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The one stop can only be used if you fall under them for extensions of stay. if not you have to use Cheang Wattana Road or one of the two other locations for 90 day reporting:

1. Major Hollywood Suksa, 1st Floor , Suksawat Road, Ratburana, Bangkok

2. Imperial World Ladprao, 5 Floor , Ladprao Road, Wang Tong Lang, Bangkok

http://bangkok.immigration.go.th/location4.html

(in Thai)

Thanks, Mario. I was thinking a trip to Lad Prao was on, but on that link you sent, it appears to say services are only open to people from neighboring countries? Or have I misread that?

Service for Visa Issuing (NON.L-A) , extension of stay permit and notification of address every 90 days , provided only for legalized special Labor of three Nationalities Loas , Cambodia and Mynmar residing in Bangkok.

Contact at 2 offices as follows;

1. Major Hollywood Suksa, 1st Floor , Suksawat Road, Ratburana, Bangkok

Open since 1 May, 2013

Tel. : 0-2463-2040 , 0-2463-2044-6

Click here to view a map

2. Imperial World Ladprao, 5 Floor , Ladprao Road, Wang Tong Lang, Bangkok

Open since 20 May,2013

Tel. : 0-2530-4535-6 และ 0-2530-4660-1

Click here to view a map

Service time Mon-Fri 10:30 - 18:30 Closed on OFFICIAL HOLIDAYS

pj

We're going to try and do the 90 day report in Bangkok tomorrow. The Immigration website seems to say we can do it at either at the One Stop Center at Chamchuri Square or at the main place at Chaeng Wattana.

Does anyone know if either of those options is (1) impossible, or (2) better to use?

Thanks,

pj

I managed to get a response from a visa agent we have used in Chiang Mai. She contacted CM Immigration, who told her we can do the report in Bangkok, but only if we can prove our address in Bangkok - which we are able to do.

The reason that mailing it in to Chiang Mai is not an option is that we came down here to sell a condo, and that has taken longer than anticipated, and now that it is sold, she will need her passport to make the property transfer - and meanwhile, her 90-day report is due on the 13th. However, we are told that we can report up to seven days after that date without incurring a penalty, which gives us some breathing space. We, in the meantime, will try to make the report here in Bangkok.

Thanks to all for the responses.

pj

We live in Chiang Mai, but are stuck in Bangkok for the next couple of weeks on business.

My wife's 90-day report is due very soon in Chiang Mai.

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the report in Bangkok? And if so, would we need proof of our address, like our Chiang Mai home lease?

Thanks,

pj

I have plenty of time, so I will shop around and compare the different brokers, so any more tips of people I should check out would be appreciated.

I am a very satisfied customer of Assistthaivisa in ChangMai Land.

Just done my extension this week and they 'manage' my 90 days through the year. Good service.

Thanks for that tip, Beau

Can't go wrong with Pom who is Aussie/Thai.

she's in Soi 9, off Nimman.

http://www.osvisas.com/

Thanks, Masuk. I'll drop them a line.

Are there others whom people recommend?

Can anyone recommend a visa broker/agent whose services you are happy with?

The agent we use is not great, and I'm looking to change, so if anyone can recommend someone who is good and reliable, I'd be grateful.

pj

Chiang Mai Plastic don't have this webbing, and nor seemingly does any other shop in that area of Worarot market, which I scoured pretty carefully this afternoon.

At Chatuchak in Bangkok these straps are in an area of the market where all the other shops are selling army surplus webbing, belts, straps, boots, belt pouches, holsters and knife sheaths, etc. Does anyone know a market area specialising in that kind of stuff in Chiang Mai?

pj

Nimmo House is about five km north of Mae Jo, west of the Phrao highway. Look for a bright orange sign on the left of the road. Turn left, continue until you find yourself next to a vast garden cut off from view by a tall hedge. Go on to the T-junction, turn right, and the entrance is about 100m along on your right.

Its Facebook Page is here.

The food is Japanese, with quite a varied menu in the table-prepared Shabu-shabu/Yakitori-styles. The location is outdoors, beside a private lake in a stunning garden.

It is SERIOUSLY popular, so don't bother turning up without calling for a reservation (I've made that mistake and had to leave). Strangely, reservations are easy to get so long as you call a few hours ahead. I'm guessing it must have had some serious publicity on Thai TV, because it is always busy, despite the remote location.

Highly recommended. Oh, and they have about one hundred imported beers, and several foreign beers on draught.

It's not a place for the all-you-can-eat-for-99 Baht crowd. Budget about 400 Baht a person. More if you have a thirst for foreign ales.

pj

Thanks Suzanne. I Googled Chiang Mai Plastics, and that does look like a great place to start my search.

pj

I'm guessing that handicraft materials are all clustered in one market place. In Bangkok I know exactly where to go in Chatuchak for coloured synthetic webbing that I use to braid straps for musical instruments, but I haven't found a good supply source in Chiang Mai. I'm looking for webbing like the ones in the picture. These are half-inch straps; they also come in three-quarters-inch sizes and even larger.

I'm guessing Chinatown. Does anyone know a specific street or store I should look?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the tips, folks. Much appreciated.

pj

Thanks, Rotweiler. I've been past the intersection many times on runs to Mae Sai, but never explored Highway 3037. That's something to take care of.

I should have known not to ask anything that wasn't about cheap cigarettes, the inability of local people to drive, or the cheapest all-you-can-eat pizza. As you were.

Thanks Umbanda, I'll keep those in mind if we're in the Chiang Rai area. Does anyone know of any other, maybe smaller places? The more interesting the better

We'd like to visit one or two coffee plantations/coffee roasters in the hills around here. I'm aware of the one a few kilometres beyond Doi Sutep. Can anyone recommend other, interesting plantations that are open to visitors, within a couple of hours' drive of Chiang Mai?

Thanks, Kitty. The KVIK option does look like a good one. Good designs and great prices. The more I look at the perfectly solid, hardly worn kitchen, the more I'm thinking 'to hell with it - it has to go'.

First: an apology for putting this question on two different forums. I put it on the General Bangkok forum before I discovered this, much more appropriate, place for it.

We are renovating an apartment whose kitchen is still in great shape, but looking very dated.

Instead of ripping it out, I'd like to get it refurbished with fresh laminate/veneer coverings on the door/drawer fronts and worktop.

Has anyone in Bangkok done this, and can anyone recommend a company who might take on the job?

Thanks,

pj

We're refurbishing a small apartment, and its kitchen is in great condition, but looks very dated with its boring brown mock-veneer finish.

It would be very expensive to rip it out and replace it - and very wasteful since it is high quality and not in need of replacement. I wonder if anyone has come across companies that refurbish kitchens. Ideally someone would come in and add all-new laminate veneers in white or something similar, that would make the thing look like new.

Any tips or pointers would be much appreciated.

pj

I'll expand my answer. I specifically do not recommend AUA, although many choose to attend there because it is so close to the city center. They have a problem with mediocre quality teachers with bad attitudes (not all, but many teachers there.) I also attended YMCA, but I think they have no visa support. Payap has very high quality teachers that are well supported by administrative staff. They also do not use phoenetics to teach Thai, which is a pet peeve of mine (fine if your goal is to speak only, but complete waste of time if you want to learn to read and write Thai.) There are many other private schools around that promote easy visa, and I think their strong points are that and pretty teachers. If you are serious about learning Thai, Payap will serve you best, but you will need transportation. Oh, and don't even consider Chiang Mai Language Institute. You can private message me for further info on that hot mess.

Thanks, BJ. The effort to address the question in greater detail is much appreciated.

almost four hundred views, and only one (albeit welcome) reply. This reminds me why I seldom bother here. If you want answers here, seemingly you have to make racist generalisations about the local population, or ask where to get the cheapest cigarettes or whisky or the best 99 Baht all-you-can-eat pizza.

The one answer you were already given is the only real answer if you are serious about learning Thai and have the time to spend. I would still recommend a private 1:1 teacher over Payap since group lessons are taught there and having someone correct your pronunciation on a 1:1 basis when you read and speak is vital to proper learning. But you ignorantly said you did not want a private teacher.

Now quit your whining about this group, you've already been given the best advice, and go be negative somewhere else.

Oh forgive me for offending you, since you are clearly one of the self-appointed Forum Police - and precisely the kind of opinionated, aggressive jerk who makes some of this forum such tiresome reading.

While you were trying to offend, others were offering helpful responses. Calling me 'ignorant' for wanting to attend a school is not only unwarranted, it is profoundly stupid. There is nothing 'ignorant' about a request for advice on schools, rather than a private teacher. Even aside from budget considerations, a private teacher can't help my visa needs unless I want to pay a LOT for instruction at a school, which is not an option.

So now go be negative elsewhere, maybe at one of the 99-Baht-pizza-special threads that might not challenge your clearly limited intellect.

almost four hundred views, and only one (albeit welcome) reply. This reminds me why I seldom bother here. If you want answers here, seemingly you have to make racist generalisations about the local population, or ask where to get the cheapest cigarettes or whisky or the best 99 Baht all-you-can-eat pizza.

The guy who is putting the shop down never shops there, but suspects the place of engaging in all kinds of scurrilous activities. That uninformed rubbish goes right in the bin where it belongs.

I bought a bicycle from Chaitawat more than two years ago. They were happy to talk to me in English, and perfectly happy to haggle with me on price. Ever since, I only have to turn up and they remember me, and don't hesitate to give me a discount on the sticker price on anything, whether it's an expensive set of tires or a cheap inner tube.

Great shop, well worthy of the recommendations here, and totally undeserving of criticism from trolls who have never even shopped there.

pj