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And I read a few days ago or yesterday that they were considering extending closing time from midnight to 2 am !!

So why suddenly give this stupid order ?

Turists are fed up with those stupid restrictions...!

17 minutes ago, DLock said:

There are plenty of online resources to argue any narrative, but recent experts suggest that Omicron spreads 70x faster than Delta, and there is no conclusive evidence that Omicron is a milder variant and is causing infections in triple vaccinations and people that have already recovered from COVID.

 

I guess time will tell who is right.

I would like to see your "plenty of sources", I just heard or read about conclusions from Australian, South-Africanand a UK research, even the OMS and Fauci said omicron is less deadly, less agresive...And never I read 70x more conagious, I heard 3x more contagious...70x makes casi non-sense ...

48 minutes ago, DLock said:

They will certainly reconsider it on the 4th January...and extend the current quarantine for another month or 2, and close all the bars and stop serving alcohol in "restaurants".

 

Omicron will rip through Thailand worse than any previous variant.

 

If you can sell your bar today...sell it.

No, I don't agree. It's already known and confirmed by now than "Omicron" , although spreads about 3x faster , is much less dangerous and less able to send people in hospital in ICU or to death though...so, if clever and logic (but are they ...;- ?) , they shoud reinstall the test and go procedure quickly, also, the incubation of the omicron is muc shorter than the previous variants (sometimes just a few days), and is not worse on vaccinating people than a cold of a few days....

3 hours ago, Shuya said:

Fully vaccinated and 4 PCR tests at around THB 4'000 per person each (including pre-departure). There will be millions of tourists waiting for the privilege to come to holiday on a island where everything is closed and staying in specially "approved" hotels at an extra cost. 

I'm still waiting for the "1$" per night rooms proposed a few weeks ago for the Phuket "sandbox" lol

15 hours ago, Walkabout said:

Does this mean 7 days for 7 $, even 30 days for 30$?

I'm sure they will try to fool us with 1 night at 1$, 2nd night at 80 or 100 $ by increasing the price of the 2nd night... 

A friend who is still in Thailand since over 1 year now said to me today that he will go back to Europe and told me not to come in July as I was thinking because everything is closed, people have to wear the mask even in their car, and on motorbike or face heavy fines,  and Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, everywhere it's like ghost cities, nobody in the streets... Nothing to do....Unlike Europe where everything is reopening now.

Also, when I look at all the formalities, certificates, bank statetements (no printing), expensive insurance etc etc to finally obtain  a visa and "sesame" to enter in Thailand, I start to think to go somewhere else either in Europe or to Domenican Republic on holiday ....

3 hours ago, sirineou said:

First of all, I don't believe anything they say. Even when it is official, and you do everything they require, they can just retroactively change it. They are a bunch of clowns. 

    They announced 7-day quarantine for vaccinated people, and you could use the hotel facilities after the third day if tested negative,. So we said Ok, we can live with that. We jumped trough all the hoops , provided all the nessacery documents, Purchased an ASQ, and plane ticket  , got our CEO and packed our bags. Two days before departure, the announced," Ohh . we changed our minds, if you cant make it in by the 6th , now you have to do 14 days quarantine, and you cant leave your room" W*T*F!!!  Lucky for us we had the recourses to , in two days, change our travel plans get a new COE,  and come in before the 6th. But how about all the people who could not? 

Now they say October 1st no quarantine." Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me" 

I booked also a flight before end of April for the 24th June, as I will be fully vaccinated...A few days later they made backwards and changed the rules, they are really "#*!!@t , untrustable, by luck, I can still cancel or change my ticket for free ....if they put 14 days back for everybody, including vaccinated, that proves they don't believe themself in the vaccine !

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Chile death rates are soaring despite being in the top 3 in the world for vaccination roll out.

yes, that's what I said: uncomplete vaccination, and with a bad quality/protection Chinese vaccine....that does not protect at all after the 1st dose or only 3%.... they have to wait 2 weeks after the 2nd dose to be protected at +- 50-54%...not enough...and this is how you select resistant variant strains...

13 hours ago, WHansen said:

I pray for the Thai people finantially and otherwise affected that this is not the case.

The percentages of positive tests quoted is very worrying indeed as inter provincial travel is about to increase.

 

Of course, they barely tested as since 1 year they claimed to be covid-free !!! But virus was there..only not declared probably

14 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

funny that cos mine is slow AF.

Propably Cat Telecom, Tot or True lol...they practice throttling and sometimes suffer peering probles...at least for traffic from Europe..

3BB is the best, at least for my iptv cust2mers ???? 

Here are the real cost prices for the belgian government per dose....

This tweet has been shared shortly by mistake by a belgian minister, then withdrown....

7 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

Because 15 nights of stay you will be locked in a hotel.

 Holiday begins day 16. Arrival in Thailand is day zero. 

45-15=30.  Finally, a solution.

but as said before, normal tourists will never have 45 days holiday per year...so ...nonsense ! A simple negative PCR or antigenic test and a proper medical insurance should be enough ! Otherwise tourists even those who can afford 45 days or 60 days will never come.