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Never happened to me. Maybe once because my hands were full

It happened to me as well. I called the Embassy they told me the hospital couldn't hold me. They had to let me go making me sign a declaration that I would have paid the bill as soon as possible, otherwise the embassy would had force the hospital to discharge me. 

At the end the insurance paid but I had to do in a second stage a second operation for the cost of 36k euro and I had to pay in advance from my pocket. 

In the accident the police said the fault was 50% me and the Thai car.

That's my experience. 

From that day since basically I lost forever my hip joint that has been replaced by a prosthesis, i bought a 2.7 ton suv and I use motorbike just for go at 7 back to my house, I also pay a first class insurance and a premium one for health coverage. 

I had only one time in Prachinburi a problem. They insisted I had exceeded the speed limit but it wasn't true. 

They wanted something like 600 cash. 

Told them:

Please, give me the fine ticket I will pay later at the police station. 

During a long negotiation the amount low down to 400, 300 200 and at the end they told me "please just the money for a coffee". 

They literally used the word "please" 

It was ridiculous. 

They requested me to get off the car and "speak with their boss". 

I got off, closed safety the car, and repeated the same process to the boss. 

Politely and quietly but firmly. 

And they let me go. 

Lost 20 minutes. 

From that day when I cross Prachinburi motorway I use the cruise control at 58km/h and I always record with the phone speed and road. 

Furthermore I have in the blue book a letter written from my lawyer explaining that I can record everything with the phone and if I break some law they have to issue official ticket and my lawyer will pay for me in the appropriate manner. 

I never had the opportunity to use it. (I hope it will never happen off course). 

My M-Pass stopped working about 4 months ago. I went to the Bank branch, they said they does not provide m-pass devices anymore.

I went on Chachoengsao service area for replacement, I've been told device it's not available for replacement.

I then called the 1586 number and they confirmed me that m-pass is not available for new issues or replacements at all anywhere in Thailand. There is no way to get it.

Anyone has some info about it? I still have some money topped up inside and I would like to understand if there is any chance to have a replacement or not.

I am already m-flow registered, but it's not working on motorway number 7

Pisa tower! An original one! Not a replica!

Tourist attraction ????

However in Thai the Tax Id is not mandatory, even most Thai people do not have one. 

In fact I request every year a tax residence ro22 certificate from Thai tax office that report my passport number instead of tax id and state that I am resident here. 

I also go every year at foreign affair office (dfa), in order to stamp it, then translate and stamp again at embassy of my origin country. 

I do this every year. 

International Bank compliance are aware of the fact that tax id in some country are not mandatory and usually there is a checkbox on the form the Bank provide that says something like "tax id is not required on my country of residence" or something like that. 

Sometimes they do not have this checkbox . That's happened to me sometimes. 

In that case I sent an Email with scan of tax residence from tax office (ro22), and stamp of foreign affair office (dfa) and my embassy, explaining on the email the fact that here tax ID is not mandatory and if they don't believe me they can check on internet or even with their legal department. 

After that, never had problems, I always passed every Banking application. 

Jack Ma would disagree with the statement of this lady. 

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Interesting.  Yesterday I was in the Starbucks at The Avenue and they seemed cool with me being sans mask.  Maybe individual branches can make their own policies.

I was at little walk. 

I forgot to mention another shop. 

Mr DIY on soi Siam Pattaya yesterday. They requested to me and my wife to wear mask speaking in Thai language. My wife did it.

I didn't and I carried on with my shopping without caring of them as if I didn't understand their request. 

They didn't complain further, maybe they did not want to argue with a farang in English. 

Anyway staying on their policy I should have to wear it. 

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

It seems to be down to the individual business.  Here in Rayong, it doesn't seem mandatory to wear a mask in shopping malls and supermarkets.  My wife and I shopped mask-less two days ago, and yesterday in Pattaya, there was no requirement to wear a mask at the till in Starbucks or in the malls.

 

I guess for the foreseeable future us non-mask wearers will have to carry one in our back pocket just in case!

Starbuck Pattaya. Yesterday. Me and my wife without mask. They rejected us.  They said: the company require mask. 

Other places I mentioned (except taxis and airport) are all in Pattaya.

Even at small Tesco lotus Monday they required mask. Will try again today. 

Now the only shop where for sure they do not ask to wear mask is 7. I have personal experiences and a lot of feedback from others, about 7. 

Immigration. Mask mandatory. 

Airport. Mask mandatory. 

Most taxi drivers require you to wear mask or do not accept you on the car. 

Starbuck today. They requested me to wear mask while on the till. 

Cafe Amazon there is a notice that explain that mask is still mandatory on the shop.

Sizzler. Mask mandatory. 

Looks like that untill they don't make a more clear statement with exactly explanation on where it is mandatory and where not, 70% of places will require mask as before. 

Immigration. Mask mandatory. 

Airport. Mask mandatory. 

Most taxi drivers require you to wear mask or do not accept you on the car. 

Starbuck today. They requested me to wear mask while on the till. 

Cafe Amazon there is a notice that explain that mask is still mandatory on the shop.

Sizzler. Mask mandatory. 

Looks like that untill they don't make a more clear statement with exactly explanation on where it is mandatory and where not, 70% of places will require mask as before. 

Just went to a small Tesco without mask, my wife was wearing one. 

They complained with my wife about me. They didn't try to talk with me. 

They said to her that they're waiting instructions from Manager. 

From now on. Any shop that request me to wear one, I just walk away and they lose a customer. I hope to find some shop with more reasonable rules. 

I don't think it is on their interest to lose customers. 

Let's see what happen. 

If someone can share original Thai Gazette in Thai language I would appreciate. 

Thanks. 

Really any small village can impose quarantine? 

Many thousand of villages many thousands of rules? 

Does Anyone know about Sawan Daen ding? 

Hello. 

I will go with car from Pattaya to Sakhon Nakhon province with the purpose to stay there 5 days. 

I called guest house, they are opened. 

Someone told me people traveling from out of province to inside sakhon Nakhon province will be forced to stay 14 days in quarantine, however I Googled a lot didn't find anything about it. 

Someone can advise? 

On the due date bill was still not shown in the app and from both kasikorn and Bangkok Bank number of bill wasn't recognized.

I went on 7/11 and there the payment process worked.

On app the bill is still not shown. 

I will keep the receipt. 

Today is the due date on my bill and it's still not working. 

Same problem here. 

This is the error. 

"The contract account number has no outstanding balance."

Not true. I have on my hand a 3800 baht bill with due date tomorrow! 

What do you suggest? 

I have read now last post. Will wait tomorrow. 

If tomorrow the problem still occur what do you suggest? 

Did they call the Ghostbusters?

Just changing. I see a lot of chinese and Thai. In the public holiday days I see a lot of Thai. Pattaya is reallly busy even in low season in the public holidays, and alll people arouund are Thai. And just a few farang. People will change, and businesses also. Businesses oriented towards low peofile farang will close. Businesses oriented towards thai people and high profile farang will increase profits.

I've just watched the website and seems like they're working on it. There are many broken links in the website menu at this moment. Try later. I want add regarding this offer that I did subscribed it and I think the connection is a little less responsive than the happy Internet package, but it's OK.

Anyone can report info about Internet connection mobile and most ADSL in this area? Is it available, is it working?

And does it work on tethering? Did you try?

Tethering has nothing to do with the provider (in Thailand). It depends on the phone or tablet you use.

Technically is just a network restriction on the apn and does not directly concern the country. I know in Thai the carriers do not set this restriction but is also true that they can learn from abroad and set it on some plan. Since the discounted price and newest offer we discussing on, if anyone can confirm tethering full functionality I appreciate.

I think some providers are now using the TTL value to check if you're tethering. A quick online search of TTL tethering will pull up lots of info.

A pretty smart way. Interesting.