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Displayed prices are for multiple nights. Check the site for price per night. I see hostels starting at 200b/day and hotels from 500b/day on agoda.

jacko

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  1. I had an afterthought. What if you had been travelling and expecting to arrive in Thailand on the last, or penultimate day of a Visa. Worst case, say a Non-Imm OA, you would have been expecting to get stamped in for a year, and ended up with a 30 day Visa waiver entry! What a mess that could make of people's plans.
  2. It's a sad summation of the way the country has gone, but far better service and organisation at the Thailand end! Didn't get on a single flight on time within the UK last year!
  3. Should get something back from that £13 billion!
  4. Usually you get nice little individual salt and pepper shakers to put on the foie gras!
  5. Sounds like really shitty, Ryan Air type treatment by EVA Sam, hit them with every charge for comp the EU stipulates! After the holiday!
  6. Yes, I believe Emirates are beginning to 'cash in'.... they have built up a good reputation and probably a monstrous debt base and here are the results. I was a frequent Biz Class passenger between Bangkok and Manchester. Last year out of my price range.
  7. Again last night on Beach Rd near soi 7, before the PT Crawl when I lost my ability to work my phone!
  8. Sure, very relevant. My Mrs goes to her home village a lot and switched to the network that had better coverage for data there, from the one that used to have best telephone network coverage.
  9. I haven't researched it, but generally USA phone plans are very expensive and poor compared to what is offered in say the UK. They often tie you in to rather domineering contracts too, along with companies that deliberately restrict the phone's capabilities. (I can get a plan in the UK offering 5000 minute, 5000 texts and a huge 20GB of data at under $25/month, and this will work all over the EU) But you do offer a fair deal for USA guys travelling here.
  10. Yes, if you do not have a bank account in Thailand you could get by without. But how about getting on-line with your phone. Data requires a network number, even Wi-Fi available in Malls often originates from the networks provided free to their customers. Free Wi-Fi is usually crap. There will be a lot of freeloaders on a free WI-Fi, or even managing to get onto a business network. If one Thai knows the password, all her friends will too. As I learned on Soi Chaiyapoon recently. All the girls were on the restaurant opposite's Wi-Fi!
  11. There is also another post saying the place is up for sale.
  12. How did someone get a message to you? I noticed the site was down early this morning, and have been checking back throughout the day. (Actually thinking it was a biggie as the down-time got longer). I realized I didn't have a way of getting a message to you. Perhaps you could give a few of us Mods your phone number or some way of contacting you for the future?
  13. Last night at the TT on Beach Rd near Soi 7.
  14. People who live out here, and go back to UK for Xmas, say the aches start when they get off the plane!
  15. I bought one of those face masks and am wearing it when on the bike heading into town lately. But last week, one evening at rush hour (6pm), I was sat at a small eating place on the junction of Hwy 36 and Sukhumvit and probably breathed in more bad stuff than I had all week. You could very much see it in the air in the usual Thai driving confusion at modern style junctions , coaches in and out of town mixed with double trailer trucks heading between Laem Chabang and Rayong. This place is in for a lot of health issues relating to polluted air! I live out of town but the proximity of Hwy 36 and Sukhumvit is doing me no favours.
  16. Well Utd got the result at Wembley , I am sure that pleased you.
  17. Friday afternoon. 11 Jan2019.
  18. One works in Little India, The Fisherman Cafe out by the lake has one or maybe two. Almost certainly a member of the owner's family.
  19. Your report reminds me of a line I have used on some very odd occasions, when meeting the same results. 'Excuse me, do you have a menu? You appear to have given me a list of things you don't have!' Of course I usually get the Thai waitress gormless look back, but have a little giggle to myself. (I am a sarcastic sod!) Thanks again.
  20. So this large place is in the Avenue? It is enclosed and has AC?
  21. Qatar were using UTP onto Doha with a stop in Rangoon, but that seems to have been dropped. Can't recall it's demise being mentioned anywhere. More suitable for me as I want to avoid LHR and go straight into Manchester, so a Middle East or other stopover is obligated. Actually the main Bangkok airport is as easy, as I live near to the motorway entrance on the North of Pattaya.
  22. Well the text alone is there at the bottom for me..... Why can't I drop a screenshot in here?????
  23. Maybe you are on a phone, I am on a laptop?
  24. Patrick Macnee.
  25. The text Displayed prices are for multiple nights. Check the site for price per night. I see hostels starting at 200b/day and hotels from 500b/day on agoda. Is unnecessarily at the bottom of the page as well as the top.
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