@Stuart ********

1. Has that changed? When I ran into it I had to pay 500 per day.

2. There still is the odd officer telling ppl that they have to pay more. ;)

@Michael *******

Nice but doesn’t answer the question correctly.

There’s one day from today to tomorrow but for immigration that 2 days ;)

@Stuart ********

Correct but I wouldn’t do the 7 days after. Some officer might want to have tea money for “overstay”.

Personally I would travel to Cambodia and visit Angkor wat.

When do you have the chance to do that again?

I may have a contact to the driver who drove us for a week (from and back to border) and explained all the temples.

@Shayne *********

When you login to the website or you do some transactions with their card (online or shops) they might send you SMS. But not if you have the app registered as 2FA device.

And VPN: yes. Has nothing to do with the question at all

Install the wise app in a phone. Then you’ll not get SMS.

As for banks: no chance if they don’t already have some sort of security app. But you might try their app too.

And VPN: how does that help????

You receive SMS exactly the same with or without VPN which is for data over internet and not for GSM protocol (SMS and phone calls).

But from your questions I guess that you might also profit from another phone setting:

WiFi calling

If it’s on (might take a day), then whenever your in WiFi you phone will replace the name of your provider (like AT&T) by something like “WiFi calling”). Your phone is then virtually relocated to your home country. So calls to home are cheap or free and calling Thailand is overseas.

@Joren *****

Sorry but you’re confusing things.

Look at the rate that your bank gives you and compare to what Google tells you. That’s waaayyyyy different.

If not then prove it with pictures of both.

I attach samples below which I saved a few months ago …

@Dany *******

no bank can beat wise.

Forget fees and look at the exchange rates.

For me the wise fee is 0.4% and the diff in exchange rates to banks is 2-5% depending on the banks.