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I've got a 5 day domestic excursion coming up via BKK airport and I have some excess luggage that I'd rather leave at the airport instead of leaving it at my hotel in the city. 

Is there luggage storage still operating and if so where is it?

Thanks

Just now, Don Chance said:

Depending where you get vaccinated there should be a doctors or hospital record. So if someone wants to check they would call the and confirm.

 

I was under the illusion that doctors and hospitals generally don't disseminate information about their patients or upload their medical files to databases for government officials to gawk at.

3 minutes ago, TSF said:

When you fly into any country the immigration have a computer in front of them, everything is there. It's all connected with the airlines. Flight manifests and info on passengers is entered into online files. 

OK, but the airline will just know I handed them a grubby piece of paper saying I'm vaccinated right?  There's not going to be a worldwide online database recording information on every vaccinated person, is there?

I've had to show my yellow fever vaccination proof to lots of African immigration officials, they go by yellow vaccination card I hand them, there's no database to check.

2 hours ago, TSF said:

Not going to be any fake covid vax documents, nobody's going to do international travel using a paper certificate. Your vax details will be added to your online file. Your travel agent will check it before processing your bookings, the airport check in counter will check it prior to issuing your boarding passes, IOs will check it prior to stamping your passport....it's not going to be a grubby piece of paper you have spilt beer on and folded up so many times it's falling apart. 

What online file?  If I want to fly from Thailand to Cambodia on Air Asia, what will the airline and Cambodian immigration check other than my grubby piece of paper saying I was vaccinated?

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

I would not assume he had genuinely booked ASQ. 

 

Little point to faking COE in that case. 

Yes, that was my thinking too. He didn't have the time or money for ASQ.

But what did he think would happen even if the staff approved his documents? They walk you out of the airport and put you right in the car to your destination.

I think my driver was waiting specifically for me to go to my specific hotel. If there was no driver from his hotel to pick him up, he couldn't have left the airport.   You can't just hop in a cab or have your girlfriend pick you up.

And if an airport driver drove hm to the hotel, then what? He's got no reservation but if he tries to do an immediate runner the hotel will call authorities.  He'll be identified from his immigration photo.  There will be a manhunt for him. 

There was no way this could have ended successfully.

4 minutes ago, asean said:

Well at least he knows he is going home soon

Why do you think he's going home?

He should just go where everyone else who the Thais don't want goes.

Cambodia.

3 minutes ago, MartinBKK said:

Maybe he is on a flight to somewhere. Can't imagine he will want to hang around there for long.

His answer is going to be that he's spent like 11 of the last 15 months in Thailand on visa free entry or tourist visas.

11 hours ago, impulse said:

Be helpful to know how many previous entries, and how much time you've actually spent in country recently.

 

14 pages and the OP hasn't answered this. I wonder why.

I recommend that you read "7 Reasons Why You Really Shouldn't Move to Cambodia"

The family chose to go to the press and make his "disappearance" public. The Australian press then wrote a rather suggestive article pointing out that he was the second Thai expat to go "missing" and suggesting that their might be foul things afoot in Thailand. This spurred the Thai police to act, they found him pretty darn quickly over in Cambodia.

The family has now released another public statement offering a totally farfetched explanation for his disappearance, completely lacking in any detail whatsoever, like whether this supposed motor vehicle accident happened in Cambodia or Thailand. It makes no sense that he would be involved in a motor vehicle accident in Thailand and then go home, get his passport, without being seen by his wife, buy a bus or plane ticket, and then cross the border into Cambodia and remain there for months. Or did he secretly go to Cambodia without telling his wife he was leaving the country and claims he supposedly got into an amnesia-causing accident there after sneaking away from his wife?

If you fake your disappearance and then offer a very public and rather ludicrous explanation for it, you should be prepared that people may want to discuss it. Fake amnesia claims by wayward husbands also do a disservice to real sufferers from amnesia and they strain limited government resources of law enforcement agencies that then have to waste their time finding people when their families claim they are missing and suggest foul play.

Then why would the Aussie consular staff not make a statement contrary to what apparently seems as fact? I think they would and charges would be laid against him... Come on people let's wake up and smell the coffee beans boiling away at the truth here in this case, instead of posting silly hypothesis of what could have happened. If he had done the wrong thing the Aussie press would be over this like a prawn in the midday sun...

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Embassies are not in the business of publicly calling their citizens liars, even when they believe them to be liars. There would be no charges: it's not a crime to run away from your wife and family and the make up a dumb amnesia story to cover it up. The Aussie press should be a lot more skeptical of this; they are stymied though by the fact that the family gave them nothing more than a blanket statement totally lacking in any detail and they have been unable to interview anyone about any of the alleged details to determine how credible or fanciful the story is.

The family chose to go to the press and make his "disappearance" public. The Australian press then wrote a rather suggestive article pointing out that he was the second Thai expat to go "missing" and suggesting that their might be foul things afoot in Thailand. This spurred the Thai police to act, they found him pretty darn quickly over in Cambodia.

The family has now released another public statement offering a totally farfetched explanation for his disappearance, completely lacking in any detail whatsoever, like whether this supposed motor vehicle accident happened in Cambodia or Thailand. It makes no sense that he would be involved in a motor vehicle accident in Thailand and then go home, get his passport, without being seen by his wife, buy a bus or plane ticket, and then cross the border into Cambodia and remain there for months. Or did he secretly go to Cambodia without telling his wife he was leaving the country and claims he supposedly got into an amnesia-causing accident there after sneaking away from his wife?

If you fake your disappearance and then offer a very public and rather ludicrous explanation for it, you should be prepared that people may want to discuss it. Fake amnesia claims by wayward husbands also do a disservice to real sufferers from amnesia and they strain limited government resources of law enforcement agencies that then have to waste their time finding people when their families claim they are missing and suggest foul play.

I have seen nothing that says he was in the hospital. He was found in a hotel in Phnom Penh, a city he used to live in.

When guys disappear from their families and then they are found months later in another country and claim amnesia, I am very skeptical. The far more likely explanation is that he tried to disappear for some reason and failed, and then when he got caught he claimed amnesia rather than owning up to it.

Doesn't this statement from the family raises a lot more questions than answers? Amnesia lasting four months is pretty rare and happens far less often than people just doing a runner for whatever reason.

How and when did he enter Cambodia? Did the alleged traffic accident occur in Cambodia or Thailand? Was he found in a hospital in Cambodia or just in a guesthouse where an ordinary non-injured fugitive Westerner in Cambodia might stay? I think if he were found in a hospital, the statement would say that.

Most importantly, is there any evidence of the accident and amnesia other than whatever Mr. Hansford is telling his family?

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A lot of these apply to guys in Thailand too.

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Interesting, but sad, is the fact that no one has said something like:-

"of course this could not be true"

Let alone:

"report this to the airport authorities"

"report this to the police"

Whether it is true or not does not really matter - just that it is beleivable to the point of causing zero surprise...........speaks volumes about people's perceptions in Thailand.

Of course it's true, since I'm hearing now that other people have posted about it also. I used the offical taxis twice in the last few weeks. The first time there was no scam attempt, only the second time, about 10 days ago (the older guy with the glasses).

I guess the official airport taxi desk outside the arrival area on the lower level is not entirely scam free. A few weeks ago, I exited the airport, went up to the desk, and gave the guy (an older guy with glasses) the name of my mid-Sukhumvit Hotel. He then said what I thought was "You pay driver 40 baht." I thought he was talking about the toll or the airport surcharge and I didn't pay much attentiuon, I just said "OK."

He directed me to a driver, who had a small SUV cab, not a corolla. Interestingly, the driver seemed a little reluctant to give me my portion of the ticket bck (with the driver's info on it), I had to ask him a couple of times for it.

We started to pull out of the airport, meter off. I asked him to put on the meter, and he said I had agreed with the desk guy to pay him 400 baht. I never meant to do that, I must have just misheard the guy. I told the guy I wasn't paying 400 baht, just to let me out. He said OK, if I would give him back the ticket with his info. I said no, I was getting out with the ticket. He then agreed to use to meter, BUT he was really angry about it, claiming that he had "big car" and that I had agreed to pay 400.

Ultimately I gave him 350 on arrival at destination, which I think was more than fair, but it's interesting that the airport metered taxi desk is apparently now steering people to non-metered cars and brokering off-meter deals.

The other moral to this story is to always get the ticket with the driver's info. He seemed legitimately worried about me exitng the cab with the ticket for his failure to use the meter and then presumably lodging a complaint.

If I recall correctly, the Russian visa applcation for Americans is different from the one for other nationalities, and it asks if you've had any training in making explosives. Good fun.

I got my visa in London through a service. It was quite expensive and it took about a week, but the word was that the linesat the embassy in London were terrible. I then had my passport stolen in Poland and had to get a new Russian visa. It got it in Vilnius, Lithuania in about four hours for next to nothing. I recall using a website for the necesary visa support letter -- visatorussia.com or something like that. They'll just email you a generic visa support voucher for about $30 even if you book no travel with them.

Here's something else to keep in mind. You have to get your visa registered in each city if you're going to be in the city more than 72 hours. Your hotel can do this easily. Definitely have them do it even if you're only going to be in Moscow 68 hours. The Moscow police likes to stop tourists and check for this. I was only in the city about 50 hours but the cops were trying to claim it was three days, then they were demanding that I show them plane tickets, etc. proving what time I arrived, and it would have been easier to just be registered, even though it wasn't really required.

Good luck.

Shouldn't be a problem, but american airlines can be difficult. At worst, you could always to buy a very cheap Air Asia online one way ticket from BKK to a neighboring country, show it to the airline in the US, then never use it.

The "Morally Diminished" blog seems to be down at the moment too.

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