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Devastating news, I'll miss her.

The "official" Songkran Festival IN PATTAYA runs from 18th to 20th April this year. Dates for other areas of Thailand may differ.

Pete, Your banner for the Mini Micro Party is not linking correctly and comes up with "URL not found on server". The other banners work fine.

Pete, One possible problem or maybe its just my lack of knowledge. I tried to change my profile picture which I uploaded to the new version of the gallery. When I put the url path in my profile, it said I had invalid characters or invalid name. HELP PLEASE

Just a warning!!!!! It can take 10-15 mins but if you are a late riser like I am and you take your passport in the afternoon and not first thing in the morning, it can take 24 hours but don't worry.....Immigration issue you with a special card which temporarily replaces your passport which remains at Immigration. So if you get into bother in that time you are covered.

Sorry Mate, Haven't seen the new strip here yet!!

Boston, I have stayed in Sakonn Nakhon. I was there for 2 nights visiting my TG's family. I am glad you enjoyed it but, I have to say, it wasn't for me!!!! For the first night, we got there too late and were forced to stay in the family house and slept on the fucking floor.....not a good experience. The second day, after a bad nights sleep, I grunted to my gf that we had to stay in a hotel room, there was no way I was staying in the family house for another night! Basically, it is cheap up there and you don't see many Farrangs but I found this gave oppurtunity's to the local Thai's to rip me off. For example, a Tuc-Tuc ride which should have cost me 10 Baht cost me 40 Baht!! If I go again, I will do things very differently!!

I just heard that alledgedly Tony's closed due to a number of customers and staff testing positive for banned substances and that it may not reopen for a while yet. I am not in Pattaya at the moment so I don't even know if it has re-opened yet but I though I would just pass this rumour on. Howard

Thanks for the info Cheshire Tom. Luckily I am coming over on 11th Nov on a single ticket, so hopefully I shouldn't be affected by these changes. Once again, thanks for the info. Howard ps. Does anyone have any comments about the flight itself...is it a good airline to fly with. I am a non-smoker and I have been told that the smoking section is at the back of the plane and is sectioned off so as not to bother the non-smokers on the plane

Hi Guys, I wonder if anyone can tell me what Garuda is like as an airline. Is it a good flight, good entertainment, good food, good seats? I await your comments Thanks Howard