Hey Polehawk. Brought back some good memories. I spent many an hour hanging out at the Sri Udorn Pool sipping vodka and watching the sweeties. Stayed may night at both the Sri Udorn and Udon Hotel. Stayed at the Udon about three years ago. Moldy and old is the term I used then.

Did you maybe hang out at the Golden Palace also.

"sipping vodka + watching the sweeties by the pool"
sounds absolutley divine. happy days ah !

Valentine wrote

If I was a local girl I would appreciate being a young mans sweetheart rather than an old mans darling, for just two short weeks.

Have to agree there with you Valentine. give the guys a good welcome.

Us old boys have the rest of the year to flirt with the girls.

Have at em girls...enjoy the young studs while you can.

So if the "Tiger girls" dont have eyes for the old locals for a while, dont get upset!

TC

I spent many an hour hanging out at the Sri Udorn Pool sipping vodka and watching the sweeties.

Where is the Sri Udon Hotel? I've heard of the Udon Hotel, Siri Grand etc. It would be nice to know if this place still exists and if they still have a pool.

A couple of years and visits back We ask a taxi driver or tuk tuk to take us and they looked at us like we were crazy. So really don't know if it still exist. I am making a wild ass guess and say it is about k13 on the map. There was a club that had one of those disco ball in it close by. There was also a night market and the night mardet was by the Chappaya movie house. Don't know if that helps but I ask wife and she does not remember the name of night market.

I think there is a dive called the Sri Udon hotel just up the road from the amulet market.If you are coming from the roundabout,take the first left and it's a hundred yards past the Acer shop and on the opposite side of the road.

There's a Chinese restaurant opposite and i was sitting there when the owner of the hotel came in moaning that he had few guests.A lick of paint would be a good start.

That sounds like the place, businessman. My older copy of the Udonmap shows the amulet market on the same street (Amphoe Road), H-10 on my map. A 3 or 4 story building. Work pals and I used to stop in for breakfast at their coffee shop when we finished our shift sometimes. Nice place back then. Doesn't sound so great these days.

Golden Palace rings a bell, banpaeng. How about the Paradise Hotel?

i walked pasted Paradise Hotel (soi katoey lol )just b4 xmas,looked like it was closed.
or maybe they were just fixing it up....

Yeppers before marriage came along, spent a few hours at the Paradise but at night only. The funny thing about the Paradise was You sat around the pool, and you very rarely saw anyone swim on purpose. A few folks fell in.

Falang, don't know about now but no katoys back then.

Businessman, I think you might have the place. It was not to far from the first circle. Gosh guys I am remembering 30 plus years. Hell I have trouble remembering yesterday.

Banpaeng and Businessman,

Yes, the Sri Udorn is the one you're thinking of...we passed it when we were out walking past the amulet market last November. I believe there had once been a large movie theatre nearby, also? Anyway, Stephen recognized it, and the rest of the walk consisted of listening to reminiscences from 1973-1974 that (thank God!) I now listen to with the right perspective and a fond laugh at the craziness of our early 20's.

However, while a good coat of paint would help in 2006, I think I'd start with a pail of Clorox bleach and some rubber gloves.

Banpaeng wrote

Yeppers before marriage came along, spent a few hours at the Paradise but at night only. The funny thing about the Paradise was You sat around the pool, and you very rarely saw anyone swim on purpose. A few folks fell in.

Have to agree there Banpaeng

Going down memory lane I paid a 100 baht a night at the Paradise for the best room and you didn't go to the pool to swim!

TC

I remember that movie theater, Gulfcoast. They had a booth for English sound tracks on some of their movies. The place was located on the next street west of where the Sri Udon is located.

Paradise Hotel wasn't my usual haunting place either, Banpaeng. Back in those days it was like the Nana Hotel or Thermae coffeeshops afterhours. I remember going to a party at the pool once and saw lots of folks get tossed into that pool, clothes and all. Also, don't recall any soi katoys in that area back then but wasn't really looking for them.

lol that area(paradise,mono,tantawan,lotus) is called soi katoey by thai`s,as it used to have a lot of katoeys there lol..
and the thermae was fun in the past,i had some good times in there

One of my husband's favorite stories to tell on himself took place in that movie theater. He and his then-girlfriend/now-ex-wife were watching a movie that had snow in it, and Stephen tried to tell her that, in parts of the U.S., there was "a lot of snow." Unfortunately, he didn't have his intonations correct and she dissolved in laughter when "snow" became "horse's ****."

Ya done it again, farang. That Thermae link is a blast from the past. It will bring back memories for the old timers (and not-so-old) in here. The comparison of the Thermae to the bar in Star Wars is pretty close. Afterhours you could see some of the prettiest (and ugliest) humanoids that Bangkok had to offer.

Sounds like the new Thermae is actually an improvement over the old one. Don't know about the clientele tho.