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I would always advise tourists to book a hotel in Bangkok, and other destinations in Thailand, that include breakfast in their room rate.  

Barring that, I can highly recommend The Sportsman over on Soi 13.  Farang managed and the breakfast is pretty good.  

Good write up!  Last time I was on Koh Chang was in 2007 and it had really changed a lot from when I first went there in 1993.  I can only imagine what it is like now.  I used to go there quite often when I was working in Bangkok during the 90's.  

I was in just in Thailand for seven weeks and used my T-Mobile service with International roaming on my old iphone 6.  It worked fine and the calls were clear.  I think I might have had one call that got disconnected but that was it.  As for the cost, it wasn't much more and I hardly noticed the difference on my bill.  However, I made a lot more calls using FB Facetime, FB messenger, and LINE.  

I've overstayed twice and both times not that long ago.  One time was for one day on a 30 day VOA due to a miscalculation in the way Thais count the days.  They did not fine me for that.  This was about 8 years ago.  The other time I overstayed by two days and they did fine me.  Again it was on a 30 day VOA.  The reason was it was cheaper to pay the two day fine instead of book a flight earlier at a much higher price.  I might add that in my 36 years of flying in and out of Thailand, along with 12 years living in the LOS, I was always legal.  Had all the right  to stay legal.  

You crazy if you believe even half of her story.  Like others have said, forget about her and find someone else that doesn't go with guys for money.  There are a zillion stories about this.  Almost all end up bad.  Go read Stickman for stories similar to yours.  There are plenty of very nice Thai women that don't work in bars/restaurants/go-go's etc.  They have real jobs and have graduated from university.  The thing is if you aren't living in Thailand then it makes it a lot harder to develop a relationship.

Good Luck with what you decide to do.

On 2/27/2019 at 8:31 PM, dddave said:

He's actually a very funny and nice guy in person.  I was cast in a TV commercial with him 2 years ago for a snack company; he was "Kim" and I, "Trump".  The commercial was set in what looked like a summit conference room.

 

That's sad that you resemble Donald Trump.  I only want to resemble his bank account.

I wouldn't fly them. 

On 2/15/2019 at 9:40 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Except:

 

Under U.S. law, AFAIK, any adult, competent person can witness a will. Doesn't have to be a relative or someone even personally acquainted with the will-maker.  So why can't the Embassy staff serve as will witnesses?

 

 

.............and therein lies the problem, finding a competent person within the embassy staff.

Not much of a winter in Bangkok at all.  A few cool days but not many.  Very different from the 90's

I haven't lived in Phuket since 2003 for a variety of reasons.  There are many other places that are much better that fit my lifestyle.  Don't let that stop you from going.  You might  like it!  Obviously a number of farangs like it and good for them.  It's just not my cup of tea.

3 hours ago, mikebell said:

They have windows in cells?  

Sure do!  Usually a small vertical window 10cm wide by 100cm long. The one in the picture below is quite large.  You aren't going to be able to kick it out either if it's a proper cell window.  The broken window that was in the story does not look like a cell window at all.  

15 hours ago, Jai Dee said:

Have you visited Suan Luang Rama IX Park yet?

 

 

 

Also include Nong Bon.  It is very close to Suan Luang Rama IX Park.  Just turn into Chalerm Prakiet Soi 43 and go to the end of the Soi and you are at the entrance to the park.  There is a 4km path around the park for people to ride bicycles or go running/walking.  

"There's no coup" - Famous last words

My Thai niece used to compete in TKD and holds a black belt, not sure what degree.  No one ever messed with her in school.  Now she is much older and works as a flight attendant for an international airline.  I'm sure that she would take care of business if some guy groped her on the Skytrain.

5 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

And now?

No idea.  My kids left the school in 2001 to attend high school in the USA.

I thought that Mexico was paying for the Wall to be built?  At least that's what Mr. Trump said was going to happen when he was campaigning for the Presidency.

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

I wonder how many of the pupils are Christian, or even know the name Jesus Christ at this school.

Back in 1998 to 2001 it was roughly 10%.  Most were Buddhist.  There were even a few Muslims at the school.

10 hours ago, thonglorjimmy said:

I decided to ignore some of the naysayers who posted their thoughts on this event and went along, as did many others, it was a good crowd and a truly wonderful evening.

 

Frank certainly impressed his audience, Thai and Westerners, young and not so, he gave a very interesting talk and he was sharpe and witty and his answers to questions from the floor were well thought out and meaningful, especially his views on mental health issues which were clearly from the heart.

 

An excellent Thai buffet and plenty of booze, I certainly enjoyed myself as, I suspect, did the majority of the crowd.

 

Thanks very much to the organisers and sponsors of this event, these sort of evenings take a lot of planning.

Thanks for the report!  Good to hear that it went off ok.

Great news to hear that she survived.  Coping with what lies ahead of her is no easy task.

Hopefully her abductor never sets foot outside of a correctional facility again.

20 hours ago, Jingthing said:

As a condo owner I would advise most people to RENT. 

I pretty much agree with this statement.  I am a condo owner as well.  I paid cash for it so no loans or anything.  I own it outright.  I bought my 3 year old condo in Jomtien in 2006 and still have it.  I have never lived in it.  Over the span of 12.5 years I have owned it I have spent the grand total of maybe 4 nights in it and that was back when I first bought it.  Although it has nice furnishings and fittings, it's too small for my liking.  It hasn't really appreciated much and I think it would be hard to sell although I have never put it on the market.  Currently I have had the same tenant for the past 4 years.  As I don't live in Thailand anymore, but visit yearly, I have a property management company take care of it.  Now when I visit Thailand I use the baht in the bank from the rent collected to finance my holiday.  The one nice thing is that means I'm a little more protected from the currency changes in the baht.

He will be a guest of the Kingdom for a little longer than planned, staying in a place he probably won't like, but hey, the weight loss program will suit him quite well.

Then after he is released they will hit him with the overstay fine!

15 minutes ago, damascase said:

I posted this picture earlier in another cycling thread but I’ll include it again now we are talking cycling lanes. This is a bridge in a dedicated cycling lane north of Chiang Rai Airport, where a car tried  to cross...........

Looks like that didn't go so well!

Thailand cannot plan this successfully on such a short notice.  They would be mired in too much red tape and too many people afraid to take action as they might "upset" someone else's department.  

Leave it to Singapore to pull this off.  

53 minutes ago, balo said:

 

That is not what this discussion is about!  It's about riding a motorbike is more safe than riding a bicycle which I strongly disagrees with. Speed kills, a vehicle will hit you and you will have no chance, bike, bicycles or any 2 wheeler. 

 

Regarding bicycle paths , we have a few of them in Bangkok, and here in Chonburi.  

 

This is a newly opened bicycle path here in the Pattaya/Chonburi area. It's 14 km long and very nice if you want to exercise and avoid all the traffic. 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

They built a very nice bicycle path down in Prachuap Khiri khan along the water front.  Then all the cars went and parked on it so bicycles can't use it and the police have know intention of ticketing the cars parked illegally.

4 minutes ago, gppower said:

Do you need to attach your credit card details like with Uber or do you settle with cash?

You pay cash.