Trip Hop

A close relative died back home about 4 days ago and the GF is amazed that I haven’t cut my holiday short and already flown back to the UK on the first available flight? I’m trying to explain to her that despite the person having advanced Alzheimer’s and dying in a hospital, a separate doctor still has to sign off that the death was from natural causes before the body can even be released and funeral planning can start? She’s looking at me as if I have 2 heads and stating that in Thailand they’d wrap you up and bundle you out the door to the temple the very same day!

There are quite a few that fall into this category but don’t tar everyone with the same brush. Most policies along with flights and holidays are bought online these days so not really over the counter. With the insurers that I use, everything is straight forward. Simple table of the 4 levels of cover available containing a summary of the differences between them. Click one button to see the full policy schedule for each which is straight forward to read and doesn’t contain any real small print as such. And before you ask, yes they do pay out!

Basic rule of supply and demand. They’ll continue to sell at as much as possible until people are no longer willing to pay it and won’t come. The problem is that the post Covid surge is there but most of the airlines are yet to reinstate their pre-Covid timetables.

You can argue any situation in the way that you have but you’re just being pedantic and missing the point. It’s all about convenience and if the 45 day option is there, plenty of people will use it. End of!

In addition to my other shorter trips at other times of the year, I normally visit for Xmas/New Year and stay the full 30 days. This time I decided to stay the whole 45 days just because the hassle free option was there. Many of my friends that I meet up with out there do the same and made the same decision to extend our stays for exactly the same reason. We all budgeted about B400k for the 6 weeks and we are tourists. However, if it stays at 30 days come this December, that’s what we’ll be coming for as we just can’t be arsed applying for 60 day visas in advance or losing a day at immigration for an extension?

Being 1% myself for many years, I can 100% tell you that neither do you! If you really are Thai as you insinuate, you should look closer to home? Various eastern block mafias, the BiB and a lot of your own countrymen/women to start? Also, if you want to ban 1% clubs in Thailand full stop, you should start with the Thai MCs? They really have the power in the MC world here. I can tell you that the big farang clubs are only allowed a presence out of courtesy and could be shut down by them at any time they so wished?

???? I’m not defending this guy but I can tell you now that I know 10x the amount of criminals that are not 1%, than those who are! So going by your rhetoric, shouldn’t you be kicking yourself of the country?

You have to be a total loon to invest 40 million baht on anything in Thailand. You could invest that sum somewhere far safer and easily see 7% plus pa and you’d get a pretty nice pool villa rental with sea views in Phuket with that?