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Richard Gere

Well the reality is it might not be the same service... Also I pay more than 20% up to go to the airport as my place is hard to find and I want someone who knows where it is. Anyhow dontcha, aren't you a Bell bus type of guy!

First option is the one I normally use.... shorter and I don't like the Bangkok traffic.You have to go over the hills after Kabinburi, not a rainy weather scenario and the police are there to give you a ticket for passing a truck doing 3kph up the hill.. You could also cut the 36/Sukhumvit corner by going down soi siam country club, around the lake and over 36 on 3240 to 331.

I bet it depends on who you talk to and what day of the week it is.Interesting about the jet-ski, as a lawyer was citing this at the Expats club recently. A farang was being squeezed for 'compensation' to a jetski his child rented and crashed into a boat, and compensation for the boat damage too. The lawyer claimed there was no liability on the childs part as he was too young to operate the jet ski, and the owner was liable for illegally letting the kid use it. .

As opposed to unofficially dead?

Originally you were discussing someone buying a condo...... Yes, likely someone selling one, that he bought at 75 baht/£, could come out better off now selling it at 48 baht/£... presuming he can externalise the money...and wants to, as he lives in the UK (PS he might be liable to capital gains tax then!) . Even in the quoted response you claim his condo has gone from a value of 3 mill to 4 million, but then say prices are down 30% . I agree prices are down in the market... could be a good time to buy... for an Australian. I agree the baht has appreciated about 31% in £ terms in the last 5 years..(70 to 48) The reality is those 5 million baht condos that used to be around 3-4 years ago look pretty damned expensive these days.. even to the guy who bought one

Louis Gossett

Well we used to make jet engines.......

You need to explain this better.... I am unable to grasp what the exchange rate £/baht has got to do with the price of a Pattaya condo (which are always priced in baht). Suredly condos now appear more expensive to British people! The condos are not purely built for a British market...... agreed that the baht's strength will likely have slowed the market down and sellers are reducing baht prices to move them.... But someone whose worth is based in £ sterling will find them more expensive now.....or do you believe prices in baht terms have fallen over 30% ie more than the £/baht fall?

No probs.... I am definitely not a morning person.UTP offers little in terms of available flights. Fine if you must go Bangkok Airways to Samui or Phuket. Since the new bypass from the end of the motorway to Sukhumvit opened it is very easy to use the main airport. There are plans to expand UTP and I believe a flight to Laos will operate soon, but there are also plans to expand Swampy further. My point to the OP is that you do not have to traverse Bangkok to get to the airport from Pattaya...... it is superbly catered for by the motorway (Rt7) on one side, and Rt 3 on the other side.

Spencer Tracy

Hmmm, if they get to him you are correct.

Well they moved the main Bangkok airport late 2006...you didn't know that? What a crock, some-times of day it would take you 40 minutes to get from Walking street to Sukhumvit! And look up the word Klang if you are unsure where central Pattaya is. From Sukhumvit to swampy airport...0 traffic lights, three lane motorway and a bypass. Two hours would be a slow journey. U-Tapao you have to go through Jomtiem, Na Jomtiem and Sattahip, 40 minutes, if you find the place, would not be much less. The guy specifically asked not to go via Manila so I am unsure why you are picking an argument with me.

The Iron Petticoat

And all the news report will vanish.........

The new airport is on the Pattaya side of Bangkok and you can get there in under 2 hours. U-Tapao isn't much less. So Cebu straight to Clark looks good. Although arrivel time at 4am isn't great.

Good point...

My Favourite Spy

He got banned, reborn, sent to purgatory and off to China he went too. My how time flies.

Once I open a pack of roasted beans I keep them in an airtight container with one of those spring loaded tops that really holds the aroma in. I only put into the grinder hopper what I need just before making my morning double...... Yes I have one of those Saeco machines that does it all automatically, sadly it has spoiled me for having coffee elsewhere! I often have one of the massage girls make me a cup of cheap instant, made with tepid water from one of those pump dispenders with little lumps of 'creamer' powder floating around like life jackets in a whirlpool... it reminds me how bad it can get! Then I go get a massage to take the memory away!

I am beginning to think that there is no longer any such thing as cheap seafood in the tourist areas..... It has come a long way since I had a large lobster, beers and other plates for $20 in Phukhet.(circa 1982). Even the little place I frequent on Sukhumvit, popular with the Thais heading home to Bangkok, has silly prices..... never used to see plates of food for 150-400 baht, per plate. I once had bbq shrimp on the beach in Prachup Khiri Khan along with mussels and rice, and I am beginning to think that was the last cheap meal. I know, I know, it would be a lot more at 'The Harbor' restaurant on the water in San Francisco, but we are talking Pattaya.

Samson and Delilah

A bit of a contradiction economically looking for draft beer and then hoping for imported stuff.

Coffee shops everywhere, damned place is looking more like NYC every day. They'll be cleaning your window with a dirty rag soon instead of trying to sell you a garland!

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