Lemsta69

When they start showing me respect by not price gouging because I'm a dirty foreigner then I'll return the favour. Until then...

I used them in December 2021 to get a "15 month Retirement visa" 😉 Didn't know about all the various card options at BBL when opening my first TH back account so was disappointed later to find out that they'd given me a UnionPay card. Even more disappointed almost a year later when I got a text from BBL saying that we will deduct ฿589 from your account next month for card renewal. Lolwut? 😂 Had to go all the way back from Bangkok to Beach Rd to get a real MasterCard debit card. I don't know if UnionPay card is still the default at that branch but worth keeping in mind for anyone that plans to go this route. MC>UP imho.

I was hoping to get away with not searching for the thread, still hungover from last night LOL. Here it is ... https://aseannow.com/topic/1309621-ranks-and-badges-after-maintenance/#comment-18443777

Head over to the Forum Support Desk, that issue has been covered by George.

Because they've never encountered the issue so they think you're making it up or trolling.

Never heard of it so looked it up; seems to be a Quensland thing. In Sydney they were "longnecks" or simply "bottles" although the latter wasn't widely used by the time I started drinking.

Sure thing bud.

As a favour or just to make it easier on themselves? I briefly did that sort of work in the early '90s and the less you had to do to complete each of the hundreds of tasks in the work queue the better. Especially on a Friday arvo! 😅

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He wants to let us know that he's more Thai than we are. He's personal friends with Lamyai don't you know (whoever that is 😅)

I guess you have read all the banking-related posts from the past year or so. There's been a major shift following the China visas scandal and opening a bank account in Bangkok is much not difficult than it was a year ago let alone 20 years ago. Directive from BoT supposedly. Siam Legal stopped offering their services for tourists and according to some posts, even in Pattaya an agent will only do it if you have a certain amount of time left on your VE or TR.

Not as farcical as where you're from now that they've let the barbarians through the gates and gave them the keys to the Kingdom. Thailand is Paradise compared to that (allegedly) once-great Nation so enjoy it in the time you have left.

Yes I'm aware of all that. I was responding to Liquorice's post about his friend who was allegedly rejected at check-in Stateside for an EK flight because his onward ticket was ex-DMK not ex-BKK.

OP is taking about Pattaya. Until recently all you had to do was hand over passport and wait a few minutes.

100 baht for smart-arses like me who already use them for visa/extensions. I don't know what their service fee is for TM47 only or even if they're willing/able to provide such a service. Hard to know with these agents, their bread and butter seems to be the headline stuff like visa$ and exten$ion$. Eg. they want ฿6k to do an extension to a visa exempt which is out of step with the ฿12.5k for a non-O extension. Not sure if that's a "go away" price or if they're just passing on the cost of the contribution to the Immigration Policeman's Ball.

For some people going to the office is no hassle at all because they either live close by or it's on their way to meet up with friends or whatever. Or like me, I could use it as an impetus to get out of Bangkok and spend a few hours down at the beach. At Jomtien it was simple; hand over passport, wait a few minutes, and hey presto reporting complete and receipt with new reporting date printed for you and stapled in your passport (even though that's "illegal" LOL).

I did my first and only in-person 90-day report at "CBI" Jomtien at the start of September and all you had to do then was hand over your passport, take a number, and sit and wait amongst the great unwashed for a bit. They even had free water, albeit unchilled, in their cute little CBI branded plastic bottles. So yeah, having to go from "easy as" to the new rigmarole is understandably frustrating for the Pattaya types. Obviously I'll be using the agent that handled my visa/extension from now on.

This is the part I don't get...if you bought the cheapest ex-BKK ticket just to satisfy the onward travel rule then how could you use it in the case of denied entry? The el cheapo tickets are non-changeable so won't be of any use and a new ticket would have to be bought anyway. If EK got fined like your friend says then maybe it was Immigration taking the pish for a percentage kickback from the $10k penalty or whatever it is now 😉

Oof! A few months after I moved into my first ever rented condo in Thailand they proceeded to start tearing down a nearby building floor by floor with concrete saws and jackhammers. Luckily for me the windows are very thick so the noise was minimal with them shut. Which was 24/7 as it turns out thanks to the PM2.5 and mosquitoes even though I was on the 14th floor! The aircon makes a big racket as well despite the hefty rent, another thing I wasn't prepared for and had to quickly adapt to. Living here as a retired expat is quite the different experience compared to being a cheap backpacker down the "Koh San Road".

Until the wrecking crew moves in on the building next door 😉

This is my first time living in Bangkok as a "normal" person versus my previous life as a cheap backpacker in the Khao San Road/Soi Rambuttri area. I must admit I'm shocked at the poor value-for-money one gets here now. At least it seems that way, my cheap charlie phase was the late '90s/early noughties so the memory is a bit hazy. Also I prioritised beer over food back then so the 20 baht street food was good enough for me. "Fancy" restaurants were Pizza Hut and KFC 😅

LOL thanks 😁. Can't say i'm a massive fan of the modern muscle cars, they just don't have the soul of the earlier models, but I'd take a roaring screeching new V8 Mustang over a Tesla any old day of the week.

Bogs Smith and BabyNok have cornered the market on original thought, no need to go any further than their daily innovative musings. Well every other day thank Gawd.

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I chose to live in Central Bangkok and it's working out great. The only downside is that I can't afford to eat at the posh restaurants, of which there are many.