Tumhare Haat Main Jaadu Hai... Jaadu... Jaaadu... (repeat chorus) ..courtesy Krish & T Series

Bangkok - Pattayya Offsite Special Mention Topic NO 1: The SPA and Thai/Bangkok massage experience

Worth mentioning separately cause it was an experience.. Thailand truly is a place for massages.. all kinds and the best of SPAs exist there... All that tired feet need is a grt food massage and the guys would elaborate on the Thai body massage.. but theres something in the blood of these thailandies people... awesome technique and awesome massages...

Our 2 days in Pattaya always ended with Thai foot massages... would kill for that massage at the end of each long day in bombay..

Pattaya was the massage hub for us. didnt get any time in bangkok to anything but shop.. :) so!!

In Pattaya the girls - Bhavna and I actually got treated to 5 star SPA & Free Steam

It all started out with us getting sold onto the idea of the SPA at the Siam Bay Shore Resort & SPA.. the ambiance, the look, the feel and the way in which the sweet SPA lady painted a beautiful picture of the whole experience.. we couldn't resist.. hence the conversion happened from baht to rs and then we convinced ourself that would never get anything like this in bombay at that rate and thailand ake spa nahi kiya to kya kiya... so post loads of balancing acts in our minds and weighing swimming in the pool to a good 2 hr spa experience like never before, we gave in and went in for the spa... :) (not that the decision making process was soo long.. just makes it more dramatic and thought through.. )

Just out of the flight, from bangkok to pattaya and into our rooms we went into the beautiful exotic spa location like bhangis - tracks, t-shirts, hair tied and our hearts full of hope and excitement for a never before once in a lifetime experience of 5 star spa..
Nice jasmine cold tea and 2 1/2 hours of massages, scrubs, steams, oil.. wow!! thinking of it relaxes me all over again... wow!!

these women actually have jaadu in their hands.. didnt need to take a bath for ages thats how well we were cleansed... the music, the aroma, the clothes, the sheets, the flowers, the beautiful ambience... i can go on!! need to experience it to FEEL the way i do... WOW!!

When it finished, we didnt want to get up but... we were so relaxed and drowsy.. the session ended with hot jasmine tea... and then running to the 1st 4pm team building sesssion... for which we were late!! :(

That was the girls exclusive fantastic, may i say expensive experience at a spa and a massage thai style... we also experienced foot massages and thai massage in Pattaya.. what a treat for tired explored feet!!

2 nite in pattaya ended with excellent foot massages and with those were complementary shoulder, neck and back massages too.. must have been something in their massage technique or just that it was the last thing for the long day that we got done in pattaya, we all would doze off and sleep like babies.. the guys also got thai body massages done.. looked very fresh post that so i believe they were excellent... from the literature that was put up in the parlour, thai body massage was like our kerela massage... breaking bones kinds.. hard and totally relaxing..

complementary teas were missed, beers were ordered and through all the hammering (supposedly.. recollection of the same) we had fantastic foot massages for only 200 baht.

Theres so much massage talent in thailand that Reshma can be a millionaire there... our personal masseuse here in india.. An experience that has at least got the girls hooked onto it totally... if only we could transport pattaya massage parlours to bombay or better if we could go there for the massage..

Siam Bay Shore Resort!! - the Fun (offsite) Begins

The bus ride started with Neetu aunty in her fantastic pattayya accent gave us a long lecture on the history, geography, science, economics, land price, everything being expensive etc etc etc till we got half way to Tiger resort where we had breakfast.. menu being: cornflakes, bread butter jam, yummy sweet fruits, sweet chole and puri and universal anda...

PS: The pet name of the King of Thailand is abt 2 sentences long.. his real names abt 4 lines i think... cause neetu aunty went on and on and on...
for a thailandies, she knew an awful lot abt India and its culture.. we ended up teaching her gujju also.. GUJJU Ki Jai...

Special mention.. our Mr. Manish Kumar aka Patayya boy started his food experiments from breakfast sitting with the guide to eat authentic thai beef or was it pork.. no idea what all hes eaten.. and then some fruits and then some more road side thai meat..

Special Mention No 2: Writting at the back of the toyota van - MR BALLS SERVICE... :)

PS: proof attached. this innocent looking van was parked before the tiger resort and it just caught our eye.. such a unique proposition couldnt be left alone.. we had to bring it back to India.


This was also where we had our breakfast and ice-cream and beer for 55 baht.. (only the beer costed 55 baht.. breakfast free.. ice-cream me no remember)

so the journey to the Siam Bay Shore Resort starts... btw there a Siam Bay Hotel in Pattaya in Pattaya city also.. :) so pls donot get confused!!

so we get to our hotel.. awesome place btw.. nice big double rooms... electronic swipes for the ladies, single keys for the guys... girls get the pool and garden facing room.. guys get the yard and the wall, girls get the new construction.. guys get the existing old one.. Notice the preference.. i am not complaining.. :)

Siam Bay Shore resort turned out to be a grt exp.. the toiletries, the tea packets, the room service (not that we could afford it), the swimming pool by the beach and the one by the spa, the reception, the seats, the statues, the scriptures, the people, the SPA (special mention later.. wow), the conference room, the food, the snacks, the juices, the water, the pencils, the projector, the music... loving it totally..

For more information pls visit their website.. google it to find the address.. :)

so we had our 1st session at 4pm.. which got postponed to 430pm and it was 1 by the time we checked in and sunk the entire resort into ourself and came out!! now what to do!! took permission to not go for the scheduled lunch.. Manish put it in us that we were now experimenters with food and would have local thele wala khana... thank god for him we actually ended up eating loads of local thai food over the next 4 days!! AWESOME (special ref only to the food of thailand coming up later...)

so lunch skipped, the spa looked very tempting.. went in to enquire and never came out... Partners in crime - Bhavna and me.
So with the guys exploring the beach side pool, we ended up in the spa...

...End of Patayya and Siam Bay Shore resort!!