@Sam *****

a border run from samui is 18 hours and 4800 baht

@Elisa *************

they can assist with DTV. They are on facebook

Solutions - Koh Samui

Don’t stress about it, if that was the case NONE of the DTV applied for by Europeans in Asia would of been approved haha

Anonymous participant yeah been through all of that, I keep Skype credit for calling them, they will never need to call you. And if a bank calls you should NEVER talk with them anyway, you should always call them back on a number you know to be the correct one.

It’s not rocket science.

I’ve had a UK number for 15 years that is connected to FaceTime and Whats App, and I do actually have it active and it never gets called. Now I have a Norwegian number as well, and that is the same.

The ONLY time you may get a call, would be for security on abnormal transactions. And let’s be honest, if you are using a card from home in Thailand then you need your head tested. As the cost is crazy.

For ALL banking I now only use wise for cash and card. And they never call at all.

Anonymous participant why would your bank need to call you? I’ve never had either my UK or Norwegian bank need to. They will email or send notification through the bank apps. And then you can call them on Skype for next to nothing.

Change to GiffGaff payg

Can port the number easily and just leave a little credit on there with all roaming switched off.

Leave answer phone message asking to contact via Whats App only. 😉

@David **********

my boy left uni with no overdraft and a very healthy bank account, but he worked all the way through uni as well as hammering out as much as he could during the holidays. UK based and paid cash for his 1st brand new car when he left and put deposit down on a house. Wanted to do it all on his own. It is not as rare as you think it is.

Hypothetically? you would struggle to do that. You would need an account here to transfer too, you couldn’t carry cash, and if you did you would have to declare it both ends anyway.

He should do one every time, but I just ask for a new one when I require it for immigration.