@David ********

I ve had a bank account since my last long term visa years ago and I still use it every time I come back for vacations. You save thousands of baht on fees and can also pay and withdraw money with a QR code which is very convenient. I am guessing you knew this already, but you are trying to take the piss

This happens every day. As someone who has visited Thailand multiple times since 2001 as an athlete for competitions, tourist and student, and as someone who has no interest on obtaining a long term visa, I still have no idea how many days per year I can spend here visiting on a visa exemption, or TV. So far

4 months seem to work, but still.

I know people will give me bs, that I am not a tourist, etc, but as far as I am concerned I am a tourist, even after so many years, as I do not work in Thailand and I live exclusively in hotels. Any other criteria is subjective

@Lynnette ******

yeah, I find it fascinating how travellers who have been here for months, or sometimes years, still claim they got “visa at the airport”. Like they book a ticket to fly to Thailand and they have no idea what the entry conditions are

@Willy *********

imagine the land borders….. Cambodia introduced it’s own similar system last year but with two exceptions. You can fill in a paper form at the land border and at the airport you can do it on a tablet

@Vladimir *********

yeah, they say tourist visa. It makes no sense now, but whatever, I don t want to argue with them

@Tod ********

saw a requierement stating I need a flight ticket in and out. I can purchase the ticket, but I am not interested in flying. Is there a problem if I just use the visa instead at the land border?

@Max *****

I am not aware of any banking app on this planet that does such a thing, it’s totally impracticable. Kbank and Bangkok Bank let you log in by password

@Max *****

you don’t need to have money on it, just for it to exist in their database, a cheap prepaid works fine

@Max *****

I used a prepaid card for this. AIS gives you a receipt with your name and passport number and you take it to the bank if you change your phone number

@Stuart ********

my family which is made of Thais and foreigners on retirement visas all use Kbank. I was using one of my Thai relatives phone numbers, everyone else was using theirs and I was the only one notified through the app to have it changed.

There is no obligation for all account holders to go to the bank to confirm ownership of the phone number, they already know whether it matches or not. This is what a bank branch manager at Kbank and a guy from their IT department told me there on the phone.

It would be impracticle otherwise, imagine what a disaster it would be if they limited access to millions on the 30 of April