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Karma might haunt the Thais some day. Russiand are known to beat up Asians (in Russia) Since Russia and Thailand have some new reciprical visa waivers, the Thai tourists in Russia might be wise to start looking over their shoulders.

Eventually what goes around, comes around

Those Russian boys might have to call on Uncle Sasha to lend them a hand

The asians in russia are mostly from the caucasus mountains and hardly look like the south east asians.

A big 'clash'?? Or a 'crash'? Article doesn't say. I assume crash, as the driver was certainly avenged for his foolish behavior by the laws of nature.

That is right. If it was clash we would have assumed that both parties fought with each other after the crash.

Some ppl are so used to water that they even use a bottle of water to wash usually in public toilet places like gas station bathrooms. That's kind of gross in a way and if done wrongly it seems to be worse than using TP.

If you need to use water you need to use it with the spray.

Made a huge blunder this should be in the pattaya forum can a mod move this.

It's hugggeeee!!! and right next to the action at walking street. Stayed there for 1 night.

lobby area

my room

outside the next day

swimming pool

Let me include siam bayshore at pattaya into the mix too. Yup and this is a very good hotel. It's huge and 5 stars no bum guns either.

Is anyone around at the airport now? The two ladies are peacefully seated inside waiting for the first train. Probably in four hours!

This is what my wife wrote about the Mafia just now....

They told me all of them have they same price and if we do not want to pay we can walk!! the audacity!! they can all fly a kite!!

Who had similar experiences?

Unfortunately I am in Germany right now and cannot help. We have a car parked in the Garage in Chatuchak, but for many reasons they decided to use a Taxi.

It's against Thai law not to use the meter or to refuse a fare, so why not phone up and report these criminals?

May be because phone call may cost an additional 10 baht

Lord the principle of paying 10 baht

Travelling to this area is a bitch especially if you're from the areas like ratchada even sukhumvit but the best hotels like lebua, shangri-la etc are all located along the chao priya river just like this place. It's a good place to take in the sights and sounds cos of the prime location but dam_n travelling to downtown bkk from that place is tough. Traffic was rough on that day and i didn't want to take the bts.

They have a free shuttle boat from Saphan Taksin, so it makes it quite easy to get there.

Agree with whybother... its very easy if you just take the BTS. 30 minutes to Saphan Taskin, then just enjoy the river while waiting for the free shuttle boat. Travelling by car... you'd have to be a real masochist, especially driving at the time of day Asiatique is open at.

I actually didn't know about the ferry until the last minute when i took the last one from that place to the bts you can see that in my 1st post. For me since i am a tourist and not a resident in thailand after taking an mrt and a bts i expect to be at my destination and not having to take something else.

PS the ferry was quite an eye opener.

Travelling to this area is a bitch especially if you're from the areas like ratchada even sukhumvit but the best hotels like lebua, shangri-la etc are all located along the chao priya river just like this place. It's a good place to take in the sights and sounds cos of the prime location but damn travelling to downtown bkk from that place is tough. Traffic was rough on that day and i didn't want to take the bts.

thanks for helping calling using voip so a proper number is all i need.

I was there Friday night. Saw the Calypso show. Wouldn't go to the show again, but I might go back for the restaurants.

What type of show is that?

*watches as more tv posters of the farang variety come in here to bash those damn middle class thais for having such an opinion whilst they themselves have the opinion that they are higher classed than these damn low class thais.

what a silly thread title OP might be the minority but the majority probably are.

Back in my home country and need the proper number to call them including the country code 66 of course.

Just a short visit to purchase some items and that's it

Damn i forgot to take a picture before i entered the market many touts over there at the entrance the minute you walk in.

Anyway here's the exit point out of myanmar back to thailand.

Here's a short distance before we approach the immigration checkpoint. It's literally a bitch for a non thai person to enter. Both sides have protocol for you to fulfil before you can visit but i say the burmese side is worse. A 500 bht payment for a 1 day visa and you cannot leave the area and you have to have your photo taken.

At the market. The blu ray discs are really cheap 20bht for 1 disc.

why would anyone want to spray shit all over the place with one of those primitive bum guns? they are a dirty Asian device to be avoided.

OMG don't tell me someone needs a lesson on how to use it?

Anyone been here?

The golden chang

One of the buildings

The ferris wheel 250bht for foreigners

view from inside the wheel

Here's the place

The ferry to saphan taksin bts station at sathorn

Here's some background information on the area

If the earth connection goes nowhere it will be useless.

It has to actually be earthed.

If the earth connection goes nowhere it will be useless.

It has to actually be earthed.

What he says ^^. Common problem in Thailand with computer shocks and no grounded outlets.

Ok so the problem lies with the ppl that built the sockets pardon me but how do you ground the outlet?

Other than someone else that mentioned using pillows on the floor is there a way to fix this?

Odd that this forum doesn't have an auto resize feature and my hosting site doesn't allow me to show it in another res. I will use another hosting site.

here's a nice bannok my friend's home.

I bought my macbook pro in singapore. It uses the 3 pronged thing to plug into the socket while thailand uses 2.

Sg is 220V according to this site.

I don't feel any electrical charge when i use my macbook pro at home.

http://www.adaptelec.com/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=222

This is the same for thailand i think or that's the information i got when i looked under the information section when i was staying at the emerald hotel.

From this on the mac forums:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4320137?start=0&tstart=0

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2430990?start=0&tstart=0

It says that you need to the 3 prong plug which i was using when i stayed in thai hotels. I plugged the 3 prong thing into an adapter and then plugged it into the wall socket of the hotel room since all thai electrical outlets only have 2 prongs.

By theory i should not feel any electrical current when the macbook is plugged in.

Has anyone else with a macbook felt an electrical current when using it plugged in in thailand?

found out that the emerald hotel doesn't have bum guns either and the emerald is pretty upmarket right opposite swissotel. Here's one more hotel that follows western standards in thailand.

Here's a nice place overlooking the river khlong

Rot dwan

i just arrived back from my trip to chiang rai and am right now in bkk. Drove a rented honda from a thai friend and actually drove from imperial hotel at chiang saen right into chiang rai city and there was a police spot road block too towards the city. Cop just waved me by. Yup it was fun too. Even hit the 100km/h speed limit.