@Clint ********

It’s you applying for the visa. Not your company. Your company could be worth 300 million dollars but they won’t care. It’s your bank account statement they want to see.

However like any application it will be dependent on the embassy or consulate you are applying at. There may be some that would consider company accounts. I don’t know of any but they may exist.

Absolutely get travel insurance. At 70 it’ll be expensive but is it a risk you’d be prepared to take without it?

Private hospital care here is first class but expensive. Not in the same league as the US but a stay of a few nights can rack up bills of 100,000 baht or more pretty easily.

There’s 100s of cases of “go fund me” posts from people with no insurance or from those that realised that riding their motorbike without a valid licence and IDP for their home country invalidated theirs.

Your call. If you can afford to self insure then insurance is not mandatory.

@Pete ******

Sorry. Can you type slower please. I’m having trouble understanding your accent.

@Steve *****

This is why there there are so many contradictory answers on these forums. Some are asked others are not. Flip a coin. Heads you will be tails you won’t. Or, is it the other way around. I forget.

Irish citizens can arrive in Thailand with no visa and get a stamp for a visa exempt entry for 60 days. That can be extended once for a further 30 days for 1,900 baht at a local immigration office.

Whether you’d have an issue without an onward ticket within the 60 days of initial allowance will be up to your airlines policy.

That’s going to up to your airlines policy. If you don’t have a long term visa then they may deny you boarding without an onward ticket within the days allowed by your entry scheme.

Immigration in Thailand in theory could ask but almost certainly won’t unless you have an extensive history of prior entries and they are looking for a way to deny you entry. If it’s at that stage then even having an onward ticket probably won’t help.

@Toni *******

That you are offended by something, whether it be racism, sexism, naturalism or whatever is your issue.

Others may not be such snowflakes. Your perception of how the world should be is pretty irrelevant for others.

Others may see it as a better way for them too. Others may not.

@Rob *********

Ok. I wasn’t sure. I do recall from ancient times that it was an option in rural areas but that’s decades ago.

What is your issue? You post this and comment on other posts the same question?

Let’s try another tack. Name a country in the world where racism doesn’t exist in some form. Perhaps Antarctica - but as I’ve never been there that’s just a guess.

You’ll get racism everywhere. Whether it’s black versus white or brown versus darker brown or just one nation versus another with almost identical skin colours.

Racism generally stems from ill-informed people from one race believing that they are in some way superior to another race.

The more travelled you are the less likely you are to be racist as you’ll experience different cultures from your own experiences and come to realise that “your way” isn’t “the only way”.

Sadly for some the opposite is true and confirms their beliefs that “their way” is better.

@Kevin *******

That’s great that you had a good experience. It’s unfortunate that so many others don’t.