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If delays are global why question delays to Thai banks? It's that narrow minded perspective again.

You are perfectly free to believe European restaurants will be charging an equivalent price for Christmas lunch, watch out for the low flying pigs. Fairly obvious you have never been to the restaurant.

Pink documents were issued on arrival, not asked for.

Pink documents were issued by the Disease Control officer at the airport to arrivals when travel restrictions were in place. Generally they specified your status and quarantine requirements but that was inserted and could be for other reasons. Although no longer routine they could be used for anyone subject to observation. Govt hospitals do not charge for the vaccination so they would want to see something to back up any request. The OP should get his relatives to check with the DCO on arrival.

Making out the delays are unique to Thailand is what is not very helpful. Of course there are those that think they are a special case and should be treated differently.

Last time I bought Christmas lunch in UK it was just over £50/head and that was nearly 30 years ago. Since when did good European food come cheap, particularly this year. For many turkey will not be available at any price. Maybe you should stick to a Christmas kapao and a bottle of chang.

Nothing to do with THB. I had the same message about a month ago sending USD from my UK account to a company in Canada, took about 24 hours. You really think there was a shortage of local funds? Over a few years the same transaction has varied from almost immediate to several hours. Will see what happens when I make the same payment next week. The busier Wise gets, the more it will resemble a normal bank. Transactions from my HSBC account vary from a couple of hours to a couple of days.

You could try Casa Pascal, nice restaurant with good food, Italian bias. https://www.restaurant-in-pattaya.com/xmas-lunch-2022

You shouldn't jump to conclusions. Many years ago i would have been one of the old guys. The girl I was seeing had to come and open the bar so I would grab a beer, relatively cheaper than a soft drink. After the one I would go get a paper and sit in the Apex for a couple of hours.

Nothing new, my wife is second generation Chinese. Thailand has the largest overseas Chinese community in the world outside Greater China.[25] 11 to 14 percent of Thailand's population are considered ethnic Chinese. The Thai linguist Theraphan Luangthongkum claims the share of those having at least partial Chinese ancestry allegedly at about 40 percent of the Thai population without any proof.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Chinese

There is a big difference between temperature display and temperature control. The original point was in reference to control and clearly mechanical.

I have just replaced the heating element on my sister in laws halogen oven,all basic components. But I have seen some airfryers with a digital display, which some may think makes it electronic.

I thought the same and bought a small one but it didn't cook very well. My niece had bought a larger one and thought it was too big so we swapped. The larger one cooked much better, probably better airflow. As you say not suitable for everything, I also have a halogen oven which many seem to think is also an air fryer, but the much lower airflow restricts it from the same comparisons. Roast potatoes about 10 minutes in the air fryer and over half an hour in the halogen, says it all. Both are very useful appliances.

Exactly. When I got off the aircraft at the end of August the staff would not all anyone to approach immigration without a mask. I do not believe for one minute the mask deniers stood their ground.

The height of selfishness. Anyone has the right to protect themselves and keep the likes of you out of their personal space. My neice is a junior doctor at a hospital in a fairly rural area and is telling us several have died recently at her hospital from covid, wants us to get another vaccination. Only the delusional think it is over and highly likely masks will become mandatory again.

What many are not aware is that the government did have a free vaccination scheme running pre pandemic, shame it had to come to an end with the pandemic, about 3 years lost. They visited our house a few times and vaccinated all the animals. My wife and her sister also run a voluntary shelter for cats, been going about 8 years now and average about 60 at any one time and usually have 8 to 10 dogs. Just taken in 2 young dogs as the owner was going to put them down as they had started chasing his chickens. As you say all about responsibility, the young dogs do not chase our cats or chickens.

Years ago there was culling, until do gooders mainly from the UK put a stop to it. With the Thai government now under scrutiny from the international press it will slow and steady measures.

Every chance you will get some stick for the last sentence but I wouldn't disagree. Some things have gone up in price as a result of legislation, like the minimum wage, rather than inflation. Here in Thailand, unlike some other countries, when prices are forced up they often come back down again. During the 2011 floods the distribution chain broke down and many prices went up significantly but returned to normal later. My wife often refers to the price of eggs being like the US dollar.

They are, both Krabi and U-Tapao international airports are being upgraded that I know of, possibly more. Of course on this forum, "international" is taken to mean inbound from the western world.

Quite, we have had bigger ones than that a few times. Saw one in a cage at the local temple a few years back. Not sure how long it was, rumoured to be about 4 metres, but about 7 inches dia in the middle. Doubt it would have bothered with chickens, even dogs would have been seen as a starter.

False headline, there is no devaluation unless the Danish central bank says so. Exchange rates for tourists have always been at the whim of the exchanger. A few years back I was stood behind a group of Russian girls in tears when roubles were not even being accepted. When I went to Bali a couple of years ago the exchange rate on the THB in some places was about 50% of what it should have been, nothing new here.

Exactly. Here in Thailand retail banking does not even have the branch, they only use 8 character SWIFT codes, only retail banking uses the 11 character SWIFT codes. SWIFT/IBAN works quite well both ways. I sent some money from my Thai account to my UK bank and by the time I got home an hour later it was in my UK account.

Of course they are compatible, My IBAN bank with my IBAN account code sends money to my SWIFT bank and SWIFT account code without any intermediary bank, quite often within a few hours, for an exorbitant fee of £5. How incompatatible is that?

So you would agree that this statement made in relation to a Nov bill was wrong on 2 counts. "If you are below 300 units you get an Ft discount as shown on the bill above. " What does IIRC refer to, I can't read the Thai, and what was the discount in August for?

I think someone has their wires crossed somewhere along the way, either your friend or someone at the bank. I am from the UK and they use IBAN and I send money to Thailand all the time. The transaction arrives in Thailand using IBAN codes. The IBAN code is a combination of the bank SWIFT No, sort code and account number, so the 2 systems can merge seamlessly. As far as his bank is concerned it should just be an international transfer.