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

@Eli***

Visas have not "stop."

@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.

@Eli***

When was the last time you tried? As of about 2 weeks ago almost all embassies have resumed issuing tourist visas.

@Garrett **********

I tried in the beginning of November. I’ll recheck with my travel advisor. Thanks mate.. 👍🏻

@Dave ********

where did you read Thai govt believes alchohol causes Covid. It's a virus, not a bacteria.

Steve🤔🤔🤔🤪 Mccarthy

@To**

Why wouldn't you travel now?

@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.

@Jane **********

hi Jane! Still spreading the joy? Missed your special brand of sunshine ☀️.

@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).

@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! 🙏

@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.

@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

@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.

@Ja**

u must be hitting the brandy hard this aft 😂.

Love your misguided and desperate spirit. Keep it coming 🙏

@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 🤘🏼

@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)

@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

@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!

@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.

@Ja**

thx 🙏 as always for the self indulgent lecture Gramma! Ur the best! Enjoy the meeting! 🥃 💜

@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

@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.

@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

@Kathy ***************

thx

@Gene *********

you can get a 60 day tourist visa. Check your local embassy.

@Karim **************

thx

@Rich *******

They actually hand them out in US before you board and make sure you have one in Doha too.

@Ka***

interesting! Thx 🙏. Enjoy the flight. All is well in Thailand when you arrive.

@Jane **********

if bbk was that buzy, they wouldn't be trying to sell drinks for lady's online, 🤔🤔🤔

@Steven ******

😂I think you’ll find that’s v common in certain bars at all times, not just currently

What’s wrong with Phuket?

@Jane **********

are you in phuket, i guess not , much more than a ghost town 🤔🤔

@Steven ******

the comment was in ref to Bangkok, not Phuket. I have zero interest in being in Phuket. Ever.