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Joe:
I always stay at Patong Pearl. Can't recommend it highly enough. Two minutes walk to all the action, yet the hotel itself is nice and quiet. Very nice rooms and a nice pool, as Geir says. When you book, ask if you can have room 107 or 108. They're on the ground floor and have patio doors that open right onto the swimming pool. But all the rooms are fine. Bungalows out the back are nice too, although they get a lot of mosquitoes, so take your spray!
I turned up there without booking the other week (late June). Checked it out first on the internet and they were quoting 1450 per night, which is OK. I asked if I could have it at that rate and the woman said I could have it for 1200! She's drop dead gorgeous as well - and very flirtatious!
All the staff are brilliant and they love to have a joke with you. One morning when I was there, there was a power cut, so I went round to reception to find out what was happening. One of the girls from MTB was asleep in my room and she'd left her passport at reception the night before (they're totally girl friendly, absolutely no problems there, but they do ask for ID). To wind me up, the reception girls got her passport out and were looking at her picture and giving her marks out of ten, saying stuff like "not bad, but not as pretty as me", or "not as good as the one you brought the other night!"
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