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@ttechguy what country was your passport from? Berkley does give 50% but it depends which country ????

Once you get a baby this house visit is waved by some immigrations though ???? just saying. Most annoying invasion of your privacy in the whole process.

Thanks for helping me with Visa questions the last years. RIP ????

Thanks this helps. Everyone should checkout your comparison. Opens my eyes now how it works. Literally when you insure yourself in Thailand you often end up with LMG. (You can also go directly to LMG but seems more expensive) The international ones are the interesting ones you want to get before you get old ????

Thanks for this. For long-term it seems smart to go with the European version of the same plan. Can you tell me which areas this covers? Thailand Zone 3 (NL, BE, FR, VN, LA, MM, PH, UK, NO, etc)

So there is April Thailand and April International? April Thailand goes via LMG INSURANCE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED, which by the way also Luma uses and I think Aetna too? How did you get April International and how much more expensive is it? My invoices/letter all show April International.. still it's via LMG

Yes with Luma and April. Both had no problems. Aetna as well was also no problem. I moved away from Luma because they like to exclude things in the coming years and they check hospital records from the past...

Want to give my opinion to this with some years experience in TH. 1. If you have a nice insurance from your home country for some years and you can keep it while you here ... keep it. I had for example a long-term travel insurance for the first 3 years. The European ones are still the best imo. 2. But after you stay longer here you need to check around and you get some insurance in Thailand and there it goes... the trustworthy party ???? -- Luma does good. Had no problems with them. April feels better, because they still based in Europe and you get some advantages traveling to Europe Aetna (Bupa) was also okay.. just checked they have also some good plans now but quite expensive. Allianz and Cigna is when you don't care about money. Allianz world-wide care is ofc the gold standard imo BUT super expensive. --- Am i right that most plans go via LMG insurance in the end and April, Luma, Aetna just the brokers? It's this one big insurance company?

This is the solution you are looking for. If you don't want todo it yourself these guys did it for us https://www.facebook.com/WeStopSmellShop/ not cheap but man it was a great service and they fixed all our bathrooms within 2 hours including the toilets.

@Lakegenevecatching up a bit on our discussion we had the last 2 years. Study is done and now waiting for cabinet approval. You were right it takes a long time haha 2029 is planned so 2030 or so is realistic for this new line https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/light-rail/bangkoks-bang-na-suvarnabhumi-lrt-feasibility-study-completed/ Living in the area around that line I still think this line will be used a lot especially because it will connect the airport in the last phase. Wiki Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Na–Suvarnabhumi_light_rail

yeah they work wonders no idea why to be honest. Seems to be a better technology than Repeaters. For newcomers that don't have a mesh setup yet.. just check first with AIS or True if they offer a package with free (rentable) units. I paid 0 THB for my mesh devices with AIS and the package wasn't that much more expensive per month for 24 months. I think in 2-3 years it will be the standard if you living in a bigger apartment or house.

I would disagree slightly. I also invested into better Routers and Repeaters even bought a super expensive repeater for 12.000 THB or so... nothing really helped much. Mesh Wifi seems really more stable. Was my last option and it worked well.

You can switch your current AIS plan to the Mesh Wifi plan and get 2 units for free (ofc after your current plan is at least 12 months or so) I switched (house 2 floors) and I am super happy with the upgrade. Netflix and Co. work now much better connected to the second mesh unit downstairs (upstairs is the main fiber cabel) So for anyone who lives in a larger house checkout the latest Mesh AIS packages where you get the units included (for rent). The units also have no problems so far just reboot them every 5-7 days via 192.168.. or via the hardware button.