Cherrytreeview

Why do you believe Thailand's figures on anything? Their pure fantasy. You only have to look at the daily testing cases reported versus what's really going on. Yet you come on the forum cheerleading everyday. Thailand don't even have 30% of their population boosted.

Richard Barrow is reporting that the Thailand Pass system may have been compromised again. If you get an email don't download any attachments. 99.9% of effort on marketing slogans and walking through treacle schemes. 0.01% on fact based science and executing anything correctly.

How Amnesty International aren't involved in this crime against humanity is beyond me. These children have zero chance with the current lunatics running the asylum.

Just shows how conditioned we have all become that people are still prepared to accept a test to enter a country. Until people vote with their feet this racket will continue for years.

I have a horrible feeling that Thailand Pass may not be dismantled for a longtime to come. The Hi-so's couldn't care less about their citizens, that doesn't put a great pressure on them to remove it. The fact that the looney tunes opposition are even more extreme in their views means this theatrical charade ain't going anywhere soon.

Hoi An is very nice and dry pretty much all year round. Flight into Danang and then a short drive to the town. Ba Na Hills is nearby and has, i believe, the longest sky lift in the world. Stunningly beautiful place, a bit like a medieval French castle in the Vietnamese countryside. One of my favourites in SE Asia. You will also be spared the coach loads of Chinese. Air Asia did fly from Don Muang. I believe Vietnam still stipulate a 3 day quarantine.

If buying you have no idea who your neighbours are. Just ask the people who bought condos in the Base in Pattaya. Chinese airbnb and your very own nightclub on the other side of the wall at the weekend. If you rent, you can forgo your deposit and walk out the next morning. Love the importance of some people on this thread who really think they own something in Thailand and talk as if their Thai citizens. Their visitors on a rolling extension visa that own jack <deleted>.

It's going take some "boom" times to shift the excess stock in Bangkok and Pattaya. I think most people, apart from the money laundering Chinese, will be keeping assets at home and renting abroad. You don't own anything in Thailand and are only living there on an extension visa. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the Chang Rai real estate scene. What relevance it has to the overbuilt condo towers of Bangkok and Pattaya is beyond me. Having just watched a recent video of a Pattaya agent saying that a 3 million baht condo could achieve 20,000 to 30,000 monthly baht rent, i have a healthy scepticism for the Thai real estate market. Think i'll stick with my simple plan to double my money in the UK market over a couple of decades and strip out a healthy rental income in the process.

What would be better is to rent out your own property in your home country, rent in Thailand, make a substantial capital gain and also have a nest to fly home to if you so wish. Gives you an inflation linked real asset and a whole lot of options.

Improved economic conditions? With the borders still effectively shut? 40 million tourists reduced to 400,000. The only thing that will improve Thai real estate is even more creative accounting practices so that the real book value is never put on a Thai banks accounts. No fire sales, just keep building properties that no one wants.

It's nothing to do with "controlling" a virus that spreads as easily as measles. It's everywhere. When Thailand tests more, they find more. What it's to do with is an effective and timely triple jab campaign, so that societies can open up and live with endemic covid. Thailand has failed miserably with it's vaccine campaign. Instead they use xenophobic and unscientific politics with farangs entering the country.

Omicron isn't the same as Delta. I don't know why you don't want to move on. I have posted the UK's experience and how the country has moved on. All you had to do was watch the six nations rugby at the weekend. Maskless packed stadiums with people celebrating living again. You can't live as if your dead. Get tripled jabbed, live your life and lose the fear. Developed countries are.

Thanks for this. Another reason to get triple jabbed.

Omicron is in the rear view mirror in the UK. Wales announced the lowest amount of patients in ICU since July 2021. Remember some UK scientists forecast carnage only 6 weeks ago. People are fed up and bored with omicron. It's fatality rate is now barely above the seasonal flu. The UK is getting back to normal, not new normal just plain old normal. Time to move on. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/covid-now-comparable-to-flu-may-turn-endemic-post-omicron-uk-professor-122011100621_1.html

Congratulations. Jimmy White was a regular visitor to Thailand. Has a condo outside Pattaya. Played him at an pool exhibition at Endless Lounge, Soi Bukahow a couple of years ago. Beautiful looking girl and with Barry Hearn and world snooker opening up the game globally, i think she will find many more equal opportunities.

Here in the UK, omicron has a fatality rate close to flu and no one talks about long covid being associated with it. Heavy cold or flu symptoms yes but not all this nonsense. Thailand seems to want to live in a state of fear.

Your talking nonsense as usual. What other countries have a day 1 and day 5 test? As usual your just plain wrong. Vietnam opens completely tomorrow. https://thethaiger.com/news/regional/vietnam-en/tomorrow-vietnam-lifts-restrictions-on-international-flights-from-all-markets You might also note that Vietnam has 98% of their population double jabbed. Meanwhile, Thailand continues it's abysmal vaccination campaign at a snails pace.

Exactly. Vietnam is reportedly opening up completely on the 15th of this month. Reported in the BP.

I can. Zero proactive testing and Thai creative accounting. Surely you don't need to be told that.

You watch the rugby yesterday? Notice all the stadiums rammed full of happy maskless fans roaring their teams on. Like covid never happened? That's what happens in developed countries when you have well coordinated proactive vaccine campaigns. Your welcome to being tucked up in bed by 11pm and wearing masks outside in the stifling heat. Back to normal for us. ????

Disgraceful statistic. Thailand still seems terrified of anything covid related. No planning, acceptance, understanding, just panic. If in doubt take the easiest way out, shut the school and send everyone home. Many pupils poor education has just become nonexistent. Passed from one generation to the next.

Have fun. Think the other 39,600,000 visitors that visited Thailand in 2019 will be making alternative arrangements as well. Today Spain has removed vaccine restrictions for UK teenagers, saying how important the Brits are to their tourism industry. Meanwhile, Thailand's answer to Pixie and Dixie dream up more looney tune track, trace, swab, imprison and extort schemes to ensure their added to every travel agents blacklist worldwide.

If Thailand spent more time and money getting their population boosted rather than these daft schemes, they might actually get out the other side of the pandemic. Instead they have a paltry 20% boosted. So now we have, Test-Track-And-Trace, Test-Swab-And-Go and Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital. What about Test-A-Gogo or Test-A-Kathoey?

Balder-dash more like.

Your ignorance and factual inaccuracy never surprises me. I know one of the bar owners on Soi Chaiapom and he got a half price discount. Others didn't. These are things you might pick up if you either actually where in Pattaya or new some bar owners. Your information seems to come from YouTube. I don't believe you are in Pattaya and i don't think i'm the only one.