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28 minutes ago, madmitch said:
Judging by comments in this and the other thread, it would seem that this Central is aiming mainly for foot traffic, i.e. the Patong tourist, and perhaps some people walking across the road from Jungceylon.
It's probably situated in an area with some of the most expensive land in Phuket, hence the reason for the expensive prices, in much the same way that fast food outlets in Jungceylon are more expensive than their counterparts in town.
Central know what they're doing.
Can't completely agree with Phuketrichard's comments as I thought the food prices in the basement area to be very reasonable vs quality/value for money, and not really aimed at the el-cheapo market but for those seeking an up-market destination.
And surely aimed at foot traffic as well. All the same it is another alternative and that should stimulate competition, BUT my days of paying nearly 4000 baht for a bottle of Calon Segur are long gone!!
Time will tell with this new venture.
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3 hours ago, LazySlipper said:
If things keep going the way they are your NZ dollar will be worth nothing... Hope you will be able to meet the requirements anyways. Gad damned bht keeps getting stronger and stronger. Can't wait for this crap to blow up in their faces.
Thanks, and yes I can meet the requirement of the 800k but much prefer the 65k per month route as it makes so much more financial sense to me and my situation with regards to funds invested in NZ.
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On 2/14/2019 at 7:23 PM, overherebc said:So now she wants to come 'home' and take advantage of the social services in UK.
I can't post the words.
To be supported, clothed and fed by the very country that she abandoned and betrayed for a "better life".....
The very thought of that makes me cringe and worry about the mental capacity of those in charge who would welcome this terrorist and radicalised supporter back to the UK........what happened to the old saying, "you've made your bed, now lie in it".
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1 hour ago, atyclb said:
is a printout of online banking statement (bangkok bank) that says "international transfer" adequate to show immigration at time of extension?
According to the new rules all one needs is to "provide evidence" of funds in a Thai bank and it SEEMS that the international bit has fallen by the wayside (at least here in Phuket). This more so if using the 65k pm route.
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11 hours ago, Yellowtail said:
Just watched "The Impossible". A sappy tear-jerker about a family at a Phuket resort caught in the Tsunami.
I thought it was worth seeing, but I like sappy, tear-jerker type stuff...
Supposed to be a true story...
I liked that too and thought that the Tsunami scenes were riveting/chair gripping stuff!
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4 hours ago, Billthekiwi said:
Hi,
I use World First to transfer money.
It is based in Australia and has been very reliable.
I pay no fees and the rate is okay. In addition Bangkok Bank does not charge me anything either.
Never felt the need to look elsewhere.
Thanks Bill, but ASB NZ will not AUTOMATICALLY transfer funds overseas.
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3 hours ago, indepth said:
Keep your eye on the exchange rate. If it crashed overnight as your transfer is taking place and its at he end of the month, you will have to start all over again, another 12 months. Now that is something I will be worrying about a lot.
Thanks, but will be sending a top-up to my pensions mid month and will exceed what I need by some margin just to cover the exchange rate fluctuations.........did think about that.
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38 minutes ago, indepth said:
"if I were to fall ill and be taken to hospital, or be incapacitated in some other way, ". Thats only a couple of things that could go wrong, I can think of dozens more, If you want to know more, please feel tree to PM me.
Thanks all the same, but my two examples are enough as that's really all I worry about.........anyway automatic transfers take the '"remembering" out of the equation!
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On 2/13/2019 at 8:54 PM, DeaconJohn said:
The last thing I want is to be involved with land office bureaucrats or tenants. Our two daughters are in line to inherit everything in due course. I don't want to make any changes to that plan.
With respect, you may have to get involved with your property issues to sort them out to suit your needs, and anyway any short-term changes in this will not affect the inheritance due to your daughters.
Take control of that which will ease your dilemma and suit your purpose, even if it means dealing with folks that you don't want to, mainly because you need to do something to help yourself/your situation.
The above would be a fallback position if visits to the hospital specialists don't provide some solution/cure.........and hard as it may sound, have you ever thought that she is tired of the position she is in and really does want out?
Sometimes facing reality is the hardest part about it all.
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For the Phuket folks here, don't forget this post from Merijn............
I would suggest to send a email to the Phuket Immigration Volunteers, [email protected] or monitor their website, www.piv-phuket.com as that will be updated as soon something is confirmed.
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Watched "Tombstone" for the umpteenth time last night as it's one of my favourite Western zone is a good fill-in when I want to watch something which I don't know I will get to the end of...........!
In my opinion, everything about this movie is great and in particular Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holiday is probably his best role ever and I still marvel at it.
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4 minutes ago, mrmicbkktxl said:
I would be ok if they say show xxx or yyy,if they accept foreign bank statements why I should get an embassy letter?Embassy letter for me is 1500bt and a 80km drive to Bkk.I really hate that wishy washy "up to the immigration officer"
It appears (from what I have read and others may well correct me here) that they will accept "evidence" and that appears to be in the form of bank statements, bank books and a letter from the bank, for example.
You mention "foreign bank statements" but I don't know if that is the case as proof of "evidence".
Others may be able to throw some light on that for you.......
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1 minute ago, cracker1 said:
Why don't you set up your transfers by internet banking ?
Ah, were it so simple..................
If I send money from ASB bank to Bangkok bank here, I have to do it by a monthly manual transfer via Internet banking, as ASB will not automatically transfer funds to a foreign bank.
So every month I have to go into my Internet banking account and set up a new payment, which is something I don't want to do because if I were to fall ill and be taken to hospital, or be incapacitated in some other way, then I could miss a payment and I don't think immigration here are that lenient, and who knows what the ramifications might be??
I looked at a new option by Transferwise regarding "borderless accounts" and it seems as if they can set up an account in NZ, so that I can get an automatic payment made to this NZ entity, which ASB deems to be okay (transfer within NZ) and they in turn will transfer it to Bangkok bank here – – at least that's what I'm hoping it's all about as I have requested more information for clarification, which should be forthcoming in a couple of days.
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2 minutes ago, mrmicbkktxl said:
It says will be accepted if you have other forms of evidence.I never needed to show any other form of evidence.Embassy letter was always enough.
I think that is one of the reasons why Phuket folk wanted a Phuket specific thread...........
During my 12 years here now, I have used both lump sum and combo methods and on every occasion the IO has wanted to see bank statements and letter, copies of bank books as well as the embassy letters.
On my last visit the IO was particularly "thorough" in not only going through some of my statements line by line, but also asking his junior offsider to check the exchange rates as I was using the "combo method"........ maybe I look like a suspicious character??
The problem as I see it, and which has already been mentioned, is that you never know what you're going to get at immigration here, a bit like Forrest Gump with his box of chocolates analogy!
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3 hours ago, Mysterion said:
i wonder what the pricing is like in the foodcourt?
From what I saw, the prices are very reasonable, with dishes like goulash, lasagne, cannelloni and some lovely roast pork with what looked like gorgeous crackling, at around 50 baht for 100 g.
I didn't pay much attention to the other Asian type food places, however there was a place called Premium Burger which was selling its burgers, and they looked very good I must say, at 245 baht for the basic burger, but that in itself looked pretty substantial.......and nothing like a Mac!
Maybe they've got it right?????
3 hours ago, Mysterion said:Also there is no international “fast fashion” brands in Patong. An H&M, Uniqlo, Forever 21 would draw in big crowds. Sounds like they didn’t include any of those either?
Sorry Mysterion, I didn't study all the brands that closely, but I will take a punt and say that some of those brands are more than likely there?
Whatever the brands, the place reeked of price/class/positioning. so aimed above the cheap tourist market IMO.
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“Under the income requirement, applicants must receive at least B65,000 per month,” Col Acheep explained.
As many embassies no longer issue affidavits confirming income, this is no longer required, he said, noting that letters from governments and pension fund providers will be accepted along with other forms of evidence to prove the income pending.
“Of course any financial statements from banks and copies of bankbook records proving this income already being received should be provided,” he said.
So from my perspective in trying to qualify for the 65k per month method I can provide the required evidence, which was a worry because they have been ''fickle" in that area.
Not decided yet as to follow that route or the 800k route. For me it depends upon whether or not I can get an automatic transfer of funds from my NZ bank, so trying Transferwise under an automatic payment schedule if poss.
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On 2/4/2019 at 4:35 PM, Patong2 said:Patong is "a changing" as they say and for those of us who have visited or lived here for several years it is an unsettling experience.
However it still has plenty of delights for all comers but the old Patong has died along with Soi Crocodile.
Yes, definitely changing Patong2, although I don't find it unsettling, but I do "marvel" at the amount of money being asked for the big bars and sois here – – one large bar fronting Bangla can be bought for 50 million baht, or one could settle for Soi Freedom at 90 million baht.
Not unsettling, but perhaps crazy?
And on the subject of changing, I decided to visit the new Central store here in Patong, but the saga in getting to it was quite lengthy, with traffic backed up for a kilometre or two, not necessarily because of the opening of Central, but a combination of things such as delivery trucks, buses, minivans, traffic lights and poor driving and of course the poor planning. Only to find that when I eventually got to the Central store, I was told that I could not park anywhere and had to go and park under Jungceylon.
Now I had wondered why I had been turned away from parking under Jungceylon a couple of times previously, and it's because all of the workers and of course some of the customers are now directed to that car park and its full, and I don't know if it's because there is no parking under the new Central or because it's not ready? Far be it from me to suggest that it was lack of planning!
Anyway, I was surprised at what I saw, because there are three floors dedicated to menswear, womenswear and accessories etc, however they were set out just like the old Central in Phuket town, whereby the total floor space was like "open plan" and each brand was vying for its own little space within it, whereas the new Central seems to have gravitated more towards individual shops.
Having said that, the basement was just like the new Central and the food on display, particularly in the area serving Western-style food, looked very tasty indeed and this along with a few individual restaurants catering for other Asian needs looked to be doing well.
There is a small supermarket area which contains an area for the wine and spirits and if there was ever an indication that this new Central was aimed at a certain market (not the zero baht or cheap Chinese tourist or even impoverished expat) there were no rows of dried seaweed, dried this and that and other cheap snacks, with just the occasional little bit of dried fruit around.
In addition the wine area had no casks/boxes of wine anywhere to be seen and although I did see a couple of bottles of Montclair on display (bottom shelf and out of the way) there were many bottles of fine Burgundy and Bordeaux ranging from 3000 to 9000 baht a bottle, plus some pricey Aussie wines as well as a few nice Italian wines. Of course they had wines from NZ and elsewhere, and not always in the very expensive bracket, but the whole area did not lend itself to the bargain basement type type of shopper.
All in all, despite it being upmarket, there wasn't very much on display here that could not be bought at/in Jungceylon (apart from the upmarket food and wine area) and I wondered at the logic of opening such a place.
Perhaps this is the start of a change of Bangla and its surrounds or perhaps someone is trying to provide shopping for the upmarket and the wealthy in order to draw them here, however that seems to be at odds with the marketing to the cheap Chinese, Indian backpackers and whomsoever else can afford a cheap flight and budget accommodation.
I suppose one could add that Patong is becoming an enigma............and no, I'm not starting another thread!
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9 minutes ago, Rawairat said:20 years ago yes , My recent experiences at Bangkok Phuket poor diagnosis and expensive, much more than Singapore or Australia. My son spent a night in a wheel chair with a broken arm because the missus did not have B50,000 cash and I was away working. When they finally set the break they missed a second fracture, ignoring my sons constant complaints over a week until they figured the bruising must mean something else was wrong.
No apology’s, I just got blank looks from the doctor and the “International Assitance” who admitted that BPH was expensive and substandard. Management are too busy counting money and checking out the Mercedes catalogue to attend.
i feel sorry for the Thais who have no quality private options. The rest of us can go elsewhere.
Agree with the general gist of what others have said, because I've only ever met one or perhaps two doctors here who have been anywhere near proficient.
One particular case which annoys me is when I had a UTI (from urine retention) and the urologist kept giving me different antibiotics every two or three weeks when I went back to see him, and I must have tried just about every antibiotic known to man, despite me asking him to culture one of my samples because I was feeling very sick and nothing was improving.
However he kept on prescribing more antibiotics and the upshot was that I contracted E. coli ESBL (not sure if it was from the cystoscopy which was rather clumsily performed, or from the repeated antibiotics) and I was very sick indeed. So much so that I had to visit the infectious diseases specialist and was prescribed one of only three or four rare antibiotics that might be able to treat this and these had to be done intravenously on a daily basis.
Because this was an outpatient procedure, I could not claim on insurance and overall the whole lot would have cost me around 50,000 baht.
A guy I know was diagnosed with bladder cancer by this very same urologist and told that the urologist and the surgeon would remove his bladder because that was the treatment they prescribed, however he wasn't keen on this so went back to Australia and had a small cancerous lesion in his bladder treated with radiotherapy (I think) and has been fine for a few years now.
And I could go on because I know of quite a few "stuff-ups" here, all of which now make me pretty sure that if I had some ailment which needed surgery, then I would go back home to NZ to get it done privately.
The occasional minor complaint is fine, mainly because they don't usually become life-threatening, but trusting doctors and surgeons here with anything other than something very basic is one hell of a gamble.
Dentistry on the other hand, no complaints with that which I have received so far.
Whilst Thailand may well have become the "medical tourism centre" for some, I believe it is because of their experience with regards to "transgender" type surgery, so, many tourists come here for the likes of boob implants, tummy tucks, nose jobs, facelifts and so on, however in the main these people are healthy when they come here, but entrusting doctors and surgeons to do anything like diagnosing and operating here is not something I would personally recommend.
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Watched the movie "Mary Queen of Scots" last night and thought it was good, more so because it gave another insight to the machinations behind the reigns of both Mary and Elizabeth.
I enjoyed the Elizabeth I movies, which contained some historical facts, although not in actual timeline, however this one was different because it sort of went behind the scenes, and if I was to draw a conclusion in just a few lines, I would say certainly that Mary was the victim of greed, betrayal and split loyalties by her nobles and family, whereas Elizabeth, not so much.
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14 hours ago, Psimbo said:
This was supposed to be a Phuket specific thread and how immigration DOWN HERE were approaching things.
Unfortunately the original Op did not include Phuket in the title and is unable to amend it. Therefore it has been hi-jacked, which is what we did not want to happen.
As different Immigration Offices take different approaches we just want clarification of procedures in PHUKET, without clutter and 'advice' from other areas of Thailand and outwith the country.
Enjoy your beer.
Agree and was rather hoping it would be just Phuket specific!! That is why I re-posted the policy form that Phuketrichard obtained from Phukey Immigration because as you alluded to, "they do things differently down here".
Anyway para 3 still gives me some hope as I do not want to bring over 800k (can but don't want to) AND Merijn has replied so I will contact those he has suggested...........as for "evidence", well I would have thought that a minimum of 65k going into my bank account here, along with the bank statement print-out and bank book, would be enough (what else is there??) but then again TIT and in particular TIP (as in Phuket).
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29 minutes ago, yang123 said:
What "evidence" will be acceptable?
Well the way I read that "notification" I posted, it should be from the bank statements.
But.............it seems to be a wait and see what is accepted situation.
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31 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:
I don't know of any bargirl relationship, marriage etc that have had happy endings.
Might have been the reason they got together in the first place!!
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3 minutes ago, pr9spk said:
Laughable.
Every drug, including paracetamol will have a list of side effects like this, if not longer. If beer was a drug, it would have pages of "possible" symptoms because thats how the pharmaceutical industry works.
95% of people who take flagyl will get no side effects. Not sure where you cut and pasted that from, but I have first hand knowledge of dealing with thousands (if not tens of thousands) of patients who have taken metronidazole with no adverse effects.
If you have any experience of the medical industry, you would understand that they have an obligation to provide details of every possible side effect.
Flagyl, or Metrondiazole, is a very safe and effective drug in someone who has no hepatic insufficiency and abstains from alcohol for the course of treatment. Stop peddling garbage please.
Agree, I took it with Clarithromycin and a PPI for two or three weeks and only experienced a slight metallic taste in my mouth...........nothing life threatening or that I couldn't handle.
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5 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:
They do struggle with how to use u-turns.....
Many of which are there because Thai drivers "struggle with roundabouts" so you have a no-win situation, TIT after all.
Chinese investors fuelling Thailand’s property market
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Yes always someone here willing to break the law in order to make money..........especially the property spruikers.