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What is it with this Anutin guy and cannabis? Why does he care?

Sounds very similar to my experience although it seemed to clear up a bit quicker for me, there was a lingering throat clearing thing that lasted around a week - a slight annoyance. Now what really bugs me is that they took the pseudoephedrine based decongestants off the market due to commercial scale drug manufacturers using it in massive quantities to make meth or something like that. None of the alternatives work for me at all at any dose. So due to the actions of these gangsters I can no longer buy the most effective thing that dries up your nose 100% while you're taking them and I had to ration the few capsules I had left (Benadryl Plus from the UK - not the same as the US product I believe) for night time use so I could sleep properly - sleeping with a runny / blocked nose never works for me. That was my biggest concern during the week I had it - clearing my blocked nose so I could sleep well. I had a heavy cold that lasted a few days more than a normal pre 2020 cold.

I got my upgrade application in already and it's going through the approval process to convert a 5 year membership into a 20 year membership for 500k Baht. So for me that's it - I'll take the additional 15 years assuming it's approved and after that I'm done with them - I'll be in my mid 60's by then anyway. I have a feeling these packages won't last too long anyway and there will be big changes again inside the next year or two.

Yes, they had some measure of success during the COVID crisis and they then got incredibly greedy. It will be their undoing.

I know plenty of people who've had a bit of a 'heavy cold' for 3 to 5 days recently (last few months) with about an additional week to full recovery. Nobody that I know who's had it seems to be reporting it to anybody, cold medicines help and it goes away quickly. I had it myself recently after a night out, as did the Mrs. My point here is that if nobody's reporting it to anybody then they won't know about it. For it to show up in waste water in Bangkok means there's a significant number of people being infected, they're just not going for any kind of treatment - probably because it doesn't require anything you can't find at the pharmacy - or anything at all. When I had it all I took was a decongestant, I didn't even take anything for the fever as is was barely noticeable, I fixed that by altering the AC temperature.

These changes will drive the company into loss making very quickly. They will then be forced to backtrack, give it a year or two, if that long.

This guy just somehow manoeuvred himself around the popular vote into the Prime Minister position - he's not going to care one bit what his underlings over at immigration think and he's not going to consider what visa agents think for a second.

I live in Hua Hin, where the retirees from the cold parts of the world flock to every winter. They don't retire to Thailand, they come for an extended period of time - it's not a vacation really - they live here during the cold winters, then return home. They come in their thousands without fail every year, most get visas and do nonsense trips to surrounding countries to extend their stays, many of them own a holiday homes here, likely on some 30 year lease type deal - but they do not live in Thailand full time. It's not a tiny percentage around these parts, the demographic may be very different where you live - but it's not the same everywhere. I have neighbours on both sides of the house where I live who do this, they're in Europe right now and won't come back until October or November and they will stay for whatever they get out of the visas, they don't like unnecessary travel to other countries and I know a few who used to do that but now just stay for a month or two less each year.

The thing is - there's no 30 day stamps issued on entry while on a tourist visa - you get 60 days if you have an embassy issued visa - this leads me to believe they're not talking about tourist visas - they're talking about 90 day visa exempt stamps on arrival. A very big change indeed.

About time they did this, 30 days is nowhere near enough, that with just a single extension limits peoples trips to 60 days unless they want to battle a bureaucratic nightmare to get visas in advance - which many people simply don't want to do - and even then it's not enough. So a massive amount of people limit their trips to 60 days for no reason other than that's what they can get with the route of least resistance, I know this because I know and have met many people over the last decade, they come here, get visa exemption for 30 days, extend it once then go home. They would stay longer but will never fly to another country and come back just for the sake of a new entry stamp. I've been saying this for years. A simple change like this will make a huge difference to tourism, especially winter tourism.

There are never roaming charges for receiving SMS messages.

It says payment must be made in 7 days on my form which is an upgrade form.

Misunderstanding my arse

Was that an upgrade from a 5 year membership or a new application where they did not know you from before?

Exactly, they might as well be hiring the retarded to work there.

It's quite obvious that even though they advertise a phone number, it almost certainly sits in an empty room with nobody to answer it. The level of 'service' is ZERO Stop wasting your time phoning them

With the most voting MPs they have a lot of votes to derail any business before the parliament.

I wonder if the video clip was made by a Thai or a foreigner, I had assumed it was a Thai until just now.

How can it be defamation if they're doing their job correctly? ????????

It's about time someone taught them some manners, please do keep us informed with your progress.

Yes, for me too it was 30 days when I applied for my last 2 memberships. This 7 day thing seems to be very new which is why I mentioned it as it may be helpful to others.

I contacted Thailand Elite about upgrading my 5 year membership to the 20 year membership for 500k Baht (I joined before the price increase) and this is a small snippet of the PDF that came back. Note that according to this text which is on the upgrade application form payment must be made within 7 days or the upgrade approval is revoked : It may be that the conditions are different for different members, the form I received also specifically mentioned the 500k upgrade fee so it might be a completely different set of terms and conditions for those more recent members who want to upgrade from their 600k memberships. Maybe this information will be of use to someone. Based on what I've heard it doesn't take 2 months for approval, people are reporting 1 month approval times, I renewed my 5 year membership once already and the approval time for that took about 2 or 3 days - that's right - it seemed almost immediate. For this reason I will do the international bank transfer into my Thai account before submitting my application just to make sure I have enough cash on hand to make the transfer immediately on approval.

El Nino is in full effect

It's an abuse of their power to request this information from a 30 day tourist, what if you were staying in a hotel like the Four Seasons, who's ID card are they going to require then. It's absolute nonsense that they ask for this.

He's going to have a hotel suite with servants and a butler isn't he?