Thai visa

• easy to get 3 months tourist visa, different rules for countries for Europe, USA, and the oher
• “easy” options: marriage with Thai woman, or investment $100.000
• work visa and permit: possible, but complicated: every 3 months visa run to Malaysia, Singapore or Cambodia, many people do it however; bureaucracy is extreme in Thailand
• the best possibility: opening of one’s own business, take time and 1 to 3.000 dollars
• one year visa based on learning Thai in a school, popular in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket
• other options: retirement visas, visas for sportsmen, scientists, journalists, and so called religion visa

Prices on Phuket, 2010

• one night in a luxury hotel – $100
• renting a house at Phuket for a month –$330
• renting an apartment in Patong Beach for a month –  $200
• one day motorbike renting in Patong – $10
• one week motorbike renting in Kamala – $33
• a dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Phuket Town – $1
• a dinner in a European restaurant in Patong – $10
• small beer in 7/11 – $1
• big beer at a bar – $3
• a night with a Thai woman telling fairly tales – $60
• Thai massage in a studio – $10
• diving course PADI – $500
• deckchair on a beach – $3
• visa run to Penang – $100
• tuk-tuk Patong Beach – Phuket Town – $10
• a taxi from airport to Patong, about 40min – $15