Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket

The Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket is a fave of mine and I stayed here a few times when I visited Phuket and needed to be in the Kata area.

It has a good location for me, in Soi 7, especially considering that I typically visit with my own car which I can conveniently park in front. Nonetheless, even without your own wheels at hand, many restaurants, markets and various shops can be visited by foot and the beach is about a 15 minute walk away in case you're looking for that. Motorbikes can be rented but be careful if you do rent a motorbike, it's better that you have some or a lot of experience driving motorbikes, since the roads in Thailand are dangerous.

The rooms are big enough and have everything I need, air conditioning, a fridge, TV but alas, the internet speed was never really fast. The hotel staff has always been friendly and helpfull though. There is a small gym on the third floor of the new building but this hotel does not have a pool or an elevator. The hotel boasts 36 rooms over three floors in two seperate buildings.

Since the location is inside Patak Soi 7, it's also a very quiet location.

The new building has the nicer rooms and the old building has more basic rooms, but still with all you need and the rooms have a very good rate.  Very high and positive reviews can be found at various booking sites on the internet and I can add my blessing, so to say and can recommend Baan Kata Maytha if you need to stay for a few nights and are not necessarily looking for water activities.

Booking by AGODA

Booking by HOTELS COMBINED

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket; Guest room

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket; Guest room

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket; Exterior of the new building

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket; Gym at the third floor of the new building

Baan Kata Maytha, Kata, Phuket; View towards Patak road and the Kata hills, with the original building in front

Bangkok's Nataree Soapy Massage Got Raided

Last night Nataree Massage, one of my favorite soapy in Bangkok got paid a visit by the good ol' boys in brown. But don't worry, they weren't after customers. If the cops were they wouldn't go in on a Tuesday. They would do it on a weekend when Nataree is at it's busiest.

You see, Nataree always had this reputation for employing under-aged girls. Last nights police raid netted 10 girls under the age of 18. According to some reports foreigners employed by Nataree were arrested too. I am not aware of any foreigners working inside Nataree.

But I wouldn't be surprised if most of the under-aged girls were all not from Thailand.

At least 100 soapy and sideline girls were detained as well, take a look at http://news.sanook.com/2008094/ and you'll see a photo of Nataree's lobby filled with corner to corner prostitutes. According to the report the police did a 3 month undercover operation. That must have been a lot of fun. I can just imagine the amount of investigators clamoring to be involved in the case.

From the reports I've seen, no customers were arrested. This was strictly an operation to stop under-aged prostitutes.

I called one of the papasans I am friendly with in Nataree and he didn't want to say too much. But he says they should be back to business as normal in a few days.

Nataree Massage is located in Huay Kwang along Ratchadapisek Road. If you're not familiar with that area there are about 5 other soapies in the immediate vicinity. Nataree just had a bad night and got caught with under-aged sex workers.

For all the other soapy massage parlors in the area it's business as usual.