Fun & Games at the Airport

[nglodnig]

Fly tomorrow (Monday 27th) to Bangkok from Zurich. Got our Thailand Passes, booked the one-day quarantine and test when we arrive, final thing - get a PCR test 72 hours before you fly. This was Christmas Eve and the only places open were at the airport. Go there Christmas Eve morning, told we were too early (they were wrong but hey let's follow their advice) go back in the afternoon - told results would be in mailbox between 7-8 am Christmas Day morning. ten o'clock they arrive - and they are both WRONG - two identical certificates for the two of us - wrong passport numbers, names and dates of birth.

 

But they at least got the test date right.

 

Test&Fly at Zurich Airport.

Edited December 25, 2021 by nglodnig

[bkk6060]

So, at this point you do not have a qualified test result to travel?

What are you going to do?

[Gsxrnz]

But I thought everything in Switzerland ran with the precision of the proverbial Swiss watch?

 

 

 

 

[nglodnig]

12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

So, at this point you do not have a qualified test result to travel?

What are you going to do?

 I spent Christmas morning on the phone and emailing franctically, finally driving to the airport where I walked up to the counter and announced in a loud voice so everybobdy in the queue could hear how they screwed up our certificates. Five minutes later they corrected them and printed them out for me.

[nglodnig]

11 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

But I thought everything in Switzerland ran with the precision of the proverbial Swiss watch?

 

That us the myth perpertuated by the Swiss - if it goes wrong it's always the fault of "them foreigners"

Edited December 26, 2021 by nglodnig

[Lemsta69]

15 hours ago, nglodnig said:

 I spent Christmas morning on the phone and emailing franctically, finally driving to the airport where I walked up to the counter and announced in a loud voice so everybobdy in the queue could hear how they screwed up our certificates. Five minutes later they corrected them and printed them out for me.

I'd be expecting a refund for getting screwed around like that. but if Zurich is anything like Sydney then don't hold your breath ????

[xxeo]

My exerience on different occasions as well:

 

Sometimes you have to speak up, have to be loud. Then it works in Thailand.

 

Otherwise they do not take your things serious.

[donx]

The hardest part of this entire Test & Go process for us was obtaining the pre-travel PCR test. Traveling the day after Christmas must have added to our difficulties. The surge of omicron infections created a perfect storm.

[Burma Bill]

On 12/26/2021 at 6:31 PM, nglodnig said:

if it goes wrong it's always the fault of "them foreigners"

Ah ha! - The "Thailand Syndrome"!!

[BritTim]

2 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Ah ha! - The "Thailand Syndrome"!!

Anyone who thinks racism is an exclusively Thai problem is wearing blinkers. Distrust of "the other" is a universal human condition. Racism is worse, on average, in China. It is also worse, on average in the US, and the situation there has actually deteriorated further in recent years.