phuketrichard

11 hours ago, fishtank said:

Actually you are 100% wrong as you usually are.

please, what in my statement is wrong?

here in kamala its the young kids racing around on their motorbikes and the very old that dont seem to wear masks, although to be fair, some of the kids wear them covering their chins    LOL

13 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

Even during a lockdown you should be able to visit your local immigration office. 

LOL:
unless ur in Phuket,( the ONLY province that has this in effect)  were we are not allowed to travel out of our sub district to another

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Why would they all choose to leave on the same day? Surely, if flights have started up and/or land borders have opened, they could act prior. Else a further automatic extension will likely be made.

right
so i guess it makes sense their hoping that flights resume before that date and people can depart

Playing the devils advocate

Everyone who has an gotten an extension to stay till july 31st an going on the HOPE that no more announcements are made and no more automatic extensions and everything is sorta good and the planes are flying

Everyone that got an extension whose visas had expired, will need leave the country on the 1st as their automatic extension will expire

OR?

I can see this is going to be one huge  F#@k up

6 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

That's completely untrue.

agree

worldwide

2,637,314 cases of infection

183,559 deaths     .06%

hardly , "Covid-19 is deadly and if you get it it's a death sentence."

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

1 hour ago, Russell17au said:

No, you are wrong. You are reading it all wrong. Those that arrived on a 90 day Non-Imm "O" visa and who did a 1 year extension at their local IO are not included in the amnesty because they renew their extension every year at the local IO and do not have to leave the country and they get an 1 year extension stamp in their passport. Those that have arrived on any visa that requires them to leave Thailand in the time frame of their visa (30 day, 60 day, 90 day) are covered by this amnesty because the borders are closed for them to be able to leave Thailand and they get a permission to stay stamp in their passport. They are two different stamps and you are mixing your extensions and your permission to stay stamps up and their meanings.

exactly what i meant and said  ++

also

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"Entered Thaliand with a visa and were permitted to stay until at least 26th March "

so even those who entered with a 1 year visa and it will expire, will be granted amnesty until end of july at which point they will need leave as they currently cant.

yet cornishcarlos has a problem with this...and wants keep hacking at this "permission to stay"  thing which goes without saying

All 1 year extensions state

"Extension of stay permitted  up to xxxxx  (date)

If ur on a 1 year EXTENSION...this amnesty does not apply to you and you must renew as you did the year before. Immigration is open for business as usual

I'm done with those that just want argue for arguing sake... 

Do what you want

1 hour ago, steelepulse said:

Could perhaps all of these chains building new hotels formulated a plan a number of years ago based on projections, ROI etc. etc.  Surely all of these chains plan things out a few years in advance and not just make a random plan on a spur of the moment as to where to build and expand.  

of course,

my post was about the fact phuket has not been dying, (discounting the current situation)

What will happen in the future>>no idea

BUT i think 3-5 star places will be hurting till at least high season 2021 as those that fill those rooms from around the world, (except the Chinese who will flock back in June  ???? )  will not have the bucks to travel and vacation anywhere

4 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Mmmmmm, think you might have that wrong yourself...

Whilst you may have a visa, you are in Thailand on a permission to stay. 

Eg, Non Imm O multi entry visa, valid for 1 year. However, each permission to stay is only 90 days, then you must leave or extend your permission to stay.

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please stop with  ur nonsense
I have a 1 year extension,  valid for 1 year

I only need report (online, by mail or in person ) that i am still at the same address

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All those permissions to stay are automatically extended until 31st July, neither the ministerial order, nor immigration bureau said that this only applies to some permissions of stay.

WRONG,if ur here on a EXTENSION, you need get a new extension when ur current extension is up,

NO Amnesty!!

14 hours ago, ubon farang said:

I have flown with Air Asia twice. There definetly will not be a 3 rd time, A very unprofessional airline who are always late with their flights and getting to contact them is nearly impossible, Thanks air asia but no thanks 

I have flown with them dozens and dozens of times to Cambodia, Burma,Bali, India over the past 10 years or so

i think once was late, an i got coupon for discount on next flight

it is what it is, an beats flying for high costs on other airlines..!!

i was here as well an although it severely affected a few west coast towns ( Patong, Kamala, Bang Tao, Laguna)

the rest of the island was fine.Recall driving into phuket town the 27th and some people didn't even know what had happened <  In Kamala all electric was out for a few days but i had a generator an many of us leaned what had happened via cnn..
 

It did NOT recover for awhile an even the high season of 2005/6 was way down.

Difference now is the world is affected and many of those that travel to se asia, Thailand, Phuket, wont have the $$ to come, so expect 18 months till things are back to semi normal.

if you own a business and ur renting the shop space, prepare ursleve

they have not yet announced if phuket airport will open by the 1st
only said will end lockdown the 30th

44 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Let's hope the improvement continues and restrictions can be eased nationally at the start of May.

 

The suggestion that Chonburi, Bangkok, Phuket and other areas that have recorded the most cases should be kept locked down until June may sound sensible, but a balance has to be made between the relatively tiny number of cases involved and the suffering that another six weeks of lockdown will cause untold thousands people. Suicides among Thais are already rising (or so the GF tells me, that fact doesn't seem to make headlines in the farang media), and forcing the poorest people to rely on daily food handouts isn't only demeaning to them, it may also be harming their and their children's health through insufficient nutrition.

here in phuket the governor has already announced a end to the lock down may 1st

God, i hope so

Just now, DrJack54 said:

Add to that list your stamp when you re enter at airports. 

YEP: caught them twice now given me the wrong date..

4 minutes ago, steelepulse said:

At least those of us here can start going to the beach again, not too mention possibly being able to go to other parts of the island.  While on the subject, maybe even able to buy a beer if one chooses to.

exactly: here in Kamala, Big c is ok..... BUT>>>>>>>>>
I expect backpackers to be traveling by june/july and some tourists will return come nov

isnt this the building where the old time pub/bar was in?
looks like it

on the page that says "check status" click, fill out the info requested and  after you open it

you will see if u have been approved, click the little button on the right and it will open the page with ur application and approved at the top

at the bottom is the option to print ur next 90 day report date