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Yes, often happens.

Let's hope the owner sticks to their word.

Bar/restaurant I go to in Bangkok will be dry on 24th but from midnight, will be still open and then serving alcohol on the stroke of midnight in time for sports kick-off in Europe.

The resort will surely accept no blame. No insurance compensation payout to compensate fairly for injuries. Blame will be on the victims for eating too much breakfast and standing where they should not. Will there be justice? Unlikely. Hope they all recover swiftly. In some countries, the resort would be shut down, health and sdafety would investigate, along with police investigating for criminal neglicence. In Thailand? No chance.

A long distance journey is better being booked with resort. Do you want a driver for 3-4 hours who may be at end of a long shift and extremely tired? No me neither. Some drivers may be low on fuel and not have enough cash or credit for the long distance. Some drivers just may not like the low fare for the effort/time involved. Do you want an argument with them?

Use my coins at BTS/MRT. Easiest way if in Bangkok.

It is for this reason I use a separate account and never let it go under 810,000. Just not worth the hassle or risk for a bit of cash. Starting from scratch again can be a lot of work. Agent option not really a good idea if the OP actually now has the required 800k. Good luck whatever happens. A leson to you and all of us on here.

Learning Thai language (at least spoken) for me has: 1) Made life easier in Thailand 2) Made life more fun 3) Generated more respect from Thais 4) Lessened the hassles and attempts to scam or rip me off

Jeez that's a hit. We were going to apply for the 2 year Visit Visa this time to save applying each year. Forget that at £400! I believe fees are supposed only to reflect costs of processing. How can a 2 year Visit Visa require much more work than a 6 month term?

Agreed. This is what I expect and what I'm afraid of. The stock markets and company shares just seem to keep marching higher. Pure speculation based on extreme P/E ratios whilst so many people are broke and indebted to the eyeballs. History repeats unfortunately. Markets crash and wars incoming. Thailand is probably the best place for many of us to be.

Realistic maximum top speed on metre gauge lines in Thailand is 100kph. The state of the tracks in some areas is shocking. Even the new double track south of Hua Hin looked uneven (picture June 2020). They would need to build elevated standard guage for high speed. A good comprehensive article for rail enthusiasts is at: https://futuresoutheastasia.com/the-mixed-gauge-mess-of-thailands-railways/

The THAI Airways PR department is making a mess of this. As a business, this is no way to react to customer critiscism. A simple statement on procedures and need for safety would have been plenty. Instead, they let it blow up like this threaten to sue a customer for making criticism (since retracted and apolgised for). Not a great way to treat customers. If the management have this attitude then how can that affect the attitudes of customer facing staff such as cabin crew and ground staff in the performance of their duties to the customers. Doesn't look good.

And how was your reply or input of any help to the OP at all?

Thanks for your input @Liverpool Lou he simply said "North East" so it was unclear which country. But thanks anyway as always. So, in this case he needs to go to the relevant places regarding his father's body, cremation and to sort his father's affairs.

Maybe someone else here has first hand experience on this. If I was you I would contact the British consulate in Bangkok. They can advise you on procedures and put you in contact with authorities here (if you are not already). I think you need to come to Thailand and conduct your duty (as no one else appears to be inline to do so). You can then arrange things and get paperwork in order. Get the required certificates etc. and deal with finances after the ceremonial rites of cremation and scattering or repatriation of ashes as you wish. Sad for you loss and hope this helps.

I had a staff member in the London, UK whose cousin was stabbed to death in broad daylight in 2022. Truly shocking to see as it was filmed by many innocent bystanders. I also drive a lot in the UK, I also ride a motorcycle often and drive a car in Thailand. Trust me, being on the roads in Thailand is nowhere near as dangerous as walking on the streets in certain areas in the UK. At least in Thailand drivers are not aggresive and intimidating in the same way they are in the UK. True, many are idiot drivers in Thailand but it is easy to drive defensivly and keep out of harm.

Surely your bank will allow a downloaded PDF account statement without charge. My Bank (Lloyds) offers a couple of choices for downloads. One seems to have full name, address and account info. Are you using a savings account? Hard to beleive they can get away with charging you £190 for a statement. Beauty of PDFs is that they can show colour logos and retain formatting same as a maled statement. This is what I used for a sucssessful UK Visit Visa application last year using current account statements.

In the 1980s I lived in London near a park. Sometimes, if there were summer events going on, someone would park a car in front of my garage. No big deal, trolley jack out and simply raise the offending car and push it out into the street. The police would then come and tow it away LOL. The OP might have an issue moving the neighbour's car though as he's already given himself up as being inconvenienced by it.

This flight was a 5 year old A350-941 so it should have had all the latest equipment. Looks like the captain assesed the situation at Melbourne before diverting to Sydney. There was no go around or missed approach.

This is possibly an issue for me too. Assuming I leave my Bangkok condo in a Thai will to my Cambodian GF, I have yet to be given a clear answer that the Land Department will allow transfer to her name without her bringing in funds to the value of the property from overseas. I would like a definite answer too. The lawyers were unsure on this and couldn't guarantee either way. FWIW; when I divorced my ex, I had to remit 50% of the settlement value again from overseas in order to get her name removed from the land register, and the condo then put solely in my name.

20,000 Baht for drink driving is the norm. I know someone that paid that several times in HH. He never learns.

The moral of the story is... Just make sure you've got enough ready cash to be given a free pass to exit the country. The police will then cover their ass and you'll be scot free. Problem solved :(

That flight may be considered the creme de la creme of THAI flights.

It looks like, as posted above, that the small chute line was trapped within the main harness and could not deploy the main chute on jumping. The full video is below but does not show anything gory. I ask that for clarity, mods do not remove this. Just for answering the real question as to what happened and to end speculation. From what I see, the jump was rather hurried with less than sufficient safety checks (likely worried about security stopping the jump). A very sad tragedy to an adventurous thrill seeker. RIP. 1706534643445.mp4

A great post from experience. Sadly, too much loss of face to even consider a qualified and proven foreign manager or CEO to manage THAI. Are THAI still selling meals served at airline seats in their HQ at Viphavadee I wonder? A bit like their "puff and pie" brand and other waste of resources I expect.