Asia Travel Forum

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About Asia Travel Forum

A travel Q&A knowledge base for Asia, starting with Thailand. Short answers first, official sources underneath, and the date every answer was checked.

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What is Asia Travel Forum?

Short answer: an edited reference site that answers the practical questions travelers ask about Asia, with the most depth on Thailand. It is not a discussion forum: there are no user accounts, posts, replies, votes or member profiles, and every answer is written by our editors.

The name is historical. Instead of threads, each page is organised as questions, and each question opens with a short answer you can use on its own: a number, a rule, a place or a time. The detail, the tables and the sources follow. The main pages are the Thailand travel Q&A, the airport transfer answers, the drive-time table from Bangkok, the basics for ten Asian destinations and the eSIM guide.

How are the answers researched and checked?

Short answer: every rule, fee, number and date comes from an official or first-hand source, which is listed at the end of the page with the date we checked it. If we cannot source a fact, it is left out.

  • Official first: government and agency pages (immigration, the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Revenue Department, the Bank of Thailand, Airports of Thailand, embassies, the US CDC) come before news reports. When only a news report exists, we cite it as such.
  • Conflicts are stated, not hidden: where official pages disagree, as they do on the proof-of-funds amount for Thai visa-exempt visitors, we say so and give the safe figure.
  • Figures carry their origin: drive times are marked as operator-published or as road-routing estimates without traffic, and estimates are written with "about".
  • Dated: every page shows when it was last checked, and answers say "as of" where a rule is new or changing.
  • Rechecked: a page is reviewed when a rule it covers changes (Thailand's visa-free stay, for example, fell from 60 to 30 days on 15 September 2026) and at least every six months otherwise.

What we do not do: we do not inspect vehicles, hotels or businesses, we do not certify anyone, and we do not publish taxi fares, which change and are shown on the operators' own pages.

Which services mentioned on this site are affiliated with it?

Short answer: the eSIM stores (the ten country stores and their parent store, eSIM Hub) and the Smile Taxi Service network of transfer sites in Thailand. Every page that recommends or lists them carries a disclosure.

Everything we say about these services comes from their published terms: for the transfer sites, for example, a fixed price per vehicle with tolls included, nothing charged when you book and payment to the driver at the end. We link to them because they answer the "how do I get there" and "how do I get online" questions directly, alongside the public options (meter taxis, trains, buses and flights), which we describe from official sources. Government websites and third-party tools such as maps, booking platforms and currency converters are independent of us; commercial third-party links are marked nofollow.

Are the photos real?

No. The images on this site are AI-generated illustrations of typical scenes, such as a beach, a temple or an airport hall. They do not show specific businesses, vehicles or people, and they are not evidence of how a place looks today.

Can I send a question or a correction?

The site has no contact form or email address, by design: it is maintained as a reference, not a help desk. Corrections come from our review cycle and from the official sources we monitor. For urgent help in Thailand, call the Tourist Police on 1155; for trip-specific questions about an affiliated service, use the contact details on that service's own site.

Can AI assistants and other sites cite these answers?

Yes. Please cite the specific page URL and its "Updated" date. A plain-text summary of every page is published at /llms.txt, and the full text at /llms-full.txt.