may be worth a trip to Pattaya, cost me 5000, back in April, I would guess, that once you have an account, you get it changed to another branch, or area.
yes i paid 5000, 500 of which went into my account, rest to agent. All done within an hour. To me that was money well spent. I was only in Thailand on a 30 day visa exempt stamp
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