mikey77

Update seems like booze ban will get over on Sunday , but it's not confirmed. Let's hope

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1162326-thailand-to-lift-alcohol-sales-ban-on-sunday/?utm_source=LINE&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=news

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CAAT has just announced the extension of the ban on allowing international passengers to fly to #Thailand for one more month until 31st May 2020. Exceptions include, state or military aircraft, emergency landing, humanitarian aid, medical & relief flights, repatriation & cargo aircraft.

On 3/15/2020 at 8:37 PM, Rocky Rockstar said:

Wonder what’s gonna happen for Songkran next month? Would be pretty devastating for the bars etc if they had to close or ban celebrations during this period but I can see it happening.

Songran and songran holidays have been postponed.

Songram week will just be a normal working week 

Thailand count up to 19 with a possible case of human to human transmission :

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1847884/human-transmission-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-thailand

12 minutes ago, Rocky Rockstar said:

Well the Bangkok gods must be smiling on me just when I thought my next Asia work trip might not be until April I am now back out again in just over two weeks! Will be Singapore first so most likely in BKK 12-15 Feb.

Cheers mate, teeelaaak waiting 14 feb

8 minutes ago, kevker said:

Thanks Mikey, yes I've read about selecting 2xpeople. I think I worded the question wrong though, still getting used to the terminology. Are there hotels that wouldn't allow you to take a guest back? I'm assuming now that guest friendly just means that they dont charge any extra.

Yes if there is some hotel with a no freelancer policy they will reject.
There are some hotels that will charge extra.
Even the guest friendly hotels allow only 1 guest.

But dont worry that much. Just stick to touristy zones and hotels with good ratings and everything should be fine.

1 hour ago, kevker said:

Hi all

 

brand new on the forum and it's taking time to make my way through everything. I have so many questions, so apologies if they are answered elsewhere.

 

I'm planning my first trip to BKK in October, lots of advise on guest friednly hotels, but just curious, are there actually hotels that aren't guest friendly? It just seems to me that everyhting is geared towards making sure they get tourists in.

 

Thanks in advance for your replies, and watch out for the deluge of questions I'll be posting

Yes of course they are. If you are booking a cheap hotel always select "2 persons" to be on a safer side. If you are booking a 5 star / 4 start like marriot / 4 points then it wont be a problem. Just check reviews on Agoda and of course hostels wont be guest friendly.

Good luck, cheers.

Next week or this week there will be a huge influx of chinese tourist into thailand because of chinese new year.

There are daily 3 flights to bangkok from Wuhan : 

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/coronavirus-spreads-north-and-south-in-china-139-new-cases-reported

Federal health officials are screening travelers from China in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York for the deadly 2019-nCoV outbreak.

Are the Thais taking the same precautions?

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00426.asp

https://patch.com/california/hollywood/viral-outbreak-prompts-cdc-screen-travelers-lax-sfo-jfk

http://www.news12.com/story/41579414/cdc-to-screen-airline-passengers-from-china-at-jfk-airport-for-new-illness

Yayy, finally all Canadians craving some coffee , its happening this weekend.

https://bk.asia-city.com/restaurants/news/tim-hortons-to-open-bangkok-weekend


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Hey all,

Babymetal is coming to bangkok on 22 March 2020 at GMM Live House, 8th floor, CentralWorld

If anyone wants to go, can book tickets here : 

https://www.livenation.co.th/show/1289883/babymetal-metal-galaxy-world-tour-in-bangkok/Bangkok/2020-03-22/en

Cheers 🤘

Thanks for the heads up and useful information . 

Sure lets meet up ...

Good luck mate, hope you enjoy yourself 😃