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Ive only ever been asked for this at the HatYai borders, never by air and if I remember correctly it always the quieter border that would ask - many years ago though.

Thailand 4.0 is still in beta stage... ????

Great news, and they have a premium economy product minus some frills.

30 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

So Emirates and Qantas are running A380's despite saying they would be scrapping them. Maybe Singapore will change their minds too,

Emirates never said they would scrap them, they just wont take delivery of more after the last few delivered, meanwhile they have over 100+ that will rejoin the fleet shortly and be part of the fleet for the next several years. They are even retrofitting a large part of their a380 with their new premium economy - looks lush..

1 hour ago, Kinnock said:

Meanwhile, Singapore Airlines are scrapping their A380's.  Mixed signals about the recovery of the airline industry.

A380 perhaps isn't the best indicator for recovery of the airline industry. Even Qatar are restoring some A380 - but this is due to problems with A350 that need repairing

5 minutes ago, Prince77 said:

I am irritated - why should he pay anything when one pre-condition coming back to Thailand is an insurance covering at least 50K US$ in case of a Covid infection (whether with symptoms or without)?

 

 

I think the reality is they want you to pay first because they know any reasonable insurance provider will say "you having a laugh?" so there exists a risk they wont get anywhere near what they wanted..

13 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Not having a TM6 for departure means nothing. In fact the airport staff have tm6 cards with them to hand out to folk that have lost them.

Many folk coming to Thailand are not tourists. Some live here and some come for extended stay.

Things such as filing a  90 report.

Obtaining Drivers license, Certificate of residence, extensions, etc....

Almost anything that involves immigration will require a copy of your TM6.

In fact if it's lost technically you are supposed to file police report to show immigration (most likely not enforced. Can be) 

Heck think you will even require it to open bank account. 

So YES it's required.

Only the most insane immigration offices enforce the police report for lost tm6... cough samut prakan..

Not a problem at CW

1 hour ago, Lite Beer said:

Or why not just volunteer and get a visa legally.

Or why bother? oh wait your 50+, time to stick the boot in

Its absolutely insane all these measures at a collective 420million baht hospital deficit, thats so tiny, and shared across every hospital, in another country that could be one cancers patience bill

36 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

the benefit is flying under the radar. need I elaborate?

Nope, no probs, needs to be incentive on the other side though, i.e. buying at 99.9%, i cant imagine how these deals are done, ive done localbitcoin before but only for a few hundred, at 10k meeting someone at coffee club hmm probably prefer the extra cost

2 hours ago, tinjim said:

Hi guys,

 

I finally arrived in Bangkok after experiencing all the kinds of trouble everyone has.

 

Applied with Yahoo mail on November 1. Automatic email the next day then nothing.

Applied again with Gmail, instant confirmation, Thai pass the next day.

 

Thai airways checked all the documents required before boarding.

 

At Suvarnabhumi they only asked for Thai pass and negative PCR test. No lines, everything went fast (8.30 am).

 

Got tested on my way to the hotel at 10. Just got my result now (4.30pm) , negative. 

 

And now it comes  for the big surprise.

 

Although I'm negative, the hotel reception states that i should stay locked into my room until tomorrow check out at noon!!!

 

Another insanity yet revealing how absurd all this process is.

 

Nobody seems to know exactly what the rules are.

 

Has someone experienced the same situation? I think i read that other travellers were free to wander as soon as they got their negative test back, which seems nothing but logical!

 

Should I call the tourist police for false imprisonment?

Just kidding. 

 

I'm so exhausted by the trip and most of all by all the process that i just want to crash into my bed.

 

I just wanted to let you all know that here is another insanity you might face when arriving.

 

Good luck to everybody

You're not off the hook yet. I suspect the reason (as over-the-top as it is) is that other tourists on your flight might not get their results to very early tomorrow morning or late tonight (it took barrow 28hrs), if they are positive then you could be screwed - unless you had an empty row, and that behind and in-front, and you had a private transfer to the hotel (although I guess those at same hotel they would of got their results too by now).  You got a little further to go to get out the woods... Good luck

I thought the prices were closer 60,000 recently?

2 minutes ago, Jenkins9039 said:

Depending on where you are, i could do 10k

He said he wants to avoid P2P. But out of interest whats the benefit to you, spread on stable coins is tiny and you can liquidate yours at close to dollar any time?

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Heartbreaking ????

Indeed, that's just really sad, I bet the one that got conveniently away is the head honcho too. If Facebook can plaster mis-information warning everywhere for differing opinions on covid issues then they can sure as hell add warning about loan sharks and loan scams... Same applies to line or tiktok or whatever the acquisition source was here..

Depending on which page Google takes you to the rules are unclear - one say no history of overstay, another say no more than two overstays, one said none in three years and some forum posts mention five years - any idea which it is?

I overstayed by a number of months in 2014, paid the fine and returned a few days later, I was then on working visa/permit. I cant recall if I overstay by 2-3 days in 2015 too or if that was in 2014, and a few overstays by days in 2012, either way more than 5 years ago, and new passports since.

Any experience of applying for TE with a buried history of overstay? I know people like to chant that the computers have it all linked up, but I've never found this to be the case, otherwise the times I have been questioned at length to purpose no one has ever mentioned overstay.

It will obviously be a question I ask TE when applying but I want to make sure I'm not setting fire to this money based on the salesman advice

This probably due to the BOT regulations - similar to how they want to stop major international drug dealers using anonymous rabbit cards to illegitimately store their billions of baht - it wouldn't surprise me if Paypal (as bad as they are) decided it wasn't worth the cost to be compliant.

48 minutes ago, Marcel72Swiss said:

Hello everyone

Finally iam here in Thailand so I will share my experiences.

At the Airport Zurich they controlled everything again, You will need Copys of all the Document you already Used for the Thai Pass. Including Thai Pass.

Make 2 Copies from all, you will need this because some of the control keep some of them.

 

At Singapore Airport nothing to show.  At the Airplane you have to fill out 2 Forms.

When you come to Phuket then you have to show it on the Pass Checkpoint, Healt Control and for Pce Test.

So finally everywhere all the Document again and again. I asked myself for what was this Thai Pass worthy? I was thinking just to show this and all okay, so I was wrong ????????

How busy was the flight from SIN to BKK?

Ignore i see you said phuket

1 hour ago, chinasimon said:

 

Understandable, I try to avoid European airlines for that reason as well. Long-distance flights are a privilege only for longer-service flight crew (read: dragons). 

But Singapore Airlines has pretty flight attendants and is a nice place for a stopover too. ????

To be fair most of the middle eastern airlines have decent crew - usually a mix of philippines, thai, nepal, indian, indonesia women - there will be only one local qatari/uae guy etc.. (nepotism of the non-thai variant),  that will do one courtesy sweep then vanish...

4 minutes ago, Pinot said:

such as simply showing proof of vaccination and nothing else other than passport.  

Like in all those fourth-world 27 EU countries or the USA you mean? (sarcasm aside, to be 100% fair think some you do need a lateral test or PCR before to be fair, but 100x less non-sense than this joke of a system)

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

Totally irresponsible, and why mandatory insurance for these people is a must.

The family has insurance, sufficient insurance to qualify for the thailand pass, it's just weather any sane international insurance underwriter is going to cover illogical government behavior, that said with toddler it's still irresponsible be a nightmare for kids locked up that long in a hotel room

Looks like there another 3-24 cases today, depending on the density of the inbound flights, 3 best case scenario no one in the 3x3 matrix of your seat, to 24 if plane full and you're in a seat surrounded by others (i.e. not window)..