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Welcome to the PECs website. Our Club, and this site, is dedicated to all of us expats enjoying the good life in Pattaya, and those of you across the world who would like to join us here. Our aim is to provide support for all Pattaya visitors, and for those expats already lucky enough to be living here. Plus, free helpful information for those of you who are interested in spending time here. When you can, please join us for any of our regular Sunday morning meetings at the Grand Sole Hotel, Pattaya.
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The Pattaya Expats Club is all about expats helping expats - all Nationalities are welcome. Whatever your question or problem, you can be sure there is another expat who has ‘been there, done that’. New friends who are ready to share their experience and expertise on anything and everything to make your stay in Pattaya more enjoyable and stress free. Free assistance on one year Visas, Health Insurance, home buying etc., so find out the facts BEFORE you make an expensive mistake. This is a great way to make new friends and talk over your problems or experiences, and also to get involved with some worthwhile projects while you enjoy life here.
To contact the Pattaya Expats Club:
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We meet every Sunday at 11.30am. (Doors open 1030am) All Nationalities are welcome. Please join us at our venue THE GRAND SOLE HOTEL, Second Road, Pattaya. Mid-way between TOPs Central Road and Big C 2nd Rd, on the right hand side.
Register for our free weekly programme e-newsletter. When you receive a confirming e-mail, click on the link to start receiving the e-newsletter.
Life Membership is just 600 Baht and only by personal application at a Meeting of the Club each Sunday. This one-time joining fee provides a Photo-ID Card - no renewals needed, many member services, Lucky Draw prize entry etc. Bring two very small photos and your card is prepared and laminated right away by our club staff. Our memberships process is open from 1030am until 1200 noon.
 Please suggest Main Feature Speakers for our weekly Meetings. Come up with ideas and  contact Dan Schwartz or Richard Ravensdale, PEC's Programme Managers. Give your suggested ‘lead’, with contact information, and let them arrange the talk; please do not fix dates in advance. This is not an easy process so your help will ensure you get the speakers/subjects you want. Email:
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NEWS...PEC has a new advertising sponsor with expert advice in its foyer expat expo display. The Pattaya Service Centre provides several new in-house advice fields for members to consult, which we have not had before - Tours & Travel - air tickets, taxi's, package tours and Property - real estate buy, sell and rent - land, houses and condos. It also provides Insurance - medical, accident, car, motorcycle, house, condo, boat, shop, office, travel and liability cover. Plus business services, company formations, contracts, work permits, visa, accounting, civil and criminal litigation and Notary services. The company has paid its advertising space at PEC until end of the year providing the club valuable extra income in low season in Pattaya. Come in Sunday's for free consultations on the above wealth of services.
Club TV Reports. Our PEC weekly meeting content has a generous segment on Pattaya People Television, (Sophon cable, Channel 12 & BTV Channel 4). But, do you live in the wide world outside Sophon or BTV cable area’s ? You can also view this Club resource via your PC too. Just scroll down past the print news stories on www.pattayapeople.com to the bottom of the homepage to ‘Pattaya Expats Club – TV’ a box on the left side. Click on links to view our current weeks report or any one of a library of past meeting video clips.
VISA For expert official and up to date visa advice and application forms, visit: http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/.
PEC has 4 different Emergency Help Lines. Call our expat rota of volunteers on 084 3489 501 for general & crisis enquiries. For Christian spiritual comfort call Father Theo Lewis 087 133 1601. Legal emergencies, please call Lawyer Khun Katrena Wannasakda 089 244 9709 (
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), or Khun Suthipong Trakulsak, 081 914 8193, (www.suthiponglaw.com) or our club email coordinator (
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The British Embassy's Pattaya Office representative is now Howard Miller who replaces the recently retired Barry Kenyon (British Honorary Consul) please contact his assistant, Khun Sasamon Khempookeau (cell-phone 081-782 7363) can be found at their new office (complete with bullet proof glass!)near the Immigration Office car park (Jomtien Beach, Soi 5), between 0900 and 1130 am each Immigration working day. They can provide many services including document authentication. US Embassy has 2 local Pattaya representatives for help. Gary Hacker call 089-803 0388, Bobby Brooks call 084-158 0785.
PEC Special Interest Groups – these are all FREE access for those holding a club membership .Two – fishing and golf incur costs.
Yoga & Relaxation group. With Donaat our regular presenter a very satisfying series of 10 sessions of about one hour, each Tuesday. A creative mix of basic yoga, deep relaxation exercises and preventing back problems. Yoga mats, supplied. Participants wear loose clothing. Location is his home, Soi 69, off Sukhumvit. Register in the club, name, e-mail address and telephone number, show membership card – a printed location map is available.
Golf trips. Mon, Wed, Fri. 0900. Meet PEC Finnish section co-ordinator Ossi at JP House, Jomtien soi 4. 081 851 9620. Show member card.
The Club's fishing trips are organised twice monthly now by James Duffy, call 084-8717649 for dates, or see him in the club. Trips leave 4am and return 6pm, usually from Sattahip. Show member card please.
Join our Badminton group – currently played by our members at Diamond Badminton Centre on Pattaya Third Road, near Soi 17 traffic lights, at 6.30 pm two evenings per week. Ask Meeting Manager Jahir, show member cards.
Free ‘Computer for Beginners’ class day Wednesday 0900. Tutor John Coughtrie. Course completed, another will start when sufficient number have registered. All PEC Members are eligible at no cost. Classes are at a reserved Internet Café, off Soi Arunothai central Pattaya, not far from Carrefour. Please show membership cards. Register with the tutor at Sunday Club meetings only.
At the Sunday Club Meetings:
Our ‘Club Shop’ (next to the entry ticket sales point) – has low cost polo-shirts with the club handshake logo and tropical blue silk shirts with our club palm tree motif. A range of light blue and mid-blue shirts, cotton silk mix at 379 B with club badge, now in stock. Plus a range of practical guides including author and guest speaker Tony Crossley's 'Condo's In Thailand, Your Rights' at wholesale prices to save your money while currency exchange rates are unfavourable.
The PEC's free 'DVD and Book Swap' table, on the left as you enter the meeting room, is a 'member to member' service. Donate stock and take 1:1. Please bring books, magazines and DVD's you've already enjoyed, and swap them. Our DVD stock is shrinking. Please be fair – This is a swap (not swipe) initiative! Plus, our take-away Information Centre leaflets, publications and business cards from hundreds of 'member to member services' in Pattaya, is open outside in the foyer display until the end of the meeting.
Pattaya International Hospital Health Desk has a medical team in our foyer. If unwell, make your way to the Health desk or alert staff immediately. Hospital admission is just a few minutes away - at Memorial or PIH.
  Another great reason to be a member and attend Pattaya Expats Club Meetings is that Lucky Draw Prizes are drawn each Sunday,examples - Little India dinner for 2, value 500 THB, The Nutrition Club health assessment & treatment plan, value 1500 THB, Dinner for two The Village Chippy value 500 THB, Boxing Roo Bar drinks value 500 THB.
We meet at the Grand Solé Hotel, 2nd Rd. Entry Tickets are sold from 10:30 AM when the meeting hall doors open. Speakers from 11:30 am, with Brunch, from 10:30 am till after 12 noon. Entry 120 Baht, (brunch included), which also pays for our excellent technical presentation facilities of the Grand Solé Hotel function room. The table plan is usually in friendly format tables for eight or ten - so please allow the 'gaps' to be filled by new arrivals at your table. We are a friendly Expats helping Expats advice forum.
In the Foyer Area is our 'Expat Expo', tables with information and staff from expert contributors in their field -
The Pattaya International Hospital table usually includes regular FREE testing of blood group and pressure, and on the first Sunday of each month blood-sugar level tests. (A blood sugar test requires fasting for 8 hours prior to the test). We wish your life-membership to be long & happy! 
Nutrition Club Co Ltd representative Khun Wan is always on hand to assist you to a healthier and stress-free lifestyle, with weight loss suggestions, diets, Nutrition questionnaire and tests on the spot or call 038-427747.
AA Insurance desk – has the PEC’s own ‘low cost group health policy’, now in its fifth year with a premium of 17,225 baht - please show your member's card to apply, plus a wide range of policies for those over 60 years of age, property, house contents and vehicle cover. See Khun Wanna, or call 038-415795.
Suthipong Law Center Co. Ltd, attends on a weekly basis. If you are a member and have a legal query, then this is your chance to get advice free in the club-house from lawyer Khun Suthipong Trakulsak. 038-373757, or 081-914 8193. Suthipong Law Centre is on 3rd Road between soi 21 & 23. (www.suthiponglaw.com).
Key Visa Co Ltd, represented by Darren Mcgarry, offer free advice on expats’ Immigration queries - please show your members card. Key Visa has a monthly update email service for members. Sign up at: (www.keyvisathailand.com). VISA RUN - Special offer for Pattaya Expat Club members 1,900 baht (normally 2,000 baht) only on production of a valid membership card. Contact
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Pattaya Service Centre - a one stop solution for Tours & Travel, air tickets, package tours, Property sales & rentals, Insurance - medical accident, car, motorcycle, house, condo, boat, shop, office and travel cover. Business services, company formations, contracts, work permits, visa, accounting. Legal civil / criminal litigation and Notary services. Contact K. Neng on 084 003 6030 or K. Jahir on 086 394 0863.
Please dress appropriately for a hotel setting. Thai culture is governed by respect, the way you dress reflects how you respect yourself and others. Notices banning beachwear and vests from our club function room are displayed outside the meeting hall and at the ground floor lobby. But we are informal, so open shirts (covering shoulders and chest) and shorts are fine.
  Why not come along next Sunday morning (10:30am Brunch, 11:30 Programme start) to the Grand Solé Hotel (in the Theppraya Room, above the lobby), 370 Pattaya 2nd Road (north), near Tropicana Hotel, between the TOPS & BIG-C supermarkets. Bring a friend.
For location, website & email see: (www.grandsolehotel.com).
(www.pattayaexpatsclub.info). (
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As ‘mother club’ in Thailand for live foreigners advice forums we assisted through the ‘Association of Thailand Expats Club’s’ similar clubs to be founded, with Constitution’s, in Pattaya city and from Chiangmai to Koh Samui.
Deutschsprachiger Pattaya Expats Club - Jeden ersten Samstag im Monat 10:00 Uhr morgens im Konferenzsaal des Wat Chaimongkon an der South Pattaya Road. An jedem dritten Samstag treffen wir uns an verschiedenen Örtlichkeiten in Pattaya. Jeder ist eingeladen. Fur Info: *Andy* 08 5095 7077. Alle Treffen und Termine sind auf unserer Internetseite: <http://www.pattayaexpatsclub.de.tl>)
Finnish Language PEC - PEC Suomen Kokous. Jokatoinen lauantai JP housessa, klo 11, Jomtien Beach Road, Soi 4. Lisätietoja Saat.
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, puh. 081 851 9620.
Updated 28 July, 2010 |
