It is clear by just the comments here that potential travellers fall at every hurdle put in their way. We now need official confirmation of entry requirement or risk a wasted trip to the airport.
I agree, if I could sit down and have a chat with papa Prayut I would say don't do it, keep it in the family. I read Saudi Arabia wanted to buy land to grow rice.
All this kind of stuff is good click-bait nonsense. And all this on a day when the UK has kept Thailand on the red list and the visa excempt sandbox scheme will reduce from 45 days to 30 days in October.
And I don't doubt you've provided work for the construction industry and helped children through school like me. None of which counts compared to some fictitious rich foreigner.
Verý true, it never had to be like this and the government knows it. The endless prevarication over opening up and getting people jabbed up amounts to control and suppression worthy of DPRK.