JackGats

You could one out of your own pocket now to show good faith.

Aren't we cheating a bit here? Best investments somewhere should be compared with BEST investments somewhere else. Joking aside, I fear my gains on my Thai stocks may come to nothing if the Baht weakens for good. On the other hand transfering euros will give me more Bahts. I no longer feel like increasing my stakes in TH though. No good owing too money in a country that locks me out half the year.

Same question as always in similar cases: did they do a runner or was there some misunderstanding or inacceptable delay in issuing the test results? Maybe some naive tourists think Thailand is a banana republic when it comes to being sought by the police.

This optimistic forecast is from someone high up in the Thai financial establishment. I'd prefer it to come from sources like Bloomerg, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Seeking Alpha etc. Undeniably, the Thai stock exchange has a lot of catching up to do compared to the US and even Europe.

I hold it with my right hand because I use my left thumb fingerprint to unlock my smartphone and I don't want my drinking to make me vulnerable to hacking.

I have a problem with women In Thailand though, whenever I spot a woman with a wow figure in Thailand, on closer inspection she turns out to be a man.

Wow you got me scared there for a few seconds! I thought they'd revoked the 15th of January cut-off date to screw all those with already delivered Passes as of now. I arrive on the 14th but I'd rather not be one of only a handful of farangs in Thailand. There's (some) safety in numbers.

My Union Pay worked. I now have a card with a Master logo, so it should work too. A friend of mine withdrew 25k euros with his Bangkok Bank card in Germany couple of years ago.

The agent most probably lost the passport. How could you wait for 8 months? I get the jitters after 4 days when I leave my passport in the hand of strangers.

If the Thai could keep things simple, they would say "come after the cut-off date with your paperwork, and we'll have counters at the airport with staff from ASQ hotels in full body condoms, then you can book a 7-day quarantine right after landing".

Let's hope the forecast is better than the one about tourism.

I remember a European linguist who mastered the Thai language saying that the Thai script was not at all "reading efficient". He didn't elaborate what he meant but I surmise he meant reading Thai required too much brain work. Learning Thai myself and having learnt some mandarin in the past, I wonder if mandarin is not easier to get your head around. Once you recognise a character in Mandarin its meaning and syntax in is instantaneously clear. In Thai you're always scanning back and forth figuring out what belongs to what. Could it be that the Thai are stuck with a script that discourages protracted reading of the kind implicit in the reading of books?

News just in at 13:30 local time in The Tiger: "BREAKING: Test & Go registration closed indefinitely, must enter before January 15"

So whatever official announcement comes out tomorrow, it could be wise to print it out in both English and Thai in order to have something to show at check-in? Even if the airline staff haven't read the announcement, chances are dozens of passengers will, depending of what kind of flight is your first flight. On the other hand, if you are the only one one bound for Thailand on a feeder flight, you're on your own. But the nail-biting has got to stop somewhere! Otherwise we might as well start worrying about proper aircraft maintenance during this pandemic.

Never paid much attention to those IATA regulations. Are they binding, and for whom? I'd have thought it's for the airlines to find out what the requirements are at destination.

Should be ok if in the same bank. Otherwise maybe not.

Well, there is such a thing as victimless crime already. Now they've invented illnessless disease.

The Omicron wave is more of a test wave than an epidemics.

So my own ass could be lucky again since it is due to arrive on the 14th.

Indeed! I never understood how they could be under the same ownership and still act as competitors (provided you hide your tracks when you check the prices so that they don't recognise the queries as coming from the same potential customer). When I don't hide my tracks Booking quotes me a price 5-10% higher than Agoda, albeit with a better cancellation option.

True but how much of that is owing to staff being sent home to isolate? This is another way in which Omicron is different from previous waves: it makes a mockery of quarantine policies.

Better have a flu shot too before coming to Thailand.

We are all on tenderhooks about this. I was expecting an official anouncement today but it seems I have to wait until Friday.

Thank you. This would mean TPs for arrival after the 10th are void. Those arriving after the 10th must apply from scratch for an AQ. Wait a minute, no, that info is 10 days old. The issue is with already approved TPs with arrival after the 10th. Embassies always show stale infos alas.

Alas nothing people on TP in the next 7 days to go on. P.S. I thought the meeting was to take place today.