StayinThailand2much

Yes, they are 'optimistic' about every year, and ever more so every other week... (I'm very optimistic that they will come up with higher number projections for both, tourist numbers, and tourists' spending habits, at least, another two dozen times this year...)

You don't say!

Yes, rather than reading such pointless (based on exchange rates?) "spending" figures (not to mention in different currencies: baht for Thailand, and dollars for Vietnam!), I'd be interested to learn what was the percentage of Americans, Brits, French, etc., among travellers to Vietnam and Thailand, and also the growth rates of such traveller segments. Also, which country attracted more couples and families? (I would imagine that this could influence per-person daily spending, as little kids, obviously, don't spend as much.*) *Beware: sarcasm!

True. How many of the surveyed travellers were from the U.S.? And where did the "Europeans" come from; Albania, Bulgaria, France, Switzerland, or Ukraine?? - Absolutely pointless survey!

Applying in person; what are the latest documents one has to provide? (I was told that 'all passport pages with all stamps need to be copied'.) Also, how long to receive it?

Thank you.

Wonder how it impacted flights. Anyone read, or heard of passengers missing their flights?

I used to get only ATM cards for my accounts for a one-time fee. Then the banks started forcing debit cards on customers, with ATM cards being unavailable.

Same here. I still have four bank accounts that I opened a couple years ago. I only use one actually for regular transactions, but as opening a new one is so troublesome now, I hang on to all four like grim death, only willing to close them if I were to leave Thailand permanently.

That's kinda vague...

Believe it, or not; but in the last few days I've heard two Thais, incl. a kid, mumble 'long-term' behind my back, and it had the sound of disapproval. Knowing the average Thai's English proficiency level, I wonder whether such disapproving remarks of "Long-term..." are a reflection of, possibly, recent negative Thai media reporting or discussion...

Holocaust, organ harvesting, re-education camps and forced labour, so what? If everyone had 'kept their noses out of' Kampuchea's affairs, it would probably be depopulated today, but, thankfully, Vietnam intervened...

More and more Chinese think like that (if you believe YouTube reports), but it, probably, won't happen anytime soon. I remember watching on TV that courageous man standing in front of tanks near Tiananmen Square in 1989. (I'm convinced, if 2 or 3 million Chinese acted like that man back then, the CCP's days would be numbered...) Sadly, Chinese in 2024 don't seem to have such courage, so the world will probably have to wait till this maniac starts a war, and is consequently disposed of by his comrades due to the high losses... I'm not worried about Trump, although he's been giving Western democracy a bad name in the world. We live in interesting times...

Studying Xi Jinping's crap ideology, if not spending too much time per week on it, could actually be beneficial for the young person's critical thinking skills (if exposed to outside knowledge to). More worrisome are probably the low quality of education, large and noisy classes, and the dubious canteen food, not to mention the large number of strange infections going around recently, purposefully hidden by the government.

Yes, I am kinda outraged. Usually it is the opposite; when I want to buy beer, I cannot, and no money, or whatever will make a difference... Who wants to schedule one's beer-buying to their stupid selling times? Just don't sell to minors; works fine everywhere else. Wonder, what they'd do if they ever wanted to stop young teenagers riding motorcycles; stop all sales and rentals of bikes?

'Actress Ava Six Scenes' - That's quite a mouthful. Better to shorten it to Actress ASS...

Impoverished? No. It's not about 'free', but fast. My visa doesn't matter, as I need it for foreign clients, so it's no work, or whatever in Thailand.

Naw, at least 5...

Need a package to do video-conferencing (Google Meet, Zoom).

Thanks. Looking into this. But I'd need a place that opens 8.30 in the morning. Guess, Starbucks won't open that early.

I'm in the same boat (Bangkok). My landlady outright refused to do the TM30. I did it online. Then it was time for my first TM47. My earlier self-report was declined, and I was asked to do another TM30. In addition I was fined 800 baht. (The IO receiving my "late" TM30 was not at all interested in the fact that my landlady was breaking the law, but, instead, seemed to enjoy fining me.)

I don't have a dual SIM. Using my android as a hotspot, I noticed that the shared internet connection on my laptop is slow, i.e. not enough for larger files to download. I could sign up for an "unlimited package for 7 days". - My question is, would the internet connection of my laptop be 'unlimited' too, i.e. have the same speed as on my android?

I admit that I'm not very tech-savvy. Yes, I could sign up for packages with my provider (DTAC), using my android as a hotspot for my laptop. My question is, would the internet speed this way work 1:1 on my laptop?

Where?

I tried McDonald's wifi, but it either didn't work (most of the time), or it was very slow.