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Based on someone's personal experience living Bangkok....an agent arranged a visa and extension through a northern immigration office, 800K thb went short term into then out of the person's bank account. Passport received the relevant stamps and the payment receipts accompanied the passport when return. That left an impending crisis of sorts at first 90 report. Requiring a new TM30 to be issued for the Bangkok residence. At 90 day reporting it still caused a commotion but reporting agent finally 'fixed it in her computer' and then advised to next time get your visa in Bangkok. On next 90 day report it was accepted without any issues. What will happen at the first extension based on Retirement remains to be seen. Same agent? New agent? New problems? unknown

After my earlier lament on the near collapse of actual metered taxis in Bangkok viz the development of a taxi mafia scenario setting in, I forgot to mention the virtues of the Motorbike Taxis who, in my experience, remain mostly on the square for a fair fare and when faced with getting around Sukhumvit area or anywhere with the endlessly clogged lanes of cars, buses and trucks, they can spirit you to your destination in no time at all with their genius navigations between cars, trucks, buses et al. It's not a comfy air conditioned cab, but it is a satisfying solution to getting where you're going and avoiding the taxi rip offs.

This has become so common now it makes me ill. The taxi cab stops, rolls down window and negotiations begin! - this happens so often it's just common. Or in the rare instance the window doesn't roll down then you get in and the negotiation begins or if you're going short distance they may actually use the meter. Going somewhere out of the way? 200 baht, 300 baht or just refuse to go at all. 2,000 complaints only, unless that's per day it's not a real number! And just to add, if you're looking for a taxi outside the Sukhumvit tourist zone it's worse!

As usual you live in a detached from reality existence. The taxi cab stops, rolls down window and negotiations begin! - this happens so often it's just common. Or in the rare instance the window doesn't roll down then you get in and the negotiation begins or if you're going short distance they may actually use the meter. Going somewhere out of the way? 200 baht, 300 baht or just refuse to go at all. 2,000 complaints only, unless that's per day it's not a real number!

Wear the mask to protect others. Get vaccinated and vaccine boosted to protect your self from the worst consequences of Covid infections. If you choose to live in denial and unwilling to be mindful of others then at the least keep your disgraceful opinions and behavior to yourself here and elsewhere.

Slow news day? Struggling for click-bait?

Lacking brown envelope, grounds for arrest. Duh.

Chuwit, the gift that keeps on giving! Hope this latest 'revelation' brings appropriate pain and suffering to those who had a hand in closing Chuwit's park on Sukhumvit. Now a morgue of the trees and the peace, and filled with more towering cement.

Chuwit, the gift that keeps on giving. Hope it dinged those that took his Sukhumvit park and turned it into an ugly useless piece of cement.

Fortunately Italians honor, respect their traditions and the perpetuation of same in their cuisine. Hopefully they'll never bend the knee to making a buck from people that lack a culture of their own and don't respect the Italian culture.

Love Vesuvio for all the reasons you mention, and their Neapolitan pizza. It was started by Italians and I was told it's now owned and run by Thais. The Thais learned the Italian ways well, well executed. The Vesuvio I know and go to is tucked into a sub-soi on soi 8. Surprised that no one has mentioned Peppina here. They received an Italian agency endorsement for making Neapolitan style pizza. Quite good.

Recommends for Hua His beaches with some surf? Doesn't need to be big surf, just enough and not flat.

555 - and you can add to that Taxis inside Bangkok that won't use their meters.

But, but, but... I stay with the Thai people around me in Bangkok. Wear a mask.

What is the requirement or procedure when making the Visa extension based on retirement when the original Non O and Visa was successfully acquired through an agent for a fee? 800K deposit done on behalf of but not done by the visa applicant from external funds. And when seeking new extension a 65K / month external funds transfer has been sustained with a prior one year history.

Are they insane?!! Half a million a day going down with Covid, morgue packed with Chinese. Vaccination resistance in China. The high probability China is now an incubator of new strains! Sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie heading for the gates of Thailand!!!

I am currently receiving shipments of my personal effects via Fedex. Fedex handles the import and every box of very used and personal effects is being assessed 30% Thai Customs on CiF. I am here on a long term 'retirement' visa. I accepted this at first but would really like to know who / where to lay claim and receive back the duty charges. I have long suspected that Fedex and Thai Customs are complicit in this rip off. Fedex claims U$100 for 'freight', that's an automatic U$30 on top for each shipment.

Coups, overturning democratically elected leaders and owning the Judiciary to get away with coups have consequences. Ongoing forever and ever apparently!

No place to run, no place to hide when you're a parasitic mass murderer of Ukranians and international pariah for war crimes committed against innocents in Ukrainia, and shamed and resisted by other countries around the world (unfortunately not Thailand, because 'tourism'!). Wouldn't want to be revealing a Russian passport in hand when traveling anywhere in the world during these times. And it's a state of shamefulness no one's going to ever forgive or forget. You are unwelcome!

Thank you for clarifying. I had another question on the re-entry permit, at Suvarnabhumi or other airports. In order to get to the permit desk, do you need to be checked in with ticket for boarding or is it possible to just go to the re-entry permit desk and request same? I was turned away today from entering without a ticket/boarding pass at Suvarnabhumi.

"At the immigration office where you live" OR the Survanabhumi airport, right?

I was just at Survanabhumi airport trying to get a re-entry permit. Have flight on 23 November. But I was denied access because I didn't have a boarding pass to enter. Was I at the wrong place trying to get to Immigration or you really need to have gotten checked in for your flight?

Well noted your ignorance of winemaking, marketing, sales, exporting and importing and yet again the total absence of anything to back up your assumptions, insinuations and pronouncements. Enjoy your wine drinking, travels and story telling. Breaks the ice at parties.

There's nothing to say cheaper end wines, especially from hot growing regions, can't have higher alcohol levels. Certainly some due. The OP wondered about the lower alcohol wines at the cheaper end. I provided a knowledgeable rationale. Again, you missed the mark. And I'm not looking for an argument with a tasting room tourist. I won't embarrass you with my credentials.

In the case of cheaper wines you should put it down to where the wine came from, the growing region and the grape varieties. Grapes grown for high production are harvested at lower sugar content. That translates at fermentation into lower alcohol wines. 11?% to 12.5% Wineries bottle the wines and sell them at lower prices, like we see at 399 thb.