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  1. Can I cycle along Wing 41 road without a pass or would I get turned back?
  2. I also went Wednesday around 11.00 & found it surprisingly busy. Took me about an hour to get my second Pfizer and I also got my yellow book stamped. I had a good friend die in ICU of lung fibrosis caused by long covid in March, vaccines are the main way we can change the odds in our favour & I will keep getting boosters for as long as necessary.
  3. I have had to make a similar purchase decision and went for the new Samsung M33. This is a 5G phone, has Android 12 already installed, 8Gb memory and 128GB storage - still showing 83GB after OS & Apps installed. Has dual SIM slots on the SIM tray plus another separate slot for a SD card. Samsung say they will provide 2 further Android updates & 4 years of security updates. I found their migration App worked well moving files & apps from my Moto phone. Priced at B6990 from Samsung Shop on Lazada. Week 6 and all working as it should, fast responses on screen & battery averaging over 2 days. US usage you would have to check, I had a query & an English speaking Samsung rep phoned me back within 90 minutes.
  4. Thanks for everyone who responded. I took the docs I had prepared as if going to CW - annual letter from bank HQ, copies of each FX transfer note & matching bank book - to Jomtien. I was firmly told the only thing they wanted was a bank letter confirming each monthly transfer. Helpfully the lady provided me with a sample to copy & show at nearby Bkk Bank (see below). This I did and thankfully they agreed to do it for B100. They prefer a day to produce it but I managed to get it mid afternoon. Back to Immigration & with the magic letter my other documents got a cursory check (no proof of pension requested!) & I paid up B1900 & was told to come back to collect in 2 days.
  5. dddave. Thanks what dates were required for your bank docs, firsst of the month to end month? Longwood50. Thanks. I use the identical method for transfer that you do -all my monthly's are FTT via Wise. I went to Bkk Bank HQ to get confirmation of transfers - I got a copy of each monthly FX transfer & a letter that set out the total paid over the period, ie not handily divided into monthly payments as per your letter. (CW is happy with this but maybe not Jomtien?)
  6. I have done this successfully in Bangkok the last 3 years based on B65,000 transfers each month. I now have to do this in Pattaya for the first time & wondered if anyone had recent experience of their document requirements. Any tips very welcome. I have booked an appointment via their Internet appointment service & believe I show a printout of the appointment at the entrance rather than join the queue. In Bangkok I got copies of each monthly FX transfers of B65,000 (all FTT designated) from Bangkok Bank HQ & then a letter confirming 12 transfers totalling the required amount. Is anything else required (aside from normal forms & copies etc) here in Pattaya? I don’t have a pension so transfer from savings. This is my main concern, in Bangkok I don’t have to prove my ‘pension’ source the Bangkok Bank docs do the job, is that the case here? Other than that I understand they want property/rental details. I have a rental contract - mine is monthly so I have March’s, plus passport copy of owner.
  7. The Beach Road entrance did not open till 11.00, but there were already people inside & I was pretty much the first of the 11.00 crowd & got No 242. Maybe they open Second Road earlier? The earlier group went through an identical queuing process - which involves sitting not standing & moving forward one row of chairs at a time - I think any advantage of 10.00 is fairly marginal. I think an hour all in is pretty good, the Stadium waiting times seemed longer & for me thats way out of town. Overall vis distancing about the same as PT2 in BKK, as I said I think thats a function of having to move a mass of people quickly. I double masked, which is rare for me. Important to note, this process got me a physical jab not an appointment for a jab.
  8. Given Omicron is here in PTY I decided it was time to get a booster. I went along to Royal Garden Plaza at 11.00 this morning. The Covid centre is on the first floor. The first step is a reception/initial registration desk where they check whether you are eligible. You need a vaccine certificate or preferably the Mor Phrom app showing your record. I had 2 Astra from Pya Thai 2 in BKK & that was fine, as my second was on 6 Sept - so over 3 months. You are given a yellow form plus a queue number. A very helpful Thai assistant helps farangs fill in the form, you need your vaccine info & passport as well as address details. Then its just the usual queuing system, to eventually hand your docs over to medical staff & then get your jab - I was only offered the Pfizer booster. As that seems a good booster for 2x Astra that was fine. Total time from start to jab almost exactly an hour. The usual 15 minute rest (no paper certificate at the end) and then you are free to go. The jab appeared on my Mor Phrom record 3 hours later. Really very easy & well organised, social distancing not great but thats the way with mass vaccinations it seems. Whatever its easier than a day trip to BKK.
  9. Thanks this is v useful. I am going for my 90 day on Thursday. Does this mean 90 day people don't join the main queue but go to this separate area?
  10. Thanks. Right that is what I have done in BKK for last 3 years. Got 12x monthly proof of B65k being transferred to Thailand from abroad from BKK Bank. Plus an official BKK bank letter confirming the 12 transfers. Then just the usual forms & same day bank letter for bank account proof, but no 'source of funds' stuff.
  11. I need to do my first retirement extension here since moving down from BKK. I will use the monthly income method & have all the necessary docs, however I noticed mention of a "Copy of document showing source of income". I am self financing so don't have a pension provider - has anyone come across this requirement at Jomtien?
  12. Yep my thinking is it does no harm to accumulate as many different docs re vaccination as possible. I will be travelling to countries in Europe & Asia next year & some may have different documentation requirements from the UK. Also IF its the case that proof of vaccination is needed in restaurants & bars in parts of Europe, the Yellow Card may be more useful than other forms of proof. Reality is nobody knows what the rules will be & how they will be interpreted around the world in 2022, so I am getting everything I can.
  13. Made my third trip to Phyathai 2 yesterday. This time to try to get them to validate my Yellow Book (Intl Certificate of Vaccination). Which I was not able to do at the time of my 2nd jab, as it had not yet arrived from UK - a consequence of the appointment being moved forward 2 weeks. I went to the usual building, no queues for the lifts, no queues on the 9th floor, just a two person skeleton team seemingly mainly handing documentation issues/problems. I approached one of them with my Yellow Book & she instantly knew what I wanted, asked for my passport & vaccine certificate, & 15 minutes later returned with it correctly filled in & stamped.
  14. Agreed & maybe it will become more flexible. But given all their other vaccine/covid/economic issues Thailand faces it may not be a high priority for the authorities. As we both know, it was chaotic earlier with endless false leads, so to get into a working - albeit imperfect - system is for me the key.
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