KimSamui

What rant are you referring to? 

18 minutes ago, redpill17 said:

First, that's Bangkok problem not related to Samui. So funny!

Round-trip is 2500b per person on promo now. And it's A319, not ATR72.

I see at least 6 flights per day.

Is it really that bad? I flew turboprop with Nok Air, it was very comfortable.

I'm sure airlines are making losses right now. There's simply not enough domestic tourists to make hourly flights sustainable.

What I don't understand is why Bangkok Air still hasn't re-launched at least one flight to Chiang Mai.

Yes, roadworks are slow, but now it's the perfect time for maintenance if you ask me. Wouldn't want to do it in the tourist season.

Why? Still plenty of businesses open in Chaweng just outside from Beach Road.

2500 baht round-trip and many hotels on sale, I don't see how is that pricy.

I guess you have not done the flight? 

 

It's 2,500 One Way limited seats and times. NOT ONE-WAY. And yes it is the ATR that is on special as well as the 319 which fills quickly. 

I spent a around 40K all up for 5 days...How much did you spend? and when did you travel? 

So the 11k I spent on return tickets was imaginary? Or that it's not expensive? Especially with the current prices on offer currently all over Thailand for flights and accommodation. Plenty of excuses Mate and no actual experience.

I really hope Samui gets some Government attention and priority to it's plight.

I am truly looking forward to going back as soon as things improve a little. Samui Residents I hope things get easier for you.

Yes I will drive there next time. It took a total time to travel by car, then aircraft very similar to what it takes to simply drive and catch the Ferry. Far less expensive, and annoying to Drive to Samui than fly during the current COVID era.

What a disappointment my domestic trip to Samui. 

Suvarnabhumi Airport only ONE, of THREE Multilevel carparks open, The Carpark is Totally Full, cars left in neutral to push out of the way, get your own car out later.

Samui I love the place but how things have deteriorated and the problems associated with Bangkok Airways seem to have worsened. The Bangkok Airways flight 11K return two people. Only a few Flights each day, All Full. Cheap seats on the ATR72 for thrill seekers. Generally this must be hindering the arrival of Domestic Tourists and limiting any sort of revival.

Car hire was unavailable at the Airport despite the huge numbers of rental vehicles parked outside the Airport, I booked ahead no problem.

The Ring Road is Torn up around the Island with Drains being installed at what seems crawling pace. The roads, and generally everything is reminder of having lived there during previous natural disasters.

Sadly Chaweng is barely suitable for Tourists anymore, Lamai is nice and has a strong local population and some businesses open make it pleasant despite many business closed.

In short it's a pricy trip, and you get what you get:(

I did my 90 day online report a few days early. 

The application was still pending after a week (No reply & the App was not working) so I went to immigration with a copy of the Online TM47 Receipt on Tuesday (Special Holiday), and then again yesterday where they processed it 

at the original date a week ago, so I got less than 90 days.

The whole process at Blueport HH took 20 minutes as there were very few people there.

What a nonsense these reports are. Unnecessary stress, travel and expense.

FED UP WITH EVERYTHING

My Doctor yesterday told me to wear a mask, so I will follow his advice.

10 years retired here.I have found that the longer I live here the less I know about Thailand its people and its culture.,or so it seems.

Or want to

Stuffing things in suitcases suggest you intend to bring it with you on your flight from the US . Unless you are very short of money why not get international removals to ship a crate of stuff for you .

I sent a crate of useful belongings , clothes etc. from Italy before coming , later another containing books from England . You may have to pay a little tax on arrival , I paid Bt2000 , then the transport to your home .

You were lucky. Moving here with my thai wife they charged us 45K THB there were two crates of supposedly exempt household stuff...beware.

You need to change the brown (police) book with the police which will issue a letter to the immigration (the immigration is UNDER the police by hierarchy).

You then also need a consent (form with the Civil Registrar/Amphur) by the head of household to allow you to be entered on the new blue house registrar. Together with the present (old) house registrar, the consent form of the head of household of the new blue book and the letter of the police you then get transferred from the old to the new blue book.

The yellow book is a recent invention to complicate matters and has no real value/use and is for "alien" without residential status. Moving you from blue to yellow is definitely wrong - but then as mentioned - the whole procedure is so COMPLICATED that the underlings behind all those tiny government desks simply cannot cope.

My advise is:

- go to the police and inform them about your change of address

- get them to issue a letter (similar to the one you got when you were granted the resident status)

- get the consent form of the blue house registrar head to put you onto the new blue book

- see the Amphur with the police letter, consent form, the old as well as the new blue house registrar

- be patient, have a coffee in between and see these people only after 2.30pm; when the usual crowd is gone

- put your feedback here on TV for future references

Years ago I thought getting my Yellow Book was a testing complicated procedure.

So fed up with this stuff now after many years. I know now PR is not for me.

Koh Chang has everything you are looking for, but is rather like Samui was 20-30 years ago. I prefer Samui because of all the facilities, but would avoid Chaweng and Lamai. There are some lovely parts in the North between Maenam and Nathon, and again Southwards from Nathon, which are completely unspoilt yet near a beach, some with reasonable waves depending on the time of year and how far the sea goes out!

Maybe I am wrong but i have not seen anyone surfing in Samui before?

Thanks pstbkk. I will get it on Friday..You would think on a Friday they would know they are closed on the following Tuesday

Bali and their ceremonies, you gotta love it

Plum

Nyepi is the worst experience for travelers to Bali.

Hard to believe it is possible, or taken so serious even inside big hotels.

7 years ago I posted my passport and some money to the Thai consulate in Birmingham (over age 50).

It came back 3 days later with a 1 year multi entry VISA ..... I stayed 15 months.

Now, despite being married, and with a Thai son, I have to turn up at CM Immigration at 4am, fill out pages of forms and photo copies, be interviewed with my wife, maybe a home visit later. Wait one month for confirmation of my 1 year extension.

Definitely more difficult.

Crazy how you are treated if married to a Thai...Perhaps they are more suspicious of those married to Thai's and their reasons.

I was married to a Thai, and now I am not. It is easier as a simple Non-O Retirement candidate.

Bit tired though of being interogated for any thing they can dream up, had an experience recently, felt like I was being fitted up with the Foreign Island Mafia manacle when handing in a form advising a Foreigner friend is staying at my 2 bedroom rented house. 1hr questioning in Transnational Crime Centre.

No doubt related to the Thai Mayor owner of a bar paying money to some Thai's to shoot up a noise complaining Thai owner's Bungalow Resort.

Definitely more difficult.

I went to my local office in Nathon and asked for a "yellow book " after a quick chat with her friend the girls said that will be fine but you have to pay 30,000 baht and the self elected PM claims he is wiping out corruption maybe he should visit his government offices in Nathon Koh Samui. My friend who lives on Koh Phangan had gotten his the day before for a cost of 200 baht.

Six years ago I had to enlist my lawyer to accompany me to the Nathon Tesabaan after my wife, who was in our blue book, was refused a yellow book for me, even though we met the Criteria. The ladies laughed at my wife and refused to take it upstairs to their boss after 3 trips compiling all their requirements.

Nothing has changed. they will not issue a replacement blue book, so i am back with the Lawyer.

Samui is the worst place for officials setting their own laws, and tea money.

Islam Sharia laws should be enforced on ladyboys.

Perhaps you should be the one to cast the first stone?

So ignorant on many levels...Perhaps we should feel sorry for you.

Every immigration office will want different things. Most will just want the normal TM47 form for a 90 day report.

There have even been reports of immigration offices tossing the TM28 in the trash because they did not want it.

Hey Joe,

I am moving to Hua Hin from Samui

I have a 1 year O-A expiring December.

just to clarify thing in my mind. Should I go to HH immigration fill out a TM 28

Then when my yearly renewal is due in December Do it in Hua Hin?

or am I missing something to this successfully?

Your (Thai) wife is not needed. You only report yor address, nothing else.

The law allows reporting by mail or by soemone else on your behalf.

Don't forget to bring your patience...

Samui Immigration straining under the backlog from the recent Government Holidays.

Photo attached...

This guy is a shame for this country, and for the people who died, as well.

What a bad guy. They have to learn, the use of the word "sorry".

I can see why he was replaced by the Yingluck Government.

Laughable,

Yes they check ID and Photograph it

Yes they look underneath

But they do NOT look in the back of pick-up trucks.. Two times now when I have visited.

This is a 100% failure rate for security measures

Bonsai Dinner cruise on the Saigon River...Great!

Ban the Boats.

No cars at the Airport overnight now...So does this include employees at the Airport? More Knee jerk Bull.

new job for the police, check all car plates if reported stolen before they leave the ferry?

Why would you let stolen vehicles on the ferry? Next explosion might be at sea.

Bull.. Does the truth have to be twisted every time to make the Military look good?

About time they did the job they have failed at for over a decade. The Southern Unrest and its resultant Terrorism.

Sorry but my experience with my Thai spouse was financial suicide at every turn.

Customs Agent will rip you off. Customs will Rape you, the pollution control certificate will be unattainable and you will never get a book for the car so the car will not be readily salable, while the plates will cost you THB70,000 or so.

That is if you have all documents correct, if you do not you will lose more possibly the car.

The whole process could take years too.

Rice and Rubber for Weapons...certainly.