DonTron

We tried them all..
Tony is for slum, scum and tattooed bikers
Wow California should change its name to WOW KATOEY!

There is only one great Gym in Pattaya... FAIRTEXT on North Pattaya Road.
It has professional friendly staff and every kind of sport you can imagine:
- Weights, machines, cardio
- MuaiThai instructors for beginners
- Tennis courts, Squash courts, Basketball court, football court
- Indoor batminton/tabletennis hall
- Rock Climbing wall
- Olympic size pool
- Yoga, Zen, Arobic (and all those things)
- Raw Food restaurant (quite good actually)
- etc.. etc.. etc..

Usually you pay 15,000 for a whole year with unlimited access to everything (even instructors included)
We have a company discount so we only pay 13,000 pr. person pr. year.

We been using Fairtex for 4 years now and we are VERY happy...

Its worth every penny!
(and I lost 15 kg in 7 months there - pretty good for a lazy fatty like me :-D)

I got the same bad treatment at WoW California. They refused to even let me see the gym until I had filled out papers etc. So I left.

Today I am a member of Fairtex on North Pattaya Road.  10,000 a year for full membership and you get access to EVERYTHING!
Here are some of the sports I tried there
- Squash
- Tennis
- Batminton
- pingpong
- Basketball
- Swimming (olympic size pool)
- wall climbing (that was tough, im a pretty heavy guy hehe)
- Spinning/Arobic/Martial Arts/Muai Thai etc...
and of cause, the usual gym equipment (weights, machines, treadmills, bikes etc etc..)
There is a huge bonus - they got a Raw Food restaurant just out side. This is GREAT tasting food with 0 carb, 0 fat, 0 sugar and super healthy!

Fairtex is GREAT! Staff is sweet and helpful. I totally love it and to me its worth every penny!

To me there are too many unknowns that I do not have control over...
- Current market conditions, will there be enough buyers willing to pay the price?
- Delay in project completion, this happens way too often that it goes 4-8 months over time.

My strategy is different. Wait until the project is completed and the units are being transferred. There are always owners and especially flippers who don’t have the cash to make final payment and risks losing everything back to the project owner/seller. That’s where I step in and often buy 10-20% below pre project price. I then furnish the condo and rent it out (I can manage both short and long term periods)

And let me tell you... there is nothing sweeter than those rent payments ticking in on the account month after month after month... Sure a unit might be vacant for a month, and yes it is slower cash since most of my rental units only yield 7-12% ROI - I could probably flip to much higher ROI, play the stock market or gamble at the craps table in Vegas. But I like this very steady, controlable almost passive income, and whether condo prices go up or down, I don’t care, and that makes me sleep like a baby every night

liveinlos, on 2010-06-20 23:28:51, said:

With tourism up from 5 mill in 2006 to 11 mill in 2009.. add to that the explosion in real estate which has made a lot of us very wealthy (thanks Russians hehe). I would hardly call Pattaya sliding down.

Pattaya is growing fast - and growth hurts, especially when nobody follow the rules and nobody enforce the rules.
(example when they closed down Polo, they fired 120 employees with out compensation, many of them had been working there for 8-9 years)

All we need to get a higher quality of Thais here is to make everyone follow the law, give them social security, medicare, resignation payment etc. like the government and law say that we should. Of cause Pattaya would then become a LOT more expencive, but at least we avoid most of the hardcore poor people.

YES!!! Forget about all the drug dealers in front of Royal Garden, McDonals and on Walking Street... lets focus on something REAL important.... like arresting people in Pattaya for having sex - ohh what a crime!!!

tsk tsk tsk....