alexlm

Does it check for overstays?

I don't understand this article. If someone could explain? I'm planning my 2 months trip to Thailand from December to February. Everything is already fully booked. My Pattaya hotel told me they are fully booked for December 10th when I arrive, until April. How to find an hotel? Will I be stranded in the street with all the hotels booked?? My car rental guy said they are booked until April too at 99% and they are not sure they can provide me with a rental car. His partner told me there are so many Foreigners right now. When I lived in Thailand from 2014 to 2018, I could just walk into my favorite hotels and get a room in 3 minutes. Ask for a car some morning and get the rental car 3 hours later the afternoon. Has it changed so much since 2018???! It seems it's full of Foreigners. So why this article seems to indicate the opposite? Or I didn't understand something I'm sure. If someone could explain... Thanks ???? Alex LM

I think it was for ""corruption"". But then lots of people in the Thai Government would need to get exiled if that was the case? He is a billionaire. He could have come back earlier by... bribing the government... Why wait 17 years? Anyway, we can't know. Unless we are in a small group of people high up I guess. We can't trust anything we read online anymore... nor the government. And certainly not the Thai TV ???????????? All the public story seems fishy...