@Alastair ******

There has to be a way.

I do not know, will never know, how those guys opened their bakeries. No Thai in the world would know how to make that kind of business.

@Tom *******

You may be right but pastries are almost unknown in Thai. It is us buying those products that Thais have no idea how to make or never seen. I am giving my thumbs up to the original poster.

For example, Vietnamese, who inherited the art of bakery from the French, are welcome everywhere.

@Dieter *********

Since year 2000, my foreign credit card card always accepted. Wife has supplement cards, linked to mine, always accepted. 25 years like that. True, she moved to Japan in 2008, still the same.

Our daughter has the same, always accepted in Australia. The cards are from Japan.

Further more, any 220 THB fee at ATM withdrawal is anulled by our Japan bank.

@Tom *******

There is no Thai dish that needs an oven. Thais have no idea nor would have ever eaten anything from (to them unknown) bakeries. There has to be some way.

In Hua Hin, who is making the pastries and meat pies? Whoever is making them, Thai counter staff just sell it.

@Jeremy ********

Sorry Jeremy to piggy back on your post, here it is FB, not a structure as Discussion Boards maintain.

Even if I have yellow book, Immigration document of my residence in Thai, to open a bank account with a Thai bank, I need to have a Thai mobile phone number? I would have it but that is a tourist SIM bought at the airport. Until I get a pensioner visa.

@Chris ******

Is it then 90 days from the day of entry while the visa is valid?

@Chris ******

And stay whatever is left from the date of visa approval? Even if only a few days?

@Chris ******

90 days to use the visa. Not 90 days to enter Thai on that visa and stay for 90 days?

@Stuart ********

90 days to enter Thai or 90 days to enter Thai and stay up to 90 days once in Thai?

If my "O" visa is approved July 1. 2025. and I enter Thai August 1. 2025. do I have only 60 days of the validity of that visa? Or 90 days after entering Thai?