@Duncan ******

that only gives him 30+30, not enough for his desired stay.

Thanks for the heads up for those of us who registered before to report stays in our own homes who wouldn't otherwise notice until the next time returning to Thailand from a trip.

@Justin ****

considering how many hundreds if not thousands of posts I've seen in the various Thai travel advice groups over the past decade from people who used these tickets successfully and reported they were indeed verifiable by the customer by simply entering the PNR code and their own last name into the "Manage Your Booking" section of the website of the airline on the ticket, I would say there is plenty of proof it is real and works. Why not spend the $10 or so and try it yourself if you are so convinced it's a scam. Have them issue, say a British Airways ticket from Bangkok to London for a specific date, then go to the BA website and enter your ticket confirmation code and last name and see if BA shows it as a valid confirmed ticket. These onward ticketing sites promise the tickets will show as valid for a certain period, say 3 days, so check again right before they expire and see if they still show as valid, and then check after the expiration and I imagine you will see the ticket now shows as cancelled. I believe the way these websites work is that they are a travel agency and book a fully refundable full fare ticket for their "client" which they can then cancel later as if their client cancelled it, before the period that the agency would get billed by the airline for the ticket. That's just a guess of how they are able to do it, by exploiting a payment terms loophole for when travel agencies have to pay airlines for tickets they book for clients.

@Justin ****

Have you even looked on the websites for these types of services? They say the ticket is fully valid and can be verified by anyone by typing in the PNR (ticket confirmation code) into any airline website or into Amadeus (the common software all airlines and travel agents use to pull up bookings) and it will show as a completely valid ticket during the time period that the service promises to keep it valid. The whole point is that it is verifiable as a real ticket, not just that it looks real, otherwise anyone can just edit a ticket confirmation email from any old ticket and make a fake one. There have been posts in the past from people who said the airline check-in agent actually typed in the PNR code to check if the ticket is real.

@Justin ****

I thought they WERE real tickets, just ones that automatically get cancelled after some time, so during the period of validity, they are completely valid ticket bookings.

@Jo *********

interesting I've done it many times this year including four times in the past three months to go to separately bought Bangkok Airways flights to Samui, coming from separately bought flights on Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Airlines, HK Express and Thai Airways. Yes, I recall they asked to see my last boarding pass too but always accepted the home printout of the Bangkok Airways boarding pass. Logically there is no reason they wouldn't let you since all it is is a shortcut to the Immigration Passport Control in the transit area so you don't have to go through the main immigration queue. Interesting that your experience has been different. I assume you didn't have checked baggage?

I assume you mean for separately bought tickets, rather than a connecting flight on the same PNR code. The issue is more one of interlined luggage where the checked uggage needs to check through to your ultimate destination. Otherwise, I find that if you only have carry-ons and you check in online for the second flight and print a boarding pass on paper and show it at the transit immigration area, they've always let me through without any questions.

Now that you've clarified that they are capsules, similar to fish oil or other liquid-filled capsules, from my experience, those are no problem in your carry-on and don't count as liquids.

@Gabriel *******

I arrived last night and walked the entire international arrivals terminal from one end of the airport to the other and can confidently say I did not see any ATMs airside before going through immigration at Suvarnabhumi. (My arrival gate happened to be right at one end of the terminal so it actually wasn't hard to do). The closest are these automated currency exchanges, which are not ATMs but just an automated version of a currency exchange booth. I am truly puzzled at what you reported because I am sure you believe it to be true, but I could not verify it myself, and having such ATMs would go against the advice given in these groups every week for years, as well as against my understanding of the Thai monetary authority's restrictions on this. I really wonder how it's possible for you to have found ATMs that no one else has reported as now existing; it truly is very strange what could have happened as I assume you are equally confident where you believe you used the ATM.

@Gabriel *******

Do you happen to remember approx. what gate you arrived at? It's a strange question, but the reason is that there is only one logical route that a person would take from each gate to Immigration, and since you mentioned that the ATMs are well before immigration, it means that I would have to either walk the entire terminal from one end to the other which takes like half an hour, or I can narrow it down if you remember about what gate you arrived at, so I can retrace your route to immigration. If not the gate, then any other info to guide me where to look without walking the full terminal. I know this sounds obsessive, but if what you have discovered is true, then this is a massive shift in the warning that frequent contributors always have to give that you must bring the cash with you, as there is no access to ATMs airside, and it means that for everyone that has that amount in their bank account somewhere, it would complete eliminate any need to carry that much cash with them every time they come to Thailand. I am happy to be the one to make the effort to confirm that what you said is correct and post photos, since this will be a stunning change in the government's policy so far to not allow ATMs airside that dispense baht either upon international arrival or international departure.