NanLaew

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.

You're having a "high season" with a notable increase in vehicular traffic, notably tourist buses? They're doing it now because it's not raining.

Where has she revealed her credit card details? More like she's having a tongue-in-cheek pop at Thai internet citizen's unhealthy infatuation with other people's business, especially how much money they (probably don't really) have.

A few months back, I listened to an enlightening bit of a BBC Radio 5 show where a security expert was discussing the phone fraudsters in the UK. He said that spoofing caller ID is very common and easy for the fraudsters. He then did a phone call with the radio presenter who, when the expert called the presenter's number, it was the customer service number of a bank that they had picked for this live example. It took the expert about two minutes to set up. The 'police' scam is common enough here. This is the fourth time I have heard of such. In Malaysia, my friends wife has been a victim twice. The first time was via phone and something to do with the police and a court case. The second time, it was via Facebook Messenger where someone saying they were from lazada (apparently had all her lazada account info, order history and the like) managed to bilk her out of a chunk of money for something that either didn't really exist or never happened.

My neigbor has a pit bull. It eats cats, feral and otherwise. Sorted.

Stuck for maybe two nights in a Zurich airport hotel? Could be worse. Could be on a JAL A350 flying into Hokkaido. A lot worse. Anyway, all airlines and all aircraft have 'technicals' so this isn't so special unless one's a Thai basher. Maybe they're asleep already.

Is your Thai GF not willing to do some guiding? Yes there are tours, but unless you want tp pay premium for the private car, escorted sort of tour, it's usually in a busy minivan. Kanchanaburi is a very easy DIY tourist destination, and much nicer if you have company you know (like a Thai GF).

Lack of trust? Maybe you've been here too long? Anyway, I recall there are two sorts of UK voting proxy, one where you vote pick who you want and your proxy can only submit it as-is. It's filed similar to rthe way a 'standing order' is held at a UK bank in that you will vote for the same party every time. The other, easier form is to have your proxy do the vote pick for you. This is handy if you're a wishy-washy, flippy-floppy type that vacilates between Conservative, Lib Dem or fancy a splash of Greenery. I have never had any issues with missing out on UK voting by proxy (both methods) because of things taking too long. Possibly if there was a snap general election (nobody's going to call that for a while, are they Theresa?) or, if there was a sudden resignation of another Tory MP for being a d**k (they honestly can't help themselves) that forces a byelection.

Of course it is. It is also equally possible to properly slap your friend.

Reform are the mandateless, manifestoless, also-ran spoiler party with no delusions of high office. They should easily suck up around 10% of the slightly less apathetic and indolent Brits vote and, while not securing a single seat in parliament themselves will, 1) Consign the deplorable Conservatives to the political wilderness while, 2) Denying the equally vapid, shifty and odious Labour Party of any sort of meaningful, parliamentary majority. Kills two absolutely s**t birds with one stone.

Good grief! A reprise of the great AN Thai pink ID card translation debate of 1997, 2003, 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020, (no debate due to Covid in 2020), 2021, 2022, 2023...

Most kidz??? Where did you get that fantasy from. It´s same like saying most people are on drugs, or most men hit their wife´s and kill their children. Totally groundless post! Most people posting on AN think they know better than anyone else posting on AN.

I guess that won't include the criminal cases involving youngsters over the past five years, when emoluments and gratuities were proffered in order to make the charges vanish.

Rubbish. You can get it by being married to a Thai. But not exclusively. I got mine all by myself, with no need to even mention her existence. Right proud of myself, I was. Like being allowed to go to the sweet shop by yourself when you're a kid.

From the leading article, "The tighter rules are intended to prevent unlawful overstays by foreign nationals." Who knows what sort of paperwork, including fakery from KSR, is being carried around and proffered as legit. So it is aimed at tourist, illegal overstays and the like and not for us resident squatters with a wedge in the bank and all our other home-grown entitlements like a local DL and a pink ID card. At ease.

I don´t think that is a country. Oh yes it is. It's like Texas is a "whole 'nother country" as well.