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  1. swerve
    Many not to have left. There are still plenty of Russians in Phuket. My neighbourhood in Chalong is full of them.
  2. swerve
    I heard of something similar happening to a Brit last weekend at Phuket airport. Brit was coming from KL and hoping for visa exemption entry. I don't know his exact history. He was denied entry, detained overnight at HKT (Phuket airport), and sent back to KL the next day. Phuket airport might be playing some kind of hardball.
  3. swerve
    This comment is interesting to me. My GF had her son and DIL pay back money she loaned the couple when they needed to pay a hospital during a difficult baby delivery. I donated some cash as I thought it was the proper thing to do. My cash was a gift and I was very surprised about my GF's stance.
  4. swerve
    Swimming should be taught to all school students as an important life skill. The earlier the better. I taught swimming lessons for years and children are able to swim well (travel 50 metres) at ages 3 and up. The challenge for Thailand is that there may not be swimming pools in many places.
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    My comment is not so much about the OP. In my experience, if you ever lend money to a Thai you'll never see it again. You should consider any loan as a gift that you can later use to resist more give more loans. Thai's consider a foreigner loan as a something they don't need to pay back (vastly different than a Thai-Thai loan).
  6. swerve
    The Earth's climate has been changing for billions of years before humans showed up. Not sure what your point is.
  7. swerve
    Bad thing to happen to the OP. Wifey probably lost the money gambling. Too late for the OP, but farangs must always guard/protect that extension of stay money.
  8. swerve
    (Sarcasm alert) Oh no, we're all going to die tomorrow from this climate emergency.
  9. swerve
    Hopefully Big Joke gets rid of a lot more bikers. I can't understand why the Thais tolerate foreign criminal biker gangs.
  10. swerve
    Crime of the century, but everyone should know the rules by now. Probably arises from boredom.
  11. swerve
    There are fewer buses at Mochit bus station now than there was pre-covid. Minivan is also an option, if you are okay with that type of transport. I agree/think that minivans are more dangerous and less comfortable than buses, but they are cheaper and they depart more frequently.
  12. swerve
    I think they are part of the ginger family. I was up in Chaiyaphum last week and saw them in the park. Pretty enough to see a field of them.
  13. swerve

    Travel Agent Needed

    swerve replied to NewGuy's topic in Pattaya

    Trans-Pacific flights from Canada and the US are very expensive now and have been pricey for the past several months. Not sure why they are so expensive. Air Canada YVR to BKK return is now about $5,000 CAD.
  14. swerve
    BIB probably could have squeezed more baht out this gent for no helmet and no insurance.
  15. swerve
    I did a border bounce to Malaysia 2 months ago. All of the other riders in the minivan were Russian. One of the Russians asked me some questions about how I was planning to stay in Thailand for more than 30 days. She mentioned she can't do a visa exempt extension. This incident got me thinking about border bounces and her situation.
  16. swerve
    The OP didn't mention his passport nationality. I looked this up because I was curious about it. According to the website, 6 countries can do unlimited in/out border bounces. As you said earlier, different passports have different rules.
  17. swerve
    I looked at the visa run website for thaivisaservice.com. It states this about (Cambodian) border bounces: Visa Rule Update 26th June 2023@04:15am: Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese and Singaporean can do this kind of OUT/IN unlimited times.
  18. swerve
    An AN poster (Russian?) recently posted that Russians can do unlimited visa exempt land border bounces. Strangely, Russians can't do 30-day extensions on the visa exempt. A Russian couple told me this. Unlimited border bounce / no extensions?
  19. swerve
    I hear Russians are currently able to an unlimited number of 30-day border bounces. If you have that passport, maybe you could do the same.
  20. swerve
    IMO you are asking to get robbed. Unwise to carry 1M baht in cash around. Many people now are going mostly cashless.
  21. swerve
    This is off-topic, but a good idea. I used to do the same regarding credit cards from Canada. Have the bank mail it to a relative (my bank mailing address) who would then send it to me in Thailand by courier. Cost me $100 CAD. If you phone the bank, they might send the card directly to you and cover the cost of the courier. I did this for my last credit card replacement. Bank paid and I saved $100.
  22. swerve
    A lot of Russians dying on motorbikes in Thailand this year.
  23. swerve
    Might have been part of his crypto scam/fraud.
  24. swerve
    This border post is in the middle of a national park that straddles Thailand and Malaysia. I went to it for a visa exempt border bounce two weeks ago from Phuket using a local Phuket visa-run outfit. We arrived just before 1 pm and the border area was quiet. In and out in about 10 minutes. Very good experience.
  25. swerve
    Phuket wants 21 days minimum for a visa exempt to non-o conversion. Not sure why they want this number.

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