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Although I haven't read anything to confirm this, I am betting a few people who landed in Swampy over the weekend, (Chinese New Year) with the expected high number of arrivals, wished they had landed at UTP instead.

Well as I said, I have a friend staying there so I applied the moniker 'tosser' hotel!

Roxanne

Nirun Gand Condo and 9 Karat are coming to my mind although more Arunothai area. I have had a friend just turn up and find a place on Soi Honey for a month, will ask him.. he won't be paying much. Here you go... try Tossaporn Guest House on Soi Honey, near 2nd Rd end. My pal says he is paying 8000 incl water for a room with a fridge, TV and AC. Google Maps.

I quite often come around the bend on the railway line bypass , heading north just after the railway station to be met with a truck reversing back at me trying to avoid the police roadblock under the motorway flyover.They like it there, shaded!

Maybe you talk of this which has been closed. The anonymous admin of the Thai-language page – which had received more than 100,000 “likes” – initially declared he would not remove the page, as he was not doing anything improper. But faced with fines of up to 100,000 baht and jail time, the page has disappeared from Facebook.

I had been paying 1200 from Swampy and I believe the other way was 1000, but I was more inclined to drive myself that direction. That was before the extended motorway tolls came in. I thought that was pretty standard although years ago I used the mafia and they were always yellow/green cabs trying to get a fare back to Bangkok and were cheap but came with arguments many times.

The Last Boy Scout

The taxi companies may have put their prices up to and from Swampy as the motorway stretch from Chonburi to Pattaya is now also toll road. UTP isn't bad for me as I can get onto Hwy 36, then switch to 331 which pops out on Sukhumvit close to UTP. Although I am also not far from Hwy 7 either. I agree using Sukhumvit from Sattahip to Pattaya is a pretty horrible drive!

Yes it looks familiar to me although I had the album!

Some journey times come in at 14.30 from LHR, longest coming up was 15.30, so I guess you are booking through an agent not direct with the airline.Cheaper tickets will likely give you a longer wait. The flight Doha to UTP does not stop in Bangkok, so I can only believe some search engines are coming up with a bus option. There aren't any flights from BKK to UTP. (Although some of the minibus drivers come pretty close.)

The Sixth Sense

Five hours, quite a chore really. I will bring a cool box full of beer and sandwiches, perhaps some Yorkie's pork pies.

There are gay places as mentioned above, and katoey shows (transvestites), take your pick.

I plan my trips around 'safe' times to try and get to Manchester Airport. The M60 is a permanent disaster but rush hours are walking speed and I find it just all too frustrating. So mid-afternoon flights are my favourite (The 2pm Emirates A380). . It also means the sun is far enough over the yardarm somewhere for a beer before take-off. It also usually means a good time to arrive in Bangkok and get out of the city again avoiding a rush hour.

AI Artificial Intelligence.

He put on a few Lbs!

Never mind 'new' TM6 card, the aim is to eliminate them. As part of the new system, the Immigration Bureau will cancel the use of the Immigration 6 form and instead use e-passport data, Kongcheep said. Foreigner database to be ready in six months. The Nation.

Yes, decoratively referred to as the terrace on the container roof!

If I get into any discussion with someone over 'Retirement Visas', my first question is to ask whether they mean a Visa or an Extension. Then we know what we are talking about and I can be accurate, they are starkly different. The fact that Thai Immigration, Visa Consultants and most Expats use the wrong terminology is simply what it is, like many people write bath when they mean baht, or quite when they mean quiet, or visa when they mean versa (sic)!

It is a long time since the regulation came out requiring bars to have CCTV for security purposes. There has not been, that I have heard. any further checks on places to ensure they are maintained, shit even City Hall can't keep it's own system around town up and running. City council Chairman Anan Ankanawisan Dec. 1 estimated that half the city’s cameras are broken and have been for years The old saying in my Engineering background was, if it works don't fix it. In Thailand that has been shortened to don't fix it.

Residence Garden or Nova Park were always my choice but that is a long time ago. Used to get a monthly deal inclusive of utilities and cleaning. Give us a few ideas like what are you looking for, location and expected price range.

I didn't want to be overly negative about the place but 2 midweek visits by me over the last month have been a waste of my time and money, yet standing room only in Windmill. For a place that in my mind charges a lot for bottled beers and LDs it needs to keep the standards up.

Cold Mountain