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What recent travel experiences to Bangkok have the expats shared amidst COVID-19 restrictions?

Nov 23, 2020
5 years ago
Kathy ****************
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And we're off... Look out Bangkok...
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The posts share various sentiments about traveling to Bangkok amidst ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, emphasizing personal experiences of expats flying from locations like the USA. Discussion revolves around types of visas obtained, including the OA retirement visa, and the implications of quarantine, with some expressing concern over safety and travel logistics during the pandemic. Many comments reflect on current travel conditions and the emotional pull of family connections in Thailand.
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Mark ********
Take Care sir. We are waiting from India to come
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Elisha ******
Hey guys.

It seemed like the visas were stopped. I wonder how did you get the visa? Any details that you could share?
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@Eli***
we got a OA retirement visa from USA
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Elisha ******
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alright. That sounds cool.

Enjoy guys. 👍🏻
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Garrett ***********
@Eli***
Visas have not "stop."
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Elisha ******
@Garrett **********
I have been trying to get a tourist visa for Thailand, but the embassy/consulate here in dubai says that they are issuing any tourist visas, even the agents dealing with travel and tourism are giving the same statement.
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Garrett ***********
@Eli***
When was the last time you tried? As of about 2 weeks ago almost all embassies have resumed issuing tourist visas.
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Elisha ******
@Garrett **********
I tried in the beginning of November. I’ll recheck with my travel advisor. Thanks mate.. 👍🏻
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Harsh ******
Have a safe journey
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Braulio *********
😆
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Oliver *************
Good Photo
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Kathy ****************
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21 passengers + crew, Qatar to Bangkok...
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Michael *********
Best flights thus far.
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Luke *******
I don't understand why people can't wait to go to Thailand. Its not like Thailand is going anywhere. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Peter **********
@Luke ******
I guess over 95% of the people going now have family or loved ones over there. Not all of us go for the reasons you do obviously.
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Luke *******
Family I understand but for the guys that want to go to bkk and pattaya is another story 🤦‍♂️
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@Lu**
oh we know...
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@Lu**
when you have children and grandchildren you go...
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Brian ********
Lock your daughters up
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@Br***
I wish but mine lives in Thailand...
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Jane ***********
Hope you arrived safely. Best wishes for quarantine. Thanks for posting
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@Ja**
safely tucked in to our ASQ..
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Christine ******
Safe travels!
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Debii ********
What crazinesss🙈
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マレー *****
Hey Bangkok just told me they changed their mind 😬. Hahaha. Safe trip
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Paul *****************
I stay Home in my nice Garden until Virus away and Situation better Sure. No Waistung Time and Money for 15 Days Qurantäne Jail in Bangkok
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0 baht no way
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Peter **********
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Why are you always writing this. No one cares about you staying in your garden. You do what you want others can do what they want.
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Dave *********
Safe journey..look forward to your 15 days stint in quarantine
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Steve **********
@Dave ********
a couple of bottles of single malt. Some ' room service' it'll pass in mo time.
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Christine ******
@Steve *********
It’s not bad at all.
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Dave *********
@Steve *********
even though they dont allow booze ..make sure its well hidden if they do decide a search..in the hotel.. remember the thai government strongly believe that alcohol causes covid therefore its banned ..along with dirty foriegners 🤣🥂🍻enjoy
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@Dave ********
where did you read Thai govt believes alchohol causes Covid. It's a virus, not a bacteria.
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Dave *********
Steve🤔🤔🤔🤪 Mccarthy
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William ********
Keep your asses at home...they really don’t want you there right now!!
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Kathy ****************
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@Wil****
we have a daughter son in law, and 3 grandbabies that want us there, so fortunately that's where we go...
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Todd *********
For anyone thinking travel is a good idea for 2021... have fun lol.
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Zzyzx *******
I live in a shit show called Los Angeles ,California and I can tell you there are more cases within a 2 mile radius of my house this week than Thailand has had in 11 months. Riddle me this Batman
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Todd *********
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now if only the airlines had ANY influence on govt... things would be possible
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@Todd ********
There hasn’t been a case of local transmission of Covid in 7
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months in Thailand there are zero cases except the ones that come in from quarantine. Why wouldn’t somebody want to get out of a shit location to go to paradise. You should think about it Todd
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@Steve ******
I can only say that the only Covid cases in Thailand are from people entering the country is an absolute fever dream. Those are the only ones being tested. I am not saying Covid has been a disaster in Thailand in any way but the official stats are sooo suspect. How many people die in the villages without testing or a reason of death recorded?
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Rob ******
@Steve ******
Yes , not correct the difference between cases and not recording cases is a bit different . But its definately not an epidemic .
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Todd *********
@St***
😂😂😂 I thought about it in March when the smart people were thinking big shooter. Moved here then. What the hell were people thinking would happen lol? I’m pointing out the many nuances of travel today. It’s no longer easy. Far more complicated, uncomfortable and risky. Yes - I agree, why is anyone staying in USA with a tidal wave of Covid bearing down? But the time to consider that was feb/mar.
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Garrett ***********
@To**
Why wouldn't you travel now?
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Jane ***********
@Garrett **********
because he likes to be a know it all telling everyone else how wrong and foolish they are and how right he is about absolutely everything.
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Todd *********
@Jane **********
hi Jane! Still spreading the joy? Missed your special brand of sunshine ☀️.
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
still spreading your pompous brand of petit bourgeois superiority inspired by (well who knows what but it must be some kind of inferiority complex, mental or physical). Anyway you haven’t been missed. And btw I didn’t tag you, so why do you feel the need to reply? (Oh wait, see the above).
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@Ja**
lol. Wow. Off you go, just like that 🙂. Happy to indulge your incessant desire to hear yourself natter. You are great for a laugh. Keep it up! 🙏
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
‘desire to natter’. Dude stop hanging out with your granny, telling people off for choosing how they want to live their lives ‘oh you shouldn’t be travelling now, how stupid. If you were as clever and boring as me you would have decided all this in March’ and get a life and then I might have respect for you. And, as I remind you, you weren’t tagged in this comment so why do you even care? Weird. Sad.
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Todd *********
@Ja**
odd,

Cuz you could be my granny. Why slam grannies? Carry on your to your ‘crazy matrons of Thailand’ weekly meeting. I don’t want to make you late
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
🤣🤣🤣 I think you need to buy a mirror mate. 'Matrons of Thailand', you really are locked in the 1950s aren't you? I'm afraid using phrases 'cuz' isn't going to convince anyone you're under 60. Bless you, your delusions are actually quite funny.
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@Ja**
u must be hitting the brandy hard this aft 😂.

Love your misguided and desperate spirit. Keep it coming 🙏
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
I’m going to bow out now because I’ve got a lot better things to do than waste time with a self righteous tosser (you’re going to have to look that word up because it’s not a word that elderly boring Canadian men are generally familiar with except in the literal sense, plus I know you don’t have much to do). But seriously dude - get a life rather than spending your time telling people - who are much more interesting than you - off on FB ( I realise the irony here 😁). I know you’ll reply because you are one of those tedious insecure guys who always needs to have the last word (bet you were SO SO much fun in work meetings before you permanently retired😩). But it’s over and out from me 🤘🏼
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@Ja**
thank God! 😂 It’s a safe bet ur not going off on a second date with anyone, so assume ur running late for your meeting 🐄 or topping up at the liquor store? Have fun! (If you need some anger management help, I met a girl who can help)
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
told you so 🤪. Yeah I can see you’re the kind of guy who calls women ‘girls’. Or maybe she was a girl, I can totally see that being the case too given the way you come across
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@Ja**
😂😂😂😂 ur hilarious. ‘I’m gonna bow out’ or ‘but from me it’s over and out’. 😂😂😂 Except you can’t keep your oversized yap closed, which is why you arrived here in the first place. At least can respect people who can keep their word...

But that ain’t you 🤷‍♂️ Hugs!
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Jane ***********
@Todd ********
wow you really are an angry little man aren’t you? Just take a look at those emojis. 🤩Seriously- calm down, at your age it’s not advisable to get worked up. ‘Keep your oversized yap closed’ yeah, that’s just the way I expect someone like you to speak to people/women. You are patronising and rude, I arrived here exactly the same way you did dude - by making a. comment. Now calm down deary.
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@Ja**
thx 🙏 as always for the self indulgent lecture Gramma! Ur the best! Enjoy the meeting! 🥃 💜
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@Gar****
availability of flights, increased cost of flights (some), risk of getting locked down in transfer nations, complications of return flights, cost of insurance, practicality/availability of health care in host nation in event of infection, positive test on arrival and quarantine, annoyance of quarantine, long hours on a plane fully masked as above, additional administrative load (COE or similar depending on nation), increased risk of exposure on flights and in airports, possibility of extended lockdown in your visit country. Stuff like that 🤷‍♂️

For context, I have been travelling full time for last 87 months. Am I leaving Thailand in next 12 months? Highly unlikely. I think people just need to adjust their sites on how we travel
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Garrett ***********
@To**
Flying to Thailand, yes. I just got to Bogota last week. From the US flights were under $100. Hotels are empty and dirt cheap, tourist attractions are empty, roads are empty, wonderful time to travel imo. Southeast Asia is its own thing though.
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@Gar****
same here of course. Hotels empty, villas 80-90% off pre-Covid prices. Has never been a better time to be travelling inside Thailand.

Agreed Mexico and south has easy access at this point, but if their number of cases continues to go crazy, lock downs could be quick. If I was on that side, I would be home in Mexico or Colombia also. Medellin and Cartagena both great. Have fun
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Steve *************
What a messed up world we are now living in with this degree of stupidity.....
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Christine ******
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Garrett ***********
Safe travels guys!
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DrRobbie *********
Enjoy the sun ☀️
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Wayne ********
2 weeks quarantine ?
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Kathy ****************
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@Wa***
15 nights..
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Michael *********
Really!
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Breck *********
Is that a motorcycle

Windshield
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Kathy ****************
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@Br***
right..
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Stan *******
Bangkok from where?
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Kathy ****************
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@St**
USA
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Gene **********
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you are from USA! I am also. The fact that COVID is so high here did not affect you getting approval?? Are you just tourists?
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@Ge**
we did a OA retirement visa..
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@Gene *********
you can get a 60 day tourist visa. Check your local embassy.
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Gene **********
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Ron *******
Safe travels.
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Paul *****************
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Paul *****************
Look like Moonwalk
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Rich ********
Is that a lamp shade?
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Dianne *****
@Rich *******
yeah , my friend flew Qatar; Perth to London recently and had to wear one for the whole journey
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Rich ********
@Dianne ****
the plastic manufacturers have got to love covid.
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Tom ********
@Rich *******
Everyone who flies Qatar to bkk is required to take one of their face shields...no exceptions! They even have ones for kids.
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Rich ********
@Tom *******
interesting.
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Tom ********
@Rich *******
They actually hand them out in US before you board and make sure you have one in Doha too.
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Kathy ****************
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@Ri**
Qatar's new headgear..
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Todd *********
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QA is issuing those?

Not in business class I bet?
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Kathy ****************
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@Ka***
interesting! Thx 🙏. Enjoy the flight. All is well in Thailand when you arrive.
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seriously? Plus a face mask!
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yep..
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Frankie ********
Your off to where?
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Steven *******
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off to the ghost town, safe travelling
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Jane ***********
@Steven ******
are you in Bangkok? I guess not because it’s very far from a ghost town
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@Jane **********
if bbk was that buzy, they wouldn't be trying to sell drinks for lady's online, 🤔🤔🤔
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Jane ***********
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😂I think you’ll find that’s v common in certain bars at all times, not just currently
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Marie **********
What’s wrong with Phuket?
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@Jane **********
are you in phuket, i guess not , much more than a ghost town 🤔🤔
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Jane ***********
@Steven ******
the comment was in ref to Bangkok, not Phuket. I have zero interest in being in Phuket. Ever.
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Kathy ****************
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Bangkok
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Have a safe and enjoyable journey.
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