@David ********

He knows!

Should always have them.

No. Scam

This is wind-up? Clearly not a native speaker.

A truly stupid requirement even by Thai standards. For a tech-savvy country, truly bonkers!

@Andy ********

Thanks

@Andy ********

How much did you pay?

@Dianne ****

Yes, I think that it could be very helpful. For example, the instances which you mention of them preventing a detainee booking a cheap flight, I wonder if you could just say I have x amount of budget and that is it, what could/would they do? They say you have to have 20k baht for your holiday, could people not turn around and say, I only have 20k baht?

@Maxim **********

Or more importantly, they didn't get a slice of the pie so they don't care if you paid under the table or not. It's now "their table".

@Maxim **********

Do you have a name of an agent?