âWorst 14 days of my lifeâ: Complaints about a Thai hotel quarantine lead to a defamation threat.
Waiting for passengers arriving on international flights before getting transported to their place of quarantine, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand in November.Credit.Diego Azubel/EPA, via Shutterstock
Feb. 19, 2021
BANGKOK â Once again, a Thailand hotel guest who posted complaints online faces the threat of a defamation charge. This time, it centers on the guestâs claim of cockroach legs in his macaroni.
Topp Dunyawit Phadungsaeng, who spent 14 days in coronavirus quarantine at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel after arriving last month from San Francisco, had plenty of time on his hands to record complaints about the quality of the food, the lack of cleanliness and the presence of bugs.
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In another case of the customer isn t always right , a Thai hotel and a man freshly out of quarantine have become embroiled in a battle of who wronged who .
Almost immediately after being released from a 14-day quarantine at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel in Chonburi, Thailand, the man named Dunyawit Phadungsaeng – who had flown to Bangkok from San Francisco, U.S. – took to his Facebook page to complain about the horrid living conditions that he was forced to endure during his quarantine at the hotel.
In his post, Phadungsaeng explained that he started his quarantine on January 28, 2021, and had willingly chosen to stay at a government-sponsored location – in this case the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel – considering that he wouldn t have to fork out a single cent.