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I just went out there today to have a look. Even on a motorbike it was a bit of a ride and part of the road is dirt, so I was inhaling dust being kicked up by cars. Not fun. The best part is that it's surrounded by a patchwork of big empty fields interspersed with other new developments, so you would have many years of noisy development going on all around you to look forward to if you lived there.

I know some people who live there. I wasn't impressed with the dirty-looking hallways. Also, the elevator is weird because it's halfway between floors.

To all the whiners here claiming retailers will just pocket the difference. You will all be proven wrong as usual. I guarantee you the big retailers like 7/11 and Big C will not do that because they don't need to. If the mom and pops don't follow suit nobody will buy from them.

It's most expats favorite passtime.

Prime example of what? Living in an embassy for seven years and finally getting kicked out because he smelled so bad he was stinking up the place?

Is there any way to hide these toxic political threads from showing up in my recent content list? I don't come to this site to read this garbage. Also, I wish the people running this site would get tougher on all the obvious trolling going on. It's making this whole forum turn into a waste of time. Seems to be very little useful info these days.

Who could have predicted Toxsin would basically spend zero time in prison. By all accounts he was just put in some five star executive hospital prison. Probably had his own wing. And Thailand wonders why they can't seem to get rid of their corruption problem. It's because it's coming from the top down.

I plan to use bestonwardticket.com for my next trip in case the airline checks. My plan B is to buy a 100% real ticket off expedia.com if they don't accept the bestonwardticket one. Apparently you can cancel expedia tickets within 24 hours.

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I thought nobody wanted to come back to Thailand because reasons? That is what the serial whiners around here were saying and they are never wrong. They will probably now try say that these numbers are fake without presenting any evidence whatsoever. I guess those huge lines at immigration and at the airport were just my imagination.

Perhaps, but I don't remember seeing that documented anywhere. It would be nice if they would explain what they want somewhere.

Of course not. My point is that you should not have to resort to bureaucratic hacks to get a visa when having a condo you own/rent is also completely legitimate accomodation.

They have already done a test run of this when they temporarily extended the visa waiver to 45 days. It sounds like that went smoothly, so it's not all just pie in the sky talk with zero chance of happening. They are probably considering this partly in response to the move by Vietnam to issue 90 day visas. That is another thing that makes this sound like more of a real possibility rather than just idle talk. As far as strings attached. They are already talking about adding strings to the 30 day with that new 300b tourist tax. It keeps getting postponed but sounds like it's definitely still happening. It would make that a little easier to swallow if we got 90 days for that fee instead of 30. That will also help recoup the lost revenue from issuing tourist visas. I could see them extending the visas waiver to 90 days at the same time they implement that tax.

Talk of a 3 month visa waiver on arrival is music to my ears. Still far from certain but keeping my fingers crossed.

I finally got my METV. Took about 15 days including the back and forth with the hotel booking that was initially rejected. An email confirmation was not good enough for them so I ended up getting a cancellable Agoda reservation for 30 days. Not sure how people do that when they are staying at a condo they own/rent. They are talking about extending the visa waiver on arrival to 90 days. That will make having to get this METV unnecessary so hopefully I won't have to do that next time.

TV/AN forum must have the BIGGEST group of whiners on the planet. Nothing but shameful incessant whining about anything and everything.

I only have one question about the new guy. What is his stance on recreational marijuana legalization?

Sleeping pills that use diphenhydramine (an antihistamine) are the strongest over the counter as far as I know.

That annoying itinerary thing is gone. The only itinerary related thing you need to provide is your plane ticket showing entry and exit dates. Mine is six months between those dates and they appear to be ok with that. I will use one of 48 hour onward ticket websites to satisfy the airline agent that they did their job checking that I am only staying for the max 60 days the visa allows. Some airlines/agents check that and some don't. If they didn't in the past there is no guarantee they will not in the future. The only two annoying things remaining is the requirement to show a bank statement for at least 200,000b and the confirmation letter for accomodation with no explanation what exactly that needs to be. Email confirmation did not suffice for me. I am still not sure how long that reservation needs to be for. I phoned my local Thai consulate beforehand and asked if a confirmation for 2 nights was ok. My reason was that I planned to find another place while I was there and they sounded ok with that.

Thank you for letting me know what you did. My email confirmation was for two months so that was not the problem. When I asked my local Thai consulate last year they said that I only needed to book for the first two nights for the SETV, so that is what I did on Agoda. I think I will try that again for the METV. If they reject that then I will do like you said. Make it for a month or two on either Agoda or AirBnB and then cancel afterwards.

I don't know about 10 years ago but I think it has been a requirement for a few years at least

That is nothing new. It was like that when I applied last year as well.

It's still around that much for METV (6 month multi-entry). I believe it said 200,000b on the form which is around 4400 pounds or 5600 USD at todays exchange. I think 60,000b is for SETV (60 day single entry).

I am also in the process of applying for the METV. A lot of the irrelevant questions are gone so it's much better now. I already submitted it but then they emailed me saying they need a confirmation letter from my hotel as well as their "Thai ID" whatever that means. I think they maybe mean't "Tax ID". The hotel won't give me any of that and the confirmation email I submitted wasn't good enough. What should I do? The last time I applied for a 60 day SETV I submitted an Agoda reservation letter for my first two nights at some hotel and that was apparently good enough. Will that be good enough for an METV?

That just means more of these idiots are going to prison and losing the right to vote, which all sounds good to me.