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I'm definitely going to go and have a look, it looks amazing. 800km range according to this article: https://www.licarco.com/hozon-neta-s I wonder how much it'll cost.

I don't think any EV maker has claimed there are no fossil fuels used anywhere in the manufacture or transport, what a ridiculous thing to say. If there is a net reduction in fossil fuel burning overall with a switch to EVs then things are better. No one is saying it's an overnight switch to zero.

Awwwwwwww.

Not being checked but often get asked. I was asked when checking in in Singapore on Friday if I was fully vaccinated. "Yes". They didn't ask to see proof. I have been asked this prior to most flights. So although it is not necessary to be vaccinated I always have my vaccination certificate with me just in case. You won't be asked on arrival. Masks are not required. On most flights I have been on it is 70-30 masked vs unmasked. But it is up to you. Likewise in the airport. No need for insurance. You will not be asked for it. Yes, although it is supposedly very busy as there are not enough taxis, so expect a queue. I haven't checked it myself as I always take the train. If you want piece of mind after a long flight book a car and have it waiting.

I find this ridiculous. Someone got questioned by a female IO (probably because questions needed to be asked), so therefore avoid female IOs. My friend once got asked if he had an onwards journey booked by a male IO who wore glasses. So my advice to all of you is to avoid IOs that wear glasses.

Where are you plucking 20 counters from? There are closer to 120 arrival immigration counters in total.

The simplest answer is Brexit. The only country in history that has ever voted to place sanctions on itself.....and here we are.

Brilliant, today's problems are because of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and it is all the past stuff now biting them on the bum. You do realise the Tories have been in power for 12 years now?? No blame there at all?? Nah, it's all because of stuff that happened before that that they haven't worked out how to fix. Right. Bad Labour.

Great, thanks for sharing. Now off you go to other threads to tell people things you haven't done.

My money is on this. He's just an internet hard man.

...and brags about it.

Not really, nothing to do with being sensitive although feel free to continue being patronising if it makes you happy.

Yeah, of course. Just randomly attacked out of the blue for absolutely no reason at all. I call BS. Insult a Thai, cause them to lose face, expect trouble. But random attacks for absolutely no reason? Nope.

The type of amazing reporting and level of fact checking we have come to expect on this site. So one flight an hour. Genius. And no one spotted that??

Glad I came in today, no lines at all. Just like when I came in last month, and also a couple of weeks before that. These monster lines are not normal at all and tend to happen only when there are flight schedule delays meaning a bunch of arriving aircraft get bunched up and dock at the same time. Even so that snake line in the picture is not horrendous and should move fairly well.

I just came through the airport. The "horrendous queues" are freaks and are not the norm at all (I travel a lot and have never had one). Plane from Singapore was full, had a long walk from gate C2, lots of other people on the walk from other flights. Got to the first arrival hall, there's an electronic sign showing the waiting time at that one and the waiting time at the next one (in this case it said five minutes and two minutes). I carried on to the Fast Track and can report the dedicated Fast Track area is now open again after refurbishment. Straight to a counter (all manned), a cute female IO was very friendly and smiley, I was through in less than a minute. As I was walking to the baggage carousel and passed the "normal" immigration the guy who was in front of me on the plane came through just ahead of me, so it was faster than walking to Fast Track. I peeked through, seemed all desks were open and each had maybe two people waiting. It sure beat the throng that greeted me at Changi T1 on arrival on Monday. So yeah, if you have access to Fast Track use it, but don't be scared about the stories of monster queues, they happen once in a blue moon when there are exceptional circumstances.

Sigh. You must be an incredibly irritating person to live with (that's if anyone lives with you). This is my last reply to you because you keep labouring the same thing picking on semantics and it is incredibly dull. I am clearly not their target market because I don't live anywhere near the ferry and I don't want to go to Samui. No, of course not. Not sure why I thought that at all. Silly me.

Don't get him started. "Because they don't know if it is transport or an onboard experience" etc etc yawn yawn.

Oh dear. A little butt hurt that someone would renounce US citizenship in favour of Thailand? You do realise that the naturalisation process takes several years? I know he got it in 1991, I don't know when he started the process (it took my friend 16 years). But I do know that pretty much immediately after he received it he renounced his US citizenship. He didn't hang on to it and dump it later in life. So how exactly could he have renounced it 50 years ago? He is 62 now I think. Do they let children declare themselves stateless? You Americans are funny.

Sounds like Trump supporting over patriotic "USA!! USA!!" nonsense! And a sly dig at Thais to dig inferring that they never "do the right thing". "Happy to live under the umbrella of protection the USA offers". Again, more nonsense. He moved to Thailand as a child (14 years old), having lived in other parts os Asia prior to that. He has no ties to the US, he grew up here, started his businesses here and has been here ever since he was a child. If I was in his position I would have done the same, no doubt. But of course if you had grown up in Thailand, become successful here, made your life here and never planned to live in the US you would "do the right thing" and keep your useless US citizenship just to pay taxes there on all the money earned here, in Thailand. Right? Help to fund their wars. Or are you a hypocrite?

There are money exchange booths but as far as I am aware only foreign currency ATMs that need a foreign currency account with a Thai bank exist airside. Happy to be corrected though.

I used to go several times a year (1996 was my first trip) and loved it. Went there last about 10 years ago (?) with my parents and it was filthy and I was shocked. We checked out after one night and left. I never went back in those ten years until a few weeks ago and it was beautiful. Clean sand, clean sea, my kids (and me) were in the sea every day, it was fab. So seems like they have (literally) cleaned up their act. The resorts are much nicer now too.

No. That was the Central Group.

Yes, you just need to keep hold of your boarding pass. And generally there are no horrendous queues.

There are no ATM machines before immigration.