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Off topic remark. I almost regret kicking in this post, cause since I did it wherever in the internet I go, I am followed around by ads from phuketferry.com.

Yes I know I should wipe cookies from my hard disk. Somebody else, depending on his online activities, might be pestered with ads for weight loss methods, second hand cars or gay nightlife venues.

Foodland? They stock articles which are not used by Thais , I just asked Thai people at my working place about peanut oil, and they don't know it.

Often tourists tend to holiday in the same place year after year after year, even when they are also often complaining it ain't anymore how it used to be. The place where they go every year has become like a second home, they know people there. Oh well, maybe the same applies to expats who settled in Phuket during the nineties, would they still choose it now? Had to think of this the day before yesterday, when I was visited by a group of elderly Austrians who have been spending their holidays in Patong since I don't know when, going to Khao Lak for just one day probably mainly because they know me for a long time.

Bedrock closed? They used to be a sponsor, got the impression the place was very actively managed, anybody knows the story?

Remember checking into a hotel at Thap Sakae south of Hua Hin with my (Thai) girlfriend at the time. On the second day, a group of students from Bangkok arrived. My girlfriend told me we should check out right away, warning me the students would get noisy even before the sun rose.

Usually it is groups of people that generate noise in a hotel, more so than for instance couples fighting out a marital war.

Sigh.....making lots of problems at land border crossings, refusing people who are very obviously tourists, and now they want to promote long stay tourism.

No alcohol in the restaurant wagon. Big signs everywhere that alcohol consumption is forbidden on SRT.

After Rachaburi a railroad police man walked through the train; it looked like he was specififically looking for what people was drinking.

Hehe....so some kind of colorless liquor like gin or vodka in a water bottle it becomes.

They also prohibited alcohol in national parks some time ago, but I know that in at least one national park where many people stay overnight, the national park restaurant stocks beer (again).

Requirements for the passport pictures are very stringent, I would advise to have them made in the small shop right opposite the embassy, they can make them exactly the right way.

Fly from Phuket to Krabi?

http://www.thairailways.com

Which states: The Online Booking System of Thai Railways is currently temporarily suspended.

Has been like that for quite a while now.

No option. The guy has gone to Thailand dozens of times, and having become wise by experience, categorically refuses to board a minivan.

You can apply at any immigration office for a 30 day extension (it is not another exempt entry) for a fee of 1900 baht.

You can also fly out an back to get another 30 day visa exempt exempt entry if the one you have now is your first one without a problem.

Is any immigration office capable of doing this? Remember once (very long time ago) trying to do this at the immigration office in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, they didn't have the proper stamps and told me to go to Songhkla. Also I am not sure if all provincial capitals have an immigration office.

single cells?

much more "comfortable" than I have heard - like 20 or 60 people together in one room - toilet=a hole in the floor

Have also been wondering where this photo was taken, police holding cells maybe?

Once more a simple question to the big city folks from a Phangnga hillbilly.

A customer is asking me what would be the quickest way to get by public transport from HKT to Koh Lanta. His plane lands at 09.10.

I was thinking about taking the Airport Bus to Phuket Town, and then take a bus/songthaew/taxi to Ratchada and proceed by ferry, is this realistic?

Either doing business here, banging someone's wife or the wife is sick of him and wants to cash out of the relationship.

The attack is too personal and brutal to be random.

There is also a lot of brutal violence caused by conflicts arising from nothing during say alcohol drenched karaoke sessions. But who is carrying around an ax, points to it being a planned thing. Oh well, I'm out, who needs one more detective.

Sadly enough not unusual that tourists take home illegal souvenirs (corals, clams) from snorkeling tours, often the perpetrators are East Europeans and Asians.

Fierce competition among snorkeling tour operators, they won't be so willing to do/say anything which would displease the customers.

Remember driving past one in Cha-am, the day after I read about them. There are more of them though. I also know that there are a lot of old aged people homes in Thailand which are mainly or maybe exclusively catering for the German speaking market. Internet search in German yields a lot of results, not so useful for an American though.

Google "Cheshire homes", it is a chain of old age peoples homes in Thailand for farangs.

Phang Nga, meanwhile, could be turned into a natural site, but maybe needs to limit the number of visitors |and improve law enforcement of the environment and to protect its natural resources.

Limit the number of visitors? What then, a hotel building stop or checkpoints at the provincial border to turn visitors back when the quota is full?

Khao Lak will just keep expanding.

She got just a 2000 Baht fine? Not much of a deterrent, considering the money which can be made with this.

The OP's sister should just walk around and look. Often enough the cashier (or maybe owner) of a beer bar is a tom (masculine looking lesbian), who oversees the other girls who chat up the customers, and when needed helps them out when language skills do not suffice to communicate something to a punter.