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To be blunt, the loss of days or weeks in some sort of medical imprisonment is more of a worry than the money.

Thaiger.com has some advice on this and recommends two or three local (Bangkok)providers. My concern was that some policies have a seventy-five year age limit....however, Thaiger found a couple that don't have an age limit. I'm ultra-careful and so my intention is to use my own UK travel insurance but to back it -up with a local company that specifically mentions quarantine and is "Covid-Pass friendly."

Since his photo was included in this article, I thought I should point out that most biographers agree that Oscar Wilde never engaged in anal sex. He did , however, enjoy watching Bosie perform on his young "panthers."

I agree with z909. The only positive I can say is that I received a full refund from EVA.

Anti-Semitism is, in my opinion, real enough and pervasive. However, when an Israeli Ambassador claims that the word "solidarity" is itself anti-Semitic, or that a factual report from a respected human rights organisation that took four years of research to collate, is anti-Semitic merely because he doesn't like the findings.... it is time to use the word more accurately. By the way, everything that Amnesty International reported I saw with my own eyes when I was there between 2004 and 2017. And more.

Put it this way; I would insist on a hairdresser and a foot-masseur wearing a mask throughout my stay. And most certainly I'd advise the same for anything more intimate. For the duration of the trip. Being declared positive just as you begin your return would be most disagreeable!

That is what a Youtuber advised; he said it resulted in a quicker response for the Thailand Pass application.. However, others disagree.

Thanks; I'll keep that in mind. Is the Emirates stop a change of plane? The taxi service is a big plus, too. I've been an EVA customer since 1995.... that's nearly eighty return flights and have had no complaints. Good lounges at BKK and LHR, too. However, the two cancellations have made me wary; it's a nuisance when you've booked-up everything else (including the quarantine night) and then to be told that you have to change your flight and some of those arrangements.

After a perusal of EVA's website today, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that EVA will recommence its LHR-BKK flights in June. Having had two such bookings annulled, I'm not getting too excited but these flights are now available to book. And Business Class can be chosen at less than £3000; that's cheaper than Thai. The times are more convenient than Thai Air's and the air-time shorter with no stops on the way

It is revealing that the media (even here in the UK) consider a remark by a TV personality more newsworthy than Amnesty International's report on Israeli apartheid. Or perhaps more welcome.

Yes; P paid so that he could get to the front of the queue for Pfizer. His medical condition should have made this unnecessary in my view.

My experience with P was similar; he too is "a country boy"...an aging one! In his remote area, the vaccine roll-out has not been as effective as in the cities. Like traveller123's partner, he was first given the Sinovac and then Pfizer for the second. But- and here's the rub- he's still waiting for a Pfizer booster, leading to the postponement of our holiday together. I won't take chances with his health, painful though the decision was.

I've tried three different projects with P; none have been successful commercially. The third was devastating; a shop in his village which sold bags and similar accessories. It was undercut by a market after a lot of money had been spent on it. Bluntly, it was too "posh" for an economically -depressed area. A costly failure. I've never been a business man and so I'm of little help. The current project is a small-holding a few kms away. it is successful in that not much of a profit is expected. To me, the investment is worthwhile because it gives P purpose and interest. Good for the soul; and the farming work is good for the body. As long as he watches out for the snakes- the alpha predator in his district!

After my second EVA flight was cancelled, I booked with Thai Air. The timings are nowhere as convenient for LHR-BKK....the arrival in BKK is too late to allow an evening of sanuk, while the return to London leaves BKK at 0010. Now that I've cancelled that flight too, this time owing to issues relating to P's vaccination, I was hoping to rebook on EVA....but the gods have seemingly decreed that nothing about my return to Thailand will be convenient or straightforward.

The same goes for anti-maskers.....do they refuse to submit to surgery if the doctor is wearing a mask? Scuba-diving must be problematic, too.

Perhaps the junta should ask the CIA for help....after all, prisoners across the world were delivered to "Black Sites" in Thailand for torture apparently without problem. Of course, they weren't millionaires.

When EVA cancelled two separate bookings for January and then March, the implication was that flights would assume in April at the latest. In fact, there are still no EVA flights to Bangkok, even in June.

You can't apply for your Thailand Pass until ! February and I suspect that the site will be under heavy pressure for a few days. I'd be surprised if the arrangements change much in the time leading-up to May; indeed, a new variant , or a cluster or two may even make the rules tighter. I wouldn't change my dates but there are two aspects for me which may not apply to you; firstly, an awareness of the fact that my age is such that I may not have many trips ahead of me; and secondly, I have someone waiting for me there whom I am desperate to meet.

The crucial addition is that we spend a second day in an approved day. Another lost day in Thailand! But not enough to discourage my trip going ahead. I'd already booked the first night long ago, via Agoda....I expect can do the same for the extra day.

The fact that it is even being considered is progress in itself.

OK, vinapu's reign as forum scribe is over for now and he will be missed; the question is, who's next? any takers?

13 March , Red Letter Day.....I hope!

Agree entirely. A story about an over-paid and profoundly ignorant (and dishonest, it now appears) sportsman has been headline news here in the UK for a week. Why? Tennis is a minority interest at the best of times and this ludicrous man managed to keep refugees dying in the English Channel and much else off the front pages. I ask again, why? Sometimes I despair of the msm.

The possibility of meeting a relatively-wealthy falang in a LTR is a huge draw. Only a minority are successful I'd guess, but the possibility is enough to draw young men away from the rice-fields. P once took me through the Dreamboys cast-list of 2010, (the Pattaya one) , his last year ; I was staggered at the number of guys he knew there who had found themselves a falang. How long these relationships lasted is another matter, of course but I have met three of them with their falang partners by chance while out with him in Pattaya in the last five years or so. Another one I met had just inherited a comfortable home .