LivinginKata

Ah yes. Must be another rentor. Been so many those places in the short road open and close repeat. See try Mexican take out again ... again. Just no foot traffic there. Bad business spot. As for me. My usual quiet stay at home life. Sold our business/company 2 month ago so no need travel Patong or deal with guests. Happy in Kata but the traffic on Patak Road is hellish. Takes many minutes get out of our side road, same again to turn in.

She is Thai

They are not legally married

Yes, Thai social media talking about being cancelled

Pleased to say I have not even been in Patong for almost 6 weeks. As for the Bistrot, you talking about that place just about all bike rentals. As I recall open about 5 years ago, never had any customers. Lot of dark skinned young 'French' guys hang out there.

Given the wide publicity its way way past the brown envelope time

Slight down slope, wide main 4 lane road, past the bends. Not sure how he crashed ?

Plenty cases with taxis where driver goes to a quiet spot and rapes. The woman is contained in the vehicle.

Just search google maps. Patong branch on road going out of Royal Paradise off Rat-u-Tit/Song Roi Pee. One of the 2 high building in Patong.

Yes. I have picked up my docs from a local DHL office.

My wife talk to the owner. He was apologising to all the neighbours. Seems 10 lads staying. Damage 200,000 baht. They paid in cash after all visit ATMs.

Yes Yes .... I can see traffic jams everywhere. Every day.

No for sure Thais. And they wore gstrings and tops. Not nude. I have access to the original videos. Clearly the katoeys have had the full chop. Small boob jobs.

Owner (not Thai) has a number of Kata properties for rent. With a 5 bedroom he can only get large groups paying premium day rate. I would guess there is a huge deposit.

Lists on AirBB at 42,000 Baht a DAY at this time of the year. 5 bedroom on 3 floors plus a roof garden. Think it's 6 young lads that rented it for a week.

5 minutes after arrival. Fight start. fighting3.avi

All look friendly when they arrived fighting2.avi

CCTV our communal car park. Karon police were given this video after the event fighting.avi

We get a new governor about every year. This problem has been there for as long as I remember. 20+ years. Only got worse with hotel/condo development at the north side of Karon.

I am an over 70 and usually at Phuket Airport if you contact the airline rep at the arrival gate then the airport authority should expedite your arrival procedures. Personally i never play the elder card, but often the airline staff will offer when seeing the elderly (me).

This sort post and all the other similar style display why previous attempts at 'get-togethers' fail. As an original mod of the very old phuket.com I was asked to arrange a get together of members who were mostly tourist visitor. I found that while folks back then chatty on the forum, but get togethers where stale and with much silence. A never attended the early annual Thai Visa gatherings in Phuket due to location and driving considerations. First I attended was when a Kata venue was selected so I attended. It was well attended but with little inter mingling. Just a lot of cliques old chums having free drinks. As a newbie I was just happy to go home. I believe that was the last Phuket meeting 2006 I would guess. After that Phuket members could not agree on a location for the next year and that was the end of it. About then all the other regional gathering just fizzled away.

VietJet 9th March 2024 - PKT to BKK return 2 Pax -6,682 Baht I booked on 20 January

Immigration control ....

I read about all the trashing of Karon/Kata area. I have to say the construction is not all that bad. There is only a limited amount of building land and it is mostly all regulated, much more regulated than Patong. I have done more than my fair share of building pollution in Patong and Kata. But my Soi in Kata is a well balanced and stable community. Developed with no more building possible. No land available. I enjoy the panoramic sea view from my balcony each morning over Kata Bay. I sigh, marvel, and think how lucky we are.

Seen it plenty times on flights from Spain. Straight from beach. Already checked out hotel. So change at airport.