stuarty

Kamala is heaven by comparison and there is far more to the place than "expats drinking all day" if you venture away from the main drag (strip) and one-day-it-will-be-walking-street Rim Hat.

Heaven? What does you mean Rim Hat? What "far more" is there outside the main drag - not much? Please list it out. A coffee shop?  There's nothing of particular off the main raceway, and is aspiration to being Hat Rim walking street a thing for Kamala locals, or just you ? Is that what local residents want? Do you speak for Kamala? It is one of the most corrupt jurisdictions in Phuket.  

I helped pulled bodies out of the lake and painted their school after the tsunami btw and got no thanks at the end of the day except more hands sticking out.

PS:  why would someone wish/chose to sit and watch expats drinking??

Exactly. 

1 hour ago, zzzzz said:

divers back in the day, was on Surin beach

he now has a bar in kamala

still saving lives  ????

 

PS:  why would someone wish/chose to sit and watch expats drinking??

Diver's in the beginning,  in his 30's, was a legendary figure, and highly regarded as a visionary as catering to the expat few, and rescuing potential drowners on Kamala beach from his shack in year 1990 etc, where he has allowed to be, as his wife Pranee was as I understand, a Kamala Chief's daughter local. The only shack on that beach. Nothing else then. 

He reluctantly moved to that crappy shed in Surin and etc. thereafter. He saved several lives on each beach where he operated . Ask him.

Also, - Don't bandy words with me you Quizzling.

3 hours ago, London Lowf said:

 

I would guess that you have never been to Buriram!

 

Kamala is heaven by comparison and there is far more to the place than "expats drinking all day" if you venture away from the main drag (strip) and one-day-it-will-be-walking-street Rim Hat.

 

Half-decent beach as well.

 

(And what on earth is wrong with 7/11s - wish we had them in the UK!)

 Heaven, hardly my friend. Well where to begin.  There is virtually nothing apart from the main drag and the remains of the beach.  The corporates have taken over the crappyness of the top end of beach and polluted it (what have the locals said?).  It's just a bunch of beer bar worthies and and a racetrack through the middle.

Bejeesus I miss Ran's bar (the Bank on that turn in the old village), and  Diver's,  and the water buffalos at sunset.  It is sheete now.

Whats wrong with these presumably not new cnuts

Don't go to Kamala unless you like to sit and watch expats drinking all day and enjoy a variety of 7/11s. Used to be a nice beach 30 years ago though, when Diver's was the only shack on that beach.

10 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Problem is most of those people only want to take cash, and they want massive deposits as well. 

Yeah, so a hotel then initially?

For accommodation, if you want a hotel, contact hotels directly and ask for a weekly or monthly rate.  If you want to rent a  villa or condo for a month or 2, ask a local property agent, or there are various options/deals on this site, across the island  https://www.facebook.com/groups/126101298046115/

2 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Thats bang tao beach area, right? 

Correct.  But the middle (Laguna/Cherngtalay) and north (Layan) parts only.  Better beach and facilities.  The bottom end (Bangtao) is touristy and mostly shut.

6 hours ago, polpott said:

Not true.

It's true

33 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

and insurance and testing; these thai officials do not even register on the intelligence scale

and police clearance

1 hour ago, Bkktodd said:

I miss that part....if i have condo in thailand.  Can quarantine there?  Give me that ankle braclet gps. Ill stay  3 weeks. Why not

No.

1 hour ago, Anna Rak said:

Yellow Book, that a lot of people on here say is useless, plus a Pink I.D. card might not go a-miss. ( Things that may help)

  20 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

You dont have to be the owner, you can basically quarantine where you live

 

• Evidence of long-term residence in Thailand such as hotel reservation, rental contract in traveller’s name or that of family members residing in Thailand or title deed of a purchased unit.

The evidence of residence is for after the quarantine period.  you cant quarantine in your own home

51 minutes ago, VBF said:

 

And, as I haven't actually got a home in Thailand, there's no other way I could quarantine. I doubt I'm the only "snowbird" who arranges accommodation on a per-trip basis either.

 

You can't quarantine in your own home.

10 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

No "tourist" with half a brain will start with a very expensive 14+7 days quarantine. A couple for example won't be willing to pay maybe ฿100,000 or more to start with. 

I would if it was a decent hotel with beach and pool access

3 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Do they still have that program in Malaysia, My Second Home? 

Recently suspended

4 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Well.....that went over a couple of heads.

 

It's a pun, in fact two puns on the word "milling".

Flour trader = Miller.

Hat maker = Millinery.

I get that there's a pun in there about millers, but I thought it was a veiled clue to the identity of the 2 VIP Frenchies who arrived secretly.

4 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

At least they still have a hat maker and a flour trader milling about by the sound of it ????

Care to elaborate or provide more clues?

1 hour ago, Xonax said:

This weekend I was at a travel fair in Bangkok and saw many representatives for hotels and resorts NOT wearing masks. And one male Thai visitor in a blue shirt walked around coughing like crazy, with the mask placed under his chin.

A blue shirt?  How dare he?

2 hours ago, jerolamo said:

5333 THB, that's a quarter of what a teacher earns. and the 2% doesn't make the number up enough to be influential.

But what you said as a true to look at, this value is the one some farang can use in one day, every day for some of them (and probably for some other rich, in ten minutes, every minute).
It is quite possible that it is the expense of a weekend for a Thai tourist. Not for the month.
The price of a hotel room can fall out of season and into a small hotel at 400 THB per night. Or 2800 THB per week.
The food, per day, is minimum 80 THB per person. Or 600 THB per week by rounding up.
We are 3400 THB.
1900 THB left ...
The Thai people know how to count and even the village chiefs know how to manage a penny wallet (from Bath).
The others who do not know how to manage, make credits and lose everything.
It is a reality that makes them regard foreigners as rich people because they do not visibly have the same standard of living (in addition to not having the same tastes on what seems important to them or not. ).
The point is that one crucial number is missing to understand the figures exposed: the duration.

What?