SONNY49

Chiangmai actually four stations: Airport Road/Mahidol Road, The old road to Sankamphaeng, close to the junction on superhighway on the left side if you come from the city, only NGV and open 24/7, Doisaket Road anotherone, and on the highway to Lampoon the last one. What I try to do is to choose the time of the day when I go and fill up. Will make a big difference. Yes, I agree it could have been much better, but the low cost of driving makes it up a little bit :-).

Cheers

If that was the first page of 4 steps you need to try a again, Did you get a popup message telling you to contact your local.office?

All this has been covered in the multiple page topic about online reporting.

I did it yesterday and got same result. Called customerservice who told me the page is only open weekdays. I will make a new attempt tomorrow. Just wanted to let you know.

Cheers !

Tried to do my 90 days check online a few minute ago. First step with personal information worked. After writing the patchacode, (three times) just come back to the same place again, and not to step 2. Am I doing something wrong here ? As far as I can see I followed the form exactly. Any ideas please ? I did use IE.

Sonny

Tried to do my 90 days check online a few minute ago. First step with personal information worked. After writing the patchacode, just come back to the same place again, and not to step 2. Am I doing something wrong here ? As far as I can see I followed the form exactly. Any ideas please ?

Sonny

Thanks for the good information. I hope you get your confirmation in time. Can you please provide me with the correct homepage ? Have been looking around and

most of them are only partly in english the rest in thai. Thank you very much.

ASK

The current exchange rate is around 4,02, you're likely looking at some exchange office's rate where a fee is deducted. It has not changed by 32% in the last few months... Looking one year back you get around 20% less THB for your SEK. Mostly because the Swedish Riksbank is trying to tackle deflation by zero interest rate and talking about negative interest rate or even quantitative easing (which failed in the US). At the same time, the Thai central bank cost of money is around 2% last time I checked.

Since tourism contributes 15% to Thailands GDP and the export sector makes up around 70-80%, it is clearly in Thailands interest to have weak currency and the PM has talked about ways to weaken it.

Hopefully, the stronger USD will kick up import prices in Sweden and thereby the inflation which would force the Riksbank to raise the interest rate. That will increase the SEK again. Fundamentally, there are no dark clouds in the Swedish economy other than the lack of housing. GDP Q3 2014 was 2,1% and 2015 is estimated at 2,3% by KI.

In the early 90's the SEK/THB exchange rate was 2,90. But that was before the Asian crisis in 97. I highly doubt we're going there again. If you're having trouble financing your stay (or regarding your retirement visa), have a look at surrounding countries. For example, the SEK to Malaysian Ringit (MYR) exchange rate has only been affected by 10-15% in the past year.

As a sidenote, if central banks can't fight inflation in a global economy, what's the point of having them?

Here is a thread in Swedish that might interest you:

http://www.thailandsforum.se/forum/valutakursen-2015-t13639.html

This is my thoughts about present situation: Open a account in SEK in a thaibank if possible, continue with my monthly transfers and convert them if and when the SEK reach a "decent" level. At least I get some interest in the thaibanks, but not in sweden. Invest (locked in) 3 months here have given me around 2,85 %. Have a separate account for healthissues wich gives me 1,5 % and the money are available if I need to pay an expensive hospitalbill. Any thoughts on my speculations will be most appreciated.

I am a swede, and I´m ashamed to read this and see this guy´s picture. put him in jail for a looooong time, and give him a hard time in there. have been working hard my whole life to get retired early and this guy and his "friends" will without a second thought steal my/yours money. SCUM !!!

I live in a housearea in Chiangmai and there are some soidogs but also dogs with owners who let them stroll around the streets. Some of them quite aggressive and walking back home at night can be an adventure. I did find a solution wich works for me, even if the dogs don't go away. I bought on Ebay something called Dazer 2, its an electronic device who send out ultrasound on a frequency the dogs can not stand. I let them come up to me (2-5 meters) point my device at them and push the button for 2 sec. the run away quickly. At least I have some protection and I realize that I can not get rid of the dogs. Price for the Dog-deterrent incl. postage from US was 36 USD each. Good luck.

Normal is up to 30 days early. Bangkok is now saying 45 days.

Went to Chiangmai immigration the other day and they told me is is changed to 45 before expiry.

I just ordered a new Honda City CNG and asked the dealer if it was possible to get or buy a manual in english. I know, but I just had to ask, even if I did realize it was not possible. The car will be delivered jan/march 2013. I am prepaird to pay some money for it. Have been all around internet to try to get an emailadress to honda in asia but no luck. Any good advices are appreciated.

Hi,

I had an appointment the 1st of Dec. 11.00 and my name was announced exactly at 11.00. I succeeded to make Extension of retirementvisa, re-entrypermit and 90-dayscheck within one hour ! Excellent service if you ask me.

Good luck !

Sonny

Hi,

This local agent have new groups coming in all the time, wich I use frequently, because I don't have a car (yet) : http://www.thaiteeoffservice.com/golf_information.asp

I have been here for a year now, and played with many different people from all over the world, (by joining Thaiteeoffservice groups) and now when some of them are returning to Chiangmai they contact me directly and want to

play with me again. It's fun to meet new people all the time so I find this way very useful for now. The prices he charge is maybe not residentfee, but still affordable.

Try it out and good luck !

Anyone who know where to buy melatonin in Chinagmai ?