Phil Conners

Tim Newton referred to this post on his Youtube channel today. I'm not sure what are the rules for linking these days, but search for Tim Newton Live *LIVE - Thailand's 'invasion', and all your questions & comments - February 3". Essentially his take, which I agree with, was, one thing is the rules, but in reality just keep trying branches until you find one that will open an account for you. TiT as they say.

Yes, living there, but not as a tourist. You won't be able to open saving accounts in USA or EU without a SSN or similar, which you won't get with a tourist visa. As far as I remember you always needed some form of non-o visa to open a savings account in Thailand, not sure if/when that changed.

Hi George. I didn't know you could get a bank account with a tourist visa. Is that possible any other place in the world?

Did anyone try the #71 train from Bangkok to Ubon? There is preciously little information about it available online, at least in English. I'd be curious what classes are available and how crowded it typically is -- and any other personal experiences anyone has with it.

Debit card is fine for this as long as you got balance for the deposit required. They normally don't take the money, it's just frozen until the bill is paid.

Thanks for the replies and good info - and sorry for my late reply! My wife and I are going together. We were thinking about going to Pattaya for a couple of days first, but decided to go up to the village near Kukhan, Sisaket, directly. Taking the overnight train would have us sit around all day, and after a 10 hour flight we probably don't have energy to go shopping all day. Long story short, I think we will take a driver / limo service / uber / taxi for the trip up and take the sleeper when we go back. We used to have a regular driver, but haven't been back since 2019 and I guess a lot has changed since then? Any recommendations?

Planning to go up towards Ubon Ratchatani and thinking about ticking an item off my bucket list, overnight train ride in Thailand. Normally there are lots of travel videos with people taking trains around the world but not so much to Issan. I found the one below which in spite of the titillating title actually only have a few minutes of the actual train experience. I was wondering if anyone have experience of this they would like to share?