Vertigo

[PigDogg]

Vertigo has a special 3 course menu, price 1970 total for dinner for two. Good till the end of June.

[azza33]

Is that the fabulous looking rooftop restaurant in bkk??

[PigDogg]

Yup, I'm a 30 baht kaew pad gai type of guy but figured some guys might like the 61st floor view. I'm sure drinks which are not included will be pricey.

[TTChang]

I might! Where did you see this PD? Cant find it on the Banyan website.

[PigDogg]

[SamplerDoc]

(PigDogg @ May 29 2010,12:20) Vertigo has a special 3 course menu, price 1970 total for dinner for two.  Good till the end of June.    

Seems that is over 2 months of your normal dinners PD

[guydesavoy]

This is one of those places that reminds you, sometimes, Thailand can get it right

[azza33]

I'd pay it ... heck you only live once and thats a must do!!!!

[pacman]

With service & tax, that comes out around $75 AUD per person. I have spent far more on dinners in Thailand.

And I hate to think what a few lobster meals have set me back when I was invited to join people I hardly knew.

One night in Pattaya in the 80's, I was invited to dinner with 2 Dutch girls (an aunt & her niece) by an American guy.

We had a slap up seafood dinner & before the bill arrived, he leant over & told me he had no money.

With drinks the bill was over $200 nearly 30 years ago. After I paid it, I thought at least I would have a fair chance to talk to the younger girl.

It wasn't to be. My host whisked her away without a word leaving me & the aunt.

I wished her a good night & went to one of the clubs that existed back then. There were no LB bars but the GGs were terrific. So sweet, so pretty, so slim, I would pay for dinner all over again just to be back there again.

[Steff]

Pacman,
What a prick that guy was! 30 years ago $200.00 was a handsome amount. Hell it still is a handsome amount. Damn smuck!

[guydesavoy]

Nice guys always come last

[pacman]

(Steff @ May 29 2010,23:25) Pacman,
What a prick that guy was! 30 years ago $200.00 was a handsome amount. Hell it still is a handsome amount. Damn smuck!

It wasn't the finest thing anyone has done for me but I can still picture the guy & he wasn't a prick at all.

I had seen him around the Royal Cliff hotel (I relied on a travel agent to book me something "nice") & he had talked to me at the pool. He was mad keen to meet these 2 Dutch girls, aunty in her 40's but very trim & lovely looking & her 18 yo old niece who paraded around the pool in her thong bikini.

As this guy was more than 10 years older than me, I assumed when he invited me to make up the numbers at dinner, that he would be happy with the aunty.

I was dead keen to go because I never thought he would actually pull off the arrangement & I could hardly wait to talk to Miss Lovely. (damn, I have no memory of her name)

I think back on how gutsy his decision to go ahead with dinner because he told me later that he was surviving the last week on his credit card & he didn't have much credit left. He was nice about the dinner & wanted my address to send me the money.

I told him to forget it. Not because I had money to spare but because I recognised a fellow traveller who had hatched this insane idea to have a fling with an 18 yo Euro.

I think he was a shoe salesman from Des Moines or somewhere equally spectacular. I haven't thought of him in nearly 30 years but I will never forget how he planned & executed his outrageous scheme.

And the bastard had her in his room for the rest of his stay while he sent his son to the pool. I had the boy complaining to me on one side & the aunty telling me she had no one to go shopping with on the other.

[guydesavoy]

So you missed out on the 'trim' 40 yr old Dutch woman ? Could have been a good save paccie  

Although I guess now in her 70's that Vertigo is out of the question...

[pacman]

   I was in Pattaya for god's sake...    

I was too shagged out for anyone else...      

Anyway, who said I missed out with her...        

[guydesavoy]

aaah just another night at the Cirkus then.....