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explorer

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  1. Any suggestions where to put my hat in TQ2 that evening ??? Cheers,
  2. When you transfer the money in to Thailand to buy a property, it needs to be declared that this money is transferred for the purpose of buying a property. The sender and receiver in Thailand needs to be the buyer of the property. This document is called a “Tor Tor Sam†or “Foreign Exchange Transaction Form†With this “Tor Tor Samâ€, you will be able to transfer the funds back home when selling the property. Cheers,
  3. What insurance ???? Most cars rented on 2nd road and Beach road in Pattaya do not even have a proper insurance, other than sometimes the of-no-use obligatory government insurance. The only car-rental company that I know offering a decent insurance is VIA car rental opposite Royal Garden on 2nd road and of course the Hertz and Avis companies. Many 4-wheel jeeps and cars rented out from Beach road do not even have a valid number plate and road-tax sticker (years out of date), and are therefore forbidden to drive out of the Pattaya region. Cheers,
  4. Try Swiss Food in Soi Diamond. Order the Chateau Briand, which is 500 gram of pure tenderloin. Cheers,
  5. Yes, 25,000 Euro is a typo, meant 2,500, sorry for that. I carry a (MasterCard) CC-card with the ATM part, from the HSBC offshore Bank Isle of Jersey, with a daily withdraw limit of 2,500 Euro/by day, worldwide. I am living in Pattaya since 21 years and have a Siam Commercial Gold-Card (MasterCard) including ATM, without having a Working Permit, 3-months ago I upgraded my daily ATM limit on this card to 100,000 Baht via the online banking system from Siam Commercial. The top limit one can select on a Gold-Card (Thai or Farang) is 250,000 Baht/day. Beware that the CC-part of this G
  6. It's not because one carries a loaded gun, that he is going to shoot someone. An ATM limit of 25,000 Euro (Approx 100,000 Baht) is very normal for European Banks (for regular customers). In Thailand, Siam Commercial Bank even offers a day-limit up to 250,000 Baht for good customers (Thai or Farang), on their Gold-Card. Even the Visa-Platinum (On invite only) has an ATM day-limit of US$ 25,000 (Approx 1,000,000 Baht) Cheers,
  7. Not very advisable to stay there, it's in the middle of the nightlife streets (Soi Diamond, Walking Street), meaning continuously lots of noise. As walking street is closed for all traffic from 7PM to 3AM this also means the hotel is unreachable by car or taxi during this period. The hotel caters mainly to Middle-Eastern visitors who make a lot of noise in their rooms until very early in the morning. No swimming pool (yes, only a bath-tub size little pool on the roof). There are much better solutions 5 to 10 minutes walk from Soi Diamond and hundreds of better solutions 5 a
  8. "Best Supermarket" at the Dolphin roundabout in North Pattaya also has a cigar shop with a nice selection, including cigar-cutters and even leather cigar-poaches. Prices are very reasonable. The cigar counter at "Best" is located in their liquor department. Cheers,
  9. This depends entirely on your ATM-Card, not the machine or the Thai ATM-system. Before leaving for Thailand You have to contact your CC-company and set the daily limit for using your ATM-card in Thailand, I am using a card that can give me up to 100,000 Baht/Day. For exchanging US-dollars or TCs, there are thousands of exchange boots in every tourist center. For example, on walking street alone in Pattaya, you will find an exchange-boot and ATM-machine, nearly every 50 meter. Cheers,
  10. Directly to Pattaya for Fun, Beach and Sun. Bangkok for culture and trafficjams. Cheers,
  11. Book the same hotel with any online reservation site that uses secure servers, mostly the room price will also be cheaper than dealing with the hotel itself, due that they work with hotel room consolidators that buy huge blocks of hotel rooms at huge discounts. Never send your CC-details by email, fax is much safer and nothing beats secure online reservation using SSL secured servers, very easy recognizable at the url that should start with HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// Cheers,
  12. The new Sheraton hotel in Pattaya is scheduled to open in the first weeks of Augustus, they only had a soft opening for special and/or invited guests to train the staff, so very difficult to give any more information than what you can find on their website. The hotel is situated on it's own beach, in-between Pattaya and Jomtien and is more build as a family club resort, for Bangkok Thais and foreign visitors, with it's own restaurants and beach-activities, than the typical Sheraton hotels for independent travelers such as in Bangkok and Phuket. Hence knowing the above you will have to
  13. You heard wrong. October is the transition month between the rainy season (June-October) and the cool season (November-February). The cool season still means daytime temperatures of average 28 to 32 degrees Celsius and night temperatures of 24 to 28 degrees Celsius, seawater around 25 degrees Celsius, which is still much hotter than any European hot summer. The months with the most rain are July, August and September. In October, you still have the chance of the occasional short but very heavy rain bursts. Rain burst overhere are really no problem as they usually consists of short
  14. Currently, every other day there is a non-stop flight that takes exactly 1 hour and 40 minutes from Utapao to Phuket. The planes used are 70-seaters ATR72-500 turbo-props equipped with Pratt and Whitney PW127F engines. Find info here: http://www.atraircraft.com/atr72500.htm Since April 2005 the flight Pattaya (Utapao) to Phuket has become a non-stop flight, every other day, where before there was a stop-over in Samui, The new flight-code of the Utapao-Phuket flight is PG272 Currently, until 30 October 2005, Bangkok Airways has a promotion on the Pattaya-Phuket route at 1,750 baht
  15. Thanks for the excellent and detailed trip-report Cheers,
  16. Deuce, I would not remove the topic, as I can serve as a warning for people reciving this email and wanting to send money. Cheers,
  17. Oops, sorry CheshireTom Didn't see you beat me in posting, while I was typing my message. Cheers,
  18. BEWARE THIS EMAIL CHAIN IS A HOAX: The above story and email are True, though outdated and currently used in a hoax email chain to collect donations by Internet criminals. The girl on the picture of that email has since 5 January 2005 been identified as Sophia Michl, age 10, of Germany, and returned to her homeland soon after the photo above was posted by the Phuket International Hospital on their website on 4 January 2005. Simply look at the wounds on the girl's face to understand that those wounds would have been healed longtime, more than 6-months after the Tsunami disaster. C
  19. I saw it at Boots (Royal garden) in pattaya today. Cheers,
  20. Have heard that the new Mercure will not be charging a joining-fee (but this is not confirmed yet). Haven't had the opportunity yet to meet the resident manager of the new Mercure, but seems where Mercure in Naklua was run with family-holidays and business conferences in mind, the new Mercure in the center of Pattaya's hotspot will be run to attract nightlife seeking customers. But again, confirmation of the above still has to follow by reports of visiting customers. Cheers,
  21. No problem, mate. Always ready to help out. Cheers,
  22. The Queen Victoria on Soi-Yodsak is an excellent pub also, where local expats and tourists alike can daily be seen. I visit the place nearly every Sunday for their excellent "Sunday Carvery", which is a bargain at 320 Baht. Opposite the same Soi Yodsak, there is a small Soi where you will find "Jameson Irish Pub", which is an nearly exact copy of the "Shenanigans Irish Pub" in South Pattaya. Another nice pub is the "Pig and Whistle" on Soi-7 in South Pattaya, which serves great all-you-can-eat breakfast that keeps you going the whole day. Cheers,
  23. The New Mercure Hotel was officially opened last week. It is situated in Soi 15 in South Pattaya, but Soi 15 is not very well known locally and mostly referred to as "Soi Toyota Karaoke" or "Soi Star Boys". Soi 15 is the soi that is directly opposite Soi Pattayaland-2 (Classroom-1, Misty's and Penthouse/Kittens) on Second Road. On the corner of Soi Pattayaland-2 and Second Road, near the Bank, a new "Mercure Hotel" sign can nowadays be spotted, pointing in the direction of this little Soi-15. The Mercure is about 1 Kilometer, on the right hand side, in this soi-15 or "Soi Toyota Kara
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