Lemsta69

380 baht in fees is robbery, plain and simple. But most Aussies I spoke to on the subject just couldn't be stuffed getting the 28 Degrees MC or the ING Orange. They prefer to use their Qantas travel card or those p.o.s. CommBank travel cards. Or worse, their standard bank-issued debit card which ends up costing them about 20 bucks for an ATM pull.

This desire to turn Thailand into Singapore is, as we say in Australia, quite simply "rediculous".

Good point. it's actually a Visa debit card not a MasteCard so it'll use the Visa retail rate. For the life of me I can't remember where to look that up. I'm retired here now so I don't use the card anymore. But when I was travelling before I used the card mostly as a backup to my 28 Degrees MasterCard credit card, which is "fee-free" except for ATM pulls. The ING card was useful if you found yourself in a situation where you need only a small amount of cash, say 5k for your last couple of days, or if you don't want to pull large amounts at a single time. I see they've restricted the ATM fee rebate to 5 per month but that's still a decent number. Imho this card is worth having in your wallet and ING issue them in Australia for free and there's no annual fee to worry about.

Private health insurance in Australia costs a bundle too mate. Unless you want to throw yourself at the mercy of the public system ????

Why ain't you using ING Orange Everyday MasterCard? Subject to a few easy to meet requirements they will rebate ATM fees AND they waive the usual 3% currency conversion fee. https://campaigns.ing.com.au/cards

It's a legit question too. Keeping the plastic on appliances and furniture isn't exclusively a Thai think like some posters want to believe. It's even made its way into TV and the movies. If it were me I'd ask the landlord/owner first just in case he's the OCD type.

Nice work Champ ????

good. it's difficult to cross Beach Road as a pedestrian because of bad-mannered drivers who think it's a race track. hopefully the Chinese tour buses return soon and turn it back into a car park.

what's the damage on a beer at those places now. Heineken if you don't mind ????

he probably means the spread between airport rate and whatever site he's using to compare it to. xe maybe, or Google as the young people are wont to do these days.

umm ... OP is changing EUR? ????

I'd quite forgotten about that website, thank you very much. So a 50 satang spread between Vasu and Bank of Ayudhya. Well worth going to Vasu if the OP has a big chunk of EUR to exchange, as seems to be the case. Presumably he brought mostly large denominations with him.

medtide.com was recommended to me on this site when I asked about getting cheap citalopram. they use Kerry Express to ship but the website is a bit average and takes a bit of getting used to. I use them to get cheap(er) escitalopram and rosuvastin.

the Holy Trinity ????

Vasu is considered one of the best money changers. Sukhumvit 7/1, near BTS Nana. http://www.vasuexchange.com/

PDF Split and Merge is a free tool that allows you to merge multiple pdf file into a single file. I used to use this in a corporate environment so it's "legit". https://pdfsam.org/

it's this boofhead still around, I thought he got cancelled already? ????

I think you're just being silly now. on ignore, peace out.

except that you can because that's how it works. thousands before you have successfully completed the process. just fill in the form, pay the fee and get your account new 90 day Non-O visa.

like I said, it's a convenient way of describing the situation.

I think maybe they're not explaining it very well. you don't "lose" it, it's effectively exchanged for a 60 day permission to stay. then marked USED so that the next immigration officer doesnt have to go hunting through your passport for the entry stamp. is this your first Tourist Visa entry?

it's just shorthand and makes it easier for the average Joe to understand. also easier than saying something like "FORM TO APPLY FOR NON-IMMIGRANT O VISA AFTER ENTERING ON A TOURIST VISA". Or something equally unwieldy. all caps used to mimic the TM86 form.

no, your don't "lose" your Tourist Visa. you're given a 60 day permission to stay and as a result the visa sticker in your passport is stamped "USED". The 60 days will be indicated by a stamp in your passport which can be on a different page to the visa sticker. you can extend that 60 day permission to stay once, for a further 30 days. I'm assuming you used the new e-visa system and had a printout of it with you. The officer taking that printout from you is, I suppose, the equivalent of the old USED stamp as described above. Plus he'll make a corresponding note in the immigration database. Look in your passport for the 60 day stamp. That will show you the exact date up to you are permitted to stay in the Kingdom.

well you kind of have to go to university to understand what all the codes mean in the filenames of the content you get from the "scene*. not really worth bothering about unless you're a high-def freak like me.

MKV is a "container" not a video codec so it could have had anything inside it. if you see "DV" in the fully name of anything you download then don't expect it to work with VLC.