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The carry on weight limit for Air Asia has always been one piece of cabin baggage with a maximum weight of 7kg. Additionally you can also have 1 x laptop in its carrier bag with its accessories or a handbag (male/female).

They do sometimes weigh carry on bags at the gate - I saw this about 2 months ago when boarding a flight from Don Muang to Phnom Penh.

I have used Fast Car Hire https://www.fastcarhire.co.uk/thailand_car_hire.asp?ul= several times from Bangkok and other locations around Thailand and also in Australia. After you put in your requirements they provide quotes from several companies on the one page. With some of the Thai rental companies they use a pickup/dropoff service and zero insurance excess option is available.

Online booking and credit card payment is easy and the quote they gives shows all the details you need to know about insurance etc.

I have always been very satisfied with their service.

The Air Asia X food and beverage menu is here http://www.airasia.com/ot/en/inflight-comforts/d7-in-flight-menu.page. Page through to pages 12 and 13

I have just looked at the requirements to obtain the visa. Looks pretty straight forward.

However I was wondering about the photo requirement "a recent passport-size photo in digital format (JPEG or PNG format):

So rather than going to a photo shop to get yet another passport photo made and copied onto a memory stick, would it be possible to take a photo of a passport photo (not the actual one in the passport as it is sealed with a plastic film) and submit that.

Just wondering.

Thanks

You could probably do that but rather than taking a photo of a passport photo you could get a friend to just take a photo of your self that meets passport photo requirements.

I have used the Cambodian E-Visa website (http://evisa.mfaic.gov.kh/) several times in the last few years without any problems and yes you do save a page in your passport each time you use an E-Visa - you just need to print two copies of the visa that they email you and take the copies with you.

The last time I used E-Visa was in December - I did the application online and paid for the visa at 6pm (Thai time) and received the email with the E-Visa attached at 9am the next day.

The visa cost US $28 for a tourist visa. The receipt I received after payment was from [email protected] which is actually the electronic payment service they use.

At some stage during the online application process you will be given a reference number which you should keep until the E-Visa is issued. With his reference number you can check on the status of your visa application. If you did not keep a copy of the reference number then you can retrieve it here http://evisa.mfaic.gov.kh/SearchRefNo.aspx - you need to fill in you email address and passport number.

If you email them they do respond by email fairly quickly.

I seem to read about more Qantas and Jetstar problems than Thai Airways. Because of this, I've preferred flying with Thai in recent years. Am I missing something? Perhaps someone could point me to some statistics.

Like I said.It's not just about the incidents you know about.A lot of things can happen mid-flight that passengers are unaware of.I'm sure DavoTheGun would verify this.An engine can fail and they'll still land the plane safely with passengers been none the wiser.It's all the little incidents that build up on a airlines record.

The passengers might be unaware, but the aircraft manufacturer is not.

We would all be better off ignoring the report. Afterall, SkyTrax has rated Thai Airways in their top 10 for the last 5 years: 4th in 2008, 10th in 2009, 9th in 2010, 5th in 2011, and 9th in 2012.

Thai Airways fleet is young in comparison to most other international carriers. I'm very happy to fly with Thai.

As far as I can see from the Skytrax website, Skytrax does not consider safety in their ranking whereas the report being discussed in this forum considers only safety and, on the basis of that report concerning safety, Thai Airways is well towards the bottom of the list they published.

Good to see Air Asia well above Thai Airways in the safety list.

There are a number of people complaining on the Sydictive Element Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/sydictiveelement . One poster is saying that the police pulled the plug at 3.30am (the party was advertised to finish at 6am).

Another poster is saying that Organizers are deleting/hiding all the negative posts from people on the Facebook page.

Flying with these sort of back Waters airlines are the origin of the saying: ON A

WING AND A PRAYER AIRLINES...

Never had any second thoughts about flying with this airline, and have flown with them regularly over a long period. Always highly professional staff and crew.

Compared to flying on the old Fokker F27 and F28s with Myanma Airways - it was a relief when Air Bagan started domestic routes to where I was working a decade or so ago.

How many times have you flown Air Bagan to make a comment like that?

I agree - I have flown with Air Bagan several times and always found them to be most professional.

The Washington Post is now reporting that fog and mistaking the road for the runway may have been the cause of the crash.

I tried what the Op is proposing a couple of years ago.

My flight arrived about 11.30 pm and I hung around the duty free shops at Suvarnabhumi killing time and went through immigration after midnight.

Unfortunately for me it didn't work because Immigration used the date my flight arrived and not the date I went through immigration.

When I queried with the immigration officer who processed me he told me that my flight arrived before midnight and they worked on flight arrival date rather than the date I went through immigration. He actually referred to my flight number and knew that it had arrived before midnight.

If the browser is opening the wrong pages it looks like you have some malware on your computer.

Suggest you try these free programs - they have worked well for me many times:

HitmanPro: http://www.surfright.nl/en/downloads - this seems to get rid of a lot of malware that other anti-virus programs miss and is free for the first 30 days. After 30 days it will still detect malware but if it finds anything you need to remove it manually.

Spybot: http://www.safer-net...rg/en/download/ (you need to download Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.2) - this is totally free and you can immunise your browser against known attacks and it also scans and removes malware.

How about the suggestion on this webpage http://weblog.bluedonkey.org/?p=34

You could also use the free version of LogMeIn (www.logmein.com) and remotely control the UK server from your PC in Thailand.

You would need to install LogMeIn on the server in the UK and on your PC in Thailand.

I use the free version regularly to access PCs in Australia without any problem - I am usually fixing software problems for friends.

There is also an Android version of LogMeIn (you have to pay for this) and I presume an IPhone version. The Android version works well and I can remotely access/control any PC listed in my LogMeIn account from my Samsung Galaxy SII.

Robinson Department stores used to have a good selection of Casio G-Shock but I haven't been to Robinson for a while.

My apartment building has True and I have been using mail.asianet.co.th as the SMTP for Outlook on my PC. I do not tick the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" box. I have the outgoing SMTP port set at the default (25).

The other option is to pay to use an SMTP service - I use smtp2go.com on my notebook when traveling (also works with True in my apartment) so that I can send emails from Outlook when using hotel wifi internet. It is not expensive and you can choose a plan depending on the number of emails you want to send a day: I have been using smtp2go.com for a year now and have not had any problems.

You could go with Air Asia via Bali - you can do this each way but I am not sure of the stop over time in Bali for the next leg. One problem with this is, depending on your nationality, you might have to get an Indonesian visa each way for the transit in Bali - I think this costs US$25 because they have done away with the short term visas they used to have.

Alternatively you can go to Darwin via Singapore with Jetstar. I think for the return with Jetstar you would need to overnight in Singapore - Air Asia did have a Singapore - Bangkok flight that connected with the Jetstar Darwin - Singapore flight but last time I looked Air Asia had stopped that flight.

As someone else has suggested Silk Air might be an option also via Singapore.

You might find it best to go one way with one carrier and come back with a different carrier.

I went on a Chao Phraya Princess dinner cruise earlier this year and swore never to go on a Chao Phraya Princess dinner cruise again.

The boat and the food were ok but there were too many people and the singer and music were extremely loud. There was absolutely no "ambiance" - it was more like being on a cattle boat!.

I haven't done one of the rice barge dinner cruises but for my next dinner cruise a rice barge will be my choice.

If you already have wifi on your router as part of your home network then an Air Live WLA-5200AP would do the trick - http://www.newworlddis.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=75&category_id=31&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=71. You would set it up in Client Mode to receive the wifi signal from your network and plug the Dreambox into one of the ports by ethernet cable.

If you don't already have wifi then you would need to have a wifi router attached to your modem (another WLA-5200AP or other wifi router set up as an Access Point) to transmit a wifi signal that would then be picked up by the WLA-5200AP to which your Dreambox is connected.

I am not sure where you would get one in Pattaya but they are readily available at Pantip on Phetchaburi Rood and and Pantip Ngamwongwan in Bangkok.

I travelled Darwin-Bali-Bangkok with Air Asia a couple of months ago and super-sized to 30kg - there was no problem with 2 bags with a total combined weight of 30kg. My understanding is you can check in several bags provided the combined weight limit is not exceeded.

Not sure about the counter fee for check in at Phuket but they do have kiosks at the airport where you can self-check in. Also, if you do a search for check in on the Air Asia website http://www.airasia.com/au/en/myflights/sci_faq.html you will find: "20. At which airports do Conventional Counter Check-In Fees NOT apply? Counter check-in fees will NOT apply for flight departures from Hong Kong, Macau, Clark in Philippines, Tokyo (Haneda) and Osaka (Kansai) in Japan, Seoul (Incheon) in Korea and Tehran (Imam Khomeini) in Iran. Counter check-in fees will also not apply for flights with an FD airline code (e.g. FD XXXX) departing from any country."

I am near Saphan Khwai BTS - the number I use for taxis (I got it from the office at my apartment block) is 028759995.

I have been using this service for the last two years and no problems. They store your phone number so when you call and give them your phone number they already have the address. They charge 20 baht booking fee.

The taxis are metered taxis and I have never had any safety problems.

New website to check flood situation reports http://thaicrisis.chula.ac.th/.

If you use Google Chrome it will translate into English for you.

Saphan Khwai

17:45 10-11-11

No change from 11:00 today - see message #29 in this topic. Phaholyothin Rd south of Klong Bang Sue does not have any water including the Saphan Khwai Big C and BTS areas.

Saphan Khwai

11:00 10-11-11

Water level north of Klong Bang Sue on Phaholyothin Rd is down 10cm or possibly slightly more on daytime levels from yesterday.

All vehicles are now able to go northbound on Phaholyothin Rd to Kamphaeng Phet junction.

In the southbound lanes small cars can negotiate the U-turn just north of Klong Bang Sue with care.

Phaholyothin Rd south of Klong Bang Sue does not have any water including the Saphan Khwai Big C and BTS areas. There is one manhole still leaking water just north of the BTS on the eastern side of Phaholyothin Rd but I did not see any water leaking from drains in the area.

Saphan Khwai

9/11/11 1730

Water level north of Klong Bang Sue on Phaholyothin Rd in the northbound lanes on the Mochit side of the klong is down very slightly so water is NO LONGER flowing into the klong on the western side of the bridge over the klong.

Everything else in my message #13 in this topic from this morning is unchanged.

Phaholyothin Rd south of Klong Bang Sue did not have any water including the Saphan Khwai Big C and BTS areas.

Saphan Khwai

0915 9/11/11

The water is still north of Klong Bang Sue on Phaholyothin Rd and water coming from the Mochit direction is still flowing into the klong on the western side of the bridge over the klong but the flow seems to have reduced slightly from yesterday.

Only trucks and buses seem to be coming southbound on Phaholyothin Rd north of Klong Bang Sue. Northbound small vehicles are being directed into the first soi on the left on Phaholyothin Rd after crossing Klong Bang Sue. Pick-ups, buses and trucks are being allowed to go north to the Kamphaeng Phet junction.

The U-turn just north of Klong Bang Sue is negotiable by small cars but with care.

Yesterday Klong Bang Sue at Phaholyothin Rd was up to 1.05 on the DDS website and went down to 1.00 overnight. This morning around 0800 the klong went quickly up to 1.03.

Water is still seeping into Soi Nuan Keao, the last soi before Klong Bang Sue on the eastern side of Phaholyothin Rd. The amount of water does not seem to be increasing.

Phaholyothin Rd south of Klong Bang Sue does not have any water including the Saphan Khwai Big C and BTS areas. There is one manhole still leaking a small amount of water just north of the BTS on the eastern side of Phaholyothin Rd but I did not see any water leaking from drains in the area.

The small soi near the temple at the end of Phaholyothin Soi 15 did have a small flood on Sunday near the temple at the end of the Soi but there was no water there at 0915 today.