The Most Unusual Hotel Promotions Video You will ever See

This clever video from the Penthouse Hotel in Pattaya has pole dancers, wedding girls, spa hookers, the kitchen chef who considers herself Lady Gaga, and even a brief look at a room. It's really brilliant, far superior to any hotel promotional video I've seen in the past.

Pattaya Rag Photos

Give up the ghost. Some very fine photos over at Pattaya Rag. Facebook users can join the group and receive updates at Facebook Pattaya Rag.

Wanna Learn to be a Dive Instructor in Thailand?

Pattaya Ghost can fill you in with the details. He works for a dive instructor school in Pattaya, which provides students with pickup from the airport, decent accommodations, and a variety of programs which range from two to eight months depending on previous diving experience. In the end, you get a PADI instructors certificate and can stay to teach in Thailand or move anywhere else in the world where scuba instructors are needed. The link above also leads to a link to the school for more details.

Pattaya Tourism Woes

Everyone knows this is the slow tourist season in Thailand, but how slow is it in Pattaya? You'd expect tourism to be down perhaps 50 percent, but a local resident who goes by the name of "Pattaya Ghost" recently took a stroll down Walking Street and snapped a few photos of the deserted bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. The photos are shocking, and obviously proof that this is a slow season beyond belief.

As a follow-on to Banglamung’s recent diatribe, I obtained a 24-hour pass from the missus and ventured out to Walking Street Tuesday. It wasn’t my intention to be a documentarian of the woes and lows and Pattaya in the Age of Piggy Flu, but the sights were pretty shocking. So, as I stumbled my way from north to south, I snapped a few photos between 10 p.m. and midnight with my trusty N82 so definitively answer the question, “Just how slow is Pattaya.” The answer lies below.

f one wants to gauge the impact of the influenza A (H1N1) outbreak in Pattaya and Thailand, simply visit the muay thai boxing exhibition ring downstairs from Peppermint and outside Dollhouse. At 10 p.m., these seats would normally be full of Chinese and Korean package tourists. But after three Taiwanese returned home last week with swine flu after touring Pattaya, other tours canceled. The boxer simply stood there for a few minutes, figuring he’s not going to fight if no one’s going to watch.

The Pattaya Ghost Photos on The Farang Speaks 2 Much

Cambodian Fortune Tellers in Pattaya

Pattaya is always a good source for bizarre stories, especially when they involve local prostitutes and fortune tellers from Cambodia. Pattaya Daily News has the story.

THREE PATTAYA BAR GIRLS VICTIMS OF CAMBODIAN FORTUNE TELLER SCAM

On 12th May 2009 three Thai ladies claimed they had been poisoned and robbed by a female fortune teller whom they had invited back to their Pattaya apartment, in a similar fashion to a previous case reported by PDN on 9th February 2009.

As soon as Police Lieutenant Colonel Was received a report of the incident at 9.00 pm a police and rescue team rushed to room no. 11, on the third floor of Wanpen Apartment, located in Soi Gor Pai, Moo. 10, Nongprue, Banglamung.

There, the police found two ladies lying on the bed and one in the toilet. Miss Junsri Rakmitr [23] from Surin, the room owner, together with Miss Oil and Miss Porn [alias], all employees of a bar in Soi 7, Central Pattaya, were all unconscious. Two of them had been hit on the forehead with a hard object.

Police found paraphernalia connected with a religious ritual including a tray with incense, candles, flowers and a small amount of money, placed on the bed headboard. On the Buddha shelf, there was a golden baby image and three cups of a beverage which had been consumed. The room was in disarray as if someone had carried out a search.

Initially, the rescue team gave the three ladies first aid. When Miss Junsri, the room owner, woke up in a confused state, she told police that at 4.00 am, on the same day, she and her two friends were on their way home when they met a woman aged around 45 – 50, who claimed to be a Cambodian fortune teller. As the woman began to tell their fortune, they started to show interest and the woman said, if they wanted to have good luck, they would have to carry out a ritual with her in their room.

Their interest became stronger when the woman promised if they decided to go through the ritual, they would be able to find foreign husbands like many other ladies she had helped before.

Back at their room, as part of the ritual, they had to drink a cup of dark coffee each and not too long after that they felt very sleepy. They woke up again on the next day and found out that they had been robbed. The Cambodian fortune teller had made off with their property consisting of 3 mobile phones and 3 wallets containing tens of thousands of baht.

They asked for help from neighbours to report the incident to the police. They had never seen the robber before and had no idea what her name was.

Miss Tiffany Universe 2009 in Pattaya

As you can see, the annual Tiffany Universe contest is much more than just pretty girls prancing around the stage; it's a full on Hollywood production.

Sorrawee “Nong Jazz” Nattee, a 20-year-old student from Ratchapat Suansunanta University, was crowned Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2009. Nong Jazz collected cash, a car and other prizes worth more than one million baht as the judges’ choice in the transvestite beauty contest.

On May 15 at the Tiffany Show Theatre in Pattaya, the 12th annual contest for the most beautiful women “of the second category” (transvestite) was a glittering show, attended by stars, actors, actresses, and the mass media. The event, broadcast live on Channel 7, was organized by Tiffany’s in cooperation with the Tourism Authority of Thailand Central Region 3 and Pattaya City.

In the final round of the competition, 30 beautiful contestants were pared down to 10, and then to three finalists. The end of each selection round saw a Tiffany Show performance. The judges as always had the difficult task of choosing.

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