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April 22nd, 2010 — Airports, Travel Thailand
The flight to Europe from Thailand and other Asian countries have started to come back to normal to most European countries but nobody knows if the Volcano on Iceland will stop the flight again.
I scientist from Iceland said the Volcano might even exploded and then we will have even bigger problem with ashes flying all over sky.
It looks like the Thai immigration will not charge for overstay for people that are late up to the 30 April 2010 but the problem is do all the Immigration officers know about this rule? Another problem, airlines are backlogged so the passengers will not get a flight until a few weeks time.
Hong Kong must have gotten a real turn off greed when they turned up the hotel price in one day from 250 USD to 850 USD leaving stranded passengers broke as well. I think Thailand should have taken the moment and offered stranded passengers in other greedy countries free flights to Thailand.
Last time when the Yellow Shirts made the Bangkok Airport into a karaoke bar for rich people the hotels in Thailand offered many of its guest free stay until the party was over the Chef and Thai PM duly fired.
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April 21st, 2010 — Airports, Travel Thailand, Travel Warning
Is Thailand still Safe?
This prognosis is for a week forward further than that I do not want to predict.
Many people wonder if they are still safe in Thailand and if they should cancel their holiday to Thailand or not. The more experienced traveler knows that the problems in Thailand almost never spill over to the tourists. The big expositions might be the bombs on New Year a few years ago when a few tourist die and injured.
The unrest are still very much controlled to the center of Bangkok to the big shopping malls but is that really something you want to see as a tourist? Now when the Red Shirts have moved from the area around old town the big destinations like Grand Palace are very safe to visit.
Next week the PAD (Yellow Shirts) will take to the streets and we do not know where they will gather or how many they will be. The risk for a big clash is off course a big risk and it could lead to civil war but the changes are very small. The army said they will move the Red Shirts within a few days and they probably do it before the PAD comes back on the streets.
If you want to avoid the trouble all together, you can just take a connection flight to Phuket or any of the other southern islands. You can also take a bus or taxi directly from Airport in Bangkok and never have to worry about what shirts to look out for.
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April 15th, 2010 — Airports, Travel Warning
Thailand along with another countries will probably cancel all flight to northern Europe within hours because of the Volcano activity in Iceland. No official word has gone out from the Thai Air or The Thai Airport but they will soon. Many flight need to be canceled since they are starting to fly to Europe at midnight local Thai time.
The Volcano on Iceland have stopped Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports, Liverpool’s John Lennon, Manchester, Newcastle airports, London’s Gatwick, Heathrow, City airport and some other smaller airports in UK have closed.
Denmark along with it Nordic neighbors Sweden and Norway will probably close it airspace within hours from now.Swedish media says it is not a question about if but when we will have to close the airspace.
If you are planning to go back to your country, check with your airline asp and see if you can change the flight to a few days later. Local news from affected countries are reporting chaos in the air.
We will give you more update on Twitter and Facebook as we get it.
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March 27th, 2010 — Airports, Currency, Travel Thailand
Thailand’s all knowing and vise TAT has spelled out that Thailand is losing tourists because of the Redshirts protests around Bangkok. I talked with some people around Thailand and it is not only Bangkok that looks empty now I think most tourists destinations around Thailand having a hard time.
Many people that never been to Thailand probably opt out because they do not know about the current situation and the finding of new “bombs” everywhere in Bangkok does not help even if nobody gets hurt.
Indian and Russian tourists that come by group are not affected by the turmoil but other Asian countries are easy to cancel especially when the Thai government imposes sanctions on movement.
Tourists are also likely to skip the normal stopover in Bangkok and fly directly to their destinations and maybe cutting the trip a week short.
The Thai New Year is a big holiday for many now but if the Redshirt don’t go home for Thai New Year or leave Bangkok soon these travelers probably will pick another destination for their Easter holidays.
So if this continues and less tourist came to Thailand would a tourist get a cheaper holiday?
So will the TAT advice their members to lower the prices on hotels and tours? Are you kidding take up the prices and leave many rooms empty that’s the best solution.
Will the Thai Air lower their fees for domestic flights to boost domestic tourism in Thailand? No way flying to Singapore will always be cheaper then flying to Phuket.
Will houses and condos become cheaper now? Ha Ha Ha funny funny!
Will the THB become weaker and give me more for my USD? The Thai money is not connected to anything they control it as they want to same as the Chinese do.
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