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We have been staying at Max's guesthouse in Patong Beach it is always a pleasure to find a little gem like this where you get good customer service clean rooms and everything works the way it is suppose to. Thailand today is getting to be very expensive as the baht continues to get stronger the Baht has actually gone into the 31.xx range and doesn't seem like it is going to get weaker anytime soon.

Patong and Phuket in general are going absolutely crazy even this close to March most of the Cheap Hotels & guesthouse in Phukett and Patong beach Thailandare full.

We are going to go out to Koh Phi Phi tomorrow I was surprised that we could get a cheap ticket of 900 baht round trip to and from Phuket including transfers and the locals are saying that we should be able to get 700 baht air con rooms.
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I remember when Bangkok was affordable well ok more affordable than today my Thailand cheap hotel in Bangkok use to cost me $15 now costs nearly $22. I use to buy shoes they would cost me around $25 now a cheap pair of shoes is $35 almost $40 and the reason is the strong Baht to the weak Dollar. In 2000 the baht dollar rate was 46 baht to the dollar, if you are good with numbers you realize that is nearly 40% in 8 years.

The foreign exchange rumor of the day is that Thailand is going to bring the baht down internationally where it is trading around 31, and bring the baht inside Thailand to the same levels instead of having this on shore, off shore rate. So remember if you are coming to Thailand don't buy baht until you get here and wait if you can until you get into town to do your exchange and you will give yourself nearly 3% for the same amount of money.

Don't use credit cards if you want to save money as they are going to bill you at the off shore rate so you are going to pay more, the difference again is around 3% more to see the current foreign exchange rates use these travel tools for ef="http://www.ecosea.com/eco/HTM/travel%20tools.htm">currancy converter


Dating in Thailand has always been a lot of fun. Recently though, it seems like the women aren't as friendly as they have been in days gone past. A guy I know was saying that he noticed the same thing and he says he has more fun dating in Cambodia and Japanese dating is more fun as well if you have the budget to hang out in Tokyo which even the cheap hotels in Tokyo cost almost $75 for a room that you can fit yourself and your luggage into.

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Dating in Thailand has always been a lot of fun. Recently though, it seems like the women aren't as friendly as they have been in days gone past. A guy I know was saying that he noticed the same thing and he says he has more fun dating in Cambodia and Japanese dating is more fun as well if you have the budget to hang out in Tokyo which even the cheap hotels in Tokyo cost almost $75 for a room that you can fit yourself and your luggage into.


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I just had to write that for the title as the spin on it mimics the election process that we have in the USA today. One of the funny things is that a couple of states might not have their votes counted for the democratic primary's because they had the gall to have their elections earlier, so that they could get their issues actually acknowledged by the politicinas. Thanks to Cheap Charlies hotels Asia for putting that video up on their blog.

Cheap Charlies Hotels Asia Discount Flights & Visa: Cambodia’s Mock US Election.

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Here are some more pictures of Hawaii scuba diving in Waikiki. Again if you are visiting in Hawaii from Waikiki hotels the cheap way to get to the Waikiki beach’s is to take The BUS Honolulu's excellent bus system which you can take all the way around the island and you can also take it up the west side of the island to Makaha which is a very beautiful little town on the end of the road.



Picture of Diamondhead the most recognizable landmark in Waikiki and Honolulu Hawaii

I was talking to friend about scuba diving and he asked where should we go and I responded that I still want to scuba dive in Nha Trang. Vietnam always seems to be getting hit with a storm when I am planning to go there or actually is in a storm when I am there.

When I was in Nha Trang in Aug Sept or Oct it was a last minuite trip as a friend from Saigon asked me if I could help him with a presentation that he was doing. Vietnam charges a fair bit for their Vietnamese visa that you really want to take advantage of them when you do go there.

From Phnom Penh to Saigon is a cheap trip only like $12 each way and to get up to Nha Trang to Saigon Vietnam on the train is about the same in a 1st class sleeper. the Saigon cheap hotels are still around $10 but many are starting to raise their prices I would expect that they will all $15 pretty soon.

Nha Trang Cheap hotels are just a little bit more if you are close to the beach. If you have the budget go for a discount naha trang Hotel or a luxury nha trang hotel on the beach is really cheap compared to other beach resorts for the same quaility.



Nha Trang Vietnam City view

This is a great video of peacock flounder that I shot at Haunama Bay near Waikiki in Honolulu. Haunama Bay is one of the best scuba diving sites in Hawaii it is only done as a shore dive. Haunama Bay is a protected reserve and so you will see fish and turtles and they don't spook very easy compared to other dive sites in Hawaii.

Haunama Bay is a partially collapsed volcano cone. As a protected area you get many different fish species in one place. Haunama Bay is a great way to spend a day for really cheap. Waikiki Hotels will help you to get there by Honolulu the bus or they can give you directions for your rental car and there is lots of parking that is not a budget buster.



I love to find peacock flounders and show them to other divers as they are so unique. When they are young both the eyes are like all the other fish one on each side, as they get older one eye migrates towards the other, so that both eyes are up. The flounder lays on the sand in ambush and waits for dinner to come to it. The camouflage also protects it from being eaten itself.