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Must've heard his favourite song.......

Good point - I didn't think that through, did I?

If you need to keep such records for whatever reason, why not keep air tickets / boarding cards. My suggestion would be to keep tickets for a particular trip together in a zip file with an appropriate name. It's not like years ago when it was all on paper, after all.

IMO WS is over-priced, over-rated for just about anything (or anyone!) that's on sale there. I, a a regular tourist, might go there once in a trip, just to confirm my opinion of it. Far better seafood at MUCH lower prices elsewhere - maybe not as "smart" looking (more typical Thai places) but the food's what counts (again, IMO)

Almost one for the Darwin Awards, isn't it? 🤬

Correct. Technically speaking, in UK emergency vehicles are required to obey signals and speed limits. Their "infringement" of those laws is overlooked for pragmatic reasons. However, if there is a collision, the driver of said vehicle can be held liable just as you or I can. Also, if a police car is travelling over the limit and goes through a speed camera, an investigation may be carried out. IF the car was on a call-out, the offence may be quashed, If not the police driver is liable. This I know to be certain, I assume the same applies to ambulances.

I concur with that. Before you get to Immigration, have a mental note of the date that should be stamped as your "leave by" date, bearing in mind that the days of arrival and departure are included in the 60. At SUV Immigration in 2024, the IO stamped me in for 30 days by mistake. Before leaving the booth, I checked, smiled at him and said "I think it should be 60 days". He actually apologised, corrected it in the passport and also stamped my boarding card as further "evidence". Needless to say, I kept everything until my eventual departure.

Been there it was fun. Sadly caught fire in 2023 and was subsequently demolished. Apparently, there is an ongoing campaign to have it rebuilt. A lot of people have a leaning in that direction 😎

Better yet, start by improving the overall quality - service, cleanliness, punctuality and food. Get back to the "smooth as silk" days when Thai was a pleasure to fly on!

Subtitled "Wishful thinking"? OK

You can't get the police, you know 😉

It's not unusual 😎

It's horrifying how lenient UK is - even letting prisoners out early!!!!!! 🥵

Thanks - thus confirming that the other fields truly are optional, as i thought.,

They can if, as you say...... However, when I take it out of my bank, I keep the withdrawal slips and if asked would just tell the truth - "it's from my savings and I'm going on holiday" I'm too boring to be suspicious! 😁

My AIS in Thailand is set for NO data roaming for obvious reasons. Just calls and SMS. To be honest, I never even thought of that, but even had I, why the hell should I incur the expense just to suit SCB? And to be fair, I guess I'm not their typical customer - I'm basically a tourist when I go to Thailand - my account was only used 2-3 months of the year, AND SCB ATMs were becoming rather scarce in Pattaya. As for your second point - yes (only in my case its UKP not Euros) plus I have a UK bank account that doesn't charge for foreign currency withdrawals. Of course that raises the spectre of Thai ATM charges, but that's for this thread.

Out if interest, were all the fields marked as mandatory? I believe (from reading this thread) the mandatory ones prevent you from advancing to the next page if you leave them blank, but that some fields are optional and let you continue. Just asking as I haven't done a TDAC yet.

Indeed - I had a Catch 22 situation. SCB shut down their online banking - made you use the App as I mentioned But it was impossible to set the App up from outside Thailand even with a Thai phone number. (There was a thread running on here for a while) However, I wanted to send money via Wise to SCB for an upcoming trip as I'd done many times before.....but I couldn't look at the SCB account to check its arrival. Therefore Catch 22....therefore goodbye SCB 🤬

Still using what? If you mean SCB's online banking - it no longer exists. And it was impossible to set the App up from outside Thailand even with a Thai phone number I've had no experience of BKK bank so not commenting. But you didn't read my post properly - the bit that says "....to which I referred in my post above,"

I agree except that, apparently, many of the Thai banks have shut down their online banking, thus forcing customers to use their App. I know SCB did that so my account, held for more than 20 years is no more. I prefer to be offered the choice of App or online banking and inevitably choose the latter. I'm very tech-savvy but apart from Google Wallet, to which I referred in my post above, I just don't do banking on my phone.. My computers are secure and not accessible to be lost or stolen and hacked.

Definitely not Sir Why not? I'm in UK, so my banking arrangements may differ from those in Thailand, but If you use a credit card for large transactions you have the benefit of the card protection plus if it gets "scammed" it's the card company's money that they have to TRY to get out of you rather than your money that you have to fight to get back. I always use a CC for large transactions for that reason, then I can pay the card when I'm satisfied that all is good. In the same way, I have my Google Wallet linked to a card rather than a bank account.

This reminded me of a true story: In a London pub sometime in the 70s. Old bloke, looking like Uncle Albert playing the piano - badly My mate Steve, always a wit, walks up to him and asks "Is that hard to play mate?" Piano player: "No, not really" Steve: "Well it's f***ing hard to listen to - belt up will you"

Not heard that before - brilliant 👍

Sometimes @Crossy the truth just ain't that funny🤔☹

I've never smoked, but years ago I used to get quite "stoned" going to music gigs where other people were. Quite liked it as it happens.