For those wondering here is the process and the costs.
Copy of Housebook and ownership(I am a tenant so owner provided me this)
Immigration takes this information and draws up some paperwork 1000B
Photos taken at Immigration 120B
Off to San Paulo hospital to do medical check(I was told they answer 6 questions Bangkok does only 5 and they want to have the 6 things answered) 570B
Miscellanious Photo Copies 20B
Transportation office 305B
To get my license I had to show them a valid Drivers License from my home Country and sit thru a one hour classroom video. Then I was given my License. NO TEST other then the gas and brake pedal test and a quick red green yellow color test and a lining up test. All quite simple and I saw people get these things wrong 3 or more times and they just went until they got it right.
NOW for the motorcyle, they are using the same information and you have to do a quick riding test. Just stop at a STOP sign plant your feet use your signal make turns then do a roundabout and go thru cones. The teacher hardly sees what you do. There is also an online quiz made up of 50 questions. I had issues with this as some of the answers not sure if they were not properly translated but I showed the facilitator and while I believe they agreed with me not sure they could change anything so I was told to go back. Not sure how many right you have to get even with the Mistakes I had 80% and it came up as failed.
Before you all think I am an idiot an example of one of the questions was a picture one car is on a straightaway and the other has the choice to turn left or right who has the right of way. Apparently here it is the guy waiting to turn left or right.
Other questions were about parking. The first time I marked that cars parked in the lines were correct however that answer was wrong and randomly pulling over was the right answer. BUT the 2nd go around the cars parked between the lines was correct. I pointed this out to the facilitator as well that the first time this was wrong and now I am told it is right???? She just smiled and did not know what I was talking about and once again I got please try again tomorrow Mister.
Another sign was a white background black straight arrow with red circle around it and stripe through it. This should mean you cannot go straight but the test came back and said this was a do not pass on the right. I once again told them that there is another sign for that with the arrow and a curved arrow going around it as the do not pass sign, and was given the come back tomorrow answer. So a little frustrating to say the least. You are given one hour for this test but it will take no more then 20 minutes. Although I am still trying to figure out what is going to be considered right when it is wrong.
I am guessing the motorbike cost will be 305B as well and the cost to do the computer test multiple times is included in this. You are also given a manual to study however a lot of the things on this test do not appear in the manual.
If you are looking for the transportation office heading from Hua Hin you have the light with Tesco Pran Buri on the left and a police box on the right hand side. Turn Right at this light and JUST past the police box there is a road and you turn left on this road and go down to the Transportation office and go up to the second floor.
GOOD LUCK and hope this is helpful to anyone looking out for how to go about getting a license.
Hopefully tomorrow I have my motorbike
