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    Getting Thru Bkk To Go South

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Easy ....

    Up through Chonburi to the Bangna/Bang Pa-in intersection. Take a left towards Bangna across the new the Rama 2 bridge and it brings you out in the south side of the city missing out Dao Khanong etc.

    From there continue on all the way down going through either Surat, Chaweng or ThungSong into Nakhon. I did it last week and was surprised at the time saved.

    Thai Wife On Settlement Visa In Uk

    in Visas and migration to other countries

    Posted

    Hi there, just some advice required please!

    Thai wife currently on 2 yr settlement visa runs out May 2010. We have just realised her Thai passport runs out March 2010. How does she renew it? Can it be done from the UK? We had already planned to return to TL in Nov this year to visit her family, but can she still do this with her current passport running out in Mar2010? What about the settlement visa in her current passport? Will this automatically be put in the new passport?

    Nothings ever easy it? lol

    Thanks in advance for your time...

    Regards

    Newstart

    You can get her a new Thai passport when youcome over in November. Itonly takes a few days. The settlment visa will not be put into her new passport so if traveling she will have to carry both the old and the new passport, especially if traveling to the UK. My Mrs has three passports, two of which have expired but if traveling to the UK she has to carry all three. The UK immigration/consulate/embassy might be able to re-stamp your wife's new passport but that I am not sure of as I have never done that.

    I's the same for me ... I have to carry three UKpassports because the others were filled up/expired yet my original visa is in

    the first one and all subsequent extensions have been addd tothe others.

    I Am From Denmark

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    The last Dane in NST upset a load of high profile businesses and has since left ...

    :o

    :D sounds interesing indeed, he he. Is it a joke or do you have more info about this?

    No joking from me. He was actually a friend of mine but he simply vanished ...... :D

    Dentist Needed

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    I know this question has been asked in the past but I am after some more recent experiences.

    Does anyone know of a good Dentist in or around Surat Thani ( not Samui ) or preferably Nakhon Si Thammarat.

    Thanks

    In NST - Standing outside KFC in Robinson's, there is a dentist on the right. The woman there speaks English and was pretty good. Funnyopening times though so check first and even better make an appointment ifyou can. Watch what she charges though.

    Also, Soi Nakhon I think it is called (the one with Ligor Hotel's main entrance), near the bottom end (Kuakwang) there is one who is meant to be pretty good. Unfortunately I have no experience of him and am just going by hearsay.

    Hope that helps.

    To Stay In Phi Phi Long Beach Or Railey Beach For 4 Days

    in Krabi

    Posted

    hey guys,

    need some advise

    since we only have 4 days in Krabi, kinda rush actually. so we wondering, would it be better to stay in Phi phi Long beach for 4 days or in Railey beach.

    what we like to do is, go to Maya bay, sun & beach, and thai foods :o

    what would you do or suggest ?

    many thanks !!

    Personally, I'd give PhiPhi including Maya Bay as wide a berth as I could. Tacky tourist trap islands with hoardes of unknowing tourists. Better off staying in Krabi for sure.

    Sea Transport Incident In Trang

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    As Peter Phillips stated, there seems to be a total lack of container fastenings to the deck and no intermodal lockings, such as twistlocks, locking bars and bottle screws. There are however other reasons as to why a stack/s of containers has fallen over/collapsed. Were the vessels ballasted correctly, were the boxes loaded correctly (weight?), we can see that they weren't secured correctly or is it just down to sheer negligence on the side of the carrier (inexperienced personel or unseaworthy vessels)?

    Having said that, I myself have been on modern up to date ocean going vessels, with professional crews and equipment that have lost boxes, but on those occasions it was because of very severe weather, not the calm seas of the Trang coast.

    Getting To Langkawi, Malaysia From Bkk

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    can anyone who has done this / knows how to do this help please? i'd like to travel from BKK to langkawi in malaysia, is it feasible to take a train from bangkok to hat yai or even over the border to alor setar and then travel on to the island from there? thanks.

    Easy. Drive/fly/train to Hayai and then either across to Satun for the ferry or cross the border and to Kuala Polis for the ferry.

    Drivers License In Trang Or Phang Nga

    in Krabi

    Posted

    Had a Bangkok licence and moved to Phangnga. When the BKK licence expired took nearly a month for all the paperwork to be transferred and a new licence issued. When I had to renew it in Phangnga quick and easy. Having said that this was about 7 or 8 years ago so things might have changed.

    They might give you a licence on the strength of your expired IDP but the chances are that you will have to do the tests. There is a handful of farangs using the Amhur Muang office so although not as busy as Phuket, they will know what to do.

    I Need Information On Southern Thailand

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    Hi all

    I am doing a bicycle touring from Singapore to Thailand, my destination is Bangkok. I need to know a couple of things which is:

    1) Which entry to travel on if I am either travelling through kelantan or Perlis Malaysia?

    Depends on yourself. I recently had a Dutchman stay at my house and he was doing Singapore to Hong Kong. He came up the east side and said he had no problems at all.

    2) Are there any more southern thailand insurgency? Terrorism, bombings etc...

    Look at 1

    3) Which are safest route to travel on towards Bangkok, Thailand?

    There's basically only one route and that's the main highway

    4) Which province should I be avoiding in order for a safe and fun trip?

    Danger everywhere ....

    5) What are the important things to look out for when I am in the Southern Thailand?

    As the other poster stated, the trucks and buses .... and other vehicles and dogs

    6) Which is the fastest route and has the most scenic views?

    Fastest route is the western side of Malaysia with the best scenery on the eastern side. Up to you. In Thailand, without going a way of your course, the eastern side up to Surat is quite nice.

    Appreciate if anyone can give me directions and answers to my touring experience. Can anyone please provide me with the informations?

    Thanks A Million

    Bryan Lim :o

    From Airport To The City Of Nakhon Si Thammarat

    in Southern Thailand

    Posted

    I was in Nakhon S T 3 weeks ago. The airport is about 15 Km north of the city.

    Don't know about transport. You can always venture out to the gate and wait for songtaew if you don't like taxies, or don't want to pay too much.

    I lived and worked in Thasala for 4yrs which is closer to the airport than Nakorn city and the last songtaew is at 6pm so the only choice is a taxi at that time.....

    ThaSala has obviously moved then since I last drove there. I can Nakhon City to the airport in 10mins and around twice that to ThaSala. The new airport is less than 4km from the back of Wachira.

    What were you doing in ThaSala?

    Woman Tied To Railroad Tracks, Run Over By Train

    in Thailand News

    Posted

    Agreed, what a horrible way to go and please rest in peace.

    I used to do some work in rural Surat and believe me, nothing surprises me there anymore. One of my staff a few years ago had a young policeman who took a shine to her but she, who was married spurned any advances. What happens, he goes into their house/compound and shoots dead aunt, uncle and her 2 young kids before turning the gun on himself and taking the easy way out. That is the mentality in some places.

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    Bangkok Samui Hospital

    in Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao

    Posted

    B100,000/day ICU for me a few years ago, changed hospitals and B45,000/2 weeks. Bangkok Samui are BS imho. If you want nice big plasma TVs on the waiting room walls and manicured gardens etc then it's worth it. For me, good medical care is all I am after and no rip offs. BS also charged me B9,000 for some guy to literally hold my little finger and put it back into joint, a process that lasted all of around 5 seconds.

    Rip off merchants. :o

    Lanta Ferry Still A Headache

    in Krabi

    Posted

    MiniVDO: Most residents agree with the construction of a bridge linking Lanta Noi and Lanta Yai islands in Krabi.

    http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/prev...php?news_id=248

    A final public meeting on the plan for construction of a bridge linking Lanta Noi and Lanta Yai islands of Krabi have reached an agreement on the plan design. The participants comprised local community leaders and the general public. The Krabi Governor Siwa Sirisaowalak concluded that the consultant, who carried out the plan design and environmental impact, has conducted surveys and questionnaires and these indicated that residents, especially on Lanta Island agreed that the construction of the bridge be carried out as an urgent matter to ease transportation problems. He said if the project gets a green light from the Environmental Board, the provincial authority would push for it to be included in the 2010 fiscal budget. The project is estimated to cost over 300 million baht to build.

    Andaman News NBT (VHF dial) at 8.30am & local Cable TV channel 1 + maybe FM90.5 Radio Thailand 6pm, broadcast to Phang Nga, Krabi & Phuket provinces, & possibly FM108 Mazz Radio 7.30pm in Phuket, Monday 16 June 2008 & http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/ Contact [email protected]

    So they want to build a bridge between Lanta Yai and Lanta Noi. Wouldn't you have thought that a bridge between the mainland and Lanta Noi would be more appropriate? That's where the longest waits are.

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