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? 

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. 

10 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

There is no profit in that scheme.....

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.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

 

Russians are about as welcome as a f#rt in an elevator at the moment....

Except Thailand who would welcome them back tomorrow or even sooner if there was a night flight.

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

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. 

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. 

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.