alexlm

Does it check for overstays?

I don't understand this article. If someone could explain? I'm planning my 2 months trip to Thailand from December to February. Everything is already fully booked. My Pattaya hotel told me they are fully booked for December 10th when I arrive, until April. How to find an hotel? Will I be stranded in the street with all the hotels booked?? My car rental guy said they are booked until April too at 99% and they are not sure they can provide me with a rental car. His partner told me there are so many Foreigners right now. When I lived in Thailand from 2014 to 2018, I could just walk into my favorite hotels and get a room in 3 minutes. Ask for a car some morning and get the rental car 3 hours later the afternoon. Has it changed so much since 2018???! It seems it's full of Foreigners. So why this article seems to indicate the opposite? Or I didn't understand something I'm sure. If someone could explain... Thanks ???? Alex LM

Raping each other. Only Thailand could come up with such a law.

I think it was for ""corruption"". But then lots of people in the Thai Government would need to get exiled if that was the case? He is a billionaire. He could have come back earlier by... bribing the government... Why wait 17 years? Anyway, we can't know. Unless we are in a small group of people high up I guess. We can't trust anything we read online anymore... nor the government. And certainly not the Thai TV ???????????? All the public story seems fishy...

What does it change to be a Woman at the immigration?

"I thought I was carrying documents" What a complete... mor**. Well, it's hard to come up with an excuse that seems valid when you have 2 seconds to improvise. But still, what a complete m... Could have planned this better than to just walking out of an hotel with the bag...

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So it's back to normal? Once I had to wait ~3 hours standing to get that entry stamp. I have a French handicapped priority card (CMI Priorité) now. Do they care about it there?

Sometimes they can be smart... Or they just don't get it.

What? To enter Thailand? I thought I recently read they were dropping every rule related to covid 19 on entry?

Even for something as simple as the standard 1,900 THB extension. I got in in-unimaginable troubles. In Sri Racha Immigration... From now on, my agent takes care of everything. Even the list of paperwork required is shorter than normal ???? I saw someone say "unless someone is disabled". I have ASD and ADHD. Does that count? ... Both my disabilities are officially recognised by my home country, the French Government.

I meant Ubonjoe... could not edit so here, just to clarify. Follow his instructions. When you do. No reason to stress and you can breathe...

Why, for 100% of the time I have been stopped for a fine (e.g. of my faults = U-Turn I should not have taken, GF's helmet "missing"). Not ONE policeman accepted that I pay on the spot? 2min and done on my way I imagine? But no. Always told me again that I gotta find a way to the nearest police station, wait 2 hours to pay a ticket, go back to wherever I was stopped. Give them the paper. Get my keys and papers backs. Why do I hear so much about corruption? I could not even pay 10's of thousands of THB for 1 one year extension based on marriage even though I had all the papers. But she refused the Embassy 40K income thing. And wanted the 400K in the bank. She didn't want 40K in cash either and told me to get out of her office (Jomtien/Pattaya) Any advices?

Do they teach to wait for an exit to turn right when you pass you exam to get a driving license?

Good deal. 70 years old 40 years old very attractive? So let's say 30? If I was 41 years older I would keep doing it. See how it goes. And use my 41 additional years of knowledge about Thailand "negative tricks to avoid" to think a while (wanted to write "think for a bit", but hey, at 70yo I won't think as fast as now)... and check for the "top 100" well-known red flags...

I would always follow eyes closed whatever he says... let's thank him for all his contributions, time spent and help with his incredible knowledge of the Thai Immigration """"systems""""

But we read it anyway. Both of us got fooled and lost a minute... + 30s to comment ????

If you had an amazing experience with your Health Insurance while being sick in Thailand. Or having to get operations even. With one or a few night.s stay. In a modern private hospital like Pattaya Bangkok Hospital? Not talking about public hospital here, to be clear... I have heard BNH in BKK is a great choice as well. Would you mind sharing with us your insurance, plan. Even better if you share your entire experience. I think it would be great for everyone else to read. I had BUPA Platinum 5 million THB for 2 years. But since I left Thailand I see they have been absorbed. Disappeared. Not sure if I can trust the buyer, Aetna, the same way I did BUPA. BUPA has always paid. Although I had only 2 procedures under General Anesthésia. I arrived at the hospital. Showed my BUPA card. During the procedures lasting half a day each, I suppose the hospital insurance team took care of everything. Because I walked out both time without paying anything. Even for things that the Doctor told me the insurance would not pay (the Anaesthetist, because it didn't required General Anesthesia). BUPA paid everything anyway. So I'm kind of worried about which to choose now. Any advice for 2023? Left Thailand in 2018 but coming back. Realised BUPA is gone.

When I saw the news a while back. But it was like 6-8 months ago so I may have misunderstood something. But to test the website (whatever that was I was on). That was impressively nice from what you usually can expect from the Thai GV. It really seemed like everything was switched to online. In the list I found Laos Embassy, selected "Tourist Visa". It showed all the requirements to upload. Something like that. I surely missed or misunderstood something...

Still no need to show the 400K financial proofs in Savanakhet? Or has it changed to 800K now for non-o (marriage)? Getting confused with following all the new Thai paperwork regulations from France without actually experimenting In Real Life. Especially because for 3 years, the covid news smoke may have covered/pushed/made me miss some small but important details. I heard that for a while we get 45 days instead of 30 with a visa exemption stamp? No long white TMsomething card to fill out before landing with the exit half stamped in your passport during your stay? Any other major changes since 2016? If you know... thank you Take Care Happy New Year.

Funny. My passed away Grandfather used to tell me that every time I spent time with him and we were hearing on his little radio news of rape back in France. Roughly translated: "Just cut it all. Problem solved". I'm no native English speaker so I'm not sure if you mean the cherries are the full package by "playboy parts". Anyway, my Grandfather was meaning cutting the full package, all the way... ???? Now that I have grown up a bit (I hope). I'd say that Monk should consult a top notch psychiatrist in Thailand. But I'm not sure if they exists there? + you can do worse things of similar nature with your hands. So... "wait, bring the machete back for a minute, chop chop!!!"... 555 Happy New Year

Don't see how that helps with the issue at end.

There is nothing to do online? All still 100% paperwork like in 2016? And lines waitings? I thought Thailand had launched a website to get your Thai visas online from any Embassy in the world. But it looks like nothing changed? I'm confused. Thanks to anyone who can help clarifying. I have stopped visa runs in 2017. Left Thailand in 2018. I will come back in 2023 and would love a bit of general updates ???? - French Passport Holder - - Married to a Thai Citizen - THANK YOU VERY MUCH

BOOK AN HOTEL and nothing else if your booking is less than 30 days. I believe this sums up what you should do. Straight to the point. Efficient. That's what it seems to me after spending 10 minutes reading this thread. I don't know if there is already money in "escrow" or whatever system on AirBNB. To get it back, I would contact AirBNB directly. I have never used the service though. So I have no idea what I'm talking about here. Another poster said it's better if it is the condo owner that cancels the booking himself. And not you. In this case I would manipulate the Airbnb owner to do exactly that.

Heard she was wearing shoes too. Shoe's colour unknown. Also, who went close enough to make sure it was a Woman? :-)