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For the roundabout it's a nice touch. Hilarious they can't get the orientation of the compass points correct. My guess is some duffass figured since Beach Rd generally runs north and south and is parallel to the beach, then the Waterfront beach must be the same.

The Silver Lake/Buddha Mountain area is a great ride. A bit shorter, but still a nice ride is around Mabprachan Lake. There's a group of us that ride on Mondays (road biking), and Fridays (mtn biking). The rides are easy and at a comfortable pace. Check out our group's FB page (link) for meet time, location and pictures. "The journey, not the destination that matters" Safe riding.

I see in a prior post it was mentioned that you can save a bit on the room rate as well as giving the board a commission. Having just booked a room using the Agoda link I can give everyone a good example of the savings. The booking was for: Before clicking on the Agoda link: After: Savings much appreciated as I was booking five rooms for our group.

I agree. For a movie with a reported $100 million budget, thought they did a piss poor job editing out anachronisms. The director also did a poor job of emphasizing the scale of the evacuation. Instead of the 300,000+ needing to be evacuated, the most we see are a few hundred queuing on the beach. The movie even managed to make air to air combat scenes boring. I also found the non-linear story line to be extremely distracting. Finally gave up on the movie about an hour into it.

For lap swimming I use the Father Ray Foundation pool. 25m pool, cost is 60B/day. See this post for more info http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/topic/49452-swimming-pool-info/?p=1143368

Having a driver arrive early is a big plus in my mind as it eliminates the anxiety of a late or no-show driver that puts my arrival at the airport on time at risk. The drivers I've had have no problem when I come out, tell them thanks for arriving early, but I sill have to finish packing.

Good to know. Thanks.

I thought there was only one arrivals Premium Lane, the one identified on the back of the Fast Track Pass. Where is the second one located?

Had a look at the Dr. fees from my last visit to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital in 2011. No surprise the ER visit was the highest at 1,600. The first follow up visit that involved lab work was 600. The second a few days later had lab and ultrasound work, Dr. fee was 1,000. It would appear a higher fee is tied to additional work performed by the Dr., or emergency care.

I'm no doctor, but from what I understand a five to seven day course of antibiotics is the norm. A three day course increases the risk that all the nasty bugs haven't been killed off.

It's rare that one can say this about a Thai operation, but they really do an outstanding job at Pattaya Immigration.

Went through the underpass last night and noticed only about 70% of the lighting now works, and the previously mentioned problems with the road surface seems to be getting worse. While not yet crumbling, the road surface has many dips to it that indicate a failure of the subsurface. Pretty sad statement on Thai construction quality given the the underpass has only been open a little more than three months.

The URL isn't a govt site. Was that a redirect from an Embassy page?

Another route to Buakhao is to turn left out of Mercure, walk about 50 m and take the soi up to Buakhao. That soi can be identified by the NETA Resort sign on the corner.

Green Bottle has been gutted.

You don't need to download any apps from Dropbox to download files. The app is only needed if you want to sync files across various devices. The use of torrents is a bit more complicated as you do need to install a torrent client in order to download files. Having said that, torrents are my preferred way to download video, music, e-books and audible books. Edited to add: I'm mid-way through season 1 of Gomorrah and liking it. Thanks MM for the recommendation.

I've seen the same with some degree of frequency. Hitting page refresh clears the problem, so not a big deal for me. Suspect it happens during the times the hosting server is overloaded with page requests.

Saw it mentioned on another board they were shutting the underpass down today due to a planned power outage in the area. Never saw a news report of the same though.

I enjoy your food reviews Evil. Thanks for taking the time to write up and post your reviews.

That is true regarding ACH transfers to a Thai bank. Bangkok Bank is the only one. Also true about needing a long term visa or WP to open an account. One warning for those looking to open an account at any of the Thai banks, don't fall for the crap you have to buy insurance to an open an account. If you decline and they still insist, go to another branch. Another option for transferring money that others have mentioned on another forum is TransferWise. Advantage being lower fees. I'm going to give them a try on my next infusion of cash from abroad.

You're not restricted to doing bank business at the branch where you opened an account. But, IIRC, there are additional fees if the branch is outside the region where you opened the account. As for BB and direct deposit of Soc Sec, you are correct on the restrictions regarding accessing those funds once deposited. Easy enough though to use internet banking to transfer the Soc Sec funds from the receiving account to a BB account with ATM access. Here's two threads with good info. International transfers (American Bank to Thai Bank) Social Security good news--administrative

A friend of mine who is the tenant was fined 1,600B about two months ago. Immigration wants their pound of flesh and doesn't care who they get it from. Edited to add: This was at Jomtien Immigration.

And all it took to set the taxi driver off was the other car tapping his horn when he cut into the guy's lane. Really stupid on the taxi drivers part to then use his taxi to play bumper cars.

No more House of Cards. Shame really as I enjoyed the series. ‘House of Cards' will not be renewed amid Spacey fallout NEW YORK: The fallout facing Kevin Spacey widened Monday following an accusation that he allegedly made sexual advances on a teen boy, with Netflix confirming it will pull the plug on his hit show “House of Cards” and “deeply troubled” producers of the political thriller arriving on set to comfort cast mates. https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/film/1351832/house-of-cards-will-not-be-renewed-amid-spacey-fallout

Noticed new one way signs this afternoon on Soi Buakhao. Talking to one of the massage ladies on the soi, Buakhao will be one way northbound only on Thursday. It'll be interesting to see how this works out as it's one idea that's been mentioned periodically as a way to make it easier to walk on the Soi. Of course the downside may be that traffic will be able to move faster if they're all heading in the same direction.