when you arrive at the border be prepared to be stopped by border force who can and will question just like any country the border immigration people make the decision so take your bull shit shove it up your arse and when you do get stopped with your Thai whatever boyfriend bar girl freelance whatever you have fallen in love with you will see you are welcome to eat your bull shit 😁
£7.50 to send to a friend that Uk sterling that is expensive like said normally send to myself at 20,000 BAHT to myself at a time to save on expenses and ATM obviously if you have better choices share with others why waste money we ain't working for them let's share as much info as possible for everyone to save money from these ripping the likes of us off
like said best to Google the rates and compare it to bank charges it could be worse or better I just use western union for the convenience the bank only allows me to withdraw 10 thousand baht a day obviously if need more it's extra charge and going to ATM next day again
pay the transaction fee for western union that's it ain't paying for cash machine I've used it all time when in Thailand I'm sure if you Google rates between using cash machine and western it will be cheaper
I fly 1 way never been asked but I did buy a bus ticket once via 12go cost about £15 for a bus ticket to Vientiane waste of money but know what you saying