Crossy

Let me clarify something. When you lose a passport you can get a new one at your embassy if you have the correct documentation. No they will not write in your passport that this passport replaces passport xxxxx.

Actually it depends upon the embassy. The Brtish Embassy in Rome marked mine on the notes page "This passport replaces passport number xxxxxx reported stolen". Not that it really matters.

Two possible scenarios are likely to unfold here. #1 the immigration

officer will give you a visa-exempt entry but only until October 28th.

#2 the immigration officer will realize how ridiculous this all is and give

you a visa-exempt entry until November 10th. I'm betting on #1.

I tend to agree with Cali, rediculous as it seems they are most likely to stamp you to the end of your 6 month period (it's easier for them to work out). You'll then have to do another border run wherupon you'll get a full 30 days.

If you can obtain another tourist visa there will be no issues.

Birmingham and another city starting with C seems to have been mentioned recently.

That would be Cardiff, another pretty friendly consulate

There is nothing illegal about flipping your passports.. It is a commonplace occurance and 100% normal and legitimate to travel on multiple travel documents.

Why this seems to baffle and amaze single passport holders is amusing to me..

Any time an immigration officer asked about my transit history.. I would just explain 'I used one of my other passports'.. End of problem.

Yep I do it too (two British passports)

I would note however that using multiple passports to circumvent the 30 day visa-waiver restrictions is certainly against the spirit of the law and is probably illegal. Quite likely to get caught out.

Our OP should have no problem getting a police report, after all they aren't going to know he's on overstay. Got to get his new PP before doing anything else, then it's off to immigration with his best clothes on, 30k in his pocket and his lawyer at his side.

As far as I can tell there is no defined requirement that the income for a retirement visa be a pension, so long as you're not working in Thailand there ought to be no problem.

You should be able to get an income letter from the embassy against your offshore salary, otherwise get 800,000 Baht in your Thai bank (needed for 3 months to get the retirement extension).

This is actually something I intend doing next year upon attaining the big five-oh, I too work offshore.

Let us know how you get on

There are free, government approved, ready to build, house plans here http://www.crossy.co.uk/Thai_House_Plans/ courtesy of the Shinawatra regime.

Even if you don't use one of them, they're a good source of ideas

EDIT The original Thai site seems to have moved (again) anyone know where it's gone this time?

EDIT 2 Found it http://subweb.dpt.go.th/pip/house_model/framehome.html

Just about all of the above posts are depressing me. Just checked yesterday and our 2 year old Ford Ranger Hi-Ranger 2.5L turbo diesel got 9.6km/L on a 300km trip. I love the truck but am now wondering if Ford has a vested interest in any of the oil companies.

Unfortunately Ford had the deserved reputation for being fuel guzzlers. Last year they came out with their new common rail Diesel. I had an article that I now can't find that said the economy improved over 25 percent. During the road tests, Ford came in just behind Isuzu/Chevy for number two in fuel economy.

Yeah the new common rail is far better, 12 km/L without too much difficulty from my 3.0 XLT 4x4

If it's that far out it should be easy to check against another vehicle, just ride along at an indicated 50kph and get someone to pace you, then tell you what their speedo reads

If it's wrong, time to visit the bike doctor

Guilty as charged M'lud

I still drop in Korean and Cantonese ones too, not been near either country for 7 years, seems the idioms and rude words never get erased

You can get a re-entry permit at immigration or at the airport, 1000 baht for a single entry. This protects your current permit to stay stamp.

You need photos and the fee, fill in the form at the desk. Can take up to an hour at the airport (2 or 3 at immigration) so make sure you have plenty of time. Unfortunately the airport desk can only be accessed once you've checked in, So no last second check-ins

When I was using gasohol, there was a definate falling-off of performance as well as a slight increase in consumption, not 10% probably more like 5-7%.

I also noted the occasional 'bad' tank of fuel, which got sucked up at a prodigious rate accompanied by really awful running, possibly as a result of water being absorbed whilst in storage.

Can someone help me figure this out without asking Thai Imm.??

I recently entered from VietNam with a "tourist visa" which I assumed was valid for

2 months plus the optional 30 day extension. 90 days, sound right?

Well upon arrival at the airport in Bangkok, I received a 90 day stamp......"admitted" Sep 02, "until" Nov 31st.

Does this mean I must use my ext. and leave before Nov 31st, or,

was it stamped incorrectly, giving me 90 days, plus my ext.?

Totalling 120 days? Hmmmmm.

If you have a TV and have been stamped for 90 days this is incorrect. If you don't get it fixed and stay the full 90 days you'll be charged for 30 days overstay as you are only entitled to 60 (it is your responsibility to ensure the stamp is correct).

What is the 'visa class' shown on your visa?

Why would you not want to tell immigration?

Naka is correct, no can do, you'll need to go to a nearby country to obtain a Tourist Visa.

Penang is popular, agents will handle the whole process for a nominal fee.

If you use the bum-squirter first then TP to dry off there's no nasty products in your bin, just wet paper

A very dark (but visible) screen suggests a failed backlight, so it's probably a coincidence that it all went pear-shaped during a software installation.

I suppose it's possible that you've accidentally hit the keystoke to switch to an external monitor, so before running to the repair chap, try hitting whatever keystoke that is supposed to be (time for the manual).

If that doesn't help then it's going to need a visit to the doctor I'm afraid, not a DIY (or unfortunately cheap) job

Rescue helicopters arrived to airlift “victims” to hospital.

I don't this is an accurate statement. I saw/heard no helicopters until about 1 hour after the acccident, at which point a single helicopter flew overhead going towards the airport. I did not see it return...

Simon

That quote is referring the the drill that was performed a few days before the accident (post #699) which is why the word 'victims' is in quotes. Evacuation choppers were definately not available on sunday

I find it amazing that Phuket airport are admitting that they don't have adequate equipment to deal with this type of accident. They also seem to have been very slow in deploying the fire control equipment, looks like they took at least 3 minutes to arrive. I doubt they could have saved my mate (his wife says he took a serious blow to the back of the neck) but I'm sure they could have got many more out.

Wonder if there is any mileage available in suing the airport authorities of their lack of facilities.

Also from this article http://bangkokpost.com/News/23Sep2007_news03.php[/url]

As for the data recorders which were sent to the United States, he said, the information on the cause of the crash should be made available in a month.

So now it's a month before we'll see any information from the CVR and FDR. What next six months? By which time most people will have conveniently forgotten about his tragedy.

Now a similar hard landing incident at Hat Yai, IMHO it's time to ground this airline until they employ some pilots!

A spokesman for Seagate, which recently acquired Maxtor, said the company was investigating Kaspersky's findings. "This scenario seems unlikely because the 3200 does not have any software preloaded on the drive so there is not an opportunity for a virus to be loaded," he said. Yes the drive is formatted but I have never heard of a virus that lives in the master boot record."

The report comes days after the discovery that Medion laptops shipped to stores in Denmark and Germany were infected with a 13-year-old virus. "Stoned.Angelina" was a low-risk virus that infects the master boot record of a hard disk. Apart from its ability to replicate, it carries no payload.

Some people should not be allowed to talk to the press

Particularly 'spokesmen'

Black boxes from crash to be sent to US

Department of Civil Aviation will send black boxes of the ill-fated One-Two-Go plane that crashed in Phuket to the United States on Friday so information can be extracted in order to find the cause of the Sunday's crash.

Department of Civil Aviation chief Chaisak Angsuwan said the extraction will take about a week.

More from the Bangkok Post here.

Hmmm, I thought they said they were going to send the boxes to the NTSB on monday, as soon as they were located. If they had we would have information by mid next week.

After that, information will be forwarded to a committee investigating air crash, which will be chaired by permanent secretary of Transport Ministry, to verify the information.

Mr Chaisak said information will be revealed to public briefly, adding that detailed information will not be made public as they do not want to point their finger to the one responsible for the crash.

Pardon me if I seem cynical but the Permanent Secretary is going to 'verify' the findings of the world's most respected crash investigation organisation??

No detailed information to go public. Not going to point the finger eh? Sounds like the start of a typically Thai cover up.

Hey, Crossy, thanks again for your advice about keyboards and languages. I tried it again, and this time it worked, and I don't have to wait until mañana to write in español!

No problem PB, we learn something new every day, I found out about the Format Painter in MS Word only last week, been using the application for longer than i care to remember

For the OP, this is the languages/keyboards thread we're talking about http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...p;#entry1533621

I'm getting worried, my flight from MNL gets in at 10.45 tonight, wonder how long the lines will be. After a full day at the office and a flight (only 3 hours admittedly) what I don't need is a line as long as the flight

Meanwhile, I found this whilst looking for something else (note the URL), not Thailand related directly, but we think we have it bad in LoS http://www.netstumbler.com/2007/09/18/my-w...-delta-airlines

Acquiesce,

Your missus is definately a looker.

Nice one

looks like a fish

lol, it is a strange picture

I think she looks more startled, I wonder what it is that scared her, maybe Acquiesce member status :D

Most definately cute though

EDIT BTW, how has this thread managed to get to 15 pages? I thought that discussion of prostitution / bargirls etc. was prohibited.

Certainly if you renew a full passport in the UK you are now given (some) credit against the un-expired one, IIRC it is 9 months.

Evidently, overseas missions are now also doing this (they didn't to start with). I wonder if BKK will be implementing this useful facility

I got mine at Bangkok 3 months before the old one expired. The new one expires 10 years after the date I picked it up, so I "lost" 3 months.

Yeah. IIRC the UK passport office only started doing this last year, overseas missions did not implement untill (apparently) very recently.

We shall see, my main PP doesn't actually expire until 2012 but it will be full by this time next year, time to start using the alternative

If it's coming FedEx or DHL (or any other courier) you'll get hammered for duty, VAT, storage, 'clearance' and any other miscellaneous charge they can think of, figure on at least 60% of the CIS (Cost Insurance Shipping) total.

To be honest a low-cost flight to Singapore may well be cheaper.

EDIT The 'gift' tag very often works if you're using the regular mail (never does with the couriers) as it gets less scrutiny by our friends in customs, definately not guaranteed though.

Colin Denny, a close mate who sadly lost his life in this crash was a dual British / American passport holder, so the Garudian are at least partly correct.

Sorry to hear that Crossy

Unfortunately these things happen, his wife Bee got out. She's still in hospital in Phuket (happily not in danger), five of her family drove down from Chiang Rai (in a 2 door pickup) to be with her. Colin's daughters from a previous marriage arrived yesterday for the identification task. Funeral will be in Bangkok, hopefully next week.

RIP mate