Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:52 am

sigmoid wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:45 am There still seems to be a major lack of awareness that a significant number of countries around the world are currently open with no or limited restrictions and have been for months.

For example, a friend of mine who really wanted to return to SE Asia during the Fall/Winter is now in Mexico and heading down to Costa Rica. A lot of countries throughout the tropics seem to be accessible. As a result, a global competition has arisen and people who want to travel are naturally going to at least consider the countries without quarantine first.

Once I can get my vaccine (maybe July) I am headed that way too...

sigmoid wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:15 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:52 am

sigmoid wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:45 am There still seems to be a major lack of awareness that a significant number of countries around the world are currently open with no or limited restrictions and have been for months.

For example, a friend of mine who really wanted to return to SE Asia during the Fall/Winter is now in Mexico and heading down to Costa Rica. A lot of countries throughout the tropics seem to be accessible. As a result, a global competition has arisen and people who want to travel are naturally going to at least consider the countries without quarantine first.

Once I can get my vaccine (maybe July) I am headed that way too...

Is it worth the risk considering the potential side effects, including death?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... rise-to-29

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:07 am Classical thai

It’s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that can have their own pool and courtyard.

Yet more than three months after the resort and more than a hundred like it reopened to extended-stay travelers in an attempt to revive Thailand’s battered economy, foreign arrivals have failed to meet even rock-bottom expectations. Just 346 overseas visitors have entered the country on average each month on special visas since October, according to the Thailand Longstay Company, which helps facilitate the program. That’s well below the government’s target of about 1,200 and a tiny fraction of the more than 3 million who came before the pandemic.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/thailand-so ... -1.1549383

Like i have repeatedly said
UNTIL 15 day quarantine on arrival is lifted.. * everywhere*

Tourism is on hold

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:30 am

sigmoid wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:15 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:52 am

sigmoid wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:45 am There still seems to be a major lack of awareness that a significant number of countries around the world are currently open with no or limited restrictions and have been for months.

For example, a friend of mine who really wanted to return to SE Asia during the Fall/Winter is now in Mexico and heading down to Costa Rica. A lot of countries throughout the tropics seem to be accessible. As a result, a global competition has arisen and people who want to travel are naturally going to at least consider the countries without quarantine first.

Once I can get my vaccine (maybe July) I am headed that way too...

Is it worth the risk considering the potential side effects, including death?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... rise-to-29

Norway expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29.

Yes, it is.

Very old people with serious underlying health conditions die from falling over. Covid-19 would almost certainly kill them. And a few are not even healthy enough to take a vaccine shot - 29 at last count.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:41 pm

Railroad wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:28 pm Did they (Thai gov't) seriously think people were gonna do 2 weeks in a quarantine hotel, & call that their vacation?!

There are lots of people that come to Thailand and spend 3-4 months each year, 2 weeks in a nice hotel/resort is not overkill.