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I found that to generate the links in my Facebook when in LOS I simply went to the Etihad Thailand site and looked for a flight starting in Bangkok and then opened Facebook which, when clicked through, auto populated the previous dates into the Etihad flight chooser screen as opposed to their front page "to" and "from" entry boxes etc. Right now the link is back to e1s1 as per below: https://booking.etihad.com/SSW2010/EYEY/webqtrip.html?execution=e1s1&CID=dis:rmt:viz:mpu(cut and paste) https://booking.etihad.com/SSW2010/EYEY/webqtrip.html?execution=e1s1&CID=dis:rmt:viz:mpu

They don't use Jet on all 777 options and the ones they do are clearly stated. I flew back just over a week ago and it was a regular Etihad 777. I would avoid the Jet ones to be honest but intrinsically, the Jet equipment on 777 is not too shabby.

Just booked another business class on the A380 with Etihad for £1524 (LHR-BKK) after discount and when in LOS the other week I saw the same adverts on Facebook for 20% off but starting from Bangkok. Might be good for economy as well ? If you don't see the advert, you can use this link https://booking.etihad.com/SSW2010/EYEY/webqtrip.html?execution=e1s1&CID=dis:rmt:viz:mpu or (note change in e1s1 to e4s1) https://booking.etihad.com/SSW2010/EYEY/webqtrip.html?execution=e4s1&CID=dis:rmt:viz:mpu or (note change in e1s1 to e6s1) https://booking.etihad.com/SSW201

Yeah, can't argue with that.

Some very good points there but location, location, location has always been and will always be the key. Renting for a decade or more is lunacy unless you just don't care and don't bother with the buy or rent argument. There won't be any more Bt70 to the £1 in my lifetime. More like Bt40 to £1. There will be a bit of a flip when UK interest rates rise of course but the USD is still the main player in THB FX rates and USD/GBP is only going the way of the USA medium term IMHO. It was almost better to buy (relative) crap central then pure luxury in the burbs but not with the tiny size

So some bloke from down the local beer bar says he wants to buy it but he's struggling to come up with the barfine and decent long time cash for one of the working girls so you extrapolate that he'll find it a tad difficult to come up with another 9 million plus baht. Anyone thinking of paying 9m for that should be taken away by the men in white coats.

As said, Bangkok Bank good for 25 notes, Kasikorn and Siam Commercial good for 20 and there was / is one other who will do 30. If the Bt1000s have dried up, you might only get 20 x Bt500 = Bt10,000. Some cards have daily limits of Bt20k but can go up to Bt200k as also mentioned. Draw money inside the bank and they'll want your ID usually. Order new notes in advance.

Decent agent would simply honour existing bookings at the quoted rate and negotiate in private with the landlords to cover this on a split basis probably. Going forward, simply raise rates to accommodate. Pissing people off for a maximum of 7% is plain stupid.

Strange how blokes with some bias or interest are always very defensive and extolling their superiority in having bought into such a fantastic investment (or simply knowing someone who did) at the same time as trawling the sex tourist web forums trying to bid up some interest to rent these always booked out condos ! Also interesting that those with more common sense know that you can rent today for the same prices you paid 10 or 12 years ago with the exception of certain new options. Go look at the Ruskie resales depressing prices . Thousands and thousands of them but still vendors wan

What the Thais should do but likely won't is to allow offset of some property taxes against income taxes. As westerners mostly pay no taxes, they will have nothing to offset and the government will collect in full but it would allow tax paying expats and the Thais to have some threshold before they start paying these taxes.

But that is what is coming along with straightforward property taxes on valuation.

Very true Gary as they are shitting themselves about in Phuket what with the spill over from the recent legal cases. However, two tectonic plates keep the equilibrium somewhat: Thais are never going to allow Mr Westerner to come buy any piece of land he chooses, legally, in his name, else it will be a bun fight ending with a few billionaires, thousands of dead people and millions of permanently poor. There are simply too many houses set up in dodgy companies with even dodgier nominee directors worth tens of billions of dollars to let it all collapse like the fraudulent house of card

A mate of mine has someone in his villa paying Bt160k a month but it was empty for quite a while beforehand and likely empty for a while when they leave. Beautiful place but he can't get out of it if he wanted anywhere near his inward Bt17m and once valued at Bt25m to Bt30m. On the other hand, you can shift decent condos all day long to tourists.

Asking prices versus actual sales prices have probably never been wider and with the internet, every Ivan, Vladimir or Olga thinks they are real estate agents and they continually post utter shite all over the net and Facebook. Today, you could put together a small portfolio of around Bt20m, split into single units of about Bt1m to Bt1.5m value and return over 15% gross and hope to get around 12% to 13% return with some upward shift in capital appreciation and little downside risk. Move into higher priced units and you have more potential for capital growth but you will get hit on returns,

Back in '05 or '06 when they firs came up with this daft idea, they had a girl upstairs at a temporary counter in what was then Carrefour and scribbling your details onto a photocopied A4 sheet. Like the inbound TM cards at the airport, these were of course collated and processed and not just binned as the whole idea was a great con to benefit the people actually printing the paper !

A long time ago I advised that people wanting to live in a house but protect themselves from rising prices could go some way to achieving this by buying condos in their own name and renting them out, using those funds to rent the house they wanted or if able or in partnership with a Thai, to buy a house on finance, treating the mortgage repayments akin to rents. I do not doubt that the technically illegal company nominee ownership will outlive me as the only true alternative is foreign ownership (which is / was allowed up to 1 rai and if you put up Bt40m) and that is never going to come fo

Been registered with DTAC for over a decade. Lose a phone, don't lose a number.

They had this back around 2005 and nothing happened. Just a total non event. Will this be any different ?

Hunt around for the Diana Group. They have changed their website and not as informative now but here it is http://www.dianapattaya.co.th/en/Diana-Garden-Resort/2823/Hotel/Details/14

Totally surprises me as well that they are still alive. I understand the inability to successfully sue or prosecute but not that difficult to get someone bumped off in LOS.

Cheap, for both.

The issue with continual extensions (based on any qualification) is that you are grandfathered into the system at your original criteria. Now say you had a 3m investment visa, which was withdrawn in October 2006 I believe, then if you missed a signing on, you would lose that qualification and you could no longer get one because there is no 3m investment visa anymore. They did introduce a 10m one a couple of years later which I understand is still in force. I also understand that there are still people on retirement extensions on an annual 100/200k or something because that is what it was w

Last beds I bought came from Homeworks and were around 25k down from around 40k and that was about 30k for the mattress and 10k for the bed with the faux leather headboard chucked in. In essence, you are paying for the mattress and that is where the majority of the quality is.

I had to read that this wasn't a thread dug up from 5 or more years ago as every man, woman and dog knows that you are likely to get screwed when ordering direct and using one of the big couriers, as the shipper is likely to put the real value and description on the package to avoid getting done themselves. This very subject was covered at some length not so long ago in a thread started by MM asking about importing things into LOS.

From a walk around looking at a change of hotels on my last visit to Phuket last year, I noticed quite a few which publicly refused to allow guests unless registered or wanted to charge a hefty fee even if they did allow them. I stayed at the Yorkshire Inn for a night but it was crap and overpriced for what I wanted. With hindsight, they let me down on a couple of things which pissed me off quite a bit but the in lobby free internet was useful. However, they try to stick you with a 10% "optional" service charge and were pretty pissed off when I wouldn't pay it, even though it is advertised