Grandpollo

New in town or right off the turnip wagon it should take some doing to part with $1,600 US to a doofus that looks like this guy regardless of reason. Tell them to call their consulate if they are so desperate. Or family. Would people in their home town - London, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles pony up all this dough to this guy with no bona fides? If not why would they suddenly do it in Pattaya? I smell some kind of for profit deal that went sour here. The posting just rehashes what was posted in 2012 and I'd hope most people would not need a lot of teaching to the tune of the money involved. With or without the picture I am comfortable this dude would have earned nil from me.

The original post would be clearer were the hotel in question mentioned. Generally nobody sane pays in advance unless there is a huge discount. BKK hotels offer great deals pay in advance, through Asiatravel etc., if you are sure you can go (e.g. the day before is when you reserve or the same day) you can save 30-40%. I have a prepaid room next week in BKK for THB2,700/night that would be THB3,800 postpaid. For 9 days that's a good dinner. Walking down Soi 2 from Sabai Dee to Beach Rd. there is a large hotel under construction.

I think this is the guy - a bad , in fact Super bad, guy I would suggest to others the pattern of lend him some then lend again and lend again is just three times more ridiculous than lending once. To someone you do not even know. If this is not a total wind up with the aim to slag this guy who may have done nothing.

What is the norm, though hardly cast in stone is mb is megabits. MB is megabytes. kb is kilobits, KB is kilobytes. Baud used to be a proxy for bits per second but not realy, and a 56K baud modem was quite the device at one time, Today that is internet at .056 mb/sec, pretty pokey. Japan and Korea allegedly have near 100 mb/sec internet via fibre as quite typical. Most in home LAN/ethernet networks are 100mb/sec so that would be internet as fast as a home network.

Up to is how they love to specify speed as that can also mean "not 10". Also data speeds are quoted in mb/s not MB/sec (megabits are 1/8 the volume of megabytes, or MB) I tested with Apple this morning, who have big files and good servers and downloaded at 400 KB/sec (kilobytes) which is the same as 3,200 kilobits (kb) per second making it 3.2 mb/sec downloads which is not bad for here. It also works fine with Torbrowser for those of you pornophiles, you can see Xhamster and the like and if you add in downloadhelper into the Tor browser you can download videos without the risk of using flash player which would reveal your actual IP address. It is certainly faster and more consistently so than the RG network.

Using Google, which you can do in Windows 8 you get this: http://www.howto-connect.com/resize-images-in-windows-8-and-rt/

The 3BB site has a map with so many hotspots marked you cannot see the streets so there must be a lot. I have no idea why there are 4 coming from Family Mart alone. After 24 hours you are logged out but the minute you select the site or pick that hotspot again your web browser logs you back in again. That happened this morning.

I am in town at the RG who had a mishap with internet on Saturday, where nobody could connect (now working). There are a lot of SSID (wi-fi access points) visible, many are 3BB and I think are all hosted at the Family Mart. Anyway to see how to hook up to a 3BB site I found their guide and the basic cost is 99 baht for unlimited service per month. Not 99 per day for a month, but 99B for the whole month - basically 3.3 Baht/day. You send a SMS to 4825358 with the only message the letter A. This seems to not matter if you are AIS or DTAC as this 3BB looks like some joint initiative. They reply with a username and password good for a month. And charge 99B to your phone. There are 3BB hotspots all over Pattaya so with an iPhone or Galaxy (e.g. something you may cart around with you) this adds a fair amount of connectivity at a cost of basically dick-all. If you can see any access point that says 3BB something or APS something then you can switch your computer or phone to that access point, see if there is a good signal and if so, send the SMS and get your wi-fi fix for 30 days. If you lived close enough to one it would be cheaper than paying for wi-fi in your own house. Speeds are good (as good as RG has been). Here are the instructions for the umpteen ways to get an ID. If you are AIS customer they will do a recurring deal for 25B a week vs. the whole, huge 99B at once. But I have no idea how you'd stop that. There are also prepaid cards with limited time per card but they are close in price to this monthly thing I wouldn't bother. 3BB WiFi - Packages and Promotions.pdf

Since JAL is not CX and this is about CX I think you have nailed the issue. Lots of airline don't which shows they are cheap pricks. Even ex Hong Kong or Tokyo J or F to Bangkok is not all that cheap so where an airline can't stump up for a pass each way, good time to find another airline. I hear KLM does not either.

If you are sitting in the J or F cabin regardless of how you got there they give the pass with the immigration paper.

And it has not been asked but the upper tier MP members including Gold or Diamond, who are not in First or Business do not get them. They will be handed out without asking with the Thailand entry card if you're in J (or that one flight a day with F). When you leave you also get one for departure security. I would not bet the farm on showing a boarding pass to the CIP people for this benefit. CX is a small player at BKK and they buy the passes and stamp them. They are not special Cathay documents.

If you can get a subtitled version Bangkok King Fu is great. I saw it at the major.

It is pretty sterile. 700 plus a tip, the girl is normally not nude or even topless, though you can ask them, maybe or maybe not with that, then you sit in a nice chair, drop trou, she uses the wet wipes and away she goes. There is a bed, not for FS, the girl told me it is for those so fat that a chair doesn't reveal enough sausage and beans. There's not much to it although they work until you go, even if it takes an hour. Frankly for another 300 plus tip, e.g. ten bucks more, a full service romp at MFY is a lot more entertainment for not a lot more money. It is certainly more private than Pump Station.

One of the oddest board technical questions posed in a while.

Yes the little spot and the little star to go to the last post in a thread you've replied to are gone like geese today.

If it truly is 7 hours door to door and leaves on time by the time you go to the airport, allow time to check in and so on plus the flight itself you have to use up 3 hours of that, I suppose if you have a good read and it's a big seat it would be a low cost and not that much worse alternative. And you save considerably I would think - a ticket must be $100 or more one way.

There's always a reference to a non oft-used version of words then there's the word that someone would use to search for bazaar which ain't bazar. And there's the fact there is nothing on the site which makes it less than a great resource anyway.

There are many of the chocolate bar style video cameras (like to Kodak Zi-8 - look it up) for so little rental would be pretty unlikely. They are all either 720p or 1080p HD as well and in the case of my Kodak it works under water also. Most even basic point and shoot cameras do video capably also. I am sure at Tukcom there must be loads fairly priced.

I dearly hope nobody here uses anything like Dettol or worse, Vicks on their anus. These boards are full of all sorts of prescription remedies that are risky or innefective (Addicts is the world champion) but putting such caustic substances there, wow , good luck. 2 corrections: The rectum and the anus are not the same. Mucus has a "c".

You might want to look for the domain name Thaibazaar.com if you can since Bazaar is not spelled Bazar.

Actually, you don't for 90 days supply TO the US. That's allowed as long as they are not controlled substances. And the FDA would have nothing to do with a non US pharmacy mailing things to the US within this permitted limit hence how the Canadian online pharmacies work. They don't mail anything to people in Canada.

If you look at the way these things operate the air form the pump blows across the humidifier pot and then up the hose to your nose. So minerals will accumulate in the pot and in the hose (doubtful if much) so I would not worry about non-distilled but for sure not bacterial soup at a nice incubation temperature. So RO water, actual distilled (I have never used that in several years due to the cost vs. value) or any bottled water (most of which is purified with RO anyway) will all do the trick. The dry nose syndrome is awful with no humidity especially used in a room with air con or in the winter with super dry air. It's one reason I never use on a plane as they will not allow the humidifier component.

I have stayed there 4 times from early 2011 to last November. There were 4 lanes there then, so I guess the last stays might have been some time ago. Same with construction out back, there's none, though in April the rearranging the Captain's Corner was noisy. All done when I was there November. The building next door has been there at least two years as well, and next to it is the dirt cheap Mr. Macs. It looks cheap. I can walk to Walking Street in less than 15 minutes. All downhill and when the traffic is bad, probably faster than a Baht bus. All depends on your desire to walk, really. Even in the living room noise is not an issue but the bedroom is facing the back walkway anyway so you can't hear anything. Out behind the hotel is a slummy sort of local housing area and not noisy at all.

Pharmacies usually sell it. Any reverse osmosis purified water (a lot of the street purifiers are these) will have removed pretty much everything but the H2 and the O anyway so it is very close. That's how osmosis works. I use a CPAP and I just use tap water. I have a couple extra tanks for it but I am still on the first one after more than 2 years. There is not much residue. You could use bottled drinking water just not Pattaya tap water as you'll breathe in slightly warmed bacteria, not wise. Do not use a CPAP without the humidifier as it dries out your sinuses something awful. Then you get the runny nose and the works and it is shitty. The plastic/metal tanks are not a lot of money, and that's all that gets some mineral buildup. The air comes up the tube after the humidifier and the water thus is not getting in the air pump etc.

I have visited a few Boots and they seem to be 98% makeup and shampoo and stuff for ladies and babies, 1% stuff for guys and 1% pharmaceuticals, so the problem might not be legitimacy but availability. I lean toward ex-pat/tourist focused hospital pharmacies in developing countries if the meds are life sustaining. At times more money but if they are accredited they are not going to be substituting copies (by that I do not mean generic, I mean copies of generic). I have heard the RX near Tim's is OK and high volume, and I have shopped at Ruamya which is across from the CK Hotel on second road heading towards Jomtien and maybe 100 metres before the road curves toward the overpass/Jomtien. I have chatted with the two pharmacists there and both seem to actually have gone to university and one even asked why I needed something which is not common. http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?xttRUxLokckCADAA Also heard good things about Fascinos and big pharmacies with lots of clients will make money without tomfoolery and will also rotate the stock fast enough.