Bangkok Barry

My personal experience is irrelevant because, as you indicate, every one might be different. But, since you asked, two IOs came, they copied the IDs of the neighbours from across the road and went off with a smile within 15 minutes. All good natured and I saluted them in fun as they left. One of them remembered visiting a few years back when I first applied.

Spending an hour compiling forms once a year to avoid tying up 800,000 for months (and why should I need to?) is minimal effort. Clear enough? If people are too lazy or don't have the ability to do that (and so waste money on an agent) then up to them. Same as opting for a marriage extension instead of a retirement one is up to me. Clear enough? Why should you care what I do?

Your post is rambling, idiotic and patronising, I wonder why that might be, on a Saturday night.

And then he can sue for damaging his reputation, which it does, so he would win. That's the way Thai law works.

Great, but posting a picture with a blurred photo will not make it easy for other hotels Thai logic in full flow with a total absence of common sense.

Why? What fault is it of the staff? Does the hotel not have insurance? And does the hotel not only accept guests who pay with a credit card? If not, why not? I've been here for 27 years and still don't understand Thai thinking. They live on another planet. Sorry, i mean they have a different culture where it's always someone else's fault (in this case, not the management or owners).

I'd rather have one day of pain than tie up a large sum of money for months. Each to their own.

Yep! After weeks and weeks of high 30s it's all about to cool down to a chilly low 30s in my area of Kalasin Province.

I went to get a new ATM card and I must have signed my name on at least 15 forms. It took an hour to do something that in the real world would have needed one signature and taken five minutes.

I suppose drivers paying attention is out of the question? You know, looking ahead, stuff like that?

My experience as edited above. Everyone's experience may vary according to each office and officer. Whatever, it isn't a huge deal.

What is the point of Pheu Thai even standing? We know what will happen if it wins. It will be removed from government, same as before. Why would this time be any different?

Useful info. Thanks. As usual in Thailand, the rules (in this case of Thai Air Asia) mean nothing at all and are there only to be ignored.

I think you may be labouring under a slight misapprehension as to the purpose of the visit. They already know you're applying for an extension and they already know you claim to be living together with your wife, as a married couple, at a given address. They're there to ascertain whether what you're claiming is true. They don't need to ask you, they already have your application form, so (unless you plan on contradicting the info on your form) there's not much else you can tell them. As far as I can tell, they're basically there to check with people other than you (the witness and your wife) whether you really are living together at the address you've given them. We've been married for 32 years with documents to prove that. And one of the officers who visited had already visited us before and remembered doing so. So there was no practical reason for the visit. It was probably just a day out of the office for them. I have had several such extensions before, but due to complicated travel needs I let it slip for four months and was treated as an entirely new applicant. It's as if they keep no records of previous extensions or anything else.

It has always been a mystery to me as to why people on here get into a huff about what they perceive as being totally ignored by Immigration. If their annual marriage extensions are at the end of the day successfully granted without the need for any verbal input on their part, then what really is the problem? I made an observation. I didn't get 'into a huff'. You need to recognise the difference.

It seems that no-one told Thai Air Asia. I've booked a flight for later this month and the booking says that everyone must wear a mask while checking in, throughout the flight and at baggage claim. Maybe they haven't bothered to update their website? Any recent experiences, anyone?

Two questions: 1 - why is there a ban on alcohol sales when there is an election? 2 - why are they targetting foreigners (again) when the election has nothing to do with them?

Yes. We are told in the unlinked article what he was wearing and what colour it was, which is entirely irrelevant, but significant details such as marks on his neck are ignored. More great Thai reporting.

The ankle monitor was as useful as Safety First signs, then.

I never miss a visit to the bottle shop there

Just had a Cj open in Somdet, right next door to a small Lotus's. For me, it seems to want to stock something of everything and ends up not having a lot of anything. But I'll persevere.

Last week I bought a Thai white IPA beer that was/had to be brewed in Vietnam and imported into Thailand. Hence the 99 baht price tag, almost double the price of a monopoly beer.

We've had one open recently, but it doesn't sell it. Up to each individual store manager, I guess. Our small Lotus's sells a wider variety of beer than the large Lotus's supermarket.

I know of a place in Kalasin that sells it, pretty much opposite the exit from the Immigration office car park. Tipped off by an AN member, gawd bless him. Not a cheap place though. I buy cases of IPA which work out at 74 baht a small bottle. whereas when I occasionally see it in a supermarket it sells for around 10 baht less. But needs must.

And that's where I decided that the entire post is a fantasy. If anyone is unhinged it is probably the woman.