pete66

What's HD Prime? Sounds fantastic.... is it a True thing? or another website.

Cheers

My original question was not related to free streaming sites, rather whether as a 3BB customer I can get the TrueVisions package or not.... ????

As well as unreliable streaming, streaming sites are stuffed full of ads, pop-ups, and the odd virus ????

But I'm sure there are "good" ones as well ????

Thanks all

I get my internet from 3BB, but want to watch premier league this year. I see Truevisions offer a "Premier Football" 399B/m package.

a) can I still get this package even though I don't get my net from True? and

b) what form will the package be in, a "box" or web password

cheers,

1.042m tall

Think I will try homepro first as I believe they sell bubble wrap as well.

I'm selling my speakers and I don't have the box anymore. The buyer wants them shipped using Kerry service to Chumpon. But Kerry tell me they need the speakers boxed before they will ship them.

So... where can I find a box big enough to accommodate 1 metre tall speakers? Or any better solutions?

cheers,

Thanks for all the advice. Extremely useful! I will get a Thai friend to check in and just show my DL as required.

I am a couple of weeks overstay and have to go and stay in a hotel for a few days before leaving Thailand.

So can anyone tell me if hotels are required to check visa expiry dates in passports of foreigners or is that outside their remit?

(I have a Thai driving licence I could perhaps use instead to check in?)

thx

Thanks - it would be (padded) envelopes rather than parcels anyway, so I don't think the in area and out area would apply.

I need to send and receive EMS parcels within Thailand. I know the price is based on weight, but is it also based on distance as well? e.g. would a 100g parcel cost the same using EMS if I sent BKK->BKK vs BKK->Chiang Mai?

I'm intending to use my apartment rental agreement as proof of address. My questions are:

1) Do they want the original or will a copy suffice?

2) If they want the original, do I get it back? :-)

tia

I used rental agreement. I got it translated to English on ground floor at trendy. Most of them where quoting a week for translation so give yourself time just in case.

On the day I brought the original agreement, original translation and a coloured photocopy of all the original documents. (I think all copies need to be in colour)

They will check it all against the original, then stamp the copies as authentic and give the original agreement back to you

Thanks bro. My rental agreement is in English anyway so that simplify matters!

I'm intending to use my apartment rental agreement as proof of address. My questions are:

1) Do they want the original or will a copy suffice?

2) If they want the original, do I get it back? :-)

tia

Just to be sure .... if the payment is rejected in the UK, what is the procedure for making a new payment? Is it via Trendy office or can you talk directly to UK?

Anyone got news on adult passport renewal turnaround time since the new year? I have my appointment at Trendy on 10th Feb (they confirmed within an hour of me asking for "first possible date"), what's a good guess for when I will get my passport back? ... presuming I don't mess anything up of course

My current visa expires 4th March so I'm expecting a bit of overstay - just don't want it running into many weeks .....

The sad thing is my passport doesn't expire until 2020 - it's just full!! Think I should get a jumbo one this time

Also, planning to use my Thai daughters Kasikorn Bank's "K-Web Shopping" Card for payment, as people say this works, but the Trendy email states "Only the passport applicant is permitted entry to the application centre." - how can she sign for the payment if she isn't allowed in ?!?

Recent reports are running ta 2-3 weeks.

Payment is done by filling in a downloadable form which is the filled out and signed by the card holder, payment is not taken at trendy, it is taken at HMPO Liverpool where the KWeb Shopping Card has worked in the past.

Many thanks. That is encouraging. I am certainly going to try the KWeb Shopping card and hope that works. What happens if payment is rejected in the UK? You don't have to go back to Trendy do you with another form? I live in Chiang Mai so wouldn't want to have to make repeated trips.

many thanks - just read that thread from start to finish

The turnaround time for passport renewals appears to have improved significantly, might just be because its the off-season in the UK ....

My only real problem is making the payment. I have a Bangkok Bank VISA card but all indications suggest that won't work, and I don't have any UK cards now.

Best option appears to be Kasikorn Bank's "web shopping" virtual card, which appears to be accepted regularly.

Question therefore is ...... do Chiang Mai branches of Kasikorn bank need a work permit to open a savings account, or will my ED visa do? Or is it a typical Thai lottery when trying to open bank accounts?

Anyone got news on adult passport renewal turnaround time since the new year? I have my appointment at Trendy on 10th Feb (they confirmed within an hour of me asking for "first possible date"), what's a good guess for when I will get my passport back? ... presuming I don't mess anything up of course

My current visa expires 4th March so I'm expecting a bit of overstay - just don't want it running into many weeks .....

The sad thing is my passport doesn't expire until 2020 - it's just full!! Think I should get a jumbo one this time

Also, planning to use my Thai daughters Kasikorn Bank's "K-Web Shopping" Card for payment, as people say this works, but the Trendy email states "Only the passport applicant is permitted entry to the application centre." - how can she sign for the payment if she isn't allowed in ?!?

My passport isn't anywhere near expiry, but its unfortunately not got any empty pages on now. A couple of pages have annoyingly got single stamps on.

And I have to get a new ED visa next month, which I'm presuming requires a full empty page in my passport. Oops.

So from what I understand I have to go to Bangkok (Trendy House?) and order a new passport.

Anybody got an idea what the current turnaround time is for UK passport renewals? My current visa expires 3rd March. I'm thinking I might be out of time already ....... darned.

So is there anything to stop you "ED visa hopping" to stay a long time in Thailand, according to latest rules?

e.g 2 years at place A, another 2 years at place B ad nauseum .... so long as you leave the country each year to get a new ED visa?

Unfortunately I'm 700 km away so I can't talk to teacher direct now ... but thanks for the info, appreciated. My son is refusing to go back into school now, he's quite sensitive and scared

Thx for reply, was expecting more replies but you never know with questions you ask here.

cheers,

My son goes to a Thai school in Bangkok and a teacher has been hitting him. Haven't got full details yet, but seems to be just on the legs.

Anyway, just wondering if corporal punishment in schools is still legal in Thailand?

Its a paid school, not government school, if that makes any difference.

thanks for any advice

I have removed some off topic and abusive posts.

Under the new rules that go into effect on the 29th the longest you can get extensions on the same visa entry is one year.

They could be invoking the new rules early.

They were cool about extending my ED visa, first issued in 2012, at CM immigration today. I do the usual 4 hours a week studying Thai. One-on-one, not as part of a class, but I've never heard that that makes any difference.

My experience was quite different from that of the OP. The officer processing the extension was efficient and friendly, and not at all irritated when a couple of my photocopies were incorrect. The "test", if that's what it was, was just a couple of chatty questions directed at me as I was sitting down. "So, Khun XXX, you're learning Thai?", "Can you write yet?" - that sort of thing.

I don't know why I was lucky and the OP was not. Perhaps his problem was an issue with changing schools unrelated to the changes scheduled for the end of the month.

So (a) can you write Thai and ( did they test you on this?

It is time that Thai kicked out all the low end farangs skiving off the country. good riddance to them

and its the farangs fault that Thai schools won't do the necessary paperwork to get work permits? I don't think so ....

Get an ED visa to study. It is good for 3 years. It is a bit troublesome in that you have to go to immigration to extend the ED visa every three months over the course of those 3 years, in addition to the 90-day report, but it is a way to stay here.

Some schools expect you to study, others don't care if you come to class or not.

Dodgy schools abound in Bangkok and Pattaya, no surprise there. People not attending more than once annually is commonplace. Won't name the most prominent school where this is permitted but you can guess.

In Chiang Mai, the "ed visa culture" couldn't be more different. People actually attend regularly, can speak, read and write Thai, and after the first year, you don't have to extend the visa every 90 days, its for a full year.

I expect many of the dodgy schools to be closed down because they are "visa schools" not "language schools". Good.

A Norwegian that can't speak English. That's a first 

Wouldn't prices go up rather than "subsequently decreased" if the police are seizing lots of pills?

Just come back from getting the licence. Today no reaction or other tests required or video to watch through. Simply turn up when you want (midday in my case), go upstairs, get a queue number, wait 20 mins to get documents checked and fee paid. Then went through to get photo taken and 5-year licence issued. Only 1 person taking photos at that time so that was another 20 minutes or so, but overall less than an hour, and to repeat, no reaction test or video today.

Your mileage may vary if you turn up tomorrow

Thanks for that update. Was a medical certificate required as that seems to change with the wind?

Yes. Medical certificate and certificate of residence both required.