Buying pound sterling in Pattaya.

[chiang mai]

4 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Pretty yellow, nice.

[Nick Carter icp]

33 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

 

   Is that an old photo or are they offering terrible exchange rates 

[Pattaya57]

6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Is that an old photo or are they offering terrible exchange rates 

That's an old Pic. Here's rates from Friday

 

[KhunBENQ]

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Is that an old photo or are they offering terrible exchange rates 

Of course just an arbitrary picture from the net showing a sign on a booth. From "sometime".

Wanted to show the difference between the topic (money exchange in Pattaya) vs some tourist statistic babble.

[KhunBENQ]

3 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

That's an old Pic. Here's rates from Friday

 

28 Satang for a Ruble 😲

Remember when it was close to 1:1 with the Baht.

[chiang mai]

3 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Of course just an arbitrary picture from the net showing a sign on a booth. From "sometime".

Wanted to show the difference between the topic (money exchange in Pattaya) vs some tourist statistic babble.

Proving beyond doubt that Pattaya has at least one forex booth, bravo!

[SAFETY FIRST]

On 12/21/2024 at 10:08 AM, kwilco said:

Where can I buy pound sterling in Pattaya using Thai baht?

Bank Gold, soi Rungland 

[chiang mai]

An interesting read:

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/fewer-british-tourists-and-expats-are-coming-to-thailand-458609

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Of course just an arbitrary picture from the net showing a sign on a booth. From "sometime".

Wanted to show the difference between the topic (money exchange in Pattaya) vs some tourist statistic babble.

 

   Why is it "of course" ?

Some money exchangers do indeed offer bad exchange rates .

Thanks for th photo anyway , I've always wondered what a money exchanger looks like 

[Pattaya57]

45 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Why is it "of course" ?

Some money exchangers do indeed offer bad exchange rates .

Thanks for th photo anyway , I've always wondered what a money exchanger looks like 

 

Here's a better Pic of a typical TT Exchange booth in Pattaya

 

 

While this is a Pic of a copycat TT booth which unfortunately I see many tourists using despite having terrible rates

 

[kinyara]

1 hour ago, chiang mai said:

An interesting read:

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/fewer-british-tourists-and-expats-are-coming-to-thailand-458609

 

As usual from that author, painting a pretty inaccurate picture for the paper's clickbait narrative. He quotes the 2011 figure as the peak of UK tourism at 900k, and said it halved in the mid 2020's. In 2023 as we came out of COVID with available airline capacity still not back to normal 817k UK tourists came back, and with 739k to October this year it's highly likely 2011's figure will be exceeded. 

 

Thailand looks as popular as ever with UK tourists in 2024.

 

 

 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

On 12/21/2024 at 10:08 AM, kwilco said:

Where can I buy pound sterling in Pattaya using Thai baht?

 

   Just wondering, why would you need GBP for ?

[Pattaya57]

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 Just wondering, why would you need GBP for ?

I'm just wondering why @chiang mai thinks anyone would want to carry more than 43,500 baht cash around in Pattaya to change to £1000... every booth can handle that amount

[chiang mai]

30 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

I'm just wondering why @chiang mai thinks anyone would want to carry more than 43,500 baht cash around in Pattaya to change to £1000... every booth can handle that amount

I'm not wondering anything, other than where the OP will find GBP, on demand, in anything other than small amounts.....some others think there are stacks of the stuff, just for the asking.

[Pattaya57]

9 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

I'm not wondering anything, other than where the OP will find GBP, on demand, in anything other than small amounts.....some others think there are stacks of the stuff, just for the asking.

Well in fairness those "others" actually live in Pattaya whereas you don't, so maybe we know better than your generic "forex in a tourist town" logic

[chiang mai]

1 minute ago, Pattaya57 said:

Well in fairness those "others" actually live in Pattaya whereas you don't, so maybe we know better than you

Rather than suffer with personal hurt feelings that at least one member doesn't think Patts is the English capital of Thailand, why not put up some stats and some facts to convince us that it is? TBH Patts used to be Brit heavy at one point this century but UK tourism is no longer anywhere near a dominant feature of Patts economy, neither visitor nor resident wise. And whilst you're at it, why not delve a little deeper into how the forex business anywhere in Thailand operates and what the risks are of forex booths holding foreign currency. It's been a long time since I wanted to buy currency in Thailand but the last time I did, I asked my bank for 2k Pounds and they said it would take a week to collect it from the branches, on order, because normally it went straight to head office and then to BOT.....that's the business model, sell baht for foreign currency and then dump the foreign currency on the central bank.

[Pattaya57]

1 minute ago, chiang mai said:

Rather than suffer with personal hurt feelings that at least one member doesn't think Patts is the English capital of Thailand, why not put up some stats and some facts to convince us that it is? TBH Patts used to be Brit heavy at one point this century but UK tourism is no longer anywhere near a dominant feature of Patts economy, neither visitor nor resident wise. And whilst you're at it, why not delve a little deeper into how the forex business anywhere in Thailand operates and what the risks are of forex booths holding foreign currency. It's been a long time since I wanted to buy currency in Thailand but the last time I did, I asked my bank for 2k Pounds and they said it would take a week to collect it from the branches, on order, because normally it went straight to head office and then to BOT.....that's the business model, sell baht for foreign currency and then dump the foreign currency on the central bank.

Or we could stick to helping the OP whereby he can feel confident he can change baht to get £1000 at any TT Exchange booth, if he needs more he can go to TT head office on 2nd road as already explained by Pattaya locals

[chiang mai]

I think the OP has a number of options, perhaps he will report back with his findings, in the interest of furthering everyone's education on this subject.

[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Then be shocked.

It's their main business to collect foreign currency.

And GBP is one of the most traded in Pattaya.

Seems you never seen what piles of notes banks and other businesses have in their drawers.

Bought my first car in cash,

Went to the bank and asked for the million.

They put the bundle on the desk within a minute,

 

You are US American?

Yeah, me too, I walked out with a large envelope of cash......

I believe one can pre-order the foreign currency at TT and they will have it ready on quite short notice. 

[chiang mai]

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yeah, me too, I walked out with a large envelope of cash......

I believe one can pre-order the foreign currency at TT and they will have it ready on quite short notice. 

This was my entire point, anything more than fairly small amounts are not always available on demand, the currency has to be collected/ordered from branches.