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I'm relatively new to Bolt but I've no problems yet taking short trips by motorcycle and economy car around town in Chachoengsao and Chonburi. But I'm wondering about booking a motorcycle for two passengers -- me and my gf. I did this already this morning with no problem. I asked the driver when he arrived if it was okay and he said it was fine. I know that regular orange vest motorcycle taxi drivers sometimes ask for 50% more if there is a second passenger on the bike. This is fine with me. But then I ordered another Bolt motorcycle taxi this afternoon and the guy showed up with a Grab vest (!) and a Grab food container perched on the back. He then explained that I had to indicate there were two passengers in the booking process. I don't see where I can do this on the Android version of the app. Am I missing it somewhere? Anyway, I had to cancel the booking and ended up taking a regular motorcycle taxi off the street with no extra charge for the second passenger. I like not having to pay cash for Bolt but I would like to figure out the ins and outs of it to avoid these kinds of misunderstandings.

Good to know. As you say, for longer stays of more than 90 days, it still makes sense to buy an onward ticket to prevent any hassles with the connecting flight.

Thanks I appreciate your knowledge. So there are vans at the Udon Thani airport that only go as far as the bridge and then turnaround and go back to UT?

Good to know. I'd be happy doing the Patttaya visa run option but just wondering about possibility of DIY without an agent if doing consecutive 60-day visa exemptions. My preference would be to go up to Isaan and cross a friendship bridge on my own. In theory, there shouldn't be a problem since they are now "unlimited" but in practice who knows. Thanks again. I'll get in touch with Tod Daniels.

Cheers. Thanks Jack. So I gather there is greater risk doing the DIY land border crossing at Vientaine or Nakhon Phanom. I was hoping to combine the DIY border bounce with a visit to a buddy who lives near the border up there. Oh well. It could be a separate trip.

Actually in Chachoengsao so easy trip to BKK or Pattaya

Aside from Aranyaprathet, would you still say that land borders are a safer bet than flying into DMK or BKK? I have to do a second consecutive visa exempt entry early in the New Year and am weighing the relative benefits of Udon and VTE (or Nakhon Phanom and Thakek) vs. a visa run service to the Cambo border.

Hi All, I just wanted to share my experience with other members. I arrived at BKK on Nov 6 with a return ticket dated March 25. Since I had no visa and was entering with a 60-day visa exemption stamp, I assumed that I would need an onward ticket for my connecting flight in Seoul ICN. My point of departure was Toronto YYZ. Last year, I almost missed my connecting flight in Tokyo HND with ANA because I didn't bother buying an onward ticket. After much back and forth with airline staff, they finally let me board the flight to BKK. I didn't want a repeat of that experience so I purchased an time-delimited onward ticket before I left YYZ on Nov 5. As it turned out, I didn't need to even show the onward ticket in Seoul for my connecting flight. They never asked for it. Is this just a random thing or does it have something to do with the new 60-day visa exemption for Thailand. Or is this a difference in policy between Korean Air and ICN (2024) and ANA and HND (2023)?

A happy ending it seems. For now anyway. Its a family run hotel so the technician was a husband of one of the owners/managers. He was working away at it yesterday and got it up and running but it only lasted an hour before conking out again. Weird. But he was nice enough to give me my own temporary router in the room that is about 15 years old just until their system was fixed. It only gets 2 Mbps but it's a good back-up. They have a Cisco system of repeaters mounted on the ceiling every 10 meters down the hall. The one nearest my room was not working as evidenced by the different color light on that unit compared with all the others. Anyway, I talked to them again this afternoon, and now it's up and working again. I don't know what they did to fix it. But they know it's a problem so that's good. I was just relieved it wasn't anything at my end. It's their system that is at fault. Thanks again for everyone offering ideas.

Hopefully the technician can figure it out. If he can't, then I may go rogue on the hallway router.

Ok I asked the front desk to reset it again. They did so, it still didn't work so now they're going to call the technician. So that's progress. Thanks to all who have replied. I'll let you know how this IP configuration saga turns out. One thing I notice is just how messed up the hallway router is. It's a jumble of cables, it's no longer in its case and it's just sort of hanging off the wall. I've seen this several times before in Thai hotels. Whoever is doing IT is doing it by the seat of their pants. It's just like all the sea of cables one sees on the street utility poles. There is no effort to tidy it up. It's just a series of ad hoc additions, probably by unqualified people.

Maybe I'll sneak out into the hallway in the middle of the night and unplug the router on my floor and then plug it back in.

No router in room. There are routers and repeaters in the hallways.

I can connect on the ground floor, no problem. Same password throughout the entire hotel. The staff has already rebooted it for me to no effect. It seems like it is a more serious issue, probably how it was set up in the first place. It's not the end of the world as I have unlimited but slow 4G data on my phone although having the hotspot on for a long time burns through the battery. Well, I was going to buy a new phone on this trip to Thailand anyway, so I may look forward to connecting with that. Thanks for your suggestions. Really appreciate it.

Not connecting at all with the laptop. For the network adapter, there are two possible moves: one is to disable it, and then enable it again. Second, would be to uninstall it, and then it gets reinstalled on a reboot. I've read that sometimes it disappears however and doesn't come back so easily. I haven't tried it yet, but I will. I did try the google dns 8888 8844 but no luck.

I got a reboot from the hotel staff but I don't think I can ask for anything more than that. I don't have access to the router. It's odd. Could I be the only person in the hotel with this problem? I don't know. To be clear, there is a difference in the way the phone and the computer behave. The computer has no signal at all, whereas the phone has an unreliable and intermittent signal. But it's clearly not right. And yet, as I said, if I'm on the ground floor, the wifi works fine on both devices.

Thanks for replying. I did the dns flush and "forget network" but maybe that wasn't enough. should i go into registry to delete the network profiles? is this what you meant by deleting previous wifi settings for that SSID?

Hi, I'm staying at my usual apartment/hotel in Chachoengsao. It seems they've updated their wifi system from last year so that I can't connect my laptop or my Android phone in the room although I can connect on the main floor restaurant without a problem. The signal is fairly strong in my room so that shouldn't be a factor. It seems to be an ip address problem as the error message I get is the network "doesn't have a valid ip configuration." While there is zero connectivity with the Windows laptop, the phone did manage to get an intermittent connection but it usually only lasts for a minute to two before cutting out again. I've tried setting up a static IP address but there are some settings on their network that Windows 10 is rejecting. I told the staff and they rebooted the system but it didn't do anything. I've had some similar connectivity problems in other hotels in Thailand as the wifi can be wonky, to say the least. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Tommy has a thuggish past, but he is motivated the same concerns that Christopher Hitchens had. "Resist it while you still can, before the right to complain is taken away from you."

I've had tinnitus since my 30s. I probably had a genetic predisposition for it as my mother has it but I may have hastened by playing my electric guitar too loud in my younger days. Sound exposure is a definite no-no. It got worse after I got my first covid vax. It became sensitized to certain foods, most likely as a result to activating the histamine system (MAST cell syndrome). It has now mostly normalized back to what it was before the vax so that's good. I can handle it. It may be the result of long term inflammation so anything you can do to reduce inflammation from foods, stress, etc might be worth examining. I found Julian Cowan Hill to be helpful in his holistic approach.

I changed manufacturer soon after starting. I only bought 10 tablets initially just to see if it was helpful and tolerable.

The dosage was the same. I bought Pencor 2 mg and split the tablets in half for the 1 mg starter dosage. The tablets actually have the same shape for all the manufacturers. The 1 mg is circular. The 2 mg is oblong, the 4 mg is square. So you have an additional cue about what the dosage is. While it could be some variability in the manufacturing process, it's also possible there were other factors involved. Foods I ate that day, sleep, etc. Still the problems disappeared when I went back on the Cardoxa. Strange. Thanks again for all your advice, Sheryl.

Just posting an update on my doxazosin journey and an additional question. After my false start with the Cardura XL (totally my fault to try to cut the tablets - bad move!), I began taking 1 mg of the standard immediate release version of Cardoxa. No significant side effects and I noticed it was working after about a week. I'm up to 2 mg a day and happy with the results. I may try going to 4 mg just to see it if can get better still. However, when I was running low on my initial supply of Cardoxa, I decided to buy Pencor as it was 10 baht cheaper per 10 tablets. A couple of posters mentioned it positively, so I figured why not. But the first day I took the Pencor I felt dizzy and out of sorts for a few hours. I also found that they were less effective i.e. my urination was more frequent and the flow not as strong. The next day I went out and bought more Cardoxa. Again, no side effects and my symptoms improved. My question is: has anyone else experienced this variation in generic drugs? Both Pencor and Cardoxa are supposed to be the same drug (doxazosin) and yet I had different reactions to them.

Are there readily available generic versions of Tamsulosin in Thailand? I have read that doxazosin is a more common medication for treatment of BPH in Thailand, and maybe in Asia as a whole.

Thanks for sharing. Wow, that sounds worse than me! Is the Pencor calibrated to be the same as Doxazosin then -- so a standard daily dosage is 2 or 4 mg?