Hua Hin Forum

Just updating this thread with some "information' received directly from Thai Elite within their monnthly email newsletter. This is the text from the email received yesterday (the mentioned attachment was not attached of course, TIT, they sent it to me almost immediately when I pointed this out...

A gree with your take on this. There was a scare piece in ThaiVisa this morning something along the lines of 'OMG It's Happening' and quoting some official. Not sure whther in the article itself or in the comments but the take was basically we are going to tax all foreign income for anyone resident ...

i would like to buy a used motorcycle or car, for about 100-200,000bath. The Facebook marketplace page seems to be a good place. Can you give me some tips on what to look out for. I have bought a car locally from FB marketplace and a bike from Bahtsold, both were good experiences and I have had no i...

- Is it usual for foreigners to have to provide a copy of their passport before signing a contract? Yes of course you will not find anywhere that will rent you a property without a passport copy either broker or individual unless they are incredibly shady. They are legally obliged to report your sta...

No experience with that particular agent but in general here you should get a rental contract in English and Thai that you can review and request any amendemnts to before completing the rental transaction. For houses/pool villas around here worth paying attention to: 1. Is gardening and /or pool cle...

Yeah mine is also gathering dust to be honest, as you say the Chinese app is bit of a pain to setup. My Honor Band does work just fine without it UNTIL the battery runs out, then you must reconnect it with the app or its a brick, I was using it bascially offline so this was quite annoying as I had u...

Haven't tried a Xiaomi but have a an Honor Band knocking around, used to be a Huawei subsidiary. Works pretty well for step tracking, the sleep tracking and the heart rate stuff seems less accurate than the Fitbit I had for 3 years until it broke but all in all, for the basic stuff I think the Chine...

On a bit of a side note to this, I was in an electrtical reapir shop down in Hua Hin getting something done. A Farang guy (speaking Thai though) came in to drop of a heads up display off some bike. The guy was repairing my thing while we waited so my wife was chatting to him, apparently it was to re...

Experienced this a while back in Blueport. One of the Japense buffet restaurants can't remember the name but between Pizza Company and MK on G floor. Walk in, select buffet option, take a seat. Pay in advance as buffet, take out cash, QR only sorry, OK no problem will find somewhere else to eat. Sud...

I noticed Wise is often taking longer compared to say 2 years ago when it was almost always a matter of 30 seconds to arrive, if transferred within Thai banking business hours. A transfer initiated around 9am now often takes 2 hours and soometimes up to 6 hours to hit. This also seems dependent or a...

Thanks, yeah Bahtsold seems to be the best for finding local will keep an eye out. Will probably start boying up my little CRF300 in the meantime :D Siam Handlebar has/had used big bikes for sale. I heard they were moving to soi 94, but cant confirm, their website seems to have disappeared. Siam Han...

Did'nt see this mentioned in the few most current thread pages, aoplogies if posted before, but https://libgen.is/ (and other domain extensions) is still quite good as a zlib replacement which I gave up on after it initially got taken down then turned scammy, much more basic interface (not unlike th...

Yes same setup at memory house on the corner although think it was 100 baht voucher there, was a couple years back - I guess they are probably doing this to discourage large groups buying a couple drinks and taking selfies for 2 hours, not a fan either though for sure. [ am really against paying an ...

The building which had shop front sized windows is looking as if it will be a restaurant or café. There is an industrial sized extractor hood at the rear of the building. This is now open for business, looks like a cafe, possibly restaurant type setup. Will report back if I am ever at the bay after...

Ah great, should have searched first, will have a look thanks