Grandpollo

So $200 is worth 20 hours of your time and a sore ass and hassle of three guys in a compact car? Go for it. Even split three ways I have to wonder what taxis will cost for this distance. I bet you'll find like most airlines the fare on the website is $99 each way, so $198 return.

Wow, it is hard to imagine more than that one I was thinking of. TTK and I went in, saw the prices and left on principle. I think a Strongbow, or Magners in a can, not draft was 350 Baht vs. 170 at Queen Vic.

Read a later post today - seems an airline is flying from U-Tapao to Siem Reap which would be tremendously easy with how close that airport is to Pattaya. Even without , a couple hours to Bangkok and a 45 minute flight direct beats 10 hours in a bus.

Do you mean Brannigans or Bennigans, something similar to that? It has to be the most expensive, tourist oriented rip-off imitation pub in the city.

I set up with an alias e-mail which is gone already and a username like Joe Bloggs of 123 Bloggs Lane Bloggstown, USA.

Fly, if your time is worth anything.

I would think the QV would be the perfect place for someone with a long term TGF who naps or watches the soaps in the daytime, so you can go "down for a beer" or "a walk" and be getting a hummer 30 seconds later. Take the same soap and shampoo as in the hotel .

Unfortunately it runs on Second Road and Beach Road during Songkran. Speeds are expect to reach 3 kph.

I downloaded 5 of them and they are overpriced.

There are already people who have had RFID chips implanted and many animals have been for a long time. http://en.wikipedia....implant_(human)

Cheap for Bangkok for sure. I pay anywhere from 2,700 to 4,400 for the same room, same floor , same hotel, different times.

Note you have to do a wire transfer to them first which is not likely to be free. If you live in a bigger city look for a foreign exchange bureau (not the tourist ones, a real one) and see what they charge to do the transfers and their rates. Often very competitive and you can just go in person to attend to them.

Many passports have RFID tags in them now.

And the card is normally on the page where your most recent stamp is so it is easier to find in a busy passport. I doubt they audit the staples and fine serial destaplers. It beats gluing them in like in El Salvador where the tourist card is 3/4 of passport page and useless afterwards, but they will place it in or staple it on asking.

It is beyond the local boundaries but what happens is the rate per km climbs over certain breaks and as it turns out a taxi to Pattaya say 130 Km will be as much or more than Mr. T. and tolls would be on top of that. Over 60 km the rate is 8 1/2 Baht per km vs. only 5 Baht in town. I asked a driver if he'd take me to Ayutthaya and he said sure and gave me the rate card to look at. Not the worst prices when you compare to a 15 km limo trip on zoned fares where I live is 1,500 Baht. Vs. 107 on the rate card for Bangkok. Here is a rate card. It goes up to 1400 km, 875 miles for under $400.

He spilled my soup coming to the table. Never mind, wrong server.

Why would there be restrictions? Your online broker doesn't know nor care where you are connecting from and I assume you'd not be insane to the point of trading via a Thai online broker or trading anything on the SET. The time is the time so that depends on how well you do between 8:30 at night and 3 a.m. for a job. Kind of prime time for the night life but if it's your job, then those are your hours. Other than the DST offset the hours are not going to change. The internet is OK assuming you pay for a decent connection.

It's $9 that people want to jump hoops through to save, and I say forget it.

Depending on what you mean actually very assuming nobody is using a keystroke capturing device (which you can see) or you are on an insecure network and are visiting non SSL site or not using a VPN. Or are dumb enough to use an internet cafe and go to any secure sites you need to keep secure (because they might have hardware or software keyloggers). For my office we use a VPN connection with two factor authentication so the 2nd password is good for one minute and then goes away forever. SSL, AES and similar encryption, WPA PSK wifi protection are for all intents and purposes unbreakable with a proper password.

I haven't had a night alone at all in the last three trips (9 weeks). I have a regular TG who comes from the boonies. I had been telling her when I came was actually two or three days after I actually did so I could tomcat around. Which I did with all-nighters from Soi 6 or FLB. One night was home at 2 a.m. and the two girls left at 5 a.m. so that is sort of all night, maybe not.

My TG has a card that says Major Cinema on it. I presume she earns points and such but when we go and I give it to them the 600 love seat for 2 is 500 so that alone is worth it for the same seat and a small savings. It might be that card, the color is similar. I can look when I am there end of October. Maybe only for the top shelf seats there is a discount? I haven't sat in the lower cost seats since I found these big seats.

Moulee at FLB helped me arrange taking home two FLB girls at the wee hours who were intimidated (one of them) and fascinated (the other) with the idea, so I agree the right one can break the ice. Moulee did not do anything with things like what to pay them.

Good point. The Thai consulate in Toronto does these the same day so other than the money which might be part of it, 60 day double entry or some non hassle O type visa makes more sense than 7 or 15 day extensions, since you can only get one then it is back and forth to the border which cannot in the long run (or the short run) be cheaper than a visa.

Yes. Any Thai Consulate (not embassy but many of them have a consular department inside) in the world. Except in Thailand where there are none.

The A/C must be huge units because at Major for the first show when you go in it is hot and humid then 10 minutes into the pre-movie bumpf you are freezing your balls off. If you want quite an experience try the super-VIP setup at the SFX at Central Festival where you have a lounge and free drinks and snacks an hour before the movie, then your popcorn and drink is brought to your seat, and the seat is a love seat for 2 with electric foot lifts and recline. The theatre has only about 24 seats but is a full size auditorium and screen. Unfortunately I saw "Zookeeper" there with the TG which was pretty stupid. Very expensive, IIRC, it was 1200 Baht for two. Best seats at the Major are the love seats in the very back row, 500 for 2 people if you have the cinema card and you get a blanket. Quite a gropeable environment and they patrol it for non-payers like North Korea border troops.