flyingdoc

Lots of good advice. I will look out in future!

Sound advice !

Obviously the standards will vary from hospital to hospital and depend on the quality and training of the doctors working there. My experience of Government hospitals is that they were excellent at all the ones I have visited, though unsophisticated in their approach ! Bumungrad is excellent but more expensive than private hospitals in the U.K. ! I cannot see them ever agreeing in a million years to the suggestion that accident emergencies should be treated free of charge for the first 72 hours ! Forget it !! They have pay desks on every floor to make sure you don't disappear without paying !!

What about people who have made their plans for up to a year beforehand, particularly in their gap year?

Coach companies who have to plan months beforehand in order to bring in participants?

A question of careful planning and dovetailing. Not all Universities abroad begin their year from August !

A veritable tradition is ending !

30 days!

What a cynical lot !!

Realistic?!!

There must surely be more accountability?

What is the logic for suggesting D.N's have a different tax rate if working in Thailand?

At least some people have been honest in their answers ! Interesting and in one or two instances, touching !

Total hypocrisy throughout !

What a sad indictment !

Yes, Immigration is now questioning people with 6 or more Visa Exempt entries, even by air. The problem is that one might need to go out for a meeting for 1-2 days during the original 30 day period, then one has accumulated 2 entries within 30 days, and that can suddenly start to add up very quickly.

Usually the British 3 pin plug, certainly in Yangon!

Yes, what sentences would they get in Thailand, if any?

It is possible to take preventative measures, but it requires a will to do so!

Unfortunate but stupid!

I guess that is the point!

O me miserum !

Elephants can not be domesticated - they are wild animals that can be tamed in the right hands !

When I went to register, I was told it required a Thai ID, so had to ask a friend to register it on my behalf !

Have any lessons been learned after the disastrous floods in BKK only a couple of years ago?

This is the second time this has happened on a Rayong beach within a year. The last time the Thai woman involved died within minutes. When will anybody learn or even care?