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Draino76

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Don't go to Thailand. I am in Koh Samui, Coconut grove Chaweng and I just paid 500 quid to replace a ****ty bike I was riding. The girls all minging and I want to come home. I am coming home Sunday night, arriving in London 7am on Monday. I've also lost my mobile and cannot access facebook.

 

Can someone please foward this message to AndyD or Billy so my family know I'm good?

 

Cheers chaps.x

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Barry Sanchez

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Don't go to Thailand. I am in Koh Samui, Coconut grove Chaweng and I just paid 500 quid to replace a ****ty bike I was riding. The girls all minging and I want to come home. I am coming home Sunday night, arriving in London 7am on Monday. I've also lost my mobile and cannot access facebook.

 

Can someone please foward this message to AndyD or Billy so my family know I'm good?

 

Cheers chaps.x

 

Hope you get home.

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tell me everything I need to know. Going in June on a Cricket tour.

 

Ah, I can reply again!

 

All the places I'm recommending are on the Pest side. Buda is for tourism, Pest is for eating, drinking and stuff.

 

Okay, so for a hotel, I would stay at the Hotel Danubius Astoria (where I can be found every 6 weeks for a week at a time), http://www.expedia.co.uk/Budapest-Hotels-Danubius-Hotel-Astoria-City-Center.h6139.Hotel-Information, it's cheap, but it's actually quite nice and the best thing about it is the location - it's really not far to walk anywhere as it's really central. It's on the corner of Karoly krt Rakoczi ut.

 

The other hotel that's not a bad location but is more expensive is the Kempinski. It's a decent enough 5-star, comfy etc., but I prefer the Astoria, feels more like "old" Hungary - and you get free breakfast (just croissants).

 

So bars. About 5 minutes walk (up Rakoczi ut. ) is Szimpla Kert (http://www.szimpla.hu/) which is probably one of my favourite bars. It varies every night - Thursday nights is the best usually and it doesn't really get started until 10am. It's chilled out and in the summer when you're going, the garden (kert) will be very nice. It's also one of the only places open late Sunday and Monday nights.

 

Wednesday night, head to Corvinteto (https://www.facebook.com/corvinteto) (all the way up Rakoczi ut. at the next major crossroads) - this club is superb, I've been there until 5am most times. It's on the roof of an old department store from communist times and the stairway up is amazing - covered in graffiti. The area it's in isn't wonderful, so don't go straying around in single numbers. Corvinteto is almost totally non-English speaking, you will only see locals in here, caning away. Do not buy shots (except Palinka), they'll cost you a packet.

 

Between Szimpla Kert and Corvinteto is Doboz (http://doboz.pm/) which is a decent bar too. Lots of outdoor rooms, different bar areas and some cracking Palinka.

 

If you fancy going where all the uni kids go, go to Morrisons 2 (http://www.morrisons.hu/morrisons2/) - there is a great Turkish place to eat if you've got the drunk munchies next door.

 

Further down near the main downtown the Basillica is great to see during the day and during the night. In the summer, there are outdoor wine bars by the Basillica at night and the place is full of chilled out people drinking outdoors.

 

On Zyrini Ut you have Otkert (http://www.otkert.hu/) again, another chilled out, outdoors bar. Good mixture of people in here, students, tourists, regulars, etc.

 

Between the Basillica and the Kempinski hotel, you have Deak Ter which is open air, loads of bars, loads of people, loads of women wearing next to nothing, loads of alcohol.

 

Food;

Behind the Kempinski there is a Vappiano - I go there sometimes - nice upstairs in that one as there are sofas and more room.

On Raday Utca - about 5 mins walk from the Astoria again, there are LOADS of bars and pizza places and other places to eat - all dead cheap. All the pizzas are good - Pizza and a bottle of wine, about £7, it's ridiculous.

 

On Baross Utca about 10 mins walk from the Astoria is the Stex Haz (http://www.stexhaz.hu/) - I like it here, great, really good Hungarian food and SO cheap - I took my team of 12 out last time - 3 courses, wine, beer etc for 13 people ... £98. Seriously, it's stupid! (But it's out the way of tourists)

 

If you want tourist places, then head down from Otkert to the chain bridge and there are loads of pizza places along the river banks. Then at night, it'll start to fill up with women who will, er, "want money".

 

There are loads of places to go - like I said, Buda is great for tourism, but I know nothing about the night life over that side.

 

Watch the taxi drivers!! Regulation is crap over there, so if you jump in a cab off the street, prepare to be stung. You're better off calling one from where you are (most speak English - I think the 222 2222 one is the best company??).

At the airport - don't get a taxi driver from inside the building, leave the airport and there is a little booth outside - give you address to the girl in there for a fixed-price cab to downtown - normally around 4500-5000 ft (10000ft is about £30).

 

It is really cheap there, if you go to the right places. In Szimpla etc, you can still buy a beer for a quid. But just don't buy stuff like rum. If you want shots, stick to Palinka and Unicum.

 

Think that covers it for now :)

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