From 1 November 2026, if you pay for ads that reach people in Thailand, the platforms are supposed to know who you are. No verification, no ads. The official line is "No ID, No Ads," and it is aimed at the scam ads that have flooded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the rest.

If you have been told the baht bus costs 10 baht, your information is out of date. That price held for more than thirty years. On April 10, 2026, the operators finally moved it, and a lot of guidebooks and forum posts still haven't caught up.

Automated passport gates in the Suvarnabhumi (BKK) immigration hall. You scan your passport, the gate matches your face, and you walk through. - Visa holders need to keep reading!

Every couple of weeks somebody asks us the same thing. Their wife is flying in, or the girlfriend wants a night out, or the sister and her kids are over from the States, and they want to know where they can get a cold beer without spending the evening pretending not to notice what's going on at the next table.

Every expat group, every YouTube talking head and every guy at the end of the bar will be telling you Thailand is about to charge you 1,000 baht to leave. Some will tell you it starts next month. Some will tell you it's only for farang. Neither is true.

This is what we mean when we say Pattaya beyond the noise. Bolt down from Jomtien or Pratumnak (often 150–250 baht depending on traffic and where you start), grab a table on the sand and eat with a sunset on the horizon.

If you’re doing Pattaya the quiet way — Jomtien, Pratumnak, Na Jomtien — you still need one loud day. Not Walking Street loud. Water-park loud. Ramayana Water Park