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12-01-2007, 20:53
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Hello to you all
Hi,
A quick hello to you all before i lose my question asking virginity. I have been reading this forum for some time now and the information i have gained has been invaluable. Thankyou to everyone who has contributed. So, heres one for the old hands. i first visited LOS in 1985 and while in Patong my mates and i stayed at The Coconut Villas at 99/3 Thaviwong Road Patong Beach. These Villas are no longer there and the same mates and i are currently getting pi$$ed and reminiscing about days gone by and there is currently a drunken dispute taking place regards what is built on this site today. Does anybody know what stands on this site today so we can settle the dispute and the bets? Hope someone can shed some light on this for us and look forward to meeting some of you when i am next there during Songkran. Regards WR 
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12-01-2007, 21:26
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Trust you to know!! The Methuselah of the Forum ... oh and of Patong.  Goong wlecome to the Forum - always good to hear veiws of old timers. On the Champagne note .... found this for Champagne bottle sizes.... A useful mnemonic for these big bottle sizes is: My Judy Really Makes Splendid Belching Noises (Gollum one for Quiz night - get well mate).
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12-01-2007, 21:39
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Welcome To The Board Mate..........ij
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13-01-2007, 00:00
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Patong in 85... I'd say that would have been interesting...
Have a good trip! Don't forget to check out board members bars when you get to Patong (see the sticky thread on the top of the nightlife section). 
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13-01-2007, 00:23
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Just noticed the "1985" there - damn! - that was before me even. So much for the Methuselah tag K2.
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13-01-2007, 14:45
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Thanks for the welcome and i will be sure to check out the BM bars.
Yes, lots of changes since 85. I can still recall hiring an XR 250 trail bike (that's pretty much all that was available due to the lack of sealed roads on the Island) in Patong and riding down to Kata along a badly corrugated dirt road. At Kata, from memory, there was only one or two buildings and the snorkling was magic. There were huge bright blue starfish the size of a coffee table and lobsters just crawling around the ledges. From there to Rawai, the road was probably worse and bandits use to hold you up at night and steal your valuables. Even the road from Patong to Phuket Town was considered a no go zone at night due to banditry but we did the journey a couple of times with no problems so it might just have been all hype, but we were with locals so that might have been why we had no trouble. Many, many changes of which i won't say are good, but, not necessarily all bad either.......just different.
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13-01-2007, 21:10
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M - Magnum (2 Bottles) J - Jereboam (4 Bottles) R - Rehoboam (6 Bottles) M - Methuseleh (8 Bottles) S - Salmanazar (12 Bottles) B - Balthazar (16 Bottles) N - Nebuchadnezzar (20 Bottles) And I forgot S - Solomon (24 Bottles) P - Primat (36 Bottles - 65 kilos!) Who said I was stupid? I think I went to the same web site.
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14-01-2007, 09:49
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welcome to the board pal!!
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14-01-2007, 11:47
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Welcome To The Board...
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14-01-2007, 16:26
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welcome to the board mate.
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14-01-2007, 16:54
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Welcome to the board
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14-01-2007, 20:33
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1/4 Bottle? = Snipe ...Hic
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18-01-2007, 19:37
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Howdy Goong
I'm new here too. But Bringing up Coconut Villas brought back some old memories for me also. I stayed there my first time to Patong in 1987. I remember them as old cinderblock rooms with a fan with a simple resturant up front. Well they are still there, although completely rebuilt as a fancy resort with $60 and up rooms. Might be called Coconut Villiage now. they show up in almost all the Patong/Phuket hotel finder sites
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19-01-2007, 19:46
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Once again, thanks for the welcome guys. I feel like part of the family and look forward to a few cold ones and getting to know you all better.
Raisuli, Yes, that sounds like the place. The restaurant was nothing more than a lean to and a couple of table and chairs but certainly served up some great tucker. I remember i used to eat some kind of porridge type substance with boiled eggs in it for breakfast but I haven't seen it on any menu since. I stayed there in a 3 bed villa with 2 other mates and the manager used to sleep on one of the restaurant tables just waiting for us to return from a night on the town with one of the local girls in case we wanted something to eat or in case we wanted a seperate room. Those were the days, no bar fines (not at the places i visited anyway) and no joiner fees. Interesting though regards your thoughts on what is on the site today. dogblower advised that Hyton Leelavadee is constructed on the site. i guess i will check it out when i am there in April. Whatever is there, i might spend a night or two there at some stage just for prosterity. In 85 there was no such things as digital cameras so i only have a couple of pics of the place that i took with my old 35mm and i'm not computor savy enough to scan and reduce them to post them on here but if you have anything, i would love to see them for old time sake.
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