Link To Penang Consulate Site; In English?

[MacChine]

Looking for the Thai govt Consulate, Penang site to see the opening hours next week . I can find the site, but in Thai only with no English available.

Any link to English?. The google translator is not sufficient.

Much appreciated

Seems rather basic to have a foreign consulate site available in English but , TiT

[digitalchromakey]

Here are the holidays and opening hours http://www.thaiembassy.org/penang/th/organize/17353-วันหยุดราชการวันเวลาทำการ.html

Visa applications 09:00 - 11:00 a.m Monday to Fridays excluding Thai/Malay Public Holidays

Here are the phone numbers to contact the Consulate: http://www.thaiembassy.org/penang/th/org-chart

[MacChine]

Mucho gracias, odd that part is in English, but not the page titles.

[digitalchromakey]

Mucho gracias, odd that part is in English, but not the page titles.

Last year the MFA introduced a 'universal' website for Embassies and Consulates, in principal good for standardisation, but they probably forgot that most people who use Consulates are not Thai; as you said in your original post 'TIT'

The individual Consulates add their details to the 'universal' site where allowed, that's why that part is in English (they at least know that 99.9% of their clients are not Thai).

[phuketrichard]

in Penang use an agent, costs vary from around 250-400 baht for the service but u save that in taxi fees, no standing in lines an when we did it 3 weeks ago got it back the next day BEFORE noon where as if u do it urself u need wait till after 2.

plenty of them on Chula street an most all hotels will do it for you.

[phuketrichard]

dup sorry, TV acting up

[MacChine]

^ I have read a warning out this on another forum that was substantiated by others

. The agent was using fake stamps. Isn't it illegal to use agents anyway, should be done by yourself?

I always get caught when I try anything everyone else gets away with- better to be legal, I can't afford the "tea payments" otherwise.

[phuketrichard]

everyone in Phnom Penh, Laos and Penang uses local Agents and has as long as i can recall ( going back to the 80's)

what they might be referring to his using an Agent IN THAILAND who sends ur passport to another country for a visa or stamps. That is a no no

[lopburi3]

Not everyone uses an agent in any of those places. Some do and normally it is not a problem but when done for more than tourist visas there is often payments involved and there is always the chance of someone getting the idea to make a bit more profit in the short term with there new computer skills. In Penang it used to make sense as the cost was small and done by many hotels - in Laos the fee seems to be entirely excessive IMHO and I would not even consider using them.

[phuketrichard]

OK;

not everybody :-)

for Cambodia the fee is $5-10 ( 2 day service) Max u will save that in moto fees (unless u walk it both ways)

Penang the average price is 30 MYR which is a little more than 4 taxi rides

Not to mention saving ur time for other things

Laos never used an agent, (never gotten a thai visa there at all) but have just heard in sav its easier