Five Decades Of Nana

truffledog · Post by **truffledog** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:49 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:51 am
truffledog wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:26 pm In the 90's I used to stay at the Atlanta Hotel in Soi 2. Great memories. Playing pool , drinking cheap beer, having fun. A complete different atmosphere than today.

none of them applies to me...I quite liked the fact that they wouldn't let in everybody.

the Atlanta also featured one of the best hotel restaurants ever with a huge menu book of traditional food choices, all described with a little story. ..one of the first swimming pools in BKK...and being at the end of the soi guaranteed a quiet place.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:50 pm

Fair enough. What's a "Soi"? A street?

Chuck Borris · Post by **Chuck Borris** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:57 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:50 pm Fair enough. What's a "Soi"? A street?

Side-street branching off a major street.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:00 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:50 pm Fair enough. What's a "Soi"? A street?

soi's are small numbered streets running off main streets. ie Sukumvit soi 4

The federal and mermaid were also 2 good hotels in the area.
I miss Bangkok,when it was fun....

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:21 pm

John Bingham wrote:Fair enough. What's a "Soi"? A street?

A Road/Street is called Sai
An Alley/Sidestreet is called Soi

Sai 2 Soi 18 = the 18th alley street on 2nd Road

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nemo · Post by **nemo** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:26 pm

The Federal only closed maybe 6 years back IIRC.
It was a handy, clean and private place of the old R&R school.

Patcan · Post by **Patcan** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:06 pm

My hotel of choice....Closed down 3or 4 years ago....They always had a room...Free breakfast and a Bangkok Post for sale at the front desk...

Post by **Clutch Cargo** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:01 pm

Patcan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:06 pm
My hotel of choice....Closed down 3or 4 years ago....They always had a room...Free breakfast and a Bangkok Post for sale at the front desk...

Ahh, the Honey Hotel on soi 19..

I never stayed there but back in the late 80s and early 90s there was a little bar in the same street named 'PJ bar' aka Pat and Joe's bar. Ex US Vietnam vet and his thai wife. My regular haunt day time back then..food was great and Joe always had a story to tell.. My home away from home for many years..

He sold the place to another US guy from Phuket and it was renamed 'I see you bar' or such like.. I think it wasn't a success and closed down not long after.

A few years after that, I was in a coffee shop in Krabi and who do I see? None other than Joe.. He'd moved there with his wife and built a house there. Dunno what became of him since then.. must be getting on in years by now tho..

Patcan · Post by **Patcan** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:31 pm

My favourite Soi Cowboy bar was a place called Shadow Bar...if I remember correctly...I think Toy Bar replaced it but in te early 90s it was, for me, the best bar on the soi...

La Quenta · Post by **La Quenta** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:50 pm

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:00 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:50 pm Fair enough. What's a "Soi"? A street?
soi's are small numbered streets running off main streets. ie Sukumvit soi 4

The federal and mermaid were also 2 good hotels in the area.
I miss Bangkok,when it was fun....

What made Bangkok more fun back in the day than it has been in recent years?

Not a smart ass post, i'm just curious.

I first visited Bangkok in 2013 and found it pretty fun.

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