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Well, here's a more reliable link which, amazingly, does bear this out, though I doubt logic plays a big role. I mean, why aren't Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, all Mandarin/Cantonese speaking, more attractive than monoglot Thailand? And what - no gambling? Guns galore. Kidnaps, murder and mayhem. I'd give it a wide berth. But it's probably an affordability thing. Group tours? You know they make sense! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/where-are-chinese-travelers-going-thailand-and-more-in-southeast-asia.html I say more reliable, as a lot of figures are quoted from trip.com and Ctrip, both Chinese booking platforms.

This is just a nonsense advertorial.

Once again, you miss the point. Have you read the trial transcripts? Great you applaud the Singaporean harsh laws, although quite why I can't comprehend. China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Somalia regularly executed prisoners. How safe and orderly would you call those countries? https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/international/executions-around-the-world

Well said. Singapore abolished jury trials in 1969. They were replaced by a 2 judge system for capital offences, then another amendment reduced it to one judge. The judge in this case, Hoo Sheau Peng, should hang his head, not the poor guy he sent to the gallows. Can you even conceive of a legal system that hangs people for a kilo of hash, were it even proved beyond reasonable doubt? A man's life. Their ignorance is profound. They talked of the amount of cannabis being sufficient "for 150 addicts for a week". And we are repelled by Sharia law.

Not really the point. Read the trial transcripts. The case against him was almost non existent.

This has to point to domestic tourism. Day trippers from Bangkok. Clogging up OUR roads. Have they paid 300 THB?

Is this the bill for an outside toilet? You don't have a refrigerator, any fans, any other electrical devices? Pumps? Lights? WiFi? CCTV? Internet routers? The amount you've consumed is what my house consumes when there's nobody living there.

No. Green curry is usually referred to as sweet green curry, geng keow waan, so any amount of sugar may have been added. Same for paneng, garee, and "yellow". Mainly southern style cooking mostly favoured by westerners. Thais, I think, prefer hot and sour, even bitter, the latter almost totally shunned by westerners. Coconut milk isn't naturally very sweet, not to be confused with coconut water, which is, so mountains of sugar will have been added to sweeten a "coconut milk based curry". Coconut milk is used for thickening, flavouring and texturing, not as a sweetener. You can ask for a Tom yam, usually prepared without coconut milk, "nam kon" which means thick soup. Coconut milk is thus added.

I don't understand that then. Unless my guests ran them non stop at 18. But a near 300 difference in units? They're both 18 month old Samsungs with inverters. But I'm type 1125. Any idea of the difference? The guests paid the bill by the way! I'm going to take my own advice and try fitting meters to each unit. Maybe to each floor.

How many units consumed, if you don't mind me asking? Seems very low cost for that amount of use. I had guests running 2 AC units and one refrigerator, and got a bill for 4592, for 839 units. About 5.4 per unit.

Years ago there was a red bus that was free and ran along Sukhumvit past Nana 4 to Yaowarat. Useful. It could have been the 23 pictured by another poster but I forget.

Great! And I was thinking, of course it wouldn't be very popular, but you could lower your room rate, and/or maybe say the renter pays 50% of electric bill, or just set your own rate. Most do, to ridiculous rip off levels. I've heard of 15 thb per unit. I pay 5.3 bottom line. Just sharing the bill 50/50 alone would save the lady in question 350k! In these days of climate fear, it might actually be a great selling point!

Only answer (and I've not read the whole 4 pages) is not to include electric in the rent, as I now don't when renting out my 3 bedroom house. But, for a hotel/guesthouse, getting a meter on each room - is that possible? I doubt it. Or a meter on the AC unit? Not the full blown PEA meter, but a simple unit counter. Do these things exist? Are they legal? I guess easy to bypass. Update: I took a quick look on Lazada. Many metering gadgets available. From about 250 thb up. They'd need tamper proof housing though!

Déjà vu?

And nobody in the garage noticed the car parked for 5 days?

I posted this before I saw the above, which looks like it might be a better fit. But price wise, I think a DIY solution might be "more sustainable"! Happy Keto. They're on the ground floor of La Santir condo on Chayapreuk Soi 3. They do just about edible bread. Not sure about other stuff. I buy off Lazada, but keto bread is probably the worst thing about keto, and what I miss most. Korean samgyupsal is relatively ok I think. Thai keto dishes? Laab and omelette and maybe pad khana or other veg. But beware of sugar. Tom yam/kha should be keto. Most seafood dishes. Most dishes without the rice/noodle part. You could get any streetside Thai restaurant to do any amount of take aways which you could freeze (I think). If you were ordering in bulk, just say may say namtaan (no sugar), may say pong chualot (no msg) etc. Use Google translate to pass on your requests. Test out and then reorder if you like it.

Maybe remove the #. But I couldn't see any reference to a vax program. I visited Pattayarak clinic behind the seafood market in Na Klua in Pattaya. No bivalent, nor anywhere else in Pattaya as far as I know.

I got this from the hospital Line group if it's any help. It's a Lens translation.

It was a joke, but since when do Wins carry card machines?

Taxes

Yeah, I wondered when the Win round up in Bangkok would come on board. Any side but yours NextG, any side but yours.

It's incredible the way you offer up these diktats about how I should behave. I don't like, or agree, with anything you say, least of all your pompous, gratuitous and misleading advice. I'm not a child and I wasn't born yesterday. I don't need your advice on how to treat or reward a Win, nor on how to live any aspect of my life here. "Our noobs"? Who are they, and who are you? Big daddy?

And get a receipt?

Thanks Rooster. A good crow! I'd say the same for gambling. Legalise, regulate and tax. It's never going to go away. And set up gambling addiction help centres.

Because so many threads ends up in heated arguments, generally over nothing, and often get personal. This thread is a good example. How much of the article quoted do you actually believe is accurate? To me, it's about 80 baht. The supposed targets of the attack never get into the reporting. I posted both recent and past experiences with Wins (NOT taxi drivers as some seem to think), and get attacked for that as they don't chime with the general baying for blood mob attitude against Wins. I'm then lumped in with rich people coming to Thailand and splashing the cash needlessly, and then some silly question about being charged double on a UK cab meter etc etc. And so on ad nauseam.