PattayaParent

TM30 has been required in Pattaya immigration for several years now. Since pre-Covid +

ex-UK bitter drinker here too. I don't like the craft beers that much, especially ones that have fruit flavours in them! Like Jasmine IPA in Viet Nam. They're overpriced and don't really taste that nice, nothing like real beer. However the beer halls that brew on their premises like Tawang Daeng and Hoa Vien are much better, even though they're lagers.

Daughter had hers done at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, dragged it out like you said, 4 years I think! but a fixed fee (B 80k?) unless you wanted extras

The Sanctuary Pratumnak Soi 6. Rooftop pool bar, sea views and breeze, nice staff.

I like the Tawang Daeng beers so I'll look out for this Carabao next time I'm in Pattaya.

You might think it's a joke but if you spend more than 3 months in India you have to get a tax clearance certificate and you have to produce evidence of money exchanges and what you spent your money on!! At least when I was there in 1990.

Same as me, overnight on a Mekong Delta tour, struck me as a very nice place.

Nope, definitely 2, I've been to both.

Probably because every calls it Asia Beach And I found Phratumnak Beach, where I said it was!

I bet you hadn't heard of it before you googled it!

It's amazing what Google can do for you 😁

Which one did you go to? There's two on Jomtien beach road.

I've lived there 20 years and never heard it called YinYom Beach! Everyone there calls it Phratumnak Beach. If you look at your map Jomtien First Road starts at that junction I mentioned and runs South, and Jomtien Second Road starts at the traffic lights where the Machanu statue is and runs South also. The road that they intersect is Thappraya which is the access road to Pattaya and which is what I'm basing my demarcation on, plus the Arch welcoming people to Jomtien Beach.

Hey, you asked him where he thought it was and he was replying to you. You're just making yourself look dumb.

Jomtien Beach starts nowhere near Phratumnak. Jomtien starts at the Jomtien Welcome Arch outside Hemmingways so if you walk down to the beach along that road you are at the North end of Jomtien Beach, turn right and you are at the South end of Dongtan Beach. Walk 30 minutes North and you'll reach Phratumnak Beach. So the OP should try Surf Kitchen on Jomtien Beach not far from that junction.

If you're using an agent, use Alan Bolton.

Any of the big shops like HomePro, Baan and Beyond and Boonthavorn offer design and install kitchens. I used a place 20 years ago I can't now remember the name of but they're located on Thepprasit just past Soi Yaa Baa on the right heading towards Sukhumvit. I designed the kitchen myself and took the plans to several places and they were the only ones that I had any confidence in. If it's still there it's a small shop front and has furniture in it also as they do interior design. Kitchen was perfect, just what I wanted and it still looks good today. But there must be half a dozen kitchen shops on Thepprasit to look in (and I did!)

Download Grab on your 'phone to use to get around

I've only been away from Ha Noi 6 months and already I've forgotten about Ho Chi Minh Museum, Ho Chi Minh House Don't bother with Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum unless you want to wait in long queues like at Disney. Opera House, check if there's a concert on Ha Noi Flag Tower and the Imperial Citadel B52 museum and B52 Lake Catholic Cathedral I echo this, I always take visitors to see it 'cos I never tire of it. Get tickets early morning for the evening shows. And remember, if it's only 3 days make it a weekend so the road around Hoan Kiem Lake is closed, there might even be an event on, there is most weekends.

I keep seeing people doing tours in ex-US Army jeeps around town if that's your thing. And there's a bar tour but not worth it, not that I've been on it, I just know the bars on it. Avoid "Drinking Street" which used to be known as Beer Hoi Corner, but you won't find cheap beer hoi there now, it's all loud, overpriced beer bars full of tourists. Oh, and there's a "hop-on, hop-off' tour bus that you can get at Hoan Kiem Lake.

If you look at BritManToo's map, Hang Hanh is the L shaped street that has 4P's Pizza on it, on the opposite side of the lake. No traffic down that street! If the budget stretches to it, Soffitel is nice, Melia has an expat bar in it, they may have even finished building the Waldorf Astoria?

Weather in HCMC much like Pattaya, Ha Noi more like Chiang Mai, so depends whether you want to be hot and humid or cool and wet. Can't say I find HCMC that interesting, or Vung Tao. Cui Chi tunnels were good and the Mekong Delta tour. Lots of good bars and restaurants where I stay in Xuan Thuy street in Thao Dien so I've not much reason to move from there.

And the best one, why do you need the shower instant hot water heater to be earthed???

Bought one of them and it doesn't fit the bolt on the kitchen sink taps, way too big.

It was a local commune clinic but the doctor works in the government hospital day time and this is his own business night times.