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Did you buy travel insurance? It should help to cover that. Years ago, when there is a political situation in Bangkok (quite bad), Thai Airways did refund me on a non-refundable ticket. That surprised me. Last year, I didn't manage to get my Thai Pass approved in Dec for my Feb trip, the hotel refunded my first day hotel stay + PCR.

Here’s the link u can check for T&G hotels. I got this link from Thai Pass website: https://web.thailandsha.com/shaextraplus Book directly from the hotel. Your TP will need to route to the hotel for approval. If there are any changes, u can talk to your hotel directly. I booked mine with hotel directly. The hotel will be responsible for all the test and transport from hotel. I read some folks had little problems here and there when booking through 3rd party website. And u have more options when booking directly. The approval is no longer able to get it done in 1 day. It needs more than 3-5 days. Do it early and more than 1 week advance.

Better book the hotel directly. The first approval is the hotel itself. By booking directly, the hotel has your reservation records and it is easy to get them to approve your TP fast. You can let them know that you had submitted your TP so that they can look out for it. Going through 3rd party will have some delay.

Yes for the 1st question. I believe the answer is yes to your 2nd question depending how your country's requirements.

I'm planning for departure on 4th Feb. I'm taking a gamble on this. Wish me luck! ** I'm waiting for Royal Gazette to release tomorrow (hopefully) so that I can start my bookings.

Hyatt Bangkok allow me to cancel the booking even though it states that no cancellation is allowed after I email them and of cos showing them the TP rejection. Years ago when there is a huge protest, Thai Airways also allow me to cancel my non-cancellation ticket after I called them. Something I like about Thailand is that they are willing to make things happen unless it is beyond their ability.

Damn it. I had canceled everything. But it is good news to me. Now to convince my bf who is still sour from the experience to go.

You neighbours need to understand that you are traveling to places with low infection rates while most of my countrymen's leisure travel to US and Europe are having higher infection rates when they are back. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the lockdown will not be back especially we are just less than a month to Chinese New Year. So long you had your booster, all is well.

There goes my trip in Feb. There were some thoughts going in December but my bf and I decided on Feb for 3 reasons: 1. More people from US and Europe going to BKK during Dec. So Feb will be the best timing since it is Chinese New Year holidays for Asia. 2. Planned cruise (to nowhere) with big family in end Dec so better avoid going anywhere. 3. More shops will be opened and less restrictions. Too bad, everywhere is battling Omicron and govt around the world doesn't want to repeat the same episode as Delta.

Both me and my bf had our T&G rejected after the application was closed. The reason for both of us are different. We will hoping that it will reopen again this week but the news doesn't seems good at all. Our arrival date is 3rd Feb.

Yesterday I watched a youtube video on a trip (recent) to Kanchanburi and part of the trip consists of a slow train where the locals were charged for 3 baht while 100 baht for foreigners.

Hope there are more before my trip in Feb 22.

The "muay thai" guys are from this bar/restaurant called ChangSha*. The content creator only put it's location in the VIP section which I'm not a member. I also did tried searching for it as well but I can't find. The creator only mentioned that it took him 30 mins drive from Sathorn. It could be quite far from the silom area. Here is another youtube video focusing on the bar/restaurant. The guys are mostly straight (as mentioned in the video) and they will keep you company while drinking eating. I'm not sure if there are any other services provided. *ChangSha is a location in China.

Was the Prince raided too? Saw the logo in the news.

Though I haven't been to Prince or new MyHero (the previous Hero was different), U should have better chances of getting more than what's in Arena. It was struck off my list. I miss Hero.

Love your reports. Will you be putting all your trips into a blog?

I'm hungry for the ingredients of the sandwich. Please share.

Yes, it was Day 3 for you and Day 3 for the rest of us. Can't wait for your next 5 Days posts!

I read from another forum that Hero will be closed from 31 May 2016. Can someone verify that?

Did u just went there yesterday? Was it crowded? I had many good experiences there too. I found someone that was very good when I was in Hero Feb 2015 but I didn't manage to take his pic. So when I went back again 6 months later, the mamasan couldn't remember who is he even though I gave him the name. He's Noh. If anyone knows him, please post his pic.