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Clever leaders would have used the last 6 months to repair Phuket roads, footpaths, collect all trash on the island, dig down the ugly electric cables and get new electric or hybrid low emission busses to replace the tuk tuk maffias. They could have showed the world how much better Phuket is now to generate interests from tourists. They could have used the many thousands of people who got laid off to do this work instead of just giving them some small money for three months. But again the rulers are not very clever and only interested in getting huge commissions from weapon purchases. 

This sound like a fun holiday, where do I sign up? Is it possible to get a female "Covid minder", preferably in her twenties? 

3 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Tavern and Blue sky and yes, those were the real days of the untamed Bangkok and Thailand. It is a crumbling shell of itself now. If I could be transported back to a time of my life, it would be back then when Bangkok was just so off the 24 hour wonderful unadulterated wall. 

If I had a time machine I would travel back to the old Thermae and to when Patpong was at its best. I miss those times so very much, nothing today will come close to that period. I meet Bernard many times in the bars and I also stopped buying Bangkok post when his weekly column was not more there.

11 minutes ago, JoePai said:

his fiefdom

 

Never a truer word said etc etc...

And his father was Somchai Khunploem, the "godfather of Chonburi" 

4 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

 

I may have spotted these elusive 120 Chinese tourists yesterday during my beach stroll...but apparently they've switched to Pattaya.

Maybe they are Thais and "fake Chinese Tourists" hired by TAT to save face?

TAT supplied "list of names"

????????????

38 minutes ago, leiftheswede said:

A week ago I got accepted for a repatriation flight from CPH to BKK this Sunday.
I booked and payed for the hotel, the flight ticket (thai airways only and a peng peng one), health insurance and sent copies of everything to the RT Embassy.

Yesterday (2days before lift off) I got a call from the embassy informing me that I hade to come to the embassy (meaning driving 240 kilometers) because my one year Non O visa extension (valid until late February) was not valid for this trip and I had to apply for another Non O - Visa 3 month singel entry.
I asked if they would refund me for that one year visa extension with multiple entry as they obviously revoked it - the lady at the embassy looked at me as if i came from outer space and speaking a language she did not understand.

TIT = this is Thailand.

It's very frustrating to deal with this group of gangsters in uniform. 

Why not just let us wear yellow stars?

Probably the same with the flight from Scandinavia.

1 hour ago, CorpusChristie said:

What happened to those people?

Did they get sent back ?

"The first group of 300 (or only 150?) Chinese tourists and businessmen from Guangzhou, scheduled to arrive on the southern island today, will not permitted to travel. It’s been reported in Khaosod English that the Thai government won’t offer them refunds for accommodation, insurance, flights, along with any other costs they had incurred so far to obtain their STVs"

"They are still required to complete a 14-day quarantine period. The Ministry of Public Health has had discussions and will announce more quarantine measures."

So we can expect more crazy rules coming? For those few "tourists" applying for this new STV Visa it must be like walking into a minefield blindfolded.

21 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

"The first group of 300 (or only 150?) Chinese tourists and businessmen from Guangzhou, scheduled to arrive on the southern island today, will not permitted to travel. It’s been reported in Khaosod English that the Thai government won’t offer them refunds for accommodation, insurance, flights, along with any other costs they had incurred so far to obtain their STVs"

 

LOL. So, Thailand duped them to pay a lot of money, but won't let them in now. That should tell people where not to book their next holiday.

And they expect millions of Chinese tourists to come after this daylight robbery?

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development or OECD, are the guys who buy all the girls in the bar lady drinks in Pattaya Soi 6 after the girls outside the bar say to them; have a seat "Hunsum man"

Wonder who order all those fax machines, North Korea or some tribe far out in the Amazonas? 

3 hours ago, Saltire said:

'How locals are informed about the arrival of tourists will also be discussed.'

 

Why?

 

 

I think they have to tell that guy on Phuket who wanted to shoot foreigners who don't wear a facemask with a sling shot to be nice to the 150 investors tourists.