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They were available for a spell at my local market .... my Mrs brought them back after spotting them, but I don't think the locals really knew what they were, and they are no longer there.. or perhaps have a short season. I had initially brought some back from a visit to town, complaining about the price, but I still bought them.

I knew quite a few folks who made use of Christmas Day to renew their Extensions if it did not fall on a weekend....I expect today to offer a similar opportunity for a quick and cheerful service. Obviously it is not busy and I hear a cheerful attitude could be found, with plenty of Santa hats... Be a bit busy on 3rd ,or whenever it is they reopen.

I live close to Hwy 36 and there is a lot of heavy traffic going between Rayong and Laem Chabang port... they get their foot down too early getting onto Hwy 36 at Sukhumvit, and too late lifting off coming the other way... dangerous junction onto a dangerous road with deadly U-Turns. .

You need to stop banging on about masks and get on with life... you are sounding obsessed. We are hardly ever wearing them now in Pattaya.. I haven't for over a week. But if I need to get on a bus up north, I would do so as Thais feel them still necessary....

Maybe maybe mightbe.... If I recall correctly last Songkran was expected to produce a rise and it was either well hidden or never happened... there are just too many variables most times to draw conclusions... and then the nonsensical cover-ups some countries perform.

That is nonsense and illogical. The very fact that the infection numbers were kept down in these countries is testament that their methods achieved that. Whether it was the right approach when Omicron came along is a more relevant debate. USA might be an example where mask wearing was poorly followed and over a million died because of it.

Well she didn't appear to be on the plane next to him.... perhaps needs a visa!

Well that one off fee, might be to use an agent, but without the need to 'fake' the 800k requirement. As I did, as I am too lazy to queue up at immigration. A really awkward Immigration official could do serious things to a person in this situation...

But they are not, so your point is moot.... To ridicule someone for choosing to wear a mask is in itself ignorant.

Yes, keeping Covid at bay in those countriess is now coming home to roost... so many never infected, and in the case of China, vaccines that are rumoured to be less effective. (And other vaccines that are not as effective against Omicron infection).

I think 2 hours of drinking potentially 365 times a year might have a negative impact.....

Get in the queue mate..... mine was a non refundable ticket but they cancelled the flight!

If you are suggesting I have never stepped foot in an agents office you are wrong, was in one quite recently. How would you even know?

Many many countries do not have a death penalty.... even if they do it is rare it is used on foreign nationals.

In a location nearly impossible to get to in any vehicle bigger than a motorcycle!

Sorry to hear that... it has been quite a saga on this forum.

By the book you would not qualify unless you got some money in the bank for 12 months. The renewal requirement required you to prove 800/400/800 kbaht for previous extension has been met. That is why I feel one is locked into agent use

My Mrs buys them at the local market... I buy a few, like spuds, but have no reason to compare prices.... I did once get a shock at what Villa charge for bit of greenery wrapped in plastic.

It's the law, and looks likely to remain that way too as the planned entertainment areas 4am closure proposal seems to be dying a death. NYE ends at midnight so still plenty of options.

You probably got a Non-Imm-O conversion (90 days) and then a retirement extension on that (+12 months). Not sure what the accident insurance card is but suspect it is the insurance banks are selling, as a condition to getting a bank account, You are probably locked in to using the agents again when it runs out, but that is no big deal and a long time away. You will need to do 90 day reports if you stay in country over 90 days, and if you do wish to travel out a Re-Entry Permit is needed. Care to mention how much that package cost you?

Sadly, does not reduce the chance of getting your head crushed by a six or more wheeler. Been a couple of those lately ....

I was but I used an agent..then I had to return it when the new one was to be picked up.

I don't expect they would be kidnapping people from France.. (Putin would !) They might make an extradition request, as could Thailand.

Read a bit further in Wiki... Stateless at first,[10] Sobhraj was taken in by his mother's new husband, a French Army lieutenant stationed in French Indochina.

Surely Nepal will deport him back to his 'home' country of France! Anyhow, has he not gone yet?