JMS

Have a desire for a good lamb roast tomorrow - Sunday. Ideas on the best places please ?

Cheers

The only place I know of that serves lamb is the Sportsman on Soi 13. Expensive though

I have the internet connection at a cost of 1190pm. I had a few teething problems which were sorted out on the same day I phoned and have been very happy with it. It is quick (2mb) and with the wireless router which they fitted have a good connection all over the house.

Pattaya is quite busy for what is normally the slowest time of year.

I predict a decent high season if no political problems and the swine flu does not get worse.

Do you have any indications for your prediction ?

Yes, if things are so terrible, why is Pattaya full of bald, tattoed scumbags drinking from 6 AM - 6 AM in low, low season and many massage parlors and poontang bars are busy as well? It has been mostly dead until now. Things are getting better no matter how much some depressed Daniels amongst us wish it were not true!

I have seen a slight increase in numbers but then it has been so quiet these past few months so I would expect this

On your comments about bald tattoed men I know a few very good men that fall into this bracket including one that has run a charity club for many years so they are not all bad

Sorry but as a Cornishman I have to inform you that you will not find a good pasty in Pattaya. I have searched for one for the last 4 years, to no avail.

I am currently in negotiations with Ivor Dewdney for distribution rights in Asia, I will let you know how it pans out.

Old Plymouth Argyle joke - they have a new keeper, Ivor Dewdney, you won't get nothing past he (pasty in Janner dialect)

I agree so now my wife makes them. 10 times better than yorkies

Do you deliver ! ?

No only for the 2 of us

Media Blitz offering free rooms backfires. this weeks Pattaya Mail it states second phase starts 1st Aug

Dream on there is nothing free in Pattaya what ever they say

Sorry but as a Cornishman I have to inform you that you will not find a good pasty in Pattaya. I have searched for one for the last 4 years, to no avail.

I am currently in negotiations with Ivor Dewdney for distribution rights in Asia, I will let you know how it pans out.

Old Plymouth Argyle joke - they have a new keeper, Ivor Dewdney, you won't get nothing past he (pasty in Janner dialect)

I agree so now my wife makes them. 10 times better than yorkies

yeah maybe the op is a cantabury regular ??????????????????????? wasnt daves involved last yr with a rival about some kind of food poisoning drama ? i remember reading that there was disputes with rivals...dont quote me

Not quoting but i am not any rival at all... I never mentioned the food, maybe the original guy who posted the first message last year?

Kevin

Why would you take a lady of high standing to a place like crazy daves you must be crazy

I have lived here a long time and the place is dead. if anyone says anything different they are on another planet. But it will always survive Pattaya is Pattaya and people will always come here

You can take the girl out of the bar, but you can't take the bar out of the girl.

I don't think that that tired old cliche really adds anything to this discussion. I'm you can come up with something more intelligent then to say then that bar stool classic.

But it is related to this topic. Everyone here is talking about money being given to the WIFE and family members why do people do this. If you didn't would your WIFE still be with you. In most cases i don't think so as they stay with you for money not love with is understandable when you see the age gap

They have it in Khon Kaen on the R/H/S heading north 1Km south of tesco lotus and 10 Km south of Udon Thani on the R/H/S

Good post timekeeper well said

Sorry but you are wrong...Pattaya International have CT and MRI Scan machines and Pattaya Memorial have one as well.

I was just at Pattaya International and they said they didn't have a MRI machine, only CT.

With that said, they could have just been too lazy to fire it up. But I asked and they said they didn't have one. However, my visits with them over the past 3 days were total custer f_cks and I will NEVER go there again. Not even if I was dying and it was the closest hospital. Total incompetence. One doctor says I have to test and maybe remove what they found, as it could be cancerous, while the next doctor said "no problem" and said if my nose wasn't also bleeding that it was nothing to worry about. Of course, this is all after the first doc found "artifacts" in my CT scan which turned out to be nothing other than a machine issue, according to doctor #2, yet doctor #1 was concerned about it.

It was a total Three Stoogies show. Wouldn't recommend it.

Washed my hands of them, heading to a new place tomorrow I think.

A friend of mine had problems at the P I H . after going there with him to resolve them(never did) i am glad i never have to go there myself.

i always use Samitivet in Sri Racha ,very good service and doctors.

hope all will be ok.

I have used them on a number of occasions and never had a problem including one operation and blood tests. Had the results within 30 minutes.I think you will always get complaints about all the hospitals here but they are a lot cheaper than back home

i was just reading in the daily mail online about the lad who drowned at Pattaya park ,i cannot believe that the police fined the grieving father for hitting the photographer taking pictures of his dead son .i do see both sides ,but God to fine him ,dont they realize what terrible publicaty for Pattaya that is? the man had just seen his dead childs body.

He got off lightly with a 12,000 Baht fine. Could have been worse, knowing the price of camera equipment.

I am not sure what I would of done if it was my son, what about you. I am to believe he threatened him with a spanner and I am not certain anything was broken. He was trying to take pictures of his dead son lying on a floor. I think the camera man got off lightly.

But still bad publicity for Pattaya

i was just reading in the daily mail online about the lad who drowned at Pattaya park ,i cannot believe that the police fined the grieving father for hitting the photographer taking pictures of his dead son .i do see both sides ,but God to fine him ,dont they realize what terrible publicaty for Pattaya that is? the man had just seen his dead childs body.

It was front page in the sun paper aswell

You should get used to it. SBE have been hiking up service charges way in excess of that allowable under the Condominium Act 1999. Basically, you need to get hold of as many owners as possible. This has already been done at other condos. When you have 50% for the first meeting, I understand that's just a formal thing. The next meeting can be only 25% and at that point you can sack the management co. (i.e. SBE) and get a good reputable co. in or do it yourself.

Until then you will be shagged stupid by those rapacious mofos.

Better than those in VTR4 though. All the condos (except the studios) are actually 10% smaller than the contract states. If the chanotes ever arrive they will have a shock. 96sqm units are actually only 86sqm. This time they've screwed up because under the new consumer laws, any buyer can void a contract and get all their money back if a condo is 5% under sized when completed.

This happened in Regent Pratunmak and people are still chasing the over payment

Pattaya was a ghost town last night.

Saturday night, July 11, around 10pm:

I have lived in Pattaya for the last 10 years and have been through all the recent scares. Many bars and bussiness are struggling but the expat market here in Pattaya is huge so even though the tourist numbers are well down the expats here still go out and enjoy themselves. I never go to walking street so can not comment on that but i agree with the posts that tourist numbers are well down you just have to go to the airport to see that but i do not believe that pattaya is finished it will recover sometime in the future

An MRI scan of the knees in Bangkok Rayong hospital was around two-thirds the cost of the same scan in Bangkok Pattaya hospital. It's well worth looking around, try Queen Sirikit and also the Jap hospital in Sri Racha.

Their is only one MRI Machine in Pattaya, and that's at BPH. Queen Sirikit in Sattahip does not have MRI, or CT Scan. As stated before, the most reasonable price is Phyathai hospital in Sriracha.

Very good doctors, and staff. Ive been there. Contact Gavin Waddell, who is the international MGR at that hospital.

Barry

Can you pm me his contact details please

Roy,I retired 18 monthsago at 50 and upped and moved to Buriram and the biggest problem is BOREDOM.Golf on 3 days a week a bit of gardening.Living in a village where hardly no English is spoken so i go into Buriram to meet up with other expats just for the conversation but this tends to lead to drinking every time be ok if you are tea total.

I never though that i would become bored having lived in the country in England but if you come from a City or Large town i think it will be hard but if you don't give it a go you will always wonder what if!!!!!!!!!

Retired at 50? In what country can you retired at this age??? I come from Belgium, we must wait until we are 60-65 before the government pay us retirmend. So what are you guys doing? Eating your savings or pays de government in your country at this age?

The company that i worked for in the UK has it own private pension scheme under its rules you can take Early Retirement from the age of 50.The only pitfall is that every year you lose 3.6% untill the age of 60 of your pension.

At ripe old age of 65 the UK goverment pension kicks in(if they still have money)

Do they not have company pensions in your country?

If you can retire at 50 with enough cash to last you until you die is not the problem. When you move to a village in the middle of nowhere is. What do you do with your time and will (generally no english contact/tv etc) your life become a bit boring

Also when you marry someone a lot younger there is a big difference in your likes and dislikes and then there is the culiure difference

So good luck you might need it

Team Thailand,

I am 48 yo and looking at retiring to Thailand in approximately 2 years time. We are building a house in my wifes village (20km form Sakon Nakhon) which is almost complete.

I from England, lived in Oz for 17 years and am currently in the US and will be for the next 2 years, I share this as I have the opportunity to bring things from any of these countries or set things up here before I come toThailand.

We plan tohave children in 2 years also to coincide with living in Thailand full time, assuming I can hit the target!!

So, that is my situation, my Q is what would you have done differently, or what did you do that was really beneficial leading up to settling down in Thailand full time, eg: financially, what did you bring, what didnt you bring, did you come too soon, should you have come too earlier, etc.

I have 2 years to get things in order, any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks Roy

I think you will be pretty bored as there are not many people your age in Issan they tend to be a lot older. Also are you not a bit old to bring children into this world as you will be not far off 70 when they leave school

Hello JMS

Too young for Sakon Nakhon too old for kids, I'm also 19 years older than my Thai wife, so too old there too, right? ..............just keeps getting worse!

Only my thoughts but if you want kids at your age crack on and as you say your wife is many years younger it seems many thai ladies prefer older farang men or is it their money

Team Thailand,

I am 48 yo and looking at retiring to Thailand in approximately 2 years time. We are building a house in my wifes village (20km form Sakon Nakhon) which is almost complete.

I from England, lived in Oz for 17 years and am currently in the US and will be for the next 2 years, I share this as I have the opportunity to bring things from any of these countries or set things up here before I come toThailand.

We plan tohave children in 2 years also to coincide with living in Thailand full time, assuming I can hit the target!!

So, that is my situation, my Q is what would you have done differently, or what did you do that was really beneficial leading up to settling down in Thailand full time, eg: financially, what did you bring, what didnt you bring, did you come too soon, should you have come too earlier, etc.

I have 2 years to get things in order, any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks Roy

I think you will be pretty bored as there are not many people your age in Issan they tend to be a lot older. Also are you not a bit old to bring children into this world as you will be not far off 70 when they leave school

Charoensri Grand Royal -- It's been renamed Centara and is crumbling as we speak. Five years ago I might have agreed with you, but it's no longer good value. It does have a swimming pool, if that's important to a guest.

Well it´s three years since I been to Udon. Things change remarkably quick in Thailand. Still great location.

No offence to Udon residents, but I could not see the attraction of the place. Thought it was a very run down city. Not there often mind so such brief impressions could be wrong.

I agree a total s*** hole. The only good thing about it is the Irish Clock and Robinsons

if the pound plummets even more this would mean less tourists here and people residing here leaving to go back to their home country.

Bad for the ecomony all round

I blieve your right Guderian, Regatta was to be in front of Jomtien Condotel but it would have spoilt some of the views from Grand looking North anyway, and may still do if the new land owner develops the plot.

Is regatta going to be built or not. And somebody said the land that regatta was going to be built on has been sold on. I have not looked as this plot for a year or 2 so an update would be nice

Wear a helmet that is the law

hmmmm leave Pattaya to those who can handle it... china can have you mate!!!!

The OPs opinion is valid.......Pattaya has deteriorated, especially over the past ten years and it looks like the pace of deterioration is accelerating.

There are many reason for this, but that topic has been covered elsewhere.

Many tourists are finding alternative destinations to be good alternatives to Titanic-Thailand.

Beaches and warm weather are all over the place......P

attaya-Jomtien once offered beaches (never really good though), warm weather, a crazy and FUN nightlife and RELAXED atmosphere (no visa police giving you the eyeball), at an inexpensive price.

That situation has changed..........

China is a good place to live if you live in the right place.......no security problems at all.......more girls than you can count (why people think otherwise is a mystery to me.....why do you think there are so many Chinese?).....fantastic food, weather than changes......massive diversity in geography......but I do not like the govt. and control of the media (Thailand is, unfortunately, catching up to China in terms of media control).

There are lots of expats in Thailand who, if honest, would tell you they would have jumped ship a long time ago. The problem is finding an alternative that offers the same quality of life.....the same feeling of happiness.....at the right price.

I agree there are alternatives. Malaysia is another offering expats 10 year visa's a tax free car and the right to own property (house and condo) in their own name