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Thanks looks very handy to where we will be renting and no need to x highway = bonus.Look up Sport Villa on the net, decent sized Pool, I think about 50 Baht
I do worry about trolls under the bridge 555
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Moving up to HH within the next month or so. Will settle in area around sois 94 to 102. I like a daily swim but am not real keen on beaches and not real keen on jellyfish.
I assume / hope there are hotels / villages in the area that have pools that welcome paying customers. Any info locations etc greatly appreciated.
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My fav job in Villamart Chalong btw is finding where they have moved licorice too
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Good rantI remember I bought (yes - only a 30 year lease) a place on Nanai Road almost 19 years ago. Brown outs were just accepted, maybe a couple of times a month. Now all these years later I don't see all that much improvement, it's no longer brown outs, more like no power when a local transformer fuse has blown (big bang) and we wait for the little orange power company truck to show up after a couple of hours and everyone gives a big cheers when the power goes back on. I guess all us long stay people know this. Easy to realise why it's really gotten worse, huge increase in buildings, with no planning for infrastructures like power, water, sewage.
Same out in Kata when we moved there, all day scheduled power outs from 09.00 - 17.00 for improvements to high voltage lines from Chaofa sub station. Much caused by the new substation right on our doorstep in Kata. Substation completed last year, really not much improvement to our power outages, just routine problem.
Rant over ...
Loved it
Probably Singapore is only Asian country where brown outs aren't king
Piss poor planning etc
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The Thai Girls who throw falangs from balconies society must be the world's #1 terrorist group. They have never failed in their jobs - no falang has ever woken up and said <deleted> is going on. No one has ever been caught. All BiB no matter where they are - Phuket. Pattaya, Bangkok - are paid off and keep quiet or just plain inefficient. No one in the society has ever broken ranks.
And achieving all this at, generally speaking, half the body weight of their victims.
Indeed very scary or at least something on these type topics is.
RIP to the Canadian - he was a neighbour of ours but sadly did not know him.
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A hot beer @ 5 baht is expensive.
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It's certainly not being debated by me.
Was actually talking about the nearby lake about 2km walk around it. Water from there goes under road to lagoon
So the lake nearby you refer to that most people call the lagoon, when that cesspool dumps out several times a day with the tide, where do you think that nasty water goes? I love the people splashing around in it and playing with their kids in that. Funny how no one swims in the lagoon but after that water runs under the road I guess they think it is magicly processed and safe. Gross.Daily swimmer at Naiharn
The positive - no jet skis and good clean water.
Other than that probably one of the dirtiest beaches I have ever been too. Cigarette butts and other litter on and in the sand - yes they don't disappear when you butt them in the sand - and in the "pine" area.
The lake nearby should be picturesque - it is just a rubbish dump.
Don't people (and by this I mean Government and people making a living from the beach) realise that you have to work at it to have a good beach.
Someone once told me that once humans hit the beach that's when your trouble starts.
Shame it could be a brilliant beach.
Both are as u say gross. And perhaps clear water rather than clean in the ocean?
Can't see how this is debatable or why there is an implication that I am the only one that could see this is "gross". I took these pics this morning standing in one spot not using zoom. First pic the decaying garbage in the swamp (lagoon) and the second is people swimming with children in the water way that leads from it to the sea not 100 yards away. Again, who in their right mind sees that as a great place to swim is beyond me. Forgive the tilted photo as I could not find a way to tilt it back. The point is still valid.
We walk around there most days and the lower the water gets yuck.
The lagoon and the overflow are certainly 2 places i won't be swimming in
Funniest thing around there is non litter sign they put up on top of rubbish tip that they are now covering with cut down tree branches TiT.
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And i guess if that's #3 I'd hate to see #4
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That is certainly one pic you will never be taking no way would i swim in that cesspool. I have seen a couple of Thais in it when they had the baby tiger camps on the island there.
I know what you were talking about. Its called the lagoon not the lake. If youn think the lagoon is clean please let me know when you will be swimming there so I can post some pics. Im not sure about your question as it is grammatically confusing but I can assure you clear water is not always clean water. When that nasty water gets to the sea, not the ocean, it is diluted with sea water, not cleaned by sea water.
Was actually talking about the nearby lake about 2km walk around it. Water from there goes under road to lagoon
So the lake nearby you refer to that most people call the lagoon, when that cesspool dumps out several times a day with the tide, where do you think that nasty water goes? I love the people splashing around in it and playing with their kids in that. Funny how no one swims in the lagoon but after that water runs under the road I guess they think it is magicly processed and safe. Gross.Daily swimmer at Naiharn
The positive - no jet skis and good clean water.
Other than that probably one of the dirtiest beaches I have ever been too. Cigarette butts and other litter on and in the sand - yes they don't disappear when you butt them in the sand - and in the "pine" area.
The lake nearby should be picturesque - it is just a rubbish dump.
Don't people (and by this I mean Government and people making a living from the beach) realise that you have to work at it to have a good beach.
Someone once told me that once humans hit the beach that's when your trouble starts.
Shame it could be a brilliant beach.
Both are as u say gross. And perhaps clear water rather than clean in the ocean?
I meant that the water may look clear but it can still be polluted.
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Was actually talking about the nearby lake about 2km walk around it. Water from there goes under road to lagoon
So the lake nearby you refer to that most people call the lagoon, when that cesspool dumps out several times a day with the tide, where do you think that nasty water goes? I love the people splashing around in it and playing with their kids in that. Funny how no one swims in the lagoon but after that water runs under the road I guess they think it is magicly processed and safe. Gross.Daily swimmer at Naiharn
The positive - no jet skis and good clean water.
Other than that probably one of the dirtiest beaches I have ever been too. Cigarette butts and other litter on and in the sand - yes they don't disappear when you butt them in the sand - and in the "pine" area.
The lake nearby should be picturesque - it is just a rubbish dump.
Don't people (and by this I mean Government and people making a living from the beach) realise that you have to work at it to have a good beach.
Someone once told me that once humans hit the beach that's when your trouble starts.
Shame it could be a brilliant beach.
Both are as u say gross. And perhaps clear water rather than clean in the ocean?
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Daily swimmer at Naiharn
The positive - no jet skis and good clean water.
Other than that probably one of the dirtiest beaches I have ever been too. Cigarette butts and other litter on and in the sand - yes they don't disappear when you butt them in the sand - and in the "pine" area.
The lake nearby should be picturesque - it is just a rubbish dump.
Don't people (and by this I mean Government and people making a living from the beach) realise that you have to work at it to have a good beach.
Someone once told me that once humans hit the beach that's when your trouble starts.
Shame it could be a brilliant beach.
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yes really;
have it in hand
maybe Kamala is faster than where u are :-)
PHUKET
as far as two days for extensions;
if u do ur extensions in the morning u can pick it up that afternoon.
BUT if u do it in the afternoon u have to go back the next day
Just did my annual retirement extension at Phuket on Thursday Richard, I arrived at 0830
and was given a queue number of 39 and about 1100 one of the immigration officers anounced
that all those with numbers above 50 should return in the afternoon, so I am guessing that
number 50 probably arrived around 0900. I saw one guy with number 75 and I am guessing
there were a few more after him? as there were people arriving all the time I was there which
was until around 1100 when I went for lunch. I returned at 1430 and collected my passport and
proceeded downstairs to do my re-entry permit, so around 7 hours to do a job that used to take
me 40 minutes up until a couple of years ago.
So someone who arrived at immigration after 0900 would have probably spent the morning and
afternoon there and still have to return the next day for their passport, and then go down stairs
to do there re-entry permit.
So if you count the morning overflow and the afternoon crowd it is probably more likely to take 2
days rather than one for most applicants...................
was just talking to a friend in pattaya
Apparently all the officers are being "multi tasked"
Now having had some experience of this delight back home the usual translation is along the lines what used to take one hour now takes four.
The above experience is pretty much along the lines of what happened to my neighbour - except he must have been a post 9 o'clocker.
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Not claiming in any way to be an any sort of pert on Thai Immigration.
But I would think it could be done.
The 90 day process does not add any stamps etc to your passport.
Do you have copies of the necessary documents to do the 90 dayer (from memory)
- photo page
- tm6
- visa / visa extension
If yes I would take them to Immigration and run it by volunteers at Information desk.
I'm pretty sure that yours is not a unique situation - lost passports / replace passports are not uncommon.
If no I would ask Udonjoe's advise - he is an expert on Thai Immigration (well he seems to me to be)
Which Office - I've never been to Patong but I would avoid Phuket like the plague - it took me two hours to get a straight forward 90 dayer done and a friend 2 full days to get an extension done.
Regards
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Try post #6
Let me see I read that OP passport status and renewal procedures unknown can't do a 90 day report. Hansgruber doesn't have to do 90 day reports.Lol
Everyone firing bullets without any idea what the situation is.
Does the OP still have his old passport?
Until that is known not a real lot of point to any of the answer
Suggest you take the time to actually read the thread before jumping in with both feet.
Uncle Sam doesn't let you keep the old passport but Australia does.
But nowhere did I read that OP has or doesn't have old passport,
Silly me for jumping in with both feet.
Try post # 5 by phuketrichard.
But further clarified by later post from OP
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Let me see I read that OP passport status and renewal procedures unknown can't do a 90 day report. Hansgruber doesn't have to do 90 day reports.Lol
Everyone firing bullets without any idea what the situation is.
Does the OP still have his old passport?
Until that is known not a real lot of point to any of the answer
Suggest you take the time to actually read the thread before jumping in with both feet.
Uncle Sam doesn't let you keep the old passport but Australia does.
But nowhere did I read that OP has or doesn't have old passport,
Silly me for jumping in with both feet.
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Lol
Everyone firing bullets without any idea what the situation is.
Does the OP still have his old passport?
Until that is known not a real lot of point to any of the answer
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Yep sounds like a positive start
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at Naiharn today and yesterday and there was no sign of the return of the plastic chairs and mats that seemed to have total occupancy of the beach (pre c days).
Vendors are set up every so often where you can hire umbrellas and mats or you can BYO.
A win/win situation.
Next move would be to clean up the beach but not holding breath on that one.
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i have always found Jomtien to be very good and efficient
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^^Where to?
probably a bit harsh on Pattaya there - I do have some good friends in Pattaya but the ones who aren't are the problem.
Either Hua Hin or Krabi - with Hua Hin favourite -
Not a fan of krabi at all, cant stand the place myself, hua hins nice though(IMO)
When I say Krabi I'm talking Ao Nang. It's probably the opposite of Phuket - good infrastructure with crappy water - Phuket has (high season) good water crappy infrastructure (all seasons there)
(Even had footpaths in Ao Nang).
I found Ao nang to be very expensive,
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a very good question and not one I really have a good answer for - my experience of Phuket is limited mainly to the Rawai / Naiharn area.
At it's best it's brilliant at it's worst it's terrible.
Good beaches
Good food
Good restaurants
Bad beaches
bad food
bad restaurants
The difference between high and low season.
The other thing is that I feel that over the next few years Phuket will pay a huge price for corruption -
What are you talking about? Your post doesn't really make much sense.
Are you saying that when the season changes, suddenly the good restaurants with good food start serving bad food?
There are bad restaurants everywhere. People don't eat at them and they go out of business.
What do you mean by good/bad beaches? You talking about the flotsam that comes ashore during the SW monsoon?
OK so
Beaches
The two beaches near me:
Yanui
High season - lovely little beach. Good for swimming, snorkelling and a lovely little restaurant across the road. Unlike Naiharn they do appear to be making some effort to maintain the beach.
Low season - beach closed.
Naiharn - good water but the beach is generally falling into disrepair. I go most days and do actually enjoy the water.
Don't spend any time on the beach at all.
Low season - 90% of the beach is closed.
When I say closed there is nothing to stop you going swimming on either. But I would suggest you are either on suicide watch or from a former Soviet bloc country on your fourth Chang.
Restaurants - no people here and no customers. Hence no food turnover. Some close - some go to crap. A few (like Lucky 13 and breakfast Hut) maintain a high standard but generally speaking it's fairly ordinary.
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@ pcliff069
So, if Pattaya is a "shitehole" and you are leaving Phuket after 18 months, what's that make Phuket?
a very good question and not one I really have a good answer for - my experience of Phuket is limited mainly to the Rawai / Naiharn area.
At it's best it's brilliant at it's worst it's terrible.
Good beaches
Good food
Good restaurants
Bad beaches
bad food
bad restaurants
The difference between high and low season.
The other thing is that I feel that over the next few years Phuket will pay a huge price for corruption -
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^^Where to?
probably a bit harsh on Pattaya there - I do have some good friends in Pattaya but the ones who aren't are the problem.
Either Hua Hin or Krabi - with Hua Hin favourite -
Car insurance
in Hua Hin and Cha-Am
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Yes