Stranded Aussie expats told it could take “weeks, if not months” to return to Thailand

[herwin1234]

confused. why in the first place travel alone to your "own" country, and leave Thai family and child alone? if traveling and staying alone wasnt a probpem before, pls dont let it suddenly be a problem or blame the Thai governement.

[herwin1234]

3 hours ago, Aussie Col said:

I expect the Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines will be very happy to pick up farangs when they open their borders soon that Thailand doesn't want.

All them hotel and bar and restaurants workers and taxi drivers are not going to be very happy with the Thai Junta. Thailand losing all them jobs

Sure hope one of these farangs will be you...

[Miami007]

6 hours ago, miamiman123 said:

Prayuth has done a v good job w this CV issue 

https://bangkokherald.com/coronavirus/new-evidence-casts-doubts-on-accuracy-of-thailands-official-coronavirus-statistics/

 

or maybe a good job not disclosing the actual figures.. let's remember that it is the media in the USA / Europe which reports the figures and journalists have to be a little more careful what they write in Thailand to ensure compliance with the various laws

[ross163103]

6 hours ago, Xonax said:

I guess that must be Wannabe expats the article is about! Real expats had plenty of time to get here, before the airports were closed.

I've lived there full time for over 25 years so don't consider myself a "wannabe" expat. Some of us had to leave for work overseas, so didn't have a choice to get back before the airports closed. Everyone's situation is different and not as black and white as some TV members think. 

[Miami007]

3 hours ago, Elkski said:

prayuth maybe handling things on the safe side after March.  But I will never forget his long delay because of greed. Thailand somehow Dodge the bullet not by any bureaucratic policies just dumb luck or diet or Humanity because I think this virus or similar has been around asia before.  

considering that Thailand allowed Chinese tourists in December, January and February it is a miracle that there are/ were not more cases.

One part is Number-management and control of who can release what.  You may have a point that this virus (or similar variants) may have been around Asia before or much longer - otherwise, how do we explain the relatively low rates in all of the East Asian and SE Asian countries while infection rates in Europe/ USA / Latin America / South Asia and Middle East are so high?  

[Miami007]

6 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Imagine needing permission from your government to leave your own country?

 

Soviet Union or Cuba come to mind..  At least in Europe you were always free to leave - just may have been quarantined when returning from abroad.

[Mr Meeseeks]

5 minutes ago, ross163103 said:

I've lived there full time for over 25 years so don't consider myself a "wannabe" expat. Some of us had to leave for work overseas, so didn't have a choice to get back before the airports closed. Everyone's situation is different and not as black and white as some TV members think. 

Of course you had a choice not to go to work. 

 

It was obvious since the end of Feb that the borders might close and the Thai Centre for Disease Control issued regular updates. 

[surfinglife]

6 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Imagine needing permission from your government to leave your own country?

 

Totalitarian Soviet Union all over again. Next they will be taking passports away from people.

[dode57k]

13 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Of course you had a choice not to go to work. 

 

It was obvious since the end of Feb that the borders might close and the Thai Centre for Disease Control issued regular updates. 

Most  people currently working do it through need not through choice. Usual Thai visa pish spouted by know-it-alls

[sammieuk1]

13 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Of course you had a choice not to go to work. 

 

It was obvious since the end of Feb that the borders might close and the Thai Centre for Disease Control issued regular updates. 

You mean obvious with hindsight ????

understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed.

"with hindsight, I should never have gone"

[tribalfusion001]

17 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

You mean obvious with hindsight ????

understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed.

"with hindsight, I should never have gone"

It was obvious to a lot of people the storm that was coming and once it hit Italy, followed by Spain it was clearly obvious. If you travelled back to your home country or to Thailand from the middle of March onwards you knew it was for a long time.

[elliss]

15 hours ago, Georgie65 said:

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice! Who wants to buy a Beer Bar??? <deleted>!!!!!!

 

 There will no shortage of  stupid farangs ,  who want too buy a Beer Bar .

[SiSePuede419]

Help!  I'm "stranded" in the country that I was born in, grew up in and made my career in and spent most of my life in!

 

Won't anyone please feel sorry for me.  BOO HOO HOO.

 

<deleted>. ????

[tribalfusion001]

2 minutes ago, elliss said:

 

 There will no shortage of  stupid farangs ,  who want too buy a Beer Bar .

Knock down prices at present, cheap rents, ample supply of unemployed looking for a job, what could go wrong, oh yeah, no tourists!

[Kadilo]

Whinging Wallabies ????

[RangerP703]

7 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Imagine needing permission from your government to leave your own country?

 

and yet the outrage on the forums over the entry requirements to Thailand ?

[Donga]

Good for September, possibly August unless Thailand is intent on crushing their tourism industry.

They will learn from Iceland and other countries opening up now on their processes, experiences and tailor them to fit.

Travel bubbles will become the new normal amongst those countries with Covid under control. Everyone wants to save their airlines.

[gamini]

Now they are not allowed back into their own country so why should Thailand accept them?

[RangerP703]

Just now, gamini said:

Now they are not allowed back into their own country so why should Thailand accept them?

Aussies are not allowed to return home?

[Mitkof Island]

6 hours ago, pmk1000 said:

Wannabe expats what are you on? The topic is talking about people! People who are separated from loved ones, their wife children, which is disturbing to say the least. Real expats, I assume you are talking about people such as yourself? Not everyone are as quick witted, as yourself! Not everyone saw this coming for what it is, and the consequences resulting from it. A lot of people have children from previous marriages who they would be concerned about, aging family etc. There are a multitude of reasons why an expat may have delayed travel, in my opinion they are just as real as your perfect self.

REAL ? I have a wife and child. Is banging hookers as a past time more real?

[pineapple01]

Stranded in the Northern the Territories. A Dream Come True.

[Susco]

25 minutes ago, RangerP703 said:

Aussies are not allowed to return home?

They are not allowed to leave either

[Captain Monday]

9 hours ago, Xonax said:

I guess that must be Wannabe expats the article is about! Real expats had plenty of time to get here, before the airports were closed.

I was right there where you are accusing us of in March. I had a feeling I should have dropped everything 

and flew to Change Mai. But that would have cost me about $20,000USD for ten days work, my last decent paycheck, plus I was getting all my documents together for a O-A visa from Los Angeles Consul. . I was set on an April 1 entry but all doors closed . I simply ran out of time. Guess I'm not a real expat.

[Susco]

42 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

I was right there where you are accusing us of in March. I had a feeling I should have dropped everything 

and flew to Change Mai. But that would have cost me about $20,000USD for ten days work, my last decent paycheck, plus I was getting all my documents together for a O-A visa from Los Angeles Consul. . I was set on an April 1 entry but all doors closed . I simply ran out of time. Guess I'm not a real expat.

If you can make that kind of money I wouldn't care either, so your 90 day house arrest since that day will have earned you another 6 million Baht. 

[ross163103]

5 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

obvious since the end of Feb that the borders might

KInd of an oxymoron isn't it Mr. Meeseeks(?), obvious, might?

That's perfectly clear, especially since it involves info coming from the Thai govt. They put out so much clear, straight forward, definitive information, how could I have missed it? (insert sarcasm)

[canuckamuck]

5 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Help!  I'm "stranded" in the country that I was born in, grew up in and made my career in and spent most of my life in!

 

Won't anyone please feel sorry for me.  BOO HOO HOO.

 

<deleted>. ????

Help!  I'm "stranded" in the country that I was born in, grew up in and made my career in and spent most of my life in!

And then I retired and moved to Thailand. Then I came back to my country to take care of legal matters and two days before my flight back, the border closed without warning. And now I am in my brother's basement living out of a suitcase. And his wife is sick of me, and my kids message me crying emojis and my wife has a lot on her hands, but all I can do is say I will come home when I can, everyday for four months so far.

[torturedsole]

11 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Then I came back to my country to take care of legal matters and two days before my flight back, the border closed without warning. And now I am in my brother's basement living out of a suitcase. And his wife is sick of me, and my kids message me crying emojis and my wife has a lot on her hands

Shucks.  

[tribalfusion001]

51 minutes ago, ross163103 said:

KInd of an oxymoron isn't it Mr. Meeseeks(?), obvious, might?

That's perfectly clear, especially since it involves info coming from the Thai govt. They put out so much clear, straight forward, definitive information, how could I have missed it? (insert sarcasm)

By early March it was clear that the whole of Europe would be affected, infected tourists were arriving in Thailand and borders would be closing at some point. I flew to KL on 13th March and returned to Thailand on the 14th, 4 days later Malaysia had closed it's borders. Things were moving very fast, hour by hour changes, prices of one way flights were going up and Thai were stopping on 31st March. I bailed out on 25th March with Thai air to London, the plane was full.

 

Everyone had time to bail out from Thailand or get back to Thailand if they were quick.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but apparently Qantas suspended many overseas flights until March 2021.  With Air Asia and Thai among others possibly going under a lack of competition probably won't be a good thing good price-wise.  Those seeking to reunite with families will probably bite the bullet and pay the ransom demanded by the airline bandits that manage to stay in business.  The sex addicts at least have the option to get out their calculators and do a cost benefit analysis to determine if its cheaper to just stay home and pay for the local talent.  But it cuts both ways.  At some point the assorted sexual deviants and social outcasts currently living the high life in Thailand under amnesty are going to get booted out and if local borders aren't open they'll be the ones paying outrageous ticket prices to get back to the mothership.

 

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-cancels-overseas-flights-to-march-2021

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr McKinnon talked about the need to “jump through hoops” and said the process of returning to Thailand “can’t be done easily or quickly”, adding that it could take “weeks, if not months” to return to Thailand.

I hope all the other foreign countries are watching this and reciprocate with regulations for Thai movements throughput the world.

Bureaucracy can be undone.