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Lee,

your passport is the only thing you need.to open a bank account. Just walk into a Bank of your choice (Kasikorn or SCB are good) and if they refuse you, just go to another branch.

Here is a link to it on some website (http://www.pattayago...com/pattbus.htm), but I really don't know if these Buses still run. If you're adventures you can take a white Baht bus on Sukhumvit, they will pass the Floating Market.

Thank you but the 1st one given is totally Thai and the 2nd one is to simple and not to scale, difficult to figure them out. Anyway, I will look for the Red Line Beach bus provided. Thanks.

It's quite easy to find, if you come from Pattaya Klang and you drive towards Sukhumvit, turn right at the traffic lights onto Sukhumvit. Drive past Pattaya Thai (BIG C, Home Works), drive past Thepprasit (Lotus), drive past Makro and then maybe after another couple of km's (not sure exactly) it's just past a PTT gas station on your left hand side of the road. You can't miss it as LennyW already said:

just normal to see 40 - 50 tour buses double and triple parked along Sukhumvit !!!

They also have a website: http://www.pattayafloatingmarket.com

Or this Minibus company : http://www.35grouppa...option=schedule

4 Times a Day From Pattaya to Ban Phe, Chantaburi, Trat and Ferry for Koh Chang

I have lived here for 11 years and my wife and i hate Songkran but we dont whine we just get out of here for 10 days and let the people who enjoy it crack on.

I hate it, but my wife loves it, but I just let her go and enjoy herself, and that's for us the way the cookie crumbles

It wouldn't surprise me one bit, that even Loy Krathong in Pattaya lasts a week instead of Nation Wide 1 day

BB1950,

you also could have checked the Thai Visa Calendar () Which displays most of the important Thai Holidays

In Pattaya Song Kran lasts until the 19th, with the last 2-3 days being the worst

George,

on this page you can find the downloadable delivery Rates and the zones.

http://www.ikea.com/...very/index.html

Zone A (Within 50 Km) is around 650 THB

And for assembly service, you have to visit the Home Delivery counter on the first floor

But Basic assembly will cost you minimum 350 baht or 7% of the price of the item.

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_TH/customer_service/ikea_services/assembly_service/index.html

A search on this Sub Forum will list many possibilities.

6 Postcards + 1 valentines card + 1 package all sent from different Locations which include Big C Xtra (Pattaya), Bangkok, Buriram and Europe, after more then 3 weeks of waiting none of them have arrived in Pattaya Soi Siam.

Phil, PM sent

Slightly offtopic as it is about another store, but did a lot of shopping in (Down Stairs) Baan Chang (Sukhumvit, across from Big C) yesterday. we had to wait around 10-15 min for a cashier as it was just around lunch time

This topic could be of some assistance:

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__4967138

Joeed, thanks for this. Which shop did you go to ? I always go to Boy Air & Sound, but I'm ready for alternatives

Baht bus is b5, right? I read that far ants get charged 10baht, but I'm happy to hand the driver the proper amount then walk away....but I want to make sure 5baht is the proper amount.

I doubt it that they except only 5 Baht from a Foreigner, it's been 10 Baht for a long time already.

Joeed, keep us posted. I am in the same position. Dislike the poor ipod integration and lack of usb.

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............... will be very interested in hearing all options you come up with.

+1 (Same here)

Sorry to hear that. maybe better to send an email to support [at] thaivisa.com

If your password contains non alphanumeric characters, it won't take it, It's a classifieds bug

As you come into Pattaya on Sukmv there are a number of places about 500M -> 1Km before the Toyota dealership.

I used one to fit an ipod connector in my SUV and they were ver professional Sorry forget the name but they are on the corner of a small Soi --- on the opposite side of the Soi but still on Sukmv they have three or four 'work bays' where they are able to work on vehicles. If I recall the name of the shop will post later.

I think you mean Boy Air & Sound

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I doubt there will ever be an exact consensus on channel numbers.

Agreed.

The lower numbers are obviously the accurate ones -- apparently these are sequence numbers, not actual channel numbers -- Yours appears to have seen Fox as the 28th channel it found, where mine is 27 -- Probably my tuner saw one earlier channel as too weak and skipped it (just guessing).

What does your tuner find on nr 5 ? My televisions find a Channel over there (But it's only static so no test screen what so ever)

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I'm just making this list because there is no real official list and it only takes around 5-10 mins of my time (most of that time goes into the Channel Re-Scan

As promised here a new Sophon channel listing as of just now (still 80 channels in total)

1 Thai Channel

2 Sophon English Movies Channel

3 Thai Info Channel

4 Spring News Thai Channel

5 Test Channel (Just static)

6 TGN Thai Channel

7 Fashion TV

8 Russian Language Channel

9 Chonburi 1 (Thai Channel)

10 Sophon Movie Channel (Thai Voice)

11 Next Step Documentary Channel Thai

12 Pattaya People Channel

13 Next Step Music Lifestyle

14 Cartoon Club

15 MV 5 Channel (Thai)

16 Channel 3 Thai

17 Channel 5 Thai

18 Channel 7 Thai

19 Channel 9 Thai

20 NBTV Thai

21 Thai PBS

22 Sophon Info Channel & Thai Movie Channel

23 Russian Language Channel

24 Rai Italia (Italian Language Channel)

25 BBC World

26 Aljazeera

27 Channel News Asia

28 Fox News

29 English Movies

30 Bloomberg

31 Russian Language Channel

32 Russian Language Channel

33 Astro Supersport 2

34 V Channel (Music Channel)

35 Austrialia Network

36 Euro Sport

37 Golf Channel

38 Astro Supersport

39 English Movies (Thai Voice)

40 Pattaya Channel

41 Zee TV (Indian Language Channel)

42 Test Channel

43 English Movies

44 Cartoons

45 Universal Channel

46 Kids Co

47 SyFi

48 DW-TV (German Language Channel)

49 BVN (Dutch Language Channel)

50 NHK World (Japanase Language Channel)

51 Sophon Sport Redio Channel

52 Russian Language Channel

53 TCI Channel (Thai & Chinese Language Channel)

54 ASTV (Thai Info)

55 Fan TV (Thai Music)

56 Voice TV (Thai)

57 DNN Channel (Thai)

58 Asia Live (Thai)

59 Health Plus Channel (Thai)

60 Arabian Language Channel

61 CCTV 4 (Chinese Language Channel)

62 Russian Language Channel

63 TV 5 Monde (French Language Channel)

64 ACT Channel (Thai)

65 Pattaya City Radio Channel

66 Money Channel (Thai)

67 Euro Sport (Most of the time not Working)

68 Grand Prix Channel (Thai)

69 ASN Sports

70 Test Channel

71 Loekteung Channel (Thai Music)

72 DMC Channel (Religious Channel)

73 Live Dude TV (Thai)

74 Live Miti 4 (Thai)

75 Live Pop Culture (Thai & Asian Music)

76 Live Thai Chai Yoo (Thai Music)

77 Zaa Network (Thai)

78 Miracle Channel (Thai)

79 TV Pool Channel

80 Channel ! (Thai)

Do you have more then one provider in the area where you live in Vietnam lekatai ?

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Do you use the immunize function in Spybot ? As this also changes the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file which can be used to block certain Websites.