NRGF

6 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Pathetic deflection, you will no doubt be quoting your own “ attempted murder “ next 😀

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Let's hope the Thai woman who hit and run killed a 73 year old Swiss tourist in Pattaya last night gets similar attention.

The only connection between these two events is Swiss. 

There's no getting away from it, life kills. No one gets out alive. 

7 hours ago, Swiss1960 said:

Ah, the famous balcony deaths are back with more tourists... More booze than they drink at home... lower balcony rails than they are used at home... whether suicide or accident, does it really matter, as long as they don't injure/kill somebody or cause damage by falling on a car? Dead is dead

Hard but true. 

31 minutes ago, norfolkandchance said:

Wheelchair, Over 70 or white stick and dark glasses.

Travelling with your Thai wife enables you to use Thai immigration, usually a good shortcut. 

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Immigration Bureau officers from Krabi arrested a 51-year-old German national identified as Mr Manuel on Ko Lanta on Monday, December 18th. He faces prosecution for a 5-month visa overstay and deportation.

Local police in Krabi confirm a national crackdown on overstaying tourists is underway. A heartbroken German, drowning his sorrows in beer, was arrested on Ko Lanta after being spurned in love. He is among the first to be detained. Immigration’s festive blitz is underway targeting boisterous drinkers.

Immigration police have launched another national crackdown targeting visa overstayers and most especially foreign tourists overindulging in alcohol in the runup to Christmas and the New Year. On Monday, a 51-year-old German man drowned his sorrows after suffering rejection in love on the island of Ko Lanta. Later, he was nabbed after a tip-off to Krabi Police from locals. 

 

It was a case of Murphy’s law, for a 51-year-old German tourist on Monday. The European found himself amid a pre-Christmas nightmare on December 18th on Ko Lanta, the picturesque island in Southern Thailand, near Krabi.

 

Previously, the unlucky foreigner, whose visa expired five months ago, set off from the notorious resort city of Pattaya seeking love and reconciliation with his estranged Thai girlfriend in Krabi. He had high hopes.

 

by Carla Boonkong & Pranee O' Connor

 

Full story: Thai Examiner.com 2023-12-20

 

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9 hours ago, webfact said:

Immigration Bureau officers from Krabi arrested a 51-year-old German national identified as Mr Manuel on Ko Lanta on Monday, December 18th. He faces prosecution for a 5-month visa overstay and deportation.

Local police in Krabi confirm a national crackdown on overstaying tourists is underway. A heartbroken German, drowning his sorrows in beer, was arrested on Ko Lanta after being spurned in love. He is among the first to be detained. Immigration’s festive blitz is underway targeting boisterous drinkers.

Immigration police have launched another national crackdown targeting visa overstayers and most especially foreign tourists overindulging in alcohol in the runup to Christmas and the New Year. On Monday, a 51-year-old German man drowned his sorrows after suffering rejection in love on the island of Ko Lanta. Later, he was nabbed after a tip-off to Krabi Police from locals. 

 

It was a case of Murphy’s law, for a 51-year-old German tourist on Monday. The European found himself amid a pre-Christmas nightmare on December 18th on Ko Lanta, the picturesque island in Southern Thailand, near Krabi.

 

Previously, the unlucky foreigner, whose visa expired five months ago, set off from the notorious resort city of Pattaya seeking love and reconciliation with his estranged Thai girlfriend in Krabi. He had high hopes.

 

by Carla Boonkong & Pranee O' Connor

 

Full story: Thai Examiner.com 2023-12-20

 

- Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

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My answer is never, I always get someone else to do it for me. 

On 12/12/2023 at 7:35 AM, peter zwart said:

legal or not. Any older person that wants to stick his w!llie in a minor should be locked up. Also men here that think they can have a normal relation with a girl thats 35 years younger..........what a joke. Get youself examined.

6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

It might be your only option in the future.

When we left in March of this year, Bangkok Amsterdam there was no alternative to automated check in. 

6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

It might be your only option in the future.

Well done "Local residents'' and thankfully a happy ending. 

7 hours ago, jossthaifarang said:

I'm surprised this fellow is still breathing, he's antagonizing some pretty big fish...

Me too, a few years ago he would have been long gone. 

14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Why is someone else scrubbing it off?  
Make the vandal work scrub it off in this extreme heat. 
 

 

Absolutely 

Surely this is the banks responsibility? The bank will have to make good the money? 

I was taken to the Floating Market for the first time more than 40 years ago when I was young and foolish, now I am no longer young but even then I could immediately see it was just a tourist trap and so declined the boat trip. 

I first came to Thailand 01-01-1978 and have been back many times since but I have never been stopped by Thai customs, not that I've ever been carrying anything illegal. 

On 12/23/2022 at 3:29 PM, Big Bert said:

Zero bars or restaurants take any notice of the 2-5 ban. only 7-11 and supermarkets. It's just very selective enforcement as usual. 

Midnight was never a standard for 50 years. Pattaya's hours have changed so much nobody is really sure when you should close.

Correct 

13 hours ago, Olmate said:

You obviously aren,t familiar with Dutch folk! 

Copper wire was invented by the Dutch when two Dutch men found a small copper coin at the same time.

Greetings from the Hague

7 hours ago, superal said:

You said "i wore my mask in the airport and on the plane home. still caught something " as if a mask will give protection against an airborne virus , sorry but it does not . The mask will stop your projectiles from coughs and sneezes from hitting others but that is about it   

Correct, I don't understand why so many people just don't get this fact particularly fanatic mask wearers. 

3 hours ago, khunjeff said:

In over 30 years of traveling to Thailand, I have never seen all the immigration booths manned. In fact, I have very rarely seen more than half manned, even when crowds were flooding back into the duty free area. So if this is real, it would be a massive change. 

 

The last time they made this claim, I actually timed the processing for the people ahead of me in the queue. Some - presumably visa-exempt tourists - were indeed finished in 45 seconds. Many others, though (including me, with a reentry permit) took several minutes - so the idea that they can average under a minute per passenger is probably overly optimistic. 

 

My experience has been that this "help" consists of hiring pouty teenage interns to shout "passport!" and "boarding pass!" in heavily accented English at people entering the queue. 

In my experience this is true but they do also catch the fools that haven't filled in the arrival card or need to find their passport before they to the desk. 

Avoid having to sex with strangers would have been better or at least less xenophobic, either way my wife will be pleased with the advice. 

If you have been warned by a lifeguard not to swim but are determined to do it you would look for a spot away from the lifeguards.