I agree with Bob Fom, Why? My wife and I just returned from four weeks in Chiang Mai and four in Bangkok. He’s correct, YouTube is your friend! Get a BTS card at a station and load it! Pay for MRT with your credit card! Use Google Maps! Get the Grab app! Get the Moreta app to pay via QR(awesome)!
You can do it all yourself. We’re 70 and did it easily! Getting confused and then figuring it out makes it better!
Learn a few key phrases! However, you’ll find out that many Thai know understand and speak English!
So, just go have fun!
PS - we’re returning in March because we liked it so much!
It’s not that hard. The hardest part is getting the documents you need to prove you’re worthy of a Thai Retirement Visa to the BOI. From the day I started to the day we got our visas was about three months.
maybe I didn’t communicate that well, I did do that. However, if there were different components of that field, I had to merge those components for that field as a singular document.
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