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| Water, food, drinks |
| Tapwater is only for showers, use bottled
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Swimmingpools on hotels are normally also kept
in high bacterial control. |
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Generally it is safe to eat all kind of food,
both western or Thai food, but if you have a sensitive stomach, then you maybe should
avoid spicy food, but all food served in town are of high quality, so there is nothing to
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Then there is the story about travelling and
icecubes in drinks, you can safely have icecubes in your drinks, all ice served in town
are made by serious factories, and not made of some unknown standard water in the back. |
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| Personal security,
criminality |
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Most of the hotels offer free safe
deposits to their guests, use them to store your jewelry and cash. If your hotel not have
safe deposits, then ask where to find a place offering such services, there are shops
specialized in offering safe deposits. Wear only what you expect to use during the day,
evening or night. Do not leave expensive items on your hotelroom. |
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Do not wear jewelry exposed when you walk in
the evening or night, there is cases of hit and run thefts, where motorcycles passes by
and snatch jewelry or handbags, so be careful. |
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Specially be careful when walking on both
Pattaya and Jomtien Beachroads in the late hours. |
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Remember to have a travel insurance, make
copies of the insurance paper and your passport, and wear the copies in your handbag or
wallet, it can be useful if your are brought to a hospital. |
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Always keep you passport, airlinetickets and
other personal papers in the safe deposit. |
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| Health, illness, accidents |
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Malaria is not a threat in Pattaya,
but still mosquito bites can be irritant, so use drugs for repelling biting insects, the
drugs can be bought in mostly all convenient shops, drug stores, super marts etc. Ask for
help, everybody will be pleased to assist you, maybe they even offer to go and buy it for
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If you need medicine for light illness, then
you can safely visit one of the many small drug stores around in town. |
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| More serious illness can be treated in the
doctors clinics, that also are available around town. |
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Ambulance service is not a public thing in
Thailand, so if you need ambulance service's then call the hospitals in town, the have
their own ambulance service. |
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Ask hotelstaff or staff at
restaurants and bars, if you not feel well, everybody will be pleased to help you, if you
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| Hospitals see the page Emergency cases, there is a list of major hospitals in Pattaya. |
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| Traffic, walking, driving,
renting cars and motorcycles |
| Be careful when crossing streets, take a
special look for small motorcycles driving high speed and changing lanes. |
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Be careful if you rent car or motorcycle and
drive in town, Thai traficrules are sometimes overruled by what is convenient, so be
prepared to meet some other driving the wrong way in one-way streets, or somebody just
drive out in front of you. |
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When renting motorcycles at some the vendors on
the streets, you are asked to deposit your passport, do not, maybe the just keep your
passport i their bag, give instead a copy of your passport and a copy of your receipt from
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otherwise you will have the experience meeting the local policeofficers and will be fined,
which means you have to go to the policestation and pay the fine, and then return to you
vehicle and show the nice policeofficer your receipt, and get your keys back.
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About helmets, then it is possible to buy a
cheap helmet (they are available in all prices from 100 to 700 THB) in all
motorcycleshops, Big C, Tesco Lotus, Carrefour and many other shopping centers, but
bicycling helmets is also accepted, and can be comfortable in the heat.
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In cars, fasten seatbelts, special frontseat
passengers, otherwise you will be fined for that too, and the procedure is again go to the
policestation to pay your fine. |
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Fines can not be paid to the policeofficer, you
have to waste your time paying a visit at the policestation. |
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