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Crikey Butch, it must be as bad as mine, Steptoe would pass it by.

All based on Boris' optimism!

That's better than I got from Transferwise over the weekend!

Used to be quite common in the bigger places, I am going back to my early days when I didn't know my way around and had a fear of arriving without a hotel booking, so I would book and pay in advance at an agent in Bangkok. I was soon a regular at some less salubrious places that didn't have a joiner fee! Some that did were real asses about it, had security knocking on my door asking for the 500 baht because it was late morning and they judged I owed for the next (that) day! Also Merlin (now Hard Rock) used to hit you for 500 for their crappy small rooms. I remember moving out of one place and chucking away 3/4 prepaid days, non-refundable Thai style... it was cheaper to pay for a new room. Became a Lek Hotel regular or Lido Beach, then Residence Garden. The hotel reviews section was popular here and I bet most were checking for joiner fees. Nowadays it is joiner fees and whether they have certain coach parties arriving there!

Yes, I have a friend who opened a Sterling account in Pattaya. Yes, certainly in Pattaya. It needs to be in a Thai based account and the money is immediately accessible.

Siam Bayshore?

Yes, I was onto Transferwise, and too late remembered it is a holiday here Monday and will be waiting for the transfer to land. I suspect a collapse in optimism and the currency with it!

Wow that took me back, reminds me of my first trips. That sure is a nice looking girl. A few of those pictures remind me of my first Pattaya hotel, one out over the water on a pier on the South end of Walking St, had to cross the street to the booking office... and I too stayed at the Lek quite a few times. Although my early trips I remember the Bangkok bus brought us all the way to near the North end of Beach Rd, or was it the West end of North Rd? Good times....everything was simpler.

Well we have been having a good bit of that and it might explain why I can't get my pool to clean up!

Back to sub 37 for Sterling...... 36.95

Ghostbusters (The feminine one).

Personally Butch, when I got home late drunk as a cxnt, not ready for sleep, I would put a DVD on. My Mrs has been woken up by Wagners Ride of the Valkyries more than a few times (from Apocalypse Now).

Wouldn't be seen dead with one... old school. Just something to lose track of or have lifted.

Certainly never taken my own towel to any of the places on soi 6 BR Jomtiem, I haven't found them too bad. I may have passed comment that the towels do lack fluffyness, seen more material on a paper towel. I bet some of them are ancient. I usually visit after immigration but now, as I do my 90 day online, it is a rare occasion. Thanks for giving me an alternative idea.....

Yes, but usually MPs have clean towels of their own, having to carry a wet used one home seems inconvenient!

Dare I ask? Why do you have to take your own towel?

Not listed on their Website (Superrich) and on Facebook someone has posted 'Does Not Exist', have never seen it either. Would be interested to know either way but changing money in a Mall......hmmm, goes against old-ways.

Again we are only talking of cash. There used to a small place on Soi Diana, a branch of a larger one on Walking St called Yenjit which was better, but really by a small difference. Don't think it is there any more. And if someone has time in Bangkok on the way here, a trip to Superrich may be fruitful.

I seem to be able to get to the data entry page OK. Try this. https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn90online/online/tm47/TM47Action.do

No, same rates apply if you use the bank exchange kiosks. There is a slightly better rate applied to doing a telex transfer into a bank than if you changed cash in there, then they also make a charge for conversion. Transferwise is usually regarded as the best option for wire transfers. In reality, if you are going to be exchanging cash, you would be a schmuck to use banks. Go to TT Exchange kiosks where the rate is far better. In Bangkok Superrich offers better cash rates.

You could get away with the above comment and old picture in the section also applying to modern times. It actually looks a good bit better back then than it does right now! Thanks for the entertainment.

I can read it on my 55 inch TV too mate! I actually never read the board from my phone. There must be some new ones in there, does this reflect the cosmopolitan appeal of Soi Buakhao?

Today's rates. I see they have started to use a smaller Font and that may be difficult to see now here. My phone has pretty good resolution but it gets reduced automatically. Let me know if it is no longer much use, I could just take a pic of the left side of the screen.

If you read the OP you will see reason beyond cataracts! I have considered it myself due to issues with night time driving. (Age related presbyopia). As to statistics, I do not know them, but would expect some to consider that reason enough.

I did read that the price in Thailand went up if you had cataracts which is interesting. Cashing in on urgency and need.