Scouse123

I have found that Agoda and other booking agencies, when booking flights, charge more for luggage and seat choices than Air Asia does.

I find Agoda cheaper if I log out as a member and book as a guest. Then, when the price is agreed, I log in to my membership to claim the points. This often happens, it's cheaper to book as a non Agoda member through their website.

Why? The common fallback position with youngsters these days is GoFundMe! They think that's what it is there for, for people who don't know them to donate due to their own stupidity.

Your compassion is really quite underwhelming.

Hamas is a highly radical terrorist organisation. They will never stop. Do you think, for all their complaining, the Arab neighbours want to see them controlling a Palestinian state? Not a chance, they are afraid of it overspilling into their back yards.

They can't do that when he's already decomposed, and the Police are not convinced it's a natural death. And in Kalasin they are kept in the hospital until just before the ceremony, Nobody wants dead bodies in the house with all the ghosts and superstition.

Don't need to dig, it was a dry ditch.

Well, he isn't parked in her living room, is he?

Sounds like she wants him burnt ASAP. I wonder why?

But we are talking about a Thai forum and about a common occurrence in Thailand, not USA or the EU.

I am sure WISE will be gutted if you move.

It's quiet now, it will be dead in June. Yes, they also have the Cambodian equivalent called Pass app. It also has Grab food, Grab tuk tuk, Grab car, Grab bike, etc

And how do they perform background checks when these immigrants come from lousy countries with little or no rule of law. It would be impossible to perform such checks. This is the problem with the dinghy dodgers, we don't know what is landing on our shores.

I would do ten arrival cards to avoid Poipet, I hate the WAY OFFICIALS OPERATE in the place. I once booked a cab to take me to Siem Reap from Poipet. This smart ass pretending he was helping to try to direct and show me how to obtain a visa, and I duly informed him I had one. He then asked about transport, I foolishly told him I had booked it already. Then a desk with women dressed as nurses pretending to check for fever and charging us a fee. This guy with some kind of tourist assistant badge then went over and whispered in this Cambodian immigration guy's ear and all hell broke loose. I was told that I must take a bus to a pickup point some twenty minutes away and get a car from ' their official ' pick up point, where taxis were scandalously high in price. We eventually had to pay a bribe of $20 to use the taxi we had booked. Coming back was no better on the Thai side, it was nearly 2.5 hours in the immigration queue at Aranyaprathet with surly, rude Thai Immigration staff. NEVER AGAIN.

It takes me 4.5 hours from Kalasin to Chong Chom. It is about 30 minutes crossing the border. Free luggage allowance. Likewise, it then takes 2.5 hours to Siem Reap. Total is 7.5 hours. If I was to fly, it is one hour to ROI Et airport from my home, arriving an hour before, plus luggage fees. I then fly an hour to Bangkok, then more often than not, a bus to the terminal. Faffing around another 20 minutes. There I collect luggage in about another 20 minutes. Then I must make my way to international departures and clear immigration, ensuring I am two hours at least before the flight. It never works that way for connections, I am usually waiting 4–5 hours for connecting flight to Siem Reap, flight time to Siem Reap is another 1 hour. Then I clear Cambodian immigration and collect luggage, at least another 35–45 minutes. Then it's another hour in a taxi to Siem Reap. Total 10 or 11 hours messing about, then the same farce on return flights. And it's more expensive. That's why we drive.