NanLaew

About half-way between the middle and the bottom end.

The booking and ticketing websites of the airlines I fly with (and I fly regularly with five airlines and only 2 of them are Thai airlines) all ask for the passenger's middle name. Accordingly, all my tickets and boarding passes have my full handle: Theodore Angus Hieronymous Cholmondley-Harrington Jr. You can call me Teddy.

Total rip-off. I used to love the full English breakfast there but then they started this scam of selling each item seperate. It doubled the price of the same breakfast I had before Although I don't recall the price exactly, I found Robin Hood a tad underwhelming on their DIY "full English" offering. The waitress had great legs though.

You ask for good food And then suggests Fray Bentos pies are on his shopping list? OP, is this a Doylem Geordie thing?

Not from January 16th https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Travel-Leisure/Thailand-starts-checking-foreigners-passports-on-domestic-flights This from CAAT with the agreed effective date. The pink ID card is described as a Non-Thai ID card, the very same thing we are talking about here.

Pink ID cards or as the authorities clumsily label them, "non-Thai ID cards", along with the Thai DL, are still on the approved list of acceptable alternative forms of personal ID fopr domestic air travel.

The district office WHERE?

Channeling Britain's legendary Christmas pantomime tradition. "Oh yes it is!"

Parking in front of someone else's bar? I once did that in Pattayland 1 way back around 1984. I still have the scars to prove it. That was well before the Russians too.

And without stating which Amphur you were unlucky at, how does the OP benefit from your experience?

Start here https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult and also here https://visa.vfsglobal.com/tha/en/gbr/hmpo

When I took our son with us to Vientiane, we went as a family and there were no issues with immigration, just mum with her ID card and our boy's birth certificate. They didn't check or want to know if I was the father. At Thai airports, if the child isn't with their legally recognised parent (in Thailand, the default is the birth mother), the airline needs to see written approval for the kid to fly and that's just on domestic flights. When we flew with the wife's young nephew from BKK, his birth certificate wasn't enough, and we were directed by check-in staff to the RTP station on the arrivals floor where a policeman called the kids father (estranged from the birth mother) and received verbal assurance along with a picture of his ID card, that it was OK for the kid to travel with his Aunt. The cops issued a signed, stamped form which was presented to check-in staff to get the kids boarding pass.

Ah yes, the heady days of being a 13 year-old. You know that smoking stunts your growth, no?

I haven't visited Pattaya in a while, but I hear The Sportsman on Soi 13 still gets regular good words. Siamburi's is probably the best bet for your tinned stuff as well as fresh-made and perishables. If you live in Isaan, there are several 'importers' of what you seek in the region who have an online presence and are happy to send stuff overnight by bus. I used to do the 'freezer run' from Udon Thani to Pattaya and back maybe 2 or 3 times a year but haven't needed to do that for maybe five years already. Everything is available in town or, if you seek a particular pie or sausage, overnight by bus. If you're over in Loei, Udon makes for a decent day-trip (stopping overnight optional but recommended).

UPPER CASE is shouting. Bold isn't, and it's handy for the optically challenged (like me).

The OP is in that bit of Isaan that's close and yet too far for economical air travel. In my opinion, with @Denim's excellent AP Tower 1-month room rental with the 'free' parking option, any discussion of the cost of DMK on-site parking or domestic air travel cost and/or inconvenience is a moot point. The OP dismissively says "but not needing the room for more than a night makes the whole process of arrive, check in and out almost as bad as the connecting flight process". Why this fixation on the unwanted room and the blind desire to self-drive and park off-airport? The OP appears to be fixated on the notion that there's cheap and secure off-airport car parking near Bangkok's older airport. We're not in Kansas here. It does not exist. @Denim isn't saying the OP needs a room either, @Denim didn't need the room himself for a month either. He's offering a very cost-effective way of providing 1-month of comparatively cheap and secure car parking. It's only around 115 baht/day. The "inconvenience" the OP is stressing about here is addressed by leaving home maybe 1-hour earlier, using Google maps to navigate to the lodging, park up, check-in and then book a GRAB ride to the airport. That, in my mind, is infinitely more practical. Good luck anyway and have a safe trip however you manage it.

Are you sure John was right? It doesn't say anything like that in any 'Lonely Planet' guide I've read.

He just wants agent info, a contact number, etc.. That's all. Not seeking opinions on why. Not seeking advice. I would guess Nanya? As in nanya business? But go ahead and give your unwanted and totally irrelevant opinions anyway. Bet you can't even find Nong Khai on a map either. And then start arguing with another forum busybody. Priceless. There you go. The OP is getting assistance from a fellow member.

Yes, I agree, especially because... buh-bye.

Yes, I give this forum another 6 years, 10 tops.

My missus burns the morning toast reagularly, just because she can.

So, after the billions pished away on Covid apps that don't work and "government gateways" that crash, you want to give the nod to a government to squander another half a billion quid of your hard-earned taxes on an online ballot box that half the British diaspora will ignore come election time because they want to make a 'protest vote' about their frozen pension? I see.

This just in, over 86% of the energy used to build the equipment and infrastructure required to provide and sustain renewable energy sources comes from fossil fuels. More at ten...

Xenophobic? Hardly. The netizens are carping on about the city fathers having not asked the foreign ladies permission to use their picture. What's the Thai word for woke?

My dad was a village policeman up in Scotland and whenever there was a weekend road traffic accident that he needed to attend in his private car, he allowed me to come along for the ride. I was maybe 11 or 12 years old before the novelty wore off, but I am pretty confident that at the time, he would have enforced the law had a drunk driver ever taken me out.