alphonse

You want people to catch Covid 19? It can be a very unpleasant/horrifying experience and can even cause death. But I'm sure that you are aware of that.

You mean, like the band that carried on playing as the Titanic sunk. Continuing the Titanic theme, there are few deck-chairs moving on Pattaya beach.

The Minister for Non-Tourism. In the twenty odd years that I have been spending 3-4 months in what used to qualify as the "Land of Smiles" Thailand has turned FULL circle. Initially I came for a bit of work, now I'm a sun seeking tourist who is not particularly hard up. Not particularly into sleeze (a bit) and not a drunkard of more than moderate+ levels. I remember the Baht in the 90s for £1 and the cost of a bottle of Singha usually around 60-65 in most bars. I couldn't quite believe it! Gradually, and for various reasons, exchange rates didn't just become less favourable they were turned on their head. It was all still acceptable though (just) until airport taxi drivers started blatantly asking, "How much you give me?" with the meter off. Dual pricing and rip-offs became more rife, and you had to watch your 'bin' because the 'chit' was often exaggerated. I could go on. No room on this forum. Then we had the military, police rip-offs of tourist in the street (ciggy-butt police) and more and more restrictions which meant you could no longer, for example, watch the sunrise beside a Sukhumvit caravan bar after a few hours of gentle sipping and marvellous company. The Land of Smiles became the Land of the Puritans. Now, whilst all around them open up they are still on the make, delude themselves that they are a special case and still think that it is they doing the customer (tourist) a favour rather than the other way around. The penny will not drop. Times have changed forever.

He didn't say Covid was intentional. He said it was a "gift" to the repressors. There is something in that.

Did you build your own pedestal, or did you get it as flat-pack online?

As long as Thailand considers that it is doing the holiday visitors a favour by letting them come there, then their tourism will decline. The alternatives are many. Cambodia is greedy for us,

Terrible isn't it. Who would have known that the whole world has been gripped by a virus that kills people. Poor us.

I am not intending to travel until mid-Dec., but with all these complaints I had a look at it yesterday. It actually seemed quite well presented, although without documentation to submit (flight/hotel booking still to be made) clearly I could only get so far. I have an official (very) UK double-vaxxed certificate, but there is no passport number on it, as would be expected. I note that the Thai Pass instructions say that this document must contain personal information such as home address, password number etc. I take it that the use of the words such as means that not all that personal info. is required, but just some of it and an address, d.o.b, or NHS number suffices (although the latter is probably meaningless to them.) You can always pay cancellation cover when booking a flight just in case there is a hitch with getting the number on time, but the expense of it all piles up repeatedly. I get the impression that the Thai authorities assume that tourists are desperate to come to their self-confessed unique country and are oblivious to the fact that there are attractive alternatives. I need to visit for family reasons, but would think twice about it all if my visit were to be for tourism/holiday purposes only.

Pork is actually classified as a red meat as you stated. Not good in excess.

You don't need the Covid 19 (negative) for the Thai Pass. You need one to present when you arrive (along with Thai Pass number,) taken within 72 hrs of arrival.