notbritish

cant wait to retire and have no kids to send to school. Looks amazing. [just needs a pool and home made waterfall or lake ]

IF you go to latin america, you might see only 10% of people using taxis, rest are having fun on motorbikes and ATV's.

Other tourists are simply doing leisure wrong.

Rich people dont usualy take tuktuks, they have their own drivers or they rent a nice car/big bike.

As we rapidly approach 60,000 page views I would like to share an updated photo of our little place, taken yesterday. After a little more than three years, the place is still holding up well. Still friends with our contractor as too.

more please?

God what would i give to find such nice land not more than 20mins away from a major city

"unfortunately" for the girl, people killed in the bus come from not too dissimilar backgrounds: generally well educated and likely to be inclined to stand up for their rights. Probably a few strings that they can pull as well.

This issue won't be swept under the carpet as easily as say, the Lao girl who was killed.

You are always defending Thais (and rightly so at times). But don't you agree that this is one of the biggest problems in Thailand. Getting justice when the rich and powerful are involved. I am not so sure if the 36 million is an ok sum. If they start with this then soon everyone will get sued and car insurance will increase.

The least of my worries would be that my insurance goes up. The reasons that premiums are so high in this country is because a very large percentage of drivers are uninsured (just as this girl).

If my kid had been involved in this accident and the only way to get any recompense would be to sue, then I would sue. She is accused of wrongdoing, and as yet, we see no movement on the cases that she will face. Will she ever see any custodial punishment? I doubt it very much. She was driving illegally and was thus breaking the law. Some could say that her offence amounts to manslaughter. I wonder what the standard sentence is for this? She should be tried quickly, and there should be an element of financial penalty for her wrongdoing.

Would I accept the pooyai family coming to me with 30k compensation and a big wai to say sorry? Hell no. The system allows the upper echelons of the country to get away with their wrongdoings time and time again and it is time for it to stop.

Well said.

Any parents that truly care about their kids would ask for real compensation from a maniac on the wheels. This was not an ACCIDENT this was a crazy kid with no knowledge of the road, uninsured, driving like a maniac. An accident is driving at around the speedlimit in your own lane without changing every 10meters then having a tire explode and losing control of the car, thus smashing the car next to you. And for that to be a real accident, you would need to not be talking on the phone which is close to imposible for the average thai.

36mil might be a little too much for this country, but the family is rich, they can pay long term, the death were useful to society AND the more you ask, the more you will get after the judges decides to cut the amount. No matter how much you ask, you won't get the full amount so better just go big

This should have been put in the "ask the government" part of the newspaper.. you know where the government execs always tell you they've received no complaints and to come visit their office with all your belonging and passport if you have a complaint.

Russians with the Chinese and they do not care if a tukk costs 500tbh in Patong, it is cheap for them..

I dont know about mainland china, but in taiwan a A/C taxi is just a little more expensive than bangkok's taxis.. i doubt 500 baht is "cheap"

And russia is an extremely poor country overall, so i doubt 500baht for 100meters is "normal".

Anyways, most american and canadian travelers are used to renting jeeps/motorbikes when they go on vacations, if people from other countries could clever up a little, tuktuk would not be a problem anymore. Half the fun in going to a third world country for a week is to drive around yourself with top down/motorbike

Wouldnt getting a Good diesel pickup 3-4 years old be cheaper in gas and in price than getting one of those small slow cars?

As I have said many times before, the answer is to make the tuk-tuks drive around like the baht buses do in Pattaya. Hop on - hop off for 10 baht - I would even be prepared to pay double than in Pattaya, 20 baht.

The locals, tourist and expats would all use this service, as they do in Pattaya. The drivers would make more money. Traffic would decrease on the roads. Death and injuries from motor vehicle accidents would decrease.

Businesses that are on the fringe of the "tourist strips" would have more occupancy and customers as most return visitors now stay in accommodation that is walking distance to the nightlife etc after learning about the tuk-tuk rip off on their first visit . So, the tourist dollar would be more evenly spread across the island.

The rip offs would stop because the journey is a flat fee.

The lack of affordable transport on Phuket is really having a damaging effect on tourism on the island.

Anything under 100baht would be sort of fine...

Wow this is even more blatant than chrystler's luxury car that looks almost exactly like a bentley

Chrys 300

Small portions? Most portions are bigger than everything in phuket besides Fatties.

that was basically a modded land rover with a more competent driver vs a jeep with bigger wheels than normal and a newbie driver. Anyways in thailand the point of having a jeep, is the fun of it and knowing that when a crazy thai driver goes to hit you, you can just jump in the ditch and survive with your car

Adam's Kebab was closed yesterday.

Looks like they have closed up for Songkrahn.

why would they even close for songkran? They look like they are living customer to customer to supply booze for the 10 drunken entourage and everyday is a songkran celebration for them?

i wanted a good kebab

New homeworks has an american import garden store, i cant remember the name. It's just next to the takwando. They should have 1 in their catalogue.. they have everythinge lse.

I went in 08. It was amazing! Go for a unique experience.

Yes, they took our cameras and mobile phones from us, but the collection and return were very quick and efficient. That was about the 6th time my son had been and he reckoned that was his last. He still enjoyed it, I might add. We ate before we went. I detest queueing and get acutely unbearable

Don't know how the Thais train their chickens. Would love a tutorial...

If my memory serves me well, at one stage there were 16 elephants on stage.

I wasn't too impressed at the tourists paying to bottle feed tiger cubs. However, we can't impose Western values on animal management on the Thais. I remember as a child riding on the elephants at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in Oz. Until recent years, there were some very primitive enclosures with limited enrichment at this world class zoo. It's a matter of education and understanding. We were pretty much the same until recent decades. It's also a cultural difference that may never be resolved.

The Thais sure have a special relationship with their elephants.

Yeah, they steal them from their moms, they humiliate them and then they beat the shit out of them untill they cant do anything but submit and lose their love of life.

http://www.google.co.th/search?q=phaajaan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Anyway, did you find a supplier for the equipment?

http://www.siamtara....aygroundn1.html

that has to be a joke?

Metal equipment with hard rock pads at the bottom to protect from a softfall on soft grass?

I had a Kebab at Adams 2 days ago at about 3PM and was not impressed, they did not use the flat bread

i expected it was more like a flattened bread roll and the chicken fill was old and dry

Maybe i went at the wrong time of the day.

The best kebab i have had here was at the top end of Bangla Road, they operate from about 10PM on,

The chicken is cut fresh and they have a choice of sauces, that was about 3 years ago i do not know if they still exist

Yeah, the old lady has an awesome kebab but a couple months ago i tried to get some (only reason i ever drive to patong) and she was no where to be seen.. Very unfortunate.

Adam kebab is pretty good if you come when its fresh, hard to know though.. Their opening hours coincide with the bargirl's sobering up and going on the "morning" beer run so who knows how crazy the cooking's schedule is.

IMHO The Show is Fantastic and worth every Baht,and rates International as Top Class Entertainment,

The Buffet gives a lot of choice for the money,and caters for all tastes.

A definate not to be missed Show.

Someone who works in the tourism industry for sure ^

Just save your money, there is a Fantasea type show place opening on the bypass in Phuket Town, just next to the outlet. It's by Boat Lagoon so you can expect international quality AND management AND customer support. It's been said there will be some water games as well(small water park).

Completion is due this summer and it will be worth saving your $ and not fueling this rip off company who probably mistreats animals like most thai owned ones.

cant they just bring some good old jeep wranglers from the late 90's early 2000's in good condition instead :\

Or they can actually start proof reading their articles first..

i have seen words written with the wrong letters even on the first page. IE: Epple to say Apple.. there's almost one every page.

oh great, more animals to be mistreated in phuket..

you clearly want to be labelled as retarded dont you?

OP is asking for playground equipement for a business

OP's business will be visited by many negligent parents

OP does not want a lawsuit

I don't give a crap about your kids, neither does the op, as far as everyone is concerned your kids can goto kajonkiet and play with a gallon of gasoline. What OP and everyone is talking about is PEOPLE USING HIS/THEIR BUSINESS. You clearly stated that with weak supervision, those playground are dangerous. Then you agree with everyone that this is not good to have as a business. So you completely agree with us and are just trying to prove you're the coolest parent because you arent worried about all those dogs that bite people left and right and those hard concrete floor because you hold your child hand non stop when hes jumping around, Good for you, this is completely off topic and you are now added to the ignore list since you kind of admitted your own trolling

All that can be said is.

If i ask my parents and all their friends, how many of them broke bones before they started skiing/skating etc etc Almost all of them would raise their hands

Before people started snowboarding, i had 0 people at any of my school with a broken bone, 0(in fact i was the only one rushed into an ambulance, EVER outside of car crashes. And thats because i was retarded and playing with 5 foot long ice spikes dangling from a roof). i started seeing them around 13-14 of age when skateboards and snowboards starting coming into their lives.

and rabid dogs.. NO DANGER?

People get bit every <deleted> day, everyone here has had rabbies shot at least once, its everywhere. At this very park in the first photos i have seen somewhere around 10 biting in the past 16months, and i rarely go there. Id rather buy some fisher price sliders and ropes, put them outside my house and have children who wont throw crap on the ground(or parents) or hit other kids come play and enjoy those wonderfull fisherprice playground modules. Or just ask permission to enter Headstart and use their little park, it's very good with extremely good padding on the ground (artificial soft grass)

Misscriss: if you visit this very park at 4pm, you will see a minimum of 5 children climbing on the outside and jumping around 3-4meters in the air.

cant they stop at kao lak? way more beautiful than phuket.. or even a small island like koh tao?

anyways, where do you find those cruises leaving from bangkok? i have looked everywhere online, everytime i search from bangkok, it sends me back to departure from USA

delusional.. the park next to the passport office is a giant park, its full of concrete, biting dogs and broken equipment with many hazard.

Everyone i know goes there and they all noticed the concrete flooring.. You must drink singha water, going against the whole world on this.

I seriously dont understand why you replied? if you think these hazardous playgrounds are fine for your child, fine, keep it for yourself. They are not fine for most of the expat community and it is our choice to want safety for our children.

By most of the expat community, im talking about those who refuse to let their child go to kajonkiet, which is a perfectly 'fine school' but very hazardous and 'un-nany state/big brotherish" as you cleverly put it.