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1 hour ago, AAArdvark said:

Does drinking bleach help too? 

For Americans apparently

3 hours ago, bangkok19 said:

The queues when checking in at Chiang Mai Airport are long and slow most mornings...  I'm sure having Airline staff sniffing through your Passport (as opposed to an Immigration Officer) will extend the delays even further.

There is no queue going in Chiang Mai anymore you must be kind of confused it was like that 6-8 years ago but it isn't like that anymore. 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I just hear quite a lot of cases where it is not accepted, mostly relating to driving licence renewal. It fails once, and I have to go home for the PP. or bring both, I see it as unnecessary!

Driving license renewal you need to show them your passport because your passport number is on your driving license that's why a Thai driving license is sufficient enough for using on an airplane or at a hotel because your passport number is on your driving license so if there's any problem they can pick up the phone and give them your passport number and they can find out everything about you from immigration. 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

So why did you take the passport? Why did you  need to lie about it?

Thai driving license are non-tight ID card is sufficient to check into a hotel all the hotel has to do is know your name and your date of birth. To register guest online if they even do that. 

So nothing has changed accept the scaremongering title of this article.

''or with a non-Thai ID card or a driver's license issued by the Thai government''

So I just keep using my mom Thai ID card! 

Why would you Stay for a year? When you could travel the whole year around SE Asia 

It's says online it takes 6 weeks for processing outside of the UK.  Through I heard people waiting 12 weeks 

All commonwealth citizens can vote in a UK general election..  they should make easier for Canadian and Nigerians Jamaicans Indians Pakistan. To vote 😝😝

Well at least these all grow on my yard.  I have heard that you make tea from iron weed.  I notice my horse eating it . Yesterday the smoke was hanging in the air here in Chiayaphum it had to be higher then 160

I have a gooseberry tree outside the bedroom window.  🤗

Dint worry wait until 220 in Chiang Mai is the air force going to send up their old fleet of planes and spray chemicals 

Temples in Chiang Mai are for just taking your photos giving fake 3 million from a broker to the mink not for laying in the grass. 

16 hours ago, Bassosa said:

That 3% commission is a bit misleading because in the end Airbnb gets its 15% regardless. Just means your guests are footing the other 12%.

I doubt that the people I was trying to help understand that you can do really well on Airbnb as a hotel. I'm surely not going to tell them because they simply won't be interested. A farang giving business advice? We all know that <deleted>'s not going to fly.

Bottom line, there are no cheap OTAs. The only one where you have a voice as a host is Airbnb. The others Agoda/Booking have such depraved business cultures that they don't even see their partners as human beings. I suspect they treat their customers pretty bad too. I'm reading things.

Reluctance on the part of Thai hospitality to offer an alternative like a website with direct bookings (either lacking the technical knowhow or just plain laziness?) means that Booking & Agoda are here to stay, at least for a little while and we'll have to endure their unethical business practices a little longer.

 

I'm actually being bullied by Agoda as we speak. Threatened to delist us because we apparently don't offer enough rooms (allotment) to their platform (even though they share allotment with Booking and we have a ton of rooms there).

In fact, the modus operandi for Agoda is often to delist first (out of nowhere) and then they'll tell you what you need to do for the ban to be lifted.

Shoot first, talk later so to speak.

Two nights booking 2912.00/night my take home was , 2600.00 meaning they take over 50%  I called them and within a few minutes they changed my takings to 5990.00 so if you don't watch your booking or call them you want get.  

I feel like singing another one bites the dust and another one .. .  

A local guy works in bkk hospital in ER number one cases of major trauma and deaths  are motorbike accidents in Phuket. 

I have never had to change a bank book with a new passport that is not correct.  I have changed passports at least 6 times in the last ten years at Bangkok bank and others still have the old bank books. Unless your bankbook full.

8 hours ago, Lite Beer said:

Many Embassies do not provide this letter.

Most Immigration Offices want the bank letter on the day of application or the day before.

Many Embassies do offer a afadivat letter and if you are doing the deposit route a bank letter on the day of going for your extension. 

I unclicked something now Agoda has charged only 10% on tomorrow booking   personally I don't know what the hell they're doing how can it be 50% for the last month and then all of a sudden tomorrow it's only 10% commission. 

A doctor is anywhere between 90 baht and 400. Could be mild dengue 

Embassy letter for a  monthly balance.  You just need the embassy letter (not older then 6 month)

nothing else fincial. Or for a deposit of 800k you need to go to your bank and pay for a deposit letter a few days before you go to immigration.  

Maybe the foreigners or the Russians had something to do with it that live opposite the night safari

FIP

There goes my condo rental 

Definitely won't affect an early warning system if it's defected. 

Copper head harmless unlike the king in my yard last week.