sabai-dee-man

The visa application makes absolutely zero sense! I'm going to wing it, and do an extension & border run. I'm just wondering if I should change the return date on the ticket to 30 days, and then change it again once in Thailand. Changes are just £45 a pop. Booked on Facebook Messenger... don't have a confirmation WHAT????? Erm....?! And on and on it goes! Totally irrelevant requirements, a number of which I cannot provide. Oh, and of course, the application fee is non-refundable if the application is incomplete, incorrect, or refused. ????????????

Stuff marked * for required that are absolutely irrelevant! And they wonder why people aren't coming in their droves!

Maybe the terminology has changed since the last time I did it... Visa exempt - stay 30 days Extension - 30 days? (Maybe 15 days... been a long time since I needed the "service".) Visa run = get another 30 days "visa exempt"? Bloody hell! You're not wrong, are you?! What a kerfuffle! ????????????

My ticket is 70 days duration (actually, valid for 12 months, but the return date is beginning of December), so if I don't get a visa, I'm sure there's no way around doing a visa run. All for the want of 6 bloody days! ????

Thanks, guys... will try the application now!

So, I think I may have just shot myself in the foot! Stupidly, I thought I could get 75 days worth of (visa exempt) stay already, but it appears that's from 1st October. My company's paid for my ticket (because I'm such a great employee! ????????) and they've booked the ticket on 24th September, for 70 days duration (figured a couple days short, just to be on the safe side!), but it looks like I now need a visa. The website for the Embassy in London is typically vague/confusing about whether I need to show up in person to get a visa (before I fly on the 24th). Can anyone confirm it's just a "simple" case of applying for an eVisa online, or must I go to London. Alternatively, can I get 30 days on arrival, get an extension, and do an old fashioned visa run for the last 10 days? As Blackadder would say.... "<deleted>!" ????

It's astounding when often you can find counterfeit products at 1/10 the price that are identical to the named brand. However, those many of those copies don't have the R&D and and investment/production costs. It's one thing copying a handbag or a pair of sneakers... not much R&D gone into those, but the mechanical goods are another matter. We had products copied in China and sold on Aliexpress within a couple of months of release, that cost us hundreds of thousands of GBP in R&D and tooling. I saw some of "our" products on show cars/bikes at the BKK motor show too... and I might add, liable to be very dangerous copies too.

Trigger happy cops in America would've probably just shot him just for being there! Sad to see the Yanks on a shooting topic almost salivating at the thought of emptying a magazine into someone.

I doubt it will matter who the owners are. They were probably on the first flight out of U-Tapao this morning!