More than 65 thousand sign up for Thailand Pass

[wangotango]

1 hour ago, HashBrownHarry said:

People were naive to book so close to the start of this new program and expecting it to go smoothly....

 

[Eric Loh]

The application has issues due to surge of demand. Astonishing that such mundane early days hiccups have some posters knickers in a twist. A new designed system unable to cope is not uncommon.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/singapore-covid-airline-websites-crash-122000585.html

 

simpleflying.com/singapore-airlines-website-crashes-demand/

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by Eric Loh
wrong word

[DUNROAMIN]

Another half ar###se last minute attempt at creating an APP which does not cater for expats leaving Thailand for a holiday and returning. TIT nothing new.

[superal]

3 hours ago, Mitkof Island said:

I think word has already circled the globe to just avoid Thailand altogether. Not sure what the big rush is to go there now everyone booking flights within hours of failure I just don,t get the logic. Thailand Pass I knew would be a failure and would only scare of millions of possible foreigners. With the stupid mandatory Covid insurance yada yada yada it is just another huge clusterfrack . Thailand Pass is meant for only the most desperate of souls.

Those desperate souls may well be expats trying to return to their families or loved ones and I for one do sympathise with them . How do the guys who are working 2 weeks on and then rest 2 weeks off in Thailand manage this new C.O.E. or Pass ?  Also why should a person who is on a re-entry permit have to go through this palava , should be exempt .

[Polaky]

I have nothing but praise for the new system, arrived bkk 2nd nov from melb au, prior to arrival received t/pass qr code via email to expediate entry, everything was well organized at the airport, driver from hotel was waiting, at hotel taken to my room to wait for nurse, she arrived later in the afternoon, tested everyone who flew in on multiple airlines, following morning i was told i tested negative and was free to go.

ps: no tracking app or ankle bracelets were enforced.

[konaboy]

"What a moroon"

Bugs bunny

[tomacht8]

7 minutes ago, Polaky said:

I have nothing but praise for the new system, arrived bkk 2nd nov from melb au, prior to arrival received t/pass qr code via email to expediate entry, everything was well organized at the airport, driver from hotel was waiting, at hotel taken to my room to wait for nurse, she arrived later in the afternoon, tested everyone who flew in on multiple airlines, following morning i was told i tested negative and was free to go.

ps: no tracking app or ankle bracelets were enforced.

For you no ATK Selftest at day 5-6? No MorChana App for report the result? 

[dutchweller]

Wow...

Who would have thought Thailand unable to manage a online application process.

And making a complete ass of it then bragging how good they are and how Tourism is saved...

You only need to try and use the 90 day report online to know how well thease muppets will manage it...

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The spokesman said the ministry has acknowledged some issues with the system, mostly due to external interferences.

As always, someone else's fault.

 

Anyway, nice of them to be working so hard to give permission for people to enter Thailand to fill the hotels and restaurants and spend their money. Most countries, though, don't require you to seek permission.

[scorecard]

3 hours ago, Mitkof Island said:

That is my hunch as most are likely mistakes.

Yawn ...

[Artben]

Simple math:  If you want 10,000,000 people a year you must approve 27,397 people every day.  Assume it only takes 10 minutes to review each applicant that requires 570  people who work every day, take no vacations, never get sick and a workable computer system.   If they have approved 14,000 in 4 days they are now averaging 3,500 so they only need an 800% increase to meet their goal.  NEVER HAPPEN!

[LoudHailer]

I’m not a tourist. I’ve called Bangkok ‘home’ for over thirty years. I just want to return home to my Bangkok condo and to my life! I’m a farang with a Thai partner who is SUFFERING this stressful chaos along with the rest of us “stranded abroad by incompetent Thai bureaucrats” in the committee collective of Airports Thailand, Department of Disease Control, and Immigration Control. CHAOS GUARANTEED. 

[Tropicalevo]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Visitors and returning Thai nationals can now apply for Thailand Pass

You can apply but........

Experience from a friend of mine trying to get here for more than a month now.

 

It took us 3 + weeks to get the visa, yesterday I applied for the Thailand Pass for us two - the wife´s came back approved within 5 minutes - mine not yet... No one can understand what these guys are doing to their homeland with this silly regulations - if I have no QR Code from Thailand Pass I cannot buy a flight ticket and have to keep postponing hotel stay again and again..

That does not attract tourists...

[kennw]

3 hours ago, shdmn said:

Lol, they refuse to even accept the numbers, calling it fake news or whatever, so you know they hate those numbers.  They really do literally mean NOBODY.  As in a tiny trickle. 65,000 is far more than a trickle and makes it very hard for them to try move the goalposts like they always try do.

 

They will just move on to whining about something else like they always do.  Never admitting they are wrong, and they are almost ALWAYS wrong.

Just wonder how many in that number are due to "try agains" one report said a guy has tried 15 times.

[koele2]

These guys always have online problems when they launch something.  The reason is very simple.  The people they hire to handle all the online stuff are friends and/or some sort of kickback scheme is going on.  They do not get the most competent people to do the job.  Not all Thais are incompetent, only the ones that make it to the top.  That’s the system they created for themselves.

[Rinrada]

3 hours ago, 10baht said:

Has anyone here in Thailand actually accessed this web site: http://tp.consular.go.th/ ?

I am in Thailand cannot get on the page.

Yes...in CM...just checked..Exemption from Quarantine (Test and Go)

Conditions

Travelers from eligible countries / territories only

Exempted from quarantine after testing negative for COVID-19 (RT-PCR) after arrival in Thailand...etc..etc..

[thurien]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Thailand and applicants don't go together...  90 days reporting, Mor Prom, Expatvac and previous versions, and so on.....The hub of failures

"Thailand and simple APP programming do not get along at all: TH is the hub of sloppy APP programming with blaming others (outside of the country, of course) for their own stupidity when the c.r.a.p does not work

Edited November 5, 2021 by thurien

[oscarsmum]

3 hours ago, 10baht said:

Has anyone here in Thailand actually accessed this web site: http://tp.consular.go.th/ ?

I am in Thailand cannot get on the page.

I’m in Australia. No ptoblem with link or info. 

[Rinrada]

7 minutes ago, Rinrada said:

Yes...in CM...just checked..Exemption from Quarantine (Test and Go)

Conditions

Travelers from eligible countries / territories only

Exempted from quarantine after testing negative for COVID-19 (RT-PCR) after arrival in Thailand...etc..etc..

....Had a go for Jan 2022.....but only got this far...???                 Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information) .????‍♀️????

 

 

[robertson468]

6 hours ago, Enzian said:

If this keeps up word will get around the internet and genuine tourists will stop trying, which might be good for me when I have to attempt it in 3 or 4 weeks.

And what's that bit about "external interferences"? Is this something like those authoritarian countries that say all their problems are caused by outside agitators and foreign troublemaking?

It's always someone else's fault.  It's called "saving face", a very important aspect of Thai Culture.

[Hans Rayong]

I got it 2 minutes after application.

How to get it in just a few minutes:

1. Add QR-code for both injection. If you only have one QR-code add it twice.

2. No Hotmail address.

[cape]

8 hours ago, TC17 said:

As day 4 comes to an end, still no word.  What is the experience of others?  How long is a response taking for you?  I applied Nov. 1 and my flight is Nov. 12. 

I recd an acknowledgement of my application. I fly next week. I put a lot of effort and money into this. Thailand is my home but covid has kept me out for 20 months.

 

It is a laborious and expensive procedure for us "tourists" and it must be the same for the embassy. I wouldn't imagine many authentic tourists would bother.

Edited November 5, 2021 by cape

[10baht]

42 minutes ago, oscarsmum said:

I’m in Australia. No ptoblem with link or info. 

You are missing the point, in Thailand if you want to travel out for a vacation and  then get back it would be nice to have the "pass" in hand before you left so as to not have to wait around somewhere waiting on the the "pass".

[Flink]

8 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

So, what they are basically saying is the situation is getting worse - now 52,000 tourist still not got their approvals, up from 40 odd thousand yesterday. 52,000 unprocessed application in FOUR days

 

another 5 days and they will have a backlog of about 100,000 requests (though probably only 10k  constantly applying with no success).

 

They are causing absolute chaos with people plans and needlessly worrying thousands of holidaymakers.

 

It's going to collapse at some point, maybe not next week, or the week after  but soon.

 

When they say they should get 10 million tourists next year, I think it fair to say - on approving only say 4k a day -  9 million will not get their passes !

 

This will be abandoned (HOPEFULLY) as the reality of this government stupidness hits home in the months ahead

All that should be needed to come here as a tourist is that you rock up to the checkin desk with your passport, your vaccine certificate and your test result. You should then get "Welcome to Thailand. No need to show the stuff on arrival here as it's already been checked so straight through immigration, get your stamp and off you go. Other countries can manage it so why not here?

[Flink]

7 hours ago, Enzian said:

If this keeps up word will get around the internet and genuine tourists will stop trying, which might be good for me when I have to attempt it in 3 or 4 weeks.

And what's that bit about "external interferences"? Is this something like those authoritarian countries that say all their problems are caused by outside agitators and foreign troublemaking?

More likely it's a combination of:

Infighting between the various departments as to who should get the lions share of all the profits,

and

Countries who confuse their system by not putting their own nationals passport numbers on the vaccination certificates (like why would they? You go toyour GP or hospital for a tetanus jab you don't have to carry your passport!) and those countries giving their residents the single dose J&J which the Thai designers of the software forgot to account for.

[Flink]

5 hours ago, bluemoon58 said:

I seem to recollect very similar words about pretty much every App that has been produced since this plague first started...!!! They just don't seem to be able to get things right before throwing it out to the public. Only in Thailand!

The IT team leading the development of the apps no doubt did their internship at the Windows R&D wing. "Bang it out quick and don't debug it first. That way we only have to send out upgrades to debug problems when someone finds them, which means less work for us andmore money for the elites."

[Flink]

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The application has issues due to surge of demand. Astonishing that such mundane early days hiccups have some posters knickers in a twist. A new designed system unable to cope is not uncommon.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/singapore-covid-airline-websites-crash-122000585.html

 

simpleflying.com/singapore-airlines-website-crashes-demand/

 

Yes, but weren't TAT and the government spokesmen saying there'd be millions of tourists arriving by the end of December? Why build a system that struggles to cope with tens of thousands if you expect millions of applications?

[Sydebolle]

The frustration over the complete incompetence of the Thai government is worldwide meanwhile. 

65,000 need an approval (based on what do the foreign ministry staff decide if a traveller is healthy or not - looking into the Somtam mortar?) and 12,000 were OKed. 

I just wait for Prayuth and his cronies to face the music next year, when Khon Thai will have realized, that those 40 million tourists will simply not resurface within the next few years. The government's reply will be "we cannot do more than open the country" and Anutin, the health ministry sweetheart will top it up and ask "what more do these dirty farang want?". 

 

[toho]

This is almost a luxury problem for Thai authorities.

Their system can not handle this many applications.

Approvals done by persons. So I suggest: open a big can of extra personnel.

And GUARANTEE!! that handling is 110% done within 5 days.

They like our money, so come on, be customer friendly.

Test and Go hotel packages are non-refundable. 

Who like to take the risk to lose money?

I already do not like that I must have booked and paid hotel booking in advance before even having the permission to go to Thailand.  Because this includes a financial risk.

Proof of having health insurance should be enough to get approval from Thai Pass.

Immigration at Bangkok airport can check if person has been vaccinated or not as well as the relevant quarantine hotel booking.

Thai authorities must confront and solve this problem fast and adequately.

Edited November 5, 2021 by toho
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[thaivisareader]

????"...mostly due to external interferences, he said... "