sandyf

The dimwitted are those that think they are entitled to something that isn't there. You will be complaining next that if you buy a case of beer you should be entitled to loose bottles at the same price.

"Greed" the fallback weapon in the bigot's arsenal. If you don't like the way someone run's their business, you can buy from another. If you don't like the way the Thais behave you shouldn't be here, sure there are other places more to your way of thinking.

Your words " If bills are charged separately for monthly and inclusive for daily, do they hand the deposit back after the month is over and then charge the inclusive daily rate? A rather unpleasant state of affairs." Your are not interested in reason, mind already made up.

You don't need to try and sell me Wise, had an account with card for several years and use it quite a lot. When I first got Wise, I checked both each time i did a transfer for about six months and saw insufficient evidence to change what I had been doing for nearly 20 years. The usual 24 hour delay sometimes goes in my favour and sometimes against me, but that is the nature of the beast. If i had been with a bank that charges £20 to transfer, then maybe a different story.

Obviously been polishing your crystal balls.

It varies significantly among other providers. On Friday afternoon I transferred £1500 from HSBC which incurred a £5 fee. About 10am yesterday morning i received 63,480 baht into my account.

Why do some feel the need to jump to inappropriate conclusions. You cannot compare private and government prices. When I had mine done, I was offered 3 prices, 6K, 9K and 13K, the difference being in the lenses. I had been attending the Sunday clinic run by the hospital director and paid the extra 5K for him to do the operation. I had both eyes done and including aftercare came to less than 40K but many friends and family have had it done by the other surgeons without a problem. Thais can have the 6K under the social but pay the extra for a better lens. https://www.bphosp.or.th/en_dreye.html

Yes it is needed, but only 2 of the 3 items mentioned, your wife being the owner you will only need a copy of her ID card and a copy of her Tabien Baan(Blue Book). Don't forget to address the TM30 issue.

Quite sad when bigotry gets in the way of reason.

Indeed, when in Rome etc. However you seem to have digressed from what was said. "Thais need to stop with their nitpicking about public indecency."

Last year my wife was told to phone up twice a day to see if the application had been returned, came about 3 days late. On one of the calls she asked why the delay and was told it was due to immigration having to scrutinise applications from agents more thoroughly to make sure they were not breaching the financial requirements.

A statement like that is obviously based on ignorance. There may well be some that are trying to capitalise but most of the premises offering monthly/daily rates have valid reasons for not bowing to the whims of the falang. It all hinges on the service provided for the monthly basis and how that can be controlled.

Bit of a distortion to say daily rate is higher, reality is the premises are offering a discount for a month stay which usually comes with a reduction in service. Sometimes water and electricity may be charged separately. Been that policy for over 20 years that I know of, fractions of a month are charged at daily rate, anything else would be the exception rather than the norm. After a month I moved somewhere else for the remaining couple of weeks.

Quite, at the end of the day it is up to the amphur if a marriage takes place. I seem to recall that sometime ago when the topic of marriage came up some guy said he hadn't been to the embasssy. He just showed the amphur the Decree Absolute and they accepted that. Obviously not applicable to those that have not been married.

And you need to remember whose country it is. You shouldn't travel if you cannot respect the ways of the local population.

What claim exactly? In 2014 the government asked that Immigration take a more flexible approach to foreigners wishing to remain in the Kingdom. This led to a police order that allowed foreigners to apply for a 30 day extension, nothing in the police order says they would be entitled to it, but you are free to think otherwise. False assumption to be looking at rejections, those that are unable to apply are effectively rejections you don't know about. If criteria is met, no extension application would be rejected. Prior to Aug 2014 there were no 30 day extensions available to a visa exempt entry and any application for a further temporary stay was entirely at the discretion of the IO. The 30 day extension was an initiative from the government of the day that could be repealed as easily as it came about.

The only thing false is your understanding of what you were reading. Many of us have never had a 2 year licence and like all the posts you probably read I got about a week short of 6 years on last renewal.

What on earth???

Generally. I know quite a few genuine tourists that have bank accounts and they pay withholding tax, but time has made that more difficult so becoming less common.

There is no entitlement, it was a concession granted following a hardline move by immigration in 2014, can be retracted as easily as it was given. My first extension request got me 5 days.

None whatsoever, I did it last year, flew into Luang Prabang then took the HSR to Vientiane, crossed the bridge and flew back from Udon Thani, excellent trip. Many moons ago there used to be a warning on the UK embassy/consulate paperwork about leaving Thailand across local borders, that 48 hours before re-entry would be required. It would appear that some seem to think they have the right of immediate re-entry.

Quite. In recent years when I have been back there has supposed to have been a cost of living crisis. The number of grossly obese, predominantly women, stuffing their faces in Wetherspoons would bring that into dispute. It is a bit unfortunate that the Thais seem to think that what is good for the UK is good for them.

Exactly. The root of the problem is increased affluence in certain areas and a misguided perception that what is good for the west is good for them. The likes of McDonalds, KFC & Pizza Hut have a lot to answer for.

You appear to have overlooked why the language was ever called "English". Common trait in those that use a bastardised version.

I was trading with Europe before the single market came about and the paperwork was a nightmare. Only the delusional would think it wasn't going to go back to the same way. If the UK wanted to have the cake and eat it, they should have remained in the EEC. Of course that wouldn't have appealed to the English nationalists.