Rainville

35 minutes ago, Cory1848 said:

who are younger (backpackers) and not interested in drinking 

Yeahhhh those are a rare bunch haha

Edited: Tourists are choosing Cambodia over Thailand. Cause? No quarantine, no hassle. 

Your move Thailand.

That's great news ! Finally a country doing it right.

What about the nightlife? Bars/clubs, are they opened at the moment? Any curfew in place? Restrictions?

Thanks! 

Might book it for March!

1 hour ago, head bender said:

• They still don't understand no one is going to come until they open up locally. Westerners are not going anywhere until the economy ie bars and other fun things to do are up and running.

Very true. 

Not coming to Thailand until I'm sure the bars/clubs are up and running at full capacity.

Until then: Croatia/Spain will do. 

1 hour ago, ehs818 said:

In my experience, people (tourists) do not plan to visit active pandemic hot spots or war zones. You choose your definition for what is which and where. But if seems to me that if you want to attract vaccinated tourists, you should first use the lock down time that you have created to actually vaccinate the people who are in those areas where tourists will go so that no one passes along the virus. We are burning precious time here and also usually the left hand knows nothing about what the right hand is doing.

Vaccinated tourists don't care about covid hotspots. 

I'm ready to book my tickets as soon as quarantine is lifted, and so are many of my friends. 

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Is there any agreement on how 'tourists' will prove that they have received two jabs of approved vaccine?

Well, Europe has a COVID passport/app/digital QR code now in place. Easy to use and check. Can't be faked. 

The rest of the world, not sure.

13 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Hardly anyone will travel here for a good few years. 

 

Young people? It's going to be much more expensive to travel from now on and young people don't have that disposable income any more. Certainly not during a global recession.

 

We won't see mass air travel for a while yet either. 

I'm not sure what you're smoking but speaking as a 'somewhat young' people (33yo) from Switzerland, me and all my friends have lots of cash as the pandemic forced us to stay at home doing nothing but work. We've booked dirt cheap flight tickets to Vietnam/Thailand for October. We also booked hotels, the cheapest I've ever seen btw. 

So no.

• Plenty of people have extra money to spend. 
• Flights are currently very cheap and easily refundable/modifiable (at least from Europe)
• Hotel are dirt cheap as well, even for Oct/Dec. And you can cancel as far as 24h before arrival. 

When SE-Asia countries open to vaccinated tourists without quarantine, there will be a HUGE influx of tourists coming in. 

Only question is: which country will be the first to smell the golden opportunity. 

On 10/23/2019 at 5:39 AM, Xaos said:

lots of roads urine tests in Pattaya recentely

Pattaya as well? <deleted>

God I wish I'll be able to rent it in Hanoi Bangkok or Pattaya! But so far, no luck. If anyone knows of a place that rents it in one of those 3 cities for late September, let me know!!

I'll gladely pay premium price per day ;p