Tourism minister: Phuket unlikely to be ready for "sandbox" opening - "sealed route" share with Samui proposed

[Daithi85]

7 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Errrrrrrr Just a minute, does the tourist have a say in any of this? For example maybe some maybe do not want to go to Samui or anywhere else for that matter except maybe the mainland can they stay in Phuket for the whole two weeks?? Then proceed directly to the mainland...........

I really  don't  think  that you will  be forced to go ko samui  if u don't want.  ????

[bkk6060]

26 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Errrrrrrr Just a minute, does the tourist have a say in any of this? For example maybe some maybe do not want to go to Samui or anywhere else for that matter except maybe the mainland can they stay in Phuket for the whole two weeks?? Then proceed directly to the mainland...........

I would say No you will be forced to go as it is all about the money being distributed.

That is all part of this scheme Koh Samui has been aggressively vaccinating and are 50% fully vaccinated already claiming to reach herd immunity and ready by July 1.  So, they want a piece of the tourist dollar pie.

 

Edited June 12, 2021 by bkk6060

[malibukid]

4 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Anyone shocked?...

Reminds me when I first visited LOS and was called Hansum, or when a thai girl said she "loved me"...that was 2008..

those where the days

[sammieuk1]

The list of airlines and trying to book flights on them gives it away no one believes a word from these fools  ????

[SwampyThai]

3 hours ago, Karma80 said:

Only 196 flip flops until Christmas everyone. 

One of the best retorts I have read in a long time ????????????????????????

[malibukid]

being Thailand they naturally wanted to take the path of least resistance,, sorry but this will require the hard work of vaccinating everyone.  not just the few to make  a few baht.

[malibukid]

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Brain dead do they honestly think tourist will put up with that <deleted> being herded around like POW's 

you mean like the Chinese tourist?

Edited June 12, 2021 by malibukid

[Geoffggi]

1 minute ago, bkk6060 said:

I would say No as it is all about the money being distributed.

That is all part of this scheme Koh Samui has been aggressively vaccinating and are 50% fully vaccinated already claiming to reach herd immunity and ready by July 1.  So, they want a piece of the tourist dollar pie.

 

Exactly what I was thinking - "Please cut me a slice of that tourist cake"  There again, nothing really on offer if all bars, fine dining (without wine), all other forms of public entertainment are closed    .................LOL

[Scouse123]

The point is and they don't seem to get it through their heads, they are trying to arrive at a solution that suits them, and to hell with what the tourists want.

 

Tourists are not their little minions to be ordered about and sent here, there and everywhere at their own expense, to satisfy some government officials whim.

 

It won't wash!

 

Next, and I have said it already, the airlines will just pull the plug as they aren't about to lose a load more money on top of the colossal amounts already only for the Thais to change their minds at the last minute or bowing to the flip flopping of an Incompetent government.

 

The tourist industry is in complete disarray and quite honestly, don't know what they are doing.

[BestB]

Just to clarify, plan is not only to force tourists which hotel they can stay but also to be forced to move around every 7 days? 
 

something like luxury self paid prison where you pay top dollar but get told where to stay , where to sleep and where to eat.

[fondue zoo]

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

man I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue. 

hah, I just watched that movie.

[Scouse123]

So, the sandbox plan has become a ," basket case "

 

Bound to happen.

 

No word from our glorious leader the "vaccine Czar? "..????????

[herfiehandbag]

4 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

Ahhh, there we are. Today’s flip flop is on the board already.

 

now where’s the post saying xyz million vaccines have been bought and will arrive on the 12th never? Haven’t seen that yet today.

As they sing on the football stadium terraces:

"It's all gone quiet over there,

It's all gone quiet over there!"

[CLW]

Who will believe the government anything from now on?

I still can remember very good during last election time when Anutin promised every household to allow six cannabis plants and legalize grab taxi service.

Nothing has happened until now. Just lies.....

Airlines and hotel business should go to the barricades and showing them the middle finger.

"We have better plans in other countries where we can trust the words of government".

For how long the TAT has been touting this sandbox plan just to be dissected now and in fact becoming worthless.

Summer season now, whole EU is open for travel. These countries will make a big profit and bounce back after Covid tourism crisis.

[Desmondo69]

4 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

Ahhh, there we are. Today’s flip flop is on the board already.

 

now where’s the post saying xyz million vaccines have been bought and will arrive on the 12th never? Haven’t seen that yet today.

Give it till tomorrow'... 

[sambum]

"Earlier Thaivisa reported that bars and entertainment in Phuket would not be open for tourists to enjoy on July 1st prompting many to say such news would hardly inspire foreign tourism. "

 

Got news for ya baby! Neither are the bars in Samui!!!

 

[Desmondo69]

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Well done lads, get the hopes up of 100's of hotels, get them to sign up to SHA, employ and get their staff ready, get the tour operators geared up. Then pull the rug from under them again...............

 

Now do the right thing with no delusional targets, wait until Phuket is really ready, that will probably be a few months yet.

More like years I'm afraid

 

[sambum]

42 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I would say No you will be forced to go as it is all about the money being distributed.

That is all part of this scheme Koh Samui has been aggressively vaccinating and are 50% fully vaccinated already claiming to reach herd immunity and ready by July 1.  So, they want a piece of the tourist dollar pie.

 

 

And if so, where are the tourists going to spend it? The situation is the same in SAmui as Phuket - the bars are all closed, and no alcohol is allowed to be consumed in restaurants. Or is there a nice surprise for Samui hiding round the corner?  

[PETERTHEEATER]

sealed route" share with Samui proposed...

 

I'm  off to buy shares in the company driving the pedestrian tunnel from Phuket to Koh Samui......????

[PETERTHEEATER]

sealed route" share with Samui proposed...

 

I'm  off to buy shares in the company driving the pedestrian tunnel from Phuket to Koh Samui......????

[PETERTHEEATER]

sealed route" share with Samui proposed...

 

I'm  off to buy shares in the company driving the pedestrian tunnel from Phuket to Koh Samui......????

[ronaldo0]

So nobody was interested and they have ran out of vaccines ! 
 

[maddox41]

Wow really and August will September etc etc. 

Tat got to love them they  dream big and deliver little 

[Guderian]

Heck, those 10 Americans who'd booked to come to Phuket in early July are going to be fuming!

[Mike Galley]

Why am I not surprised ?

Why did Thai embassies and consulates did not get any information that this "sandbox model" could go ahead ?

Now we know....it was clear right in the beginning that this model would not be followed up seriously .

[anchadian]

6 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Heck, those 10 Americans who'd booked to come to Phuket in early July are going to be fuming!

Not only that, I understand their tickets are non-refundable.

[taxin]

5 hours ago, Sharp said:

They are talking about the Samui addition to the scheme if not mistaken the Phuket opening still in play?? "yes /no 

My initial thoughts were the same, but after reading the article again I’m not sure. 

 

So we have a bunch of delegates from Surat Thani having a meeting about getting in on the Phuket Sandbox program, with the tourism minister informing the delegates to forget it as Phuket isn’t ready.
 

Not ready ? Phuket is not ready to open, or Phuket is not ready to share its visitors by agreeing a sealed route with Surat Thani ?

 

I seriously doubt the tourism minister would inform the governors of Surat Thani the Phuket sandbox program will not be going ahead, before he informs the governors of Phuket.

 

I reckon this is fake news, nothing more than a rumour, probably stirred up by the Surat Thani delegates after being disappointed at being told they have to wait.

[wensiensheng]

4 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Well done lads, get the hopes up of 100's of hotels, get them to sign up to SHA, employ and get their staff ready, get the tour operators geared up. Then pull the rug from under them again...............

 

Now do the right thing with no delusional targets, wait until Phuket is really ready, that will probably be a few months yet.

A few weeks back I posted that any hotel or restaurant spending  money to get guest ready deserved to go out of business because no tourists would come. Another member here posted in response that Thai’s have a natural optimism.

 

well, if any business did actually spend money for this ludicrous sandbox thing that has just crashed and burned, then I don’t think they were optimists, they were just plain stupid.

Edited June 12, 2021 by wensiensheng

[clivebaxter]

sandbox is something a cat <deleted>s in anyway, hopefully we will not hear that dumb word used any longer

Edited June 12, 2021 by clivebaxter

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Provided tests at the end of the first two weeks came back negative they would then be free to travel in the rest of Thailand. 

But the rest of Thailand won't be ready?

Dreaming again.