@Pietro ************

I would not say that you lose a lot when withdrawing with a provisions-free credit card. You just need to withdraw a large sum - like 20,000 THB or better, 30,000 THB on the yellow ATM's. So the 250 Baht ATM fee gets spread across a large amount . . . .The exchange rate of Visa- or Master-Credit card providers are actually VERY GOOD rates . . It's the fees your card-issuing bank charges for ATM withdrawals abroad. Your bank is the thief! My Visacard providing bank charges ZERO fees on withdrawals on a Thai ATM. I only pay the 250 Baht ATM fee, and the exchange rate is a REALLY good rate, close to the exchange rate for cash with SuperRich. Your problem is - U.S. Americans are being robbed by their banks (and by their doctors!) In Europe, we can get credit cards that offer zero fees for foreign ATM withdrawals

@John ********

The exchange rates of Visa- or Master-Credit card providers are actually VERY GOOD rates . . It's the fees your card-issuing bank charges for ATM withdrawals abroad. Your bank is the thief! My Visacard providing bank charges ZERO fees on withdrawals on a Thai ATM. I only pay the 250 Baht ATM fee, and the exchange rate is a REALLY good rate, close to the exchange rate for cash with SuperRich. Your problem is - U.S. Americans are being robbed by their banks (and by their doctors!) In Europe, we can get credit cards that offer zero fees for foreign ATM withdrawals

@Mark *******

you are right and you should not let other people here bring you down. The exchange rate of Visa- or Master-Credit card providers are actually VERY GOOD rates

@Dany *******

actually there are banks out there who issue Visacard or Mastercard credit cards that offer free withdrawals abroad. My Visacard is offering just that. I only get charged for the 250 Baht ATM fee. The X-change rate of a credit card provider actually is a VERY GOOD rate - it is actually very close to the Superrich oder XE-Exchange rate. Whilst you can find perfect credit cards in Europe, U-S. citizens still dream about such good conditions. With a few exceptions: Schwab Bank or Citybank credit card for example

@Robert ********

even a METV will not be a guarantee of entry. EVERY touristic entry, regardless if its on a visa or not, is a touristic entry, and the overuse of it for a longstay within a period of 365 days, will be pulled from the deck of cards to get denied entry

@Chuck *****

it means, that every Immigration officer can see on your central computer page , that you have already been warned, when he scans your passport. The "flag"or the notice will be seen in the field that's marked with an orange arrow. You can be denied even on a valid 60-days tourist visa. A visa is no guaranteee for a succcessful entry. A tourist visa and the visa-exempt entries weight just the same and should not be overused within a period of 365 days

@Max ************

wrong, she needn't be in Thailand for that. She can get Thai passports for her children at the Royal Thai Embassy The Hague. The father needs to show that they are his children that's all that's to it

@Colin *******

wrong, while you can set the currency deposit in your WISE account to Thai Baht, or $U.S. or Euro or Swiss Francs, it doesn't make your WISE account a "Thai Bank Account" 😂😂😂😂😂 you are very funny

@Richard *******

🤣🤣🤣🤣 you are invited to try it for a foreign transfer and find out it doesn't work !

@Robert *********

not if you declare it upon entry, and have some proof the money was used in a Thai bank account for the applications to Extensions of Stay in Thailand. Absolutely no problem