No it's extremely easy if you have a current licence in English from your home country.... They accept it and it's basically just the same as a Thai person renewing their license rather than a new application. Having said that, there's separate car and bike licenses here. I always advise people to obtain their bike licence back home first. If you don't have a bike licence already the process will be longer and require a practical test. Otherwise one can obtain both licenses easily in about 2 -3 hours. Just have to do quick eye test, reflex test and sit through a video in Thai that means nothing if you can't speak the language but they force you sit there anyway, I was lucky they let me leave the video early.

@Oliver *******

yeah Bangkok is like another planet compared to the far south! Each to their own, I can only handle Bangkok for a couple of days myself, I love a good burger too, but a real one, to me Maccas tastes awful.

@Oliver *******

Ao Nang almost all the crappy foreign fast food places are shut the Thai places are doing OK though and there's enough foreigners to keep a quality restaurants open when you need a feed from home or a decent coffee.

First business to shut here was McDonalds and it's great to see that it's still closed now. Can't believe anyone eats that crap here.

Try yout luck doing the 90 day extension for the non b despite having lost the job.... It's being processed by some offices due to the current situation.

No drive testing required if you have an existing licence from many countries, I know from experience that Australian licenses are basically accepted as the same as a Thai licence and they just issue a Thai licence same day no drive testing required.

With my Aussie licence (have both bike and car licence from home) I was all done in about 2 hours they accepted it and treated it basically like a renewal rather than a full licence. They just did a quick check of the licence I showed them the Aussie website explaining what it means, did a reflex test, quick eye test and then had to sit through a long video in Thai that made no sense to me at all, but all in all very easy process for me.

@Ken *****

in my opinion it's not due to poor roads. More due to vehicles in poor condition that aren't maintained and bad driving. The roads themselves are pretty good.

Some road design is poor however, with dangerous intersections for sure.

@Ken *****

the roads are much better here than in Australia I can tell you that for sure!!!

Not really you can't even trust embassy or government websites they can be years out of date sometimes plus everything is changing daily or even hourly.