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Don Mueang International Airport Introduces 24/7 Automated Passport Checks
They appreciate a small tip.
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Vietnam Ranks Phu Quoc as 9th Friendliest Destination
Vung Tau, Halong Bay, Quy Nhon, Mui Ne....
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Vietnam Ranks Phu Quoc as 9th Friendliest Destination
Danang is not Hoi An, although they are close. I loved Danang, and found the people there much more honest. Also, my visit was 9 years ago, so things might have changed. Hoi An is a lovely place, and even if you still get overcharged, you should visit, it's a small town, you can see all the sights in a day or two.
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Vietnam Ranks Phu Quoc as 9th Friendliest Destination
That is true, of course. So would love an update, because it is probably the most beautiful town in Vietnam, and almost a must visit. But friendliness is not worth much if it's used to rip you off. In the Mekong Delta area, where I live now, they are both friendly and honest, as far as I can tell.
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Red void stamp in passport
It doesn't help at the border when entering the country, but the embassies (unless something has changed recently) are/were not connected to the immigration database. So it helps with getting a visa. In the past, it was usually possible to get around 6 or 7 TV until they put a red stamp under your visa, saying that you have been doing this for too long and that they might (meaning will) refuse your application next time. That's when I always got a new passport and was able to start over again The embassies are under the foreign secretary, not part of immigration.
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Bus Bangkok to Pattaya
Both, the Ekamai and the Morchit bus go to the north Pattaya bus station, not Jomtien.
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7-11 cheese toasty query.
Never seen one with more than 2.
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Brits behaving very badly again!
Not so sure it was really that much better back in 90s.Pattaya has probably 20 times as many tourists now. So the "per capita" figures could be similar. Plus, with the ubiquitous smartphones, recordings, and postings on social media these incidents become much more "visible".
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Rayong Immigration 90 day report question
I always go in there in my cycling shorts. Never been a problem.
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Rayong Immigration 90 day report question
I don't know how it works for the 90 day reporting, but for extensions chances are that you will have to go in the morning to be able to get a number and join the queue. I was in there twice in December just after the lunch break, and the queue was closed. The second time, after a lot of begging, they said OK, but I would be last. So I sat there from 1 to 5 pm. And there weren't many Lao/Cambodian. It was farang /Chinese/Korean. Most of them I assume, work in Mataphut, so might not be much better during off season. You would think that with the much bigger, new immigration office things would be faster than in the crammed old one, but the opposite seems to be the case.
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Thailand Denies Airport Extortion Allegations
I cycled the 25 km on the new, wide Hun Sen Boulevard, crossing the Xi Jinping and Mao Tse Tong boulevards. Surprised that they didn't name the new airport after one of the dynastic leaders, Hun Sen or Hun Manut. Maybe Hun the third will have an airport named after him.
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Vietnam Ranks Phu Quoc as 9th Friendliest Destination
Yes, people on the island are friendly, and surprisingly honest, considering the number of tourists. But the survey is BS, there is absolutely no way that Hoi An tops the list, unless it has drastically changed since I visited in 2017. It is the rip off capital of Vietnam, nowhere else that I know of, do you get cheated as much as in Hoi An. Hanoi could be second on the dishonesty list.
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