JoseThailand

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April 1 came early this year?

The guy simply wanted to avoid a rip-off 220 baht ATM fee. That is a common question from tourists in Thailand.

If you use a credit/debit card with an ATM, you pay all this + 220 baht ATM fee. If you use a cash advance, you pay all this but DONT pay 220 baht ATM fee. Is that so hard to understand?

Technically yes, but in practice it works the same way and they don't differentiate between credit and debit cards. I mean, if you give them a debit card and say you need a cash advance, they will do a withdrawal.

The original poster is asking how to avoid a 220 baht ATM fee, charged by Thai banks. A cash advance is a solution for that. Of course, all the other implications, interest charges etc. related to the issuing bank remain in place.

Of course, if he had a bank account in Thailand, that wouldn't be an issue. Anyway, even in that case I think that counter withdrawal would be cheaper than Wise.

You get a lousy exchange rate every time you pay in Thai stores with a foreign credit/debit card.

All in all, a cash advance is the cheapest way to get cash in Thailand, if you don't have a Thai bank account.

You can do a cash advance with a debit card too.

It's a Mastercard/Visa exchange rate, just like when you use an ATM with a foreign ATM card, but without the 220 baht access fee.

This page clearly says: ID card (A foreigner using a passport and work permit), or a government official card, or a State Enterprise Employee Card

Krungsri and Bangkok Bank do that. Note that at Krungsri there is no fee only for Mastercard CC. Just bring your passport and a credit card to a bank and say that you need a cash advance. They are well familiar with that.

As if there are not enough completely legal 18yo students...

Once and again - the impatient always lose. If they had not bought that dodgy ED/Volunteer visas in September 2020, they would've saved a lot of money and could've got covid extensions until March 2022 at least.

Driving a car to a packed nightclub where she would take a mask off?

It looked crazy enough sitting on a motorbike as a passenger, let alone driving it just inches from huge buses and trucks. One wrong move on either side and you're dead.

Driving a motorbike in Bangkok is a crazy idea to begin with.

Just fly to a nearby country and come back the same day. No quarantine from Feb 1.

TAT's wet dreams

It was free for those who arrived after March 1, 2020.

I think you forgot what happened in September 2020. It was exactly the same situation. The covid amnesty was ending and they tried to kick everyone out, before introducing covid extensions days after the supposed deadline.

So it was supposed to stop a week ago. And they extended it again. Of course Thailand will follow Vietnam in extending it.

Lol. Vietnam has been trying to stop this for a year now, every time extending it again.

You're right, being married to a Thai lady takes a lot of money!