Putahracsa

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ADW
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Post by ADW »

My family stayed for 3 nights a few weeks ago and raved about it. Food was good, service was attentive and close enough to walk to the centre of town.
They also paid what I think is a very reasonable price for that location and the standard of hotel, including breakfast.
I wouldn't hesitate to use them again.
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the name?

Post by Chas »

This may be a lovely place ( Never been there, never visited the website) but as a bilingual person (Eng/Spanish) I am hit by the unfortunate name of the place. To a Spanish speaker it comes across as very low class. It is equivalent to naming the place "whore's village" or "F___k town" to a Spanish speaker. "Puta means "whore" and it begins the very common phrase "tu Puta madre" or just "puta madre" which is used by Spanish speakers just as English speakers use the F word. ( Oddly enough, just as the brand FCUK has become popular in English, DE PUTA MADRE has become a popular brand name in Spanish!! Go figure!)

Don't want to get into a huge discussion of what different words mean in different languages and hijack the forum in that direction. In fact I dont much care about this from a language point of view. Just want to observe that the name is definitely NOT a selling point for someone who speaks Spanish.

They should have used the "B" anyway, as I understand that the name refers to Buddha in Thai. . .always spelled with a B to my knowledge.
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Post by Big A »

I've got agree with Charles on the poor name which was adopted.

I've got alot of Spanish speaking friends from when I was in Europe-Germany and Spain, and Texas as well and they use "puta" alot in a super derogatory way.
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