jacko

Ban him!!!!!!!!Just kidding.

Don't talk daft....... why on earth would he want to get $100 TCs.He would have to pay commission to change currency....twice. Yes they are available but normally for people going to the USA.

You have been a member for a few months reading and yet still changed £500 into baht in the UK?Sorry but you would have done better changing that on arrival. There is also a 150 baht surcharge here for using a foreign ATM card on top of what your UK bank charges... so travellers cheques isn't a bad idea, in £. Cash is a worry, your Bangkok hotel may not have an in room safe.

Are you actually being serious? Do a Google search and take a look, you will get a lot of hits!

Let me think about this.....Two restaurants with equally appalling food at similar prices. One has a TV blaring out a Thai soap where melodramatic poor acting and squawking females hurts the ears. The other is playing a timeless classic comedy that I can still enjoy. No I went there to eat because I was hungry, and fancied a greasy breakfast to settle my head and stomach... I didn't say to myself 'I am not hungry but fancy watching an episode of 'Fools and Horses''

You see that laissez faire attitude is costing you dearly in life!

It is a crazy bustling centre comprising of restaurants, gogo bars, beer bars and discos. Very much a nightime place.Soi 6 is more popular in the afternoons and early evenings and comprises of mostly short time places and some good bars and pubs. Visit both....

OP states he does not.Most guys who do this actually do have a home licence, I should not imagine the driving test to be too difficult but some say there is a questions and answers session that can fox you... but they let you have another go.

Welcome back.... the vultures will be circling.

Try Tropical Berts or The Queen Vic... see hotel reviews. Although they may break your 1000 baht limit a little. No pools though. Book ahead if you can. Plenty of action on Soi 6 but close enough to other centres of entertainment. (Walking St, Soi LK Metro etc) Places do not restrict you to their girls. What to pay...haha plenty of threads on that.

Kw are units of power, not energy. The cost is 7 baht/kwh. You said it works out at about which over a month would be equivalent to 150x30=4500baht at 7/kwh or about 640 kwh. That is a lot of energy for an apartment.

Unless the owner is Scottish... then flags become obligatory and all pervasive.You have a point, but bars seem to need to to have a pull and nationalism and spending time with like minded souls from your own country is a common theme. As is English Premier League. It is also decoration that costs little and is easily modified. I have recollections of a beer bar that transormed itself to the inside of a cave, like The Cavern Go-GO , it really cost a lot and didn't work out. Surely a nightmare to clean too. Any suggestions?

I think it is more common in a lot of scenarios.I have many many times, felt that the Thai customers get preferential treatment in restaurants. I even had a case where I remonstrated in Tesco after the assistant seemed to ignore me and serve two Thai ladies who walked up after me (weigh and price tagging). But perhaps there is another thread there.

The few times I have needed to obtain service by Sophon, it has always happened quite efficiently. Of course I get the TGF to call. I doubt they employ both technically and English language proficient people to answer their phones. You can normally manage with English if you go to the office. Are True better in that respect?

I hate to be negative but I do hope these RR engines get a better start than the ones on the A380.

Futureworld.

Easy Rider

What do you mean they have done away with the Pattaya News? After I retuned my TV last week I appear to have all the same channels I used to have.Why do you say poor service to English speaking customers? I appear to have about 16 or 17 English channels, there are only more Thai ones. Sophon costs 3000 baht/year, the satellite much more, and other than access to Prem League I have never seen anything else they offer of interest. Satellite companies also require multiple boxes for multiple TVs. Perhaps the slingbox arrangement with Sky (or wherever) would suit you better, you need a good internet connection, good luck with that!

The Departed.

And the second best sometimes, don't they also play some Fawlty Towers?

I haven't been on one yet. Always book the Biz Class (hey bigbadbaz I never realised Emirates offered a chauffeured car...thought that was just Etihad, is it just ex UK?). I always look for the cheapest of the better airlines which seems to always put me in Etihad or Qatar, Emirates is always 30,000 baht more.... (just too much). Ithink one day I will be on the A380, without planning or extra expense, for now if it gets me there and serves a glass of champers b4 take-off I really do not worry.

Boogie Nights.

Isn't the bar just a double unit?

Matt Dillon

Well there is a bar for sale on the Forum.... both an opportunity and a lesson learned.