seriously you should quit already man

Who was the housing expert in BKK? Some guy who posted all these sick deals. Looking to get a 2-unlimited bedroom place in BKK in Jan.

could be me
Please post your budget and main requirements ( easy access to nightlife, peaceful, tennis and squash court ect... )

PM if you prefer to keep it private

For those of you playing on Euro sites in Thailand, how is that even possible? Seems like it is 6 hours ahead of Europe which puts prime time starting at around 11PM? Ugh, what sort of schedule are you running? Guess playing through the night is correct?

not playing at peak times?

Well, quick request even if that not the right place to do but i need some $ on paypal (like 50$) i can send first on PS if 2+2 regs of course (i know im low messages hehe)

wake up 9am, play against all the euro drunks. errr, profit?

LOL at PAD using "democracy" in their name.

Thugs bent on thievery.

Does anyone know when Suvarnabhumi will reopen? I'm (hopefully) flying into BKK this Saturday

Yea this time zone pretty much sucks for online poker. Games die at around 1 pm and start around 8 pm so I either gotta wake up ridiculously early or late to be able to put in some hands at peak hours.

I've been taking a look a the BBC News, and it explain very clearly the situation at Thailand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7716033.stm

Personally, I keep thinking it's not dangerous, specially because the government doesn't seem to have enough power to get to a real fight between 2 factions. ie. civil war.

But of course I may be wrong.

dardo, you are pretty seriously misinformed about the PAD and their support. The public media isn't supporting them by any means, they've constantly referred to them as a mob and for good reason. You were right about one thing - they are mostly backed by the elite class, as Thaksin's base was the rural/poor. But as something kind of obvious, the elite are a very small minority. Just look at the number of Thai you see wearing yellow now compared to a few months ago or whatever. So many have stopped, even though it's the national color/lucky/etc, since they don't want to even be possibly associated with the PAD in any way. Even the PAD have admitted they couldn't win an election ( so god knows what their long term goals are ). Get somebody to translate one of the radio talk shows you hear everybody listening to all the time some day.

Well, this is the important point to have, isn't it?

As long as they keep control of the army, I don't think the Government will have any other choice than to keep reacting passively and in a pacific way, like they are doing now.

Of course, I repeat, I may be wrong. But two years ago, it was like that.

From one of the BBC News I've read they want to change the electional system, so it's not one person one vote. ie. poor people votes would be worth less.

theyre saying 3 days after pad clears out.

lol dardo.

Who, exactly, is saying that?

read it somewhere in the thaivisa thread

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Suvarn...87.html&st=325

edit: comma

Thanks.

I have a flight scheduled for tomorrow morning to BKK and another on Sunday to Paris where I'm supposed to catch another plane to Tanzania (and for this I bought two separate round trip tickets: BKK Paris, Paris Tanzania) :-/

I hope if the first is cancelled I can get the second one rescheduled pretty cheap.

that sucks man. hopefully you get reimbursed.

How do u go about bargaining about rental price if u dont speak thai. Like if they want 30k, r u just like errr ill ship 20. Like would the cost be so high if u waited till jan., get to hotel, then checked around for places at phuket. or would pre booking on like siam realestate, be better.

and are there taxis in phuket, keep hearing different things

I'm not very qualified to answer this, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Waiting til you get here is probably the best way to rent a house. You get an idea of the surrounding neighborhood, an exact idea of what the house itself is like, and usually you get a better price (and yes, negotiate).

As for taxis, they have them here (mostly tuk tuks - though different from the bkk ones), but unless you're coming from the airport, there is no meter. And the prices they charge are outrageous compared to bkk (still similar to western cab fares).

Still looking for advice on cheap flights from the West Coast to Thailand. Not having 26+ hrs of travel time is important to me.

pretty sure lax has direct flights to bkk. i can't be of anymore help than that.

ofdabeat, any nye updates?

When i came over I did China Air from LA to Taipei (Taiwan) 14hrs then 1hr layover and 2hr flight from Taipei to BKK.

Booking flights to BKK right now though could become an exercise in frustration as the flight cancellations due to the Shutdown of the airports is likely to roll forward for quite some time wreaking havoc on future flight plans.

what you mean? i heard the airport would be shut down for ~ 5 days after they clear PAD out which should be any day now.

LOL

Teh clearing dont seem to be going so good.
Police are being kidnapped (arrested) by PAD guards and interrogated and a group of 100 armed police retreated from a ro******* and left 9 police vans behind over fear from the protetors.