Grandpollo

I have to get lab tests from time to time regardless of where I am so I wrote to PMH since it is aimed at tourists and is located centrally vs. in Naklua. Under the nom de plume of Randolph Scott they told me this. Prices appear OK and turnaround time other than quite advanced Chlamydia tests is an hour if something itches or burns. Hospital labs are to me, better quality than doctor office labs. They will produce results in English and Thai and have translators. The lab is open 24/7 as well. Of course asking for the cost of all these tests means Randolph ain't likely to get a date with Gloria soon. Notes: VDRL is the test for Syphilis. INR and PTT are for blood clotting time. I had a vasectomy so I was curious of the cost of a post-vasectomy sperm test. Free here in Canada, $8.00 in Managua and $20 in Pattaya. You can get a girl to help collect the samples. The last time I told my now ex-GF there had to be three samples in the vial. The lab reported an unusually large amount vs. normal but I didn't show her that part. Dear Mr. Scott, This is the cost of the ff: HIV1/2- 600 Baht VDRL - 160 Baht Gonhorrea - 150 Baht Chlamydia - 500 Baht Chlamydia IgM 800 Baht - Results 5-7 days releasement Chlamydia IgG 1, 100 Baht - Results 5-7 days releasement Sperm Analysis= 600 Baht INR = 450 Baht PTT = 450 Baht Releasement of lab. results above mention is 1 hour. Our Laboratory hours is 24 hours service. Results are written in English also and had a interpretations.You can also welcome to call our Hospital and Schedule for an appointment by phone. Thanks once again. Gloria

Feature song for the evening is Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"

Well, since we're on the subject and since your site doesn't quote costs until Paypal checkout for banks and doesn't work at all for phone credit, how much for Bank transfers? Phone credits of THB200? We know that this other service is $2.67 on 200, what's yours, when it works? As little as THB500 on THB1000 is hefty in $ or %.

Measure twice, cut once, is all I can advise. And if $2 and change will sink the budget ship, that's a pity. I can see value at times to fund a BG or friend's phone, better than not being able to do it at all. And lower than a previously posted service here which wanted quite a bit, IIRC. But I was surprised to find the service providing a link that for AIS puts them out of business at least with me, as there's no point. The whole reason for the post was to provide help to BM's in a similar situation as me. If that is a problem, so be it.

My entire post directs you to the AIS website, how to sign on and add minutes for free (other than the cost of minutes) so yes, I have, and wrote about it to help other people. Well, other than you, I guess. I don't know how US$9.27 is 100% markup on 200B which is US $6.60. 100% of $6.60 is $6.60 so since it is not $13.20 then it is not 100%, n'est ce pas? I don't know what they charge for say 1000B. I suspect the fee is the same regardless of top-up making it decreasingly large as a mark-up, but since , I'll repeat, the point of my post was to tell BM's how to top up AIS directly, it's moot. I have heard that these websites, such as DTAC may insist on a Thai credit card, thus the AIS service (no fee as I posted and will repeat for you again) accepting any card , is quite good. And I am not begrudging this other guy two and a half bucks to do it for me if I had to or for a BG.

So I needed to refill my Thai cell which was expiring end of June whilst ( I found this site that does it for you, albeit at a bit of a surcharge, they do it direct, and you get a SMS that shows the deposit and the new balance and expiry date. I did this end of June and got one month and THB100, to July 30th. They do AIS and DTAC and it's better than nothing: http://thaiprepaidcard.com Here in Canada my AIS 1-2 cell works and I presume other countries so I can do the #121 to see the balance and so on, and receive SMS here as well. Unless you want to send them ID or do some Facebook nonsense you are limited to THB100 for the first 45 days though they dropped that after a month. Once verified you can do 100-1000 at once. I think the fee is the same regardless. You get credited within 4-24 hours , today it was about 2 hours. They have to be awake over there to do the refill, and the time difference here is +11 hours. Depending on when I do this it might take a while. But wait! (As they say on those TV commercials)There's more! They have a blog. And on the blog is a link to AIS.1-2 Call's service, in English no less (press the EN in the grey circle, upper right), called 12Call Online Service. AIS 12Call Online Service is located here: https://12calleservice.ais.co.th/EPPWeb/index.html As long as you can receive SMS on your Thai phone where you are, like I can here, you can use a credit card from your country(using Verified By Visa or MC Secure Verification, so enroll in that) to add to your phone with no surcharge and in seconds. I tried THB100 and got 100 Baht as fast as I could enter it and go 15 more days. Not enough. So I added THB150 and got a month more, not a month from today but a month on top of the 15 days, 47 days total. Then the delayed Thaiprepaid THB200 came through and I got another 30 days. Thus I have gone from July 30 expiry (from the June refill) to October 14th from my 15, 30 , 30 refills today. So I have learned these refills accumulate, apparently to as much as 365 days in total which is better than DTAC who charges you THB2 per 30 days for up to two increases of 180 days each. The trick is to add 150 at a time vs. say 900 at once, each one ratcheting up the expiry by 30 days more. Thanks to the link in their blog this service at least for me, has done them out of any more business since I can now use AIS directly, cheaper and faster. No idea if DTAC offers the same. Here is why you have to receive SMS on your Thai phone where you are. The AIS site doesn't register you etc., like some websites but sends you a SMS with a 4 digit password good for 10 minutes each time you want to use the site. So without the phone, and service, no SMS is possible. No SMS, no login. If you have it and get SMS then it works great. Go to the site, put in your AIS cell and wait for the SMS. Enter the code and you can see your balance, change or add options , see your expiry date and the best part do the refills. I hope this helps BM's with a phone and outside Thailand. For your TG etc., the Thaiprepaid service will add time to any phone so if you have to you can send to someone else's phone. Today THB200 cost US$9.27. The THB part is about US$6.60 so the fee was about $2.67. Not world ending. They must run out to 7-11 every 5 minutes to do this.

Wow that is only three times the size of my bedroom closet. Still barely $16,000 if you can live in 300 square feet (for example, you are a cat) would pay for itself in a couple years of say, RG monthly, albeit wwith them offering a far larger better space. I have spent more on airfare than his budget in 2011.

Another choice thread for pinning. Not this one per se but a price update one so we can be like Secrets or Addicts where every 5th thread is money related or a poll or a poll about budgets. I swear they all must be having to sell blood to get barfine money over there as it is constant down to the half cent.

You're there so go ask them. Take 5 slides with you and if they say yes see how good a job they do. The thing about slides is if you have 100's at some point the scanner is cheaper albeit boring as hell. The US market has shifted to outsourcing them to India where it is a pretty good deal if you've lots to do.

I worked almost every day and downloaded 6 newspapers a day to my iPad at Residence Garden and the signal was never dropped. And they gave me two ID's for the 2 devices. And it is a good hotel. They aren't quite $500 a month cheap but they're cheap enough.

Meet the Fasttrack person, get the CIP card and as you pass regular immigration go there and keep the card. You can use it to leave instead (same card) or later. I arrived on Cathay in J and it wasn't all that busy (leaving it wasn't either) but I used the cards in both directions anyway since every trip they are going to give them out again. If the day came that I was going to fly coach (unlikely) say just between HKG and BKK I could hang onto the cards for later.

The US dollar is a little weak lately. It's not really 9000 to 4 though. Maybe 5000 to 4 when they default in August.

Yup $50 is a deal breaker for many here for sure. There is one service for THB1,250. The 1,600 doesn't include the cart though, that's closer to 2,500. Cathay gives me these CIP passes in both directions, departure via the VIP and diplomat channel in about five minutes.

The fact it's four or five bacon, three eggs, half a plate of hash browns , toast , OJ and coffee for $4.25 CDN ($9,000 US) makes it a good deal tired, old, whatever, and they have enough Thai food and menus in Thai to keep your TG happy.

I prefer to sit in the lounge as there's free food and liquor inside along with the wi-fi.

Forgot - there are 2 TV sets, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. Unless you want to watch Thai soap operas or hopeless variety shows (in Thai) you'll appreciate the TG in the bedroom using the one while you watch something better (note - ANYTHING is better) in the living room.

Got to be honest, I haven't seen a ton of hotels there, but based on the service and offer of the RG, the fact they handle English, the wi-fi, elevator and coffee shop and pools and for $45 with tax, I didn't hesitate to book there and I have booked there for three weeks more at the end of next month. I don't tamper with success. I really don't care about cost once I find good service and quality. The fact the bedroom is separate from the living room was icing on the cake. I found the location away from the noise to be a godsend. And it is 30 cents and 5 minutes by baht bus to all of the action.

When I first read the title of the post I thought they had a visa for people that needed Viagra.

It's free in the Cathay Pacific lounge for sure.

No, he'd have tpyerd Beer and fuckshitbastardfuckshitcuntcrapass dancing.

Please check your keyboard as the space bar is not working right and the return key, too much. To search you type what you want to search up to the right there where it says search. No credit card at all and you've never made a hotel reservation in the past many years? Most hotels hold reservations to a certain hour then can release the room for no-shows and the reason for a deposit is they charge the card/use the deposit and you have rented the room whether you show up or not. There is no hard an fast rule to not stay in a hotel that wants a deposit - with a credit card they don't normally charge the deposit they charge the card when you haven't shown up by checkout the next day. I have refused to pay a deposit in Pattaya at the Queen Vic because instead of one night for THB2,000 they wanted THB10,000 or five nights in advance. But when I travel (which is a lot) I always guarantee the room for late arrival with a credit card, that's how it works. Prepaying ONE night with Paypal or a credit card is not putting you in the poorhouse is it? $40? You can stay at the RG for THB1,450 all in, tell them you're arriving late and they don't ask for a deposit nor a credit card. You cannot pay with a debit card there (or anywhere I bet) so I presume you plan to use it to obtain cash to pay. I would not travel to the other side of the world with ONE debit card as my sole means of support if that's your plan. My last trip I had two debit cards, two credit cards (only one was used to pay the RG bill and my hotels in Bangkok and Hong Kong) $5,000 in traveller's cheques I didn't end up cashing and $1,000 each in US and Canadian cash, which I didn't change to Baht either. I used the two bank cards AFTER letting both banks know I was going to use them in Thailand and Hong Kong. Credit card, too. Regardless of where you stay you won't be asked to pay for all the days in advance. If someone wants that, tell them to screw themselves. But you are getting near high season so you may have fewer options when you decide not to stay but I am sure you'll find something before you give up the room. I'd recommend the RG solving the credit card issue and the general quality issue as it is first rate. You didn't say your budget - if you are trying to do the $20 a night rate then good luck. The baht bus deals with your knee issue.

CCU means Cardiac Care Unit. Not a different level of an ICU vs. a different type of ICU for cardiac patients, and some not all that intensive care actually, like after an angioplasty. Since he was a trauma patient ICU is where he'd go.

I could never understand the appeal of fake crap, since if you can afford it then buy the real thing. If you can't you friends know it so you look like a poseur with obvious fake crap. And most of it is crap quality as well so you get mediocre wear and tear. So less crap for sale is a good thing.

None to Bkk mind you.

Handy for hit and run or bank robberies as the witnesses on either side of the street will describe it differently .