I never had it as I didn’t qualify as I wasn’t drawing pension, plus I was in thailand for 7 months over the uk winter period,.I was cheeky and rang them to see if I could apply for a back payment in arrears but no joy,.
The new Thai pm and uk’s David Cameron met up a month or two ago and have put plans forward for letting Thai citizens visit the uk for vacations, it was on one of the uk/ Thai news programs on YT,.
Some say go to the arrivals level and go outside and ask taxi drivers who are dropping people off if they are going back to pattaya and ask for a price, but your still going to pay 1000 bht up,