I recently met the manager of a large chain hotel on Soi 6 sukhumvit who told me that they will be closing to normal customers effective

next month. It will only be open to customer booking 10 days quarantine. 

 

He said the government is now actively negotiating a lot of hotels in bkk for this very reason. I mentioned what a nightmare to be locked in

one of the rooms with no fresh air/ exercise for 10 days. He said that after one has been tested and results come back ok, the 'guest' will 

be permitted to go down to the gym/ pool area for 1 hour a day. But after that will have to return to the room. 

 

He said, all the hotels on soi 6 are partaking in this quarantine hotel arrangement and normal guests will not be accepted. 

 

This all surely implies that the government will be allowing more tourists to fly in next month. IMHO I think its high risk to do this whilst 

there is not a vaccine available. That same night at a bar I watched 2 chinese guys sitting at a table. 1 had a serious cough and was really drunk.

He later started to walk over to bar girls talking to them really close. Of course they were not wearing masks. 

 

I think there will be a rising infection rate in Thailand in the lead up to Christmas. 

9 minutes ago, bbabythai said:

the 'guest' will be permitted to go down to the gym/ pool area for 1 hour a day.

Sounds like an elite exercise yard to me

20 minutes ago, bbabythai said:

I recently met the manager of a large chain hotel on Soi 6 sukhumvit who told me that they will be closing to normal customers effective

next month. It will only be open to customer booking 10 days quarantine. 

 

He said the government is now actively negotiating a lot of hotels in bkk for this very reason. I mentioned what a nightmare to be locked in

one of the rooms with no fresh air/ exercise for 10 days. He said that after one has been tested and results come back ok, the 'guest' will 

be permitted to go down to the gym/ pool area for 1 hour a day. But after that will have to return to the room. 

 

He said, all the hotels on soi 6 are partaking in this quarantine hotel arrangement and normal guests will not be accepted. 

 

This all surely implies that the government will be allowing more tourists to fly in next month. IMHO I think its high risk to do this whilst 

there is not a vaccine available. That same night at a bar I watched 2 chinese guys sitting at a table. 1 had a serious cough and was really drunk.

He later started to walk over to bar girls talking to them really close. Of course they were not wearing masks. 

 

I think there will be a rising infection rate in Thailand in the lead up to Christmas. 

Then it would be a great idea to cancel the Christian festival of Christmas, as they possibly will in UK & other European countries.

There are now already 104 Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) hotels in Bangkok and most of them have close to no business.

https://thaiest.com/blog/list-of-alternative-state-quarantine-asq-hotels-thailand

It is highly unlikely that there will be a rush of visitors, even if quarantine is reduced to 10 days.

The real winners are the partnering hospitals, the cut is 20k - 25k THB per guest for a standy nurse and 2 Covid tests.

A hotel with 15 ASQ guests will then make the hospital 300k THB and so on...... you do the math

 

 

 

21 hours ago, bbabythai said:

He later started to walk over to bar girls talking to them really close. Of course they were not wearing masks. 

 

I think there will be a rising infection rate in Thailand in the lead up to Christmas. 

Customers have been doing that in bars with girls for the last three months since the re-opening and there's been no indication of any rising death rates.

Been coming here for 22 years and have never seen anything memorable on Soi 6.  Girls with braces offering special massage?  Yikes.

Can we get 1 hour of porn a day? 5555

3 minutes ago, elgenon said:

Can we get 1 hour of porn a day? 5555

For those prices, I would expect more than a short haired nurse serving wave dogs, but many reports aren't too positive.

i'm just a few blocks from there. 

 

i will go sniff around and see what i can find. 

The"government" said this week that ALL approved visitors must quarantine in Bangkok. Who knows what that really means (Samut Prakan too?).

 

So maybe someone is queueing up a list for approvals, in advance of a torusit trickle.

 

On 11/1/2020 at 2:34 PM, bbabythai said:

I recently met the manager of a large chain hotel on Soi 6 sukhumvit

 

Name of hotel.

 

Is this person the manager of just the Soi 6 property? Are they really "the manager"?

 

 

On 11/1/2020 at 2:34 PM, bbabythai said:

This all surely implies that the government will be allowing more tourists to fly in next month.

 

Sheesh. Do you follow the news at all?

 

The 'government' wants more tourists, sort of, maybe. The policies change hourly. This week it's 10 million in 2021, with 7.5 million from China.

 

I wouldn't fret too much. Nothing you can do anyway.

 

 

On 11/1/2020 at 2:34 PM, bbabythai said:

I recently met the manager of a large chain hotel on Soi 6 sukhumvit who told me that they will be closing to normal customers effective

next month. It will only be open to customer booking 10 days quarantine. 

I guess they are not making any money from domestic Thai travel, so hedging a bet that foreigners will soon be coming and can charge a lot more money.

However that would change overnight should infections start to show up in the vicinity.

On Samui recently one visitor tested positive and 50% of domestic bookings got cancelled, can you imagine positive tests being found in Bangkok...