Pattaya Pat

hello

Think again, vaccines against the flu are for everyone, but especially for children and seniors.

I caught two flus in Thailand, which they left me in bed eight days and one month patraque.

8 days in bed sounds like heaven

We never had flu vaccines when we were kids, so sorry but not convinced. Thanks anyway.

You have 2 mil to invest? Don't tell me, you statred with 10, now down to 2 and now scared that you will be destitute in years time?

Find an IFA in BKK, I'm sure he will have some lovely ideas for you

Every year my wife gets a flu vaccine for our daughter and every year it causes a row as I'm sure it is not needed and it is just a ploy from the hospital to extract more money out of you. They tell her that our daughter should have it done and of course she just meekly agrees. There goes another thousand baht in the hospital coffers..

Or, am I wrong? I've always believe that flu vaccines are only for old people and/or if you live in a cold country and the winter is approaching?

Thanks.

Our son went to the catholic school in Sri Racha ,its called Assumption ,he is now in university ,both our neighbours children go there ,its excellent ,he did the English programme (his english was perfect as he lived in the UK before)if you do not want to drive there a minibus picks the children up from your home ,about 2k a month no problem parking the grounds cover several acres and the facilities are first class.

Once he graduates from Uni, what will he do do you think? How much salary would he be likely to get in a 'good job'?

I understand that a degree here isn't recognised in any civilised country, so in short, pretty worthless?

St Andrews is about 450 now, similar size.

He said 4000 not 400

We went to speak with MSI for our son, thought the management there were a joke, plus it's way overpriced.

Blackpool or Pattaya. Pattaya or Blackpool.

Blackpool (or any other UK seaside resort) in winter :-

Cheaper than summer. Freeze your nuts off. Pay for B&B + extra for evening meal. Bracing sea breezes to blow off your Kiss me Quick hat, make your fingers and toes ready to drop off, make your nose run with snot all day. No sitting outside with a beer, a coffee or a cup of tea. Back to the B&B and hungry as nowhere is open unless you want a greasy kebab or pie and mushy farter peas. Yes, wonderful.

Pattaya in winter. Sit outside in the sun, drink beer, have a coffee or a cup of tea and watch the ladies walk by. Stroll around in shorts and short sleeved shirt showing off that manly pregnant pouch above those hairy legs

Food all day and night. Booze until the early hours. Go to a bar and watch the footie, F1, rugby or whatever and have a chinwag with your mates.

Why be bored in Pattaya, really?

I readily admit to liking the UK in many ways but when you compare the two in some instances, Thailand and Pattaya win hands down in the winter.

Ladies and Pattaya should never be mentioned in the same breath.

It's going to be a great day when Allardyce leaves West Ham and returns to his Northern slum.

I bet his "Northern slum" is a lot grander than your residence.

What my 7k a month room right here in the worlds bestest city? I have air con, cable tv, a bed, a fridge, and 3 coat hangers. I have to pinch myself every day.

I get fed up with things here from time to time and as has been well documented I don't like the heat, but did someone say Blackpool?? Ha ha ha, that place needs nuking, it would probably clean it up.

With a fraud in charge it don't matter who we sign as we will still play league 1 players like Nolan and Cole. Besides, this deal won't happen.

Sounds like PP is not happy

It's going to be a great day when Allardyce leaves West Ham and returns to his Northern slum. Arguably the most hated man ever employed by the club, thing is though he hates us as well. You may as well employ Don Howe or Howard Wilkinson, at least they may respect the clubs values traditions whilst playing anti football and blaming everyone and everything except himself. Cupped ear anyone? 18 sstrikers in 3 years and still starting with a 'striker' like Cole? Utterly pathetic and impossible to justify.

It's nigh time this dinosuar was finally made extinc, but the spunk brothers don't have any balls, and in the meantime we are sinking lower and lower as a football club with this disgrace as the global face of the football club.

With a fraud in charge it don't matter who we sign as we will still play league 1 players like Nolan and Cole. Besides, this deal won't happen.

I have never understood why people relate sweating your balls off 365 days a year to 'good weather' It's disgusting and not natural.

I know some like jsixpack will go into a hissy fit about that but there is NOTHING good about hot weather 365 days a year.

Yeah you like Danny Dyer don't you

PMWL

He's a pwopa geezer, don't you know. Running the Vic now in Albert Square.

Facking mugs!

I recently discovered Cafe Pitini on Soi Buakhao, the noise level is low, t

Agree with all except the "noise level". Noise seems to carry in there and the British and Italians like the yell at each other, even inside a relaxed restaurant. You can't hear the street, but those Euro guys and their loud talking does sometimes ruin a nice meal.

If you're American then we have a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black!

Nothing compared to groups of drunken JAPANESE men ...

back to the RESTAURANT stuff, OK, pretty please?

They make more noise slurping their soup then they do talking

About this Taiwanese restaurant, I went to look for it but couldn't find it. Exact location please? I went to Mike hotel in soi 4 but couldn't see it., that was Mike's Orchid Hotel and Mike hotel, I would only go at lunchtime so may be waste of time anyway going by an above post.

UK TV is nothing more than shit like Jeremy Kyle, crap soaps and quiz shows these days.

You are talking out of your behind.

If you think that Chic then your the one talking out of there arse !

Sorry mate, I did some channel surfing when I was home in June. British TV output now is 90% low budget crap. There was even a quiz show based on those coin drop machines you used to get at the pier arcade. Pitiful.

Even Sky are making better stuff than BBC and ITV sometimes, especially in the documentary department, which says it all.

The British TV industry is like the British film industry, for every The King's Speech there are twenty mockney crime movies with Danny <deleted> Dyer in them.

Utter Rubbish.

The fact that you liked the kings speech tells me all I need to know.

With that budget, you should be able to find something really nice with a poll

Something like this would do me

http://www.pattaya-property.net/?p=detail〈=&ref=HR2187

I think if I'm reading this right that is what the OP is looking for, looks a beauty.

I agree with the OP, most houses here just don't look very nice at all. My house is on a nice village, I pay 25k a month for a 3 bedder, the house is nice enough but no way would I buy it. Not many houses here that blow you away IMO.

You seriously begrudge the fact that you spent some money on 'eating out'? I liked your post but found it very odd that you threw that one in. Very odd.

It was just a cost, something to be incurred.

If I had wanted to go to visit Madrid at my leisure, that would have been very different.

We were there to do a job, give the biometrics and originals and copies of various documents.

It was not a fun experience, the food was also very expensive too.

Off to see the pinned topic now - Cheers

I was only breaking ya balls. Best of luck mate.

This is not the place to discuss alleged corruption by UKVI staff, be they locally or centrally employed.

There are procedures in place to investigate alleged corruption, and they must not be discussed on this platform.

So please no more discussion on here.

I see what you mean and the OP has told us that his problem is now fixed,

but the thread has taken an interesting turn in that applications for a holiday visit to the UK are all processed online.

If there is the slighest error you will be declined and there is no way to follow up and correct the error.

I do not beleive that there is any corruption at any Embassy or Consulate.

I guess that Border Control in the UK actually make the decisions.

My wifes application was turned down because "on the balance of probalities" they felt that she was not sufficiently tied to Spain (my full time address but she has Spanish ID, registered as my wife), that she would overstay and need help from social services. We gave the full details for the five family members we would be staying with, email, phone numbers, addresses etc and for ourselves but they did not contact anyone so what´s that all about?

I´d bet that they are under staffed and over worked and have no time to follow up on any query. Unless your application is perfect, the chances are that it will be refused.

For the 2 to 3 week planned visit, we said we had £5,000 available and if there would be other expenses, "my husband will provide"

A probably stupid thing was to say we hadn´t decided if we would fly or drive over for the visit!

I was last in the UK in 2010 for my daughters wedding!

The UK tax man has my Spanish address and sends everything there..

The real problem is that there is no 30 day visit visa, only 6 month general or family member visa´s.

I would gladly submit a refundable bond of say £5,000 and we would get it back as we left the UK.

The problems of getting a wife into the UK from a country other than a scheduled territory are immense and it does mess with peoples lives.

I was unable to see my first grandson until he came to see me at the age of 18 months (with my daughter and hubby of course).

I feel that the point about the agents success is that they have learned what to present and how to present the application in a way that Border Control understand and accept.

In any new application that we may make, I will be sure to tell them that we own property in Spain as well as Thailand and I will disclose my annual income and saving balances - all things that are not asked on the application - which in our case already had 121 questions.....

It seems that giving tham my national insurance number was not enough.

The UK needs to control it´s borders to keep freeloaders out!

But, Hey, we are talking about our wives and perhaps our human rights as well.

Our refusal was expensive, a 1,400Km round trip + hotel overnight + €114 biometric fee + eating out.

I asked the lady at the Embassy if I could talk to an officer as we had filled in a general visitor application, not a family member.

She said no and that wmy wife would be issued with the appropriate visa and not to worry.

Imagine my supprise when it was refused!

I hope that this post is acceptable, should we start another thread?

Something like;

How to fill in a UK holiday visa application for your Thai wife?

In the body of the post I would ask that people give the detail of their refusal (as I did above), so that we may learn how to present an application that might have a better chance of being accepted..

I would also ask for any ideas that folk have about how to disclose additional detail to help the application.

What does an agent do?

You seriously begrudge the fact that you spent some money on 'eating out'? I liked your post but found it very odd that you threw that one in. Very odd.

Another Little Englander? Only what comes out of the UK is any good?

Getting all patronising now are we Mr worldwide.

Like I say I don't watch UKTV, but is it better than cable tv?? Only an idiot would say no.

UK TV is nothing more than shit like Jeremy Kyle, crap soaps and quiz shows these days.

You are talking out of your behind.

And there it is....you mentioned The Jeremy Kyle show to try to prove your point...oh so very cliched and predictable, you really must do better.

I can only assume that you are one of these people that likes American cable tv trash. Crack on..

I thought you paid for the visa with a bankers draft when you hand your docs in at the visa centre in bkk?

Why you going to live in England anyway, had enough?

You no longer able to do anything at the BKK offices other than have the biometric details taken and hand the paperwork over. Payment, application and setting appointment date are all done via the webpage. Neat for the processors, as there is zero human interaction, just a paper shuffling game. Bad news for the applicants, as there is no room for the smallest question to be clarified. No chance of explanation. No interview. I had my application filled out exactly as requested. So did a friend of mine with partner and baby girl. Both declined.

My friend, due to his personal circumstances, decided to use an agent. He's paying 500 quid for the service which is expected to go through. The reason for us being declined? "they must have been having a bad day" were the agents words. In reality, I spoke with someone else with 'visa links' who tells me the people paying back handers (agency app's) go to the top of the approved pile, leaving the balance split to either get lucky and not hit the processor on a 'bad day' or get declined due to a pre designated number of declinations needed for the statistics.

Made me puke. Disgusted with the whole thing. Stressful and corrupt.

And it was a simple general vacation request. The reasons for declination were spurious at best.

OK, thanks. Yes. my wifes first tourist visa was refused. My Dad died shortly after the planned holiday, so thanks to these muppets they never got to meet each other.

If you can afford to use an agent then it's probably worthwhile I'd say. I thought it was more expensive than 500 quid though? Thought it was double that.

Similar issues with the decision of my friend to pay an agent. The folks take no mitigating circumstances in to account. They actively seek ways to decline rather than approve which IMO isn't in their remit to do, and if all the paperwork adds up they shouldn't be looking for cracks to celebrate another refusal.

We're talking peoples lives here. But the current method reduces that to just a pile of papers.. Which was obviously the intention.

500 quid but I think you can find for less, he just felt comfortable with the guy he met.

I feel I shouldn't need to pay a 3rd party to pay other parties under the table, to do a process which is part of the British government. I'm considering what action can be taken back in the UK as there is zero recourse possibility with the agency.

Sounds very cynical, but I would agree with you 100%

I've always believed that they are just looking for a reason to reject you. Scary that your whole life/future is at the mercy of ruthless, faceless, pen pushers filled with hate..

Another Little Englander? Only what comes out of the UK is any good?

Getting all patronising now are we Mr worldwide.

Like I say I don't watch UKTV, but is it better than cable tv?? Only an idiot would say no.

CTH EPL coverage is very good and I like the PLTV show.

The rest of CTH is total CRAP!

Cable TV is rubbish all over the world. What exactly are you expecting or feel that they are not showing? Apart from HBO and CNBC I would say that CTH have pretty much everything that you would expect.

If you want to watch 'proper' TV then you need to subscribe to Thaiexpat tv. I have it, but I don't watch anything on there either, accept the very occassional thing that I get wind is good, like Happy Valley for example..

I thought you paid for the visa with a bankers draft when you hand your docs in at the visa centre in bkk?

Why you going to live in England anyway, had enough?

You no longer able to do anything at the BKK offices other than have the biometric details taken and hand the paperwork over. Payment, application and setting appointment date are all done via the webpage. Neat for the processors, as there is zero human interaction, just a paper shuffling game. Bad news for the applicants, as there is no room for the smallest question to be clarified. No chance of explanation. No interview. I had my application filled out exactly as requested. So did a friend of mine with partner and baby girl. Both declined.

My friend, due to his personal circumstances, decided to use an agent. He's paying 500 quid for the service which is expected to go through. The reason for us being declined? "they must have been having a bad day" were the agents words. In reality, I spoke with someone else with 'visa links' who tells me the people paying back handers (agency app's) go to the top of the approved pile, leaving the balance split to either get lucky and not hit the processor on a 'bad day' or get declined due to a pre designated number of declinations needed for the statistics.

Made me puke. Disgusted with the whole thing. Stressful and corrupt.

And it was a simple general vacation request. The reasons for declination were spurious at best.

OK, thanks. Yes. my wifes first tourist visa was refused. My Dad died shortly after the planned holiday, so thanks to these muppets they never got to meet each other.

If you can afford to use an agent then it's probably worthwhile I'd say. I thought it was more expensive than 500 quid though? Thought it was double that.

I thought you paid for the visa with a bankers draft when you hand your docs in at the visa centre in bkk?

Why you going to live in England anyway, had enough?

The John Dykes Football Today was on Stadium 6 (Channel 61) this evening. It appears that Stadium 6 is set up as last year, which I think is good news.

Football Today is now only 90 mins (19:30 - 21:00 Mon - Fri) compared to 2 hours last season. Must be devastating for you Curbs fans.

The News prog is still on at the same times (and still 30 mins).

Better. 2 hours was a drag. 2 minutes is enough of Curbzzzzzzz.