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I had an incident of trying to use my Thai issued UOB credit card at a duty free shop at KLIA. As soon the card started processing, the process stopped and with perhaps 10 seconds I got a live call from UOB in Bkk. Polite young man from UOB Bkk explained that KLIA is a severe hot spot for CC fraud/theft of data etc., and the shop I was in was is top of the negative list. He finished by saying, sorry but we will not process any transactions based at KLIA. I was very glad to get his call and glad that they refused to process the transaction.

I can't read a few areas of the Thailand Pass graphic, can someone please share what it says: ITEM 1 - With dark blue box at top with label 'Data Filing' then 3 bullet points (I can't read the period marks): Passport ........ ...... Certificate ........ Booking ITEM 2 - Next to ITEM 1 - Two dark blue boxes with small writing including QR Code. But I can't read the words (both boxes) before 'QR Code. Appreciate some help to get full details of the above. Thanks, much appreciated.

Agree, and perhaps add pass a well proven/accredited rapid test, all done within 15-20 minutes of arrival. All done, away you go, start your holiday.

Thanks, learn something every day.

Agree, seems to me that with some planning clever planning and organizing of swab materials/locations/staff/processing this could all be done at Swampy then just one step to get to the 1 night hotel and wait for the report. Further, seems that when travelers arrive at Swampy they are deemed to be a Covid 19 risk to Thailand, so why would then be allowed to travel around Bkk to a testing hub and then to a hotel, all before they are 'passed' (get negative report). All the more reason to keep the arrivals at Swampy until swab is taken. The Thailand Pass process 'map' says traveler must submit details of hotel, so: - Will there be a list of acceptable hotels for the 1 night stay? - Will that list actually be the current ASQ hotels? (But with no PCR tests.) - Can traveler leave the hotel as soon as negative report received by e.mail? - If traveler arrives at Swampy early morning/breakfast time flight, swab taken quickly and processed at the airport, then traveler then goes to 1 night hotel, then negative report gets to the traveler later same day, can traveler leave the hotel immediately or must stay overnight, or?????

All very nice but when will Australians be added to the list of countries which can enter Thailand?

Had a similar experience years back. I noticed an add for what I thought was a new restaurant down a Soi off Suk 55. I went in and discovered it was a very large venue and with some fluster I was taken to a sofa chair with a small table. Same waiter asked what drink I wanted and it came. Meanwhile I had noticed I was the only Western customer amongst a very large crowd of all male Thai customers. The drink bill was placed on the small table. I started to sip my drink but quickly the waiter was back asking for payment. After waiter took the money another older Thai man rather abrupt, good English, suit and necktie arrived and said 'thanks for visiting us but this is a private club', meantime he was pointing to the entrance door. I departed.

And before you can have confidence in the total timing of the 1 day quarantine so that you can book a domestic flight to your home city in Thailand and run to the airport (swampy or DM). This whole scenario cannot be attractive to holiday makers, especially when there's plenty of good holiday locations worldwide which have good Covid 19 focus but little to zero complications.

Mine gives me an immediate SMS for EVERY transaction, 200Baht per year.

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5: M*A*S*H Why? To me very clever comedy lines, very often with strong/important/valuable sociological undertones. I don't watch it for the military aspects, in fact it has very little relationship/connection to anything military and not during a war. I served a full posting time + in Sth Vietnam, the daily activities, events, contacts were nothing like what's portrayed in M*A*S*H, and we certainly didn't have characters like Klinger. Here in Sydney we have forever reruns, currently 2 programs every mid/late afternoon M to F and 2 on Sundays.

"...Nothing is official yet, ..." And expect a number of suggestions/plans/amendments/denials etc., by every agency in Thailand over the next days/weeks/months.

Add, some good research maybe 20 years ago which discovered 'Thai parents don't discipline their kids, especially their sons, because they fear if they do exercise discipline their kids won't love them'.

20 countries? Can you please share a link or list? Thanks.

That's also changing quickly, as we speak, for at least NSW.

27 countries.... But let's get the first answer, still a mystery as to the 5 additional countries that make up the first list of 10?

"...how are they going to test, put up the thousands of tourist arriving daily." Nice point, the authorities will be hoping that tourists arrive after 1 Nov in large numbers. Some will be families, some groups of friends and many will be singles, all of whom need to stay in a hotel for 1 night before moving on with their holiday plans/travel/accommodation. Will they we required to stay in one of the authorized ASQ etc., hotels or just any hotel? Will they all have some type of electronic tracker/locator fitted? Does the government have the tools/equipment/manpower to fit the tracker/locator and monitor it for 24 hours and who will recover the tracker/locator after 24 hrs? So new arrivals have to do a full swab PCR test on arrival then go to a quarantine hotel. So imagine a traveler/family etc., arrive at swampy at 8:00 am and by 9:00 am their swab(s) have been taken and off they go to a quarantine hotel. Then at say 6:00 pm same day they get an e.mail 'negative'. Can they now leave the quarantine hotel, or do that have to always stay overnight, even though they've already got a negative report?

Capitalism at work: - Delay sales for higher selling price. - Sell products which can kill you.

The 1 day quarantine... where will the swab be taken? At the airport on arrival or at the ASQ hotel when traveler arrives at the hotel? Hopefully at the airport on arrival so that analysis of the swab can start promptly. And, when will the 1 day Q start if passenger arrives at swampy late afternoon/evening. I have a flight booking for 9 Dec, arrives swampy 5:20 pm. If arrival is on time, does it mean I must go to my ASQ hotel and stay there until 5:20 pm on 10 Dec? Or for my arrival and later arrivals does the 1 day start the next day 10th? I need to make a domestic air booking from swampy to Chiang Mai, but until I get a clear understanding of the above points I can't make the domestic booking.

Has anybody found full details of how 'Thailand Pass' works? Please share, thanks.

And what rents are being paid on these storage buildings and is it a market or inflated/very inflated rental and who owns the buildings and what positions they hold in government and how many position exist to maintain, clean, secure these buildings and what's the name on the bank accounts their salaries are paid into and does it match the nominal name of the actual employee or is there no actual employee?

Thanks.

Can you please ask your 'friend if: - The list of 10 includes Australia and is it actually/totally/100% sure official? or - Is the official/100% sure list the 27 countries as listed in several comments?

I The list of 27 countries. I'm lost, Is this list of 27 now official or one of the many throw away comments of the last few days?

PM says zero quarantine for double vaccinated, neg report at check-in, rapid test on arrival, result in 15-20 minutes then freedom to travel. Anutin says PCR test on arrival and 1 night quarantine (but maybe that depends on what time your flight arrives at swampy), if test negative freedom to travel anywhere. So once again it's not clear what the rule is? Do I book one night at ASQ hotel, will that be done by the health ministry? Until it's all clear travelers can't make bookings for domestic travel after they arrive in LOS. Again travelers unsure what they need to do / whether they want to travel at all. Confusion is the standard.

Or perhaps one member of the group will break one of their high heels, the end of the world as we know it for the whole group. Perhaps they could all walk with no shoes to show compassion and togetherness. But I'm sure TAT would give them free flip flops so they can at least walk to the bus. Or perhaps if only one tests positive the authorities will just ignore it rather than see tears.