bender92

I have a platinum Visa card from Bangkok Bank. No work permit. I do have a separate locked account there with 200,000 baht to cover any excess charges. Monthly payments automatically come out of my ATM account.

There is a solution

Ban all watercraft from beach areas therefore these dangerous killers will not be needed

If people want a speedboat to Koh Larn then use the Bali Hi - there is no need to have them running a ferry service from the beaches - and as for jet skis well we all know what we would do with them

Time for change - the local authorities have been unable to do anything more than talk about it - bring in people that actually do stuff and not just hold meetings

Ban, ban, ban. Please go home or stop complaining. You can't protect stupid people from themselves.

Go back home, find a nice girl with a job.

When the hell is this stupid shit going to stop. We report our address every 90 days and at extension of stay. What the hell else do these idiots want. They have computers update are address at the time of reporting and extending stay.

Oh dear. Don't like it? Go home.

Want to live in their country? Abide by their rules.

What a pig-headed comment. It's one thing to live in a country and expect people to fit in to their way of life, customs etc - but it's quite another to expect them to put up with stupid rules like this without complaining. How many millions of hours will be wasted logging millions of reports ?. I'll bet not a single useful end result comes of it (except the fines I suppose).

LOL. How many millions of hours will be wasted posting on Thaivisa?

"notifications can be made online"................just as long as you can read and write Thai that is.

They assume the landlords are Thai.

So now the other Thai women will demand a raise!

A prime minister with no international relations decorum ...a disgrace ! Using words like shirt front ? Putin has a black belt I am unsure what abbot has besides understanding Aussie Rules footsie

Just like the British Cameron who shot his mouth by asking for a creation of a separatist parliament in his own country by alienating the Scots

Whatever happen to manners this days ?

Shooting down a civilian plane is REALLY bad manners.

This is border runs and a drop in the Chinese no cost tours.

Hardly real tourism or something that should be targetted anyway.

But, people say places seem empty. So is this even a real number?

The area I live in Phuket is very empty. I know it's not quite high season yet, but I haven't seen it this empty at this time of year, for a long while. I rode along Rawai bay the other morning and there was a bunch of about 30 tourists being loaded into two boats for a trip to the islands. The other 20 odd speedboats were just lined up along the beach doing nothing, as were long tail boats.

That might be due to hits on the Russian economy.

Then why are all my favorite hotels charging higher advertised rates this year than the same months last year?

Because the Thais always do that, to make up for lost revenue. They don't believe that lower prices = higher sales volume.

So they get a 10,000 bribe to refuse a 100 bribe! Of course. But when the program ends, they will go back to taking the 100.

You can't be for real. No one is that stupid, are they?

So an unknown 'witness' trumps DNA?

Only four of them?

I thought it was usually about 6 to 10 of the cowardly scum to one foreigner.

Well, it was eight counting the iron bars.

You should let the engine cool down, some oil is still on the parts when it is hot, give it time to run back to the oil pan.

Karma got you. Don't cheat on your 'girlfriend' and you won't have any problems.

Prices in this thread are quoted in dollars because USD is the currency used in Cambodia; this is not some American-centric plot to distress Europeans. I'm from the UK but the international currency is the dollar. Most of the currencies in this region are either tightly or loosely pegged to the dollar, I get paid in dollars, and the currency of the country I live in is the dollar - why would I convert to GBP or Euro?

True. ATMs also give out dollars.

Have you considered Cambodia? The visa/work rules there seem less restrictive. And they definitely need help.

The street vendors are something that many tourists seem to love. On one hand the nation is pleading, rather unsuccessfully to date, with tourists to come back, and on the other they're removing the sorts of things that make Bangkok so attractive to a large percentage of those that do come here.

Tourist don't really come here for crappy market stalls, and even so there will still be plenty left

Actually that street is the best place to buy Buddhas.

wait, aren't the rebels the muslim extremists ????

Syrian rebels = ISIS

Maybe you should ask your boyfriend about it?

And the boys standing around him?

Boyfriends of some of his scam-victims?

Maybe he scammed and dated some men too!

Headline should read "Tourist Police Inundated with Fake Crimes for Insurance Claims".

I wonder if they will arrest any Thais who supplied the kids?

I feel sorry for Thailand. I thought I left that stupid 'political correctness' in the USA. She can say what she wants.