the big down side is if u come in and test positive on day 1 or day 5 your put in hospital at your expense. Most Thais are getting Omicron and recovering quickly but if u get it Ur holiday is spent in hospital and it will be expensive . Not many insurance companies will cough up especially if you have no symptoms. PCR tests very very difficult to book in Pattaya, so many testing.
masks or no masks, tourism in Thailand is finished until quarantine, masks, covid insurance is ditched. That's just a fact, I'm not saying I'm right about Thailand restrictions being right or wrong. But there will be no improvement on tourism until they are lifted. Many baht bus... Market traders... Small and large businesses.. motorbike taxi... All now closed for good. Look at the q,s for free food. If u have 3 vaccine jabs and u won't open Ur in trouble. UK open fully .. testing has come to a end , Europe will follow.
There is fast approaching no incentive to come to Thailand. People will start looking elsewhere , as the UK and Europe start to move on, places like Pattaya are ghost towns. IV got a wife and 3 kids here . If I was a tourist Thailand would be well down the list of places I would visit. IV been coming here 24 years, the visa system has become very hard to stay. It's no incentive to try a 4 week holiday to find u may spend most of it looking at 4 walls.There seems no end to live with covid in Thailand.
If u give your address, the next week they send someone to the residence and take a photo of u your wife and any children. I'm going through it at the moment, they came Monday. Also asked for a paper for the registration of marriage, seemingly it only active for 3 months. I have had to do it twice. They may also ask for a update of your bank book more than once until it is granted.