I'm currently preparing for my upcoming trip to Pattaya

I like to plan and document all things weeks before including my travel insurance policy which I have put to the amazing chatgpt to read over and file this in chronological order

I have researched the travel insurance company I use and I use them every year

I'm happy with them as I write to them every year to confirm or deny policies eg motorcycle pillion claims etc

Anyway I'm now going to have to research the ambulance/ paramedic services in Pattaya both for travel insurance reasons and personal reasons

I realise unlike Western countries the emergency ambulance service are not Government run / managed ,is that correct in Pattaya ,they are privately run /managed

Could anyone provide additional information on the emergency ambulance service

I need to research this thoroughly

10 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Could anyone provide additional

Here you go.

17 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Here you go.

This is off chatgpt

To complete my studies I need personal submissions

Things like personal use ,reviews , etc

I will only open submissions to this inquiry I'm doing for several days

21 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

This is off chatgpt

To complete my studies I need personal submissions

Things like personal use ,reviews , etc

I will only open submissions to this inquiry I'm doing for several days

Oh, OK

It is inconsequential? I usually travel without travel insurance and pay out of pocket :) If I buy insurance, it is to cover the bills over 100k baht. Insurance can be a s cam IMO. Just get it for the big issues. Ambulance service in Thailand is cheap and not of the slightest concern.

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

This is off chatgpt

To complete my studies I need personal submissions

Things like personal use ,reviews , etc

I will only open submissions to this inquiry I'm doing for several days

I have twice required the services of an ambulance. Once for an emergency transfer from my local hospital to the provincial hospital. I was very sick from a sceptic wound on my foot and required immediate surgery. It wasn't until later that I was aware quite how dangerous my condition was; the surgeon who operated told me that another 12 hours and they would have had to amputate, 48 hours and I would have died.

It was a well equipped hospital vehicle with a paramedic in attendance. I don't know who payed - maybe it was included in the hospital bill. I needed the attention, it was given. The bill was sorted out eventually. I vaguely recall the sum of B500 being mentioned.

The second time was after I collided with a fallen tree on my motorcycle in a heavy rainstorm at night. This was a local rescue outfit- a more rudimentary vehicle, but a well trained crew. Again I don't know how or even if, it was paid for.

Strikes me that reviews and quotes for ambulances are pretty pointless. If you need one then you are probably pretty helpless and dependant on the service they provide. It seems to me that their system, combining hospital fleets and volunteer foundations, works OK!

24 minutes ago, JAG said:

I have twice required the services of an ambulance. Once for an emergency transfer from my local hospital to the provincial hospital. I was very sick from a sceptic wound on my foot and required immediate surgery. It wasn't until later that I was aware quite how dangerous my condition was; the surgeon who operated told me that another 12 hours and they would have had to amputate, 48 hours and I would have died.

It was a well equipped hospital vehicle with a paramedic in attendance. I don't know who payed - maybe it was included in the hospital bill. I needed the attention, it was given. The bill was sorted out eventually. I vaguely recall the sum of B500 being mentioned.

The second time was after I collided with a fallen tree on my motorcycle in a heavy rainstorm at night. This was a local rescue outfit- a more rudimentary vehicle, but a well trained crew. Again I don't know how or even if, it was paid for.

Strikes me that reviews and quotes for ambulances are pretty pointless. If you need one then you are probably pretty helpless and dependant on the service they provide. It seems to me that their system, combining hospital fleets and volunteer foundations, works OK!

Thankyou for your submission to my open inquiry

Your submission will be looked over and consideration will be given to include it in my academic statistical study

Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Foundation in Naklua is the only number you'll need on your speed dial.

1669

I was stung by a box jellyfish a couple of years ago on Koh Phangan, and lay on the floor of a beach-bar with the knowledge that the previous 2 persons stung on the island by box jellyfish had both succumbed in 10 minutes... The bar owner was pouring vinegar over me as fast as she could from several bottles, (since vinegar is meant to be a basic medicine for countering the jellyfish toxin). I remember looking up at her - she had a big knife between her teeth and was using it to literally slice open the bottles as fast as she could.

My private medical insurance had been cancelled just a few days previously (French company, story posted previously). So they called the government hospital ambulance, not expecting me to be alive for much longer. I understand Thai and all the locals gathered around my quivering body as one announced "look at the farang - he will be dead in a few minutes".

The ambulance arrived with a pretty female nurse and the campest ladyboy nurse you can imagine. As we travelled to the hospital, my breathing was getting difficult and I begged for some oxygen. The nurses rummaged in the ambulance and found the oxygen bottle and mask, but then said in Thai "Oh, it's empty...".

I got to the local government hospital where there were only nurses, no doctor on duty. They called up the doctor who said "We have no medicine to give you. Lie on the bed. If you live, then you live, if you die, then you die..."

The police came, trying to find out where I was staying. My passport was in the bag in my car that I parked before my swim. I remembered that I had a photo of my passport on my phone. With help from the nurses, I got my phone out and then was presented with more than 100 photos that I had previously taken. I was unable to control my fingers to swipe, so the nurses started swiping from photo #1!! "That's me on the beach, that's a temple in Laos, that's a cute cat, that's my motorbike, that's me in my gimp suit" and so on. Finally they found my passport details and the local police were able to locate where I was staying.

After the length of time to scroll through all the photos, I started to recover, and within another hour I felt well enough to leave the hospital. My Thai landlord came to collect me.

That was the only time that I have used an ambulance in Thailand!

7 hours ago, JAG said:

Strikes me that reviews and quotes for ambulances are pretty pointless. If you need one then you are probably pretty helpless and dependant on the service they provide. It seems to me that their system, combining hospital fleets and volunteer foundations, works OK!

I think reason for the amublance is also considered in the cost.

I transfered from Pattaya to Sriracha,

Induced coma and intubated, flat lined 3 times /restarted during the 40 mins trip.

Bill was Bt,27,000.

10 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

...

Induced coma and intubated, flat lined 3 times /restarted during the 40 mins trip.

...

You or the ambulance driver? :)

3 minutes ago, simon43 said:

You or the ambulance driver? :)

Which do you think dumbass ?

George perhaps overseas travel is not for you ?

15 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Which do you think dumbass ?

Lol, go back to kindergarten classes about humour....

15 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I'm currently preparing for my upcoming trip to Pattaya

I like to plan and document all things weeks before including my travel insurance policy which I have put to the amazing chatgpt to read over and file this in chronological order

I have researched the travel insurance company I use and I use them every year

I'm happy with them as I write to them every year to confirm or deny policies eg motorcycle pillion claims etc

Anyway I'm now going to have to research the ambulance/ paramedic services in Pattaya both for travel insurance reasons and personal reasons

I realise unlike Western countries the emergency ambulance service are not Government run / managed ,is that correct in Pattaya ,they are privately run /managed

Could anyone provide additional information on the emergency ambulance service

I need to research this thoroughly

But you hate Pattaya and will never go back, as you have said a few times.

I'll email Flybird and warn them you are on your way.

3 hours ago, emptypockets said:

But you hate Pattaya and will never go back, as you have said a few times.

I'll email Flybird and warn them you are on your way.

The man is insane. Each time he goes to Pattaya he writes about hating it but a few month later he returns.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

I've used ambulance services twice and, as far as i could tell, wasn't charged explicitly. One was for a motorcycle accident, had x-rays and only charged a few thousand baht in private hospital (not in Pattaya). The other time was to the ER in Bangkok Hospital (Bangkok), Rescue Squad paramedics arrived first and took blood pressure. Had major surgery the next day and spent a few weeks, including three days in the ICU. Examining my bill later, I saw no mention of the ambulance service. I assumed it was implicitly included in the overall price.

6 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Which do you think dumbass ?

The ambulance driver.

6 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

George perhaps overseas travel is not for you ?

He will not be going thaialdn,He has never ever left his own country,just full of wind.

As I recall:

An van ambulance ride from near Soi Cowboy to Kluaynamthai Hospital on Rama IV via a Foundation. Included in the Hospital Bill which was less than $150, about 20 years ago.

An equipped ambulance with an attending physician, from Samitivij in Thonburi to BNH in Silom, 4000B about 7 years ago

I'm guessing and I may include this in my statistical analysis that many of you have no idea of the ambulance emergency number?

Do they speak English?

4 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I'm guessing and I may include this in my statistical analysis that many of you have no idea of the ambulance emergency number?

Yep, I reckon you are correct.

Its not an issue for me.

I know the phone numbers of Far, Jup, Blah, Fon, Mew, Anny, Mai, Noy, So, Earn, Tong and Nah, thats all I need.

Stick that up your journal

19 hours ago, Real Name Hidden said:

I assumed it was implicitly included in the overall price.

I would expect there to be a charge. I have a neighbour who gets taken to (and from) the hospital quite often and they use an alternative to the expensive one the hospital is prepared to supply. I believe it is a voluntary outfit like the Sawang Boriboon.

On 2/9/2026 at 4:13 AM, Ralf001 said:

I think reason for the amublance is also considered in the cost.

I transfered from Pattaya to Sriracha,

Induced coma and intubated, flat lined 3 times /restarted during the 40 mins trip.

Bill was Bt,27,000.

Sounds like the Jordan Peterson 'cold turkey off of barbituates' protocol.

On 2/9/2026 at 6:22 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yep, I reckon you are correct.

Its not an issue for me.

I know the phone numbers of Far, Jup, Blah, Fon, Mew, Anny, Mai, Noy, So, Earn, Tong and Nah, thats all I need.

Stick that up your journal

Very dangerous not to know the emergency number

What if you have a heart attack or something

6 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

What if you have a heart attack

My heart is working well.

I'm probably one of healthiest, fittest guys here.

2 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

My heart is working well.

I'm probably one of healthiest, fittest guys here.

Don't lie , where will you be in 30 years ?

Admit it ....go on !

13 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Don't lie , where will you be in 30 years ?

Admit it ....go on !

I'll be in my eighties and probably become one of the many grumpy old guys here 😂

Then I'll take pleasure reporting postings with beautiful young sexy chicks by middle aged, good looking, cashed up members. 😁

Personally I found ambulance services to be expensive but I will add that I was “well out of it” after a serious motorcycle accident so I have no idea what they were doing to me inside that ambulance. It is that from a medical perspective that could have bumped the costs up. For a 34 Km journey to the Government hospital in Nong Bua Lamphu from Si Bun Rueang where the accident occurred the cost was 36000 baht. To be honest that cost is incidental to me, I’m alive that’s far more important.

On 2/9/2026 at 3:17 PM, theshu25 said:

He will not be going thaialdn,He has never ever left his own country,just full of wind.

I agree.

Sitting in his mum's basement just trolling the forums.

No one is that stupid to keep going back to a place where they get mugged by ladyboys and slapped by the monkeys, unless of course - they like it...