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bikes are 500 baht, clamped cars are charged 1000 baht. I KNOW! ☹️ (....and don't ask for a receipt)

For anyone driving to departures/ Bkk Airways booking office from Bangrak market area it is easiest to enter through the arrivals barrier and take the narrow road from there to departures. Many folk including taxis are doing that now. Also, you can enter/exit through either of the barriers, all cards are accepted at either one.

Irish Times. Pigs liver sliced thin and really tender comes with bacon, fried onions, mashed potato and spinach. Goes well with a pint of Guinness.

There is only one airline that flies BKK to Samui and that is Bangkok Airways, not only niche, but ''Boutique" 🤪. The one way flights with a Samui residents card cost 2,700 baht, a price you will not see offered on their website if you don't have a card. I challenge you to find a similar price on any 'consolidaters' website. (Tut tut TE, bet you don't forget next time) 😅

Walking Street market, Fisherman's, Bophut many on sale last time I looked but they are there for tourists to buy so may be overpriced if you are buying quantities.

I think there is a computer shop just past Makro going towards Lamai, can't remember its name. They fixed my Macbook Air just around pre-covid, happy with repair and cost.

Not so gearbox, fare with a resident card is generally around 2,700 baht to Bangkok one way. No matter how far in advance you book you are unlikely to get anything like that rate. You save the cost of the card on your first flight. (You also get priority on standby in case of emergency). I'm interested in what you needed to produce to qualify for your pink card though, (even though you say you didn't get one), please share, it will help others I am sure.

Agreed, gone way off topic. Correct richard, this IS one way to prove you are a Samui resident, that is how I got my card, but reading the OP it would appear he will not have a yellow book and pink card. Just for interest, my wife also got her card on production of our marriage certificate even though her ID card shows she is resident elsewhere. (We do live together on Samui) 😉. Can Samui, maybe it is worth buying a blank lease document (10 baht at a stationery shop) and asking your wife to fill it in and showing you have a long term (2 or 3 or more years) tenancy at the address you are living at and take it to the airport and see what they say. Worth a try. Agreed, this thread has gone way off topic.

Not sure if you will get much help after that unnecessary response to someone trying to help, however, may I suggest you go to the Bkk Airways ticket office at the airport. They are very friendly and told me what I needed and even took photos of all the necessary documents and uploaded them for me, after which my application was successful. Not saying you hold the necessary documents (which I did have) but at least you are talking to a human who will help you and not just filling in their forms online.

It's just not good enough! I transferred £1k a few minutes ago got 46.79 thb rate plus £7.26 charge. They said it would take 28 minutes to receive but it actually took only 21 minutes. How inaccurate and unreliable is that???

Thanks Te. Scope here for an ambitious entrepreneur maybe ?

Are there any care/residential (not nursing) homes for the elderly on Samui? My Google search so far has found only 2 sites, PP Homes and Diamond Care. FYI, the Diamond Care Home does not exist, it has not even been built despite having a website and phone number which takes one to Diamond Pool Villa on the airport road. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Yes they've been doing it regularly for some weeks now with bikes on the red and yellow checked pavement area on the village corner, 500 baht to release. My car got clamped last week, NOT on the no parking bit and after the 7/11 but they alleged my car was on the pavement (it was not but one wheel slightly on the sloping bit), 1000 baht fine to release it, I asked for a receipt but was refused. Really? 😉 I was offered and accepted a lift back from the cop shop to my car by the police on a motorbike, I said I don't have a helmet but he said no problem, not needed at night, only daytime!!!

And as there will be a 3-5 day National holiday (Songkhran) soon, the Thais will be arriving here en masse in about a week's time, so once again many hotels will have full capacity. Fortunately, the actual 'enjoyment' of water throwing lasts for only one day here on Samui unlike the rest of the country where it can last for up to a week.

Agree 100% with TE, the island is buzzing and packed with tourists. One strange phenomenon though, the expat bars in and around places like Bangrak are strangely very quiet and have not seen their clientele return since Covid.

Been here in the NE since mid February and not a drop of rain and no storms or high waves so far.

We are a small group of Bridge enthusiasts playing Duplicate Bridge regularly every Thursday afternoon in Bangrak. Standards range from beginner to good but most importantly we are a friendly group intent on enjoying a friendly game. Please DM me if you are interested in playing and would like further details.

Fair point. So they were offered the equivalent of 410 baht.

So, the passengers were offered 10 francs on their return to Bangkok having been on a flight from Thailand to Germany The Thai currency is the baht, the German currency used to be the Deutschmark (until 1999) but is now the Euro and the French currency used to be the franc (as mentioned in the report) until 1999 but is now also the Euro. Why were the passengers offered francs FFS? Typical Daily Mail drivel.

Am I missing something here? Surely if he is married (OP calls his partner his wife) then for a start he only needs 400k baht in his bank not 800k baht, something which seems to have been missed through 6 pages of comments. (Sorry if I missed a post pointing this out). My 400k is lodged in a savings account IN MY NAME ONLY (as required by immigration when I go for my annual marriage extension) in a Bangkok Bank Savings Account (No debit card, but get a small amount of annual interest). I went to the bank a couple of years ago and filled in forms together with my wife which according to the bank allows my wife to withdraw funds (without needing my signature) both before and after ones death. (Yes, you have to trust your wife or lock away your passbook). There was a charge (of course). Sorry I can't remember any more detail about the forms or the process and am currently not in Thailand to find out more, but worth OP going to his bank and asking if this is possible for him. Sorry it was not the OP who mentioned 800k baht, it was the next reply from MickTurator

I can't say definitively how long for the retirement extension, but (if it helps) for the marriage based extension they don't keep your passport, you keep it. They put in a stamp which tells you when to return (in the case of the marriage one it is one month). On your return they complete adding your stamps and off you go for another year.

Interesting. Both those requirements have been required for an extension based on marriage for as long as I've been doing one. For the marriage one they want 6 photos altogether of husband and wife in different rooms including the bedroom. Last time they also took photos of us together with an IO in the bedroom as well.

"No, not after the new rules. You can travel domestic to other provinces and stay in hotels and private and return without a new TM30, if that place is your reported address, and from abroad if you have a multiple entry visa or re-entry permit. However, as almost always, there might be difference between the immigration offices in how they bends the rules." So, this is the Samui forum. How do Samui Immigration interpret the rule then? I shall be returning on a re-entry permit, do I need to complete a new TM30 after arriving in Samui having entered the country and stayed 2 nights in Bangkok?