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a please wouldn't go amiss either.

Just a heads up - my staff have downloaded from the Pattaya City Hall website, maps indicating the new one way traffic flows on the sois running east off Sukhumvit ... which start at 9am tomorrow according to the website ..... thought you might like to know!

Well I can state with certainty the stars were dining at The Glasshouse Restaurant Sunday evening so they are doing something in Patts ...

I would like to believe this ... I really would ...

If it helps, there is quite a nice but tourist orientated Thai restaurant next to casa Pascal on 2nd road with a show .... I like it for an occasional change ...

This little snippet made me laugh.

The Passport Office, part of the Home Office, has received around 300,000 more applications since January than in the same period last year. A spokesman for the agency blamed the surge on ‘the improving economy and a rise in holiday bookings’.

The "improving economy" in the UK causes passport pandemonium yet the £ weakened against the Thai Baht since last Thursday??? 55555555555

All the more reason to have a Thai/SE Asia passport office then.

Does Liverpool deal just with overseas passports or UK domestic applications too?

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How about this for accuracy

A spokesman for the Passport Office said: ‘We have brought in extra staff to respond to the extra demand, we are operating seven days a week and our couriers are delivering passports within 24 hours of [them] being produced.

‘There is no backlog, we have issued over three million passports so far this year and more than 98 per cent of straightforward passport renewals continue to be processed within three weeks.’

The straightforward renewals must have been for him his wife and kids

You don't think the upsurge in demand is anything to do with centralising overseas applications in Liverpool do you?

The new system and the Passport office is pure farce, Despite starting my application process in March when processing time was 4 to 6 weeks, still nothing. I now have to get an ETD, leave Thailand, come back as a tourist will will mean I lose my Non-imm B status and work permit and complicates the running of my business no end..

UK Passport office have promised to return my call on three separate occasions .... surprise surprise no a single call.

Pathetic.

I mistakenly assumed that three months would be long enough to renew my passport before my Thai Non-immigrant B visa expired.

WRONG.

It took me over two weeks to arrange an appointment to drop my passport renewal in to the Bangkok UK Visa office, due to the UK online email booking system simply not working despite it supposed to be live.

No great problem I thought as I still had plenty of time. Processing time was 4 to 6 weeks.

WRONG.

Just called the UK Passport office more than 5 weeks after submitting my application. Firstly, the Visa office in Bangkok did not issue me with an application number, hence even finding my application was a farce. The UK Passport office didn’t even know who handled passport applications in Thailand. Having found my application, after more than 5 weeks I am told it is ‘in the queue’ at Liverpool, and that the time for processing passports for Thailand is now 6 to 8 weeks!

ATROCIOUS, SHAMEFUL, COULDN’T GIVE A MONKEYS CLIENT SERVICE. TOOK LESS THAN A WEEK WHEN ALL THIS WAS HANDLED IN BANGKOK.(and remember you can’t use your passport to travel once a new application has been submitted).

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

In my humble opinion ... La Grotta has the best pizza I have tasted on the ten years I have lived here .... and it is a few hundred metres from my village! Conversely the meat dish I tried once was truly disgusting .... and even more annoying it was made with very good ingredients but abysmally cooked and sadly no offer of replacement or refund when I sent it back as inedible .... so my learned lesson was to stick to starters and the pizzas.....

Get a quote from Liberty Computers on third road ... installed CCTV alongside a POS system for me ... much cheaper than any quote in TUKCOM.

How was this racist? Are you a Thai resident? If not, then I guess that they don't trust somebody on a visit visa to go into a 1 year contract with. Makes perfect sense from a business perspective and is the norm in any other country.

It doesn't make any sense. Only 3BB asks for 1 year min. contract, others don't. If one owns a company here, it means he/she has a work permit. Work permit is more than enough to get a post paid sim card or anything requires subscription.

I don't think this is racism, it is more like idiocracy.

More like it is their policy and their right, I'm sure you could find out what 3BB's policy is regarding contracts with non-residents. Still not racism aimed at the OP.

You are correct. It is their policy and their right, as there is no anti-discriminatory law in Thailand. However, it is still discrimination based on race.

How was this racist? Are you a Thai resident? If not, then I guess that they don't trust somebody on a visit visa to go into a 1 year contract with. Makes perfect sense from a business perspective and is the norm in any other country.

Sorry just a real dumb ass response.

I am here on a non-imm 'B' visa with work permit and have been for ten years. I as MD of the company I am the only one to sign contracts legally. If that is good enough for Thai law (and the dozens of other companies I have entered in to contracts with over the past ten years) then it should be good enough for Triple B.

And to make it perfectly clear when asked 'why do you need a Thai with power of attorny?' the answer was 'because you farang.'

Can you now understand my OP?

Due to some service issues from TRUE I decided to change my companies' ISP to Triple B ..... to find out they would only do it if I granted power of attorney to one of my staff to act on the companies behalf. This is on top of paying a deposit of B2,000 for the router.

The company has traded for well over ten years so it's not as if we are a startup.

Suffice to say I sent them away with a fly in their ear. Never have I been asked to do this for any other company I have ever dealt, traded or signed contracts with ... which is very many!

It took them 10 min to arrive and 10 min to extinguish...

Where do you get the 10 minutes to arrive from? Your original post stated 'at least 5 minutes'

Average response times in the UK for 2013 for non-domestic buildings was 7.9 minutes

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230837/Fire_Incidents_Response_Times_England_2012-13_final.pdf

So what point are you trying to make?

As it happens I was in Chow Box last night (not having seen this thread prior). Short answer is never again ..... poor food and well over priced.

Driving to work this morning I noticed that the Red Shirts were re-establishing their camp on the corner of Sukhumvit and Soi Khao Talo ... the land cleared and leveled and various stands and stalls being erected .... what for I wonder ...

Does anyone know what (if any) rights a member of staff has regarding returning to their old job once they have been conscripted in to the military?

Can't find anything in the Labour laws ...

many thanks

Interestingly we had to rehome one from our garden (also East Pattaya) only last week ... may be it moved on to you! ;-)

Just a quick report that I attended one of the soft opening shows for this new attraction .... it is another Tiffany style show on a grand size. Having said that, and given we paid all of B300 AND I'm not a fan of lady boys, it was very entertaining and every dance number was new to me.

When fully open the show will last 75 minutes, but the one I attended was just one hour, and at times the stage looked very empty of scenery, but we were told a lot of stuff was still being built....

Be aware dual pricing is in operation (already) despite their facebook page advertising 'all seats all shows B300 for soft opening'. They tried to charge B600 for farang because ... wait for it .... 'tourists don't pay taxes in Thailand' !!!!

Thai rate does apply if you have a work permit (check) or Thai driving licence (check) otherwise we would not have bothered.

As I have said, entertaining enough for B300 - no idea what the final prices will be though!

Note: any reference to ' B300 all seats' had been removed from their facebook page by later that day .....

Any recommendations please? I see there are quite a few scattered about Khao Noi and Khao talo, but any personal recommendations?

many thanks

I know Liberty Computers on third road install wi-fi an LAN systems ... they deal more with commercial rather than domestic clients so may be worth a try?

Just called BTV .... asked about when we get ITV Granada back. Pause at the other end followed by a huge sigh ... 'tomorrow mister' and put the phone down!

I called back and in a very unThai way explained that I wasn't happy with the response or my treatment .... another big sigh followed by some background conversation and the response 'tomorrow mister'

sure?

tomorrow mister

you lie me or not?

tomorrow mister ....

Don't hold your breath ... Thipmanee here I come!

Went to watch a movie last year at the same cinema, the 3D projector suffered a fault .... without being asked we got a full refund AND free tickets to another movie of our choice. Can't ask for better service than that ....

No, not to hide a body (before anyone cracks that joke) but I do need a reliable and reasonable concrete guy to do the work. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Many thanks in advance.

same same happening on the left turn from Pattaya Klang in to Third Road .. lots of bikes and even a minibus were receiving tickets ...