Pattaya46

53 minutes ago, EricTh said:

3 hours ago, Pattaya46 said:

You realize that some people would have to travel hundreds or thousands kilometers (!) just for a 2-minutes PCR test in an embassy !!!

You have to go the embassy anywhere to get your COE , don't you?

No, you don't, or at least not for all embassies.

For France by example, the COE process is made entirely by email.

2 hours ago, chub said:

You would think that 'The Nation' journalist would know better than to attach a photo of a Taiwanese airliner to an article about a flight from Guangzhou to Phuket.    

The British guys working for The Nation may not know too well the geography of this part of the world... Far from UK ????

22 minutes ago, EricTh said:

If Donald Trump at age 75 can recover from the virus, I don't see the fear of contracting the virus. //

It's out of subject, but you really think that you will be able to get the special drugs and treatments that he just got?

23 minutes ago, EricTh said:

// The only virus test is to test them abroad before they board the plane.
I am sure Thai embassies should have the facility to do so and charge the applicant. //

You realize that some people would have to travel hundreds or thousands kilometers (!) just for a 2-minutes PCR test in an embassy !!!

On 10/9/2020 at 11:10 AM, Max69xl said:

If you apply for an O-A Visa in your home country, then the passport needs to be valid at least 18 months.

On 10/9/2020 at 11:35 AM, Pib said:

Passport only needs to be valid for 6 months.  Like below snapshot from the Thai Embassy UK website. // 

On 10/10/2020 at 4:59 AM, Peter Denis said:

In Brussels your passport needs to be still valid for at least 18 months (see requirements attached below and marked in red).  //

We all know that conditions can vary from country to country. 

To avoid this kind of contradictory answers, it would be useful that the OP indicate from which country/embassy he depends on...! 

If he his from Germany, infos about UK or BE embassies are not really useful here. 

On 10/7/2020 at 6:31 PM, impulse said:

// along with lots of threads torn from local news about Thais losing a bunch of money to card fraud.  And Thai banks saying "not our fault, not our problem".

You may have noticed that in many (most?) of these cases, it was a "family problem"...

I know that banks in my country (France) usually not consider it's a fraud (and then not cover it) when your card is used by someone close to you, family member. Same here.

4 hours ago, johng said:

 

Unfair comparison, because the second pic is an old one during the work in progress of this new area. I will have to search in my albums to get a more recent one, but they added more blue area, a nice marine compass, pedestrian paths, trees and green areas on extremities...

23 hours ago, johng said:

No idea what these podium thingies are supposed to be used for either

There were supposed to be socles for a big old marine anchor and some nice decoration rocks, but they were late for the naval event and never finished this "decoration"

32 minutes ago, Ty Hareways said:

Quarantine: No 'tourists' will go. //

So what about this ? 

"about 1,600 people worldwide have applied to the Special Tourist Visa"

1'600 is not huge, but is still a fair number of 'tourists', far from zero. 

2 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Short tips? With 2 weeks quarantine on arrival?

How are they managing a short trip?

Uh? Statistics were from *before* Covid-19, of course.

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

The ridiculously low number of Elite members (448/7,000) showing an interest in returning tells its own story. People are not willing to be caged up as part of their holidays. 

Hasty conclusions IMHO 

I remember reading statistics from ThailandeElite, and the majority of Elite visa members where using it for very frequent but rather short trips to Thailand (before Covid). So probably few members may be interested in the long stay offer (90+ days) of this STV.

50 minutes ago, stouricks said:

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

I can see not reason for it to be a problem next year.

That is until the 'current rules' are changed.

Non-O Extension rules for Retirement nearly not changed in last 15-20 years.

Only change I remember was last year for the duration of the 800k seasoning.

Edit: And of course they added the new "monthly income" method the year before, for countries whose embassy stopped to provide income letters.

1 hour ago, MR1888 said:

The PCR test has a 99% accuracy meaning that in 1% of all tests will result in a false positive.

Unsure on that. Could mean that 1% will result in a false negative ?..

or more probably a combination of false positive/negative?.. but I ignore the ratio.

57 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Not only that, but individual countries are at different stages of the pandemic and using different strategies.

How can you draw any sensible conclusions when you put them all in the Same Bag? 

The 2 posts I replied to were talking about "shutting the globe down"

How can you get any status of "the globe"/"the world" without putting together data from all countries ?

You guys are just trying to find false excuses to "eliminate" data and graphs that you don't like... or who not match with your biased theory... 

6 hours ago, Fat George said:

NEWS from Barrow: It seems Brits are denied the special tourist visa. Should we now lobby the UK Gov to deny entry to all Thai people?

Why bring Mr Barrow in this story ?

I don't remember seeing him posting such a "news" ??

Without a link this OP looks like fake news 

21 hours ago, OumarhindaOunsingha said:

On 10/1/2020 at 12:02 AM, genericptr said:

// but seriously, we're shutting the globe down for this?

 

Yes, they are shutting the globe down for this. Extremely stupid, extremely brutal. But those in power are like this.

No, not for the graph above, but for the graph below ! ????

7 hours ago, PatOngo said:

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai Beaches Won’t Reopen Fully Until Vaccines Become Available

In the meantime.....!

 

What relation between this African beach photo and Thailand beaches ??? 

source

4 hours ago, Magenta408 said:

Let's get our quarters sorted out and are we talking past or future tenses. Can it be that difficult?

Please complain to ThaiVisa's News Team (again)

The original Reuters article clearly say Q4; no ambiguity.

And BTW it would be nice to this team to put a link towards original articles 

Thailand set for 50,000 foreign tourists in Q4, down 99.5% -industry body

https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-economy-tourism/thailand-set-for-50000-foreign-tourists-in-q4-down-99-5-industry-body-idINL4N2GR115

On 9/28/2020 at 6:37 PM, fdsa said:

take a look at Krabi.

Krabi is very nice in the cool season,

but so many rainy days on a full year  ????

PS: Rainy days: Krabi 171, Pattaya 106

Just now, elliss said:

 Absolutely Correct .

 The World's largest brothel , has had its day .. //

Uh?

A comment from someone who probably never visited Walking Street. 

How could a place be a brothel when there is no "sexual activity" ?

And yes, maybe still a very few short-time rooms on this street, but marginal cases and the huge majority of businesses on Walking Street are places without sex, when not without nudity.

58 minutes ago, Expat Tom said:

Unbelievable!!! And where does the brain trust in Bangkok think that the CCP Wuhan Coronavirus came from? Incase they are geographically challenged, let me help them....WUHAN Is IN CHINA! Where do the brilliant Thai decision makers think that the Asian Flu, the Hong Kong Flu, Avian Flu, Swine Flu and SARS came from? Duh! CHINA. //

Why care now where the virus came from? or which countries have been badly touched by this virus?

The only important thing to accept travelers from a country is its situation right now (or let say on last week or last month)

No doubt that China ranks very good with such criteria. China managed the Covid far better than many of our western countries... ;(

2 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

If titled walking street, why do they let cars driven on it?

stopped the madness!

Walking Street used to reopen to cars very late in the morning, maybe 3-4am (? unsure)

So nothing really strange to see the street nearly desert at that time.

I must admit it seems more desert as usual though. ;(

3 hours ago, mogandave said:

23 hours ago, Bonobojt said:

So basically if your Rich you can come in. 

So having $16,000 in the bank makes you rich? 

The opposite of that!

Looks like you are not very good in mathematical logic ????

You are rich => You can keep 500'000B in your account  (you can come in)

So this is équivalent to :

You can't keep 500'000B in your account => You are not rich

The opposite of what you wrote ????