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I recently had a bag damaged by Thai and a company from Bangkok picked up the bag and brought it back like new. Why don't you contact thr Thai office in Pattaya and ask them for the details of the company they use failing that I'll try and find the receipt this company gave me.

The Acorn Family Pub at The Avenue Shopping Centre has a large indoor children's playground plus Wiggle Town Children Indoor and Outdoor Playcentre also is suitable for that age of child.

Thanks for those. The party shop does made to order jobs

Yes

Sorry forgot to add www.the-party-shop.com

Contact The Party Shop they have a big range of customised birthday cakes

I'm hearing January 2014 the official opening.

Sent from Android please excuse errors in type or judgement

They will open progressively over 4 to 5 stages so when it finally does open there will be on going construction for quite a while after

Excuse me, why do you think it is about hiding prices? When I went to Queen Sirikit hospital to register the signs were in English for me, 250 baht, in Russian (250 baht) and Thai languages (20baht). The Thais can't read English and I can't read Thai and I could give a s**t if a Thai gets a discount.

Actually, for hospitals i accept dual pricing as it is normal they are funded by the state totally different story.

Not if you work legitimately here and pay your taxes.

I used lived not far from Dreamworld and all the other parks and they send offers all the time to our letterboxes plus they used to have a local residents offer on their website

Huh, opening night wrinkles?

I was invited to attend the opening night. I went only to be stuffed around for hours because they had issued me seats that did not exist.

There is no acceptable reason for dual pricing. Can you imagine a company in Australia or anywhere for that matter with dual pricing?

There's double pricing every where in Australia eg theme parks offer local residents special discounts for going to their parks.

Hotels and resorts do the same.

I took this photo last week sitting in the United Lounge at SFO.

They have moved the burnt out wreckage of the Asiana 777 that crashed landed there a couple of weeks back into plain view of all airport passengers hmmm one good view for nervous passengers waiting for their flights.

the guy who owns the Acorn pub is a wholesaler

acorn distribution?

not sure if they offer magners

Yes Acorn is the distributor PM me for their details.

You could also go to Wiggle Town www.wiggle-town.com it has indoor and outdoor play areas.

Yes permanently set up at The Avenue Shopping Centre

No I travel on an Australian Passport so obviously it hasn't been put into action in Bangkok as yet

The problem with a normal Visa to India is that you can apply for a 2 entry visa but in most visa issued there usually is a mandatory 2 month gap between re entry which can be a pain ie if you transit into Delhi say on your way to another long haul country and want to layover for a day or 2 your then stuck if you want to return for a holiday on the way back. Most asian india embassy's wont relax this but I have found that if I apply in Sydney it can usually be relaxed.

The 2 month gap was abolished around 4 months ago so able to return next day providing visa is in order.

Not on my Visa issued last month from Bangkok

The problem with a normal Visa to India is that you can apply for a 2 entry visa but in most visa issued there usually is a mandatory 2 month gap between re entry which can be a pain ie if you transit into Delhi say on your way to another long haul country and want to layover for a day or 2 your then stuck if you want to return for a holiday on the way back. Most asian india embassy's wont relax this but I have found that if I apply in Sydney it can usually be relaxed.

I must be missing something: There must be something like an "Visa on arrival" for tourists visiting India. (30 days or whatever).?

 

Cheers.

Yes but only 6 countries qualify can't remember which ones but New Zealand is one of them.

I go to visit my offices in India regularly.

You can use Sunny from Sunny Online at Naklua he will send the passport to the India processing centre and return about 1 week turn around.

I've used him many times up until recently when I moved my Bangkok office into the same building as the India Processing Centre they are on the 15th floor my office is on the 14th floor.

There is a Charity Baby bargains day coming up soon at Wiggle Town where mothers will be selling their preloved baby equipment ie beds, strollers anything to do with Baby and Toddler needs.

PM me if you want more information on this.

It is for charity so hopefully this won't get deleted.

From what I've been reading. You can't win either way.

I spoke to someone today who bought a condo that was actually there, he lived there for 12 months, then noticed the land in front was in the process of being developed, now his lovely view has gone.

Think a condo on koh chang will be the better option. Unless there going to start building on water, my view won't be disappearing fast.

Why do you think most of these View Talay projects have an equal parcel of land running besides them they certainly aren't going to leave a valuable piece of land vacant.

 

 

Just paying a deposit (like 20K mentioned above) and monthly payments doesn't seem very high risk.  If it all goes South for any reason then the loss is limited.  If you then also pick a company that has a track record of actually delivering buildings to spec, then I don't see too many downsides. 

Yes some very big Bangkok builders are now starting to build condos in Pattaya, they should be fairly safe I would say.

 

I know a few guys that have earned good money by buying off plan, they buy the good units and then sell them when the building is completed for typical 200-400K baht profit pr unit.

 

Not many condo projects go belly up, over 98% are finished build.

 

Off-course don't buy from a guy on the street but do your home work first before signing any contract & parting any money.

 

 

200k - 400k baht profit. Small potatoes for the hassles and risks involved. You only have to come unstuck once and that profit becomes a whopping loss.

 

Assume you pay 2 million and you through a risky propostion make your 200-400k profit. For usually a 2 year plus building time usually much longer from promo to completion.

Why not lock the 2 million into a fixed term deposit rate at 5% and gross around 200,000 over the same 2 years with no risk and no hassle and if you suddenly need your money back you can break to fixed term with the bank.

 

Any suggestions as to where in Thailand you can get 5% on a fixed account ?

I never said Thailand as you would be most likely bringing the cash into the country you could shop around country to country very easy these days.

Just paying a deposit (like 20K mentioned above) and monthly payments doesn't seem very high risk.  If it all goes South for any reason then the loss is limited.  If you then also pick a company that has a track record of actually delivering buildings to spec, then I don't see too many downsides. 

Yes some very big Bangkok builders are now starting to build condos in Pattaya, they should be fairly safe I would say.

 

I know a few guys that have earned good money by buying off plan, they buy the good units and then sell them when the building is completed for typical 200-400K baht profit pr unit.

 

Not many condo projects go belly up, over 98% are finished build.

 

Off-course don't buy from a guy on the street but do your home work first before signing any contract & parting any money.

 

200k - 400k baht profit. Small potatoes for the hassles and risks involved. You only have to come unstuck once and that profit becomes a whopping loss.

Assume you pay 2 million and you through a risky propostion make your 200-400k profit. For usually a 2 year plus building time usually much longer from promo to completion.

Why not lock the 2 million into a fixed term deposit rate at 5% and gross around 200,000 over the same 2 years with no risk and no hassle and if you suddenly need your money back you can break to fixed term with the bank.

My response to anyone wanting to buy a condo in Pattaya is DON'T.

Simply because everyone wants new, and when it comes to selling there is so much competition in the 2nd hand condo market.

Most agents even though they boast a large 2nd hand condo portfolio usually drive prospects to the larger more incentivised projects where they get more off field incentives and commissions than a sole owner could offer in the 2nd hand condo market.

Do the maths, a project that boasts around a 1,000 condos in its project, and there are many large scale developments around heavily marketed, when the resales start to kick in and the investor's or one off owners start to sell, assume say 10% are offered for sale at any given time then you are competing with 100 odd other condo's in the same project for the buyers attention and usually because of the simple volume on the market supported by many of these resellers who are desperate to offload for many a reason then this only drives the resale prices down as it becomes overly competitive, unless yours has the something extra special to offer.

If you have to buy a condo - Don't buy new and don't do the usual holiday emotional buy, study your market and do what a lot do who make money in this game, look out for the desperate resales, if you pick them up cheaper than the current resale market then you can afford to price match or even discount below the current resale market and still make a profit, assuming you found the really desperate seller in the first place.

Again my advice - DON'T.

S&P have a nice kow soi.

I was in CNX last few days and thats what I mostly eat in the evenings from local Thai restaurants there and the S&P one is almost as good.