DonniePeverley

Short term yes. Long term repeat habit and the results are much different.

They really won't.

Nothing major. You could have picked it up here and there.

I've seen a few shows in the UK dubious of the claims they make. It's just natural dust from the suction they attract. The actual computer mechanism making claims - dubious it's actually measuring true dust. Furthermore, most people when they remove the filter, or attempt to clean it are just releasing alot of the dust straight back out.

Oh cos the screen says it's doing so. Got ya. Total nonsense. When you go to clean the filter, all the dust just comes out.

How do you know its working?

Tourism are oblivious to the problem as it doesn't make international news

Where does the air indoors come from ?

The pollution yesterday was horrific too. Official readings were very unhealthy. So you had a bunch of people on roof top buildings wafting in the pollution. Very romantic.

Any condo that you see. Just do your research that is strictly enforces no short term rentals. Check yourself too what they do to enforce this.

I'm glad you're aware of the airbnb / short term infestation issue.

Valentines day .... really or is that just a theory ? If Valentines Day a major thing here?

Bangkok always busy, but usually between 9-2, and 7pm onwards thinks become a little more 'bearable. Not today. It's 9pm and the roads around Silom, Riverside, are just at a gridlock. Is there some event going on, or has someone new at his job done a poor job at doing a manual takeover of the traffic lights? We literally didn't move from our condo for nearly 30 mins. A simple normal 10 minute journey took us nearly two hours. All the same small soi's just rammed. Reading on Twitter many are reporting the same issues. Wag gwaaan ?!

Was this the concert at Emisphere ?

There are no hand breaks to halt tourism now and the sheer volume of numbers, after the visa waves for China and India. If you look at how horrific the situation in Phuket is and how miserable things are out there for anyone living there, i doubt the powers care. Pack in as many people as we can, good or bad seems the mantra. Someone has to pay for the revenue lost from visas fees, and other spending. They are on course now to smash 40-50 million people a year.

I still don't fully fathom why they were given these long visas ? For free too. Why?

Absolutely disgusting today in Bangkok. You could actually see the misty pollution around you.

Well technically speaking - Bangkok has 2 airports. London has 6. So yay for London again.

If it has it's own immigration desks, and manned - that can only be a positive.

And remember Heathrow is closed between 11pm and 6am

4 million arrivals in January. Airports the busiest i've ever seen them since time began. That would be on course to smash 50 million for the year. No hand breaks now with all visas fees waves for China and India. There seems to be a raft of online content creators who are pushing this 'move to Thailand' nonsense too. Particularly from the UK on TikTok. Flat out lies how anyone can just come to Thailand and work, the supposed cheapness of the country ( it isn't), and how easy it all is (it's not that easy), and how the UK is a dump. Funnily enough none of them are prepared to give up their UK citizenship though. I found it rather bizarre, until one of the guys on TikTok who pushes this whole narrative (it's cheap, move to Thailand), suddenly appeared at a mall event with officials talking about tourism. When he was asked if he was just promoting Thailand, he denied it. But it does feel slightly unusual and a whiff of adverts posing as 'amateurs'. Anyways tourism is back in a big way. We had a great few years with relative peace, but that's all over now.

There was simply no need to stop the visa fees for Chinese tourists. Tourism from China has resumed all around the world. In a blind panic and desperation they've invested billions into wiping away visa fees - when there was simply no need to in my opinions. 4 million tourists January - means we could be heading to 50 million tourists by the year end. That is just too much. That was a massive investment when you consider they also did the same for Indian tourists. Huge investments.

At the risk of running through 231 pages, can someone give me a brief synopsis of what is going on ?

You continue the problem by paying them 200 Baht or even attempting to negotiate a non meter fee. Just get out and don't use them.

These taxi drivers are rotten to the chore - they really ruin the reputation of this country.