Book flights direct only

Yes. Get a Thai bank account and you can pay anything that is QR pay, which is very convenient if you live here and travel around a lot.

A lot of people talk in this group that don’t live here and have hardly traveled here. The internet is not the best place for all this info. If you want to know about working and immigration here, go see a Thailand attorney. They will have all clarity and it isn’t expensive compared to the costs of moving here.

@Kay **********

look at things like this. YouTube is 1000x better resource for travel information. So many of these people in groups hardly even travel here or have never been here lol. Trust me, I live here, I'm trying to help. Watch a night of YouTube videos on Bangkok and a night of videos on Phuket. Watch a night of do and don't while in Thailand. It's fun easy and reliable information when you watch many sources.

@Kay **********

YouTube contains first hand information exactly as Facebook does but with video proof. Look up people like Paddy Doyle. Facebook is literally net information but with less proof and reliability. 🤣 If you're reading this, you're on the "net".

You might want to spend a little time researching the country, weather and everything else. It’s better if you have some kind of idea of what to expect and what you want to do. YouTube can be a great resource if you’re not super internet savvy. Look up Thailand trip videos to get ideas.

Just stay up until you can’t anymore and it’s past 7pm. Sleep and reset.

I’d call a visa service and ask them for assistance. Might be one of those special cases I’d want assistance with.

@Declan *********

Yes I understand they are different but I have had student visa friends be told no and rejected only to be approved across the street. Same for a friend on a tourist visa going bank to bank in the mall. 🤷‍♂️ Might take a little more time and effort but some people do prefer to try. I wasn’t supposed to be able to get residency certificate and motorcycle green book all done on my initial tourist visa either but it all worked out.

@Brandon ***********

nah just need to keep trying. I know plenty of folks opening bank amounts on student visas and tourist visas.