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[David 2]

Haha. Well no way I'm going then.

I would never trust anyone from Thailand not to be a ladyboy unless I specifically meet them in a go-go bar labelled "Real Girls Only."

The ladyboys are so good at dressing up, it's impossible to tell the difference.

https://www.thailadyboylovers.com/ladyboys/

https://www.thailadyboylovers.com/ladyboys/

[Horatio]

Thank you for answer. For longer stay can I wait until I am in thailand to figure out how? Or should I already have things going to stay longer?

You are not eligible for a visa on entry or Visa on Arrival.

You ARE eligible for Visa Exempt status. That gives you 45 days visa free. You may apply for a 30 day extension.

[Explorer8939]

As an update to the current COViD situation, the Bangkok post said today that malls and shopping area have to reduce their hours from 11-8 pm. Convenience stores have to close at 10. This applies to all areas in the Red Zone including Bangkok.

The Post also reported on a shortage of hospital beds in Bangkok. Expect even stricter curfew terms as this situation continue to accelerate.

Only about 1% of country has been vaccinated with not enough available vaccine to go around.

As context, Thailand reported 2,800 new cases today. If you are not vaccinated, I would not recommend travel to Thailand at this time.

[Explorer8939]

If I go to Thailand on a visa on entry, I can get up to three months there I think. I want to stay much longer. Should I figure out how to stay much longer before I go or can I figure out things there after I arrive just as easily? I used to just do visa runs. I want to stay at least 9 months. I want to stay through winter.

Thank you for any help or advice.

You are not eligible for a visa on entry or Visa on Arrival.

You ARE eligible for Visa Exempt status. That gives you 45 days visa free. You may apply for a 30 day extension.

[Tomasb]

As an update to the current COViD situation, the Bangkok post said today that malls and shopping area have to reduce their hours from 11-8 pm. Convenience stores have to close at 10. This applies to all areas in the Red Zone including Bangkok.

The Post also reported on a shortage of hospital beds in Bangkok. Expect even stricter curfew terms as this situation continue to accelerate.

Only about 1% of country has been vaccinated with not enough available vaccine to go around.

[LittleBigMan]

Thanks for the info and please keep us updated. I plan on retiring soon, but don't qualify for Thailand's retirement visa. So I'll also be looking into other long term visa options (e. G. ED or volunteer visas). I'd do the visa runs, too, but with the uncertainty of border runs and quarantine restrictions, that seems very questionable right now.

If you need help when the time comes and can't meet the retirement visa due to not wanting to put money in bank or do the yearly paperwork give me a PM, I will forward you a place to go many ex-pats I know have used this place in the past never a problem price will run you 12-15,000 baht a year for the visa.

[NRandom940]

If I may jump in to answer, no, Nana Plaza is not open. Neither is Soi Cowboy. That includes go-go bars and beer bars. The Soi 7 bar complex is also closed. In terms of physically present girls there is a handful that show up outside of Thermae at night, a few strays down Sukhumvit Road, a very few strays on Soi 4 and fewer who show up in or near Beer Garden at cart bars some nights.

Quality of looks is mostly below average to atrocious. Some lookers might be found in those Thermae clusters. But good luck swinging anything resembling the level of attractiveness and performance you could get on an ordinary night at a go-go bar during normal times.

Dating sites? Few quality girls are still in Bangkok even though their profiles say they are. Lots of chatting for nothing. The ones who are still in town and agree to meet a Covid Carrier? If she is a 7 in her photos expect a 5 to show up. The 7s in photos but 5s in real life are most likely the only ones still in town who can show up.

As always, YMMV.

Haha. Well no way I'm going then.

I would never trust anyone from Thailand not to be a ladyboy unless I specifically meet them in a go-go bar labelled "Real Girls Only."

The ladyboys are so good at dressing up, it's impossible to tell the difference.

[SinfullyKorean]

This is what I found on a Thailand tourist website about visas:

If you enter Thailand via airport or land border, you will be stamped a 60-day permission of stay as a tourist in the immigration post, after which you will have to exit the country again on or before the expiration of your permission of stay. However, the tourist visa permit-to-stay can also be extended if you wish or need to stay longer in Thailand. You will have to file an application for an extension of stay at the Office of Immigration Bureau located at Government Complex Chaengwattana Road, Bangkok with contact center number 1178. Bear in mind that the success of an extension of stay is solely at the discretion of the immigration officer attending to your application.

The last time I was in Thailand and had a visa, I was there for 1 year on a work visa. My employer took care of the visa so I don't know all the requirements but if you are using a tourist visa, you will have to do a visa run to Phnom Penh or apply for an extension in Bangkok.

Thanks for the info and please keep us updated. I plan on retiring soon, but don't qualify for Thailand's retirement visa. So I'll also be looking into other long term visa options (e. G. ED or volunteer visas). I'd do the visa runs, too, but with the uncertainty of border runs and quarantine restrictions, that seems very questionable right now.

[ShiftTab]

If I go to Thailand on a visa on entry, I can get up to three months there I think. I want to stay much longer. Should I figure out how to stay much longer before I go or can I figure out things there after I arrive just as easily? I used to just do visa runs. I want to stay at least 9 months. I want to stay through winter.

Thank you for any help or advice.

This is what I found on a Thailand tourist website about visas:

If you enter Thailand via airport or land border, you will be stamped a 60-day permission of stay as a tourist in the immigration post, after which you will have to exit the country again on or before the expiration of your permission of stay. However, the tourist visa permit-to-stay can also be extended if you wish or need to stay longer in Thailand. You will have to file an application for an extension of stay at the Office of Immigration Bureau located at Government Complex Chaengwattana Road, Bangkok with contact center number 1178. Bear in mind that the success of an extension of stay is solely at the discretion of the immigration officer attending to your application.

The last time I was in Thailand and had a visa, I was there for 1 year on a work visa. My employer took care of the visa so I don't know all the requirements but if you are using a tourist visa, you will have to do a visa run to Phnom Penh or apply for an extension in Bangkok.

[Horatio]

https://www.tatnews.org/2021/04/entr...onal-visitors/

Step 1: Registration for the Certificate of Entry (COE). Results for pre-approval may take three days.

Step 2: Flight booking on either a repatriation flight or semi-commercial flight. Tickets must be purchased within 15 days after receiving the pre-approved COE.

Step 3: Book and submit confirmation of the Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) hotel booking within 15 days after receiving the pre-approved COE. Any ASQ accommodation booked via the "Entry Thailand" system will automatically report the booking status to the COE system, or upload proof of confirmation in the "Entry Thailand" system.

Step 4: Purchase and submit proof of a COVID-19 health insurance policy within 15 days after receiving the pre-approved COE. Any COVID-19 insurance policy booked via the "Entry Thailand" system will automatically report the booking status to the COE system, or upload documents in the "Entry Thailand" system.

Step 5: Check the COE status and prepare additional documents before travelling.

Step 6: Prepare for the journey by downloading and registering with the "Thailand Plus Application", complete the Thailand Health Declaration, or T. 8 Form, as well as prepare other relevant documents for entry into Thailand.

[Horatio]

If I go to Thailand on a visa on entry, I can get up to three months there I think. I want to stay much longer. Should I figure out how to stay much longer before I go or can I figure out things there after I arrive just as easily? I used to just do visa runs. I want to stay at least 9 months. I want to stay through winter.

Thank you for any help or advice.

[EihTooms]

I'm here but I might be the wrong person to ask because I don't know what things were like in the past. This is my first time in Bangkok and first time mongering in Thailand. I figured out how to ride the Skytrain at least.

That said here's what I can tell you. I'm near BTS Asok / Nana and from only walking around my nearby streets I've seen some massage places open with a few girls outside / inside. One girl catcalled me and I went over to say Hi which lead to my first massage parlor experience. As we were talking she told me to be quiet and whisper. It was 400 baht to the massage place and we agreed on 1000 baht for her to come back to my hotel with me. I'll skip the details because it was straight forward. Smiley girl, decent looking. I will add that I was happy there was no discussion of using a condom so as is my preference we did BBFS CIP.

Sorry that's the extent of what I'm able to share. If it means anything, the restaurant connected to my hotel when I was looking at the menu outside one of the workers came over and whispered to me that they are still serving alcohol. In summary I think it's like a lot of things in Thailand where there is the written rule and what happens in actuality. On that note, one thing that genuinely surprised me being here is the high mask wearing adherence. I'll be honest, as someone in their 20's in good health that is already vaccinated, I was disappointed mask wearing seems to be taken seriously here.

Welcome to Thailand for your first time! I don't know if things will ever be back to how it was pre-Covid. But the way things are in Bangkok today is nothing like the way it was and I am sorry your timing was a bit unfortunate. I had a similar bad timing experience for my initial trips to Thailand in the early/mid-1990's in that the first big push for condom condom condom use was taking place and my prefernce being the same as yours was extremely difficult to find. For me.

btw, I am not one of those people who nit picks and cares all that much whether or not another member's posts are perfectly pertinent to the thread, exactly on topic, provide valuable information, help or inform me or, frankly, anyone else directly. So please share your impressions of whatever whevever the notion strikes you.

Many times just the sharing triggers a response or responses from others and some of them are bound to be helpful and informative to somebody reading them. If not, it's easy enough to skim and skip past them. And the Moderators will deal with the real time wasting posts.

[Cohend386]

Have you seen a lot of girls available in the past 2-3 days? Where? P4P girls, I mean.

I'm here but I might be the wrong person to ask because I don't know what things were like in the past. This is my first time in Bangkok and first time mongering in Thailand. I figured out how to ride the Skytrain at least.

That said here's what I can tell you. I'm near BTS Asok / Nana and from only walking around my nearby streets I've seen some massage places open with a few girls outside / inside. One girl catcalled me and I went over to say Hi which lead to my first massage parlor experience. As we were talking she told me to be quiet and whisper. It was 400 baht to the massage place and we agreed on 1000 baht for her to come back to my hotel with me. I'll skip the details because it was straight forward. Smiley girl, decent looking. I will add that I was happy there was no discussion of using a condom so as is my preference we did BBFS CIP.

Sorry that's the extent of what I'm able to share. If it means anything, the restaurant connected to my hotel when I was looking at the menu outside one of the workers came over and whispered to me that they are still serving alcohol. In summary I think it's like a lot of things in Thailand where there is the written rule and what happens in actuality. On that note, one thing that genuinely surprised me being here is the high mask wearing adherence. I'll be honest, as someone in their 20's in good health that is already vaccinated, I was disappointed mask wearing seems to be taken seriously here.

[EihTooms]

Is Nana Plaza open?

If I may jump in to answer, no, Nana Plaza is not open. Neither is Soi Cowboy. That includes go-go bars and beer bars. The Soi 7 bar complex is also closed. In terms of physically present girls there is a handful that show up outside of Thermae at night, a few strays down Sukhumvit Road, a very few strays on Soi 4 and fewer who show up in or near Beer Garden at cart bars some nights.

Quality of looks is mostly below average to atrocious. Some lookers might be found in those Thermae clusters. But good luck swinging anything resembling the level of attractiveness and performance you could get on an ordinary night at a go-go bar during normal times.

Dating sites? Few quality girls are still in Bangkok even though their profiles say they are. Lots of chatting for nothing. The ones who are still in town and agree to meet a Covid Carrier? If she is a 7 in her photos expect a 5 to show up. The 7s in photos but 5s in real life are most likely the only ones still in town who can show up.

As always, YMMV.

[EihTooms]

Maybe you could consider the situation to your advantage? Having just got out of quarantine yesterday and sitting in Bangkok as I write this. I hope Thailand completely closes travel again. Zero entry into the country. It is selfish of me to say but now that I made it I feel the fewer people here the cheaper the rent and the more girls there are available.

Have you seen a lot of girls available in the past 2-3 days? Where? P4P girls, I mean.