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Switching my mind back all those long years before I had transport I'd say get up to Sukhumvit then get a white baht bus to Theprassit and walk down to the market (it starts about 100meters or so off Suk Repeat in reverse to return or avail yourself of a baht bus heading back towards Thappraya (they're usually prowling at the far end of the market hunting Ruskies).

The best possible tack is to have the sender send you a scan of the form they filled out, then a) yours can mirror image the details & b) in the unlikely (but very Thai-possible) event of plomplem the scan will placate one and all. Don't though pick up WU forms to fill in and subsequently present them at a different WU 'office' ("Not Same" - which I think translates into not a ref# allocated to them at that office)

Your first and last ones resonated with me The motorbike thing, avail yourself of a few cheapo Chinese padlocks as attitude adjusters. They fucked you about let them enjoy the reciprocation with a lock through their disk brake And the signs , overshadowed by those blasted rain awnings at provincial markets hurriedly set up at throat height...bastards!

People who continue in using them deserve all they get

Qatar also I understand allows seat selection at time of booking for free They are actually in my sights for future as after years of Gold Card with Etihad I am getting royally pissed off with them to the point of walking away despite Gold Membership. You need to check your luggage allowance every time you book (they change it so often) The last reshuffle took me from 92kgs (2 x 30kgs + 32kgs Gold bonus) in normal economy to the current 45kgs (1 x 30kgs + 15kgs Gold bonus) And like the fish stock in a fishing park, you must keep looking for the latest 'hook': be it fees to choose seats, bidding for empty adjoining seats, or now even enduring reduced meal sizes in their endeavour to starve you into buying from the new 'EasyJet' style snack trollies! They've even now relinquished their rather prestigious drop off level check-in counters and customer service office at Manchester (now taken by Emirates as I recall) After having sold off their Lounge at Manchester a good while back. It was a delightful 'bijou' affair complete with 'a la carte' meals cooked to order. You now are given access to the new owners' ensemble (now a pay per visit lounge).... Which you could be forgiven for thinking that you'd turned up late to a council estate wedding !!

Leasing has put UK car ownership on its head Any gobshite can now smoke around in a brand newie, who previously could never aspire to own one. Merrily paying a few measly quid a month - drip feeding the depreciation (& the lessor's humble fees)

Tastes like (fishy) chicken

Yup Too many hippies Too little stick time .

Saw on Line, I know this guy from decades ago when he ran a beach road bar. He is English speaking and all round goodguy

"Meeting Point" near entrance 3 (Out of customs turn right, past the gaggle of limo drivers and onwards 20/30 meters (There's a smallish sign if you look upwards and down the walkway)

DTAC Happy USSD Codes: Check your remaining balance – Press: *101*9# or *101# Check your Internet credit – Press: *101*4*9# Check your SMS credit – Press: *101*2*9# Check your Happy for free credit – Press: *101*5*9# Find out your phone number – Press: *102*9# Check your Promotion – Press: *103*9# – Switch plans IVR: Press *1003 press 9. But you;ll need to be in Thailand I suspect for the codes to work

May have changed since my one and only time there But why I never returned: way overpriced whacked out guns nasty home brewed ammo overbearing limitations on usage dangerous and stupid range staff (you trombone a 12g pump BEHIND me as I'm at the firing booth, be thankful I'm empty Somchai)

Look to DeeMoney That would serve your purpose

Yes , like flag following Chinese tourists they all want to march in cadence following the same downward path to (SL)EASYJET emulation

^^^^ This Plus its the reason God gave us dual SIM phones, so as to have 'home' and 'away' SIMs always on so no loss of banking notices O.T.P's etc

That's NOT the Visa, its the Departure Card portion of the TM6 you filled in and presented when you arrived. Visas are stuck or stamped into the pages of your passport

?? It's a bit more than a trifling 'fiddle' What happens is any time a low-value sale is done the pump is left running at say 50 baht, if the next punter is a 'fill her up' then he starts dry at 50 baht already showing on the pump. The surplus cash is syphoned off by the forecourt workers day in day out, it was I think 20+ years ago when I was first warned about them. Got to have added up to a fine old lump of cash by now Same scam used to happen in the UK back when youngsters pumped the fuel for you, worst that would happen back then was after a succession of complaints from the public someone from government 'weights and measures' would pitch up and test they were dispensing a true gallon, which of course the pumps always did.

Thai 'management' seems in my experience to have a unique slant on this When I confronted the manager of a well known near Jomtien supermarket about a particular cashier who it seemed always dipped a 100 out of the change from a 1000 This she did in the blatant knowledge that we both knew she was doing it and that she would always be challenged and she always rectified it with a nonchalant shrug. The manager was very 'head-scratchy' and mai kow jai, about it saying 'it is impossible for her to steal from me (as in him the manager)' he just refused to acknowledge that she routinely steals from his customers.

TBH You only have to understand what gets these people the ratings they so crave. And it isn't achieved by following the lifestyle of Gerald and Daphne who resettled in Thailand to make a small living, breeding budgerigars and helping local orphans Its achieved by salaciousness and quasi-titillation. The barometer would be how many Johnny Wagepakets slurp their elevenses while exclaiming 'Did you see that cooont on telly last night pissed as a fart 24/7 with his twelve-year-old Thai wife...the barstard. Get on it next week more brasses than a Cleckheaton Shire horse convention"

Exactomundo If the relevant embassies are throwing their hands in the air at their inability to verify, how do you expect immigration to bottom it out? Its akin to the revolving door of "everyone must have insurance" who in this instance will have the expertise to qualify who has qualifying insurance? A Swampy brown shirt with his rubber stamp and more medals than Idi Amin? That would be interesting

Well those Beebsters in the corridors of power at Broadcasting House will still be too busy bumping into things with their eyes being so tightly shut (lest they see any in-house paedos)

http://www.invadeit.co.th/ Worth a look too

£186 for a single trip!!! Whats your pre existing condition? Ebola? That Year policy of mine was only £102GBP + £18GBP for the pre existings

NEVER keep the serious money in an account with a card associated Thai accounts, open two online accounts, one with plastic the other none The non-plastic account harbours the cash & little stays in the card bearing account. Need a lump of cash flip out the mobile transfer the required to the 'ATM' account, step forward to the machine and withdraw it Hard for some bank employed 'Dick Turpin' to bullshit away a spurious withdrawal when it needs a personal appearance with book and passport to acheive