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Thai + residents (with drivers license / 1-y visa) 1200 adult, 900 child.

30,000 was the promotion price for family year pass (2 adult, 2 children) but don't know still promotional period or not

 

Foreign tourist might indeed be 1400, can't remember if for foreign tourist there's any child reduction though.

So for a family of 4 that's 4,200 baht, just for a swim. Laughable.

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When in Krabi you must take a trip across the lake to the eco island where there are some amazing caves and ancient human remains. 500 baht for the trip via one of the lake taxis.

You knew I would be here and if you go back to UK and want NHS treatment just fall down and lay in the uk terminal when you arrive and a NHS ambulance will come and get you.

Thailand for me is very cheap for health care.

I know you're here most, if not all the time Mr K

A nice bit of acting at the terminal might be a bit premature.

Possibly get through customs first then declare your ailments to the world and those around you

Thailand is very cheap you're right. For a headache and a sore throat and possibly a little more severe. Would you like your slush funds depleted due to the big C? I cant see that being a cheap un. Unless you have medical insurance

I wouldn't use my funds to treat the Big C, you're as good as dead anyway, even in the West - Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze etc.

I have often wondered. You hardly ever see a thai wearing glasses, especially on the road. Maybe explains their high accident statistics. The eye "test" to get a licence only covers whether you can distinguish between green/red/yellow.

As an ex insurance employee, very large international company, No licence for driver no insurance cover irrespective who is driving or has licence. Simple as that, some will tell you otherwise but not correct. An licence from your 'home' country is only valued for three months use in Thailand and must be accompanied by an International Driving Permit ( No such thing as licence) or certified Thai translation which is accepted more than the IDP.

So i let my tgf drive learn to drive at a driving school, she has no licence. What happens if she crashes into a new mercedes. Will the school's insurance pay up for an unlicenced driver ? Or do i pay the 3 million damages.

As long as she is your gf and not your wife, you never have to pay. Unless of course you want to keep her

Seriously, would depend on the insurance from the driving school. If properly insured it should pay up, just make sure it is properly insured.

Just joking i would never pay up, cheaper to get a new tgf. Next question is how i check the school's insurance. If i asked they would of course say yes, in the well trusted thai method of saying anything whether it's true or not. I doubt if they would show me the policy and i couldn't understand it even if they did.

As an ex insurance employee, very large international company, No licence for driver no insurance cover irrespective who is driving or has licence. Simple as that, some will tell you otherwise but not correct. An licence from your 'home' country is only valued for three months use in Thailand and must be accompanied by an International Driving Permit ( No such thing as licence) or certified Thai translation which is accepted more than the IDP.

So i let my tgf drive learn to drive at a driving school, she has no licence. What happens if she crashes into a new mercedes. Will the school's insurance pay up for an unlicenced driver ? Or do i pay the 3 million damages.

I thought it was sub par to the other buffets I have been to. The one by Big C (Suhkumvit) has a lot more variety and do the others I have been to. I don't plan to go back.

I find most of these buffets to be about the same in terms of variety. I mean apart from beef, pork, chicken, liver, fish, prawns, crab, rice, chips, salad, papaya, ice cream etc what more can you want.

For those that haven't tried it i went to the Moonlight buffet the other night at the top of Rompho market Jomtien. I thought it was very good 179 baht for all you can eat including beef, whole fish, prawns, pork, chicken etc. A nice venue as well with parking right beside it and live music. Plenty of bars nearby. No need to go into Pattaya.

I was in Chiang Mai the other week. There was A LOT of tourist there.

Good. I hope all the Russians will decide to go there.

Why? Can you explain it? I would like to know why we have to hate Russians.

That's a very good question. Maybe ask a Ukranian?

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Or a Dutchman

A similar issue is whether my tgf can learn to drive in my car. It's a catch 22, she can't drive until she gets a licence but can't get a licence unless she learns to drive. How do thais learn to drive? is there no provisional licence like we have in the UK.

If the company is not trading in the normal sense and was set up to buy the house it is not legal

"If", yes, but these companies usually are trading; it's what I mean by "alive". The company leases the house, get the monthly rent, pays tax on it, has accounts & yearly rapport, ... It's a small "business" but they are not "sleeping" companies.

Come on that is not trading, there is no "business". It's just a convoluted way of allowing the farand to live in the house. Just because it was set up by some shyster lawyer does not make it legal.

It would not surprise me. The military mind likes things to be ordered and correct, and most company-owned residential property here appears to be neither.

How can you know? The few farangs I know who "own" a house this way made it the most legal way possible with lawyers specialized in this domain. They have a true company, alive, paying tax on its activity, and at creation money came from different accounts of each "partners". It would need a very thorough research to - maybe - find something wrong.

The corporate ownership of property being used by farangs to buy thai residential property is a loophole that can and probably will be closed someday. There is definitely a risk to go that route unless you can afford to lose a substantial chunk of that money.

As said above, it would not be an easy task in many cases. Real & legal companies. Even if some infraction was found, it could be just some (small) fine. The risk seems really very very small.

If the company is not trading in the normal sense and was set up to buy the house it is not legal and they don't "own' the house. I am sure that soon the authorities will starting looking at these deals.

Free service = 1000 baht? What about your guarantee?

So you sit down and have a coffee all very good except my experience with Mitsubishi was that whilst I was having a nice coffee they were in fact putting my car back together in such a way that it was DANGEROUS to drive....I had to get an independent garage to verify this and eventually Mitsu sent a "team" of experts to repair the car at a different garage.....it took weeks to get sorted and I received not even an appology

Who said it was free? you have to pay for the oil at least

The bank letters MAY NOT be fake. Just not the visa applicants money! My understanding (although not in depth) is the companies put the money into the applicants account to obtain the visa!

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Money must be in the account in the applicants name for the correct amount of time.

It can be legal, if a combination is made of money in the bank and yearly income as in the case of combnation no seasoning of money is required. But I have not heard of anyone being asked to also supply proof of income when using such agencies.

So if someone had a low income, say the basic old age pension @23,000 baht a month. All they would need is a short term loan for say a few days of @ 520,000 baht to legally get their retirement extension. BTW doesn't apply to me just wondering.

Safety was never an issue in Pattaya IMO. Plenty to do around town and should be quiet in September. Bring an umbrella though. The recent changes have had no effect on Pattaya, unless you like to disco at 3 am.

I don't know who is buying the 24 sq m condos, which seem to be the majority being offered now. They are useless as a long term home, at best OK for a weekend retreat.

I saw it last night. I'm a big MP fan but i thought it was embarrassing. A bunch of old men trying to re live their 50 year old jokes. Better to watch the real thing on video than see this travesty. Not the same without Graham anyway.

It was a car an Attrage. Total time just over 1 hour.

People are always keen to complain about thai service, including me. But it's good to praise them when they get it right. I was really pleased on the service when i bought my new Mitsubishi 6 months ago and today it had it's first service. The service department (on Suvumvit Road passed Jomtien) is new, modern and clean. When i arrived they had my name listed first on a welcome to service customers. A receptionist met me quickly and explained what was going to be done, how long it would take and the cost. I waited in a smart reception area where i could watch them work with free coffee, papers and internet. They finished quickly with a free car wash. The cost of all this, 1,000 baht 20 GBP.

Well done Mitsubishi.

Will they be cracking down on houses bought illegally with bogus thai companies. That's when the real pain will start.

I don't know about other parts of the country but that crackdown has been underway here for several years, at least two friends, both long term residents, have been visited by LO officials where the matter has been discussed quite amicably. The end result was that both were given six months to transfer ownership into some form of legal mechanism and both quite happily obliged.

What is the usual "legal mechanism". Do they wind up the company and transfer ownership to their thai wife? If you don't have a wife who becomes the legal owner?

I tried the Swedish consulate and they refused so we have to stay with the rip off British Embassy letter. Key Visa offer a very good service for getting the letter from BKK.