GOOD GUEST HOUSE NOW GOANNAS HAS GONE

Post by **THAI ROB** » Sun May 14, 2006 12:42 am

Goannas has confirmed in an email to me that they after a redevelopment they will reopen under the name of Lolitas and no guest rooms will be available. So sadly i will not be able to stay there on my first visit to Hua Hin next February. Can anyone recommend a good alternative guest house, possibly the Shed or anywhere else i should consider.

Post by **Guess** » Sun May 14, 2006 2:14 am

All the sponsor guesthouses on the front page of this site are OK and all central.

Post by **MartinJ** » Sun May 14, 2006 4:33 am

There goes the neighbourhood

Time to get my gf to leave before the place goes to pot,

What next GOGO bars??

Post by **bushman** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:02 am

PP Villa is not a Guest House but a very good value for the $. I stayed there last year. Very convenient location

Bushman

JW · Post by JW » Sun May 21, 2006 9:58 am

Have heard rumblings about the Lolitas thing. Personally i think its the last thing we need here. I have always said it aint Pattaya here and glad of that, i dont think that the powers at be will be very keen either.

Post by **troopie** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:12 pm

JW wrote:Have heard rumblings about the Lolitas thing. Personally i think its the last thing we need here. I have always said it aint Pattaya here and glad of that, i dont think that the powers at be will be very keen either.

Couldn't agree more!
I was having lunch there in late February when the manager told me about these daft plans. I told him then that he'd lose more customers than he gained. He claimed that it would still be a rugby-showing pub (which I, as a HH resident, really want) but I'm sure the atmosphere will go to hell!:cuss:

What we need is a place like the old Kangeroo Club in Patpong (back in the late 1980s), which despite the location was a pub, not a hooker hangout. You could watch foreign TV (including rugby & Aussie Rules), drink decent beer, have some very good food, & not get bothered by various 'ladies of the night'. You could take a hooker in if you felt like it but no ladies were allowed in without an escort -- though I think they didn't extend this to farang women!

So come on, some Tri-Nations type entrepreneur. Give HH a decent pub that doesn't think it's in Soi Cowboy!

Post by **Big Boy** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:52 pm

JW wrote

Have heard rumblings about the Lolitas thing.

All I can see is a new name - what is so bad? Or should I be reading between the lines regarding what kind of establishment this is planned to be?

JW - can you please elucidate?

PS - Thanks for the triple soaking that you gave me using your illegal weapon during Sonkran - the soaking I liked - it was the iced water that woke me up.

JW · Post by JW » Sun May 21, 2006 2:00 pm

Hi Big Boy,

I think you have read between the lines and got the picture. May seem like a nice idea for now, but not what Hua Hin needs. Its exaclty what i tell my clients we dont want or have.

Sorry about the soaking, the illegal one has been a faithful servant for 3 Songkrans and its still working great!

JW

Post by **Big Boy** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:03 pm

Apologies for going off thread, but JW wrote:

Sorry about the soaking, the illegal one has been a faithful servant for 3 Songkrans and its still working great!

I can definitely vouch for that - I've still got the scars (frost bite!)

Post by **johnrxx99** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:28 am

trouppe - "What we need is a place like the old Kangeroo Club in Patpong (back in the late 1980s)" and go on to say no more BG's spots are wanted.

Sorry if I appear confused but if it were not for the BG's, the Kangeroo would not have existed. If you like Rugby, why don't you live in GB or Aus? What was the attraction of Thailand?

Post by **Jaime** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:15 am

johnrxx99 wrote:If you like Rugby, why don't you live in GB or Aus?

Sorry to jump on you John but that is a rather dumb comment! As if all the other sports shown on Thai TV are native to Thailand! It's a bit like saying "if you like curry why don't you live in India?" or "if you like wine why don't you live in France?"

Come to think of it John and to use your own rationale, why are you in the UK if, presumably, you like Thailand?

Most Rugby is available on Star Sports, broadcast from Singapore and showing both live and highlights programmes. Most of the friendly farang bar owners in HH with UBC will certainly put it on if asked. I was lucky enough to watch Wales winning the Grand Slam at Bernies a couple of years ago. Nearby Billy's Bar was also full of scots watching the same matches. A few have more than one screen and will show the footie and the rugby simultaneously if necessary. The French and Australian TV stations on the local HH cable network also carry live rugby from France and the Tri-nations so rugby fans living in Thailand can watch rugby in the comfort of their own home even if they don't have UBC. The Royal Thai military and police have their own rugby sides and internal rugby competitions and there are regular sevens and tens tournaments in Bangkok and Phuket attracting both local and international teams. There is a Thai club league of two divisions and the game has been played by the educated classes in Thailand since the early part of the 20th century. So, Thailand is hardly a rugby free zone but to get back on topic, Troopie is right that it would be nice to have a 'rugby pub' in Hua Hin, especially as it seems that Goannas was so popular in its former incarnation.

BTW, although Hua Hin doesn't have a rugby tournament, you may know that there is an international cricket sixes tournament held in Hua Hin but presumably that is not Thai enough either - although you may like to know that King Rama VI's Mareukhathaiawan Palace north of Hua Hin was originally built with a cricket square.

Still not Thai enough? I know, how about an authentic Thai takraw bar/guesthouse!?

Post by **canthai** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:56 pm

I think what John is saying, if you like sports go to the sports bar district and if you are looking for bar girls go to Patpong. Patpong did not get its reputation from asoccer match.

Post by **Jaime** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:15 pm

canthai wrote:I think what John is saying, if you like sports go to the sports bar district and if you are looking for bar girls go to Patpong. Patpong did not get its reputation from asoccer match.

Really? That's not how I read it at all. After the comment "If you like Rugby, why don't you live in GB or Aus?" John went on immediately to post: "What was the attraction of Thailand?"

The implication of which seems to be as I have posted above.

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:04 pm

I met the man from said bar 'Lolitas' some weeks ago and he told me of his plans for - in his words 'a blow job bar' I just stood there and cringed.

Post by **johnrxx99** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:32 pm

In truth I tried to stur it a bit, which was probably rather foolish as I've only just joined the site/forums. I do need to get my count up though.

I've spent many hours reading posts and many peeps seem to focus on sports bars and the wish for more of them. What I don't understand is the preference for them instead of BG bars when the prime reason to be in that location is the BG's. I find that rather strange.

Now the reason for that is because I do live in the UK so have no experience of being an expat. Is it that when you've been over there a while, the original reason for living/going to Thailand, namely BG's, becomes secondary and one longs for home?

Just trying to understand more of what it's like.

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