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  1. Caldera
    That's actually a good idea, someone who has entered the country illegally shouldn't be allowed to roam the streets awaiting deportation. I'd guess they have the option to avoid or end their detention immediately - by agreeing to depart for their home country instead of contesting deportation.
  2. Caldera
    Excellent decision, those Vietnamese electric scooters are fantastic in city traffic.
  3. Caldera
    Has anyone actually considered what more Indian tourists means for other tourists? Maybe they find the place less enjoyable due to their presence, and it contributes to their decision to stay away.
  4. Caldera
    Yeah, that would go down really well with tourists in the current climate. Just like a lead balloon.
  5. Caldera
    At the Bangkok airports, you might well run into trouble much sooner than that. Especially if you extended your previous visa exempt entry, fly out and (try to) return within days. Or if you did an overland border bounce before.
  6. Caldera
    Shouldn't the headline read: Senators accuse Thaksin of faking illness to dodge prison and of scheming to install his daughter as his puppet PM? Glasshouse. Stones.
  7. Caldera
    That never worked before and it won't work this time either. I don't see any high rollers having a desire to holiday among visa exempt Indians.
  8. Caldera
    I'm sure that would be an interesting option for quite a few people who wouldn't enjoy the long minivan round-trip from Bangkok and prefer to organize their own transport.
  9. Caldera
    You can, why would you do that though? Unless and until the 60-day visa exempt gets reduced, there's no benefit in entering with a SETV instead.
  10. Caldera
    What you can and what you cannot get away with varies a lot between checkpoints and even individual immigration officers. Ultimately, you have a decision to make, either play it safe and pay upfront or take your chances and potentially deal with a denied entry.
  11. Caldera
    That's a pretty silly theory, especially when you consider that most overstayers aren't even from the countries mentioned. Where's that exponential increase in rootless Westerners roughing it out in Thailand illegally? Only in the OP's head.
  12. Caldera
    What could possibly go wrong? Thailand doesn't even have safe zebra crossings.
  13. Caldera
    Those savings come from selling their house, so if and when they return because "Thailand didn't work out" (no income stream, no real plan other than homeschooling the kids), they'll be homeless. I feel sorry for the kids.
  14. Caldera
    I have yet to see actual evidence that they match passport numbers rather than names. Their announcement was about matching names. I mean the automatic matching they did. I don't doubt that you'll have to show the same (current) passport to both network provider and bank in case the automatic match failed and you have to visit them.
  15. Caldera
    Indeed, they've been very busy promoting that they are back. I used to be a customer and just re-installed their app to have a look around - my original registration is still valid. I'll give them a try next week.
  16. Caldera
    I guess that number is as good as any he could pull out of his behind.
  17. Caldera
    Rebranding efforts? More like dishing out big fat brown envelopes!
  18. Caldera
    What a laughable and ridiculous move, leaving aside that Cambodia won't extradite him to stand trial in Thailand anyway.
  19. Caldera
    You'll need to check with each of your banks if they support "cross-border QR code payments" in Laos. Chances are that some will and others don't (yet). For example, in Vietnam I could already use my Bangkok Bank app for QR code payments, but not my Kasikorn Bank app.
  20. Caldera
    What good would "Climate Fear" do me? I'll leave the panicking to the panic monkeys and Gretas of this world, as per usual.
  21. Caldera
    With their silly flip-flopping they are ruining one of the very few industries that has shown some growth.
  22. Caldera
    In this case the question is why your passport office didn't cancel your old passport when you picked up the new one. That's what they are supposed to do, unless you qualify for having multiple passports for special reasons.
  23. Caldera
    Udon Thani and Nakhon Phanom, aren't those flights more like bargirl shuttles instead of bringing in tourists?
  24. Caldera
    That's a ridiculous idea. Unenforceable, impractical, doomed to fail miserably. Maybe some people need to remember that Thailand used to have a very successful HIV prevention campaign. Revive that instead of coming up with comical nonsense.
  25. Caldera
    With a short-haul flight, you cannot escape the miserable monsoon season weather, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this isn't a popular time for regional tourism.

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