Would you do a 15 day quarantine just to get 4-6 weeks of freedom in Thailand or Cambodia?
Would you do a 15 day quarantine just to get 4-6 weeks of freedom in Thailand or Cambodia?
Thailand is issuing tourist visas now. I'm thinking of traveling from cold dark Canada to Thailand next month and doing 15 days hotel quarantine and then 4-6 weeks in Thailand.
Is that a crazy idea? Is a 15 day hotel quarantine so unpleasant and maddening that it's not worth it unless you can then visit or live in the country for 6+ months?
Surely there are some horny oil workers who would do a 15 day quarantine in Thailand just to get a week of freedom on Soi Cowboy.
Is that a crazy idea? Is a 15 day hotel quarantine so unpleasant and maddening that it's not worth it unless you can then visit or live in the country for 6+ months?
Surely there are some horny oil workers who would do a 15 day quarantine in Thailand just to get a week of freedom on Soi Cowboy.
15 days of isolation is no big deal. General travel now can also be fine. However, 15 days of your life gone isn't doesn't make a country MORE desirable, AND general travel can go bad in many ways if your luck doesn't hold.
While you may well be correct about a few horny oil workers dreams for their 3 weeks off, because 2 weeks Thai hotel quarantine certainly isn't more tedious than life at some remote oil installation, I think it depends on whether they need to quarantine at both ends of their holiday. Four weeks of isolation for a week of sin being a less joyful (Khmer) trade off.
If you left Cambodia for a 3 week Thai holiday, to come back to an expensive Cambodian quarantine, I'd say your decision processing is very different than mine, but up to you.
However, If you wanted to stay a 2-9 months touring Thailand after their quarantine, that's a different kettle of fish.
While you may well be correct about a few horny oil workers dreams for their 3 weeks off, because 2 weeks Thai hotel quarantine certainly isn't more tedious than life at some remote oil installation, I think it depends on whether they need to quarantine at both ends of their holiday. Four weeks of isolation for a week of sin being a less joyful (Khmer) trade off.
If you left Cambodia for a 3 week Thai holiday, to come back to an expensive Cambodian quarantine, I'd say your decision processing is very different than mine, but up to you.
However, If you wanted to stay a 2-9 months touring Thailand after their quarantine, that's a different kettle of fish.
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I'd do two weeks to visit my daughter, but four weeks is not doable. Probably cost me my job, which is not a good thing at this time.
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Fuck yeah, a bad day in Asia is better than a bad day in some cold shithole
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Phuket without tourists is a paradise again>>>
Plenty open, great deals on hotels/resorts
Plenty open, great deals on hotels/resorts
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Really? What's open? I just can't imagine each of the thousands (?) of hotels having many customers?Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:05 pmPhuket without tourists is a paradise again>>>
Plenty open, great deals on hotels/resorts
Youd have to really live in a shithole or be fuckin hard up for some poontang to want to fester in a cruddy hotel in Asia for two weeks just to have 4 weeks off .
Separation from family would be about the only reason..
Separation from family would be about the only reason..
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90% of Phuket town, Thalang is openStarving Pelican wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:25 pmReally? What's open? I just can't imagine each of the thousands (?) of hotels having many customers?Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:05 pmPhuket without tourists is a paradise again>>>
Plenty open, great deals on hotels/resorts
75% of Kamala, Rawai, Chalong, Chern talay, Layan beach
15% Patong, Kata, Karon (Who needs these places anyway?)
Its great here without tourists>>>
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quaranta giorni , fifteen days is nothing.
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Cambo is great without most of the tourists too. PP fully open but incredible hotel deals around. I'm living like a lord with over 80% discount on my hotel suite. Plus hardly anyone else around so I have the pool to myself.
These vaccines are going to really piss on my bonfire. I'm really glad I was here for these Halcyon days.
These vaccines are going to really piss on my bonfire. I'm really glad I was here for these Halcyon days.
Phuket forum members,
I come from a tourist town in Canada and was, pleasantly, stuck there by our current travel difficulties till very recently. Souvenir shops had a hard summer. Hotels, a pretty hard time, but restaurants did quite well, most about 40-60% income of a normal very profitable summer, with a rare few having their busiest summer ever. Zero cross border tourism so 100% due to domestic tourists - Canadians or long term workers/visitors. The beautiful nature was there waiting, Covid or not. (Not actual, wild nature, but golf courses were busy right through.)
I haven't been to Phuket since the late 80's, but I'm sure it is so well known by upper-middle class Thai (ALL Thai, of course, but less rich don't have the discretionary cash right now.), that both those that have never been and those who wish to visit again are seriously giving it a thought. (Unfortunately very far from enough income to keep all businesses afloat, through a long, hard, year or two, but enough for some of the clever and lucky ones.)
I'm too cheap, but let's call it frugal, to be thrilled by 5 Star rooms at 3 Star rates, and meals and power boat trips, for some varied examples, can't cut their fixed costs and shouldn't be bargained down into the dirt, but what about things that can offer cheap, great deals, say an all you can play week of golf, all inclusive, or green fees only. I won't get there, but can you give us an idea about some of the sweet deals you have heard about?
Thanks.
I come from a tourist town in Canada and was, pleasantly, stuck there by our current travel difficulties till very recently. Souvenir shops had a hard summer. Hotels, a pretty hard time, but restaurants did quite well, most about 40-60% income of a normal very profitable summer, with a rare few having their busiest summer ever. Zero cross border tourism so 100% due to domestic tourists - Canadians or long term workers/visitors. The beautiful nature was there waiting, Covid or not. (Not actual, wild nature, but golf courses were busy right through.)
I haven't been to Phuket since the late 80's, but I'm sure it is so well known by upper-middle class Thai (ALL Thai, of course, but less rich don't have the discretionary cash right now.), that both those that have never been and those who wish to visit again are seriously giving it a thought. (Unfortunately very far from enough income to keep all businesses afloat, through a long, hard, year or two, but enough for some of the clever and lucky ones.)
I'm too cheap, but let's call it frugal, to be thrilled by 5 Star rooms at 3 Star rates, and meals and power boat trips, for some varied examples, can't cut their fixed costs and shouldn't be bargained down into the dirt, but what about things that can offer cheap, great deals, say an all you can play week of golf, all inclusive, or green fees only. I won't get there, but can you give us an idea about some of the sweet deals you have heard about?
Thanks.
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Whilst I admit to enjoying the lack of tourists here in Vietnam, I am also well aware of the hardship this is causing to lots of people. It is a guilty pleasure.orde wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 5:28 pmCambo is great without most of the tourists too. PP fully open but incredible hotel deals around. I'm living like a lord with over 80% discount on my hotel suite. Plus hardly anyone else around so I have the pool to myself.
These vaccines are going to really piss on my bonfire. I'm really glad I was here for these Halcyon days.
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I am currently doing 2 weeks quarantine in Cambodia after which I will only have 2 weeks to spend with my family. Will do it all again in 2 months if the quarantine system is still in effect.
I was lucky when I came in July, only 2 days monitored quarantine then 12 days self-quarantine at home, and then an additional 5 weeks freedom of movement.
I was lucky when I came in July, only 2 days monitored quarantine then 12 days self-quarantine at home, and then an additional 5 weeks freedom of movement.
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I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
I have to chime in I did the Sokha 2 day Qtine back in August. Everyone is different however I was chomping at the bit to get out of that hotel room on the final morning. Cannot imagine 2 weeks pacing around a hotel room.
Having said that would I go through it if I had to yes. I'm hoping they come to their senses soon and reduce it back to the previous which was working fine. CDC just recommended new guidelines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/c ... story.html
Having said that would I go through it if I had to yes. I'm hoping they come to their senses soon and reduce it back to the previous which was working fine. CDC just recommended new guidelines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/c ... story.html
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