Saturday, July 31, 2010
30 Miss Thailands stay at Cape Panwa
The hotel was abuzz with the bellboys wearing bigger grins and bouncier steps to their stride than normal: and the reason? The 30 contestants for Miss Thailand were coming to stay for three days.
The mostly eighteen-year-old contestants arrived with an enormous entourage of hairdressers, makeup artists, the media and some ‘other’ people… don’t ask. The front desk kept them busy with questions about what they were going to do and was it possible to have a photo taken with them – although some of our guests told the staff that they were more beautiful than the contestants. That must have gone down well.
The girls tried their hand at a number of water sports – canoeing being the main one – but not one fell in and mussed her perfectly coiffed hair in the slightest. You’ve got hand it to these girls, however young they are; they’re professionals.
A not-so painful-to-the-ears karaoke party was the highlight of the last day and they left us all happy with a pile of photographs.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Tours and teaching with Cape Panwa
We have been running trips out of the hotel, discovering Phuket and some of them have needed a tour guide - see our Facebook page for photographs and comments: Tim accompanied the guests on these trips.
Pavinee is our new guide and yesterday took the guests on our 'Buddha Day' tour, which involved visiting Big Buddha and Wat Chalong. She enjoyed it so much that she forgot to take any photographs. But has promised to take some more. Do you have any photographs to send us?
Meanwhile Tim is trying to reduce the number of errors made in guest-staff communications through regular English-language classes. Errors in communication are sometimes downright funny like when in an (unnamed) Patong hotel some time ago, a guest asked reception for something to unblock her bathroom drains and Room Service promptly brought her a cheeseburger.
Ah, the nuances of the language of Shakespeare... Tim says that one of his most linguistically-challenged lessons is 'How to make an English pot of Tea' - don't forget to tell them to warm the pot, Tim. And then there's the Phuket guidebook that the students were preparing - watch this space.
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