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About Thailand / Re: Best area to stay in Bnagkok

« on: August 22, 2012, 02:47:16 AM »

Plenty of good bars in Banglumpoo even a couple on Kowsan road that are hippy / farang free. I agree though it's quite cut off from the rest of the city and involves either a long bus journey, ferry + subway ride or a taxi journey that always involves lots of traffic to pretty much anywhere you might want to go. The area has it's ups and downs but I would never recommend anyone staying on kowsan it's self.

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Chiang Mai Expat Forum - Chiang Mai Expatriates / Re: Outdoor/Camping/Hiking shops in Chiang Mai

« on: August 22, 2012, 02:43:42 AM »

http://www.supersports.co.th/store/N.html

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Bangkok Expat Forum - Bangkok Expatriates Living / Re: VISA CHANGES For people entering Thailand by land

« on: August 22, 2012, 02:41:36 AM »

Real travelers actually travel around and are of economic use to a country spending money as they go on tourist type things.

I am talking about those who pretty much live in Thailand, usually on an island spending $5 a day on rice, large Chang and an A frame.

These sorts are probably what the Thai govt doesn't want blotting their landscape, and who can blame them!

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About Thailand / Re: What time of the year is the best time to travel to Thailand?

« on: August 22, 2012, 02:38:20 AM »

Anytime is better than not going but the cheapest and least crowded is May-October. So called rainy season where it hardly rains, you have beaches and pools mostly to yourself and get tours and rooms discounted by 40%. Best time to go by far. It's great checking into a good hotel at a heavily discounted price and then getting a big pool all to yourself or you go visit a great beach and there's few people on it unlike high season when there's 200 people on it. Done this many times.

Next best is Songkran april 13-15 but the festival can last for a week or Loy Krathong in Nov.

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About Thailand / Re: Best area to stay in Bnagkok

« on: August 20, 2012, 07:41:10 PM »

 http://www.bossotelinn.com/aboutus.html

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Bangkok Expat Forum - Bangkok Expatriates Living / Re: VISA CHANGES For people entering Thailand by land

« on: August 20, 2012, 07:08:17 PM »

This is frustrating. I contacted the Thai Consulate in Vancouver on Thursday and they recommended a double entry tourist visa for $35CAD for each entry then on second entry I can apply for an extension to cover the time I intend to be in Thailand. Based on what I've read here to be the cost of an extension (1900B) at the current exchange rate it will cost me $278CAD for my wife and I.

We had been planning to be in Thailand 7 days then leaving the country and then returning by air to Chiang Mai a few weeks later for a 73 day tour of Thailand.

I think I will end up applying for a triple entry visa in Vancouver for $210CAD but then would that still require a border run to start the third entry? Maybe I'll just have to spend more time in Cambodia, Laos and then include a side trip to Malaysia and Singapore with less time in Thailand.