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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.

I hadn't realized you had already applied so it is me who needs to say excuse me. I am sure you will be well prepared (and full of anticipation- one way of putting it), by the time you land over here.

Might I suggest you take a look at this post from Admin. Welcome.....

I would expect the cheaper single focus lenses would get used in cataract repair, particularly in say the UK on the National Health Service . I believe there is a substantial difference between the types of lenses in price. A simple mono focal lens is much easier to manufacture. A multi-focal, last time I researched it, is made with a stepped effect so that light from closer objects takes a different path than light from distant objects, which comes to the eye as parallel. As Keyman is describing a halo effect, and particularly wanted to eliminate glasses, I am confident he has had multi-focal fitted. The halo effect is compensated as the brain learns in time. Yes, I have read up on this, no I still don't feel like having it done to correct my age related presbyopia, and I piss around with driving glasses and a pair of those silly little folding ones in my pocket for those hard to read menus... you know, barfine, lady drink, bar-tabs etc etc in dark environments. Thanks KM, useful to the nth degree.

You may have chosen the best possible medicine.....

So you have a shopping list with 'reading glasses' written on it? Which you cannot read, but it prompts you in the right direction. Tidy!

Interesting, you seem to have taken on the operation when in reality there was not really much need. Most of us will hang in there with reading glasses until the eyesight becomes poor due to a real cataract or age related presbyopia. Also interesting, that the price goes up here dependent on whether you need it more, ie a real cataract. Because as far as I know, the procedure is still exactly the same. Type of lens, as mentioned, is also an important cost actor. The replacement of the lens usually means the eye becomes fixed focal length (monofocal), unless multi-lenses (more expensive, multifocal) are used. In the former case, some people have to accept using glasses for reading after, as the short focal length is not accommodated. Another example of affected vision is blaming Boris for the exchange rate issues.... those problems were well settled in by the time he arrived at No 10!

And of course, when you use your favourite scraper to search for the cheapest flight, what comes out tops is the one that charges more for a meal and baggage and puts you in a seat middle of the row of 5. Interesting that they charge so much $200 round trip, or £160 on top of the flight cost. That is certainly enough to swing a decision between carriers. What else is chargeable? Could be bad when you turn up at the airport, kids and bags in tow, to find out there are extras, extras that are usually extortionate if bought at the last minute. I think these exit seats should be reserved for disabled or needy people, not including fatties.

More the point, which line has perhaps been removed?

I actually looked at that and thought what was the bloody point when the numbers are exactly the same! All my notes in the UK come from ATMs so no 50s. Never see them actually. Are they still bigger and don't fit in most wallets? (Not a problem for the Fiend as they are straight in his Mrs's purse. )

Oops, forgot to post this... so belatedly.....

Sounds like a rainy night in the old Silver Star on Soi 7. Once it started raining heavily outside, they knew you were going no where, and nobody else was going to arrive and it became a holiday. The Thai music came on and it became a bit of a party. You may think that sounds good, but the farangs became invisible too. Perhaps they knew the boss wouldn't be round.

I just did a quick Skyscanner check and China Southern are coming in around 16,000 baht. Etihad at about 22,000 baht. Thai didn't show until over 30,000 baht.

I don't know how some get into those economy seats on the budget carriers. I saw some being interviewed in Majorca yesterday who are worried of being stranded there due to Thomas Cook problems. Hugely obese and a reminder why I live in Thailand... and of course everyone whining on how the government should rescue them if they get stranded. TC will struggle, who in earth is going to book with them now so cashflow gone. My sister is in Greece after a Jet2 flight... I wonder what the legroom is like on one of those.

Yes I did, a whole shelf was occupied by them at my mother's place. You got empty ones in and out of Saudi of course. My alcoholic brother was known to try one now and again! Had to get rid of them when mother passed, all ended up at the charity shop.

Many years ago I was quite keen on KLM, upstairs in their Jumbo,, Emergency Exit seat, loads of space and Grolsch beer! Again the shuttle let them down, that hop to Manchester on the way back was dismal, sat in a crappy little satellite terminal. They also moved their timings which made it a late arrival, instead of conveniently early. Air France, yes attitude was an issue.... I hold a grudge. I was in the no smoking area in Biz, long haul to Sao Paulo. It stank, all the crew were in the galley area smoking their heads off with their stinky Galloise! Yes, long time ago, I also did not like the transit in De Gaulle. I really find the transits in the Middle East to be the lesser of 2 evils. You get 2 premium class flights, instead of one long haul one and then a European hop equivalent to a budget carrier.