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6 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Stupidity of  youth..............the convenience of letting your  govt and data brokers monitor everything you do everywhere you go everything you buy all the time, no need to insert chips in new born babies the sheep-le have done it themselves with the "convenience" of mobile phones.

There is help available.

38 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

I don't go to 7/11

Great, thanks for sharing that, I don't know what we would have done if we didn't know.

15 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

4 hours! Holy crap

Yes, it was longer than expected but I could have just been unlucky, I don't know.

Anyway I posted that in another thread and was kindly advised by a couple of posters that you can book an appointment online to avoid the queues.

https://gov.immigration1.queueonline.net/appointment/login.html?v33

On 9/26/2024 at 10:11 AM, connda said:

And after you first 90 day in person, your second (and future) 90 days may still be rejected online.  It's convenient when it works, but it totally sucks when it doesn't. 

I had to do my first one in person at CW this week - my online one was rejected. It took four hours. Once I got to the desk the actual process was 2-3 minutes but there were 114 people ahead of me in the queue.

I did notice this sign though and I wasn't aware of this. Online reporting can be done 15 days in advance of the due date but not within seven days, so you have an eight day window. I wonder if people are getting rejected online because they fall in to this trap and just blaming it on the system? Definitely something to be aware of.

11 minutes ago, morrobay said:

My error for misreading the time she entered the water. Yes the tide was coming in at 9am . But in no way can I believe that this women could swim 

about 15 km . Especially against an incoming tide. No way. So two possibilities: The tidal currents direction in the gulf can be very complicated . It would take a lot of research. Not now. The other scenario is she booked up with the fisherman. I can believe that over her swimming against the tide . Especially with the photo.

The usual AN bar stool detectives are out in force I see!

She's not holding his hand you know, she is holding his arm for stability, that's a tiny boat to be standing up on. You guys must really get a kick out of making up such drivel.

Just now, DrJack54 said:

Next time use this for appointment.

https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/onlineservice-and-publicguide/

Thank you. I didn't realise you could do this for 90 day reports, very useful!

3 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

Or make an appointment online in advance.

Yeah, or that - I had totally forgotten you could do it and also stupidly expected the 90 day report would be quick. 

1 hour ago, walailak said:

 

 

3.      Parking – as they are now  building a new building “C” the usual parking outside of building “B” in now inaccessible.  Therefore, we parked at the Centara Life Government Complex Hotel, levels 3,4,5 are available for visitors, and then you navigate through to the hotel’s lobby then cross the road before entering building “B” where Chaengwattana immigration BKK is.

 

Hopefully my post might help others......

Damn, a day late, that would have been useful car parking advice. I am at CW now for a 90 day report (my online one was rejected as first one needs to be in person). Had a nightmare parking, the multistory near building B was jammed. I ended up parking in the (near empty) multistory next to building A and took a motorbike to building B.

Got my Q ticket at 9.40am, 114 people in front of me.

Now 12.30pm, waiting for their lunch to finish and there are still 20 people in front of me.  So it is going to be at least a four hour exercise just to tell them I haven't moved house in the last 90 days. Oh well. I think if I have to do this again I'll just come in the afternoon.

4 hours ago, vinny41 said:

Once again simple solution is ignore button and then you wouldn't see those posts

Looking at the Top posters in this thread

@KhunLA 500 posts @JBChiangRai 390 posts @Yellowtail 329 posts and myself at 145 posts

so the comment about scrolling past these posts each day sometimes serveral times a day is misleading and grossly exaggerated

It isn't misleading or exaggerated, I scroll past them literally every day. No one else is interested, please give it a rest. Or how about go and start an EV numbers thread that you and JB can just indulge in and the rest of us can ignore? Please??

 

2 hours ago, retarius said:

Apart from the US, where else in the western world uses ETAs?

The entire European Union will have one from next year.

https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en

14 minutes ago, kickstart said:

Watermelon a vegatable?

That was I thought too! Then I Googled it. Oklahoma declared it their state vegetable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/18/usa.matthewweaver

4 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Yet all these places are so busy in the Philippines 

Kenny Rogers fast food , Carl's etc etc 

Filipinos love them 

That's because Filipinos are so Americanised, they love their crappy fast food chains. Generally anything bland and oily is a hit there.

1 hour ago, roger101 said:

I am flying back to the UK next month. I am planning to use a Miracle Lounge. First time in 11 years. So I have a couple of questions.

What would normally be the concourse for Thai to fly out of?  I am trying to cut down the walking by booking a lounge near to where the plane normally departs from.

Second question, what taxi firm would you recommend? When I return I'll get the bus back to Pattaya but going I want a taxi.

I look forward to all your replies. Thank you.

As the other poster already commented, Thai fly from all different concourses and there is no consistency day to day, so impossible to predict. There are Miracle Lounges at every concourse (I am pretty sure) plus there are also Coral lounges. BKK is full of lounges. No need to book, just turn up and pay - they are never full, that way you can pick one near your gate on the day.

Oh, just saw you are going to the UK. Long haul tend to go from D,E,F,G, but also now we have S gates which mean taking a train. You'll really just have to decide on the day once your gate is announced. If you pre-book a specific lounge based on yesterday's flight then find out you're in the wrong concourse then you'd be in pain.

6 minutes ago, n8sail said:

Vessels of this size, and prudent mariners on any boat, will generally have parallel filter systems, with a y-valve to quickly change from one to the other in the event one side gets clogged.  This allows continuous running, and ability to change the clogged filter 'on-the-fly'.  Often large boats 'polish' their fuel, pumping from one tank to another through a separate filter system to keep fuel clean.

This being Thailand, you have to wonder how well their filter systems were taken care of.  Dodgy fuel abounds in the marine industry, especially in SE Asia.

They do have their anchor down, which is the first thing you do in a situation where you lose propulsion.  Curious that in only 15-20 meters of water offshore from the island their anchor didn't set at all.   A boat this size normally carries enough anchor rode to easily anchor in 30-40 meters of water.  Generally sea-floor substrates in the Gulf of Thailand are Sand, ideal for holding, and the depth contours offshore do look like it's probably sandy, though the navigation charts I have don't show what the bottom is in this area.

 

 

Interesting to have someone who clearly knows a lot about the subject sharing their insights, thanks.

Makes a change from the usual guff we get on here (outboard motors anyone?)

7 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

No.  In the factual reality that we all live in.

Ok, I'll bite.

So when has "I respectfully disagree with [left-wing claim]" is hate speech" ever happened? You must have some examples?