Phuket Sandbox drama: Tourist flees hotel to find Thai wife

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

The Sandbox or how you may call it is an area quarantine.. You are allowed to go around on the island, but are obliged to sleep and use your hotel. The only difference is that you are not need to stay in your room all day. Only available for fully vaccinated people and no exceptions for expats who return to Thailand. But with the low vaccination grade, because of that the most people only got one jab, there will be serious risk that Phuket also will face more Covid cases. 

nobody cares about phuket. we all want to get to bangkok

[Guderian]

Ye Gods, and people are willingly paying good money for this???

[oldcpu]

1 minute ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

nobody cares about phuket. we all want to get to bangkok

Then why not go there first ?  Many ASQ hotels in Bangkok would enjoy your presence. 

 

Sarcasm aside ...   while the 14-days confined to Phuket sandbox may look appealing to some, I don't believe it was set up as a Sandbox with the intent to attract those wanting to go to Bangkok in mind.  I believe there are other reasons here for the 'sandbox'.

[oldcpu]

9 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Looking for his marbles?

My guess looking for his Mia Noi. .... 

 

What else could he tell his wife (in Phuket) ?  " I was lost " .....

 

< just joking > 

[LosLobo]

20 minutes ago, aBigSmile said:

Is Joe Biden on the loose again?

As opposed to a very stable genius.... Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV?  ????

 

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV: The Movie - YouTube

[natway09]

At 4.30 in the morning I thought any Tirak would do (preferably female)

[Doowat]

5 hours ago, Kelsall said:

As Baretta used to say, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

 

Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Never come across anyone else who watched it before ????

[PEE TEE]

Well That's gratitude they pay for a upmarket open prison  not happy they try to escape only to get caught by the guards.  

[Mickeymaus]

3 minutes ago, natway09 said:

At 4.30 in the morning I thought any Tirak would do (preferably female)

Some of the "Tiraks" make a fortune. One told me that Covid was the best thing that could happen to her. Bevor she worked every night at a bar. But this bar is closed and many of her foreign "friends" now support her financially. 

[wensiensheng]

4 hours ago, Rhacsyn said:

I can only guesstimate around 60% to 70% for the flight that I was on from Dubai which had 163 passengers. Flights from the Middle East are going to differ in make up to flights from Europe at this early stage. A wild guess for the European flights would be that there are minimal numbers of tourists on those. It would not make too much sense to me. Sorry. Only a guess.

Interesting. Only a small number of tourists, but to be honest, more than I thought it would be. 

[Kopitiam]

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Sounds to me like they got the big spenders into the country they wanted and then some who do not like to play ball or listen to the rules.  A man with Alzheimers, you have to wonder if he came with family or alone, and if his family knows where he is.  Sad reality.  Just talked to a friend in the US, lives in Vegas, his sister and her family saw the Phuket sandbox advertised and started the process, but when they found out the logistics of what, where, and how, they said no way and are going to Cozumel for 2 weeks instead.

Doesn't sound like he has Alzheimers if he can jump through all the hoops to get here.

[Dialemco]

This scheme is not a good advertisement for tourism. Best to reinstate proper quarantine until vaccination programme completed covering entire country. 

[aBigSmile]

18 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

As opposed to a very stable genius.... Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV?  ????

 

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV: The Movie - YouTube

Don't give a damn about Trump, so I want watch your clip. 

But with Biden, the gates to hell have been thrown wide open. If you're an American, buckle up. Things are going to get wild.

 

[sambum]

7 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

The only sensible answer is to chain them up to stop them leaving the hotel ...

The tattoo parlours could make a killing!

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

40 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

I believe there are other reasons here for the 'sandbox'.

THE reasons are very simple - to start openning the country for tourists. that is it.

most shops in phuket are closed not because of a lockdown but simply because

there are no customers. horrible sight. thai government must east all restrictions and

allow visitors in as easy as they can get into spain and portugal. otherwise many more

will die from those stupid sanbox restrictions, which are anyway useless because

thailand is allready a red country.

[mrfill]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

That must be very nice to be able to take 6 weeks at a crack.  Most jobs in the US give 8 hours a month of vacation that you can accumulate, that equates to 12 days a year plus a few holidays thrown in so that a person has just over 2 weeks a year that they can take as a paid vacation.  Over time that does grow, and by the time you have 20 plus years with a company you may accumulate up to 6 weeks a year.  Just because you accumulate the time does not mean you can take it all at once, except in the case of having plenty of staff to backfill and cover your absence.  Teachers on the other hand have an 8 to 10 week summer break, but it is unpaid time off and many will work a second job during that time to help make ends meet.  The adds for the Phuket Sandbox have been on television in the US as well as in the newspapers, so telling me it is not aimed to get any tourists from the USA  (who only have 2 week vacations) as you said is not correct.  A few years ago I knew plenty of folks who would come to Thailand for 2 weeks and travel for a week in Phuket, a few days in Bangkok and then hit Chaing Mai before flying back to the US.  If memory serves me correct one of the first articles on the sandbox as it was being discussed was that a group of Americans were booked and coming.

 

The grand re-opening? Just 20 American tourists to arrive in Phuket on July 9 - Page 3 - Phuket News - ASEAN NOW formerly Thai Visa Forum

 

 

It was revealed that the first arrivals as part of the much vaunted Phuket Sandbox tourism reopening scheme in the southern province would include people from the USA.

 

However, it was hardly opening the floodgates - just 20 had booked to come on July 9th. 

 

And also CNN were coming. 

 

Modern day slavery. You get a statutory minimum of 28 paid days holiday in the UK if you work a 5 day week. EU minimum is 20 days and has been since 1993.

[Millcx]

7 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

83 and confused and wandering around at 430 am.......how did he even get there???? looking for his teerak?  

How did he get a CoE 555

[Keesters]

6 hours ago, smedly said:

but only at night - right

The virus only becomes active at night. A well known Thai fact. 555

[tandor]

....nothing to see here...move on...just everyday Police work.

[edwarda909]

7 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I think if I had been away from my family for a long long time and finally managed to get back, given its supposedly not quarantine I have entered, I would have bailed on the hotel and gone straight home too. Wrong to classify him as a tourist too, when he clearly isn't one.

Really, definitions have nothing to do with safety precautions. Get real

[Espanol]

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

How about requiring them to stay in their hotel room and let out one hour a day for exercise? Put their food outside their door.
 

Much easier to keep track of them this way…

Actually, that's the way ASQ hotels in Bangkok go, but don't even let out one hour a day for exercise.

[Espanol]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

A few years ago I knew plenty of folks who would come to Thailand for 2 weeks and travel for a week in Phuket, a few days in Bangkok and then hit Chaing Mai before flying back to the US. 

 

Yes. Actually that's what I did first time in Thailand.

And that's what TAT had in mind when designed Phuket Sandbox: 7 days in Phuket and then free travelling 1 week the rest of Thailand.

 

But then Goverment changed plan to 2 weeks in Phuket. And that's a big difference because you are stuck to the island and then back home.

[Chongalulu]

7 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Obviously he doesn't care about restrictions. He could give Covid to family members. They should send such people back home to the country where they came from. 

 

I’m sure you’re going to be embarrassed when your flawed reasoning is eviscerated. I wonder if it’s possible to go back to ones own country to get an IQ..? ???? 

[Chongalulu]

6 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“Phuket Sandbox drama: Tourist flees hotel to find Thai wife“

 

How can you flee from a hotel you never checked into?

He tried to stop there but 'brake failure' - couldn’t stop until he reached home..

[Mickeymaus]

13 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

I’m sure you’re going to be embarrassed when your flawed reasoning is eviscerated. I wonder if it’s possible to go back to ones own country to get an IQ..? ???? 

This is a very big challenge for the Thai government. They check for Covid but they don't check for mental disability. Obviously a very big problem. 

 

If you don't understand ask someone to explain it to you. 

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Mickeymaus

[Espanol]

39 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Modern day slavery. You get a statutory minimum of 28 paid days holiday in the UK if you work a 5 day week. EU minimum is 20 days and has been since 1993.

 

In Spain we have 1 month summer holidays and also 1 week in Christmas and 1 week in Eastern.

 

[Regyai]

19 minutes ago, Espanol said:

Actually, that's the way ASQ hotels in Bangkok go, but don't even let out one hour a day for exercise.

Absolutely, if they did then they'd tunnel out under the vaulting horse

 

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[fakser]

8 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

"Instead he went straight to find his wife and child at his house in Rawai".

 

He miss she so muk.

You die every night when you fall asleep.

[metisdead]

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[Genericnic]

7 hours ago, Whale said:

They seem to have failed to mention the party from UAE whom one has tested positive for COVID and is now in isolation, the rest of his group have been transferred to ASQ.

Not to mention any information on the cabin crew from the plane.