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Absolutely right, that should be added on.

Let's look at it in detail, put some meat on them bones: Mobile phone 300 Internet 500 Water 130 Electricity 2600 Groceries 8000 Grab dinners 3200 Transport 3400 So yah, it can be done, IF you don't get health insurance, Netflix, luxury Euro foods and breads. But it's super-tight. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

Spot on, I opted for Jomtien as there's no traffic near this resort so I can sleep. And only 15 mins into the action, so I can live with that.

You're not wrong, it was a scramble to get the last room in this resort. But I got it.

Hopefully paying for my lunch. She works in a factory, you know.

Great, thanks! And what places does one visit in Pattaya for casual day time activity?

Hi guys, never been to Pattya, but I am heading there in a few days to stay for 3 days. My idea was to get a good hotel close to the beach. Does anyone have good hotel tips or general advice? Don't need to be close to night life, already have a girl coming with me. So good standard hotel, bathtub would be ideal. Much appreciated!

I certainly don't wish it for them, but they're so demanding. There's nothing they don't want. And all to themselves!

I wish, all miserable endings.

I also help needy people on a regular basis, one girl needs a new phone, another help for school fees, one girl needed clothes, another help for food money, one needed help with her rent, there is overhwelming need across the board here.

Definitely not Shakespeare. In both the English and Spanish languages however the rabbit has become synonymous with the vagina in certain time periods. Perhaps Thai police are more erudite that we might suspect, after all some British men were involved, and Rabbit Slaughter is a learned allusion to the vagina in the slang of the producers? Why slaughter though? Because they're slaughtering the vagina film producers maybe, oh they are so lyrical these Thai police...

I did not even know such a thing exists, only reading on here did I find out. Good guess, plus flight to BKK, flight out of Thailand, all in all, it was 20000, as I also stayed one night in BKK and then took a bus back to CM as I did not intend to make even visual contact with CM immigration at the airport.

Well, it was a very tricky situation. When I got to Malaysia the Malay immigration guys were joking "Wow, these Thais are strict", and as they put their stamp in my passport one of them wrote in hand "Deported" above the stamp. Which was firstly not true, as you know you have to be let in to be deported, I was denied entry, but secondly and much more importantly, most airlines who see a "deported" in the passport are not too happy to take you to your destination as they'll bear the cost possibly to bring you back if you're denied entry. So I had that problem. Then doing some research I saw on youtube some guy who had a tourist visa STILL being denied entry because they said he'd stayed in Thailand too long, even though he had the tourist visa. So it was clear that applying for that was a waste of time. As I had nightmare visions of having to stay in the rainy gray and depressing hell hole that is KL I decided to browse these forums. And lo and behold I came across a thread where a similar problem was discussed and one forum member in particular had mentioned how he had gotten into Thailand again. I contacted him and he kindly put me in touch with the people who had helped him. It cost a fortune, I still got proper return flights, not dummy tickets and I thought I was basically clear as I'd printed out the boarding pass using the app of Malaysia Airlines and passport check is automated in KL. However, just before boarding a MAL lady asked if I had a return ticket. Luckily she didn't check the deported stamp in the passport, and I had a return ticket. So I made it onto the flight back to Bangkok. Then once in Bangkok the people who I had arranged everything with ensured I was cleared through immigration very quickly.

I did not get a tourist visa. Some cursory research on Youtube quickly showed that immigration officers would just again pull the "you lived here too long and you're not a tourist card" and that tourist visa would have been useless. With the gracious, generous help of another forum member I was able to enter LOS legally anyway. I will follow the advice to get a retirement visa.

Thanks a lot!