BuckBee

one day down next day best ever by over 4%
using same abacus as TAT lol
who really knows the real figures lol ...

It can be open to 4am but with the most likely customers in a holding cell waiting for flight out they not going have many customers lol .

12 minutes ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

I also had a bad experience with a Tom in the Samsung service centre in Pattaya

Maybe a relative 555 , but on serious note the higher ranking tom at don muang is quite a nasty character.

I work for company doing IT equipment and spent a few days in that airport and it quite a drastic change to what was even 18 months ago .
I think a jew would of had better treatment with fake documents trying exit germany in 1942 .

Savan consulate 1yr multi be your best bet I expect,

60 day extension on your 30 day visa exempt and repeat that not bad easy option but if likely stay well over 6 months the type o multi entry be safest bet .

was this don muang airport ? have a seriously bad higher ranking tom IO at that airport .
Can be very unpleasant as they hard to deal with due to poor mental attitude and no sensible reasoning or deduction .

I amazed no one shot him yet !

Worth a try but the current trend is if you got recent stay of 90+ it no go and they offer you 30 day transit visa.

They pretty unfriendly at the counter, especially the guy, not much chance of mitigating your case but never try never know .

seems you in savan it worth a try as maybe more lenient on a quiet non visa van run day as it because of van volume and increased troublesome van service users that caused the changes .

3 hours ago, MrKFC said:

Coming from the US, I'll be using an METV, plan to stay at least six months.

 

This time I don't want to commit to a return date or airport.

 

Booked a one way Delta flight to Chiang Mai through Expedia ($565 BZN to CNX) last leg is Korean Air ... is that where I might encounter a problem for no proof of onward travel or would that happen at the first flight?

 

This will be 4 years in a row that I've done 6 months in Thailand (always with a round trip ticket)  and the passport will show that. Would that history be sufficient to prevent any hassles? 

 

Have thought about buying a throw-away ticket, but having trouble finding any cheap flights six months from my scheduled entry.

 

Wondering whether date shown on the 'proof of travel ticket' has to be somewhere in the range of 6 months from entry? 

 

Thanks,

 

DS

you will have a METV visa so won't be required to have an onward flight .

you could do cambodia visa online and they email you visa acceptance document you print out then you simply got a evisa stamp at any evisa entry point, was simple and smart and been in use around 10 years, why thailand didn't do similar is beyond logic ????

As for flights I wondering if airlines requesting onward booking these days for those with setv as it was never required before by airlines if you had a valid visa as thailand only requested onward flights for visa exempt entry ...

down turn is in varying sectors and lot of it not directly related to trade war .

incompetence for last 5yrs paying a big part as is pretending tourism doing better than really is .

Trouble is they done nothing on issues of corruption, flooding, exports, baht rate, tourism over last few years and it all coming together under harder current times in a big wammy hit .
2020 trade war will hit even harder and strong baht, water management and government competence and stability mean they loose out to likes of vietnam and cambodia which far better option in export and manufacture plus they taking lot of the tourism and expats as it becoming popular and easy on regulations for most needs from longer tourism to business .

They will be too busy fighting with themselves and grabbing last chances of graft wealth to realise the country be much like the mekong lol .
 

From main bangkok airport I never had issue and had this happen 3 times, last time they more fussy and supervisor got called but he just gave me shirty remark on overstay and be thankful to officer at desk for requesting it be overlooked.

Just had hand written note next exist stamp stating 1 day overstay, was in reality 6hrs .

Few years back I not give it econd thought, these days I would not worry too much but is potential for ballache as they getting more fussy ...

as thai airways fly more staff than passengers it no real issue, just keep planes in bangkok on the ground and it might actually make more money that way lol .

Every coalition member will be sporting a borrowed gold rolex lol .

Hope Prawit can stay awake for this role, he normally half asleep, another useless leech bloated from feeding at the trough for decades ...
The dream team . buck banana and general rolex

voa was free for chinese so no money gain here .

I do think visa exempt will help a little as is nice have simple entry stamp for 14 days over hassle of doing voa .

Main lack of tourism volume bigger issue though and comes down to what thailand got to offer and what the ever expanding competition got on offer . Reality is Thailand is loosing it's appeal and doing so at rapid pace .

On 8/9/2019 at 5:49 PM, UKresonant said:

The O-X is 2x5years but have to have £83000 in a Thai bank, insurance attached is not cheap, and you would need to read the small print to see if it would provide any cover at all! Also the amount that has to remain in the bank.

The O-A Visa is about £22k (in your UK bank), available from London, 1 year Multi then enter, extend and get a multi re-entry permit, for another year, then repeat. Rumored that in may have insurance attached in future, perhaps not the best value & check the small print type of concept. Ok at the moment it would seem.

Then there is the get a Non-O SE marriage visa, go to Thailand extend stay permission (multi-entry permit option) married to Thai National. 40k+THB monthly or equivalent, SWIFT transferred to a Thai bank, (even if you are not there) obviously from The last calendar years earnings or from savings, or keep 400K (~£11k) in the bank in Thailand

Elite Visa £14k 5 years 

Elite Visa £58k 20 years 4x5years ME....

elite 20yr can be about half your suggested cost .

12 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Yeah, I understand. It's idiotic. But, it's the way things are.

 

One cannot reliably get things done in Asia without consideration of Giving/Saving Face. 

 

The only time that aggression works better is when one is in a position of power -- which Farang pensioners and workers in Thailand ARE MOST DECIDEDLY NOT.

 

For anyone who thinks different, I encourage them to just blast the government as much as possible -- putting their names to the their criticisms. Let us know how it goes.

I tend to agree .

Best effort would been deal with tm30 best you can and let it burn itself out via internal hassles as one thing they hate is being told what to do by those seen below them .

Things probably going get much worse over next few years as those at top have slowly implemented huge changes over past 4yrs and the final concept has not yet been reached .