I stayed in Patong Villa in the spring of 97,in something that is to bee one of the weirdest hotel experience in LOS ever !!Straight away you could see that it was gonna bee one of this crazy holidays...lot of single guys in a 24-hour party-mood with their various thai girl (or LB)
!!
Songkran was about to begin and everything is rocking,hell one of the norwegians,named Stig,even arranged a pool side party,buying a whole pig to spitroast
.You did get the occasional small upsets,wrong bill from the bar,for the room and wrong laundry delievered,but in general everything was good !!
Then everybody got their first experience with the term "joiner fee". One morning a note was attached on the outside on every door stating "that a fee of 1.000 baht will be charged a night for visitors to your room"
Furious,the guest went to the reception,demanding a explanation on what was going on !!
The manager was called and everybody explained to him there was no way we was gonna pay,some even checked out,but after a day or two he backed out of the "joiner fee scheeme" and everybody was happy
Later it was rumoured that the reason for the "joiner fee scheme" was a VERY high stake at the poker table
...anyway,I have never stayed there since,but maybee I`ll give it a try on my next trip as it was very convenient both in location and "guest friendliness "
