Pattaya & Bangkok Reopening!

[Johnnyshakes]

I think the PM's plan runs in 15 and 30 day increments...
Nov. 15th may find a less restrictive curfew (possibly 1 AM!)...Dec.1 might bring allowing beer & wine sales until midnight...
Pattaya is scheduled to "open" Dec.1 and they have just spent a sizable amount of $$ to install a new "Jumbo-tron" at the foot of walking st.
Soooo...I THINK WS might return without too many changes ...at least for now.
The Pattaya Music Fest is running every weekend during Nov. and that hasn't happened in over 7 years...
Brian Flores (Night Wish Owner) is staging a hunger strike in protest of the fact that BKK and Phuket can serve Alcohol but Patts cannot.
One of my LB friends in Patts tells me that the city has a pretty good vibe right now...but she DEF wants the Western tourists back ASAP
to fully pull Patts out of the doldrums.
I have reserved a condo at "City Maxx" for 90 days starting the last week of January...
I'm crossing my fingers that Patts will be running at 60-70% of it's former self by then.

this is a Lb?

[George Pill]

Best way to discover how to get into LOS without grief is contact the Thai embassy or consulates yourself. Ask questions way before you fly. In Hawaii I we get a silly little white card that my drugstore dates and stamps. Very easy to forge. Luckily there's a hard consulate where I can buy a 3-month visa. Will ask if my vaccination record is kosher. Don't know if there will soon be a vaccination requirement for monkey pox. There's a serious shortage everywhere. Thailand has had only 2 cases so far. USA has 5k. BTW this is a heterosexual and a contact disease. Media likes to use homos as irresponsible risktakers.

Anyway talk to the embassy people yourselves. They're the best and hopefully the most accurate source of info.

[karlgnter]

Great News

[Rockheart]

Thanks for your great information. That means - by the plan - that I can travel to Bangkok on Nov 1´as fully vaccinated without going to a quarantine? Thanks for your answer in advance :-)

YES!

From 1 July, 2022, foreign nationals are only required to show proof of either a certificate of vaccination or a negative RT-PCR or professional ATK test result within 72 hours of travel. These can be in a print or digital format. Random checks will be made on arrivals at Thailand’s international airports or land border checkpoints (in 22 provinces).

https://www.tatnews.org/

(Even though there is no logical reason to test for covid at the border, they still do it.)

[Rockheart]

Am interesting fact about Mexico is they spend one tenth of what the US spends per capita on health care. Yet life expectancy in Mexico is only three years less than the US.

It's less stress, and the beans.....

[Aaron S. Young]

Thanks for your great information. That means - by the plan - that I can travel to Bangkok on Nov 1´as fully vaccinated without going to a quarantine? Thanks for your answer in advance :-)

[Escierto]

An interesting fact about Mexico is they spend one tenth of what the US spends per capita on health care. Yet life expectancy in Mexico is only three years less than the US.

[Rockheart]

Good to read that Thailand is re-opening. Was in PV November last year, and I agree Crag, that they did the right thing not closing everything down. Interesting how Mexico did not buy in to the pandemic panic, lock, stock and barrel, like the Western world did.

Because the gangs in Mexcio are consulted on all issues as they are a major influence in all governments there.
So they are not disciples of the World Economic Forum. They still implemented masking and other rules but nothing was firmly enforced.
The first month i was in Mexico everything was open regular hours, but then they closed everything at 11pm for the next month.

The hospitals in Cancun and Playa del Carmen were about 30% full the entire time we were there, on average.
Plus nobody stops you from buying Hydrochlorquine or Ivermectin if you want it.
I went to the hospital in Playa and I was the only person there.

[bigmtsl]

Good to read that Thailand is re-opening. Was in PV November last year, and I agree Crag, that they did the right thing not closing everything down. Interesting how Mexico did not buy in to the pandemic panic, lock, stock and barrel, like the Western world did.

[northernguy222]

I think the PM's plan runs in 15 and 30 day increments...
Nov. 15th may find a less restrictive curfew (possibly 1 AM!)...Dec.1 might bring allowing beer & wine sales until midnight...
Pattaya is scheduled to "open" Dec.1 and they have just spent a sizable amount of $$ to install a new "Jumbo-tron" at the foot of walking st.
Soooo...I THINK WS might return without too many changes ...at least for now.
The Pattaya Music Fest is running every weekend during Nov. and that hasn't happened in over 7 years...
Brian Flores (Night Wish Owner) is staging a hunger strike in protest of the fact that BKK and Phuket can serve Alcohol but Patts cannot.
One of my LB friends in Patts tells me that the city has a pretty good vibe right now...but she DEF wants the Western tourists back ASAP
to fully pull Patts out of the doldrums.
I have reserved a condo at "City Maxx" for 90 days starting the last week of January...
I'm crossing my fingers that Patts will be running at 60-70% of it's former self by then.

Did you get to Pattaya Billy? How were the Maxxcentral condos? I will be back in SEAsia in October and staying all winter...want to spend a month or so in Pattaya and check it all out

[Rockheart]

It quite clearly states that New Deaths of 30 is -1 (one less) than yesterday. The new cases of 2940 is +408 vs yesterday.

I was hoping for a ressurection. Oh well must be the Christmas cheer clouding my understanding.
Happy Holidays.

[rxpharm]

Latest Covid numbers for Thailand.
-1 deaths yesterday?
Someone came back to life?

It quite clearly states that New Deaths of 30 is -1 (one less) than yesterday. The new cases of 2940 is +408 vs yesterday.

[Rockheart]

Latest Covid numbers for Thailand.
-1 deaths yesterday?
Someone came back to life?

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[Vicky C]

I need to see photos of your bod.

Lol I did not mean it that way. Just saying Singapore is not lagging behind. Finally we can travel too after soo long!

[Easyguy]

They will probably try to introduce some changes to the whole system the way it was. Unfortunately covid has give governments the chance to take measures they may not have been able to in the past. Unfortunately the people in charge of Thailand and the elite have just become more wealthy and powerful as a result of this pandemic, just like countries everywhere. The people in charge don't need that bad money and the others have gone without if for years now. Cops are probably more corrupt in drugs and gambling now there is not much tourist market.

Thailand has fantastic beaches and culture. However they have allowed many of the beaches and water areas to become destroyed and contaminated.
They have plans to turn the whole Cha am to Phuket beaches into the "Thai Riviera". This is stupid since these are not their best beaches and it will just destroy more natural areas with over development.

Most of the customers of Thailand were from the west. There is becoming less and less incentive to go to Thailand when you can just fly to mexico in a few hours. Mexico where I am right now there is few restrictions or lockdowns ever. They seem to be through the pandemic already and tourism is doing good except it is still down. I think the main reason many are still not coming to Mexico is lying media and officials scaring the hell out of people for little reason.
Mexico did the right thing from what I see.

Anyway nobody is going to go all the way to Thailand anymore is it is just a plain tourist location. There is plenty of Ladyboys everywhere these days and the percentage in North America now is probably equal to or higher than Thailand now. Why fly for dozens of hours when you don't have to anymore.

Thailand will never get much back if they don't open the same as before.

Canada seems to have quite a few Asian Ladyboys especially Thai and Korean. There are also western T-Girls available like Chloe Rose in Montreal. Of course the play for pay trade is more expensive than in Thailand. However, so is a R/T ticket, hotels, food. and transportation.