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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".

We had booked tickets to fly from Europe (27 December) and then transit Suri-wotsit airport on the 28th and fly to Chiang Mai. Not possible now it seems - we have to get off in Bangkok, do the silly test and one nights (expensive) quarantine, and then check in AGAIN next day for a domestic flight to Chiang Mai. I was on the phone for more than half an hour trying to change the BKK-CNX flight - price of change - more than 10,000 baht for ONE person. While I was listening to their maddening and irritating music (and being charged for it) I did a quick Google search for a one-way flight for the same day - 3000 baht each. So I booked two one-way tickets and politely told them where to put their charges. Now I have to explain when checking in "please please please do not send our bags to Chiang Mai". You would think the airline (a reputable one) would know it isn't possible to transit internationally anymore. Anybody want two tickets Bangkok - Chiang Mai on the 28th?

It shouldn't be compulsory, as it is a matter for individual choice. BUT the state (or whatever other heathcare provider you have, e.g. insurance) should also have the choice of withdrawing funding for any treatment you might receive from catching Covid. That's what they are going to do in Singapore. If you willfully avoid any preventitive treatment then you should pay for the consequences - not expect someone else to do it. next, free medical care withdrawn for motorcyclists who don't wear helmets..... personal choice again.

INstall a Go-Pro camera in a discrete location (facing the road and pavement of course) with an SD disk (should be good for four hours) and an external battery pack as the internal battery only lasts 20-30 minutes. Switch it on, retire and come back at a quiet time later..... I'll accept 10% of the reward money for anybody who uses my patented idea.

I want to fly into Chiang Mai via Bangkok after Christmas as there are no international direct flights from anywhere practical. It seems according to the rules I have to do my one day quranatine in BKK not CNX (where I would prefer) and it is putting me off making the trip.

Thanks for your advice boss. Any other helpful hints?

I'm not the OP - I'm just someone with a similar problem

I think some people are missing the point. I have two computers (and two desks, etc one on my left one on my right, so I just swivel round on my chair) - one is supplied by my company for work use, one is mine for personal use. Ne'er the twain shall meet.

Doh! Duh! I knew that I was just testing everybody ???? Thankyou kindly I am now through to the next stage

Using https://tp.consular.go.th/en/plan, select "Exemption from Quarantine (Test and Go)", got a long long list of regs ("Compliance with disease prevention measures of the Government of Thailand") and a little blue button at the bottom which says "CONFIRM" - but is greyed out and clicking on it does nothing. Am I missing something really stupid?

Buy a REALLY heavy safe from Homemart, put in the bedroom, forget how to set the lock and scared you'll forget the combination, then put everything in a drawer and cross fingers. Oh, and copy everything and keep it on TWO memory sticks in different locations. Don't put it in the "cloud" because like everything it can be hacked and your identity (and life) ruined.

Read How shall I tell the dog? by Miles Kington - his worry that, after outliving so many pets, when he diagnosed with pancreatic cancer his dog will out live him.

And poke 50-100 baht in every few months. Works for me.

That should be interesting - how can they do they that? Check your browser history?

In a way this makes perfect sense. If I pop my clogs just after marrying a sixteen year girl (not that I'm thinking of that ???? ) the pension fund could be paying out for fifty, sixty years or more. Your pension payment is assessed according to your expected life span; getting a much younger wife knocks that completely out of the park. My (Swiss) company pension has a widows payment defined as 70% - but to a named person - who will receive this even if we divorce (God forbid). Intrestingly enough, I was looking at the Swiss state pension, and widows there receive a reduced sum (again approx 2/3) for life. Of course, like most state pensions it is starting to creak and this could well change in the next ten or twenty years, just like it did in the UK - where the widows pension is now non-existent.

As a hypochondriac with extensive experience of UK, Swiss, Singaporean and Thai health care, I can state definitively that the uniforms of the Thai nurses are the cutest.