Hua Hin Forum

Thanks for checking BB, managed to log in now. I don't know why I was blocked previously.

I have registered on the new board with the same username and password, but through a different email I have had confirmation and validation emails and was invited to login through the link sent to the confirmation email. I logged in and on the top of the page my username was shown as being logged i...

I am not a regular poster here, but have been a member for over 10 years averaging a post or two a month, but I do come here regularly for local info and recommendations, and so it would be a great shame if this asset disappeared completely. As an alternative to a forum, and in spite of the disadvan...

Then they found the finance involved in getting a spouse visa was more than they could afford. The Thai wife needs the best part of half a million to make the move. Arrive in the UK illegally on a dinghy and she would get free accommodation, food, clothing, a weekly allowance, a new mobile phone an...

I met a Thai Chinese girl I met in the late eighties whilst working for a couple of years in Thailand. We returned to the UK, she got a student visa to study there and we soon married. Shortly after she obtained UK citizenship followed by her UK passport. It was so easy back then, and we lived in th...

The Department of Land Transport has drafted new regulations stating that international driving permits can no longer be used as proof for obtaining a temporary driver’s license. Foreign nationals will now be required to pass a written test to qualify for the license. A source from the Ministry of ...

but I am wondering why I've been driving. 3 hours on the wooden seat of the 3rd class rattler will provide you with the answer you are looking for! I like the trains here, and when I was younger and didn't have a car I used them a lot. The 2nd class sleepers, 3rd class for short hops and occasional...

Try using one of those sinus rinse solutions on a regular basis. A small squeezy bottle that is used to squirt salt water into the nose and into the sinuses. They are sold in Fascino or Boots for a couple of hundred baht, and come with sachets of a salt powder that you dissolve in water (bottled, no...

2017 or 2018. It was metallic red. Anyone can attend these Customs Dept.auctions, and if they still hold them they will be announced on the Customs Dept.website. I attended 3 or 4 times and it was always an interesting experience to watch the characters there. There were the ultra wealthy Thai males...

I sometimes used to go with a Thai friend to the auctions at the Customs Department in Khlong Toei in Bangkok. He is a collector of classic Jags and Mercs. As Nereus posted, the auctions are rigged and outsiders stand little chance of picking up a bargain. Prior to the auction there is viewing, but ...

Perhaps a local government building?

I walked past it last week and asked one of the workers what they were building.

I was told it is going to be a government building, but he didnt know if it was the local government or the military.

My driving licence, the one that I obtained 5 years ago after starting this thread, expires at the end of this month. I renewed it at Pranburi last week. My retirement visa expired during my stay in the UK during Covid, and since then I have returned to Thailand on 60 day and 90 day tourist e-visas,...

Report re.Dr Chaisit clinic Soi 35. The other day my wife was seen by Dr Chaisit at her clinic on Soi 35 to have 2 mole like lesions and one dark coloured skin patch examined and identified. The moles were diagnosed as Sebborrhoiec Keratoses and not cancerous, and the dark patch was what is called a...

How is it in Hua Hin right now ?

Since Covid, when my non-imm. retirement visa expired I have been coming to Thailand two or three times a year using 60 day tourist visas. My driving licence expires in Feb 2024 and I will need to renew. Will I be able to do this on a tourist visa? (to prove residence I have a yellow book in my name...