bubba1

Just the first of many. The UK will be the next North Korea

You did it all wrong.

Before you go to Immigration visit an Indian tailor and get a brown 3 piece suit made. Bring a silk tie from HK or your home country.

Get your suit on and head to Immigration with a leather briefcase. Wai everyone you see and tip everyone in uniform 100 baht. Walk out like a superstar and catch the baht bus home. Crank up some George Jones at the house and have a few light ales. No worries in the world.

El Charro green is awesome.

Go to Jims place without a doubt. You can pick your passport up at 2:00PM on Tuesday.

Uber will get you around Penang very cheap from airport to Jims place will be about 30 minutes and cost less than $5 USD.

I believe the OP.

Send me a PM and I'll buy you a few beers on bintabaht.

i can only shake my head... dozens of ATM threads... hundreds of postings, most of them bitching. where's the problem to transfer once in a while a reasonable amount to a Thai bank and use a debit card for purchases and withdrawing cash?

Totally agree. Any tourist or casual visitor won't go to some obscure ATM in the middle of an industrial estate to save £4.

Some people are just penny wise and pound foolish Some get it and some don't.

This is far from Pattaya.

Sounds like some of you should spend more time thinking about making money rather than spending your day on how to save £4. Same for mobile data.

Having some El Charro Salsa Verde. Very good

I'm from India and all low life bottom feeders from India have gone to Thailand and are in the process of destroying that place as well. They are now into notorious loan sharking business. Indians were in Thailand for generations but the new breed is purely greedy and on a short cut desperate mode to success.

They were under the radar for quite a long time but now, seeing the authorities don't do much to Indians, truck loads have come in and India is 1.2 Billion, If Thailand would not take care of its borders ...We can literally drown Thailand with Indians.

The article is right, we are crazy about Thailand....its affordable, cheap sex, great food, great nightlife, great weather, everything Indian Plus Sex is what every Indian dreams of.

Thank God. Thai's are not stupid and brainwashed as western countries, who allow trash from all corners of the world in the name of "Human Rights" "Compassion" etc etc Cliche's and then get Bombed out of existence

Well Done Thailand...Salute from an Indian who plays by the rules

Your type of caste thinking is exactly why India is a poor and struggling country. You should be ashamed of yourself

The nut sellers have been around for decades better to just let them be.

Lol. Good one. Just pay up

English lessons are cheap

If caught by immigration or police you could end up in jail for an overstay. Go early.

No problem just remove them at the metal detector. Common footwear for rig pigs.

I heard from a mate they stopped stapling the cards as a cost cutting measure to save on staples. Great idea if you ask me

Had it happen in Taiwan main thing they were worried about was the duty free items.

It's called 'breach of promise' and still can (albeit rarely nowadays) be claimed under British common law. Similar law might exist under the Thai legal system although I've never personally heard of it being enforced here. It may well vary from case to case and the advice of a Thai lawyer may be appropriate.

It's a scam and a contacting a Thai lawyer will likely result in the OP being scammed again.

No it's not released in Thailand yet

Prove it...you can't. Nor can I or ima-farang prove our opinion. Plus checking a transaction does not mean they are doing anything other than some basic eyeball checks and very simple click approve, reject, etc....nor actually going in and entering any data. And they could be looking at batches of X-amount that all get posted at the same time if passing the automated checks and human eyeball checks.

Lol. Banks don't work that way in Thailand. Get a grip. Even Cambodia isn't that far behind. The computer programs run in scheduled batches. Even in Western Europe or North America something won't on a non business day for most transactions.

It wouldn't surprise me that every incoming international transfer is quickly looked at by humans at Thai banks; otherwise, Thai holidays and weekends would not hold up transfers. Plus I guess for some banks like SCB I think they routinely call folks regarding the rate before posting.

Plus I would be surprised if any transfers post to a person's account outside of daylight working hours instead of posting during all 24 hours of the day and night.

It's too risky to allow a person to check each transaction because they make mistakes. Information technology and software does it all except for some error transactions or exceptions which are checked manually.

If you think Somchai and Somsee are checking each transaction this is totally wrong.

ALL incoming funds transfers for Bangkok Bank pass first through the Bangkok Bank main office in Silom Road, Bangkok.

It only takes one person with the authority to read the transfer, verify it is valid, and hit the enter button on a computer to forward that transfer to your Bangkok Bank branch office.

The problems start when there are "bank holidays" and the authorized person is not working at Silom road that day, for whatever reason.

When the system is operating normally, the transfer is very quick.

But there is a 12 hour time difference between New York and Bangkok. so if the batch file is sent from New York at midnight, it arrives in Bangkok at 12 noon Thai time.(the International Date line)

It is the person in Bangkok that is authorized to approve the batch file transfer who pushes the "enter" button on his or her computer hat makes the transfer happen....and normally they arrive at work by 8 a.m. Thai time.

Until then your funds transfer is "pending".

Most senior staff in banks in Bangkok do not work at night.

in London or New York people do work at night.

As the Jimmy Buffet song says, "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes".

Really doubt that each transaction is manually touched by a human. What's your source of this BS?

All 380s don't have the same IFE system especially across different airlines. That being said I doubt many have the software to play your video files.

Maybe try taking your George Foreman grill and cooking some sausage to keep you occupied

There is a coupon type place about 200 meters from the international terminal. Near the place with all the tour buses.

Its packed full of Chinese and the people working the stalls can speak some Mandarin. It's a mess if a tour group walks in.

Are the pics from Don Muang or Suvarnabhumi ?

Suvarnabhimi

It is frustrating as a prepaid customer I can not buy more than 1 month of data at a time. Even if I tell them I want a balance big enough for another month, it will not automatically renew. I have to go to Dtac. I guess I could give them my credit card number from my home country but am hesitant to do that. I would rather use a positive balance.

I can't really understand what you are saying. My DTAC plan renews automatically every month and it can be managed and changed using the DTAC app.