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About a tenth of the time they'll im(hospi)prison him for.

There is no compelling reason to have this as a separate charge rather than just adding it to the departure tax of 700 (?) Baht already added to the airline ticket price as the numbers of tourist foreigners arriving overland or by boat is insignificant in comparison to arrivals by air. That would save the 30% collection "fee". This is just designed to create an opportunity for more and bigger brown envelopes.

Dear Khun Chuwit Kamolwisit, Many thanks for that but my taxi driver says that he doesn't know where that is. Can you give him directions please? Best regards, A Partygoer

Very sad. RIP.

I can only speak for myself. I was planning to return to Thailand this month, but the recent imprisonment of 12 people (possibly 7 days quarantine AND 21 days isolation - the article was not 100% clear) because a guy on their flight tested positive for ????pox in Oz shows that the HospiPrison game is potentially still in full swing and I have booked to Cambodia instead.

And so the quarantine game is restarting. Just when they thought it was all over!

As could monkeys, which cross borders where and when they please.

Monkey Business.

It is so refreshing to see that these things are apparently down to the decisions of the voters rather than the contents of the brown envelopes.

Take Thai men, guns and booze and mix together. Recipe for disaster.

You may not have any issue as your "exit day" is the date when you pass through immigration, not the date that your flight departs. I do this frequently in BKK with a flight that departs after midnight and my exit stamp is dated the day that I pass through immigration, even if it is 11:59pm when I receive the stamp.

Could be other reasons: a bike is easily pushed off course by another vehicle taking up its roadspace or just passing too close, so his bike could have been pushed into the wall. RIP.

Hi gjta12, I recently transited through BKK en route from LHR to PNH. For transit I needed a document to show that my UK insurance covered Thailand (yeah, just to transit - Amazing Thailand!) I called my insurers and they emailed a letter which included the following wording: Thank you for contacting Admiral Travel Insurance. We write to confirm that your Admiral Travel Insurance policy will cover the following: Policy term: Cover start date: 27/02/2021 Cover end date: 26/05/2022 Emergency Medical Treatment and Repatriation Cover – up to £10 million The coverage meets the minimum requirement of 100,000 USD and will cover you for emergency medical treatment and repatriation if you get sick with or die from Covid-19 on your trip in Thailand, provided you have not travelled against FCDO advice. It only took a few minutes for the letter to arrive so I guess it was a standard letter which they had sent many times. I suggest that you contact your insurers and ask for a similar letter to upload to the TP site. My insurers did not charge for the letter.

This works for me. I am hoping that I can upload my vax status & my travel insurance to the TP website without having to book (and pay for) anything in advance, so if I get rejected I can just try again with no cost. I have been avoiding Thailand because of the TP hassles and the risk of hospiprison, but now looking at flights to come back & spend some time with my friends whom I have not seen since 2019.

30 day visa exemption appears to be available for Irish nationals, which is what DrJack54 suggested? From that link: Iceland Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy

He is spot-on, but a Thai leader cannot accept advice from a farang, no matter whom, as that would result in loss of face.

Maybe he's asking her how much she will pay him for a "private lesson"?????

I can predict the advertising slogan for this: "Come to Pattaya for bangs you'll never forget!"

Other countries also have fabulous beaches, temples, cultures, and food. It's a competitive world out there. If other countries treat their tourists with more respect than Thailand does then the tourists will vote with their feet and take their tourist $$$ with them.

Perhaps make learning to drive properly one of those life-long strategies? The lives could then be longer.

I expect the speed shown is made up of vertical & horizontal components? My posting was simply based on the numbers you quoted: (29000-7000) 22000 feet loss of altitude in 1 minute gives a vertical fall rate of 4.17miles/minute (5280 feet in a mile) which is 250mph/402kph, so certainly outside normal flight parameters, but not necessarily indicating a dive under power.

I believe that is feet, not metres, so that rate of descent would be around 250 mph/400 kph.

As a tourist I look at Thailand this way, and expect that many tourists would do something similar: Positive Thailand is a destination with sunshine, beaches and shops. Negative Thailand pass - expensive, time-consuming and difficult and one of my party could be rejected and spoil the holiday for all Pre-departure testing- expensive and one of my party could test positive and spoil the holiday for all Testing on arrival- expensive and one of my party could test positive and spoil the holiday for all Testing after arrival - expensive and one of my party could test positive and spoil the holiday for all Requirement to book hotels for post arrival testing - expensive and these hotels are not where I want to be Limited options for getting a drink - why would I go anywhere with a ban on relaxation? Testing before returning home - expensive and one of my party could test positive and upset return plans for all Risk of incarceration in hospi-prison - unacceptably expensive and would spoil the holiday for all Neutral Insurance requirement - expensive, but no biggie. Vaccination requirement - we are vaxxed so again no biggie. To get the tourists back in quantity Thailand needs to remove the negatives that currently make other destinations more attaractive to potential visitors.

I am not in favour of convicted murderers ever being released, whether sexually motivated murders or otherwise. To me it seems that any society that is prepared to release a murderer values the life of the murderer more highly than it valued the life of the victim. How can that be right?

Thai tests WILL detect it. Whether you are infected or not. $$$$$