whilliam_mancon

Thai resently changed their "Flight mile" service. Now you can decide on a ticket, use your "flight miles" as payment and "bye# the rest of the missing miles or you can use your colected miles to upgrade your ticket, for hotel nights etc. All card members should get a little booklet helping figuring out how to use the "free miles", together with the "free miles" statement.

Superb!

I just have to fall in to line with the previous boardmembers praise for 3some! I lived there for some time and the place is a great place to stay, on a good location and with a great staff. Dan can pretty much help you out with everything and he is a great guy to have a drink with as well or just talk football or music with, and Faah that runs the bar is a great lady with a big helpful heart.

Only got 119, damn I must start taking golf lessons!

I get stuck on 319 and the little fucker won´t slide further, is there any way to wax him?

I second all the abowe in that order as well as the italian Restaurant & bar 50 meters on the same side of walking street after FLB. There are also one great Italian Restaurant & bar on Sukhumvit with great coffe. You cross Sukhumvit from Nana, turn left going down on the uneven side and it is in the second or third block.

I just love it, superb! You see this happend a lot all over Asia, were the wearer of the T-shirt obviously have no idea what the text mean, but for me it´s just as funny every time! I suppose I´m just a kid at heart!

Funny and all so true, thanks!

Thanks for a great party Adam, may your next year be the best ever. Whilliam.

I agree with you Sean, the one in red is a stunner for sure!

Oh so true!

I have had the misfortune of not getting my luggage one time at Survarnabhumi airport, flying with Thai air from London to Bangkok. After waiting for my luggage for about 45 minutes I walked over to the Lost luggage counter with only my hand luggage, it was more like a kind of office with desks for each Thai-air personal behind a wall in the main hall. After filling out my "lost form", leaving my phone number and address to my hotel, I could leave, after they gave me a phone number and a contact person. I went to my hotel to check in, went out and had a massage, shower, shave and a haircut and went to get something to eat. After coming back to the hotel I phoned my contact person who told me that they still had not found my lost bags! (about 5-6 hours after arrival). I then went out and bought some clothes, shoes, underwear and toiletries. The next day, about 27 hours late, they called me and told me that they found my luggage and it was delivered to my hotel in Bangkok in another 2 hours. Since I had payed the ticket with my American Express their built in travel insurance took care of all the expenses, this is basically the same deal you have on all major cards, like Diners Club, Visa, Euro-card and so on. If not, you have to deal with your insurance company, (and hopefully you had travel insurance included in that), and then it is very important that you list EVERYTHING that was in your bag/bags, (if they don´t turn up), as well as that you KEEP ALL YOU RECEIPTS of purchase for future insurance claims. This is of everything you have to pay extra for or that you have to purchase because of the lost luggage. To my experience the the major airlines do what they can to assist a passenger whose baggage has not arrived?

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Canadian banks do look very good at the moment and some of them do have offices in Jersey and Isle of man...............!

Thanks for the great pics, Adam, great as always and made my day!

No wonders that people go "postal". Whilliam

I came across this info at another board today. It´s interesting how the Thai government always seems to want to make it more difficult for us farrang to live, work or stay longer periods of time in Thailand although they love the money we spent. BANGKOK: -- From February 15, 2009 all Thai Immigration offices has been strictly instructed that foreigners have to use the Immigration office that has administrative jurisdiction over the area where they live. All visa changes, extensions, re-entry permits and other immigration requests are to be handled by the immigration offices in the districts in which the foreigners reside. Immigration offices at international airports can handle such issues only in emergencies ('illness' is given as an example). See the attached PDF file (below) for all the 63 Immigration offices in Thailand, and explains which Immigration office you should use from February 15. For example, Kanchanaburi handle immigration duties for all of the province except for Sangkhlaburi District (which are handled, it says, by a separate Sangkhlaburi immigration office). Kanchanburi also handles immigration duties for Ratchaburi and Suphanburi provinces. Another example: Nong Khai handles immigration for most of Nong Khai province (except for Lao-bordering districts outside Nong Khai District, to be handled by Beung Kan immigration), plus Udon Thani and Khon Kaen. The big news is that Korat Immigration will only serve foreigners living in Korat province from Feb 15th. This is an order from the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok. So, people from Khon Kaen will have to go to Nong Khai. Foreigners from example Lopburi, Nong Khai or Chaiyaphum will not be accepted in Korat, not even for a re-entry permit. More confusing is that the list says that foreigners in Korat shall submit their applications to Kap Choeng Immigration in Surin province from February 15, 2009. Foreigners living in Phatum Thani Province, Nonthaburi Province, Chainat Province, Lopburi Province, Saraburi province, Singburi province, Ayutthaya Province and Angtong province can visit either Ayutthaya Immigration, Chonburi Immigration or Nakhon Pathom Immigration offices. It's not clear if this affects the One-Stop Visa & Work Permit Center, as previously those eligible for One-Stop services could use them no matter where in the kingdom they resided. One-Stop isn't mentioned, though presumably it's under jurisidiction 1, Metropolitan Bangkok Immigration Inspection Wing. The information provided above has been verified with the Immigration Bureau. Whilliam

Good idea, and it seems to be working out! You got some lovely ladies there! Whilliam

Frosty hit the problem spot on the head, it´s all about too many Indians that in past time have had problems to pay what they previously had agreed too. Whilliam

Another one bites the dust, welcome to the board, Pattaya and LOS, Black Stallion. I would not say that you would have a load of problems, but I´m pretty sure that you will encounter some. The sad truth of the matter is as Arno so well pointed out "that Thailand is much more openly racist than the West and status there depends much on skin colour. There is clearly a sizable proportion of girls who will not go with a black guy no matter how much money he is prepared to pay". I am not sure that this always is a question of skin colour in it self although, but more often a matter of where the girls think you come from! I have quite a few friends in LOS who are black and they have all told me that even if they meet some negativity and some times even hostility, most of it is solved when the girls realize that they come from the US or England. Arabs are not that popular and neither are Africans and it seems that a lot of this hostility/negativity is about misunderstandings about nationality, (a lot of girls think Indians and Africans to be cheap and Arabs to be ill behaved and violent). Still you will encounter some racism (even if it might not be obvious to you every time), and as friendlyric6411 wrote you will be called chocolate man at some places. I have even heard some BG:s refere to black men as "Nigger", and when I told them that that was highly improper they looked at me with innocent eyes and said that this was one standard name in Thai slang, if it is true I don´t know! When it comes down to hard facts it´s as bigorange1 points out, "in many ways Pattaya is like any other place in the world, TREAT THE WOMAN WITH RESPECT AND THEY WILL TREAT YOU THE SAME WAY, sometimes bar girls will not go with me and i cannot understand that as i am a hansom man! Just be your self and you will become, a Pattaya addict". You do not have to worry although, because you will find that there are plenty of lovely ladies that will want to make your acquaintance and after all, the main interest they all have is how big is your wallet! I think that mykl wraps it all up in a perfect way when he writes, "You will have a great time. You may find the occasional individual asshole, but I don't think there is a single establishment where you will be judged on anything but your actions and behavior. You won't have any trouble finding ladies that are quite willing to go with "chocolate man", that won't even be an issue. Money is number one, if you've got that covered, you're in. You are about to become addicted". So B.S. Welcome to paradise! Whilliam

It looks like a good bargain. Thanks for the info. Whilliam

I sure want the sisters and the one in white, Grrrrrr! Whilliam

Thank you for interesting info! Whilliam

All places that serve "special or fetish interests" are always more expensive than the normal bars around and that is a fact all around the world. One can have different opinions about this but the fact is that the groups of people that they have as guests are obviously willing to pay the price for getting their needs satisfied. That means as always that is all comes down to "up to you", so why cry about it? Whilliam