swampdonkey

Tourist visa with multiple entry are not issued after November 15. You can only get 1 entry of 60 days and extension of 30 days. In USA the cost is $40.

The new 6 months visa in us $200 replaced the multi entry tourist visa.

You are all mixed up between double / triple

Entry and multi entry.

There previously never was a multi entry tourist visa.

Normally 10 % but some also hit you for 7% vat as well

You will find it at the bottom of the menu or shown as ++ also on the display board outside if in a mall where there will be an advert for what you think is a bargain.

I generally avoid these places

I would much rather see a menu with the total price

I'd like to know where you are eating. I eat out nearly every night (admittedly same 8 or 10 spots) and all have the ++. I seen this trend rise more steadily over last 3 years. Now I have no idea of any nice place that doesn't have it.

BTW: The minimum wage is 300 baht for a 10-hr/day. Most places open around 10AM and close 10PM; a 12-hr/day for which employees are not compensated for 2-hrs of work. So I don't particularly mind if a 72-hr/workweek worker (if they do get 1 day off) shares in service charge splitting at the end of the month, especially when their salary is only 7,500-10,000B/mo. (Provided, of course, the boss isn't pocketing the service charges.)

Sounds like you need to get out more

Are you hung over ?

A lot has changed there is no more double entry tourist visas.

Read up on the multi entry tourist visas and what you need to apply for it in your country of residence

do they have your passport ?

I would think not, don't you, unless the OP has got his / her priorities completely wrong!

Only asking as a lot of these rental joints insist on the passport.

I know what you mean, but that practice hasn't really gone on for years at most places, if not all.

It's normally a photocopy of license or passport these days as most people aren't stupid enough to deposit their passport.

Also, as a foreigner you are required by law to carry your passport at all times in Thailand (I know very few would actually do this), and your DL would be required whilst driving.

What law ?

Made an enquiry with booking com for 11 nights from 23 Dec to 3 Jan and was offered some 300 hotels with prices ranging from 2000 Baht to 4000 Baht and that included up market places such as Hilton, Marriott etc etc. These are the cold, hard facts!

Doubt very much you priced the Hilton.

at 2 - 4 k.

I actually did price it for Christmas and it was 18k per night

Thailand and Russia are similar in that an extremely high percentage of their woman are prostitutes.

Tell us what the percentage is.

You are the front runner for most stupid post of the year

that applies to packages over 1 or 2 kg. only which is strictly enforced.

i believe it is 2 kg.

Can't be that strictly enforced

I sent a 5 kg box last week

The only thing I was asked Was ems or airmail

You can take a course no problem

At last!! A sensible reply, thank you

If you want sensible answers

Then ask sensible questions

Found uncensored pictures on FB by "accident".

Pretty lady, but disappointed at the boob job.

I did not notice the boob job

I will have to go and look at them again for another 30 minutes

A happy ending.

She has received a tremendous amount of positive publicity for only the price of a 500 Bt fine.

But what is this talk about her possibly being a ladyboy? There were many guys on TVF with their tongues hanging out for more photos. Is it possible she is a LB?

She ain't no ladyboy

The uncensored photos are all over Facebook.

I will gladly pay the 500 baht fine for her

Does the Thai army have Apache helicopters? Now, that would make good tv

Don't know about Apache's

But they have plenty of Cowboys

No and Never, these two Burmese are purely innocent, but seem to be guilty of committing crimes in the first place coming to works in Thailand.

How can they be purely innocent

You can not argue against DNA

Read the family statement

They where actually in Court.

So is there a warningsystem now then? And how does it sound/look?

There has been a warning system for a few years now.

It is a siren it has went off a few times

I know this term only from the US.

In more than four years I never came upon a bar or restaurant with "service charge" separately specified.

(does not mean that might be such places, but should be rare)

An appropriate tip can be given / coins left in the wrapper.

What an appropriate tip is not so easy for me to tell.

You find them in many malls in Bangkok

Normally 10 % but some also hit you for 7% vat as well

You will find it at the bottom of the menu or shown as ++ also on the display board outside if in a mall where there will be an advert for what you think is a bargain.

I generally avoid these places

I would much rather see a menu with the total price

Anyone ever used the bum gun and liked it so much, you let it run much longer than necessary?

Only when the water is warm

Thais haven;t a clue as to what Christmas is - the birth of Jesus

Why should they ?

If you have already been in one of the mini vans then you should already know there is no where to store luggage.

Amazing Thailand !!!!..... I am a UK passport holder so I can travel thru Europe no problem get a job etc...

I knew as soon as the ASEAN deal was set up that Thailand would never play ball.... You cant even come here and paint a picture and sell it. Not even make a penny whistle... Only Thais.

I saw on BBC World that ASEAN members wanting to work here in certain professions have to sit the Thai exam written in Thai....Why is this you might ask? Well I know. They are basically useless and corrupt so anyone coming from outside straight in wont have gone thru the pay to get you whare you want scheme they have here.

If you come to set up a company there is also the underlying current of local mafia that will drive you out if you are more successfull than them, there is many a westerner that has paid with his life on such schemes and ideas... being ASEAN wont help you in or out of LoS....

You should read up some more about ASEAN.

It is not about free movement for labor

Now where did I put that passport? totally forgot, must have left it somewhere...

Ah well time for a new one.

That would likely be a crime which he's obviously trying to avoid.

LOL

asking your country for a new passport is no crime

Filing a false police report is.

Why would you need a police report if you lost your passport

What crime has been committed ?

Hmm. Bourbon Street is looking good...

I like that no need to book option...

If previous years is anything to go by Bourbon street will be very busy.

Best to go a hour or so before you want to eat and have a drink outside on the terrace.

Last year at 8pm there was around 10 people in front of us waiting on tables

And it had been the same all day.

The year before we ate outside on the terrace to save waiting.

The food is good with plenty of choice

If you go you will not be disappointed.

Is it even an offence here?

200 baht fine

I'd try getting a new passport and return with a tourist visa and the return ticket and proof of enough money. I think what worries them is you being stranded with no money or ticket home. What country are you from?

A new passport may not be much help.

On visa application form it asks for dates of last 3 visits to Thailand.

Immigration can also get all the information they need from a name and date of birth search

how can a bus hand over someone? Would help if someone checked the text before posting!!

The drivers name is bus

Ps. Spell check yourself before posting