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Why does this news not surprise me…Thailand as always leaving it to the last minute thinking they will get a discount, you couldn’t make it up bunch of ass hats in charge. if they don’t succeed in getting the football then some of the money raised would be better spent on helping the poor of the country, maybe even clean out the drainage pipes so the cities and towns don’t flood

Hi all, looks like I may be in udon Thani for two nights back end of November, looked at plenty of hotels but didn’t fancy anything too near the bars ( I read the reviews of a few hotels and they mostly complained that the noise from the bars was an issue) I’m looking at the centara hotel as it’s near the shopping centre and not to close to the bars…but regarding the bars I did look at a few on line like the ‘brick house’ and the ‘Aussie bar’ interested in having a few beers and some western food and probably grab an English breakfast or two..so, any recommendations regarding bars and western food and any idea if you can get draught beers in the bars and what the prices are. sorry if this has all been done to death before, looking forward to some recommendations. many thanks for any help.

Instead of saying contact someone it’s ‘reach out’ its not history anymore it’s now ‘back story’ god knows what ‘doubling down’ means, mostly used by Americans

@ubonjoemany thanks for the information..

Hi all, apologies if this subject has been done to death already. im a Uk passport holder and I also have an Irish passport, I’m here on a non immigrant ‘O’ visa based on retirement, my extension of stay is due on 22 may 2023, I need to leave Thailand in September 2023 as I have a rental property in france that will go on the market after the summer season so I need to go back to sort that all out, in between all that happening I will be getting married to the gf June or July 2023 and I’m going to use my Irish citizenship to do the affirmations of marriage stuff, so I want to enter Thailand using my Irish passport I will arrive in a 30 day tourist visa waiver and then extend that for 30 days then apply for Non immigrant ‘O’ based on marriage, so how long does the 400,000 baht have to be in the bank for before applying for the non ‘O’ ? I’m then thinking of doing the monthly income method because the Irish embassy still issue letters for immigration to say I meet the monthly income demands. im basically wanting to change to using my Irish passport as it seems easier to use than my Uk one, ie: the Irish embassy issue income letters that satisfy immigration, and I can apply for a new passport online rather than going to the embassy, and my mrs will find it easier to travel with me to Europe by being the partner of a European citizen. what are the thoughts on doing this? Anyone have experience of doing the same? I look forward to your replies.

An interesting update, I usually use my iPad to do the transfer from wise, but it got damaged a while back and it is slightly bowed and on occasions the keypad can stick…I just tried transferring a smallish sum of money but using the wise app on my android phone, the transfer went ok and I got a message saying they had received my money and would pay out tomorrow by 2.13pm….I won’t know until tomorrow if it arrives with the FTT code or not but I will update tomorrow when I know. I sent the money and the reason selected was for ‘ long term stay in Thailand’ it could be my iPad playing up or it could be an Apple software problem…anyway I will report back here tomorrow

@scubascuba3 I’m going to message wise and see what’s gone wrong, I will transfer a smallish sum using your suggestion and see what I get back

My last two months transfers are just showing as ‘ from another account’ not FTT as they were showing, I’ve transferred money successfully for the last 9 months showing in my account as FTT but September and October it doesn’t

@scubascuba3 when I have transferred before and done the transfer as ‘ long term stay in Thailand’ the money would normally not arrive untill the next day, but these last two have transferred into my Bangkok bank account within 5 minutes, normally if I wanted money quickly I would tick any of the other reasons in the drop down box because it arrives in minutes whereas the long term stay one generally takes 24 hours

Hi all, for the last 9 months or so I have been sending lump sums of money to cover the 65k baht per month for my visa non O retirement so I qualify for the monthly income method, all has been fine and my transactions have been showing up as a international bank transfer, but September and October transfers are just showing up as transfer from another bank what ever way I transfer the money it does not show up as international any more, my bank in Thailand is Bangkok bank, any ideas? Have wise changed they way they do things now, I’m putting in the drop down box that the transfer is for’ long term stay in Thailand’

Hi all sorry if this has been done to death, I’ve got a firestick that I’ve had for a year or so, it’s been messed about with so I can watch sky sports and movies, in fact it has the complete sky packages on it, all the documentaries sports and movies etc, it’s also got Netflix loaded up so no need for a subscription, but I find on the live stuff like football or F1 on occasions it just sits there buffering to the point that I hardly use it to watch football because if it buffers it winds me up, it’s a subscription service so I pay a guy in London £70 a year and he renews my subscription. is there anything similar available here that might work better but has the same sort of capabilities as my firestick? My internet is good I’m getting 35mbps down and 28mbps up, thanks for any suggestions or advice