Canadian Snowbird

And the "flip flop" continues. Who wants to make plans to return when you can't trust what the requirements will be when it's time for departure?

Also, you should have a receipt for any payment you made to the agent to use in your defence.

Contact your embassy and get your advise from them before you go to the police.

Get rid of all the unnecessary entrance requirements ... including the Thailand Pass system, the added covid insurance, the test and go then test and capture, and the hospitel scam ... and we might consider returning. Hopefully some of your golf courses will have survived.

There is also no money it it for the Thai's when nobody comes. I wonder if that will ever sink in and they will figure that out ... nah, too much to ask.

There is no profit when nobody comes either.

They're just not getting it. Do they honestly think that reducing the added insurance requirement from $20,000 to $10,000 is going to make any difference? There won't be any insurance companies willing to cover that amount because they won't be able to charge enough to cover the time it takes to do the paper work. Come on Thailand, get with the program and quick playing around with the ridiculous extra requirements.

If I had choose only between those two, I think I would welcome "the f#rt in the elevator". ????

Well Thailand, it's not like we didn't warn you that until you get rid of the Thailand Pass system, the extra insurance, the test and go and test and go again, and the hospitel fiasco, we weren't coming. You've already missed the boat on this winter season and we won't be coming for a short visit to salvage your songkran festival because we simply don't trust you not to keep flip flopping and changing requirements. You've now got 7 to 8 months to learn from your mistakes and get your act together for next winters tourist season.

I'm speculating here, but I suspect it would be fairly easy and convenient for a gangland member in their early thirties to use the profits of their crimes to obtain well forged passports (Sandu was found to have more than one in his possession), and to purchase a thai elite visa. If Thailand really wanted to route some of these guys out, the elite visa might be a good place to start .... follow the money trail .... bad guys in, good guys out. ????

I'm not sure where you read that, but it seems to me no countries "are being ordered not to trade with Russia or face sanctions themselves". All of the articles I have read concerns NATO and other European countries voluntarily tightening the financial noose on Russia and offering up assistance to the Ukraine in one form or another, but there are still levels of trade going on, and no one is giving "either/or ultimatums".

Don't expect it to generate much in the way of income as long as the Thailand Pass remains in place with all its extra requirements, because we aren't coming as long as it remains as it is.

It seems like every week I read something here that lessons my desire to ever go back to Thailand. The Thailand Pass is cumbersome at best, insecure at worst. The whole idea of paying for everything up front with no certainty of approval in time to make your flights is a <deleted> shoot. I miss spending winters and playing golf in Thailand, but I have to wonder how many golf courses will still be there if sanity ever returns to the country.

Who would want to take the chance? Like before, they might reduce the requirements to entice more tourists, then flip flop again and reinstate all of the requirements a few weeks later .... another gut punch in the making.

Sorry Thailand, but all the fancy promotional campaigns won't mean diddly do until you get your act together and stop the insane entry requirements, the flip flopping on testing and quarantines, the requirements for mandatory special insurance that won't cover you, and the potential hospitel scams. The longer it continues, the less likely we will be to ever come back, and the more likely we will be to pass on to others not to waste their time and money to go to Thailand.

Wow. This will really help to get the tourists back. Force you to get insurance, force you into quarantine in a hospitel if you test positive on arrival even with mild or no symptoms, then find out that the insurance won't cover you for the quarantine costs. Its looking more and more all the time that Thailand really doesn't want the tourists back. It seems every week I read something that gets decided that just puts up another deterrent. I'm really missing spending winters in Thailand and playing golf, but I can't see me ever coming back with the way they are handling things there. Do they ever think about the consequences of their decisions?

I can't wait to see the real numbers of tourist entries a few months from now, so we can have another laugh at their projections. Sorry Thailand, but we already told you we were not coming under those conditions. Better to go elsewhere, or just stay home and save our money again for this winter.

This will really help entice the tourists back won't it. Test positive on arrival, get quarantined, miss out on your vacation, plus get charged and fined for overstay because of being quarantined. TAT should put that in their promo's. Amazing Thailand.

Have you ever felt a sucker punch coming your way? Right ... do one day quarantine on arrival and if 1st test is negative, release you out into the community where omicron is already well in circulation. Then after 4 days, make you come back to quarantine at a hotel and wait for the results of the 2nd test. And if positive, its off to the hospitel for you. No thank you, I think I'll pass on that wonderful opportunity.

If calling it endemic means getting rid of the extra insurance, the pre- and post travel covid tests, and the ever changing quarantine requirements, then maybe the tourists will return. Too late for this winter however.

I will look forward to seeing what the real numbers amount to after the end of February. Me thinks they are being a tad optimistic. Maybe they should look at all the hoops tourists have to jump through, all the added costs, and all of the extra hassle just to get there along with the risk of being sent to hospital/hospitel to be paid out of pocket if tested positive. If they did, maybe they would understand why we cancelled our plans and decided not to come again this winter. Probably not though.

Sorry Thailand, but that just doesn't work having to go back again for that 2nd test. You're just setting people up to fail on the 2nd test. And besides, we already told you we are not coming back until you can provide better consistency and certainty to your visa and entry process.

I doubt test and go will be re-introduced, more like "test and quarantine (tbd) and test again before you can go". Sorry Thailand but you've already lost this high season because we aren't coming this year now, and not until you can provide some consistency and certainty to your visa and entry process.

If you're already there, its probably not worth the hassle to leave, just like its not worth the hassle (and added costs and other aggravations) to go to Thailand right now. You can't make plans for either situation because of all the flip flopping over the past 3 months.

Just another minor irritant to add to the very large list of existing irritants for tourists thinking of visiting Thailand now.