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Get a tesco pay as you go  SIM, only top up when you have used credit.

I have the same problem!

I applied at the end of July

Took about 30 Days to approve, then less a week to issue after payment made

I applied thru a Bangkok law firm

4 hours ago, fredob43 said:

Yes she does, but only if you have left the country. One has to be filled out within 24 hours of your return weekends not applicable. You should then get a slip of paper that you put in your passport to verify same.

 

There are new rules, like if you leave house and stay at another address for more than 24 hours the owner of house must report same to local Immigration or local police within 48 hours. Failing to do same she/he will be fined.

Staying at a hotel is fine provided you use your passport to sign in as they the hotel should report you to the local police.

Just had a friend of mine who used his wife's ID to check into a hotel and his wife got fined 800bt for not complying with the rules. IM said that if he had got a receipt from hotel with his passport No: on it there wouldn't have been a problem. New rules every day so it seems.

Odd, I had just returned from Overseas on Tuesday, went to immigration within 24 hrs as previously

GF advised not needed in future!!!

Yesterday at Udon Thani immigration GF was told by IO that She did not need to do TM30 as I have Yellow house book.

any comments on this welcome

Another possibility (perhaps not in this case though) is that lightning can hit the wet ground and then travel along the ground and then up whatever tall object is near

i have witnessed the results of this

Latest Which? Magazine mentions various insurance excess companies 

I have one and have claimed once with no problems mine is with insurance4carhire,

not mentioned in Which?

I picked up a free SIm from the immigration desk when I last arrived in BKK

Not set it up yet though??

As a part time resident of Udon, I can advise there is no longer any way of checking thru Swampy to Udon. Up until about the end of Oct baggage could be interlined via Bangkok Airways from many other internatioal routes. Bangkok Airways stopped daily flights at the end of Oct and now only have 1 flight on aSunday

Thai Smile do not offer baggage transfer even to Thai Airways. I tried this last week on my way to Melbourne

I am about to try www.revolut.com

Looks great to me

Try this from the UK, try localphone from either landline or mobile, you register numbers you want to call from and then dial a local number with the same are code, 1p or 2p a minuite, plus connection charge depending on UK provider

https://www.localphone.com/

Nationwide transfers

Be careful transferring from Nationwide, Fee is £20. Twice I have transferred from them to my Bangkok Bank Sterling account only to have my sterling converted to Baht by Nationwide's intermediary bank and then converted back again to Sterling

Cost me a lot of time discussing with Nationwide to get compensated

Skimmed in Kata Beach, money stolen in Bangkok from another bank's ATM. visited police for multiple reports and permissions to view videos from ATM's. Tried for a year to get my money back and failed. Now moved to Bangkok Bank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!