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.

I can guess from your comment you have not been to Phuket for at least a decade. Apart from that main walking street and the OTop, there are no other main areas with bar girls etc, even now in Patong the vast majority of tourists are couples and 90% of previous girly bars have been converted to hotels/shops/restaurants. I think all of the sex tourists migrated to Pattaya many years ago. I was there for the first time in a year just for one night this week showing a visitor the restaurants etc in Patong. On other days I took them to the various viewpoints, temples, mountain areas/elephant camps around the island which make up 99% of Phuket attractions and scenery, Patong constitutes 1%. I suppose if they had spent all of their holiday in Patong walking street as you might have done maybe they would have had your experience of Phuket and have missed out on what else there is to offer here.

What sort of Russians do you expect to find in Pattaya, the Russians with money are here in Phuket, they are nice people as far as I have personally observed over the last two years. I am sure the decent Russians want to stay away from the low-life Russians of Pattaya.

I stayed in London for a year from 2021 to 2022. I was driving past an area which was outside of my area and I spotted a Tesco supermarket so I bought some groceries but I could not find where the kitchen knife section was so I asked a member of staff and was told they do not sell knives in this branch. As I drove I found out why as I saw the type of people walking around in that area. I managed to buy one in the Tesco branch where I was staying in London.

I am not claiming to be superior, I am just not inferior like the shirtless tattooed covered chavs.

Those people have a different name, they are called civil servants or council workers in the West. 😃

I visited Pattaya in 2019 as I was having a house built in Rayong just for a day trip. Not my cup of tea, a lot of chavs were out and about, but never again.

I am happy Phuket is now a lot more expensive to visit and live in than Chav-city (Pattaya), all the shirtless tattoo-covered rif-raf can not afford to come here so go to Pattaya instead. It seems like they have been replaced by neatly dressed respectable wealthy Russian couples as I suppose they also want to stay away from such people.

Does anyone have any medical checkup recommendations for Phuket?