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And when he asked me about the contents? The name on the American express gold card? That police box inside had the claustrophobic atmosphere of a Calcutta train station ticket counter en miniature. It's difficult to imagine how you could do any serious paperwork there, especially in foreign languages. When I went there a second time to ask again, there was no anglophone tourist assistant police, only one Thai officer who spoke very little English, and when he heard that I spoke a few words ofThai, he switched completely to Thai, and I understood nothing. I believe they had even one more lost and found wallet when I showed up for the second time about 5 hours after my first visit. It was still not mine.

The wallets on the website look good and well-priced. They don't have a list with retailers, only online markets. But i want to hold the wallet in the hand first, it's one of the things i don't like to buy online. I messaged them via contact form about local retailers. I am not fully sure the message went through though. I will report back if something interesting happens.

Thanks, there were no credit cards or somesuch in the wallet. I never put them in there. Also the passport was not lost, but a photocopy.

Hello, i lost my wallet this morning on Jomtien Beach, nicely almost next to the police box. I believe it disappeared when i rummaged through my beach bag and also checked the content of the wallet. This is quite clearly not a theft. About 3 hours later – after discovering the loss – i went into the police box. The officer there was a foreigner without uniform. He showed me 3 lost-and-found wallets that weren't mine (but nicely swollen) and sent me off. He didn't want any details like name, exact circumstances, content of wallet. The atmosphere was very rushed, and i thought he feared a sob story from me. (A local Thai business person actually advised to say "Oh, now i have no money, please help to find the wallet quick".) I said i'll ask again some hours later. I am not in a financial or legal drama now, just sad. Is there anything you advice me to do, except being less careless in the future? -- part 2 -- This was in the lost wallet: Good money, copies of documents that reveal my name and my Thai phone number, the key card to my resort's backgarden door (key card to room not lost, original documents not lost). The key card to the resort's backgarden door has no print on it, it's blank with smeared illegible scribbling. So far i didn't tell the resort about the lost key card. I wonder if it will be a bigger problem? I am ready to pay for a damage. It was for a less used backgarden door that opens to the public area.. Thanks!

Hello all, that's good news about Jacob. I will see if i can find them locally, and maybe report back here.

Hello, i need to buy a decent leather wallet, if possible in Jomtien. Can you recommend a shop? I am happy to pay good money for good quality, but i think leather wallets are often rip-off-tourist junk. If you know a good source around Jomtien, please let me know. If Pattaya is clearly better for that, i'll trek there, but Jomtien would be much more welcome, even if a little more expensive. Thanks!

Hello, OP again here. Have you seen any changes to Pattaya's Thai live music scene since Christmas 2022? Any openings or reopenings or closures since then? Aware that SinLaping and Kon Lah Fun are busy each night. I am back in town for a bit. Also interested in new places for live dance pop or jazz, but not straight rock (neither Thai nor English). Thanks!

I do like Candy shop, Lucifer and Muzzik Cafe. 5 years ago in Patpong, who would have guessed that Lucifer is such a heaving place with a great dance pop band. Candy Shop and Muzzik Café certainly seem rather similar. But on two visits, listening in from outside, I decided to sit down in Candy Shop, not Muzzik Café, as the music in Candy Shop seemed a bit more spicy.

Hello, regarding taxi service to Pattaya I had the following experience with a big agency I won't name. I appreciate your comments on practical and cultural questions. I booked the taxi trip Don Meuang - Jomtien by email, which seems to be this agency's preferred mode (not online form). I wrote a very clear list of time of arrival, flight number, place of origin, my name, my phone, my Line ID, number of passengers etc. They confirmed quickly by email and mentioned gate 7, where they would await me. The English was rather broken, though, even if the confirmation was undoubtable. 2 days before the flight, the airline messaged me about 50 minutes flight delay (for a 45 minutes flight and a parallel flight by a competitor). Should I tell the taxi agency about this flight delay? If this was NamLadyDrivers with their very smart English by email (experienced on two occasions from Suv), I would have immediately messaged them about the delay. But Nam doesn't serve Don Meuang, and with this agency here, with their broken English, I was wary. I have experienced huge misunderstandings out of very small changes of plans. I worried (stupidly?), if I message them about the flight delay, they might misunderstand it as a cancellation. (I had situations like that before more than once with Thai friends, hotels, etc). I was very sure that my taxi agency would check the plane's actual arrival online, especially as several experienced Thai people had told me that local planes are always late (which seems not true, looking at displays in domestic airports). Just when I finally boarded my delayed plane upcountry, the taxi driver called me and asked where I am in Don Meuang. I had to tell him that my plane upcountry had not even started and that I would be at Don Meuang only an hour later. The driver or the agency had obviously not checked for delays online. The next misunderstanding was in Don Meuang itself, when I waited at gate 7 INSIDE the building, while he expected me to be OUTSIDE (it was my first booked taxi service from Meuang and I thought it went like in Suv., where you meet your driver INSIDE the building). Outside on the road, my driver couldn't wait long for me because vehicles have to be on the move there; so he did some useless circles around the airport and we exchanged frantic calls and messages. He had basic English that was okay for the occasion, and on phone calls I had useful Thai on hand. While I was waiting on the road (after finally figuring I should NOT be INSIDE the building), I boarded at least two wrong taxis who I had taken for my booked vehicle. My youngish driver had a big comfy car and an easy-going smile. He didn't seem to mind the confusion and delay very much. He said, "oh, that's Thailand, planes always late". But then, why didn't he check my real arrival time online? I asked him that, but didn't get a clear (for me) answer. Then we got into a friendly small talk in Thai and English about Thai life, job life and Thai music. (He lost his office job in Covid time, but office life was too serious and unplayful for him anyway, he said.) I played him one Thai song from my phone which we discussed. Then he said something I didn't understand, and I knew I had to turn off the music from my phone, as that very much disturbs my understanding of foreign languages (whereas Thai people never seem to mind loud vocal music while talking about something else). When somehow my phone kept yodeling in spite of my tapping "STOP", I said a bit loud to my phone, "now stop, stop". After the phone was finally silent, I tried to pick up the conversation, but now my driver was totally silent too. He didn't say a word, he didn't look at me in the rear mirror until we reached the destination 50 minutes later. I paid the fixed price, tipped him 100, and he left with a resignated smile.

For the record, I also found a glorious car wash in New Sukothai that was extremely service minded, including delivery of tourist and car and fixing scratches and offering alternatives here and there. Serviceable English spoken by one office lady, also by Line. When I dropped the car at the car rental place later, they said, "oh the car is beautiful, no problem at all". And indeed I think after that car wash in New Sukothai, it looked better than on day 1. I first went to another car wash, the one next to my hotel. That was very rude and they kind of chased me back out. Luckily they did, because I ended up with the nice car wash. I can't really judge the quality of their cleaning, but anyway everything went very well.

Yes. I checked Retro 90s and Space Bar, both on the entertainment strip and with heavy-handed pop-rock live music that the millenials seem to prefer.

Hello, in case you're interested, at least for this Saturday, Jan 7, it seems that Sukothai Historical Park is open till 8:00 p.m. and that in the evening there is a market, but no light show. At the Historical Park's ticket center I first talked to a man behind the sign "Information". He seemed to speak neither Thai nor English, just pointed to one or other leaflets. The actual ticket vendor lady was much more lively and with our combined languages the above mentioned schedule was confirmed. No light show, but a market. How creative, how interesting ching-ching.

Hi, thanks again for the links, i posted free ads with pics on both these sites. Bahtsold has free ads that seem good enough, paid ads have extras. I didn't really know about these sites before.

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Thanks for good info! What I still need is a car wash, for inside + outside, that sticks to the times it promised, to return the rental in decent shape. Of course they are on GMaps. If you have personal good experience (New Sukothai), I'd be interested. Also thanks for mentioning a one-man band and canned western music in the chopper bar. Both are not interesting, but maybe the bar should be visited anyway, if not for the music.

Thanks. But I only do day trips by bicycle and carry the bicycle from town to town every 6 days or so by rental car. Not the most sustainable. 0ne thing is sure. From the lofty heights of their SUV cockpits, through tinted windows, Thais and expats alike look down aloof on dirty foreigners labouring in dust and heat on a, what, a bicycle. At least if you don't have shiny well polished race gear.

I'd certainly be interested in Thai style live music, but only styles for oldies: Luukthung/morlam pleua-chiwit (Carabao, songs for life) Not hip places with millennial music or folk songs. I might even trek to Pizzanoluck for live music (have car). 8 years ago I visited the Tawan Daeng there and was underwhelmed. Chopper Bar in New Sukothai is said to have live music - don't know which styles, days and quality?

Please see above.

Hello, i read contradicting info on Sukothai Historical Park: - it's lit up EACH Saturday of the year and open till 9 pm - it's only lit up on special occasions (not this month) and closes at 5.30 pm each day I know there is/was special light at Loy Krathong and for the celebrations in July 2022. But right now? Do you have definite info about it? For that matter, if you know of other remarkable events this week or next week, i'd be interested. Carabao are touring N Thailand these days, maybe they play at the temples? Would be very fitting for some of their songs.

Hi all, thanks for some suggestions! In this post i didn't want to offer the bike and even tried to NOT sound like an advertisement, that's why i didn't include price, bike details, pics etc. I just asked about how to advertise/sell the thing. Been accused of "guerilla marketing" before on another forum when mentioning of brand had been unavoidable, so try to be more cautious now. As long as mod doesn't explicitly ok it, i would NOT make this thread a sale thread. I was asking for how to advertise it, and i wasn't aware of the Facebook groups.

Hello, after 6 weeks of bicycling in northern Thailand, i want to sell the mountain bike i bought at the beginning in TH, for around 40% of the price paid new*, in New Sukothai. The bicycle is fully functional and does have practical and commercial value. I still have the bill for that bicycle and the add-ons bought, or at least I have a photo of it. If I can’t sell the bicycle, I won’t despair, but the bicycle then should go to a good cause, not just to my hotel owner’s kids. Do you have any tips on how to sell the bicycle or – if I must – how to donate it? From my search I think there is no selling forum here on this site, except for motor vehicles? There is a selling-forum on pattaya addicts, but it seems not the market for my product and location. The guidebook says Sukothai has an expat bar, and maybe they have a bulletin board for private sales. Any other ideas? Are there bulletin boards in Tescos or Big Cs? Is Ebay worth the effort? I still have to check into my last hotel and will of course also ask the hotel staff/owner for advice and maybe for a Thai script ad. I am far from where I bought the bicycle and can’t ask the bicycle shop to buy it back. I speak basic Thai (including numbers and dates), but can’t read or write Thai. Thanks for your ideas! *trying hard to avoid sounding like a hidden advertisement.

Hello, about PT Taxi or Pattaya Taxi: There are two different web sites: - pttaxi - pttaxiservice Could you tell me which one you had the good experiences with? I don't want to appear as a guerilla marketeer (been blamed before), so you could send me the info as private message. Thanks!

Condo 1 owner requested me again to cancel the booking. I find it rather odd to let me book a thing (which was 1 hour of hard work on a wobbly phone, fighting 10000 popups and credit card requirements), have it confirmed and then insisting twice i cancel it.

Do you mean pttaxiservice dot etc? Thanks.