ThailandRyan

Yet masks were worn so stop with the false diatribe.

Which is hard to understand how that 3 baht per dollar drop happened in just mere weeks while the climb up to over 38 took months.

So much misinformation in your covid denier anti-vaxxer post.

Yes it is. I remember buying a house in 2000 and my mortgage rare was 7.9% with a second taken for renovations at 10.5%. 1 year later I refinanced both down to 6.75 and then the next time i refinanced before the market bubble started I had 5.25%. Which is where it is for someone with Grade A credit right now. The lowest I had it at was 3.25% in 2016.

Oh for the love of Buddah these people just have to be joking right? "create awareness of the wealth of world-class tourism experiences that Thailand offers" What world class tourism does Thailand offer........OK Temples, beaches ......etc, which are ......well I will leave that to your imagination.

Keep on believing that. Many including myself wore them prior to covid, poor air quality, worn if feeling ill etc... Riding the motorbike I always wore a face gaiter with a KN 95 mask due to the exhaust.

But the billions of tourists coming so far this year have refilled the coffers apparently, I mean how else can we have such a glorious BS story....

Easy question for you, "We're they wearing masks before Covid or not". You folks try to discount this truth anyway you can. Gotta love anti-maskers....not.

Washed the X-Max and then applied a nice coat of wax on it while using leather cleaner on the leather seating added.

How after all these years of the caves being visited by folks, locals mainly, did it take so long to find these drawings. We're the done with invisible ink that finally became seeable...

Trying to keep inflation in check it appears. They need to double the amount they just did, or else the dollar will gain ground when the Fed raises the basis points by 50 next month.

Fed will be raising the interest rates again by at least 50 basis points instead of the 75 it did the last few times. Thailand economy is slowing, just hear that the exports and imports are down by a large percentage over last years amounts, tourism is not the savior supposedly, but reading other OP's it appears they have put there eggs into one basket in order to save the country and the GDP. Lets see if they get the 10 million visitors by the end of the year as they are expecting. Definitely will be a slowdown in arrivals after the beginning of the year from all indications and by the end of the first quarter it will be slim pickings. How, as another OP running states, they can expect to have arrivals meet the 2019 amounts in 2023 is far beyond my imagination, and when the Fed increases the interest rates again, if the dollar does not go up versus the Baht then something will definitely smell rotten. A recent article I read by a banking executive believes the USD will drop to between 33 and 34 Thb per 1USD next year, as tourism and the economy will be back to near normal.............someone seems to be smoking the Ganja.

Exactly, and when they ask the salesman/sales lady the price you know that is a true sign they can not afford it. As the old adage goes "If you have to ask the price, then you really can not afford it". There is no haggling on prices, and as we have seen and paid for items, the prices have increased quite a bit I noticed from the last purchase made to the current purchase made, which makes it a deal for reselling and making money if you want to play that game by buying the items that are limited. https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2022/02/21/luxury-brand-prices-rise-sharply--will-it-cut-demand/ the increases are between 6% and 7%, Purse Bop estimates the increase is about 4% for lower priced bags but 15%-18% for higher priced purses. So as I said if you have to ask the price you can not afford it and the looky loos just want to look like they are Hi-So. The Korean Shoppers come to spend money as do the Indians, so when you see them in one of the Hi-end shops you know they are buying. I have never observed a Thai buying anything in the shops, many have fake bags and the staff just rolls there eyes when they come in acting like they are Hi-So.

The rules are what they are, medicinal use not recreational. It is unfortunate but it was truly blown out of proportion when rolled out and many totally invested themselves in it believing there were no rules. Go back and read the law.

The majority in those lines are only looking loos. They never buy just look and take photos for their social media posts to act like they have. I see this whenever we shop at Gucci, Prada, or LV. Michael Korrs is what they can afford not the high end.

Wish I could get a CRO at bluport....sigh

I could not see my status screen when I checked earlier as it was blank. When I clicked the LTR tab it shows processing... still. I called BOI today and it just rang and rang. I think they must have some programming issues.

I just saw this report and started to laugh so hard. The Donald is so up the creek without a paddle and he just ensured he will be going to prison. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-he-openly-and-transparently-took-white-house-documents-2022-11

By using anti semites to help him, are you for real?

Well, for one, one who can forgive Sin if the person prays and asks for forgiveness....which the Donald would never do, so he is literally condemned to hell it would appear.

Wait, you mean Ye is not White....OMG, I always thought he was just dark from the sun and waiting for him to return to looking like Michael Jackson, milky white creamy skin....

However, it is a moneymaker apparently, so why would they do away with it. Agents split the cost with the IO.

An opposite story of what was posted the other day where they indicated inflation here was in check and tourism expected to boom next year back to 2019 levels. In the past month the dollar retracted down and the baht strengthened. The Fed will still be increasing the basis points again. Food prices in the US are stupidly high now and imports to Thailand are suffering. Not seeing any silver lining for Thailand, yet someone's manipulating the Baht for the holidays.

Or the prisoners freed and sent to the front, are they well equipped and fed as well....just well equipped to die it appears.

I have to disagree with this statement vehemently. China is again conducting mass lockdowns, and now are having riots because of it. Unless Xi rolls over and gets rid of the Zero Covid policy, mainland Chinese will not be coming in droves.