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15 hours ago, BayArea said:

don't they mean 1 million entering Thai airports? 

Especially as at least one (local) person on this forum says he has been out and back three times already this year. 

On 5/7/2022 at 1:40 AM, IAMHERE said:

Why?  Very simple....it's Taxed on amount of alcohol, less alcohol less tax per bottle, price per bottle is less.  Nothing more.

And the brewery pockets the difference. 

Reduced alcohol content but no reduction in price to the consumer. 

13 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Snatch and ladyboys is a contradiction surely ????

Oxymorons?

16 hours ago, darrenr said:

No mask here in Bali ! Walk the streets, go into bars , at my hotel no Mask!

 

not coming to Thailand again until they get rid of the mask mandate 

 

May as well stay home as no mask in Qld excepts hospitals 

Same here in Spain. No masks.

I understand that the population of cities in most Asian countries wear masks due to the air pollution. 

On 5/10/2022 at 4:53 PM, Onerak said:

Still waiting for this visa availability. 50K USD insurance checked. 100K USD in a foreign bank checked. 80K USD annual income for the last two years checked. 10 year visa. When is it available?

Renewable every five years. 

On 5/3/2022 at 1:06 AM, Orinoco said:

I did hear that the first Thai astronaut will be female.

Hello Sexy Martian. 

And they'll do their training in Pattaya where there is currently no atmosphere. 

6 hours ago, billd766 said:

ASEAN is a highly effective talking shop.

 

Sadly that is just about all they do

A bit like the Judiah National Front?

On 4/29/2022 at 3:19 PM, vinci said:

didn't they use to charge 500-Baht Fee back then, i remember paying 500 baht at the airport but don't remember what for.

They did, I think it was called a departure tax. Eventually, instead of paying the tax in cash at the airport prior to departu,it was added to the price if your airline ticket and remains so to this day.

On 5/2/2022 at 1:40 PM, Emdog said:

"INN said that traders and restaurant owners in the area reported an increasing number of tourists now that the country was more fully open again."

Any number north of zero is an increasing number....

I'm not quite sure what 'more fully open again' is supposed to mean. 

On 5/2/2022 at 4:32 PM, Tropposurfer said:

You want bespoke ... then Narin Couture can't be beaten. Paris trained. A couture house for discerning gentlemen.

Just up Sukhumvit Road (opposite side to Nana) just up from Soi 8. Older wooden styled front shop with a couple of single mannequin display windows.

No <deleted> farmed out factory suits (which is what every Indian and most other tailors in BKK sell you) from this Thai Master tailor, no rubbish stitching, real shell buttons on his shirts, no glued carcasses in suit jackets that twist, wrinkle, and warp in his clothing.

A best quality Italian woven fine Merino wool two piece suit will set you back over 1200 AUD but that's less than ⅓ the price for the same quality made and fabric suit in Australia. He can make anything. 

Many thanks for the info. I'll check them out when I return. 

When I (eventually) return to Thailand,  I am hoping to replenish my wardrobe (closet) with bespoke clothing, suits, shirts, shorts etc..

Thanks to covid, I have managed to reduce my bulk by 17.5 kg (+/-40lb) and as a consequence none of my clothes fit me.

My question to members is "are Thailand tailors  good value for money". I have purchased clothes in the past and my view is you get what you pay for. I.e. if you buy a $99 suit, it'll look like a $99 suit.

Have things changed?

On 4/22/2022 at 8:47 AM, PJ71 said:

Thai Pass website still requires hotel booking to process.

Probably because it is not 1st May. Previously nothing changed on the website until the effective date. 

9 hours ago, Tarteso said:

I told you…This is the reason for the existence of the Thai Air Forces.

And possibly a requirement for F35s?

On 4/18/2022 at 1:50 PM, mtls2005 said:

While no linkage is clearly stated it feels like this "Declaration of Endemicity" is tied to the current "Emergency Decree."

 

And my speculation is that they do not want to give up the Emergency Decree "crutch", ergo still epidemic.

 

Endemicity Is Meaningless

The coronavirus will be with us forever. But we still have no idea what happens next.

 

Endemicity promises exactly none of this. Really, the term to which we’ve pinned our post-pandemic hopes has so many definitions that it means almost nothing at all. What lies ahead is, still, a big uncertain mess, which the word endemic does far more to obscure than to clarify.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/endemicity-means-nothing/621423/

 

 

They don't want to give up their stranglehold until after the election. 

Looks like I'll continue spending my 'holiday' funds on Spain's sunny Costa Del Sol. 

On 4/15/2022 at 6:10 AM, bkk6060 said:

Crime is up all over the world this place will not be exempt.  In fact, I fear it will increase as more people come and want to release all that pent up frustration over the past 2 years.  Getting drunk and crazy and confrontational will be on the agenda for idiots

 

 

As I read the article, it does state that the doormen caused the trouble. There was no indication of confrontation. 

On 4/12/2022 at 10:06 AM, D M G said:

OFFICIALLY:  maybe or maybe not

So that's a definite maybe. 

20 hours ago, Onerak said:

War is bad for everything. Stocks volatile and mostly down. Cryptos down. Gas up. Inflation up. Gold up. Dollar slightly up. 

Edwin Starr was right. 

On 3/3/2022 at 8:51 PM, Albert Zweistein said:

Today I bought in Europe 500 grams medium size carrots at € 0.59 or 22 bht.

 

@ pompchop : are carrots western food ?

At the market today in Spain I bought 1kg avocado €1.00, 2kg mixed Chilli (peppers) €1.30, 1kg vine tomatoes €1.30.

A bottle of Rioja wine €3.00.

On 3/2/2022 at 6:49 AM, pokerface1 said:

Perhaps another flood ????????

A plague of locusts? 

13 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

He's making a list, checking it twice.

 

 

 

 

I've unfriended him on fb. See how he likes that. 

On 3/5/2022 at 1:23 AM, hotchilli said:

Prices will rise until no-one can afford to buy anything anymore, then they will drop again.

 

 

So if it doesn't rain, it will stay dry.

On 3/5/2022 at 1:19 AM, hotchilli said:

The west have other issues to deal with now, stopping Putin from going over the top.

Thailand seem only concerned with themselves and their damned tourism.

As usual.

On 2/23/2022 at 12:49 PM, StayinThailand2much said:

Asked 'Mr. Google'... "Thailand welcomed nearly 37,000 Saudis in 2019...", so why should 200,000 Saudis flock to Thailand? - No alcohol, no fun, places deserted, and things overpriced... They can have that at home! Okay, maybe they'll come for the sunshine... ????

Or Dubai.