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geisha

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  1. If you’re looking for a great pizza, you’re looking at the wrong country!
  2. In my work we have imported food stuffs from Thailand, and other Asian countries. About 5 years back, half our Thai products were banned by customs sanitary checks. The frozen prawns / tiger prawns were a problem too. Those we had to buy elsewhere and still do. Not EU standard.
  3. Yes, we tend to forget the huge business of Package holidays. There are reasonable cheap holidays to Thailand from all around the world. You look at flight center, tui, etc and you see quite decent hotels included in these deals , albeit ones that are a bit “out of the way “ . I know someone a few years back that took one of these, with a Bangkok/ Chiang Mai circuit, and didn’t get on the flight back. He stayed in Thailand and Cambodia. One way of traveling I suppose.
  4. That’s why I ended with “ this class of hotels”.There are thousand of hotels in Thailand that do not belong to the group. Most of them independent.
  5. Actually, no. His father was us military having served in world war 2 and the Korean War. His mother worked for Time magazine. Heineken lived in Thailand since the age of 14, was educated in Bangkok. He began with a 1200$ bank loan and started a cleaning enterprise . From there , his work grew and grew. He didn’t get to his present position because of wrong decisions. No one can hardly call him foolish. I live in an area that relies completely on tourism. Everything, and especially hotels and restaurants have been brought to their knees because of Covid. Only the fittest survived. They need all the help they can get to refurbish, restaff ( higher wages) , and pay off the loans they had . How many businesses are laughing all the way to the bank after more than two years of loss ??? If he thinks the industry needs this boost, then I think he’s probably right. 8$ is not the end of the world for this class of hotels ( Anantara, Avani and many more) . It’s not going into his pocket or to the government but to help a suffering industry.
  6. Could they have been serious collectors items ? Some people are gun or old wartime objects collectors.,? I knew someone who had his basement full , from arms to helmets uniforms , to even ancient stuff.
  7. There are always Baht buses every day !
  8. The billions that are lost in social benefits in the EU alone is unimaginable . I have had neighbors who milk the system well over the amounts hard working people earn a month. The governments can’t seem to control this, or clamp down on the fraud fast enough. I know many from EU that live in Thailand like this for many months, claiming at home, parents covering for them . When the time comes, they go home, work a few months, sign on again, rinse and repeat. One I know even has a job in Chiang Mai in a call center. Thieves, the lot of them.
  9. I think he will definitely try his best. Let’s hope he is not stopped like last time. My belief, he is a good honest man. After a terrible jet ski accident in Phuket concerning two people I knew, I met a policeman who was on the case. He was marvelous, devoting his time, and even his money to helping. He stopped the jet ski mafia coming into the hospital, drove me back to Patong every evening after visiting the ICU , took the Finnish idiot who drove into the 2 guys to the prison with me as interpreter as the Finnish guy was terrified , gave him money for food, gave him a pack of cigarettes etc. Endless help. There are good police out there and I think Mr Surachet is one of them. Best of luck to him.
  10. Cant you do a border hop ??
  11. I think I read it would be 10:years before they can reapply. And even then, would they be accepted ? That boat has sunk.
  12. I don’t think we ( any country) will be able to stop illegal immigration. To be honest, if I and my family were starving or dodging bombs , my kids not going to school , then I would definitely become an illegal immigrant if there were NO another options. The only hope to regulate this tragedy, is that all countries come together , with the UK, and work it out. Countries like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia etc need their governments to be in on the plan, and do their part in their countries. ( they won’t do that because they’re glad to be rid of the poor). So stop the international help and visas for those countries , making them locked out of Europe. i think The new UK PM will make headway with Macron as he’s a very intelligent man, and Macron will listen. For the people who want to stop illegal immigration, Germany has the most,( no 1 ) and UK is only 19th in the list !!! imagine Britain or Thailand , Malaysia, Singapore with no immigrants ! All work would stop., It’s control that’s needed.
  13. There are some setbacks to allowing foreigners to buy land. First, China being very near and needing land to feed their hungry billions back home., Secondly, opening the door to all sorts of foreign criminals who can then live the life of Riley in the land of cheap smiles knowing that some welcome them. Thirdly, places like Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, becoming half dead areas, not a light to be seen 7 months of the year. I live in the South of France, nice beach town outside Antibes / Cannes. Many wealthy foreigners have bought apartments there, all sizes from the small to the mega mansions with their yachts docked nearby. Problem is, they only come for a few months in summer , the rest of the year it’s a blackout , not a light to be seen. Certainly it brings in a huge amount of local taxes, work for housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs etc , it also leads me, and a lot of other people who don’t have kids, to flee the place come October as it’s as dead as a dodo. Practically everything closes down. From day 1, bored to tears , I moved to a Thailand /Bali/ S.America rented 2nd home until life came back to the place end of March . This system manages to work in an area that is relatively wealthy, but I doubt very much it would help the common people of Thailand. I do agree that a foreigner should be able to buy a house with his Thai wife under the condition that it belongs to both of them, and not only the wife , and sale money split if divorced.
  14. Any Thai market will have cheap,clothes, just ask where the local one is and when.
  15. Carry on investigating boys, there’s many more dealers out there.
  16. You didn’t read my post ! Macao is very much under the eye of China. The money used for these drug/ gambling set ups in Cambodia and now Thailand is black money , taken out of China illegally. The Chinese government are trying to stop this untaxed money leaving the country. They already have their people on spot in Sihanoukville trying to weed out these Chinese mafia.
  17. I also thought there were big restrictions on Chinese leaving China ? So these Chinese ( young by the looks of it) were doing what in Thailand,, holidays ? Doubt that . Also Zero Dollar Tours usually mean Cheap package Tours . Unless they have invented package tours including drugs and gambling ???
  18. Probably a lost cause not worth fighting. You did not have written permission to leave, and it looks as if the school closed due to Covid shortly after. ? You are claiming pay for the 4 months you did not work, and were not in Thailand. ? A bit late in trying to make a claim in my view.
  19. Flying from France Nice every year on Emirates, I have always been asked for my onward flight regardless. Never at immigration. I always had a cheap onward flight to satisfy .
  20. Macao is near China and a easily contrôlable. Thailand is still more or less anonymous to the Chinese government who are actually trying to stop the money flowing OUT of China.,
  21. Who said Gen Pol Surachet ( big joke) or anyone, is getting away with this ?? These Chinese cartels need to be stopped. They have ruined Cambodia and are trying to get their finger in anywhere that will take back handlers. I’m quite sure that Gen Surachat is up for it.. I’d like to see those invaders out. ( ps Big Joke is nothing to do with the word Joke as in the English sense funny ha ha)
  22. Agree , Thailand was known for being a cheap and friendly holiday in the sunshine. It’s definitely not been cheap for a few years now, and since Covid, inflation, Ukraine war , etc hit this spring , potential tourists are staying close to home., Don’t forget , Spain, Italy France , Greece etc have great weather and good infrastructure with easy transport, car, bus, train plane. And these countries were packed to the rafters this summer. Not forgetting places like Morocco and Tunisia where you can holiday package for really cheap rates , if that floats your boat. For Thailand to attract the wealthier tourists, they’ll have to take another look at their infrastructure !! Non existant or dangerous pavements, pestilential drains, ramshackle third world beach towns ( eg. Phuket is falling down all over the place due to business closures). The poor Thais living hand to mouth and reduced to begging . Great publicity for the country. As someone said above, the government had 2 years to clean up the place and help their people. They totally ignored this. Reap what you sow !!!!!!!
  23. Nothing to do with masks . You must be one of very few that give up their chosen destination because many of their citizens wear masks !!
  24. The worrying red stamps are the ones you get when you overstay your 30/45 days , or your visa. So don’t overstay and you won’t get one.
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