Booger

just don't buy a ticket in lufthansa with these guys, cause it looks like they are savvy to it and have cancelled such tickets at the departure desk.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g1-i10702-k7860105-I_was_sold_fraudulent_tickets_by_Fly_Elite_Class-Air_Travel.html

Many thanks for the prompt and helpful reply, Joe. I realise your advice is the proper way to do it. Not wanting to have any difficulties with Thai immigration in the future, I shall go forth with the proper way per your advice. My plan is to do a non-imm OA retirement visa, so I will just get started with that early rather than waiting out the expiration of my current non-imm B.

I had a somewhat similar question and was about to post it, but found this thread and it's similar. Rather than start a new thread, hope it is OK to tag this one on here.

I have a work permit and non-imm B visa at a branch office establishment here. The head office in the UK will be closing the office and letting everyone go, myself included. Following that, I am planning to stay anyway, so the question is:

Although branch office will be legally closed and I will not being paid by them, would I have any problems if I just keep my visa until it expires, leave then, and get a different visa before I return? Or perhaps cancel it before its expiration and then leave?

Cheers in advance...

Noi Bai

Yes, Noi Bai (Hanoi) is kind of shabby, but it's nowhere near as crowded as MNL, and getting checked in, through immigration and onto your plane is hassle-free enough. It can't compare to MNL, where it took me nearly an hour from the time I queued just to get in the front door of the airport until I reached my gate. Immigration alone took at least 30 minutes. There were even queues at the booths to pay the expensive airport tax (for the privilage of using that dump?). About half of the booths were staffed, so I suppose the airport couldn't afford a few more cashiers to rake in the US$15/head airport tax. What a mess.

For those of you lucky enough to not have to endure MNL on a regular basis, here is the queue sequence:

#1 - queue to show your ticket information and passport to the guard at the front door

#2 - queue to x-ray all your baggage

#3 - huge queues at the check-in counter, where there is not adequate room to allocate sufficient space to the airlines. And don't arrive before your check-in counter opens, because there is nowhere to sit.

#4 - airport tax booth queue

#5 - immigration queue

#6 - another x-ray queue, this time to check your carry ons

#7 - ticket and passport check before entering the gate area

(Note: if you are flying Thai, skip the business class lounge, as it is so small and crowded you may not even find an open seat)

#8 - ticket and passport check at the gate

Can't imagine why anyone would loathe Singapore, and I see one vote has been cast that way.

But Manila (Terminal 1 anyway) is rightfully in the lead. Without doubt, the most crowded, outdated, poorly maintained, slowest and most painful airport of any Asian capital airport that I have ever transited.

But as for a recommendation, here is one:

Conrad on Soi Ruamrudee currently has a promotion for "pay one night get one night free". That works out to about US$90/night and it's a very nice hotel indeed.

www.tenfacebangkok.com

This place is AMAZING located real central but real quiet.

NOT quiet if you get one of the rooms facing the Expressway, which is directly behind Tenface. I recently had a friend staying there and stopped in to see the rooms. Very nicely done, but the noise from the Expressway was really awful. Tenface has floor to ceiling glass on the rooms and they used cheap, single plate glass. Just sitting and talking, the Expressway din was constantly there and really annoying. That's really not something you want when paying four or five star prices.