Swiss1960

Clear as mud as always, when they issue new regulations... 

- what about the previous 100K and specifically mention of Covid inclusion?

- what about the in-country PCR test within 24 hours? Can tourists do it themselves?

- what about the "must be contactable", i.e. the 1-day quarantine?

- where to find the list of countries and how many times per day will they change it?

About one hour ago, the Thai Government posted in Facebook about the COE/ASQ/PCR requirement for unvaccinated foreigners. This has not changed from the past and is unlikely to change in the near (6-9 months) future. 

For everything to do with the flight (including booking the flight), she will use her USA passport. The Thai passport will only be shown at flight check-in as the reason to why she does not have a Thai visa for her return. For Thai immigration, she will use her Thai passport only. Thai immigration does not care at all where she goes or where she comes from, only whether her passport is valid to leave or enter the country, therefore she will use the Thai passport only on both leave and entry. That is how my neighbor does with her dual passport daughter. 

Just wondering how they intend to solve the latest idea of a 1-day quarantine an PCR test, if tourists REALLY arrive in large numbers... imagine all the hotels who will have to accommodate thousands of tourists for 1 night only with all the cleaning requirements that the current covid situation requires for them... If I would be a hotel owner, I would NOT accept such tourists, except when the government pays me 2-3 nights for each tourist who stays 1 night for covid-checks. AND we need a new website with all the hotels who offer that service, I am pretty sure that all ASQ or SHA hotels are interested in that business

Find a new "new girlfriend" that is already vaccinated

Neither my crystal ball nor my tea leaves could tell me what the Thai government will do next week, let alone mid of next year

If he doesn't tell you, it's fair to assume that he thinks that it's none of your business 

15 hours ago, newnative said:

    Sorry, but what a stupid, thoughtless post from you.   Lighten up already.  He was commenting on observing some life on Jomtien Beach over the weekend, and remarking that it was nice to see the activity.  I noticed the same thing on Pattaya Beach the other weekend--lots of people around on the promenade, on the beach, sitting in the beach chairs, cars parked all along Beach Road.  It was great to see the activity there, too.   With restrictions eased, it's nice to see visitors from Bangkok and elsewhere starting to return on the weekends.   Pardon us for being happy to see 'a breath of life'. 

There are thousands of jobless, homeless and starving people living in the streets of Pattaya, which my family and our friends support to the best of our ability as often as possible. 

Implying that the few weekend travelers are enough - even on a funny note - is a slap in the face of these people and all the people who help them on a daily basis. 

I stand by my remark.

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Freaking loud here on the dark side and my wife thought, the world was going to end. But we did not get a lot of rain, only 2-3cm according to my pool fill level. Also no outages, which is kind of special, normally in such situations, electricity is gone for few hours.

Legally, the house belongs to the owner, until either he sells it or it is given to another owner (i.e. the bank) through a court proceeding. Until such point, if somebody would enter the property - even in good faith to maintain the surroundings of the house -, this could be seen as trespassing / breaking in and the maintenance - i.e. removal of trees - might even be seen as causing damage to the property. 

What the management company can do is go to the court and get an order from the court that forces the owner to maintain his property, i.e. based on threads to the community from vermin in said house that spread (termites, rats and so on). The owner would be given time to fulfill the order, after which the management company can then get an order to enter the property and clean up on behalf of the owner and send him the invoice (which of course would not be paid in an abandoned house case).

I checked this with my lawyer, as I have a house in my neighborhood which is not abandoned, but occupied by Thai relatives of the English owner and the garden is maintained maybe once every 9 months before the owner comes to visit. One tree clearly had termites and needed urgent treatment. The thread with court proceedings by the management committee made the Thais comply (through the owner) and at least remove the tree and burn down the ant nest and spray regularly for the next 6 months. Now they clean the yard every 1-2 months. The rotting car with no licenses sitting on empty tires however was not removed, but at least I don't see that one from my own garden, only when I am on the street

So many people bitching around trying to convince themselves and others that they ate the wisdom with spoons... Here are REAL LIFE experiences by me, my wife and daughter:

1. Insurances - Thai or others - have never rejected any claims we had against our policies. Same experience as with my previous Swiss insurance.
2. Insurances - Thai or others - will always review your claims (some faster than others) and make sure that the claims are legitimate and that they MUST pay. I am actually glad about that, since this would have an influence on my premium as well. There are enough scammers out in the wild that insurance companies must be careful.
3. Experiences: Myself emergency hospital stay (2 nights) due to intestine cramps. Paid even though I have a declared previous surgery for diverticulitis. Wife: Meniscus left knee. Paid, but it took time to get the approval for the surgery (lot of doctors reports). Daughter: Emergency hospital stay due (7 days) to Dengue fever, approved after two days, no issues.

Here comes the HUGE difference: Thai insurances will pay your claim - as they must - BUT your next premium can go up by 25%, because you are now deemed a high risk patient NOT because of WHAT you had, but because you actually dare to make claims. AND Thai insurances will send you not only an invoice with a 25% risk fee added, BUT also a now policy that will NOW list your issue as pre-existing going forward. Happened to my wife with the meniscus. 

Thai insurances will ALSO be VERY generous in declaring all of your body as "pre-existing condition" when non-Thai insurances will not. My personal example: I am taking medicine against high blood pressure. I provided the prescription to both a Thai and a non-Thai company. The non-Thai company (Cigna Global) accepted me without any pre-condition. The Thai company (which I am not allowed to name) sent me a 2-page exclusion letter, ending with the following sentences: "A risk-premium loading of 25% has been applied. A 30% client co-payment applies for ...., up to max 300K Baht per policy year). Another Thai insurance uses the sentence "exclude all disorders, complications or consequences directly or indirectly caused by or associated with...", which means that they already tell you they won't pay a thing. Also, this second company, I revealed a hospital stay for a broken right wrist (accident) and they wrote: "To exclude all disorders, complications or consequences directly or indirectly caused by or associated with declared Right Wrist fracture including but not limited to retained hardware or its sequelae."

That is the reason why I recommend to EVERYBODY that they OMIT Thai insurances AT ALL COST and pay more for an international health insurance.

Lucky it is middle of the night in Thailand, so we don't have to deal with our devastated wifes and kids who can't share the newest food/cosmetic/Thai soap opera/clothing etc. information with each other... Imagine they would want to talk with US about that because they can't share it with the world ????