Gilligan In Drag

Really a shame whats happening, its just made up hysteria and politics etc. to try and scam something. Medical tyranny in another guise and form seems to be taking shape, really. 500%+ more people in emergency rooms eh? Between what time and what time? Between the time when they were closed due to the pandemic and now? And let me guess, they tested positive for cannabanoids while seeking attention for other issues. So never mind you got hit by a car, you have cannabis traces in the bloodstream, so thats whats wrong with you! Well, thats the world we live in now thanks to the WHO the lying mass medias and western politicians and politicians et al, whatever politicized thing is up with your body according to some guy with a piece of paper certifying he's a doctor has been coerced by his bosses to find, thats what injured or made you ill ot even killed you etc, not what the patient has come in to the emergency room for, not the obvious common sense things such as a sudden and flabberghasting eruption of severe auto-immune system disorders in a 20 year old or that, now old, chestnut myocarditis. If he hadn't smoked ganja that one time in the last 5 weeks he wouldn't be dying of moneypox, 'r humty dumty box 1ACX9-7 or whatever the flavor of the week is! Tests positive for cannabis(never an inaccurate result!), therefore cannabis gave him a severe concussion and poor performance on our special inhouse IQ test custom designed on the spot to suit each test subject, by golly! Tell the people! We gotta test everyone for cannabis skew the results just to make sure and put 'em in camps for testing positive! They are in great danger and they are now retarded and insane so the medical system and society could get overwhelmed. Well end up like Afghanistan where they smoke all the time or Uruguay or Canada god forbid! If anyone you see is acting funny or otherwise not playing along as it were, just call the nw hotline and benefit immensely from an earache by listening to our circa 1987 answering machine and its scratchy, extremely loud, distorted warbly music for 45 minutes or until you can't take it anymore or you just may get lucky and get to talk to our staff member who doesn't know anything and cannot really understand you because you are foreigner who know too much and speak Thai too much and talk too much so cannot help you, kha! Sorry na! Goodbye...

Except that in the case of your example Vietnam, like Thailand, Malaysia Cambodia, they no longer require vaccination documents or test results either according to the IATA COVID travel information page. Having money in an account is not the issue for me and for a lot of people who do multi entry visas as opposed to visa extensions in country, the issue is internal Thai immigration's propensity to abuse applicants and it doesn't end until you get out of the loop of going in and paying tribute to your abusers once every 90 days and once a year for the big trauma fest of the visa extension circus. Its not really my thing. If a Thai consulate in Vietnam or any of those other countries offers a multiple entry 1 year visa, that might be the way to go, but last I checked, Savanakhet is one of the few consulates that offer 1 year, non-immigrant O visas. I picked one up in Jakarta once, 10 years ago, great embassy, no queues, non-plussed, friendly, informed, willing to help, fluent, English speaking Indonesians working the windows, very nice, everything as it should be, though you do wait a week to get your visa. You can take some side trips around Java while you wait I suppose. But of course Indonesia is still like Laos requiring documents if they allow people at all into the country, though I think Bali is admitting people with just proof of negative testing results and they were offering multi-one year visas at an official franchise office awhile ago. That would really be the way to go I suppose, hang out at the beach for a week while you wait. I don't see that there would be a big problem or a huge risk. Not having such documents when required, the airlines would probably just knock you back and you wouldn't be allowed on the flight or if they let you on the flight anyway, without test results, you might get tested on arrival in Laos or wherever. If you mean that upon being spot checked you'd end up testing positive and have to be sent to quarenteen, OK, I suppose for many people that would be a bit of a problem should the quarenteen be for a long time or even worse they just never let you out for whatever reason, such as being able to charge you lots of money for the use of the quarenteen facilities. But you face the same problem, going to a hospital to get tested, you test positive and I believe they take you away to the camp for a spell. Also the situation as far as land entry versus air travel, is often different which is why I asked. I'm not flying to Laos, I'm travelling by land. So, I'm not really that bothered if I get to Laos and the immigration guy is in a bad mood and asks for my COVID documents and i don't have them. I'll just take the bus back into Thailand, get tested and get my documents and try again. Thanks everyone else, sounds like good news, land crossing into Laos they likely won't ask for COVID documents. Hopefully Laos will soon drop their requirements as more and more countries do the same.

I am considering going back to my old routine of getting a multi-entry O family visit visa from the Thai consulate at Savanakhet. Doing it locally at the immigration police office, as we have had to do since the border closures in country, has, as expected, not been a good experience either time, they just mess with you. The consulate in Savanahkhet was always a breeze and I hope it still is. Anyway, my question is, Thailand has dropped all of their entry requirements but what about Laos? Is the country only open to the vaccinated, or do you have to get tested and get those documents together to enter Laos? How has people's experiences been with Laos immigration on COVID entry requirements, perhaps they don't check or are they rather fantical about it all?

A leisure city, eh? Sounds like a euphemism for a city where everyone's unemployed. Las Vegas is number 1 for unemployment in the US at 9% according to USA by Numbers, speaking of publications that perhaps no one reads, so I vote for Vegas. Last time i checked, as an American citizen I'm not required to know where Vegas or anything is, but its not too far from Southeast Asia is it? Well certainly on a galactic scale its not so far anyway, sheesh, lets not get persnicketty.

I don't understand your reply here though thank you for your info that you personally weren't asked for your covid details when you checked in or stepped onto the plane in a particular airport in Thailand going to another airport in Thailand I assume. Anyway thats what I am trying to find out about: what are the rules regarding Air Asia Thailand's domestic flights. The rules have changed? What rules? Air Asia"s rules, Thailands rules? Thats what I'm asking about, what are the rules and most importantly what are Air asia's rules? Do you know where I can read them myself? Or have you not seen them and you are assuming that some rules or other have changed? It doesn't ultimately matter what the Thai govt rules are, though Air Asia has tried to pass the buck and say, "Well whatever the rules are in your country, you'd better know what they are because we are not responsible for any problems you might have once you push the I agree button and give us your money. The main thing is how does it come out in the wash, ie when you step up to check in or get on the plane does Air Asia ask you for your COVID info, does that determine whether you are allowed to get on the plane or not in the case of a domestic flight? What more do I want? Thats all I've said it. You gave me an answer, thank you very much for that. You're done theres nothing more I want from you. If you don't mind I'm interested and hoping to hear what others have to say. It may be that some people have been asked to prove that they are COVID free to get on an AA plane. It may be that 3,4,5 others on here, like you, were not asked. Its easy to take a screenshot of papers? Well what if those papers say that I am positive for COVID? Then oh darn, I won't be able to use my ticket, will I? No, I'm not willing to pay for a ticket and only maybe I can use it.

If anyone else has any experience with Air Asia asking for your COVID papers or not asking for them, I'd love to hear about it and where and when, especially if it was out of Roi Et in the last month or so. Thanks.

Yeah, AA's customer service was not too great in the past, now its non-existent. I never did have any problems with outrageously late flights or anything else, but yes, you'd often as not have to wait half an hour 20 minutes after the scheduled departure time on the Bangkok-Roi Et route. I've flown them from Don Muang to various places in Indonesia and back here a bunch and Nepal several times and they did what they print on the can, no issues, I was happy, its the best value, but I draw the line at not opening any communication lines, thats a bad precedent for me to support with my buying their tickets. Update: I just went through the steps of booking a flight with AA and when you do that you reach a step in the process where they ask you to agree to something that says you understand that your ability to get on the plane is still contingent on whatever the COVID decrees are in the country of boarding and exit. I don't know what Thailand's policy is regarding domestic flights, I suppose I should research that, but what you read everywhere all the time regarding international flights of course is that you have to at least have a negative test result within the last couple of days before your departure. One guy in this thread says he didn't have to show COVID documents, but as we know, in Thailand they enforce rules sporadically sometimes selectively for various reasons. I'm not saying I don't want to hear what people's experience was, to the contrary, I really appreciate that, but there may be info that is more conclusive floating around regarding what Air Asia's rule is. So, ya see, this is what i mean though about not liking no contact info, you have to try and guess what it is you need to do, kind of ridiculous, but what choice apart from the bus do you have? Bus would not be bad if it weren't for the complete mess that the Morchit central bus station area is in and I think now they don't take you any further than Rangsit, so your taxi fare into Bangkok plus 1,000 baht for the bus ticket must now put you into range of what it costs to fly Air Asia from up country. But I don't know I haven't taken the bus to Bangkok in about 4-5 years.

I used to fly Air Asia from Roi Et to Bangkok pre-COVID19, and need to get to Bangkok now via that route, but put off by the utter lack of information on the website and how there is no longer any person you can text or call at Air Asia. Even the robot text bot is broken. So I really would prefer not to fly with them, it seems they have become very poorly run, so I don't feel they deserve anyone's money if they won't discuss anything with anyone. But I still think I would prefer them to the 8 hour bus ride from Roi Et. I was looking at Air Nok's website and it seems a lot more inviting, canary yellow and more things to click on but alas when you go to punch in your flight dates nothing happens, the interface which is in the form of a drop down menu calendar thingy where you click your departure return dates is completely unresponsive. What is up with that, anyone know? Are the lights on at Nok Air but no one's home, are they still in business? I remember they were patching some of their older planes wings together with duct tape about 8 years ago, seemed bad, but I'm not aircraft repair expert, maybe its worth a gamble? Also my main question that I cannot find an answer to anywhere regarding Air Asia is, are they requiring COVID vaccinations or negative test results for flying domestically, that is, for flying within Thailand? The only info I could find on Air Asia anywhere about this was on their website but it was for Malaysian domestic flights and you had to be triple vaccinated or something just to board a flight within Malaysia.