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  1. Ok. So out of Oz let's talk AUD. My browsing for later in the year was about 50% higher than that. (Take a look) So ×2 (Thai wife) in THB makes it very expensive. Even SQ, with a couple of hours stopover in Changi is /was much cheaper. We'll go with SQ I think. Pre covid, we used to pay around THB18,000 each...now it's double.
  2. One way ? What time of year,because this is not reflected on their booking website !!!
  3. And Hong Kong .....the Imm guys from here DO go on "fact finding " junkets" to SIN a.d HKG etc, but never seem to learn or implement anything once back in LOS. (Spent 20+yrs in HK Dept. of Civil Aviation...so first hand observations and experience in a MUCH busier airport than BKK)
  4. Yes, personal opinions and experiences tend to form the major part of this "open" forum.
  5. Yep..it's mainly for the very short (usually) check in line instead of waiting in slow moving zigzag line for 20 to 40 minutes. And yes, the boarding pass they email me can't be used in many places (maybe Dubai for EK), and of course the bags have to be checked in anyway, then issued with a new,hard copy,boarding pass, which is necessary to show in Bangkok, for example. I keep these carefully as they are hard "evidence" of my travels and "missed" 90 day reports (I know the entry and exit stamps are in the passport, but a bunch of collated boarding passes are easier, I guess. Of course the check in staff had my passport for 5 minutes so could peruse my status at the destination. But I've never been asked a single question by them....presumably because it's all kosher
  6. True. But 90+% I fly Emirates, they email me about 48hrs ahead with a link to online checkin. So I was mainly referring to my experiences with them....and the OP photo appears to be at Emirates checkin counters (?)
  7. I just cant understand why people don't do online check~in and join the much shorter queues. Maybe something to do with their Sim cards and data roaming. I departed BKK a few days ago on EK, (check in line T/U as depicted in the OP report) and online checkin line very short , but dozens waiting in the other lines. All done in a few minutes. On another note I also tried the "Fast/Priority line for the first time, as I already had a re entry permit. It wasnt fast track and took ages to get through. The main hold ups appeared to be small family groups....especially of middle eastern and Southern Asian origin. Not sure I'd bother with that again ! I was only a cheap old Economy pax, but the people who had paid for expensive tickets must have been p***ed off
  8. Nearly...it's laowai in China (pinyin) guilo in Hong Kong (and Cantonese speakers).....basically all meaning Foreigner. Fair enough I guess. Most of us can't easily distinguish between most Europeans, north Americans, Canadians. Aussies, Kiwis etc.
  9. Mitrphol, one of Thailand's largest sugar producers, farm thousands of hectares of cane in NE Australia, on plantations as flat and smooth as a billiard table, staffed by a handful of men, and harvested by huge GPS guided machines. (As shown to me proudly by one of their senior men on his iPad.) There is NO BURNING. Excess foliage and crushed pulp go into biomass fuels....which airlines, such as QANTAS are incorporating into their supplies.. Sugar cane used to be burned, in situ, decades ago, but not any more. So Big Agra can do it when they want/need to.
  10. Agree. My thoughts exactly. Why would a German tourist drive a car (his?) Into Pattaya and then try to park in a bar area? Would they not be drinking whilst there and then go and drive that car.....in the dimly lit back streets of Pattaya. I only know 2 Germans here and both, whilst quite nice guys, are extremely argumentative, complaining and always right. Both prolific letter writers of complaints to hotels, restaurants and airlines (but not on social media or websites !)
  11. Over 70? Why don't you take the priority lane? Or did you ?
  12. "All I do is let the 90-day online report autofill the form, and it works each and every time, even though the information is outdated." You mean you submit this even from outside Thailand or just when you get back? Surely you return date must be way out??
  13. "Might, possibly, allegedly....." This ex MP is covering his statement VERY carefully!😄
  14. This year I'll be away (in Hong Kong) for about 3 months, returning early June. So I'll see if online works 90 days after return....now that their 486, windows 98 has been "reset"
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