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Samui has an international Airport, there are daily international transit flights from Bangkok to Samui, and furthermore Singapore at the moment...????

About the three Omicron cases...

20th December Samui +6 new cases Phangan +7 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com อ.เกาะสมุย จ.สุราษฏร์ธานี พบโอมิครอน 3 รายแรก (สัมผัสเสี่ยงสูงร่วมเดินทางเที่ยวบิน 49ราย ในพื้นที่8 รวม57ราย) Koh Samui District, Surat Thani Province, found the first 3 Omicron (high-risk exposure, 49 participants in the area, 8 total 57 cases)

Unfortunately I'm not British, so I'm in doubt, I don't know if I shall ???? or ????

We are offered Pfizer-booster walk-in on the island where I live from the 26th this month, for us that received the second jab in September; it's not a major city, only 60,000 registered inhabitant on the whole island, but probably because is a tourist destination.

Thanks. I used both my Thai ID-number - which was the number on on my vaccination agreement, and it's normally, or often, the same as tax-ID - but it's not working for me; nor my passport number, where it the app insists on a 13-digit number...????

Omicron arrives with foreigners - well, it's already here, but so far only among arrivals in quarantine - my bet is less than a month before it begins to spread domestically. Perhaps Anutin's suggestion about terminating Test & Go after all makes good sense from a purely health point of view, and can delay the new variant....???? The arrival of Omicrom might however not be that bad after all, according to numerous scientists it's mild and can be the end of pandemic, if just enough get smitten. Unfortunately some scientists don't agree, which leaves us plain people in uncertainty about what is right...

What now if he actually becomes an excellent prime minister...

19th December Samui +5 new cases (Maret 3, Maenam 1, Taling Ngam 1) Phangan +4 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com

Re. Moprom / Mor Prom / Mohpromt "Digital Health Pass" (presume all same-same but different Western spelling), have anyone had success registering with this app..?

Regarding the comments above, unfortunately Dr. Yong Poovorawan is right... Reuters 16th December... WHO makes interim recommendations for mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines SCMP 17th December... Coronavirus: WHO gives the nod for mix-and-match vaccine schedules WHO 16th December... Interim recommendations for heterologous COVID-19 vaccine schedules

From KoSamuiLife.com... A Booster shot 'Pfizer' for those who were vaccinated in Samui will be available for walk-in from 25 December. Dates (Walk-in) : Got the dose in Sep >> 25-26 December 2021 Got the 2nd dose in Sep - Oct >> 25-26 December 2021 Location: Ko Samui Hospital from 08:00 - 16:00 Central Festival Samui : 09:00 - 16: 00 What to bring with you: ID/ Passport Pen Proof of vaccination (I'd recommend using Moprom application as a proof) Source: Ko Samui Hospital as of 18 Dec 2021

17th December Samui +4 new cases Phangan +18 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com 18th December Samui +15 new cases (Bophut 7, Maenam 6, Maret 2) Phangan +7 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com

Yes you can, but it might be extremely difficult to sell or change anything, before your daughter is of age, 20 years in Thailand. Therefore, make all servitudes and like before transferring the land to your daughter's name, which can be agreements like habitation - i.e. usufruct or superficies or plain habitation right - or permission to build anything on the land, i.e. superficies needed for a building permission...????

It's legitimate for up to 30 years, you can read more HERE...???? If you lease the land, you can own your house on the leased land for example using a superfies servitude, read more HERE...

There was a story circulation in advertisement business about the CEO from Wrigley's, whom a journalist asked why they kept on advertising, when they already were number one on the market. The CEO answered with this question: »If you drive 100 miles per hour on an express train, will you then disconnect the locomotive?« However, if you don't develop you business plan when things are changing, your business might slowly die, it's a historical fact. Where I live in Thailand the visitors have changed over the past 20 years, mainly during the last 10 years, becoming a much more family destination with numerous families with children - even small children and babies - and a higher number of couples, while the number of single middle aged, or so, gentlemen has declined. The well known beer bars with girls began to suffer, and a number of those that did not upgrade their business in more family-style direction began to complain, and a number slowly died, likely about half of them so far. Furthermore, the young backpackers, who originally invented tourism in the area where I live, ued to look for cheap fan-only bamboo bungalows with palm leaf roofs, and fried rice chicken dishes for 30 bath in a street kitchen. The modern era backpackers are demanding aircon rooms of a nice quality, good restaurants and trendy cafés. Allmost all the former very cheap backpacker-style bungalows disappeared, and many of the today affordable accommodation suffers from lack of business, as the quality is slightly below what family tourists and the new era backpackers expects. So it's really a balance, a roaming success for 50 years might sometimes need an upgrade to survive - the tourists have changed since the 1970s - however Wrigley's seems to still be the number one chewing gum in the World with a market share of 25 percent, and it might be disaster for Coca Cola if they change the original recipe...????

Half of the tourism sector jobs could well be migrant workers, the unemployment rate does not mirror any figure in that number of lost employment among Thais. Actually numerous business complain about difficulty in getting labor. Aiming at more wealthy quality tourists might however be a problem for numerous small vendors, as hi-so tourists often stays inside the walls of their 5-star resort, so small vendors as affordable guest houses and boutique hotels, together with smaller restaurants, might suffer from lost turnover. Another challenge targeting wealthy quality tourists is in my view - apart from Chinese quality tourists, whom I have no idea of how behave - that the competition from the rest of the World is high. Even that Thailand has some really nice 5-star resorts, numerous other destinations also have that, and they might even offer better infrastructure, in case the quality tourist should move outside the safe walls for an arranged excursion, which they probably will do sometimes. The average tourists spending was around 5,000 baht per day ($159.32) in the last report that I saw, which was from 2017. Highest consumers were Asians, with Chinese as number one ($192.84) - they are said to shop a lot - while Westerners were the lowest consumers per day ($125.47 for Europeans). However, Asians stays in average for a shorter period in the Kingdom than Westerners, who often travels long distance, and therefor stay typically a couple of weeks, and per tradition Westerners also includes a number of long-staying snow birds. So if wealthy quality tourists spends more, how long time do they stay; i.e. there's a huge difference between the older time's 10-15 million mainly Western tourists that in average stayed at least for two weeks, and additional of another 25-30 million Asian tourists that stays a week only or less, meaning that 40 million tourists might not be the same as four times 10 million tourists of those that came previous time, if the average new tourists don't spend for example double as much, or more, per day. A Chinese spend $68 more per day, but stays typically around five days instead of two weeks; i.e. one Chinese high spending tourist is only worth about half of the turnover from a low-spending Western tourist...???? If I was wealthy I'm not sure that I would be returning to Thailand every holiday, or every year - I might wish to try a lot of the other amazing offers - I might even find something more attractive, and if wealthy I can afford whatever I like...????

I presume all the talented girls singing in the karaokes will be happy for little support... A major minus in that plan was that they forgot to ask if the star artists were available at all, before going public with the idea - perhaps that's why they now have 5,000 in excess for local performers... Anyway, even 5,000 baht can help a lot when you are short of income, and might be a welcomed help...????

15th December Samui +5 new cases Phangan +12 new cases (Bophut 3, Maenam 1, Lipa Noi 1) Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com 16th December Samui +8 new cases Phangan +14 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com

What an unexpected surprise...????

Snorkeling is best from close by Koh Tao - about 1½ hour speed boat ride away - while fishing is good from Samui, either from beaches or on arranged fishing trips, which there are a number of. What to do depends of your life-style and expectations, mine might be different from yours, so you might not wish to join me when I'm partying, and I will definitely not join you on an unbearable boring fishing trip... When over 50 years old you can apply for a non-immigrant O-visa, which will give you 90 days (3 month) stay in Thailand. You can do a so-called visa-run to a neighboring country and re-enter for 30 days visa exempt that even can be extended by another 30 days. Another option is the so-called retirement visa, non-immigrant O-A, but that has little more strict requirement to capital - however, in your home country - and health insurance while in Thailand. O-A will give you permission to stay for one year at each eantry, however your health insurance shall also covers you for one year. As long as it's available an STV - special tourist visa, which might be prolonged as future visa for digital nomads - will give you 90 days of stay on entry and the stay can be extended twice, each time with an additional 90 days without leaving Thailand. As a member mentioned it in an above post, the weather on Samui can be little challenging from October till around New Year due to the monsoon in the Gulf. It can both be excellent calm and sunshine or a couple of weeks with high waves, quite windy and lots of downpour. Phuket can also get pleasure of remaining parts of the northeastern monsoon in October and November, while December is normally good on Phuket. January till mid April is dry sunny periodes on both sides. Koh Chang might downpour-wise be the best destination for the period November till March, however the remaining part of the year Koh Chang gets double as much rain as all other parts of Thailand. As mentioned in other posts, my best advise is also to come and check it out by yourself. Get around and check both different areas on Samui, and other potential parts of Thailand also. It's easy to rent something, and that also gives your more freedom than be owner of a condo, which you shall not consider as an investment, but be happy if you can get your money back when selling it. Time share might also be a possibility, but if me, I would rather rent and being a free bird. On Samui there are excellent bungalows and villas for rent in short walking distance from the beaches - or even beachfront, if you are prepared to pay for it - many might have a full service option. A reasonable bungalow, or small villa, can be rented from around 15,000 baht to 20,000 baht a month; full luxury several bedroom pool villas will be more, or much more. There are probably many more bungalows and villas available, than condos. Take a trip and come down and check it out for yourself...????

Ops, so that's why I have so little money left for my retirement...????

What was the house number?

And here I am, rushed to the dealer to check a wide selection of lottery coupons, but it seems like you forgot to mention that lucky house number...????

So it probably saved me a lot of problems that I luckily gave up smoking some few years ago...