doctor pat

it seems that if you see a girl with tats in thailand people may assume that shes a bargirl, do you think thats changing or will change?

like in the west, tattoos used to be for sailors, gangsters, truckers etc. or in Japan, tattoos traditionally were for the Yakuza, but nowadays people from all walks of life get them.

the waitress who served me breakfast had a large arm tattoo and she didn't seem like a ho, also i was just looking at a profile on a dating site where a girl says shes an architecture student and "have tattoos, but don't judge me" so people obviously do judge her as some kind of bad girl, if she feels the need to put that on her profile

see more and more thai men with them as well

one thing i noticed is that the northern or thai/chinese ladies with lighter skin, they never have tattoos, well never seen any myself

my suggestion - Hanoi

very reasonably priced, walkable, lots of parks and lakes, not much nightlife, gets a bit cold in the winter

Passenger trains havent run in Cambodia for several years,

i recieved a single at hanoi. they asked for flight tickets, when i said i would go overland they said i could show proof of funds in a bank book, i had a bank book from Cambodia and they accepted that and i got the visa. i dont have flights to my home country yet

no point to go to vietnam unless you are there already, as ubonjoe said Laos or Malasyia are easier options

this is posted on the wall at the Hanoi Embassy

interesting words, 'maybe' & 'as a general rule' but of course they will only give the METV to vietnamese residents

as a general rule, a completed and signed visa application form, photo, passport, travel tickets and fee are compulsary. However, other documents in adition to the documents above, such as letter of employment, residence permit, bank statement etc. maybe requested by consular officers according to the type of visa and the applicants nationality

http://s14.postimg.org/mtaf9wgtd/WP_20151224_001.jpg

he's the Arsene Wenger of ASEAN

and now we here he's to write a song or was that a mistranslation?

$90 sounds too much. fake i think

Good windup OP......................

Can't think of a single 'poor' country that has an easier visa option to the rest of us to be quite honest.

As for the making it harder for the ED visa , therefore making it difficult for the decent hard honest working guy to earn a living...........................

Well.............................

well actually. Brazilians can get a 90 day visa exempt stamp on arrival in Thailand

that gives me an idea too, there are now some websites to book trains and bus in thailand. maybe an international bus ticket would be accepted as onward travel?

eg. https://12go.asia/en/travel/bangkok/siem-reap?date=2015-12-31

I'm in Hanoi, i think i may fly back into Bangkok. Question is, are the immigration OK with me flying in without any visa or onward plane ticket whatsoever? i have never had any problem entering Thailand overland like that before.

or more likely, are the airline going to let me board the flight with out a visa or return ticket? thats more of a concern, i am pretty sure immigration would allow me entry but wouldnt want to be denied getting on board

i'm from UK by the way. and i dont have loads of back to back Thia visas or stamps or anything like that

I'm british so i dont know the difference between a condominium and an apartment. we call them "flats"

Im looking online and Im seeing $300> per month 1b 60sqm condos. Is this forreal or am I gonna get a bag over my head and my kidneys robbed?

again he goes with the US dollars

anyway, if you go to this area and look around there are a lot of low priced studio rooms. i stayed in a pretty good studio - clean, quiet, with AC, fridge, furnished, just 4000 baht per month. across the street they had for 3000 baht but not so nice rooms. and near to 2 shopping malls and plenty good cafe and bars

Ratchaphuek Alley

https://www.google.com/maps/@18.7989076,98.9751234,18.35z

he's not giving away 99% of his money to charity, not at all

he's forming a limited liability company controlled by him and his wife and kids, which will invest in various things, some charitable and some for profit, but with the aims of improving the world or something vague like that. and transfering 99% of facebook stock over to it

perhaps he went into the cubicle to take a dump and after coming out he saw the wallet

bump because i am coming to samui or phangan and would like to find a room/apartment for that sort of money

any one know? and is it still possible to find monthly rental places over high season?

50,000 dollars for cambodian citizenship. as told to me by an English guy i know who showed me his cambodian passport.

but he did it a few years ago. he's lived there years and owns a hotel and other businesses

very corrupt process. as part if the citizenship process he was supposed to have an interview with the King. he said he was really looking forward to meeting the king but imagine his disappointment - he just had to send someone down to the palace to hand over some cash! the royal family dont have much money over in cambodia and arent above asking for some tea money

Officially you can get Cambodian citizenship for free, but you need to be fluent in written and spoken Khmer and have some tie to the country eg marriage, business, investment, and live there for a number of years

As posted before, visa runs are finished. If you are wanting to stay in Thailand for an extended period then get the correct visa for which your purpose of stay correlates to.

Apply for a tourist visa from your home Thailand consulate. The visa run days of back to back are history. Get the correct visa.

As posted before, visa runs are finished. If you are wanting to stay in Thailand for an extended period then get a fake marriage

fixed that for you

seriously though, (some) people love thailand, (some) people will do anything to stay, fair means or foul. it doesnt matter what loopholes they try and close its a game of whack a mole for thai immigration

I hope the offender is blacklisted, no excuse at all for it

I have to agree with you. I live here by the rules and so should others.

but "the rules" are that if you go to the airport with a ticket out of Thailand and 20,000 baht you can leave, albiet with a naughty stamp, and come back without too much problem

I ticked the box for multi entry visa. but the Consulate guy came back and told me i coudn't have a multi entry, only single

where do you get the cost of 125 GBP for the multi entry visa?

i thought the multi entry will cost 5000baht, which is 91 GBP at today exchange rate

edit: i just looked at the other thread - Finish Embassy charging 130 euros, which is 93GBP

you are correct about the extra visa run, which could be expensive depending on where you go. i cant understand thai immigrations need to make people leave the country after 60 days, so strange. they want people to leave not spend money in Thailand. at least give 90 days, or why not all 6 months?

just sharing my experience in Pakse at the Vietnamese consulate

its located in the touristy area where most of the hotels are, no need to get a tuktuk

open monday to friday, AM and PM but they have a long lunch break

I walked in. no one else there. no queing

they asked me where i was from, i said UK he explained about the new visa waiver for 15 days, but i reply that i want to spend longer time in vietnam than that

i though i could get a 1 month visa and asked about that and if i could extend it in country. he told me no problem, but i could have either a 1, 2 or 3 month visa, and then said they were all the same price

of course i asked for a 3 month. it was $70 to get back in 2 days, or $80 for same day. gave them $80 and walked out with 3 month single entry visa, after 5 minutes wait

theres an overnight bus BKK to Pakse, and an overnight bus from Pakse to Danang, so you could get to Pakse in the morning, get visa in afternoon and be on the overnight bus into Vietnam. or pakse has an airport,

all in all it was a very easy visa

By the way, if it is convenient to you to get double entry visa now, that is what I recommend you to do. After Nov 13th you would be paying more than twice for the multiple entry, and may find even stricter requirements, both in France and the UK.

however, you can stay 6 months on a multi entry, but only 4 months on a double entry

yeah i know you could extend the double to get 6 months, but that would cost 2000 for visa and 3800 for the extensions

so if someone is intending to stay 6 months the new ME is cheaper. but for a 4 month stay the old Double Entry would be cheaper

i just got a lumia 430

only 1.4 million dong, about 2200 baht. i am surprised at how good a phone it is for that cheap. its really nice to use and no lag or slowness. windows runs a lot better on a low end phone than android.

but the camera is terrible

I am a person in my 20's who likes to drink beer past midnight, so what?

surely, no married or otherwise taken thai men or western go to bars, right?

sounds like a dangerous subversive. track his IP address and deport him