Awesome info, thank you very much, OP!
For what it's worth, I think you deserve credit for at least one of the writeups...not because you need it, but because you deserve it, with the amount of time and effort you put into the writing and recounting.
Just wanted to add, and not to be a dick, but you keep using the word "waive" instead of "wave", and it's clearly a typo but it's funny that the former is sort of the very opposite of the latter, lol
Anyway, thanks again for the amazing intel, and will keep this writeup in mind should I ever get a chance to visit Thailand, however unlikely it may be. Or just live vicariously through you!