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Here's another place up near Mae Rim. I heard one person speak well of the place, but I've never done business with them in person.

http://www.thehappygamboldogs.com

I don't think you will have any problems on a holiday. I am fairly certain that the border is always open until 10 PM.

I thought Nok Air had an early AM flight to Udon Thani, but they may have cancelled it.

Nok Air goes direct from Chiang Mai to Udon Thani. (My previous post said to fly to Nong Khai, but actually the flight goes to Udon Thani.)

From there it is a 45 minute ride in the airport shuttle to the border. Cost is 200 baht for the shuttle to go to the border.

Nok Air flights can be booked online and paid for at any 7/11.

I suggest you take an early AM flight to Nong Khai (edit: correction: fly to Udon Thani) and then the airport shuttle to the border. Look around for other foreigners going to the Thai consulate and share a taxi to take you there directly. You should make it in plenty of time, but try to confirm this with another source. (I never rush these trips so I fly the day before I go to the Thai consulate.)

I think the place I stayed was called the Vientiene Star Hotel. I booked via Agoda and paid maybe US$20/600 baht per night. It was perfectly acceptable and even came with a small breakfast.

You can get your visa the next day, but if I recall you have to wait until the afternoon. Still, you should have time to get over the border and to the Nong Khai airport in time to make the late flight to Chiang Mai, but again, confirm this with another source. Getting back to the border and to the airport quickly might take a bit of cash.

I should have added that I usually go to Immigration VERY early in the AM (which I hate doing as I am not a morning persoon,) so I thought I would try an attempt in the afternoon today to see how it went. Since my visa doesn't expire for several more days, even if I had failed today I wasn't taking any risks.

In case this helps anyone:

1. I arrived at Chiang Mai Immigration at 1:10 PM to extend a tourist visa.

2. I was given number 99. They were servicing number 66 at the time.

3. At about 3:10 PM my number was called and I got my passport back around 4:00 PM.

Lucky Dogs is a ThaiVisa sponsor and they will board your dog. Contact them for pricing. For a charge I think they might come pick up your dog and deliver back home when you return, but you would need to ask them.

http://www.luckydogs.info/home/

It's confirmed. Egg prices down by over 4%. Garlic is down by over 12%, but most stuff is up:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/723124-fresh-produce-prices-skyrocket-inflation-reaches-new-high/

I live almost directly under the flight path north of the airport, maybe a few hundred meters east of the flight path. With the heat we now have I use a/c and fan at night and I never hear the airplanes.

During the cold season I would hear one about 3 AM or so. Fact is you get use to it at it doesn't bother you anymore.

Since I almost never cook meat in my home, I was shocked to discover the low cost of chicken breasts at my local Lotus Tesco mini shop. I think I paid 49 baht for two very nice breasts. (My dog couldn't keep anything down and a bit of web research to me to try feeding her boiled chicken. Needless to say, she loved it.)

I guess it's fair to say that they tried to sell it.

I got use to the airplane noise real fast when I moved into Nimmen. Even my dog has no problem with it now.

Chiang Mai City News is reporting that 3.4 million fish were recently released into the Ping, and I guess the pollution levels have killed some of them:

http://chiangmaicitynews.com/news.php?id=3624

I'm shocked if the 1.8 start price is for a studio, but I'm not in the market so I don't know current prices.

Saw the sign for Rawee Waree.....2.49 million. Nimman soi 15. Doesn't give the square meters, but the picture has a bed in the living room.

Unreal. In 2008 I know a guy who sold a townhouse in that area for 3 million. There is a townhouse for sale on Nimmen Soi 2. It's been on the market a long time. It started at 5.9, now down to 4.9 and still no takers. Rumor is that offers in the 4.5 range are being turned down.

FYI - a new burger place apparently called "Hamburg" is "opening soon" in Think Park, opposite Maya.

The name reminds me of the 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic where Calvin asked his mother if hamburgers were made from people from Hamburg : )

No, it's not Chom Doi. Maybe something like Thaveeporn Tower? I don't own there but I know a fellow who thinks he wants to sell. I don't know what kind of renovations he might have done.

You will find some information here:

http://www.siam-legal.com//Business-in-Thailand/US-Thai%20Amity.php?gclid=CMC5n8Ctzr0CFVh6vQodaoAAeQ

Since a number of you seem to know a lot about the real estate market here, can you tell me what a 34 sq. meter studio in a rundown building on the Canal Road is worth? It's on a lower floor, 3rd floor, I think. I don't know the name of the building but it is opposite Fine Thanks and about a block or two further away from Huay Gaew.

By "rundown" I mean that the building looks old and really needs a new coat of paint.

The Nimmana project on Nimmen Soi 6 is rather massive. Three buildings, 7-8 floors each. I'm not sure how many units that will put on the market, but quite a lot. Palm Springs (as mentioned) is also doing three large buildings just blocks away. I'm shocked if the 1.8 start price is for a studio, but I'm not in the market so I don't know current prices.

Something is going up just down the street from the Unique Condo. They haven't posted any signs. A local Thai living in the neighborhood told they were 5.0 million baht units and being sold out of Bangkok, but I have no idea is she is right.

Mike's on Nimmen also closed it's doors a few weeks ago. It looked like they were renovating, but nothing seems to be going on there now. I assume it's a different owner but I could be wrong.

Be careful about taking medications. I self-medicated using ibuprofen as a pain reliever and was later told that was the worst possible drug I could have taken. The person giving me this advice was in the medical field but not a doctor, so he may have been wrong.

I've only been seriously ill twice in Chiang Mai in the last 12 years. Both were from mosquito bites. Blood tests determined that it wasn't dengue but a related illness (and much less serious.) I still felt horrible each time for about 4-5 days.

Yes. They will need to take some blood to check.

My part of Nimmen lost power for about an hour yesterday late afternoon. Shops across the street still had power. All is fine now.