ChaiyaTH

I use Revolut Ultra which gives unlimited currency swaps and free international transfers and 2K a month withdrawals free. I can first of all hold baht, secondly transfer almost realtime to Thai bank accounts (week days) without issues and thirdly can transfer directly to someone their visa or mastercard card number realtime every day 24/7. So yes can do. Earn also 1 point per 1 spent which can be converted to airmiles, the fees of the membership earned back by swapping currencies a few times a month, ATM withdrawals alone save me 4x 250 baht. Cherry on top better rates than wise, saves 200 baht per 1K euro/usd. As long this exists never using a Thai bank again. It's also insured up to 100K euro for funds unlike in TH.

Stopped using thai bank and sim cards and just use ESIM for data package, cheaper and faster too. Can anyway call using whatsapp and line or still use the ESIM for emergency calls otherwise. Tired of these communist moves.

Just paid my rent to a random krungthai of landlord for the first time using it, it arrived realtime. It also was 100 baht cheaper on 480 euro than wise.

Nonsense, have had the account since 2018 while living here since 2013, all my friends switched using the same in the same position, many already did since 3+ years too as they never even had a Thai bank. People who had this issue simply not understand to do their KYC/address properly.

I'm not a tax resident neither a Thai, and it works entirely fine for any foreigner. Stop talking crap.

After all recent hassles and 2 bank freezes for 10+ days with 2 banks in TH, after 14 years no issue banking, decided to empty all and move to revolut instead. They ship cards to Thailand as well you can have all types of currencies + pay apple pay in 7/11 etc too. Also it offers to send realtime to Thai visa/mastercard cards or within a day to Thai bank accounts. Then Thailand has less to do with my finances too, can only be good. They even offer good esim cards for data on top too lol, missing out on zero benefits with the 18.99 a month plan.

Same horse sht that some people keep repeating, far from reality is what the facts and truth are. This also is why it is all going backwards since years, and it only gets worse by this. To expect people to have 500,000 baht as a startup 18-20-25 year old in 2025 in order to get a digital nomad visa is just as delusional, if having that money it would be tied up logically as cashflow inside the actual business itself to begin with. 76% of westerners barely has a 1/5th of that, at that age, in cash savings. Meanwhile this same group spends the same or more as retirees.

Doubt the 60 days change as they effectively changed it by doing the max 1x 30 days extension now instead. If they did that on top it would be the last nail in the coffin for real. Vietnam is already 20-30% cheaper by FX rates alone, people could double rent a house and be better off. Not sure what Thailand has against lower long-term staying spenders to begin with as they do want dozens of millions extra tourists, who over the past few years fit around the same spendings as a long-term lower budget spender spends. While the ratio is 1 long stayer for 5-10 of those to earn the same. Sure you casually see a few lost foreigners or homeless ones in BKK but nobody usually stays here if being absolute broke too.

As far I have understood from both agents and IO's they simplified everything by simply looking at the calendar year from now on. So basically they flag anything above 150 days in the calendar year, as well just 1x 30 days extension if <150 days in the year and otherwise 7 days max. The safe entry already started to ask about people their specific history within the calendar year too. Just wonder how long it will last, I doubt long as tourism numbers keep going down too. Ping pong as usual is my best bet, I would try to use the safe entry if possible, as long it remains unclear. Or else a land border if entering in 2026 fresh (but no 30 day extension on that at all). They even enforce this new rules so far in places like Phangan so that means they are pretty serious about it if it comes to those extensions.

I'm talking that I wish you the worst too.

A room above soi 6 would do without documents lol.

You are aware that costs more than a dorm right, hope you will find your future soon too.

Learn to read; easy to break, in that case a lot hassle and delay with getting a replacement.

Special deal Big C

OR 8.5K for 43 inch.