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I'm pretty sure that that was the case with mine from the UK in June this year. Edit: This was a visa issued on the basis of retirement.

Could it be that the new staff don't have the experience to know what really needs to be checked, and so are checking a lot more?

Congrats, Adam. ?

I wasn't there for that so didn't check.

I went there a few weeks ago to see if they would change some US $ which TT were refusing on the basis that they were dirty. Damini said the same. Brought the notes back to London and changed them with absolutely no problem.

Probably why they have to move and drive around the block.

I found that trying to locate the girl holding a card with my name on it wasn't always straightforward, particularly if you don't carry hold luggage and emerge earlier than the girl guesses you will.

Reading the thread on Addicts relating to Nam's taxi service, it appears that the change was made in May - most likely for cost-saving reasons, having had a bleak period during Covid: the driver does not have to pay for car parking whilst she waits for the customer to arrive. The day before you arrive, Nam will send you an email with a photo of the area in which the car will be waiting, a photo of the car, the car registration number, name of the driver, and the driver's phone number. The driver will wait in the car, but sometimes will get moved on, so Nam requests that the customer shoul

Someone I know who posts on a different board stayed there recently, and made very positive comments about the place.

Nam's is very good - I have used them for years. The pick-up procedure at the airport is a bit different now, though. The driver does not wait inside the airport with a card bearing your name, as happened in the past. She now cruises around outside. You are given her registration number, and need to spot her close to whatever exit number you are told (number 3, most likely). If you have a Thai phone number or have the use of wi-fi, ask for the driver's contact details so that you can let the driver know when you are ready. I did that a couple of months ago, and the driver appear

This video, from about the 4 mins 25 secs mark, is a walk up Soi 13.

If that was on the same side as the Sportsman, it had been demolished when I was last there - March 2020.

If you look at the issue objectively, I'd agree with you. But the choice is a subjective one.

This image seems to show the new drain is going to be the full length of Soi 15, so most certainly bad news for The Hideaway and for the condos and hotels from The Avenue Mall up to Buakhao.

But don't you expect there will be over the coming months?

I'm reading elsewhere that the stretch from the Mercure to Second Road is more or less completed. Anyone staying anywhere between the shopping mall and Soi Buakhao is in for an "interesting" few months.

(I thought it better to respond to the comment above here, rather than in the thread in which it was posted.) People do not take health insurance for a variety of reasons - some of which, IMO, are very justifiable Some people have health issues which mean that they cannot get insurance, or it is prohibitively expensive. Some (including me) looked into it and decided that the maximum cover was pretty pathetic, and the cover did not warrant the premiums being asked. "Self insurance" was a better option. Some are simply choosing to spend their money (of which many probably don

@Proffesor This is the guy you need to consult with. (Edit: See thread here:https://forums.pattayatalk.com/topic/71358-property-engineering-services-what-we-do/?tab=comments#comment-1281922)

That, plus the perilous state of Thai Airways' finances, makes me think that I won't be choosing to fly with them for a long while.

I think "the area" is just the hotel and its grounds, plus areas you get taken to if you go on organised trips.

A word of caution for anyone thinking of travelling to Thailand from the UK. With a very large percentage of the adult population now fully vaccinated, the policy of the UK government seems to be that they are not going to be concerned about the number of people who have Covid-19, only about the number who are hospitalised or die. So, with many restrictions already lifted, with more to come on the 19th, an ever larger proportion of the population will be infected with Covid-19. Furthermore, the symptoms (if any) of having Covid-19 after being doubly vaccinated are very similar to ha

I don't follow your last remark: the current policy requires quarantine, even if vaccinated.

No, it isn't saying that! It is saying that it is CONSIDERING doing that.

I believe he said he aimed to declare Thailand fully open within 120 days and for tourism centres that are ready, "to do so even faster". Prayuth urged the public to get vaccinated as fast as possible and said the reopening target could only be met if the vaccines are delivered according to the committed schedules. (My emphasis.) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-targets-reopening-within-120-days-economy-flounders-2021-06-16/ An "aim" is not the same as a certainty. He's already given himself a let-out. I really don't see it happening in that timesca