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My bride and I will celebrate 20 years of marriage this coming January. We plan to spend 10 or 12 days in Thailand together to celebrate. We know we want to end up on the beach for the last 3 or 4 days doing a lot of nothing but lounging, eating and drinking on the beach. Thinking Phucket for that part but open to suggestions. For the first 6 to 8 days we would like to explore the country a bit. Would love to hear suggestions and input from those who have been. We are looking at mid to late January 2019.


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Spend more than $1 on a lobster dinner Big Grin

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Been to Phuket and Pattay Beach. Main suggestion - get some tailor made shirts and slacks, maybe a sport jacket. Women's clothes too.

Also, they have some really nice/fine ceramics there. Pretty awesome.

Oh, and they LOVE to haggle. (really)






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Been to Phuket and Pattay Beach. Main suggestion - get some tailor made shirts and slacks, maybe a sport jacket. Women's clothes too.

Also, they have some really nice/fine ceramics there. Pretty awesome.

Oh, and they LOVE to haggle. (really)


Awesome suggestion, I hadn't considered the shopping. Where is the best place to find these Taylors? We plan to spend at least a day or two in Bangkok.


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It has been a while since I’ve been there so my information/memory may be out of date. The Sunday market in Bangkok ( huge flea market) is great to wonder through. I bought some cool opium pipes there. The reclining Buddha is also popular. Chang Mai in the highlands has some nice temples and palaces. There is an elephant preserve nearby where you can ride them.

I did not find the quality of the taioring to be very good. Watch out for the gold, jewel and jade sellers- lots of fakes and you can get taken if you don’t know what you are doing.
 
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Email me, I was in Thailand for two weeks in November, bring Goldbond powder.

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Since you're going anyway, youtube for scams in thailand and related stuff so you would be informed.

My wife wants us to go but after learning the stuff there, I said no way. I'll take you to Australia or New Zealand or even Singapore but I won't go where the probabilities of something going bad aren't insignificant as a foreigner.

That's not saying you're headed for disaster, I would just be too tense and on edge to enjoy anything. Good luck to you and your bride.



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I took the family to Thailand about a year ago.
It was my Sons wedding present and a vacation for my Wife and daughter.

We flew Emirates from Chicago to Dubai then to Bangkok. HORRIBLY LONG!
After arriving in Bangkok we hired a driver to take us to Kanchanaburi (about a 5 hr drive).
We stayed at X-2 River Kwai for a couple nights. GREAT food and staff!. Rooms float on the river and a kayak is provided for each room.The Bridge from the movie Bridge on the river Kwai is there to tour.
From there we were driven to Float House hotel further up the river, again very nice floating rooms on the river. We brought fishing gear with and were able to fish at night from our room decks, my son caught a large Catfish The restaurant cook supplied us with chicken skin for bait, a Thai favorite bait. We were able to visit a Elephant Nature park in the area, where Elephants are NOT exploited. You go there and feed the Elephants, make food for the Elephants, and then go to the river Kwai and bath the elephants, there is no elephant riding or exploitation of the elephants at this park. All the Elephants are rescued.This was a biggy for my wife and daughter, they wanted to see Elephants but did not want to contribute to abusive Elephant treatment.
After a few days at Float House we were driven back to Bangkok airport to fly to the Island of Koh Samui.I rented a FABULOUS house on the ocean there named Villa Manta( http://www.villamantasamui.com/)
We stayed there for 3 FABULOUS days.
We then flew back to Banckok and stayed 2 days there at the Chatrium Riverside Hotel. We had a private tour of the palace and the markets.
If I were to do it over I would spend more time in Northern Thailand, a few more days on Koh Samui and skip Bangkok.
I will never forget the smiling faces and helpful ,friendly people of Thailand.

One moment that struck me and made me VERY proud of our country;
On our private tour of the Palace in Bangkok our guide ( a HS History teacher) would walk to the head of long lines of tourists/visitors at the palace grounds, speak to the authorities there, then whisk us to the front and through the gates, this happened several times. The Guide would point to my family and the guard would nod his head and we would be motioned forward, no money exchanged.
After a few of these occurrences I asked the guide why we were allowed to pass every one else. He turned and said to me " You are Americans, You are GREAT friends of the Thai people, Your country is VERY STRONG we want you here"
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My girlfriend and I were in Phuket in 2016. We didn't stay on the mainland for the most part but on one of the islands just off the coast, Ko Yao Noi. It was far more peaceful and laid-back and there are some extremely nice resorts there.

As an aside, we flew via Singapore and had a day to spend there. If we'd known how much we enjoyed it, we'd have booked a couple of extra days there.
 
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You can visit the New Harley Davidson Factory as they are closing Kansa City that facility.

In Washington, union rips Harley-Davidson for closing Kansas City plant while opening in Thailand
Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 3:52 p.m. CT May 9, 2018 | Updated 9:30 a.m. CT May 10, 2018

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A labor union for Harley-Davidson Inc. employees was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, complaining about Harley’s plan to close its factory in Kansas City, Mo., while opening an assembly plant in Thailand.

The world’s largest manufacturer of heavyweight motorcycles has said it will close the Kansas City factory despite pleas from some members of Congress to keep it open and retain about 800 jobs.

Harley says it’s moving the Kansas City work to the company’s plant in York, Pa., creating about 400 additional jobs in York.


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But in a meeting Wednesday with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., members of the Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said at least some of the work was headed to Thailand.

“Part of my job is being moved to York, but the other part is going to Bangkok,” said Richard Pence, a machinist at the Kansas City plant.

Harley-Davidson has denied there’s a connection between Kansas City and Thailand.

“The plant under construction in Thailand is a separate and unrelated issue. Part of our long-term strategy is to grow our international business to 50 percent of our annual volume by 2027. The Thailand facility will allow us to be competitive and provide riders greater access to our brand and our products in an expanding global marketplace,” the company said in a statement.

Harley-Davidson also has a motorcycle assembly plant in India, where it builds the company’s popular Street-model bikes for foreign markets.

“Increasing production capacity in Asia is consistent with the company’s long-term strategy to focus on growth internationally. It is not intended to reduce U.S. manufacturing,” the company said.

RELATED: Harley-Davidson shuts news media out of its annual shareholder meeting

The shutdown of the Kansas City plant doesn’t affect Harley’s manufacturing plant in Menomonee Falls, which builds motorcycle engines, according to the company.

But that case is tough to accept in Kansas City, where the company has assembled some of its most popular motorcycles since 1997.

“I am being directly affected by a corporate decision that I had no say in,” said Pence, who has worked at the plant for 21 years and has the highest seniority ranking in the facility.

Pence, who works in machine maintenance, said engineers from the plant are going to Thailand to help set up that operation, with trial production runs expected this summer.

He believes that some of the Kansas City plant’s equipment, too, will be shipped to Thailand.

“They are going over everything now, getting ready to crate it up,” he said.

About 35 percent of the bikes assembled in Kansas City are destined for outside of the U.S., according to Pence, although Harley would not confirm that.

Asia has been one of the company’s fastest-growing markets, but over the years it’s also been a market with steep tariffs on U.S.-made motorcycles.

“We have been fighting tariffs for the 21 years I have been employed with the company. But tariffs are just a fact of life,” Pence said.

The union is critical of Harley for investing in Thailand while also receiving tax cuts under President Donald Trump’s new corporate tax plan.

“These companies are taking tax breaks with one hand and handing out pink slips with the other,” said International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President Bob Martinez Jr. “I’m going to call it like I see it ... this is a corporate ambush on working people."

“They should be reinvesting in America,” Pence, the Kansas City employee, said.

"We’ve found that this issue of corporations getting a tax break from the Republican tax law and then laying off workers is pretty widespread," said Henry Connelly, spokesman for Pelosi.

Harley-Davidson has said the Thailand plant will assemble bikes from components produced at the company’s U.S. facilities.

Harley’s U.S. sales have been sinking in recent years as baby boomers begin to age out of riding and fewer younger people step up to take their place.

“Unfortunately there is nothing that could have been done to address the pressure of excess capacity we have in the U.S. market,” Harley said.

Unless there's a huge rebound in motorcycle sales this year, Pence said, the company isn’t going to reverse its decision on shutting down the Kansas City plant.

“I think there’s going to be a big layoff in August and an even bigger one in October. After that, we will basically have a few hundred people left to finish out the Sportster line through the next model-year next spring. Then, that will be it for us,” he said.

“It’s sort of like the horse is out of the barn now.”

If he stays at Harley until the factory ceases production in 2019, Pence said, he will receive a year’s severance pay.

“But if another job falls in my lap before then, I will have to forfeit that severance and leave, just like a lot of my co-workers have already done,” he said.

https://www.jsonline.com/story...ity-plant/595901002/


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Been to Phuket and Pattay Beach. Main suggestion - get some tailor made shirts and slacks, maybe a sport jacket. Women's clothes too.

Also, they have some really nice/fine ceramics there. Pretty awesome.

Oh, and they LOVE to haggle. (really)


Awesome suggestion, I hadn't considered the shopping. Where is the best place to find these Taylors? We plan to spend at least a day or two in Bangkok.


Find a place with lots of material to choose from , it's what will be used.

Once you're measured they'll determine what style you want and negotiate a price. Remember, there's lots of these places as you'll see and they all typically used the same seamstress "company." Material used is a major factor in the cost.

Quantity always lowers the cost per item (ask about the cost for 10 shirts vs 3. Wink

Explain to the wife that the cost savings for tailor made clothes when compared to what the clothes would cost in the states nearly pays for the trip. It's the kind of girl math she'll understand. Big Grin






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Always look at the hands....


No, it's "always look for an Adam's apple." Wink






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My niece and her husband are part of the live abroad cadre. Despite their abysmal politics, they write a surprisingly good blog. They have a number of entries about what to do and see in Thailand

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I would prefer to stay home.

Why?

I've traveled the world many times and have been almost everywhere before Americans were targets.

Spend your tourist money here, but avoid Cali....
 
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I would prefer to stay home.

Why?

I've traveled the world many times and have been almost everywhere before Americans were targets.

Spend your tourist money here, but avoid Cali....


How does this contribute to the thread? You already got to see the world but now discourage other Americans from doing the same? Roll Eyes
 
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I would recommend checking out the temples and country side, it's eye opening and I would avoid doing that lady boys Wink.


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Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

downtown, was it really necessary to drop that turd in the middle of my thread?


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No, it's "always look for an Adam's apple." Wink


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