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Hi Preacher, I'm on the same boat as you, going in Feb from Shanghai. I did some research and here is what I found out:
It's better to exchange Chinese Yuan at black market or some privet money exchange place like Super Rich in Bangkok, you get a better exchange rate.
Chinese yuan get a pretty low exchange rate though in general, so it's better if you exchange your CNY to USD, and than do the exchange to THB once you're in Thailand. But from what I've read, the best way is to have a Chinese bank card that allows you to withdraw money abroad, that's pretty much the standard for all bank cards in china right now, but to be safe, you should ask your bank. Every bank charges a different fee for taking money out. Bank of China charges 15kuai for every transaction, Hua Xia Bank is the best deal, they let you take the first 3 transactions of the day for free. The exchange rate is just the standard atm exchange rate of the day. From what I've heard this seems to be the best deal, and you don't have to carry all that cash with you. What I'm gonna do is exchange a bit of THB in Bank of China, bring two bank cards and put them in different places, just in case one get stolen, and I think that should be good enough. If you can't exchange THB in your city, there's ATM machines right at the air port.
I hope this helps,have a great holiday!

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