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I have a 1 meg/512 up with Ji net through TTT. I have had this for 2 years and in that time it has only gone down very occasionally for a few hours. At 2700 Baht a month it is the best I have found. You can get faster with them but the cost is much higher. There is a newer alternative which is a wireless sytem that cost about 2500 Baht a month. It picks up from a transmitter and advertises 2 meg down. In reality it gives about 1.3 to 1,4 meg and seems pretty reliable thiose that have it tell me. It depends if you have a transmitter in range of you also but they are adding many right now. I

Not guest friendly and they charge a joiner fees that varies when they feel like it. Typical family hotel with mostly Asian guests.

Forget it. Thailand basically does not want second hand car imports and does everything they can to make it near impossible to acheive. Import duty alone will amount to more than the car is worth. In Eurpoe, Thailand has just one office that will deal with this and in Brussels if I remember correctly. I gave it a try on a Shogun and trailored boat and called them. The answer was a flat no but they would send me the forms so I could waste my time. Interestingly now boats can be imported with little or no duty.

I will warn the others then.

Most couses are offering terrific deals right now with green fees on certain days dropping to well below 1000 Baht but you have to add a buggy and caddy fee plus the tip so all in with transport a lillte over 2000 Baht is about right for many courses now.

Nor me.

Maybe the best in town but you need to taste the chips before leaving the shop as they are often under cooked and hard. They are also on Door to Door and there is an option for large Red Snapper and chips but guess that never happened as I am always told they dont have it.

Dumpy and sexy????? Hmmm Dave take a break mate.

Excellent deal when the cheapest available for Lon BKK Lon return seems to be Eva at 50,000 Baht for the same period and Thai 1000 Baht more. Unfortunatelly the journey must start Bkk Lon Bkk.

Behave Dave.LOL

My domestic Thai airline of chioce is Nok in business class for an extra 500 Baht each way. Bloody good airline IMHO. The air miles you get with Thai are pretty worthles on the domestic routes and as Udon is only a 1 hour flight, paying the extra to get the Thai air miles is not economical unless you are that close to gold status that the 1000 miles or so makes a real difference.

Medical Certificate????? I understood that you only need this for the first one and even for a Retirement Visa renewal they dropped it as well. Can you tell us more please and why did you get one as the rules dont say you needed it either.

This one is very important. If your Thai license is still valid even for a few hours then they will likely only give you one year again. Some Thai logic here then. If you let it expire and then get stopped driving to the license building then be preared to get a fine. Now I get it. lol

Possibly yes but I ned to know what you are looking for and how big etc

Many hotels will ask for top dollar for walk in's. Some will give net rates if they think you are leaving but the bluff does not alwys work.

Pete and I had this very conversation last night and I think the answer is no just because I anticipate downloading 24/7 and with HD movies being so big then I am going to get through those drives to fast. In fact I do back up everything that is worth backing up to disk regardless of the distractions of Pats so I will continue to do that instead. On with the story. The TV arrived yesterday and I have to say I am impressed. Absolutely zero screen reflection which was a big problem in my condo with so much glass. Even UBC which is a crap signal looks so much better than before but wont see a

Will find out in a few hours as it is being fitted today. I hope.

On with the story. Last weekend I took a look at the Samsung LCD 46 inch and the picture quality was amazing. However this is the lower resolution and not the higher res that the Samsung LA-52F71B 52 inch has so it should be better as the research we have done also seems to confirm. So decision made and paid the deposit for this one that should be here on Friday. Total cost 180K. Incidentally Mr Ji from Naklua continues to surprise as he sent a French guy around to see me last Saturday as he wanted a cheaper big screen projector TV which I have now in the Sony 49 inch. He took one look an

That is what I said. It has been wrong for about 10 days now but in LOS it gets right around 12am to 6pm before going wrong again later and weekends.

No it has not. The Baht has been steady for over a week at around 69.?. This is a vaguery in the way the exchange rates are being shown abroad and here.

Having just found Pete's thread on this by accident I made the decision to get on with it and to get with the program. I had seen Pete's system a year or so ago and decided it was the way to go when he showed me Terminator in HD that he had downloaded previously. Well I am going to give you a blow by blow account of how things go and I started yesterday. My first port of call was to phone Peter on Monday 21st Feb and shout for his help as most of it is way over my head. Peter as usual was great and asked me to give him 5 minutes to get his trousers on before I arrived at his condo. lo

I thought the 30% with holding to buy a house had been dropped!!!

All good reasons plus one more. Fuel varies in price at different destinations and then there can also be a VAT fuel rebate that can be reclaimed in certain places. This can far outweigh the additional fuel costs for take off and climbing to altitude. In my flying days a long time ago we used to fly to Europe via Jersey on min fuel and refuel there. The saving was enormous on a twin and worth the 15 minutes to go out of our way.

Now they are saying that the repairs are not as difficult as first thought and most airlies have said they will not move including Thai so the government says it will not need to be re-opened.

A new Jeep and a Volvo in the last 4 years. Excellent service and no cost for small repairs. Fast as well.