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6 hours ago, johnwf1963 said:

Bangkok Bank head office in Sathorn

Just to avoid confusion its on Silom Road not Sathorn, Its hot and there is no reason to be wondering around..

Prepare to be as hot as you have ever been in your life. Temps at or near 40 daily and humidity near 90%. It is the hottest of the hot season throughout all Thailand,

Its Klong Prao beach. Yes its mostly families, hence why we stayed there. Lots of affordable Thai food and there are Thai markets for fruit and the such. A nice variety of beach barbecues at night as well. 

AIA provides good travel insurance. My wife who is Thai buys it for both of us each time we go back to the states to visit the kids.. Well priced and great coverage.

It does not work. At all. I got the free version of Malware bytes for a 15 day trial. My computer was totally infected and Malware cleaned it up. Defender was still saying my computer was clean, Even when the trial is finished Malware bytes protects you. But you cant scan when you want. 

5 hours ago, madmen said:

Pattaya is very busy . Would be surprised if jomtien was quite

That would be the case, I was there just after new year and it was packed from Jomthien all the way to N. Pattaya.  New years itself I have never seen Phuket so crowded.  Too many naysayers these days.

You have to fry the white rice for a while until it begins to brown. This is the key. They add your stock and off you go.

Its hard to find but the milk produced by the King "Chitlada Milk" is the best. We buy it in two liter bottles. Its hard to find so have a look around. After that your best best is Chokchai.

I went the to Americam Embassy to renew my passport as it expires in June of this year. I was told I cannot travel to another country if I have less than 6 months remaining on my passport. So filled in the forms, made the long trip to the U.S. Embassy, paid the $75.00 for the new passport, submitted my papers and was told to have a seat. I noticed many people who came after me come and go. I was still sitting there. Finally after more than an hour my name was called. The clerk told me "sorry, sir, we have have to keep your passport for "administrative review." I replied, "why, is there a problem?" She responded, "I have no idea sir." I said, "how can I rent a hotel room without my passport?" - I was planning on staying in bangkok tonight." She replied, "sorry, sir, we have to keep your passport." I have lived here for 10 years, never been arrested, I just an English teacher. I had a similar experience 2 years ago when I went to the Embassy to have extra pages added to my passport. They held me for two hours. Eventually, the clerk came out and apolgized to me saying "we thought we had a 'hit' on your name but it turns out it wasn't you." I wonder if it's the same problem. Some computer glitch or something. In any event, it really bothersome. Anyone else ever had a similar problem?

Have left any "unfinished" business in the US ?? ie child support etc....embassies usually grab someones passport for a definite reason...your name wrongly or rightly is obviously flagged in the system....I would getting is resolved as quickly as possible with the embassy as if you are in the system, this is never going to go away..

The child support or any financial problems can cause this. My mate had run out on child support and then had his passport taken back. Had to fly back to the states on some kind of temporary paper. Still no passport as he has not paid the back amount.

Petitenget and Kerobokan are both north of Kuta and Legion and can be very nice as well.

The same ID as I booked with every time, but never for the CC I used. I book so far in advance I have the printout of my payment if they want that.

Air Asia is you get what you pay for. But a little side line. I just printed out my e itinerary and the small print is one full page of print that is unreadable save a looking glass.

Never seen anything like that before. Cant say they did not warn you. But you just cant beat them. A family of 4 on a summer holiday to phuket for 2200 baht round trip.