You need a passport with current stamps to even get a hotel room here. (Thailand) Try getting around it and you can have 4:00 AM visitors, be careful. Generally the love motels don't ask for a passport or id but might get suspicious if you were alone.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:40 pm

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:59 pm Offering a 3 month extension option in the current climate should really be a sensible option. I doubt many who took advantage of it would be too disappointed if it turned out it wasn't fully utilised.

Prohibiting mass gatherings everywhere and ignoring the crowding issue at immigration offices needs addressing and shouldn't be that difficult to improve if there is a will to do so.

sensible? Thai immigration? Surely you jest> (you like to jump on me when i make stupid comments ) LOL

Not such a stupid comment then ye of little faith lol. Looks like the cabinet has just approved automatic renewals for those on expiring tourist visas.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:16 pm ur forgetting, if ur Caught, ( vs turning urslef in for overstay) you go to immigration lock up till you pay ur fine and get deported or sit there till someone else pays it, plus ur ticket out

They give you 30 days each time but each time u need a letter from ur embassy (can be done by email)

Dont like it here? fucking leave, (if u can) go home

If they catch you without valid visa, you go to Police-jail, Immigration jail in province, then Immi-jail in BKK (Suan Plu) sitting with Indians, Nigerians, Chinese, etc.etc. like in a sardine-box, for how long??? You never know!
IF you get the money for fines, tickets, etc!!! maybe you can go. BUT You're gonna be Blacklisted for 5! Years!
Like you said Richard: If you don't like Thai, GO! If you're out of money and/or cannot get new cash you beter should't come here. No friends helping you? You did something wrong in life!
Not my problem anyway! I am waiting for the first Flight DMK to PNH, 'cause my G/F is there.I am switching countries 10 times a year, since she cannot
go with me to Thai, and I don't wanna leave here for. Now MR. M'Fokker COVID 19 is thwarting my plans, so I can only wait in Patty, which is nopro at all! Miss her anyway!
Today 22:00 until 05 AM CURFEW! Looking forward to! Take care and KEEP STRONG!

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:28 pm

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:58 pm How Thai immigration have been handling this crisis so far is a total disgrace. Not a surprise to anyone who knows them, but still, it's shameful.

OK my theory on this.

Thais have tickets on themselves and are xenophobic. That's what they are taught at school from a very young age.. that Thailand is the centre of the universe. Foreigners are inferior and uncultured.

Yet...they rely rely on tourism for a very large part of their economy. So they tolerate that.

So what the Wuhan virus has done is expose their true attitudes and prejudices that would normally remain hidden behind that smiling, poker face. On the one hand, they're looking for someone to blame for their misfortune and who better than those barbarian tourists and expats that refuse to wear a mask? Yet, on the other hand, they are looking at a total decimation of their tourism industry..and the knock on effects of that to their economy and people's livelihoods.

So they are in a quandary...torn between wanting to do away with falangs coming there infecting their people or letting their economy go to ruin.. They just don't quite know how to handle their insecurities on this.. hence, they look like they are flip/flopping their way through all this..

Release the hounds..

I think referencing that to the authorities you are correct to an extent. Part of the reason I've never believed in a dommsday scenario as a Westerner living in Thailand, such as Sigmoid has been propagating since way back when, is the government are stuck between a rock and a hard place regarding the revenue and job creation /dependency that foreigners both tourists and residents generate. We are seeing that in the utter decimation of the likes of Phuket and Pattaya.

I do wonder when the dust settles and people reflect on the way different countries have handled this with respect to foreign nationals will people feel quite the same towards Thailand. For me if I needed any confirmation, specifically the comments coming from the deputy PM/Health Minister which was never properly retracted or admonished by PM, it has increased my unease for the future and raises my own questions whether I want to be full time or more of a part-time visitor between here and other countries in the region.

In my mind having watched the situation develop the Govt have bent over backwards to keep the Chi ese sweet while waiting for an opportunity to start apportioning blame onto Western Foreigners wherever possible. I don't like being a default scapegoat in difficult times.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:28 pm

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:58 pm How Thai immigration have been handling this crisis so far is a total disgrace. Not a surprise to anyone who knows them, but still, it's shameful.

OK my theory on this.

Thais have tickets on themselves and are xenophobic. That's what they are taught at school from a very young age.. that Thailand is the centre of the universe. Foreigners are inferior and uncultured.

...

Release the hounds..

All asians thnk that way, except maybe Indians, Filips and Singaporeans. Some are more polite about it. Like the Japanese.

Bark bark

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:58 pm In my mind having watched the situation develop the Govt have bent over backwards to keep the Chi ese sweet while waiting for an opportunity to start apportioning blame onto Western Foreigners wherever possible. I don't like being a default scapegoat in difficult times.

yeah, I've been seeing a few Thai news outlets toeing the ch ese propaganda of this being an American virus.