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  1. No way anyone's coming to the sandbox with all those added rules and closed stores. I am fully vaccinated and will not do multiple covid tests again and pay higher rates for hotels or quarentine again. I'm headed to europe to spend my money for 3 months. Thailand govt has mismanaged this entire thing and is just burning any chance of tourism for the future.
    4 points
  2. Some say it is short for SHAm. Others say it means SHAmbolic. The Thai Government says it means the Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration Standard Certification for Hotels - those who have 70% of their staff vaccinated - or ATSHASC for short. If you Google that term you will be given: 'AGHAST:- struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror' - sounds about right to me.
    3 points
  3. 600,000 in 3 months, 6,666 per day equal to about 33 flights per day arriving in Phuket. So every day at the airport, 6,666 COVID tests will be carried out and the tourist must stay in the hotel until he receives the results. So quarantine ensured. Pure madness
    3 points
  4. So the one thing Phuket can sell at this point is now covered in tar. What’s next locust?
    2 points
  5. one PCR test before flight, 3 in Phuket and one more at leaving Thailand, which tourist will burn 20.000 baht for nothing ??? if Thailand wants tourists for economy than they should pay for testings !!!
    2 points
  6. Better than my balls hitting Patong Beach.
    2 points
  7. I'm pretty sure this is where they get the predictions of number of tourists that will go to phukets sandbox scheme
    2 points
  8. Not sure about Thai lions, but most other lions aren’t canines. Try feline.
    2 points
  9. "The plan would limit reopening to certain controlled areas in Pattaya, with careful restrictions and safety measures to minimise risks of Covid-19 outbreaks. The location and travel routes will be carefully selected and only tourists that meet certain requirements will be allowed to enter." you, guys completely lost me here, cause even ankle bracelets will not allow you to do that, must be some magic underground passages excavated right now. Good thing, they really allow some time for "sandboxes" to fail before this "sealed route" will be tried on.
    2 points
  10. What documents will be used to verify vaccination? Is it a standard form for every country? or will any forgery do? Just curious
    2 points
  11. Tourists should never visit Chiang Mai in March or April. It's too hot and is the smoky season for all of the north*, not just CM. Feb this year was almost as bad due to 3 months of no rain leaving nothing but dust and tinder dry scrub. Luckily we had very early onset of rains end of March, most unusual, and April was clear of all smoke. Normally we travel March/April as it's off-season but good weather downunder but covid put a halt on that this year. *The band of smoke often extends from Pakistan > India > Bangladesh > Burma > Mae Hong Son > Chiang Mai/Rai > Laos > Isaan and further east. A temperature inversion can hold smoke, trapped in valleys, for days. No sea breezes here!
    2 points
  12. That was an internal LINK, or back link to our Parent. As for LINKS in general, the powers that be have asked for restraint with external LINKS and photo hosting at this point in time. More than that I cannot answer. Some may slip thru the system.
    2 points
  13. Cap, i got it, you love CM, i don't, if you live there, you can average on good and bad days as i could in BKK, but i was in CM on March 4-9th (sorry got mixed with dates earlier) and my Shangri-La room AIQ was 290-200 every day, i was taken to the Roof Top Bar at Hotel Yayee for a dinner to enjoy a nice view of Doi Suthep, which we couldn't even see. Yes, it was probably a fires and no breeze, but for me, it was a 100% crappy experience in that particular trip. I don't really care is on March 12th it was a perfect weather, nice breeze and a perfect view, my trip was ruined and i ain't coming back again to see those 8 wonders, it's my personal experience, my 2 cents, no more...
    2 points
  14. Break out your footballs, reading glasses, and – yes, finally – swimsuit! The governor of Bangkok has just approved the reopening of 8 categories of businesses and locations, with previous Covid-19 safety restrictions being lifted. And you’ve only got to wait a few hours for the ban to be lifted as the order goes into effect Monday. This afternoon, Bangkok Governor Asawin Kwanmuang signed official order issue number 33 of the orders to temporarily close business and places. The paper signed officially relaxes closure orders and lefted restrictions for 8 businesses and venue types in Bangkok and is set to […] The post Bangkok restrictions lifted on 8 categories, including swimming appeared first on Thaiger News. Read the full story
    1 point
  15. So we have to take a SHA+ transport to our hotel and stay in our rooms until we get the test result. Do they really expect people who are traveling to Phuket for five or six days to waste time waiting in a hotel room for a test result? Isn't that a friggin quarantine? Also, that means we can't rent a car? Do we have to travel back to the airport to rent a car after our test result? What a waste of time and money. Meanwhile, domestic travelers who are not vaccinated and are far more likely to transmit COVID only need a PCR test within seven days of travel and don't have any other restrictions. Only fools will travel to Phuket.
    1 point
  16. Why would your think that? Phuket to date has struggled to get more than a trickle of domestic tourists over the last year. Now they expect 500K over three months in the low season. You do know the definition of insanity right? Even just the 129K in foreign tourist while incredibly low is questionable. That’s just over 1,400 per day yet in other articles Thailand only expects about 100 in the first week. In addition, there is only about 7K signed up to date for the entire 3 month period. To be fair most people might still be waiting, but packages have been sold for for quite some time. Personally I’d rather just wait till mid October when the entire country will be open with few restrictions. Why jump all the hoops and pay extra to sit on a beach and get rained on when October is right around the corner?
    1 point
  17. @Stan do you really belive that thai government can understand european union, stay 21 days in Berlin before or go to Spain
    1 point
  18. This is a link to entry restrictions to each country, not their risk level and isn't completely accurate. ALMOST any country's citizens can enter the USA with a visa and negative Covid test taken 3 days (not 72 hours) prior to travel. Example: If the test is on a Tuesday, your last day of travel can be on Friday. Go to CDC site for explanation.
    1 point
  19. Why are none of the news articles since the June 18 announcement not talking about alcohol in restaurants in Phuket? Is the ban lifted effective June 22 or not?
    1 point
  20. I was told by my travel agent that my flight with Emirates would cause me £1750 quarantine on my return to UK as gulf states were on red list. Now considering Thai Airways London Phuket direct, may cancel if this wristband goes ahead. Love the show
    1 point
  21. Australian government approach has stop all detected cluster. in NT as you know, borders were closed right away, life did not change at all here, covid 19 did not touch us, 173 cases all from oversea no community transmission. strategy does work. Personally i won t go back to Thailand if they don t have full control. as far as i see they are far away from 20 to 30 case a day. restrictions and all requirement will make it hard for tourist to get relaxing holidays, i don t believe there will be many candidats for this sort of holidays. i feel the Thai gov is rushing the re-opening. i get a bad feeling about this.
    1 point
  22. Welcome to Thaiger Keith. No doubt you'll tell us more in an Intro but I assume you may wishing to return for a visit with inlaws. The requirements both ends make it nigh on impossible for families with young ones. Especially this end with rules changing daily even before opening. Imagine the chaos and extra costs if a full lockdown occurred toward end of the 14 days. Will the taxArdernist even let you out? ;)
    1 point
  23. Question Is my understanding correct? I cannot leave Phuket for 14 days (unless I take an international flight to another country) but from day 15 onwards I can travel to other parts of Thailand (assuming I am nCov-19 free). Would I then be able to take a day trip (days 15 onwards) to Phang Nga Bay returning to Phuket same day? By the way I saw on another post the suggestion that RT-PCR tests mean "Real Time". I believe RT in this case refers to "Reverse Transcriptase" rather than Real Time. Depending on the location of laboratories and other factors RT-PCR test results may be available in as little as 8-10 hours but could take longer.
    1 point
  24. My sarcasm will probably get me killed... please see my reasonable quote above, sorry
    1 point
  25. i just been sarcastic, we all know what they mean, they just need to officially push it through the FDA and this is done by using manufacturing facility quality assurance certificate, which could be an ISO 9000 certificate, since FDA now cannot travel and inspect facility, plus product test report, which is done before, since this vaccine already imported into many countries. But, noooooo, we have to make it sound important, like we will ensure that this is a good quality vaccine and it will not harm out precious citizens. As a result they CRA just made this press release look idiotic. Again.
    1 point
  26. Am i missing something? it takes 2 weeks after 1st jab to determine efficacy and 2 weeks after the second jab (which is normally administered 2-3 weeks after the 1st one) to determine a full efficacy. How it's done in 2 days in Thailand? Does FDA have a time machine?
    1 point
  27. "If 70% of the residents of a province are vaccinated and there is no more than 20 to 30 Covid-19 infections per day, that province will be eligible for reopening in October." Wow - they start locking down whole cities here in Aust if 5-6 new infections are reported on any given day. Clearly the Aust Gocvt will not permit Aussies to travel to Thailand for some time yet. Mid 2022 maybe.
    1 point
  28. Bloomberg article December 15th, 2020, China orders 100M doses of Pfizer. Not really hard to prove. Do you want to pretend the CCP would pay extra to supply doses for someone other than themselves?
    1 point
  29. Fair point, Alex, but why not let's all try to do without images in our chatting and debating? I know they say a picture can paint a thousand words but I like to try the opposite and make a few dozen words paint a picture. Just a thought . . . especially with you being so good with words!
    1 point
  30. i am sure there might be a better way to add images to the posts as you use a BuddyPress, rather than allow links to the WordPress uploads directory, cause it's could be a major security problem for the entire website. Sorry to hijack a thread
    1 point
  31. Business as usual in LOScam. Changes to an announcement are made on short notice. Decisions made by one government agency are revoked or contradicted by another as everybody likes to talk BS before consulting with others. As said previously NO genuine tourist will visit LOScam under this circumstances as restrictions and rules applied are ridiculous, bars and other venues remain - as it stands now - closed. Additionally there is rainy season in LOScam so the majority of potential holiday makers will anyway visit places in Europe where the weather is better these days and NO stupid rules like for example mask wearing in public apply anymore. The tourism industry in LOScam is doomed for at least the next 2 years. Customers will move elsewhere and this rightly so.
    1 point
  32. No, the confusion reigns from your reporting. You are claiming something has been scrapped and then debunk your own clain by posting a semi-official infographic that states the complete opposite.
    1 point
  33. Thailand got a full punch into the face because of their education system and level. For a crises management you need crytical thinking, logic and a common sense and for a development, too. They teach them don't think and talk only take orders and be a empty head. Many outside of Thailand or with a proper education are thinking how is it possible that a society let their country ruled and managed by incompetent clowns.
    1 point
  34. “make it much easier to travel back to China without the need for quarantine.” - doubtful it turns out that way. Wishful thinking at best but the CCP is more likely to hold the Chinese vaccine against them. After all the CCP leadership all get jabs with western vaccines.
    1 point
  35. Ironic, isn't it? they focused on private pools, gyms and restaurants, but left prisons, factories and dorms operational as normal. Party of 9 were busted by breaking the law and having a birthday party at the private house. You can teach the dog to draw saliva by ringing the bell, but is it too much to expect this government to learn a common sense?
    1 point
  36. He is like a "made man". Untouchable. Makes one wonder who he was buying and selling flour for. Perhaps reign was a Freudian slip.
    1 point
  37. Yawn. Another day, another plan. The plan changes faster than the weather. I'm going to tune out of this "thread" and come back in four months. Bye.
    1 point
  38. I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable. And the strange thing is that despite the number of infections that is increasing every day, the measures are being relaxed.
    1 point
  39. At this stage is like rent a jet ski at jet ski mafia. Can I ask you if you were in Thailand before, because this is very risky and like gambling before all restrictions and traps are official
    1 point
  40. ? The Sandbox is not aproved yet and not before it will be in the royal gazette. So I wouldnt take that risk package with bad surprises! There could be many changes and then you have no escape any more!
    1 point
  41. After a lengthy working holiday in UK I returned Downunder smoking Gauloise or Gitane, maybe 10 a day. Following the French attack and sinking of the Green Peace vessel there was ban on French imports and I took up small cigarette-sized cigars, eg: Henri Wintermans at ~ 5 a day and almost always when enjoying an evening beer. Came to Thailand and met a beautiful lady who refused to have anything to do with a smoker so I gave up. 11 years cold turkey now and I'll never take up smoking again.
    1 point
  42. After completing the challenge last weekend from my wife regarding using my mobile phone and laptop, i am now going to sign off for this evening and enjoy the night and talk tomorrow everyone.
    1 point
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