Report written by blues_38sg in Sam's forum on April 2006

just back from a short trip to Hatyai and Malaysia last night...

reach hatyai morning 8am....went in Variety Tour to change baht and book tix to KL for the next day...also check with them the New Season hotel voucher but was told no room available....but luckily a week before the trip i had sent New Season hotel a reservation email so no problem when we walk into the hotel and the room is immediately available for us even though it's fully booked..,

for the past trip, me and my friends depends heavily on the girl to bring us round hatyai and deals with anything from buying stuff to taking tuk-tuk...but on this trip our group comprise of 3 guys and their real gf from s'pore and myself so it's not a hanky panky trip so we had only ourselves to depends on...so i used whatever knowledge i had learned during my previous trip and we managed to bring ourselves around Hatyai with ease and sometimes even cheaper rides on the tuk-tuk....,being to KISS also but was so crowded that even the second level is packed...manage to get ourselves a table at a corner on the 2nd level but still able to enjoy the performances by the singer and dancers....my 6 friends were totally impress by the performance....,we even went to the "night-pasar-malam" and got ourselves jeans and t-shirt....had our dinner at Kan-Eng and they are total blown craze by the bill when it came to only 1100bahts for more than 10 dishes.....the nest day the girls even had a massage at NS and even went for a hairdo at Lee Garden Plaza.....,

Overall, we had a great, cheap and fun trip and there is even talks on another trip in the near future.....,

for bros who think it's going to be hell in hatyai without any "guide", think again....it wasn't that difficult to gets around...just ask for direction and the ppl in hatyai will be very glad to help....we doesn't even knows the name for the "night-pasar-malam" and we approached a tattoo shop to ask and the chinese-speaking guy even help us flag down a tuk-tuk driven by a old couple and even help bargain the tuk-tuk fare for us....he even told us the exact name of the pasar but now i forgot liao....but no harm, next trip can ask again...hee hee....we even met a groups of malay guys from spore that took the same coach with us into Hatyai the next day morning and they were sitting around at a kopitiam oppsitie Lee Garden and they said they didn't know where to go for night-cheonging and we suggest that they can go to KISS or Paragon....hope they have funs too.....,

so to all bros going to Hatyai, have funs and cheong all the way.....,put what u have learned during your armys day into use, recce, navigate, recon and cheong.....,