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No cancellations? Yes he is right....... if no bookings .

It only depends on what you want and need. It seems you need the "night-life". Others don't and like the life in Hua Hin, especially when the smoke starts in the N and NE.

....? Every time LOW numbers ! Surprise, surprise.

Isn't this an excuse for polluting the environment without any sane and health connected restrictions???

You forgot to say: if you have been able to receive an injection! Therefore: it's bureaocratic nonsense, the same as the 90-day-reporting itself.

..... or quality vaccine!

.....or the military ?

Please help me. 1. Is it possible to drive from BKK to Hua Hin in a public bus, minibus or van without any restrictions? 2. Can I book a hotel or a guesthouse which is not registered under SHA or SHA+? (As every year, we plan to leave the smoky season here in the North and stay in a nice guesthouse near Thakiaep.) Thank you in advance.

..... may I add: and other REMOTE Provinces; i.e. Mae Hong Son! I, as a falang, was excluded at all. If I would have needed the vaccine/s urgently, I had to go to the private hospitals in Chiang Mai (4 hours by car! and CM a dark red zone). Now it's changing (I guess, after an "overwhelming" delivery of better and redundant vaccines). Today I had a nice talk with the young and open minded director of our amphoe hospital.

Many times I have sent the 90-day report as a normal mail to the IMO. Never have had a problem. My experience with registered Mail from Germany: up to 6 weeks before arriving here in the North. The BKK-Airport office was the culprit. The shortest time was 2 1/2 weeks. A normal letter from Germany delivered to our home here - between 2 and 3 weeks!

@Ukrules; sorry this is a misunderstanding. Maybe I didn't make it clear, that my remark [quote]I recognize only one reason: making money out of the pandemie.[/quote] was related to Thailand. When you read the details of my comment you will recognize it.

I recognize only one reason: making money out of the pandemie. One clue is the overpricing (why was the Sinovac more expensive in Thailand than in the other countries; Prayut rushed back from Bejiing in the early days of the crisis?). The other one is the style how the military leader played a role in the (delayed) ordering vaccines. And especially ordering the Chinese low quality Sinovac, ignoring all advices of the medical experts. Especially the medical experts should have been responsible for giving directions in the medical crisis, not the military slouch/es. Why had the military leadership refused to order the other recommended vaccines like Pfizer etc. ? Therefore you can guess, there has been money diverted on special (private) bank accounts of the Thai military mafx@. The same happens now with the overpriced SHA hotels etc. There is no logical reason, why people should pay for at least 1 night - only for receiving the test results. There are money grabbing hands in the background.

He thought, Switzerland would be like Thailand ..... hmmm, concerning the "Hi.So" members with "specia privileges". I have problems to stop laughing.... (about a "health" minister)

For this military science remarks [quote]Toward the end of his remarks, he asked people who cannot swim to learn, claiming that he has taught children how to swim. He said that, if you know how to float on water, you will never drown and people will help you, but “if you drown you will die”. He also suggested that Thai people should exercise and study two languages to survive.[/quote] you have to study at least 10 years in the milirary highschool

Warning: in the future they will collect 200 Baht if you are laughing or taking photos in the Khao-San-Road.

Sleeping on the couch?? Impossible, hmmm ..... because of the damage to the couch (look at the black coloured hairs .....)

I think it's better to tell every IO-officer, that the 90-day reporting is an absolutely waste. Stop this idiotic order as soon as possible. Ask them, how many culprits did they catch because of this reporting? And most important: tell the officers, they should report this to all IO-officers in the line up. They should feel and learn that the falangs don't like stupid and needless reports.

Mr. Prayut, put the foot into your own arXh! Your typical military style: the bureaucrats should do or correct something, but you don't give them any concrete details (because of ignorance and imcompetence). You should already think in advance, before you are giving orders. But this presumes competence. Of course, a MP cannot know all, but his advisers should have this quality (to fill the holes of normal ignorance). Yes , that is a sign of competence for "leaders" of a government to have chosen quality staff, and not minions or boot lickers. You are only a leader in an abnormal bureaucracy. MP, look at other countries and order only what is essential to protect your country against covid (as here already mentioned): vaccinated 2x against covid PCR-test from the country of origin, because you need it already for your plane, bus, train etc. (no big time difference between leaving and arriving! in Thailand). do something against farangs who let their medical bills unpayed. Then we don't need to show the health insurence document. It worked all the time before your military coup and, crazily, Thailand and its medical care didn't go bankrupt. Othwerwise, please take an injection against inco.......e).

Prayut's thoughts don't go more than to the end of a table. In genral, it is a good idea to replace the vaccine by pills, if effective. But it has to be appoved by science if effective. But replacing the vaccines by the pills has a lot of consequences. Can the pills against covid replace all the laws and orders concerning the necessary (double) anti-covid vaccines? I.e., if you go to the haircutter, leaving the province or the Thai country, going into the pub or a bar, reducing the distance to the neighbor sitting in a bus, train or anywhere in the publich area??? The list goes on .... and the cheating will do so, too. Officer/police in the airport: "Where is your required vaccination document?" Answer: "Pfizer’s Paxlovid or Merck’s Molnupiravir COVID, don't need the vaccines." Officer: "Show me the pills!" Answer: "Are at home". Officer confused. Everbody can say this (unapproved). And that can (will) reduce the covid pandemie??? I guess , Prayut did not yet think about these consequences in the bureaucracy.

Thai bureaucrazy has the foreign-friendly ???? policy just to control you, when you have to go to the toilet. 90-reporting is one example of many.. But when it would be really useful to control foreigners leaving Thailand (for whatever reason), there is a big failure. Sleeping Thai Government - here is one idea to get payed nearly all the hospital bills of the farangs: Build a central IT-data for all foreigners who don't pay their medical bills. The right to access to these datas should be given to all medical institutions who had unpayed (foreign) medical invoices. Therefore all the Thai medical institutions should be able to register for unpayed bills of foreigners. The datas should contain names, nationality and other important details of the culprits. And now the big bang: all authorities at points for leaving the Thai country (airport, harbours, border controls etc.) should have access to these datas, so that they can examine, if the leaving foreigner has ever payed all his medical bills. If unpayed, foreigners should not be allowed to leave Thailand and should be taken to the ploice. Then no government crying about unpaid bills. (But I guess, the main reason for the government is to receive some money of those overpriced health insurences.)

Many years ago, when I had a yearly flight to Thailand, I used EMIRATES from DUS in Germany. Stop over in Dubai. Good quality and not expensive. Yes I've read many times that Qatar Air is excellent. My problem, it doesn't fly to DUS, but to FRA. Not so comfortable for me.

Mr. Prayut, read the aseannow.com and you don't need any advise of your (corrupt) boot lickkers.

We planned to go to Germany during the Northern smoky saison of the coming year. Will not happen under this idiotic conditions of the military Thai government. It's only interest is to MAKE MONEY out of this pandemie. What a shame. We have time to wait, too.

Perhaps ....... not earning enough money !

It seems you forgot something very important. The main danger doesn't come from the (vaccinated) falangs - vaccination is a must for them - , but from the not fully inoculated people here in Thailand, more than 50%. And the reason for the very low number of vaccinated people in Thailand, Thais and foreigners as well, lies with the military leader, who didn't like to spend the budget money for this urgent vaccination. Another reason, the Thai leader and his bootlickers first served the interests of his "friends" in special provinces, dependimng on tourists. The remote areas got fogotten, as I can confirm here in the Mae Hong Son Province.