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Just wondering how many other mongers have found this hole in the wall ? The rooms are definitely small, but they are modern, and clean as a pin. The best of it is location. Basically right between Soi 5 and 7 almost on the Soi 7 corner. A single wide door is the only entry, and it does come with a tailor shop, but no Pattaya tailor routine here. It is just a business..... The outside of Suk at nite is not that loud, but the late nite beer and snack trade is right out the front door. As are the always available freelancers between Soi 7 and Nana. I know, many of these 'girls' come equipped with better tools than I have, but I have not had trouble with the beer goggles leading me astray so far.... I think I have picked up 3 different girls there in the past, with fabulous results. Good security guy there, taking down all the pertinent info, and never charged a joiner fee. Even when I had TWO of the lovely girls from Aviva come over for an in room workout.... If you like big rooms.... look elsewhere. These are small. And some dont have windows.... a good thing if you want to sleep till noon or later. Enjoy!!!!!! :blink:

Yeah, that's the problem in a nutshell. The folks in Kuwait know even less about how things can work than they do in Bangkok. All things there need to be routed through a Kuwaiti national. And of course they want their slice. If you offer a big enough slice, they can do anything, legal or not. But even just to start the business there, I need to have a Kuwaiti partner, even if just in name, and they want their slice of the pie also. The age old issue with doing business in the Middle East. They make the rules so that NO foreign national can do a business there without a local's name on it. And the locals all want a slice of it. some bigger than others. I expect the same treatment in Bangkok, but things there are comparatively less intrusive, and the slices are typically smaller as well. As soon as this all gets signed on the dotted line for this first project, I will pull the trigger and get my Kuwaiti parasite, and keep him for only about 3 months. By then, I hope to have a smarter business plan based out of a personal accounting system and do this all from Bangkok. There are many reasons, really, I don't have to make big investments in this business from a capital stand point, but it does consume large slices of my time. And it is required that I do the actual work while in the Middle East or India. So I am trying to keep the money OUT of the Middle East as best I can, to keep the exposure to a minimum. Thanks for any and all discussion in this area..........

Thanks Bundy, that tidbit of advice tells a lot. It means there is close scrutiny over the "name" on the deposit. I am going to try and get this done within a couple of weeks, and I will also be sure to put the account as an easy to get right name. Possibly try to use the Abbreviation as a possible authorized name. For me it would be GCSG. Also I am sure the account number or some such number is required also. It will all depend on how I set up the account, and how flexible the banks will be. If they allow the "allowable" names given to be more than one, such as my name as one, and a business name as a second, that would be ideal. I am sure I will need to spend a few hours in the various banks in BKK to see what is going to work for me. Thanks........ anyone do banking in BKK? Who do you use? Are they reasonable to deal with? English spoken well enough? :D

I will be heading to Bangkok soon, and I need to open a bank account there. I will use it for a personal account, and will wire transfer money into the account, and will use an ATM and a VISA card to use that money. I have heard that opening an account in Bangkok banks seems to be easy to do. My question is, if I have a business, based in Kuwait, can I deposit money sent to the business name into the account in Bangkok? When I set up the account, I plan to try and set it up, to accept money sent in to the account under my name of course, but IF the account is set up, and I put the name of the business into the records with them, does anyone know if they will take checks written to my business name, and deposit them into my account? This is a start up business, in the process of starting now. I have one large job pending award to me, and I would like to route the proceeds to the account in Bangkok. This avoids difficulties inside Kuwait as well as makes paying out receipts easier if done from Bangkok. Besides, this gives me the perfect excuse to visit Bangkok regularly. I will be trying to set up this account thing within a couple of weeks so I am hoping this new forum can help find me some answers from the inside. :D