Patong Bob

The only person who has ever made money from Soi Eric is Eric himself. He knows Thai property laws backward and will foreclose without notice if the lessee even unknowingly breaches an obscure one.

Keep well away.

Any phot of him available ? I may know him.

Don't expect Australia to lift its travel advisory. I think it has a warning on every country in the world.

Too much info for me to answer at once. Best to go to Phuket forum and search through topics. Enjoy yourself.

This is a public holiday for the civil service, banks and the like.

Tourist attractions, bars and restaurants will be open as usual.

Patong Language school, seny my ladyfrieb there for the 10 weel (four hours a week) intensive course, Worked very well, about 5,000 baht but that was ten years ago.

I have occasionally uploaded ThaiVisa topics onto Facebook, however any topic I look at on Thaivisa now turns up on my Facebook page.

I've thought about getting off FB for a while now, this seems to be the perfect time.

Thanks for any help, please keep it simple as I am not computer technical.

Always stayed at King's Hotel, near the railway station and just around the corner from the bright lights. About 440 bht, air-con, color TV, room service, someone carries your bag to the room and the front desk will organise a cab back to the airport.

Float Haven was run by Jimmy Stewart, who now has Jim's Drift Inn in Chalong. He has a website at Drift Inn, and will tell you what happened to the tank.

Anyone know the rules? Or is there a chat room similar to Thai Visa ? Thailand is getting too difficult/espensive. I know of farang people who live in Indonesia, but don't know how.

Thanks for any information.

No criteria for pollution, insane traffic or corruption ?

I'll recommend Mr Kwan who I always use as my driver in Phuket. Safe driver with modern car. Not a rip-off merchant.

Call him internationally on +66 81 081 9182.

Please let me how you go.

ps tell him Mr Bobby referrred you.

Anywhere in Chulia Street (main street in Georgetown) you will find moneychanging shops - ask a few and you'll get a good rate. Also they will help with six or twelve month visa. 12 month visa charge is 5.000 baht atthe Thai consulate. The moneychangers will want 500 baht on top. They are very successful too.

Just a thought. Been there five times now.

Couldn't do the quote thing, no expert on the internet, but generally I didn't like the lack of service or the unfriendly staff.

Specifically I came off a motor bike and broke some ribs and a crack in my skull. I tried to get back to Australia and our wonderful Medicare system but Jetstar wouldn't let me change the date of my ticketto Australia but offered me a oneway ticket for over 30,000 baht. So I was here for a month unable to walk along the beach, hit the bars or do anything much except sit at a table in my mate's restaurant reading and being bored. When I got to Sydney they had lost my walking stick (how can you lose a walking stick on a plane ?) so they wheeled me to the terminal and left me there. Fortuna

tely someone from Qantas rescued me and somehow found a walking stick from their lost property. Vowed then and there I'd never fly Jetscum again

Worth seeing once. Don't pay for the show and meal, the meal is a rip off.

I can't believe that any long haul, low cost airline could be worse than Jetstar (or Jetscum, as I affectionally call them}.

Strange post. The name was changed around 1934 from Siam (which means dark or dark-skinned) to Pathet Thai which means land free, in English Thailand.

Seven years running a bar/restaurant in Patong, had to call the police several times and was never hassled or asked for money. I prefer the Thai Police to several police forces I have dealt with in "western"oountries.

The first one was about 2004. After many posts and seemingly a lot of interest only Sir Burr and I turned up. It was at 2 Black Sheep in Patong.

BTW I haven't seen Sir Burr posting for a long time. Does anyone know what happened to him ?

David from TTT in Chalong specialises in teaching Thai to Falang. He is very good ( and better when sober). He is Sourh African and speaks Afrikaans, Hebrew and several other languages. I recommend him.

Sadly, Phuket is not suitable for people in wheelchairs. The footpaths (sidewalks) are high with large steps down to the road, because of the wet season.

Lots of those footpaths and roads are cracked and/or uneven. Again because of the rain in wet season most restaurants and bar have high steps to enter.

If climate is the reason you intend coming, I would suggest North Queensland, Australia. Climate much the same but wheelchair-friendly.

All the best.

All quite true. I have been going to Phuket for a long time more than you. I lived there for seven years.

Phuket is "paradise lost".

When renewing my passport in Bangkok, I flew to Phuket on my Melbourne Cricket Club photographic ID card.

I remember you could smoke (but not drink) in EgyptAir about ten years ago.

Malaysian banned smoking about the same time.

El Al and Royal Joranian were also a couple of the last ones I remember.

Whhen I worked in the Middle East we called PIA "Perhaps I arrive".

AFAIK Qantas is the only airline never to have had a fatality and El Al (Israel) have never lost a passenger in an aviation incident.