@Will *****

good luck with that 🤣

@Ken ******

yes your time is coming. I lasted 22 months on tourist visa excempt stamps, but that was 'agent assisted' through friendly border checkpoints. After I bought the Elite Visa, but yet to be issued into my passport, my next entry was Suvarnabhum and I was flagged, interrogated for an hour, and had to show my acceptance letter emails, opened direct from my email account, not screenshot, then the receipt for payment, then the bank account from which the payment was made. I think they would have bumped me had I not had that Elite Visa coming.

@Manfred *********

in all fairness though, how many zero dollar tourists have been picked up by police for begging outside a 7-11 ? Arrested for drugs offences or any other crimes ? Absconding from a hospital without paying their bill ? Or just arrested for not being able to pay the above ? Sitting in a prison or immigration detention center unable to move on ?

'Well travelled' is the opposite of 'big spender'.

Not sure of the figures, but immigration and other departments like to quote "average daily spend", "average duration of stay", "total spend per average visit". I think they chose to ommit things (facts) that will dampen their positive results.

@Kev *********

they don't keep records of travel outside of Thailand, which is a possible trigger for them in this case. And to search beyond the most recent 2-3 years of history, they need to click a button and scroll, but only if they have reason to....

@Judy ******

I dread to think of the condition of his well travelled passport - That will trigger alarm bells with most authorities around the world. Biometrics only kicks in if there is a positive match of facial recognition or fingerprints with that on a record within any number of databases, certainly an immigration blacklist and a national criminal database. Travel history to Thailand will only be pulled up at the immigration desk when swiping the passport through a reader. Unless its a known criminal, or someone on the immigration blacklist (which they might already have determined from the Airlines passenger list), the first thing they will know is when you approach the immigration desk and hand your passport.

@Jennifer *******

typically a perpetual traveller is seen as a 'bum'. Low budget, non-conforming and well rehearsed in all the tricks to live life on a shoestring, and hoodwink immigration and other authorities. Actually now a very undesirable type of visitor. A new passport would do a lot to erase any travel outside of Thailand. There are some undesirable country stamps in his passport too. This would literally clean up that murky travel history - Imagine a new passport held up against the old dirty worn out passport. Also, I think the immigration officer is able to see past 2 or 3 years at a glance (so to reduce data access times) and to go deeper, further back, they need to click a button and scroll. The old looking passport will trigger further digging.

@Thomas ******

yeah, maybe she has, or certainly will.....

@Bruce ********

what staff do you keep and what do you pay them ?

@Sasi ***********

strange bunch. I know of a few people, men and women, taking what work they can, 200-400 for odd jobs, short days. But when I ask for people to work (non-essential stuff) there's a stand off on wage. Yesterday they worked happily for 400, but today won't go for less than 1000. I refuse, not being extorted, and these guys end up with no work all day, and poor once again. Following days they will go to work for 300-400 again. I've also seen some taxi drivers and other trades only take a job or customer as long as its farang, and they are overcharging or scamming even, often losing the job/customer due to this, ending up with nothing.

@JD ******

that's a very unspecific measure of ......ANYTHING really. 280 pages of what? Any picture pages ? Novel about what ? Published by who ? Paperback sales figures since release ? Nominated for the International Booker Prize award ? The Pulitzer award ? Translated into how many languages ? But how much you pay your maid ?