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how are you think about san paulo hospital ?

Let me put it this way, they have 3 health schemes there, for taking a physical, plan 1, plan 2, & plan 3. These include a less to a more extensive testing. My wife who is Thai, asked the head nurse what plan offered a mammogram, and the nurses answer was, what is a mammogram? So with that answer she went to BKK. Also she had an ear ache, and a little hearing loss and the Dr. there she had ear drum problems and she would be deaf permanently. She again rushed up to BKK, and they flushed her ear out, and said it would be fine in a couple days, just a little inflammation due to ear wax. I think the cost for San Paulo's great diagnosis, was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 (something) baht.

You decide, with your judgement on San Paulo's staffs expertise !! Mine is zero---------- in a 1 - 10 rating.

I also had ear wax problems and was told by my doctor to go to Sao Paulo where I think the bill would be about 2,000 baht.

Instead I visited the International Clonic who advised me to go to see Dr Worowat who has a small clinic across the road from the mini Tesco Lotus store. Definitely recommended, very cheerful, very professional, the cost. 80 Baht!

The area could sure use a general aviation airport.

doesnt it already have one ? ...... hua hin airport

6km north of hua hin.

private planes , thai airways training school and a few commercial flights operate from it.

Hua Hin has a wonderful airport and terminal but at present it is being used by the Civil Aviation Training Center for daily training flights. Private aircraft are not permitted without a special one-flight permit applied for and issued in Bangkok in rare instances. It must be approved by the King's Guard and is good for one flight only.

This more or less verifies what I heard after the Bangkok Airways flights ceased, commercial flights will not be allowed on a scheduled basis because they would be a disturnace to the King who is usually resident in his abode nearby.

Unless I missed it, I have not seen any mention of the fact that the local police in their wisdom have decided to relocate the

Immigration Office to a site nearly 7km from the town centre!

It is now situated at the very end of Soy 102 and apart from being inconveniet for their own staff will be a bit of a nightmare for any falang trying to locate it. Parts of the road are unpaved and constuction work at the many 'sardine' estates has left several parts of the highway badly potholed.

I hear that one man gave up trying to get there on his motor bike, the road only being really suited for 4w drive SUV's

Hopefully it will only be a temporary measure, I did hear that many more police have been drafted into the area, so they no doubt need the old offices for administrative purposes.

moved because old office to small to cope with the ammount of farangs living here

Not much bigger, thr office space probably being the lounge amd bedroom of a converted estate house. Eight staff on hand but I had to wait ten minutes as only three were dealing with customers.

Unless I missed it, I have not seen any mention of the fact that the local police in their wisdom have decided to relocate the

Immigration Office to a site nearly 7km from the town centre!

It is now situated at the very end of Soy 102 and apart from being inconveniet for their own staff will be a bit of a nightmare for any falang trying to locate it. Parts of the road are unpaved and constuction work at the many 'sardine' estates has left several parts of the highway badly potholed.

I hear that one man gave up trying to get there on his motor bike, the road only being really suited for 4w drive SUV's

Hopefully it will only be a temporary measure, I did hear that many more police have been drafted into the area, so they no doubt need the old offices for administrative purposes.

Which market on Thursadys and Sundays ? I have my tank ready to put some fish in.

The Grand (Hotel) market

In the 11 months I lived in a moobahn near Kao Takiab, I did not have trouble having my mail delivered, but there was very little of it. My neighbors did have problems getting their mail from the States or Australia, and they rented post boxes downtown. I think the national postal service has very few boxes for rent, but some commercial place has them for rental.

One safe way is to arrange to send anything important from overseas via your employer or a company you know. I have no trouble receiving any post that has been 'franked' but it would appear that any mail with a stamp on it, addressed to a Thai lady, is intercepted on the assumption that it contains money!

i've never been to cha am , but I have had my card cloned in Thailand just about every trip there.

I vacation in LOS just about every other year and I would say that the last 3 or 4 trips I have had my credit card cloned. I am not sure where it is being done at as I have visited Bangkok, Pattaya , Krabi, Phuket, Hua Hin, and Koh Samet, plus a few other little towns.

I let my credit card company know when and where I am traveling and they monitor my card usage. The last time my card number was taken somebody in Japan was trying to buy $1300.00 dollars worth of groceries. I guess they wer planning one heck of a party.

I have never been responsible for any of the charges, I just had to fill out a fraud report. They usally contact me by phone and ask if i made the charges and when i tell them no, they cancel the card immediately and with in 2 days I have a new card.

So yes I have experienced this.

PKG

Presumably, when you say you have a new card withing a couple of days you are not talking about it being sent to Thailand. My card company refuses to send replacement cards to a registered Thai address due to increased interception and fraud. I have been without a card for two years and will only get a replacement when I visit the UK later in the year.

You don't realise how not having a credit card restricts you purchaes, particularly on the Internet, until you don't have one!

I had the same problem with Barclays about posting my card overseas so I suggested to them that they send it to me by courier - A week later it arrived via the carriers DHL

When this card expired three years later I again wrote to them requesting that the replacement card be sent by couriers. Once again it arrived coutesy of DHL - All done very amicably with no charge whatsoever to me!

you cant be too careful.

Under the current Law,going to the WC might be deemed as "working". A whole new meaning to the term "taking the piss".....

Or, as too many forum contributors tend to do, 'talking a load of crap'

So, rip down the piers, shut the bars, cancel this, stop that and the other. The place won 't be worth visiting soon in any case, unless you want a concrete pastuarised zone full of PC.

What a future? Still, a half built town, full of half built and rotting estates with the stench of patronising westerners acting like nimby's is exactly what Hua Hin needs right now, isn't it?

Why not stay in Frinton or Tunbrdige Wells, or better still, visit Thailand and not just Hua Hin?

What this town eally nneds is responsible town planning that caters for the needs of all the

residents and visitors, not just those who are teetotal, came here to buy a house, then want to go and change some money to buy a suit and a pair of glasses.

Heard that as part of the re-generation of Hua Hin that there are moves wo close down and clean up some to the emerging less salubrious bars (not a bad idea before it goes the way of some other areas in LOS).

Anyone heard this also ?

These rumours have been around as long as most of us can remember, mainly for those bars within 50 metres of the temple. This time though the new police chief would seem to be a bit more determined judging by the hassle bar owners have recently experienced in obtaining their

annual licences.

Somebody told me that Soi 94 has been suggested as the new location and word has it that the price of land ha suddenly shot up around there, no doubt resulting in some very high rents for

leased properties should the rumours prove right for once.

My own thoughts after two visits to opticians in Hua Hin have been indifferent and bad.

The first visit to a shop in Petchakasem Road was reasonable but the lens on the glasses were no better than an my old pair. The other optician in Chomsin Road seem very professionable except that after testing my left eyes for reading glasses he put the lens in for my right eye, he changed it but didn't change the lens in the prescription suglasses which were not strong enough.

All I got, having paid in advance was the customary , Mai Pen Rai, your eyes will adjust to them!

There must be a good optician somewhere, given the number of shops in town. Any thoughts other that buy a white stick.