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  1. I flew from the UK to Laos in January (via transit in China), and entered Thailand via land border from Laos, in January

     

    I extended that stamp, then did one border run in a van to Cambodia, then extended that, so I can stay until early May

     

    So i've only done one 'in out' trip in a van.

     

    But it seems it's not about two 'in out' trips in a van, it's two visa exempt entries by land, ok thanks for the info

  2. 14 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

    Yes they can.

    TM30 is very easy for hotel to provide. Just a screenshot of the filing. 

    Obviously you are located in Pattaya?

    Ok thanks. Yeah currently in a hotel here

     

    Visa service pattaya have just quoted me 4500 on Line to do it, might do that as I saw the other thread saying the queue in the office is really long lately

  3. Thai hospitals only accept patients that have been vaccinated for covid, my wife said. So we had to go private. In the past we used Thai hospitals for births.

     

    Yes we were free to leave after 2 days.

     

    It ended up increasing even more to 179k, they gave an itemized bill and some things on there I'd said I didn't want, like a hearing test for 1.5k, but they did anyway. 

     

    They removed that, and when I kept asking why the package says 'all-inclusive 99k' they said ok let us 'check that'. Then after a while they reduced it to 169k.

     

    The bill is vague and I have no way of knowing really what's justified based on the covid ward and what isn't. Oh well thanks for all the advice

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  4. A Bangkok hospital my wife gave birth at on Saturday has an all-inclusive 'Normal Delivery package' price valid until June 2022 of 99,000 THB.

     

    If it wasn't a caesarian, which it wasn't, and that includes 2 days overnight stay.

     

    They phoned me a couple hours after delivery while my wife was still going to be there for 2 more nights, and I was still there as well, hadn't left yet. They were quite pushy about getting me to pay right then, 159,000 baht, and weren't really clear over the phone about why the cost was more. They started saying the room is 16500 per night but then acknowledged two nights were free. She also said food but meals are included apart from extra a la carte ones. We hadn't had any of those.

     

    There were no birth complications, or 'high risk underlying conditions', which are in the T&Cs for reasons for extra charges. I had already paid the 3k baht for a covid test which they get everyone to pay. 

     

    I'll get them to produce a list of all the charges and ask them why it's so much more tomorrow, but has anyone experienced this? I assume I can't name the hospital for defamation reasons but just Google the package and price.

     

    They did mention 'PPE' over the phone. They said my wife tested positive on the day and moved her and the baby to a covid ward in a separate part of the hospital. But surely I'm not paying 60% more just because the staff are wearing PPE in that ward.

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  5. 29 minutes ago, jspill said:

    Thanks. Know if children aged 2 also need the health insurance, thailand pass etc. or it's covered within that of the adult guardian's? 

     

    Will get her to ask this at the consulate but just curious if anyone has gone through the process with children

    I'm reading online that children don't need a separate thailand pass, but can't find any info about the AXA covid insurance

     

    In the T&Cs it says children aren't covered in the policy, but will immigration ask? 

  6. On 11/27/2021 at 12:45 AM, ubonjoe said:

    Best to look at this page on the Yangon embassy website for their requirements. 

    https://yangon.thaiembassy.org/en/page/33445-tourist-visa?menu=5d7d27c515e39c2e64001ff4

    It mentions a round trip ticket.

    Thanks. Know if children aged 2 also need the health insurance, thailand pass etc. or it's covered within that of the adult guardian's? 

     

    Will get her to ask this at the consulate but just curious if anyone has gone through the process with children

  7. Hi, 

     

    Some consulate websites say people only need to show a booking for the 10 days in an approved quarantine hotel, and the AXA insurance and Thailand pass (and the tourist visa in passport), and no onward flight is needed. Is that right?

     

    Some people on social media say they were refused entry as they didn't have an onward flight. And some consulate websites say 60 - 90 days of accommodation should be booked. 

     

    Asking for a friend with a Myanmar passport, flying in next month from Myanmar. 

     

    Also to save money could someone only book the AXA insurance for say, 14 days, and say they're only staying 14 days if asked, or would immigration be suspicious and expect to see that paid for for 30 days at least. Or 60 days? It's a lot more expensive to book that for 60-90 days, and how would immigration ever really know how long the person intended to stay, whether they would extend the 60 days to 90 or not. 

     

    Thanks

     

     

     

     

  8. Hi, 

     

    Do we really need the $100k covid coverage health insurance, just to transit through Suvarnbhumi without entering Thailand. I read that online. Asking for a Burmese friend flying from LHR to RGN, transiting BKK (no direct flights). And if yes what's the cheapest policy for her to get. Thanks

     

    https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/requirements-for-foreigners-travelling-to-thailand-during-covid-19-tra?page=5d6636ce15e39c3bd000734d&menu=5d6636cd15e39c3bd00072e2

    https://www.caat.or.th/en/archives/56377

     

  9. 13 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    I see you're taking about that backwater of the Soviet Union. 

     

    There was a Jewish territorial organisation that was happy to establish a homeland anywhere in the world that wasn't inhabited, so wouldn't require bulldozing homes in an existing people's homeland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Territorial_Organization

     

    They looked into many areas, but this movement eventually dissolved as it wasn't as popular as the zionist movement, which specifically wanted Palestine. 

     

    So your assertion that zionism is just about finding a homeland is false, zionism is only concerned with taking over Palestine and as we've seen they have been constantly expanding their borders and annexing new land over the decades, they won't even agree to go back to using the 1967 borders. 

  10. 12 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    I see you're taking about that backwater of the Soviet Union. 

    It's funny than when people usually debate conflicts between countries they usually don't resort to claiming they shouldn't have ever existed. Instead of trying to deal with the current realities. But with Israel that always comes up. Hmm.

     

    It could exist in a fair and equitable way to the Arabs, sharing land with them, e.g. accepting the generous deal Yasser Arafat made them to share the land. 

     

    In its current form, a military occupation and colony with a million arabs in the open air prison of Gaza, then no of course it shouldn't exist. That's a rogue state founded on terrorism against Arabs and British soldiers, not a legitimate country or homeland. Netanyahu recently passed a nation state law declaring it the 'homeland of the Jewish people and them alone'. So apartheid. 

     

    Funny how westerners are scolded for empire and colonialism, but when it comes to a certain wealthy colony that makes a lot of money for the military industrial complex it gets a pass and billions a year from US taxpayers. Hmm. 

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  11. On 5/21/2021 at 12:14 PM, Jingthing said:

    Wait a second buddy. 

    Have you checked out the population INCREASES in the West Bank?

    The 20 percent of Israeli citizens that are Arab?
    Nothing remotely resembling ethnic cleansing. That's just a anti-Israel slur and outright LIES like that need to be called out every time. 

     

     

    Well how much larger would it have been if the initial 800k or so people weren't displaced following the 1948 invasion, and the tens of thousands killed various massacres like at Deir Yassin or in carpet bombing over the years. 

     

    They do have a high birthrate but as a percentage they country went from over 90% Arab to now 20% and their birthrate would be even higher if not for the occupation. 

  12. On 5/21/2021 at 3:45 AM, LomSak27 said:

     

    With all due respect, you left out the Balfour Declaration, the British role in creating this mess. The jews would not have been there in numbers, had the British not invaded and occupied it in WWI. Britain promised it to both the Jews and Arabs for services rendered in that war. Selling Palestine twice, and selling something never really theirs. Not surprising, it all came a cropper. 

    BTW, Orde Wingate is considered the Father of The Israeli Defense Force. A fact conveniently forgotten in today's United Kingdom.

    Back to the present. Hamas and Israel have declared a cease fire. Hopefully it will hold and more needless deaths, like the Thai workers, will be prevented. 

     

    The Balfour declaration was addressed to the Rothschilds. It was a deal they made, in return for getting that declaration they promised to bring America into the first World War, which they subsequently did. I don't really see it as anything to do with working class British people at all, it was never something the British voted on or were consulted over. 

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  13. On 5/21/2021 at 5:16 AM, Jingthing said:

    Wow. So it sounds like you don't think Israel has a right to exist. That is very extremist. Similar to Hamas. As far as the implication that Zionism in itself is a bad thing, Zionism is simply the belief in the right of the Jewish people to self determination. It doesn't mean support for any particular Israeli government policy. 

     

    Zionists insist that that self determination must take the form of them running Palestine, quite a big distinction. It already had an existing population. They already had a homeland called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, the other of the two official Jewish territories in the world. Which they had that before invading Palestine in 1948 and waging war and displacing (ethnically cleansing) 800k arabs. And it's twice the size of Israel, plenty of room for them.

     

    So if it was just about having a home and self determination they'd have remained in the JAO, but no, zionism focuses on what they see as their holy land for religious reasons, so it's about building a country on top of an existing one and completely running it. Rather than migrating there and sharing it with the existing Arabs. 

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