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When applying for a tourist Visa I always am in trouble with the hotel booking as I own a condo. Quiet frankly I am really one of those people that come to Thailand just for 3 months per year and every time they want to see a hotel booking my answer that "I own a condo" makes them pretty vary of me. I come here since roughly 7 years and I have seen most of Thailand....so then they ask what my travel plans are. Well...my travel plans are Beach -- Pool -- Bar rinse and repeat. Its kinda hard to show proof of that. I can send em pics if they want.

Chriso, when you travel just take with you a copy of the ownership of your condo ( called Chanot din), also the back side, where your name is written in thai letters, and the problem of showing your hotel reservations will be solved.

what you mean why i want to learn thai language? Why someone wants to learn a language where you live the next 10 years? i dont understand your question I live in thailand since 1,5 year and i will continue to stay here. In this 1,5 year i took always in laos a double entry tourist visa which is valid for 6 month. I didnt had the chance to make my driver licence an insurance and also its hard to get a bank account. I read that with an ed visa this all is possible and i can learn also the language which make it easier for me and my husband to communicate more than hello and goodbye. My husband is fillippino and in the phillippines everybody speaks perfect english but here its hard that people really understand you when you want to speak with them a deep english. So i choosed to learn together with my husband thai. But because we are 2 persons we are looking of course a school which is not so expensive. 830 dollar like someone offer is maybe for one person cheap but we always have to think on 2. So for us it would be something like 1660 dollar. So i dont know what is so difficult on that to understand if we are asking for a cheap thai study school??

Hi,

I am swiss and live in Chiangmai with my filipina girlfriend.i understand what you mean: go for NES ( New Zealand Education Services), you will find it on google.18.000 bath for an Educational Visa plus you can learn for one year whatever language you desire to learn, not only thai.Do not bother to pay more, the quality of education is horrible anywhere, so do not waste your money and take the cheapest one.If you need more information do not hesistate to contact me at [email protected] po!

I find it pretty sad to see how ED visas are being misused.

You would be much more sad if you see how public thai school are being misused by students who, after 10 years of College do not speak one word of english...Given the big farce which is education in Thailand I would not be concerned too much by a few foreigners who just pay a lot of money to have the expensive right not to have to cross a boarder in order to recross it 5 minutes later.They ' misuse' Educational visa BECAUSE of the absurd immigration rules of this country... and they pay absurd amounts of money in order to ' misuse' it!

The naive,Big Brother prone attitude of some people is becoming ridiculous...If somebody will post that from tomorrow only passengers with pink hair will be admitted in the Philippines, for sure someone will ask in Thaivisa if the new regulation is really enforced or not by airport officials!!!!!! The stupidity of immigration regulations is not as unlimited as human stupidity tout court....

Pattaya is of course seriously ideal as a business centre. In my lifetime experiences I can say honestly that most business folk DO truly very much want the availability of the sex industry for their chill out time after a day of heavy meetings and business seminars, and indeed WHY NOT? Surely this is a bloody no brainer and completely obvious to most sensible folk. Indeed this makes Pattaya completely ideal as a business meeting centre. So <deleted> why do not some of these nose in the air holier than thou sexually hung up prigs just get real and live and let live. Most ordinary decent folk seem to have no problem in open mindedly seeing the truth in this fact of life.

If the sex industry is not for your leisure time pursuit then that is rightly your choice and not up for debate but it is clearly NOT your choice to stop others from freely participating in such activities of course, so Pattaya surely ideally gives folk the wide and open choice of evening leisure time pursuits including fun and enjoyable sex based activities, and all as a release from your days of meetings and seminars etc. The fun of freely or commercially given and taken open sex, both for men AND women, is clearly part of our what should be harmless leisure time activities and quite obviously not just for marital procreation !!!!!!!!! This has been the case for many generations if we will all tell the truth.

I could not have said it better myself.A realistic, practical answer to all thise moralistic, hypocrite preachers..My compliments

LARGE COPRORATEE PLANNERS CANNOT LEAVE THEMESELVES OPEN TO SCANDAL...

This is a real jewel, may be he means that corporate planners prefer expensive escort girls to plain bar girls...

FAMILY TOURISTS CAN BE ABLE TO OVERLOOK THE SEEDY SIDE TO SOME EXTENT.

Another jewel.Family tourists are the one who choose Pattaya BECAUSE of the colourful side of the .' seedy side'.

What a bunch of hypocrite moralism.Pattaya is unique BECAUSE of the uniqueness of its sex tourism, period.

Pattaya without sex tourism would become a gray, polluted, noisy third rang beach within a poorly designed, chaotic city.

Pattaya with sex tourism is like an exciting and vibrant film set.

I think the only positive point out of this is that Thailand needs another location that isn't completely oriented around the sex industry, but provides all the foreigner-friendly services, so that corporate event planners could (maybe) book their conferences and meetings without everyone thinking it's just a mongering boondoggle.

Individual "family" tourists with very open minds may be able to overlook the seedy side to some extent, but large international corporate planners can't leave themselves open to scandal.

Unfortunately the reputation of the whole country is largely tarred with that same brush, so they're at least pushing against a headwind in the MICE market.

You simply can't be friend with thai people.it is not a question of language skills, their life is so shallow that friendship has no meaning to them.They tend to do everything in groups, but there is no friendship, only a meaningless togetherness in daily activities.This is obviously contagious for foreigners, living a life where depression, alcoholism and sexdependency tend to surrogate this lack of genuine communication.

You live in Thailand for the ease of life, the comfort, the relaxed atmosphere, NOT for friendship of genuine communication.it is the price you have to pay for living here.

How many people know that Thailand is ranking FOURTH in the world for number of murders pro capita?...Big surprise isn't it?Truth is there is a huge underneath violence, and when the standard smiles cracks, anything can happen, without any warning.Land of smile, land of murder....May be a good slogan for the next TAT campaing to promote tourisme??!!...

My advice is supersimple and based on personal experience: LEAVE Thailand and go to the Philippines.Plenty of interesting girls over there.I do not know even one long relationship in Thailand which stands: the few multi-years relationship are based upon ' giving up' and ' quite resignation' from the side of the foreigner.I wrote a short essay on thai women, if you want I can send it to you.In the Philippines 90 percent of relationships between local girls and foreigners are successfull.Here it 's the reverse.

My advice is quite simple: LEAVE

Wonderful video, but if you analyze Thailand thorugh each statement made in this video, you get really scary.Scary because we live in a society based on magical and ritual thinking, with a zero rationality level.

Critical thinking will be very difficult to implement into Thai schools, the main reason is in this video at around 1min 15secs.

That too could apply to many TV posting as well. As state at the 2:00 mark,

A well done video, maybe many of us should watch and learn from it. Thus truly reading the article and removing our slant from it.

'MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF THAI STUDENT WERE BELOW LEVEL 1 AT PISA TEST'

This meeans 50 percent of thai students being TOTALLY unable to analyze,deduct,thinking.

IT'S SCARING.We have to deal with those people every day...

Meet that special Thai girl now

You should widen your experience and try to meet girls outside of brothels.

THE DIFFERENCE BEING THAT THE GIRLS IN THE BROTHEL WILL PROBABLY BE MUCH MORE HONEST AND RELIABLE THAN THE GIRLS ' OUTSIDE'...

SADLY, IN THAILAND, IT'S NOT A JOKE.

yes, I trIED, and in short: YOU GET THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS!!!

Die anynody EVER see a thai kid ( or adult...) READING a book in public?....

True, but it's the world's largest low quality brothel.If there is a country in the world where most women are totally unskilled and uninteresd in sex, this is Thailand.It's easy to have sex in Thailand, but difficult to have good sex.It's easy to get into a relationship in Thailand, but difficult to get into a good ,meaningful,adult relationship.Any guy having experience with ' latina' will agree with me...

The knowledge of other cultures from the side of thai people is virtually zero.

So what they like or dislike in foreigners is based on some kind of childish emotional response, not on rational argumentations.

Do you take serious a child who tells to you he want to Boeman out of his room?....

Ok, I have a child in Thailand and I am not married.

I can't get a visa, so I do not go to Thailand, so I stop taking care of this child,

so problem solved.

Speedy execution?Is this a spaghetti western???And why drug related crimes require a speedy execution and other forms of criminality don't?Work for Amnesty International...

If prostitution forms 10 percent of thai national product, it should be encouraged and legalized!

This 10 percent does not take in account all business related to prostitution: tourism, hotels,taxi,transportation, and so on.If we take in account everything I suspect we could double that 10 percent.So we get 20 percent, take off at once this 20 percent and Thailand would collapse on the spot!!!

Furthermore prostitution is part of thai culture since thousands of years, it is engrained in daily life,habits,way of thinking, so the damage would not only be economical but cultural!

Bye bye thai identity where they are so proud of!

This is not a joke, thailand is good in servicing and all related business, and prostitution is on top of the ' sevicing' concept.

Furthermore 99 percent of thai male desperately need prostitution and use it, in a society where communication between sexes is so terribly poor.So :

WAR TO DRUGS

WAR TO PROSTITUTION

WAR TO ALCOHOL

Whalt will be over to attract tourists?....The 7 eleven?Polluted beaches?Traffic jams?Unliveable and ugly cities?...

They acccept 10 us notes, but they must be spotless.Their excuse to refuse them is; this banknote is worn/too old.So if you are polite and hand them a new looking 10 us banknote saying you do not have thai money, they will accept it.In fact the room where you will have to do os is always full, and they als do not want to lose face. I NEVER had problems with the 10 usd note, they almost always asked me if I had thai bath, I politlely said ' no', and problem over.

And it you have bad luck, well your damage will be around 190 bath, you will survive it....

It s the usual thai paranoia,i used to buy Sudaphed for my travel sickness ( quite effective) and now i Can't.

Alas many metaphetamine-like medications are quite effective for many medical conditions , so it's quite stupid to remove them from the market.

with basic insurance (which covers the absolute minimum and only a small portion of an illness), visa fees, living in the province with a small rent on a house, max two persons, no kids, no car, maybe a small motorbike then you can live on a 1,000 bucks in the Philippines. Obtaining a Visa is much easier there then in LOS.

yes, 1000 usd will do in the Philippines, if you can cope with horrible food, high criminality, zero infrastructure,typhoons, earthquakes, total lack of decent medical care ( with the exception of superexpensive Manila and Cebu), hig priced hotels, and so on.I lived in the Philippines for 2 years and I gave up.1000 usd will give you a much nicer life in Thailand, period. ( people are more interesting in the Philippines, but this is a different story...)

Some items cost the same like 20 years ago, some are more expensive.

I do not care if things are more expensive, as long as they keep being MUCH MORE CHEAPER than in my own country.If something which in my country cost 10 euro and here 2 euro, I do not mind if it's 2,10 or 2,20...Look at the global picture.If Thailand were not so dam_n cheap, there would not be so many expats living here, pediod.Right?

I live in Thailand since 15 years and nobody EVER asked for my passport.

The rule is never enforced, and if you stil lare concerned about that, just carry a copy of your passport ( first page) in you wallet, problem solved,

An ID?Why make thing complicate since nobody will ever ask you for that ' special ID'?

Another story is if this ID would give you some privileges, like reduced prices at musea, something like that.

But for this purpose a driver licence suffice, so no problem.