Hua Hin Forum

I said in one of my posts that the new Marriott has a flowery wedding arch in front of the pool and that I would be checking first if they have the same Koh Phangan in tuxedos parties in the common area.
Quite likely they are after a slice of that wedding pie too.

No I did not check specifically. On several occasions, hotels would have a banner telling about renovations (always done in July and August), not something buried under the links. Or at least clearly visible without searching or fine print. You see, 3-4 days a week. That renders the venue useless to...

Bought a DELL laptop, 2014, asked my friend in Australia, if he could bring a laptop that I bought, under my name, just his delivery address. For Western Windows. He did, Western keyboard, English Win 7 OS.(then little trusted Win 8 was run of the mill, I did not want it) Then the hard disk failed. ...

Thank you for your comment and for your time to compile and bring it in.

I have never wanted any dispute with hotels like Sheraton, neither I could ever anticipate there would be one.
But there was.

Sorry to rain on your parade, I was expecting more clear technical explanation of why a computer might get slow.

Very likely, the computer owner had watched free pron, without virus protection and something got into their PC.

Those affected, suspiciously withdrew from the discussion.

My wife decided to find work, got one "walk in" within half an hour. Thai restaurant in Nagoya City Center, Japanese owner (owns two Thai restaurants). She went in with with the copies of green card (permanent resident), health insurance card, picture of the whole family and my business ca...

Yes, I see. The rate was refundable but the funds already had been taken off my credit card. To get it back I needed some serious justification by hotel management and there were 100s of other guests who did not complain. They might have taken to social media or also decided not to come again. I thi...

It was paid in advance and once my stay has commenced no more refunds. The refund had to be requested from another department with someone in authority certifying I was unable to use facility (as if burned down, for example or wiped off by tsunami). Technically, I could be in water, in deck chair, i...

The point is - the backup he thought he had could not be restored. At least not without extra hardware or involvement of 3rd party. He did not want to hand over his drive to anyone, I don't know why. At the end, he might have done it in some way, what I sad was a week after Win 7 PC had arrived, he ...

XP machine would not be able to recognize the new drive.

XP would not even install on that new drive or new hardware that came with Win 7 it its last days.

The only purpose of a backup is - to restore. Seems trivial and stating the obvious. Not for the guy I know. Since 2002. he had 2 external drives, one "frozen in time" every month and one for daily incremental backups. Windows XP. In 2010, people started moving to Win 7 but he remained. He...

That can happen anywhere, a friend staying at Hilton Hua Hin last year showed me a picture in which Chinese mother is rinsing soiled nappy of her baby in the main pool. A hotel is a hotel, open to anyone who pays, could get crowded, noisy. But what we have with weddings is an organized mass event sp...

How comes I have never seen that before? Last year I was in Hyatt Hua Hin. In 2013. Sheraton, the very same one, that is why I came back. 2012. Dushit Hua Hin. I wanted to U-turn before checkin, staff realized and said "Only today and until 5pm" (it was 3:30pm). The wedding industry has al...

5* hotels mean there are no Koh Phangan type of parties in open, common areas, no need to say or advertise that.

As for the manager, whoever he/she was, I am almost certain it was imposed from above. Say, someone sitting in their APJ HQ office in Singapore or Hong Kong.

I would not mind any wedding, any nation, but I paid 5* hotel for peace and calm. I don't want to see any wedding I am not invited to. What you seem to tell me is - get over it. Hotel manager has to meet their greedy targets. Sinking me and my family into the kitcsh weddings and their noise. I don't...