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10 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

"best pick up, regardless of price!" , well there was this one girl in Singapore...........

 

Sorry, but it is Sunday and the wine is going down nicely. 

Did she also do as did the wine...?

1 hour ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Is Ko Lanta worth the hassle to get there, isn't it a few hours on a ferry from Phuket? If so, what is the best area to stay? Thanks

It’s a very short and cheap ferry (car) ride from the mainland and now a road bridge after that to the main island . I’ve always stayed at Klong Dao beach as it’s just 5 mins south of Saladan,the main town so easy to get there for restaurants etc. and the beach itself is reasonable by comparison. Never been other than in November and February,nor during this epidemic. It’s quiet even then and weather at this time of year is not the best. 

2 hours ago, M71 said:

Yep - if you make a up a BS story about a relatively harmless seasonal called COVID-1984 and you fudge the figures & force governments to blow it waaaay out of proportion that's what happens around the world folks.

 

Ain't rocket science.

I’m going to hazard a guess that science (rocket or otherwise) is not your forte...? 
This is not a scientific observation,but a pretty accurate guess,nonetheless I suppose.

18 hours ago, Oldie said:

Pretty soon the Chinese can buy the island as a whole. 

That island has long since been a 'hole'... ???? 

C'mon guys, tourism on its @rse ,they need all the high spending visitors they can get . But he’s still got to do the state quarantine when he gets back which will be the nearest he’ll get to jail ... ???? 

Copy and paste - 'Another minister/official says the first thing that comes into his head'

9 hours ago, Fairynuff said:

It’s a rare day when we have an opportunity to praise this government 

That they have to be praised for doing something which was blindingly And  obviously beneficial to both the country and the those stuck here shows how low the bar is set.

Groundhog Day thread..

22 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I hope this paranoia doesn’t spread such that those repatriating are prevented from entering.

I know your situation and hope that doesn’t happen. Given the extra hoops you have to jump through those returning spouses are less likely to spread infection than returning Thais. But this of course is not the Land of Logic...

20 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

I already left! And at 100,000 US$ insurance cover plus 14 days in quarantine at my own expense, i am not coming back. The Thais can shove it.

 

Beep! Beep! ...... Gone.

My commiserations to whosever has to endure you and congratulations to those who happily now see the back of you.

20 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Has it occurred to you that the Thai neither need nor want you back?

More importantly,it has occurred to me what a pointless human being you clearly are. 

6 hours ago, bolt said:

My local Thai Embassy requested the following

A copy of valid health insurance covering all expenditures of medical treatment, including COVID-19 with the minimum coverage of 100,000 USD. 

 

Many insurance companies are now offering COVID cover

I’m waiting on my COVID policy coming through from this company

3 months cover, 14,500 THB

 

http://www.aoc-insurancebroker.com/

 

other companies are available

FYI

I have another policy for my main health insurance, so this is an additional cover

I’m presuming this policy was TRAVEL insurance ,the price of which depends on the length of cover. Was there a specific reason you opted for 3 months cover given its effectively just to 'get you through the door' ? I’m wondering if that was stipulated by the embassy or it coinciding with the expiry of your existing visa? Ostensibly it could just be for  The 14 days until the quarantine was over,although that could raise eyebrows...

To clarify a couple of points. You had to do 2 Covid tests at different times and it appears from the price differential,2 different types -one with the initial application and the more expensive RT-PCR test just prior to leaving? 
I,m not clear if the flight you took was simply a confirmation of the unpaid for reservation you made yourself or one offered to you via the embassy? Most airlines ,say from UK are either booked and paid for (confirmed)flights  or nothing. I ask because I have a confirmed return BA flight on September 7th from uk based on a February outbound flight which I’d obviously like to use...if it even goes/not cancelled! 
Thanks for the clarity of your post and as you say ,although involved,it was a relative smooth process. Others are reporting more difficulties from other countries. Maybe China is a more favourable embarkation in many respects,especially the testing regime.

 

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I’ve eaten insects - does that count ??? 
 

Piggybacking on a repatriation flight, if that helps with the semantics....

That commenters high number of posts are in inverse proportion to his IQ ???? 

21 hours ago, Don Mega said:

Sounds reasonable, not sure why so many TV members are moaning about it across many threads.

Because they have the intellect to understand that the convoluted and labyrinthine requirements,notwithstanding the expensive commitments simply to make an application with only vague indications and no guarantees it will be successful even if complying. But thanks for proving by example there are exceptions to such members .

11 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Agreed... Hopefully all of this nonsense is resolved within a couple of months.

If this is still an issue in 6 months time I will have little choice but to move back to the UK (something I’ve been looking at anyway). 

 

Those like me face the situation of having to travel overseas to Quarantine for 2 weeks before, then work offshore for 4 weeks. Then travel back to Thailand to quarantine for 2 weeks - Effectively a life of 4 weeks in quarantine and 4 weeks offshore !!! 

 

A lot of things need to be ironed out. 

 

 

 

 

 

I have read   your posts with interest,and no little sympathy! The more I have,along with others on this thread the more pessimistic I become about this process being workable as it currently stands - and with the tests/ hotel bookings  a certainly very expensive process with not much more of a lottery of a chance whether it will work. Is it Hanlon’s razor,I wonder, or more sinister? I know you are anxious to return and we thank you for volunteering as the "guinea pig ' and for sharing the process with us - please continue-. For me,even if writing off the value of my return flight in September,this seems a small price in comparison with cost of 'buying a ticket' to this uncertain process. While keen to return to the wife as planned ,I suspect waiting a few months may be the more practical option given I’ve somewhere to stay in UK. The very best ,Richard ! 

2 hours ago, brucegoniners said:

Tourism for this year is dead and buried and maybe well into 2021. This country's economy is going to hit an all time low. I may just sell my Thai Baht now!

It doesn’t work like that and even if it were to other countries have similar or worse issues. £ $ € which do you think will protect you better?

20 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

When I go back to the UK for my holidays, I cannot walk the very short distance from my hotel in Glasgow city centre to the railway station without seeing homeless people camped on the pavement, and also East European women begging, sitting holding paper cups out for money from passers by.

That’s the SNP for you! But at least you have the Govan philosopher Rab C Nesbitt to compensate  ????