General Reports

[QUOTE=Slackerslacker; 1261876]My arrival around 4pm 2 weeks ago only required a 5 minute wait at immigration.

The most important factor is clearly how many flight are arriving / departing at the same time.[/QUOTE]The capacity of the airport, in all senses, has to be tuned to the flow of the arriving / departing flights and passengers. This is very true.

Last night I landed at 10. 25, aircraft parked at a remote stand, so all brought to the terminal by bus. I was on the first as flying business. Another bus arrived at the same time. Immigration has some 10 lines very busy. I went to the fast lane and two were open with 2-4 people in line. All of a sudden those two lines were filled with 10-15 passengers as staff directed people from the normal immigration lines, vanishing the priority of those entitled to it. A guy escorted by airport staff was brought to a closed booth, an officer came and processed his immigration and kept the booth opened for other people of the other lines. There is definitely a lack of capcity in handling immigration. But this is also quite normal in many other airports around the world, unfortunately. I got this in Shangai, in Istanbul, USA, UK, Japan. Being a governmental service, nobody seems to care if the passengers have to wait or not. Would it be a private service open to competition, things are different. What do you want to do in this case? Not fly to BKK as immigration takes 30' of your time? Send a complain letter? To get what? A formal reply full of nothing? It is nothing we specifically pay for, so nothing much we can claim, other than rating it not efficient. Facts of life. Dubai airport seems to have quite many booths open and the waiting line is never more that 6-10 people, my experience.

[QUOTE=Mr Enternational;1260463]I'm sitting in the CIP lounge in BKK heading to PP. I just came through immigration at 12:45. It looks like most of the booths were manned. I stood in line for about 10 seconds before I was called up to be processed. Then it took the agent about 15 seconds to process me. It appears they are doing some type of expansion as far as the number of booths is concerned because I had never been in that particular area when leaving out of the country. I usually go through on the far right but this section was well before that, more towards the center.[/QUOTE]They have a CIP-Cum In Pussy lounge at the airport now. How much for ST?

Seems ISG has been blocked by the Thai gov't LOL. Same boat as China.

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[QUOTE=Mooris7;1263103]Seems ISG has been blocked by the Thai gov't LOL. Same boat as China.[/QUOTE]Rubbish. Certain service providers may block it, but working fine on most internet connections.

[QUOTE=Bionicman;1261897]There is definitely a lack of capcity in handling immigration. But this is also quite normal in many other airports around the world, unfortunately. I got this in Shangai, in Istanbul, USA, UK, Japan. Being a governmental service, nobody seems to care if the passengers have to wait or not. Would it be a private service open to competition, things are different. What do you want to do in this case? Not fly to BKK as immigration takes 30' of your time? Send a complain letter?[/QUOTE]I arrive BKK about 8 times per year. I don't find the immigration wait to be as bad as 30 mins very often.

Tips:

Arrive Sunday, or very early morning or late at night. Immigration could be quicker, and less traffic jams going to the city.

If one Immigration hall is very full, try the other one. Helps sometimes.

When exiting the plane, don't dilly dally. Try to beat the rest of your flight to immigration.

Often I get to luggage carousel and still have to wait for the bag. Sometimes not as my luggage is marked for priority processing.

If any intake has two officers, then that one will move faster than most that only have a single officer.

Don't look at how long a queue seems to be, but do a quick estimate of actual number of people.

Observe which Immigration officers seem to be processing intake quickly and avoid a queue with an obvious hold right at that moment.

Try to get a feel for which nationalities or looks tend to cause immigration delays, and choose a different queue. E. G. Don't choose a queue where guys look like possible terrorists. I am not trying to make a racial comment here, merely over long periods I notice looks of people that take very long to get processed by Immigration. I am not aware of the exact issues. People like myself are always processable quickly.

If you are not shy, get in the queue for Thai Nationals, pretending to be the BF of some Thai girl in the queue. Those queues are usually shorter and go quicker.

Mostly I don't find BKK immigration to be that slow compared to other countries. Most countries are inconsistent.

[QUOTE=Mooris7;1263103]Seems ISG has been blocked by the Thai gov't LOL. Same boat as China.[/QUOTE]It worked till one week ago when I was in BKK. Funny enough some other sex / porn oriented websites were, but not others.

Sometime it depends on the IP access: you can browse through some and not through others. I experimented this in the more controlled arab countries or PRC.

[QUOTE=Syzygies;1263744]Mostly I don't find BKK immigration to be that slow compared to other countries. Most countries are inconsistent.[/QUOTE]This is also very true! We are probably more bothered to experiment slow immigration since he contry is eager to get tourists in, so should facilitate the entry in the country.

Having said that first time I went to China few years ago, apart the waiting in line (if you get a few WB's landing, it is inevitable) I was happily surprised by how fast the agent took to process the immigration, and in a friendly manner. Can't say the same of some more "democratic" countries.

[QUOTE=Bionicman; 1263785]It worked till one week ago when I was in BKK. Funny enough some other sex / porn oriented websites were, but not others.

Sometime it depends on the IP access: you can browse through some and not through others. I experimented this in the more controlled arab countries or PRC.[/QUOTE]Yes, one Hotel I know blocks ISG, but allows redtube porn. Seems strange. The bar girl wanted me to put some porn on to get her horny, so picked some "X-Art" from redtube.

[QUOTE=Syzygies;1263811]Yes, one Hotel I know blocks ISG, but allows redtube porn. Seems strange. The bar girl wanted me to put some porn on to get her horny, so picked some "X-Art" from redtube.[/QUOTE]I could not access Xhamster but could access redtube too (and ISG). Curious! .

Well. Not a big loss not a video web, but ISG has to be accessible! It is a bible anywhere one goes, LOL

[QUOTE=Syzygies;1263811]Yes, one Hotel I know blocks ISG, but allows redtube porn. Seems strange. The bar girl wanted me to put some porn on to get her horny, so picked some "X-Art" from redtube.[/QUOTE]The Admiral Premier hotel internet provider blocked ISG. Very curious considering all the positive reviews they get here. The HKG 141 site was also blocked while Pattaya / Philippine Addicts was accessible. In a practical usage sense, I don't really care if I can get on ISG because I rarely check it when I am on the road due to the fact that I am up to date before I leave, but in principle I object strongly. If the internet provider will block ISG what won't they block. In theory they can and will block everything.

When I am in BKK, I always want to have access to.

[url]http://www.thaimassagemodel.com/home/home.php?[/url]

To check on the soapy massage parlors and I always want access to my favorite BKK oily massage sites as well. That's why the blocking of the Hong Kong 141 site bothered me a great deal. It makes no sense. When I arrived in Macau the ISG and 141 sites were accessible again.

Censorship, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I probably should have spoken to the Admiral Premier Manager. I am a annual guest. What the fuck!

[QUOTE=Natty Bumpo;1263858]The Admiral Premier hotel internet provider blocked ISG. Very curious considering all the positive reviews they get here.[/QUOTE]In a way it is ridiculous that this "sex" censorship is acting in a country where you can't walk past 10 meters and you bump into a WG. I know, not the whole country is an open air brothel, not every girls is available for P4P, we only see the mongering surface as we go in a pilgrimage from one soapie to an oily, with a drinking break in a go-go or a beer bar and if bored we look at a FL.

But still it sounds ridiculous to censore some website, leave other ones much similar accessible and then you hit certain areas and you see live in real what ISG depicts! .

Is anyone interested in going to the Four Seasons Sunday Brunch on Sunday 8th April?

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Is there anyplace I can watch baseball in Bangkok?