JamesPhuket10

True and even better you can make a note for each transaction in the app stating what the payment was for which is there anytime to look back on.

I found out today that when I picked up my passport there were two receipts, one for the extension, one for the multiple re-entry permit, and no receipt for the "special service charge" of 700 baht. I wondered why when I went into the office one of the guys walked towards me smiling and said very loudly "sawadee clap". After I checked the receipts later on I realised why. 😃

Thanks for the info, do we fill out any forms while at the drive-through, or is that all done for us via a computer at the drive-through by a Thai admin person?

You are confused as to what cash is. Buying big item goods with a credit card is a good idea as the credit company then has to guarantee the product you bought and issue you with a replacement if you can not get the replacement from the company for a damaged product. So if you use a credit card and have a direct debit to pay back the whole amount each month then that is also counted as cash, cash is not just paper money it is about how money flows. But keep on coming out with your funny comments as they make me laugh. 👍 And they make some others annoyed which is equally funny.

Yes me too, I buy from Lazada via QR code with my Bangkok Bank and have done so for the last 28 months of being here and never a charge. The only charge I ever get is 300 baht a year for the ATM card. And they pay me interest on my deposit account.

But it is good info for the rest of us who can do both in the same day.

This is the first time I will have to do a 90 report in person as I went to England for a month at the end of last year so I will use the drive-through for the first time in Phuket. I have done all of my 90 reports online so far so what do you have to take with you for the drive-through, I suspect the form has to be filled in, passport, copy of the last 90-day report, copies of your visa and passport, and the TR30. Anything else?

Be careful Bob as you might end up showing more than you thought you had to show. 😃

What is sad is all the people getting annoyed at his posts. 😄

"....thai chi girls.." Is that the nickname for your right and left hand? 😃

Bob, your comments are so funny, they make me laugh. Most people tend to take your comments seriously and get annoyed at you, you as we say in England, a right piss taker. 🤣

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I assume you are referring to Covid and the mass wearing of masks was illogical? If so: Oh, of course! I totally see your point. I mean, why would we ever trust surgeons—who spend over a decade training in medicine—when we have the enlightened wisdom of Facebook warriors and pub experts to guide us? Clearly, these highly educated professionals must be absolute morons for wearing masks while cutting open human bodies. What do they know about bacteria and airborne transmission and the aerosol affect anyway. They have spent over 100 years using masks because they work—but hey, I’m sure a PhD in WhatsApp University says otherwise. Next time a critic goes in for surgery, they should be sure to tell the doctor to ‘ditch the mask’ because, obviously, it’s all a big conspiracy! And let’s not forget—before COVID, masks were miraculously effective for preventing infections in hospitals. But the moment they were recommended for the public, suddenly they became ‘useless’ overnight. Fascinating! Maybe gravity will stop working too if the government tells us to use it. 😄 I bet surgeons only wear them for fashion. I mean, nothing says ‘style’ like a blue paper mask! Did you know? The world’s top medical professionals are secretly dumber than Dave down the pub. Next time a critic gets an X-ray, they should make sure to tell the technician those lead aprons are a hoax too.

Yet another great reason for living in Phuket. You can get all the boring stuff out of the way by letting someone else do it for peanuts. 😄

I was in a busy part of Phuket for an hour yesterday, I saw quite a few Thais riding motorbikes, they wore masks but not helmets, I thought that was a bit illogical, especially the way bike riders act in Phuket, they all seem to be suicidal. I would not have a bike even if they were free.

Same here in my area in Phuket my PM2.5 monitor is displaying 5, I think the max it has ever been is 10, no air filters, window open in the living room. I do know people in Chiang Mai though, they leave the area for six months when the farmers do their annual crop burning. The smart thing to do would to set op a co-op of farmers where tractors are shared in order to bring costs down, in the West farmers plough their land.

This morning 18 Feb 2025, I applied for my one-year visa extension and the multi-entry permit at the same time at the Phuket Immigration Office in Phuket Town. It will be ready tomorrow so basically, you fill in both forms and hand them over at the same time with all the other paperwork. The total paid for visa extension and multiple re-entry permits was 6,400 baht. I think there was an additional service charge for doing them at the 'same time', so I expect the visa extension to be done in one office and another office will do the multi-entry permit, all 'automatically'. All I have to do now is pick up the passport tomorrow and that is that for another year, it is worth paying a bit extra to avoid all the hit-and-miss antics which are possible at an immigration office. You might as well apply for the multi permit at the same time as your visa extension as the permit is only valid as long as the visa extension.

Does anyone have any medical checkup recommendations for Phuket?

Out of interest, what is the name of the top university you mentioned, Harvard, Oxford, LSE, MIT etc ?

But you are also replying so by your measure you are also pathetic. 😄 My excuse is I am on my computer for many hours of the day writing software so I take a break now and then to this simple blog as a change is as good as rest and the comments make me laugh. What is your excuse?

That proves my earlier point right away, no more to be said as it looks like I am taking to a brick wall.

I wonder where these millions of Russians who have taken over Phuket live, I have been here two years full time now and have visited for long holidays for the last 30 years and I have yet to see the swarms of Russians. Of the three hundred houses on this secure gated estate I think there is one Russian family, you have to go out of your way to spot them. Of course that is the opposite to what the media write about and for the simple minded readers to believe. 99% of the houses in my estate are owned and occupied by Thais.

Very true, a friend of mine bought four houses as a miniresort around a swimming pool in Phuket twenty five years ago and owns the properties/lamd through a business with the correct proportion of Than and farang shares and as they are rented out it is legitimate.

I wish I could pay rent on a house and give all my money away to a Thai, it must take a lot of skill to be able to do that. 😃

Yes, they might be next as it seems they are after the small fish, the average assets of what has been seized is only £13,396 per cpompany, I suppose the large fish have got away with it. As far as the dodgy Farang homeowners go it must be so easy to prove if they bought the house using a company with a 49% share and they live there then they will lose the lot.