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As I recall, the Government made the 30th December a public holiday, so certainly 30, 31st and 1st January but with 28th and 29th as a weekend, it will probably be a 5 day holiday for some.

Which bank is your receiving bank in Thailand? I use Bangkok Bank and make transfers online using their London office, sometimes from my HSBC account, always in GBP, with no problems at all.

G O L D is what my wife wants - she never suggests anything else.

If you send money from the uk to Philippines then you can use Worldremit. There fees are more competitive than WU.

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Always send cash to Thailand and change here. You get a far better rate

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Use Western Union, you can send the money online and then collect from any post office.

For Bangkok Bank get your Tor Tor 3 form from their head office at 333 Silom Road Bangkok - 2nd floor window 27. Very quick service. Branches no little or nothing about such forms, I found.

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You have to go to the bank offering the best TT rate on the day.

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Once you have satisfied yourself about any limits your bank may have, I would suggest you open an account at Bangkok Bank in Thailand, but make sure it is in your name only. Then you can take advantage of the Bangkok Bank's London Office to transfer your cash for condo purchase, in sterling, as previously advised. Doing this keeps the fees at a minimum.

I did this recently for the purchase of my condo and continue to use the BBL facility to transfer all my cash.

I wish........

For my condo in BKK I pay 4.26 baht per unit for electricity and 15 baht per unit for water - both very realistic in my view.

My electric bill issued by MEA for November for my condo was 1605 baht for 376 units and works out at 4.26 baht per unit. Your bill is well over.

I am from the UK and when I got a new passport ear;ier this year I most certainly went to my Branch of Bangkok Bank to update the details. Same applied when I got the 'yellow book' in my name for the first time.

There will ceertainly be difficulties if you don't do it, not least on i-banking with different passport numbers.

I had the same problem but put it down to the problems with CAT although I have True Online router.

I have travelled from BKK to Philippines many times but very rarely can you get Pesos here in BKK. You can get US$ out of ATM's at the airport. I found it best to get pesos from ATM's in Manila - at a good rate too.

I recently received a package of similar content from the UK (sent by DHL) and Thai Customs charged me 4800 baht.

My condo is south facing and gets a lot of sun. However, during the day we use a fan and only resort to aircon during the late afternoon until the sun goes down. We use an aircon in the bedroom set at 25C at night.

My bills are always low.

Any member used hospitals to register in the Bangna area of Bangkok?

Yes, this was Windows 8.1

I recently purchased an HP Pavilion netbook with a Windows 8.1 operating system, which comes with Google Drive already loaded. I had not used it previously so decided to move important files to Google Drive. For the first few days all was ok, then yesterday when I went to access the files I found they were missing. I had not deleted them or done anything with them.

I then opened my old laptop and found the most important folder present in Google Drive. I copied it back into My Documents and subsequently into Drop Box.

Has any member had the same problem with Google Drive and what can you do to try and recover your folders / files?

I have just purchased a condo myself and used Emile de Marsac (a Brit lawyer) of McWalden and Bailey with an office at Nana (One Pacific Place 15/floor). Tel:02 653 2037.

Their fees are extremely competitive and the work completed in a timely fashion. Well recommended.

I have used Microsoft Money for my home snd business needs. It provides for multiple currencies.

25c at night and a fan usually during the day.

I have recently purchased a 2 bedroom condo on 17th floor and need insurance. The condo cost 2.3MB. What would you consider to be an appropriate cover plan and cost? I was thinking 3MB. What premium for that sort of figure.

To always provide access to my yahoo account, I concurrently automatically forward all incoming mail to Thunderbird and Fastmail.co.uk . Occasionally when yahoo fails I have a record of all incoming mail.