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Duh - who says I go to immigration?

My $0.02 - I did my second test (this was in December before the new rules of booking into a hotel) in a well-known hospital in Chiang Mai. The test of course was negative. I asked how do I notify some authority and was met with blank stares. I DID get a couple of phone calls from Thailand, don't know from whom, when I got back home but it was early morning (3am) for me so didn't answer. After that, nothing. My wife also did her second test and is still in Thailand. Nearly two months later she still hasn't been arrested ???? We had lost the pink slips when we took the first test (reported here) and was not able to find out NOW I was supposed to report the second test. My passport is about to expire so next time I go it will be with a new passport, and by then all this silliness should have gone.

For a couple of days now, no email from this forum. Did I not pay my subscription?

Mr Pedant says - no that was Stingray. Thunderbirds episodes were typically 50 minutes long (one hour with adverts)

I did the day 5-7 test but was expecting somehow my Mor Chana app would be automatically updated - but of course it wasn't. Started getting reminders on my phone from the app asking where the tests results are. As I have now left Thailand I deleted the app - it's called "untying the Gordian knot ???? " but in hind-sight should I have scanned the test results in or something? Of course complete lack of instructions on this from the Thai government or indeed the (private) hospital I used

I used to work for an airline as well. The trouble is with SWISS Airlines not giving their employees (or agents in this case probably) the correct information. The check-in crowd were patient with me and as I say I ended up monopolising the desk for an hour Nad I get to where I wanted to be.

My wife and I both have this - and it's not accepted in Switzerland to get into bars, restaurants & the like. Only the "offical" phone app would do - which SWISS Airlines should have had too.

First off, I got to CM Airport early to go through passport control like I have done for the last twenty or so years - nope - they don't do that anymore. Worse, I had to check my bag to BKK and then check in all over again and go through PP control there. Luckily I had four hours between landing and the next flight, I was worried there would be nothing to do (everything seems closed or being rebuilt). Little did I know... Landed, got the bag out and went to International Departures with three hours to spare. Showed my 72-hour PCR test, my PLF for the Swiss government, then I was asked "where's your vaccination certificate?" which of course the paper one was still at home, I didn't think I'd need it. After frantically trying to download it on my phone and ALMOST succeeding called my wife who hadn't gone to bed luckily and asked her to photograph the cert. Two attempts later they finally accepted the murky picture. Even worser, normally in Switzerland there is an app on your phone to show your vaccination status - again, this is SWISS AIRLINES - but they had never heard of it. But they were WRONG - I'm a resident of Switzerland, I don't need vaccination proof! If I wasn't vaccinated (which I am and my phone app proves it) all I need is a second test on arrival. They didn't even bother to look at it when got to Zurich, I've got a residence permit just waved me through. I'm thinking of kicking up a stink (after all it was SWISS airlines they are supposed to know the rules) but as they let me through finally after monopolising one of the check-in desks for nearly an hour I'll pass I'll think. And before I get the usual comments: yes I know carry everything on PAPER even if it is not (supposedly) needed. Next time (when the rules will have changed again no doubt).

he's a NAVAL captain - so a higher rank: What is a Navy captain equivalent to in the Army? With the addition of the ranks of commander and lieutenant commander between lieutenant and captain, a Navy captain became equivalent in rank to an Army colonel.

Hmm, agree with the 'shambles' thing. Got a list of participating hospitals in the Chiang Mai area from the MOPH web site. One was a hospital we regularly use so I went there on a Sunday (big mistake) they had never heard of Test&Go. Another, Lanna Hopsital (also private) I sent an email to their Customer Relations Department and am still waiting for a reply. Thewre was a government hospital quite near but when we got there we were told (despite calling in the morning to make an appointment) it was a two hour wait outside with all the sick people coughing and spluttering around us. We went back to the original hospital during the week and amazingly the weekly crowd had heard of T&G! Took our Thailand Pass QR codes and passport/ID numbers so I assume they updated something (poilce haven't arrested me yet). As for the cost, it didn't help we had lost our pink slips which maybe were "get out of jail free" cards. But they just laughed when I said it was free ('funny felang always with the jokes") and charged us 3000 baht a pop. Ah well.

My thoughts exactly.

Thanks for the helpful replies (apart from the one advisng me to keep scraps of paper ???? ) I found this link https://service.dmsc.moph.go.th/labscovid19/indexen.php and am going to go to one of the places on this list and throw myself on the mercy of the court. My hotel has been USELESS - complete failure to understand, in the end they sent me the lab test result again (which I already have by email, not a scrap of paper)

Well, nobody told me and I was super tired after a twelve hour all night no sleep flight. Was I supposed to give the final slip to some hospital for my 5-8 day test?

That us the myth perpertuated by the Swiss - if it goes wrong it's always the fault of "them foreigners"

I spent Christmas morning on the phone and emailing franctically, finally driving to the airport where I walked up to the counter and announced in a loud voice so everybobdy in the queue could hear how they screwed up our certificates. Five minutes later they corrected them and printed them out for me.

Fly tomorrow (Monday 27th) to Bangkok from Zurich. Got our Thailand Passes, booked the one-day quarantine and test when we arrive, final thing - get a PCR test 72 hours before you fly. This was Christmas Eve and the only places open were at the airport. Go there Christmas Eve morning, told we were too early (they were wrong but hey let's follow their advice) go back in the afternoon - told results would be in mailbox between 7-8 am Christmas Day morning. ten o'clock they arrive - and they are both WRONG - two identical certificates for the two of us - wrong passport numbers, names and dates of birth. But they at least got the test date right. Test&Fly at Zurich Airport.

We're all living in a computer simulation anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

Perhaps I can sleep with Catherine Zeta-Jones ????

Nope

Well lucky lucky you!

You try booking a flight around New Years Eve at a convenient time. "He is just clearly inexperienced" I'm not even going to bother to answer that.

Swiss is NOT cheap! I used to work for an airline - and have made this trip at least annually for the last 25-30 years. But I'm not going to defend myself against some anonymous know-it-all. Should have guessed judging by past experience the level of commenting on this forum. I have changed the dates on these tickets several times with no charge, now it becomes a stop-over and the charges appear.

Except Swiss have a policy of NOT charging for changes, and I have changed the dates of this and another ticket many many times this year - AT NO CHARGE. perhpas you don't know everything which causes you to label others incorrectly.

Think you summed it up accurately. Sometimes the truth hurts. My comment was to highlight the charges I was being forced to pay far exceeding the cost of the actual BKK CNX flight (which I have found a solution to). But seems there is a need to feel smug and judgemental in this audience.

It's Swiss Air (or whatever they call themselves) called again at the possibility of cancelling one segment (BKK->CNX) it is possible but a charge of nearly 3000 baht so plus the new air fare at the same price it is cheaper then their original 10,000 baht charge. I've been doing this for over thirty years so I wouldn't call myself "naive" ???? but this is the first time my itinerary has been forced to change by government regulation, not by choice - but the airline submit that I am doing this "voluntarily".