bradiston

1 hour ago, newnative said:

I had 2 shots of Sinovac and was given an AZ booster.  All in Pattaya.

Me too, at the indoor sports centre on chayapreuk 2. Free, painless.

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

There is something in that but not quite that straightforward.

I have had 3 jabs, Thai-UK-Thai, but when I went for the second in Thailand a couple of weeks ago they checked my history on Mor Phrom.

Just like the UK you have to qualify for a "booster".

Not sure I follow. You say Thai-uk-thai, meaning 1st Thai, 2nd UK, 3rd Thai? Then you went for 2nd in Thailand? But you already had 2nd in UK, and 3rd in Thailand. Are you looking for a 4th?

4 hours ago, gim12 said:

2 typos   above, should read that the usa does NOT provide ...and 7 pages not 60

And it's convert to jpg from another format.

And fix your ministers who claim it has been seamless and a great success, and whose ministries and departments were responsible for the problems in the first place. You know who they are, sir. Time to clean out your stable.

7 hours ago, blackprince said:

Well the deportees are hardly likely to brag about it publicly are they, and the individual cases are too insignificant to get into the national press, or even the local press. The consequences of deportation are not insignificant for the deportees themselves though as I'm sure you understand.

My information comes directly from senior staff at the Ministry of Education, and that's just one three month period in one region.

My original point is crystal clear and will be obvious to anyone who actually has a work permit: your work permit covers all the work you are entitled to do. Anything outside of that is illegal.

 

Point taken. But I'm surprised there isn't at least an annual report on deportations, under all the various headings. Might make interesting reading, but where's the data? Which ministry/department?

Both the orange and green super rich firms have apps which give you the rates and locations of their branches. The green one disappeared from the airport some years ago but the orange is still there I think. The best rates are at their respective HQs, but not by a large amount.

4 hours ago, JCP108 said:

"...tourism businesses will need to change their business models to better focus on quality, rather than the number of tourists..."

 

What the <deleted> does that mean?

It means they want 1m tourists spending 10m each rather than 10m spending 1m each.

I booked an appointment online at the DDC site to collect some time ago and was given 6th November at 1530.

1. No mention of where.

2. I need to re-upload my vaccine certificate as I have had a 3rd shot since booking.

3. I've lost my username and password.

4. 1422 helpline is a joke. Never answers.

5. How to contact them? I can't even find a phone number for them.

I went to the Na Klua office in Pattaya to rebook but their booking system is closed til the 8th.

Maybe just wait til the booking date has passed and start again.

Up their p̶r̶i̶c̶e̶s̶ game

7 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Thanks, that is the clearest I have seen so far. So all the prior COVID only policies on the tgia website will no longer be accepted. The insurance companies must be in an uproar.

I've only got the 850 THB covid only, wooden pallet in a corridor cover. And wasn't there at one time a requirement for in patient of 40k THB, out patient 400k cover?

Just so ridiculous. Koh Kood to get its sandbox later, and no mention of Koh Mak. But it's in the Koh Kood ampur. And Chantaburi's just been dumped in the deep red zone, making access to Trad no doubt that much harder.

My daughter's Thai and owns the chanote on land on which we built a house, with my name on the building permit. So technically I own the house. But try telling that to a Thai and they'll just laugh and walk away, "may chay, may chay". So it was with with immigration. They simply wouldn't accept that I owned it and therefore could register it as my address. They tried to get me to ring my daughter in London at 3.30am. Answer... I moved to Pattaya to get away from these morons.

I also eventually got a usufruct agreement with my daughter. It doesn't make a blind piece of difference to the IOs. They're not interested in that kind of technicality. But, it did get me out being accused of trespass by my nasty neighbour, whose land we have to cross to get to our property.

17 hours ago, skatewash said:

First, I would suggest moving this to the Thai language forum.

I would suggest แมคกราท์.  This should result in a Thai speaker pronouncing your last name as McGra.  There is no "th" sound in the Thai language (as someone already pointed out).  The consonant ท is often used to represent the "th" in English even though it is pronounced as a 't' sound in Thai.  The gaaran  ์, or silencer mark, in Thai over
the ท is used to tell the Thai speaker not to pronounce this consonant (the consonant is there only to indicate the spelling in the foreign language).  

Or you could go with แมคกราท without the gaaran over the ท which would cause a Thai speaker to pronounce the name as McGrat, but in Thai the final consonant in a syllable is pronounced very softly, so it would almost sound like McGra.  By the way, both the existing way ซ and your wife's preference ธ would be pronounced the same way with a very soft t, McGrat.  I agree with her that ซ is an unfortunate choice because while at the end of a syllable it is pronounced as a t, if it appears at the beginning of a syllable it is pronounced as an s in Thai.  It's not therefore suggestive of how your name is spelled in English.

There are formal guidelines for transliteration between Thai and English and that's where I'm getting the ท from:
 

http://www.thai-language.com/ref/English-Consonant-Sounds More here (for example, an explanation of the gaaran symbol for non pronounced consonants): http://www.thai-language.com/ref/transcribing-english So, bottom line is there's no way to write your surname in Thai that's going to have Thais pronounce it correctly because Thai lacks the 'th' sound.  But you can get close.

Excellent reply. But for me, I would just add the garaan to the ซ, if that's what's there. That silences it, so it becomes irrelevant. And if your name is pronounced McGraa in English or Scots, that's how Thais will pronounce it in Thai.

PS John is transliterated as จอห์น in Thai, with the h silenced.

If you're in Pattaya now, go to the stadium in chayapreuk 2 and try your luck there. I got an astra 3rd booster there today after 2 Sinovac. If you don't want astra see what else they've got. Out of curiosity, why don't you want it?

1 hour ago, bradiston said:

This morning, got an AstraZaneca booster from the stadium walk in Vax centre in Pattaya. I'd previously had 2 Sinovac from Phayathai 2 who failed dismally to come up with a 3rd booster. Went to the stadium with passport and Vax certificate, not knowing jack about whether I'd get one. Got there about 8am. Very busy but took a seat outside where indicated and waited about 30 mins before entering stadium. No checks outside at all. Given a piece of paper with a number on it upon entering.

 

Sat in the spectators seats well spaced apart. Another 30 minutes and we filed down to the registration and jab area. Most Thais had a piece of paper and just went straight to the jab queue. I had to register. I used my jab certificate. It was all being organised by Banglamung hospital. Just have to fill out consent form and questionnaire re medical history and sign.

 

Then get in pre-jab queue. 5 minutes to seated. Then hand in consent form and passport. Next stop jab. All done. Wait 30 minutes and good to go.

 

Just want to give a huge thanks to Thai people for finally getting this moving along. Always friendly and helpful on this occasion. Couldn't ask for more. Considering the numbers of people, maybe several thousand, hats off! About 2 hours 30 minutes end to end.

Just an added note. Apparently it takes a few days for the hospital databases to update, so the 3rd jab won't appear on the digital certificate until then.

On 10/22/2021 at 12:54 PM, bradiston said:

Thanks. I got mine at Phayathai 2 in Bangkok via the thaiintervac site, or whatever it was called back in May/June. I've been asking about a booster for weeks but they just say we'll notify you. Looks like the public hospitals have the jump on the private ones. Seems what goes around....

 

I also booked a Moderna with Bangpakok hospitals way back, but no sign of that either. And no notification. Rang them September and they said October. Hello hello? I don't know why they say goodbye, I say hello!

Update!

I just got an AstraZaneca booster from the stadium walk in Vax centre in Pattaya. I'd previously had 2 Sinovac from Phayathai 2 who failed dismally to come up with a 3rd booster. Went to the stadium not knowing jack about whether I'd get one. Got there about 8am. Very busy but took a seat where indicated and waited about 30 mins before entering stadium. No checks outside at all. Given a piece of paper with a number on it on entering.

Sat in the spectators seats well spaced apart. Another 30 minutes and we filed down to the registration and jab area. Most Thais had a piece of paper and just went straight to the jab queue. I had to register. I used my jab certificate. It was all being organised by Banglamung hospital. Just have to fill out consent form and questionnaire re medical history and sign.

Then get in pre-jab queue. 5 minutes to seated. Then hand in consent form and passport. Next stop jab. All done. Wait 30 minutes and good to go.

Just want to give a huge thanks to Thai people for finally getting this moving along. Always friendly and helpful on this occasion. Couldn't ask for more. Considering the numbers of people, maybe several thousand, hats off!

1 hour ago, Nemises said:

If BBD are talking about the checkpoint on the mainland near the ferry boarding, they are not checking for vaccination documents, well they weren’t last weekend when we drove past it. We were waved through by them without stopping. Our car has Khonkaen plates, possibly that’s why…

 

We stayed at 2 hotels. Neither checked. 
 

 

 

 

I think they mean the one at the mushroom.

4 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

So I took my chance and, at least for now, am out the price of dinner buffet for 2 at a nice BKK hotel ... and when the Moderna option opened up in late JUN there wasn't even any certainty that a farang could get a shot of Sinivac.

I think the deal was, if they couldn't deliver this year, you could have your money back.

Just now, hotchilli said:

Like I said, "pay your money"..

those who paid for Moderna thought they were going to get "business class service" and not have to wait for the lethargic government.

Trouble is the hospitals took the money without an order even going in.

Not quite. The government made it clear it wouldn't order any Moderna without cash guarantees from the private hospitals. That's why we were asked to pay in advance. No scam. Just normal business practice.

But what has happened since is just part of the usual stream of disinformation that's been in full flow since last March. I was told October by the hospital I booked with. Hardly likely now.

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

I believe you are completely wrong as both the wife and I and another couple that we know of who paid were sent emails asking us to complete the online receipt, e.g. some further information about us as they were scheduling appointments for those in receipt order of payment which would be starting early November to December.

 

Solly to disappoint you.

Which hospital?

Hey, what about the guinea pigs who got 2 shots of Sinovac way back in June/July?  No mention of their previously much trumpeted boosters.