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Even the old Pattaya Hopf brew house logo was a rip-off of the original 1892 German one, 

Maybe enough people complained that they don't have actual links to the German one

Well they've been a part of Pattaya long enough to be considered an institution and deserve to have their own mark

How bad the traffic gets depends on Songthaew baht bus parking situation, even if they have dedicated bays in front like on Central beach, they won't pull in and interfere with cars wanting to go into the carpark.

And T21 has two routes, 1 from the east on North and heading North on 2nd road, if the rightmost lane on 2nd road going in to the Carpark is jammed with cars going in and Baht bus waiting around, the ctf could extends far south to Klang junction and meet with exiting chaos from Central Festival.

5 hours ago, DUS said:

TE have no idea when your last entry to the country took place.

Only when you use their 'meet and greet' service at the Airport?

24 minutes ago, chingmai331 said:

How about some kind of flexible but strong and watertight  tube, 1 meter diameter open at both ends.  Drag the tube from the entrance to the interior of the cave where the boys are located. Then evacuate the water from the tube. Run a line, with a hook on one end,  thru the tube.  Put one boy into a harness and hook him to the line. Since the tube now has only air there should be no problem breathing as boy is pulled thru the tube to the outside. Repeat 12X.

As long as both ends stay above the water, i foresee no difficulties.  May need to grease the boy for easy sliding.

God speed and enjoy the ride.

There are bits in the cave that the divers has to remove their tank and gear to be able to squeeze through, 

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I don't have enough experience eating there to know. As I said before, my main interest in that mall is the famous dim sum place. But I would imagine if you ask for phet phet for made to order dishes they would mostly do that. 

Don't get your hopes up for Tim Ho Wan, the queues and hype was only for the first few months of operation only in Bangkok, the one in Terminal 21 in Korat is dead. Menus are limited and quality only passable, it'll be great for Pattaya where the competition is nil. These 'Michelin Starred' names are just bought up from the proprietor and packaged by the same company.  As far as chain dim sum goes, Din Tai Fung is levels above.

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straightforward question

Where in Thailand is a creek that's clear as glass

Roat Tax 'Disc' (Actually Square) has no bearing on whether the vehicle has decent insurance or not.

The condition for road tax renewal is that there is 'compulsory insurance' which only covers injuries and only very little pay out. and doesn't necessarily cover the same period as the road tax is valid

There are optional 'Voluntary' insurance Class 1 covers all, to Class 3 that only cover the other party, details vary... but for most private insurance, this would not cover rental, but the insurance normally don't specify the driver, many smaller rental operation get by with private insurance, but in case of 'big' accident the insurance company could look too closely at relationship between driver and owner of the car and found out.

Some insurance company give out detail of their policy in small square paper to stick on the windscreen behind the road tax, not many people do this, so don't count on its presence to indicate if a car has any level of insurance.

The short time motels with hourly rates seem to be untouched for now, do they fall under different category? or is it that most owner of these type of establishment has 'connections'

gold bullion coins are easily stashed and don't appear suspicious on x-ray

That right turn from North Rd. into the back of Marina could be interesting as that'll be where T21 car park exit, 

How easy you can go from Naklua to Beach road depends of if they'll keep the dolphin circle half blocked off, making you make a u-turn in front of T21 or open it up like a proper roundabout 

Where in Thailand did you notice this? maybe down south from Chumporn down they have accents and ways of pronouncing things like a lisp that could make you heard it like that?

just saw in the news that the police did took them in last night

Army records is because there's a section that ask if you've served in armed force

but I've never seen a request for police record for just a visitor visa for a Thai applicant

Biometrics every application is done for every application is the same for Thais too

There's talk of multiple entry visitor visa 5 years for tourist in the work instead of the usual 3 that you'd get normally.

It's strange that they didn't give you 3 years multiple entry in 2016 or 2017, most Thais that had first successful single entry visa find they're given the multiple entry 3 years visa on subsequent application almost automatically.

If she earns 30+k I'd expect there's big lump of provident fund if she quits, ask her how much of that she's willing to spend on the 'holiday'

but if she quits, the chance of getting visa to 'back home' is worse with less reason to return to Thailand

Ready made guac is around 130 a tub, so even at 90+baht each, a couple of whole avocados wouldn't even make a decent amount of guac

There's frozen avocado pulp now too, they come in big bags of 1-2kg priced around 300 baht I think.

For me, I would pay up to 95 baht for each avocado from a Supermarket in 2018, anything above 100 baht is psychologically impossible for me.  

On a dish in a restaurant as a salad? maybe up to 300 baht a dish

What delay? the road's due for official opening in 2020

looks like they'd have 'unofficial' opening as soon as next year

The only delay I see if that their contract only allows hiring of staff for the toll booths and such specifies a date 'not before' they won't be able to connect to the existing motorway yet as it is now a 'closed' system and they need to collect tolls from cars coming all the way from Bangkok. Normally they'd let people on the 'finished' road for free, but they can't let cars coming from the existing hwy7 within the paid section exit through the new road without paying. 

So they need to have all the booths and equipment installed and manned even though the road's finished before they could connect to the existing hwy7.

We might see a situation where the road will look finished but the entrance blocked off and only the locals use it as shortcuts for a while.

I remembered when the 7 extension from 36 to Pattaya was first finished but was not opened, if you squeeze through the concrete barriers, you can make it as far as Nong Prue exit where the exit tolls are now

do they have towel on their heads? 

Sorry, got my directions mixed up, got confused the west with 'dark' side

In that cast there's SV bike in Thepprasit rd., definitely west of Sukhumvit and Race Bike Shop on Sukhumvit in BanAmphur and Bikenet also on Sukhumvit on the 'beach' side

Numchai on Sukhumvit in Naklua is on the west side of Sukhumvit

There was nothing on the original site in Bangkok, it was a row of shophouses, the streetfood vendors in T21 Bangkok are really big name famous brands from all over town and their price at 20-30 baht is really unheard of.

There's a lot of article in the press discussing their strategy of letting in free tenant who can then pass on the cheap price to draw in the crowd, of course since they are giving it away they can select only the shops that'd draw in the crowds.

Not sure what the arrangement was when the Foodcourt in basement at Central beach road when it first opened, but the local Pattaya names left pretty soon, usually it's either fixed rent or a percentage taken on top of sales, plus Central never do cheap, they have another 'high-end' food court 'Food Loft' on the higher level, the only location that seems to work for that 'Food Loft' is Chidlom in Bangkok where the Hi-SOs don't cringe at 100-300+baht a dish on offer there

Central Beach Rd. Food court on the lower level seem to be a tourist trap most of the time, us local know the cheap charlie hangouts is Big C Extra on Klang.

The food court at T21 in Bangkok is rent free to the vendors, the management selected a few 'household name' street food shop to be in there to attract crowds.

Not sure there are many well known street food brands in Pattaya, the basement food court in front of Central Food Hall had seen some Local Well known shops there when it first opened year ago, (Nang Nual from Walking Street, Dang Dum Noodles are few that I recall) but most had left by now and might not even go to T21 even if the it's rent free.

Even a well to do restaurant already established in Pattaya were offered to be in the FoodCourt at T21 rent free, some might even turn it down, how're they gonna find the staff, how would their buying operation scale with another location?

The foodcourt in Terminal 21 in Korat is also not as popular as the one in Bangkok, it all depends on what's available locally. 

The cable laying that seem to be finished months ago were just the conduits. 

This afternoon 2 PM they had big reel of cable on a truck feeding into hole in the ground in front of Foodland, everything was cleaned up and they were gone in about couple of hours, so there might still be sporadic work around

They seem to be selling the 'eilte' experience as a concierge service, they already do the 90 day report for you and book all sort of place at a discount, maybe if there's a reason they can't legally do the yearly extension, maybe most of the jetsetters don't need to... at least they could have a data on every of their client, when they entered and how long their stamps last until and at least made an effort to reach out and contact the customer.

Even if for legal reason you have to be at immigration in person to make the extension, they could at least make an appointment for you to skip the queue or check your documents that everything in order and escort you through the process.

The only recourse now is maybe try to sue them for the overstay fine, but I'm pretty sure when you signed up they had tried to explain and had you sign things that cover their asses already.

If you're not excited, move on, us cheap charlies can't wait to hang around the food court

Japan has just came out with special law or permit for AirBnB and bookings are being cancelled now that owners are scrambling to get permit