy to be portayed.

The staff I encountered at the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is extremely friendly and helpful. I had the opportunity to have Dr. Ian Corness as a guide. He is a very knowledgeable person, an excellent communicator and he got a great sense of humor. Thanks to him, this whole walk doesn’t appear sterile and boring.

Video 1 explains general things about the hospital : They have 400 beds, are accredited by the Joint Commission International, their international service speaks 22 languages. They are even a little more international orientated than Bumrungrad in Bangkok making 60% of their revenues with foreign patients.
Dr. Corness shows a standard room which costs something around THB 5000 / day. Rates in Pattaya and cost of living in general are cheaper in Pattaya than in Bangkok. Dr. Corness liked to stress that Bangkok is considered as a transit for most people (not me !) whereas Pattaya is a destination. Traffic in Bangkok moreover can be so bad that the transport from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport to Sukhumvit can take sometimes almost same time (usually around 40 min) like driving down all the way to Pattaya (usually around 2 hours).
Dr. Corness explained in a great way why people should not be worried about the standard of the hospital although the city being best known as the world’s largest sex destination.
Nowhere in the world except in Thailand you will find the hospitals being constructed like a hotel. The main reason for the medical tourist coming is still the very lower price which can be around 25% of what you would pay in the USA or Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZMoAvm1RBs

In video 2 we see the dental cosmetic & implant center where 28 dentists work. We learn about the efficiancy of the health promotion center : for example you get your blood test results only 45 minutes later after the blood was taken. Some befriended MDs in Germany might get mad when they read it here. Things in Thailand just work easier, heavy beaurocracy like in Europe helps creating extra jobs but it won’t get more efficient…

The hospital employs 12 cardiologists who all have extensive experience and are fully accredited specialists. I have a quite high trust that hospitals like Bangkok hospital and Bumrungrad employ physicians that really work on a very high level. Local universities like Chulalongkorn or Chiang Mai university for example have reached a standard that appears really good to me.
Because they are a private hospital they are able to pay higher salaries to their physicians than a public hospital could pay. This is clearly an advantage to get and maintain some of the best doctors of Thailand.

Dr. Corness already works 12 years for the hospital. He explained in a funny way that he came to Thailand 14 years ago like many other foreigners who had been through a lot of shit in their home country. I bet he really could write a best-selling book about life in Thailand from the expats point-of-view. He is a great character. He got re-married 10 years ago with a Thai and got a son and a daughter with her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ntoLt2nVo

In video 3 we see at first the Arabic reception area and Intensive Care. They are the only hospital in Pattaya that has an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.
Dr. Somchai who studied medicine in Munich, Germany, introduces his supersight surgery which isn’t LASIK. He brought a lot of technology and knowledge from Germany to Thailand. He works together with Carl-Zeiss from Jena for the lenses he uses. Dr. Somchai works since 15 years for the hospital, he developed his technology in 2002 and had 205.000 operations being done with it. Dr. Corness refered to him as one of the leading lights of the hospital. He was also responsible for getting the Icelab from the German company Zimmer to the hospital.
In total the hospital employs 100 full-time physicians and 100 part-time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGVcsepKBM

In video 4 you see the brand-new, cutting-edge Icelab, a cryo therapy spa, which is the only one across whole Asia. You can heal all kinds of conditions with it at minus 110 degrees, especially pro sports men like to use it for healing faster. I should inform Mr. Rainer Calmund about it to send his football injured pro-players down there for a little fun rehabilitation time. It costs only around THB 1000 per session, around 10 you should do depending on what you use it for. You walk through 2 chambers with different temperatures and try to last in the 3rd chamber around 3 minutes. Next time I come to Pattaya I want to try it. You get a big boost of endorphines and oxygen from it because of the density of the air. After all the heavy partying and drinking in Pattaya that I am used to : this is just what I need. In case they don’t like my video portray, they won me at least for the Icelab already. LOL.

Later you see the cantine and the dermatology & cosmetic surgery center. They employ 5 cosmetic surgeons. The most popular surgery there for forgeigners is breast augmentation (enlargement) and for locals a nose operation from flat to more western looking. A big part of the medical tourism happens within beauty surgery. Pattaya as a nice, touristic beach destination is clearly scoring in convincing patients to stay for a longer time if the operation demands it.

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is a fully digital hospital. All your data (for example blood tests, diagnosis, X-rays, prescriptions, etc…) is electronically stored and you get identified with a barcode you carry along. Moreover they share data with hospitals abroad, so let’s say you want your doctor in the USA to have all the info on what you did in Pattaya : no problem, they are very cooperative. I am very impressed of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwW5j6LoQOM

In video 5 you see the MRI scanner. The hospital got their own busses and can arrange picking up international patients from Suvarnabhumi airport. The International Service Department can also take care of visa and other issues.
The hospital got 11 ambulances, the majority of ambulances run in Pattaya are public, run by various foundations. Their own ambulances go out with a doctor on board and treatment could already start there.
The Emergency Medical Service got 16 beds. Pattaya, let me assure you, is so much safer than any place in the USA I know of.
We make some jokes about the large amount of public holidays in Thailand : Dr. Corness wants to produce a small pocket calendar for Thais which lists the days when Thais are actually supposed to work. LOL.
The International Service Department will also help you with your insurance, trying to figure out if your insurance abroad will cover fully or partially costs of your stay at this hospital. What I learned about insurances is : they really don’t give a shit about people, of course we all work in the monetary system. The insurance looks at the numbers like everyone does : as long as they don’t have to pay more, it is very likely that they agree to a stay/treatment at the hospital. That’s why price matters so much. Plastic/beauty surgery however is nowhere covered anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLFKMuByVE

I want to say many thanks again to the entire Bangkok Hospital Pattaya staff, especially to Dr. Ian Corness taking the time and guiding me around that spontaneously. I am always shocked and impressed how helpful people in general are towards me in Thailand, like giving me permission for such video tours. Taking into account my aggressive logo and sometimes controversial website content : When they give me their trust, I am all the more willing to help.

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Global Nanpa : The Nothing Man, 1/2

Here comes the buzzer beater. This video is a summary of the best scenes of the last trip. I doubt life can get any better than that from this level on. I have never seen any other video where I saw something that I liked more than what I am doing here. For me personally I am living my dream for this moment : it is my life, my money, my time. My values might change over time and then I simply do something else later on, but right now I am very happy that I can do just that…

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Pattaya Romance Galore

I am really happy with the result of this video of a 4 day stay in Pattaya. At first I thought I didn’t had much material but it turns out that this video goes deep, it is personal with sweet memories and it feels somehow very complete. It shows very well what Global Nanpa is about.

Like in Angeles City, I actually didn’t go out often in the nights. I stayed with 1 girl I met on the first night the entire time.

I really like the scenes with her on the motorbike. It expresses very well how easy it is to have fun with the Thai girls there. Moreover there are still really nice girls around who are interested in just sharing a good time together.

Best of all you recognize that it doesn’t require much money to have a smashing time in Pattaya. I spent more time in the apartment of the girl than in my hotel !
I simply liked her room. I feel more cozy in such personal rooms anyway and I think I would have never learned and experienced what I did if I had not followed the flow and had not just let go all mental restrictions. She even offered me that next time I could just check-in to her room where she pays THB 3000 per month. Sweet offer, but of course I cannot make myself too dependent. The quality of living for such a low price is very, very high in Pattaya.

The video shows a few scenes where I can explain why I love Thai girls so much. First and most important they are very cheerful and easy-going. If you cannot enjoy it with them, then I don’t know what’s wrong with you.

Second you see in one scene another Thai girl waving at us on the motorbike. Thais can be happy for other people having a good time as well and are respectful. Indonesian girls would not care and Filipinas rather bad-mouth. How about it in the western world : Fucking forget it ! Everyone fights everyone there. They try to search for failures and backwards society critique just to let them feel a little better in their miserable lives.

Third Thai’s have a general fair tendency of solving conflicts. You see the end of a fight between two drunk men there and 2 Thai girls went in there trying to calm down those two and risking of even getting hit as well. I have seen a scene like this in AC and the girls were the first ones running away. Something like this is important to me because you quickly find out there who is real and who is not.

The beach is not great but they have one. She took me to the beach everyday. At least you get cheap and tasty food there in a convenient way. It is a surprise for me that the beach is still so clean and well mantained although so many people lounge around there.
It was also my first time at Jomtien beach, this one looks very similar to me, maybe slightly better. Many retired people live there because it is just cheaper that area. I also didn’t recognize before that there is a true bar scene around Jomtien as well.
I met a guy from Switzerland in his late 30s who is the boyfriend of the sister I stayed with. He is doing some internet-bizz in Pattaya and permanently lives there now since almost 5 years already. He said before having a girl-friend he must have fucked his way through whole Pattaya, knowing mostly all faces. LOL. The only reason why he became no alcoholic is that he still has to focus on work. He said he doesn’t know many foreign resident who didn’t became an alcoholic in Pattaya. Friendships are also difficult to establish/to have in that place.
He was telling me the wildest stories of what other people experienced there. Pattaya really makes most people blind and crazy. Insane how stupid men can be when offering them cheap pussy non-stop. No wonder why the suicide rate there is higher than anywhere else in the world.
He told me of a recent story that a rich senior of the UK bought a luxury house there where his Pattaya girl-friend lives in and “waits” for him when he is working in the UK. Well, this girl was so stupid that she didn’t sneek out when she was horny and wanted to fuck around, no, she sometimes invited 3 Thai guys who fucked her orgy-like in the jacuzi of the house. When her boy-friend found out, you can bet that he wasn’t happy. Now he wants to sell the house. The Swiss guy was looking at it.
There are 2 interesting real-estate projects currently in development in Pattaya : One of it is “The urban condos“  on second road and the other one is the “Ocean 1 tower” : Ocean 1 shall will be finished around 2015 located at Jomtien beach. It would be the highest building of Thailand with a hight of 327 meters if they are able to realize the project.

Pattaya is really an all-around very convenient place to be. If you are looking for lots of fun with girls, cheap accomodations and a safe and clean beach vacation spot : here you go. Enjoy Pattaya Romance Galore :

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Ladyboy/katoey interview at Nana Plaza, Bangkok – Jan.2011

I actually wasn’t planning doing another ladyboy interview that time. It was more spontaneous when I saw these two ladyboys crossing my way.
When I compare this with my first ladyboy video interview 3 years ago, I have to say I became more smooth with this stuff. This was a single, one-piece shot.

Jodie is 24 and Nadia 25. Both work for a ladyboy bar at Nana Plaza. One of the girls had a breast operation at Yanhee hospital for THB 60k and the other one at a different plastic surgery place for THB 55k. They both earned around THB 40k for the month December which is pretty good, in some months they even make THB 60k which shows that they are making as much as the good/hard-working bargirls around there. Not a bad job and don’t forget about the freedom they have. I like to structure things more positive in general on this website. The sad stories you hear more than enough.
It is interesting to see that about 50% of the ladyboys like both sexual features, half of them want to keep their dick even if they had the money to change it. It is incredible how much of their earned money they invest into cosmetics, you could often pay the rent with it.

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