Lemsta69

This is the part I don't get...if you bought the cheapest ex-BKK ticket just to satisfy the onward travel rule then how could you use it in the case of denied entry? The el cheapo tickets are non-changeable so won't be of any use and a new ticket would have to be bought anyway. If EK got fined like your friend says then maybe it was Immigration taking the pish for a percentage kickback from the $10k penalty or whatever it is now 😉

Oof! A few months after I moved into my first ever rented condo in Thailand they proceeded to start tearing down a nearby building floor by floor with concrete saws and jackhammers. Luckily for me the windows are very thick so the noise was minimal with them shut. Which was 24/7 as it turns out thanks to the PM2.5 and mosquitoes even though I was on the 14th floor! The aircon makes a big racket as well despite the hefty rent, another thing I wasn't prepared for and had to quickly adapt to. Living here as a retired expat is quite the different experience compared to being a cheap backpacker down the "Koh San Road".

Until the wrecking crew moves in on the building next door 😉

This is my first time living in Bangkok as a "normal" person versus my previous life as a cheap backpacker in the Khao San Road/Soi Rambuttri area. I must admit I'm shocked at the poor value-for-money one gets here now. At least it seems that way, my cheap charlie phase was the late '90s/early noughties so the memory is a bit hazy. Also I prioritised beer over food back then so the 20 baht street food was good enough for me. "Fancy" restaurants were Pizza Hut and KFC 😅

LOL thanks 😁. Can't say i'm a massive fan of the modern muscle cars, they just don't have the soul of the earlier models, but I'd take a roaring screeching new V8 Mustang over a Tesla any old day of the week.

Bogs Smith and BabyNok have cornered the market on original thought, no need to go any further than their daily innovative musings. Well every other day thank Gawd.

2/10

I chose to live in Central Bangkok and it's working out great. The only downside is that I can't afford to eat at the posh restaurants, of which there are many.

What did K. Nattapong at TT say when you asked him to provide the crucial missing information? You did ask him, right?

The title says "best" but the OP says "good", so which is it mate? I'll go with good as you probably can't afford Bangkok's best restaurants. If you could you wouldn't be asking the question on a LiSo website like this one! 🤣

Nothing wrong with that, especially if they're bringing me my Maccas feed. Just move out of their way and let them get on with it, it's all part of the charm of living here compared to say, boring old Singapore the 'fine' city.

It's not very interesting to be honest. I'd prefer to see something like a street race between American muscle cars and a stripped-out Tesla in Ludicrous mode. Can you drum that up please? 😁

I guess you don't fly from the States very often.

How do you figure that given the OP has stated that he was given grief by ill-informed check-in staff on his previous trips?

Section38 app has gone the way of the dodo according to recent reports.

Of course you can mention that newspaper, you're just not allowed to post links to it (the BP's stipulation, not AN's).

you asked for a superb alternative and I gave you one. what the problem is?

True Fast70 SIM, currently around ฿1,500-฿1,599 on Lazada. 12 month SIM, 5G, "full speed", 70GB per month data allowance. Just pop it in to your second SIM slot and Bob's your uncle.

Not gonna happen dude, you're just p1ssing in the wind. Relax and enjoy your life and stop worrying about stuff you can't control. Might as well go and tell a lion to become a vegan and stop eating its prey alive 😅

Why is it that BMs who have been here for almost two decades still ask such basic questions?

What will you pay us for our answers? I don't get out of bed for less than ฿10k.

I arrived in the night time on 1 December 2021 and was released from isolation the following morning. Holiday Inn 24th floor, Bayview room. Hotel is pretty generic being an American chain but the view was across the bay was awesome. The first thing I did after breakfast in the room was go looking for a beer. I walked down the beach to Soi Post Office or thereabouts then went up to The Avenue and out the back to Soi 15. First bar that was open, Korando's, wasn't serving booze but when I got further up the road I noticed that some of the punters looked like they were drinking beer on the sly so I went in and had myself a couple of nice cold Heinekens. Cloud 9 I think it was called, got shut down a few weeks later and Moroccan owner allegedly deported for staying open too late. After that I moved down to the Soi Honey part of Buakhao and found a Norwegian place that was open, serving beer, and who do (did?) a very nice salami and swiss cheese baguette. No 50 baht slop on a plate for me. A few days later I was in Cloud 9 and ironically a well-dressed English chap in a pink polo shirt 😂 suggested that we visit a small bar just around the corner on the Cow that was known to stay open all night behind the shutters and you could even get a plate of spag bol made by the Italian owner if you were desperate for a late night feed. So I ended up spending quite a bit of time at both Cloud 9 and 'The Italian' in my first few weeks in Pattaya after a 7 year absence. I had a great time, even meet a couple of Scottish fellows at the Italian place and they took me on an excursion to Ban Chang where we had fun sneaking under the shutters or through the back door and into some of the bars that were open on the sly. So yeah, no lockdown for me, well except for a few days in self-isolation after I caught Covid in one of the speakeasies (as expected).

They wear cheap drab clothes because they're cheap drab people. That, and they're probably afraid of being called gay if they turn up in anything other than a well worn Singha wife-beater. It'll be a cold day in Hell before I subject myself to such lack of imagination ever again.

Went there once in December 2021 just to see what all the fuss was about. Totally dispiriting experience. Cheap decor, cheap "fallung" in their Pattaya uniform of cheap drab wife-beaters, cheap drab cargo pants and cheap drab shower shoes. My waitress also looked thoroughly dispirited, perhaps because the of the drab black and white Cheap Charlie uniform she was required to wear. No desire to go back and even less desire to interact with the clientele, even if they are all salt of the earth, diamond in the rough types (allegedly).

That's a bad thing, right? 😅