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ThailandPlus: Tracking app now mandatory for foreign tourists


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2 hours ago, SGD said:

 

Highly unlikely. Go track a dog but you won't track me.

 

ha. in a few years you won't have a choice. enjoy staying at a hotel ? booking a airline/bus/boat/train ticket ? fancy a night out for dinner ? a movie ? anything other than staying within a few km of your house forever.

 

i love the ima hold out crowd. now maybe you are pretty old and won't last that long if that's the case bravo to you. 

 

otherwise you cannot avoid what is coming for you. 

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3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

required to download the ThailandPlus app

 

Missing a trick there, lads, not a single mention of ชนะ or chana, the Thai word for "victory". 

Here's a suggestion: why not rename it to, say, ชนะฝรั่งโง่, or chana farang ngo. Means something like, "victory over the dumb foreigners," lol.

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12 minutes ago, steve187 said:

if you can not afford to buy a few thousand baht smart phone after spending thousands of £ to get to Thailand its a bad show, no one has to travel to Thailand, excuses to the rules can always be found

Think before you make such rediculus comments. Smart phone cost is equivalent to 2 week holiday in Thailand. Then add roaming charges you will soon realise sorry have to go to another country for your holiday not many people are millionaires like you.

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3 hours ago, apex2000 said:

What about tourists who do not have a mobile phone?

What about tourists who do not have an Internet connection to their phone?

No consideration of these people.

What sort of people travel half way across the world without a phone? 

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38 minutes ago, asiasurfer said:

And yet another non-brainer. ????

 

Tourists be prepared to pay huge data roaming charges. They'll love that. 

A moron using roaming deserves the charges. 

Tourists not wanting thai sim will create a hit when they check emails or surf the web in the tens of thousands of establishments providing free wifi which is pretty much every venue in tourist areas 

 

Pretty soon the new norm will be purchase a thai sim at the airport or as mentioned if you are a moron just activate roaming 

 

I've yet to see a tourist not fiddling with a phone. 

The 1% of dinasaurs that don't own a phone or know how to use one probably need a chaparone anyway ????

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Rooster

 

I have a concern that might well need your opinion and expert advice...

 

Somebody who like you and me have chosen to live and retire to Thailand, has to leave. In my case it would be to escort my Mother in law either to Thailand or back to USA. She has Green Card, she can only stay out of United States less then 6 months or lose her Card. (Know fact... If for any other reason there is nothing on God's Green earth.... "That I would leave here for"! I have complied with all the silly regulations imposed on us Retirees. Have been here for almost 20 years as well has had Bank Account's reflecting more then enough to satisfy anything Immigration could throw at me and my Thai Wife. Any long term Visit would be unquestionably out of the question as we have 4 legged Family Members would rely on our presence, understand?

 

So if I am required to make this trip, upon returning to Thailand would it be deemed that I be required to obtain all these New Certificates and now fulfill all these New Requirments to gain entry? 

 

1. We have Private Home here. Immigration has gotten tired of stopping by for a "Beer". Hospital Stay has never been an issue as I can pay Cash On Demand... (Understand?) Insurance has never been needed other then what I can Buy from Bangkok Banks Insurance Department, which has been renewed each year for 15 or more years... (Getting Picture yet?)

 

2. Do we also need this Tracking Program? It to my Knowledge has never been addressed to or for those who are already here.. ???

 

I would Gladly do my Quarantined Time at home as I could fulfill my Obligations, I don't do much Traveling anymore as I am content in Building Custom Motorcycles, getting "Everything" delivered. We have become on a first name base with the Coke Cola Driver's who every 2 months deliver Pallets of Bottled Water. Lazada delivery knows me... Big C and Kerry Drivers have had Lunch with me.. etc..

 

Why would I need to stay out of Quarantine.

 

I am sure there are others who live year, Live on the same terms as we have chosen and would like to here an Honest Reply or even a Planned Invite to those (Whose words we can stand behind) to address any type of reply in Your Monthly Post.

 

Again Rooster, Thanks for your Chats here. I have share and they have been enjoyed by Thai and... Farlang alike!

 

Friend, David

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1 hour ago, fdsa said:

school does not teach you that GPS runs on phone's modem and that modems are always powered on (even when you click "flight mode" in phone menu) and run a completely different operating system than the phone, and modems can download and run applications without notifying you, and you have absolutely no control over that behavior.

 

If turned off, or battery is flat, does GPS still work then?

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3 hours ago, ben2talk said:

Interesting the way that most Thai's, even those with smartphones, tend to opt to scribble their name on a book instead of scanning in with apps everywhere...

My same friends say they pick up the pen, hover over the book, then move past.

Nobody ever checks you entered any information in the book.

(again, I would never do that)

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3 hours ago, Dart12 said:

turning your phone off doesn't stop gps.

Neither does not having cell data plan.

Not all Cell Phone have GPS either... They gonna replace these phones in exchange for visit? People would not Buy just to impose being Tracked!! Also those with GPS... It can be disabled at the push of a Button!!

 

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12 minutes ago, davidstipek said:

Rooster

 

I have a concern that might well need your opinion and expert advice...

 

Somebody who like you and me have chosen to live and retire to Thailand, has to leave. In my case it would be to escort my Mother in law either to Thailand or back to USA. She has Green Card, she can only stay out of United States less then 6 months or lose her Card. (Know fact... If for any other reason there is nothing on God's Green earth.... "That I would leave here for"! I have complied with all the silly regulations imposed on us Retirees. Have been here for almost 20 years as well has had Bank Account's reflecting more then enough to satisfy anything Immigration could throw at me and my Thai Wife. Any long term Visit would be unquestionably out of the question as we have 4 legged Family Members would rely on our presence, understand?

 

So if I am required to make this trip, upon returning to Thailand would it be deemed that I be required to obtain all these New Certificates and now fulfill all these New Requirments to gain entry? 

 

1. We have Private Home here. Immigration has gotten tired of stopping by for a "Beer". Hospital Stay has never been an issue as I can pay Cash On Demand... (Understand?) Insurance has never been needed other then what I can Buy from Bangkok Banks Insurance Department, which has been renewed each year for 15 or more years... (Getting Picture yet?)

 

2. Do we also need this Tracking Program? It to my Knowledge has never been addressed to or for those who are already here.. ???

 

I would Gladly do my Quarantined Time at home as I could fulfill my Obligations, I don't do much Traveling anymore as I am content in Building Custom Motorcycles, getting "Everything" delivered. We have become on a first name base with the Coke Cola Driver's who every 2 months deliver Pallets of Bottled Water. Lazada delivery knows me... Big C and Kerry Drivers have had Lunch with me.. etc..

 

Why would I need to stay out of Quarantine.

 

I am sure there are others who live year, Live on the same terms as we have chosen and would like to here an Honest Reply or even a Planned Invite to those (Whose words we can stand behind) to address any type of reply in Your Monthly Post.

 

Again Rooster, Thanks for your Chats here. I have share and they have been enjoyed by Thai and... Farlang alike!

 

Friend, David

Coming from the USA of all places of course you will quarantine every trip you make untill the rules change 

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1 minute ago, davidstipek said:

Not all Cell Phone have GPS either... They gonna replace these phones in exchange for visit? People would not Buy just to impose being Tracked!!

 

Your talking 0000.1% smart phones out there. 

They stay home.. Oh well 

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9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My same friends say they pick up the pen, hover over the book, then move past.

Nobody ever checks you entered any information in the book.

(again, I would never do that)

So edgy.. ????

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4 minutes ago, madmen said:

Coming from the USA of all places of course you will quarantine every trip you make untill the rules change 

If this is the case they are choosing to Block Travel of Thai Citizens who have been Mandated they cannot travel alone... They are required by Airlines to be accompanied by an Escort... This is an Age issue! and a Green Card Issue...

 

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