In Reply to: now decided to go to Thailand and Bali posted by buderim on Tuesday, 22. September 2009 at 05:23 Bali Time:
I went to Pattaya with the Navy a few times, good for a bit of an eye opener, esp Maralyns A-go-go. Ping-pong balls, live fish, shooting darts...you get the picture. Not a "friendly" atmosphere, and not kid friendly. Lots of pasty-pale old German men, and waaaaaay to much make-up girlies. (cliche, I know...but true)Two drive by shootings in the carousel bars, the night we were in, one fatality sadly, a 19 yo Aussie girl.