SamSpade

I can't suggest a Gym as I use the one in my Condo, but to pass the 2-2.5 hour walk, I take my Ipad and either pre-load something to watch or fire up YouTube. Gym does have TVs in front of the treadmills but the only channels are news channels and after the first 20 mins or so you've already seen everything and end up watching the same news being repeated over-and-over.

Edit: @DrJack54shared already 🙂

Does Thailand actually stamp anything in your passport for missing a 90Day Report or do you just get a fine? I’ve never missed one & don’t know anybody who’s ever been fined when they have missed one so be interested to hear from anybody who has been fined whether they got a “Red Stamp” in their passport.

If he re-entered Thailand on 16th July then this is his 1st report since re-entering Thailand so cannot be done online, he or (his "Agent") needs to do it in person, can maybe mail it in, but cannot do online. OP you'll have no problems leaving (or coming back) without doing the report but if it were me, I'd go pay my agent 100B to file it for me.

Yep, but that’s per annum (and no doubt taxable), he was chasing 60-120% returns PA & common sense should have told him that any scheme offering those kind of returns is dodgy.

Lol, I was thinking I’d rather move to Mogadishu than live in Mansfield. And I’m from Warrington 😳

My Dad's best mate for over 50 years just died, I want nothing more than to go home to hug him (My dad) but I've been back to the UK in March & have none changeable flights booked for October.. Flip side it's not a lot of money to fly back for a few days (Mrs Spade's birthday is same day as the King on 28th July so I have to be back for that)... Honestly don't know what'sbest to do, Mum says leave it to October... Have you ever it had it Blue...

Or maybe switch to an LTR Visa then there's no need to keep any money in the Bank in your name. Thailand Elite/Privilege visa would do the same job but I'd rather stick the cash into an account in her name than spend that sort of money on one.

I use Bolt 30-40 times pm & I’ve never had a car turn up that was > 3 years old. If you’re concerned about it, book a Luxury Car (Have booked a few when times are really busy, not my idea of luxury motor but they’ve all been in immaculate condition). Now as for metered taxis, I’ve been in some really sh1tty cars & I don’t use them at all nowadays (Have contacts for trips to/from airport & when we’re going to Koh Samet / Chang).

I've recently been through a very similar situation (also with a pension managed by Towers Watson) and their explanation to me was... The scheme's annual increase is on 1st November so any quote I had up until 31st October would have been calculated to include the 2025 increase & then discounted backwards from final pension age for taking it early. As I will reach final pension age before 1st November 2026 any quote I get for after 1st November 2025 will not include the estimated annual increase for 2026. The quote I have for October would not be what I would get as I would be taking the pension before the 2025 increase was applied so it would be reduced by the annual increase. At the end of the day, without pulling the trigger, I won't know exactly what I will get until after the 2025 increase is confirmed, but I do know that I would not get more by taking it in October. FWIW I've decied to leave it as-is until it fully matures, now I just need to decide how much (if any) PCLS to take... Hope this helps.

Seems like the story is legit as it appeared in a major UK News Paper... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14870001/father-dies-pursuing-dream-Thai-boxing.html

My advice would be to put the 800K into either of your Bank accounts & next extension see Maneerat (8k) and you will only need a 3 month statement (NB, assumes you keep your Bank Book up to date & not have problems with consolidated entries I found it best to stick the 800k into a separate fixed deposit account, as you also get more interest that way). Next year you can do it on your own if that works better for you (I find it better to pay the 8K, up to me).

Funny story about The Smiths/The The... Was at my old team leaders wedding & his sister is married to Johnny Marr so obviously they came, stood at the bar & Johnny walks up, says you must be Sam, Pete has suggested I talk to you as we're looking to by property in South Warrington... I just blurted out Fck me, you're Johhny Marr 😛 Have loads of similar stories that he use to tell us about people he'd met (believe it or not he was most impressed by meeting Bryan Ferry) but my favourite one has to be when he was arround his sister's house & Paul Weller walked up... Fck me, you're Paul Weller 😛

Simple answer is NO… You have to be able to show money in a Thai Bank Account to get an extension to a Non-IMM O. Talk to an agent, get yourself a Bank account & take it from there 👍🏻

The 4 month lock-up seems to be a Bangkok Bank Policy, carries no weight with Immigration. If you have had the 800K in the bank then you’re fine, if you’ve gone below this then I’m hearing from friends that Maneerat can help you out with KBank, ScB & KrungThai I can only recommend you have a chat with them to get yourself sorted Best of Luck 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

1st lady is Miss Nancy 😊 & she suggested exactly the same thing to me, put the money in Kasikorn & can get the “Letter” after 1 month. I “Lost” (put into a Thai bank account & forgot all about it) 800K to the vagaries of Thai Immigration 10 years back so hopefully when I do mine next Thursday it will still be all good 👍🏻

By a “Few Days” do you mean this week or before Monday. I was in Maneerat Monday morning & it was all smiles, they were shocked when I came back & told them what I’d heard at BKK branch so I’m guessing it caught them on the hop also

Had lunch with a mate today who had also gotten caught by the "4 month before" trap, turns out he'd topped his account back up to 800K on the 25th March in rediness for doing his extension this week and Bangkok Bank refused to give him a letter until he signed the form agreeing to put a hold on the 800K until October. When I asked how they did this he told me that when he goes into his account on the mobile app he can see his "Ledger Balance" showing the correct amount, but his "Available" balance shows this minus the 800K.

Before they hit the big time (though they were famous enough that it took the manager to have to come outside to tell the Police that I was a hotel guest before they'd let me in, I'd been staying there for 6 months!) I bumped into the Gallagher brothers at the hotel bar in the Copethorne Glasgow St George's square... Noel was a good crack chatting away, Liam sat sulking in the corner. Fun fact, got chatting to Chrisse Hynde when checking out once, there's one scratched from the wnak bank, really hope I never bump into Debbie Harry