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27 minutes ago, AlaskaDave said:

I've tried the phone number in that email for Mr. Soraphak Khaengkhandee but nobody answered. I tried to fill out an online application form on their website but the cost came out too low, 1100 baht, unless it was for one month. There was no place on the application to provide a length of coverage nor was it specified anywhere that the calculated charge was for a certain length of time.  I'll keep trying to contact them.

 

 

I will try the number for you.  Also the call centre.  Do you call using skype or some other online calling service?  I took my cover for 1 year at 15,000 THB, why not?  I cannot get any other insurance as I am 73.  I also have an 'O' visa NOT 'O'A.  My visa does not require health  insurance but the OA does.  You cam PM me if you prefer.  It is 10:55 HR here at the moment. 

I just posted for TUNE insurance.  All that junk in the middle is just links to FB Twitter etc.  

The phone number works and they speak English.  Call centre is 1183 and I spoke to Arunee and she speaks excellent English.   

Try this one.  I paid 15k THB for 1 year.  Will issue foreign policy document.  Not sure about age limit but think it is ok for you.  Quite fast response.

Soraphak Khaengkhandee

Specialist

Tune In Now!

Tune Insurance Public Company Limited.

3199  Maleenont Tower, 14^th Floor

Rama IV Road,  Khlong Tan, Klong toei

Bangkok  10110. Thailand

Office: +662 078 5668 Ext: 668

Email: [email protected]

www.tuneinsurance.co.th |Facebook.com/tuneinsuranceThailand

https://www.tuneprotect.co.th/en/product/coronavirus-covid-19-insurance

Good luck!

On 10/31/2021 at 5:30 PM, USEpat said:

There is considerable evidence that the Thai officials making decisions/policies about non-Thai tourists have never planned, booked or actually have taken holidays out of the country. 

These people live in the 'entitled' sector of society.  They may not have even experienced opening a door themselves, for example.

Thank you couchpotato, very useful.  I will try to look harder b4 posting next question.  The easiest to find information sites seem to be posted by those also selling services.  Siam Legal springs to mind.  They email me information updates as coming from 'thaiembassy.com'.

I just looked on google maps for 'ASQ hotels Bangkok' and bingo, up came lots of hotel locations and prices too.  I plan to leave my car at a hotel for the week I am away and be able to go home directly from there following the 24hr wait.

Any thoughts on transport from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi AP to registered hotel?  Could it be possible to go to the ASQ hotel in own car parked at the AP?  Following the RT-PCR test, that is.  That would be a safer and a much easier process.  Thanks

5 hours ago, BritTim said:

You probably had a long term extension of stay (not a visa which is unaffected by leaving Thailand). It is, indeed, usually worthwhile to get a re-entry permit to protect the permission to stay. The OP just has a short term permission to stay on a tourist entry. Even a visa exempt entry would make more sense than trying to protect the existing permission to stay.

Yes, it was a retirement visa that I had and it was cancelled.  Bummer.  It turned out to be a very costly mistake.

Just got the below, further to above... from: https://www.thaiembassy.com/travel-to-thailand/how-to-travel-to-thailand-in-2021

Step 5 – Obtain COVID-19 test and prepare the documents for your flight

Once you have received your COE, you have to prepare the following documents for your trip to Thailand. You should present these documents to your airline before departure:

• Certificate of Entry (COE)
• Valid visa in your passport
• Declaration Form
• Medical Certificate with a laboratory result indicating that COVID -19 is not detected. The COVID test must be by the RT-PCR method, taken and conducted within 72 hours before departure. Some airlines do not accept home kit tests so please check specific requirements with the airlines you are traveling with.                                  So which is it?  (sorry for the bold typeface, just copied and pasted)

15 10 2021,  Below it the note from Thai air travel requirements.  I am going to France next week and back again on the 24th, this month.  I have read that one must arrive at the AP with the results of a covid test in hand.  I will be going to a quarantine hotel on my return and will be tested at the AP (?) before the shuttle takes me to the hotel.  I know it says London embassy, below, but it states no test is req'd for entry generally.

'Please note that although a Covid-19 test is currently not required, the Royal Thai Embassy in London recommends that passengers test for COVID-19 before traveling to reduce the risk of exposure or transmission during travel, as well as serving as a preventive measure against the introduction of COVID-19 from foreign countries into Thailand.'  (https://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/plan/travel_information/travel_requirements.page)

Anybody have any 'real' information?  If it is req'd, what kind of test is acceptable please?  I am going to find it very difficult to get a quick test result for a Sunday morning flight out of Lyon.

HAPPY DAYS!  Thailand is welcoming visitors with open arms!  If any of those idiots in charge think a tourist would willingly go through what I have done getting a COE, insurance, hotel and all the other <deleted> that is req'd to get in to this country they need their heads examined.

Comments most welcome, please&thankyou

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Sounds like a bad dealer buying a completely flooded out car cheap and passing problems on to an owner. 

Is he sure the warranty does cover bodywork problems.

 

Honda own batteries are guaranteed for 1 year and had experience of them failing 1 year and 1 week. ????

Outdoor replacement.

 

As for tyres main dealers are hoping they are always talking to mugs who will listen to them.

The car is definitely new and there is not evidence of a refurbished car that had just been damaged and cleaned up. As Transam noted the car body is dipped and there may be other rust issues covered up by other body parts, trim etc..

25 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

There no requirement for a permit to leave.

You only need a re-entry permit to keep the remainder of the permit to stay it is issued for valid when your use it to enter the country

Yes but, if you leave w/o a re entry document they stamp your visa 'used' as in cancelled.  Then have to apply for new one.  Learned the hard way.

For a start go to your immigration office and get a permit to leave and come back, otherwise your existing visa will be cancelled, if it is anything like a retirement visa.  The whole issue of COE and quarantine, insurance etc. changes hourly and nobody seems to know what is happening and/or will be happening.  look on 'coethailand.mfa.go.th' for current instructions.  These will change 01 11 2021.  The Thai produced Astra Zeneca is accepted in France and perhaps all of the EU.  Good Luck, 

15 10 2021

My friend bought a new honda from the main dealer in Buriram.  After the first month he noticed a tiny orange spot under the rear window rubber seal.  He washed it and forgot it.  It became a typical rust spot, under the rubber-no scratches etc.- weeping an orange drip line down the back door.  He showed it to the dealer who said it was not part of warrantee and he must claim on his insurance.  The car is only a few months old.

I wrote earlier about his battery experience.  He was told his battery was faulty and had to be replaced.  He was unhappy but paid.  Sorry, I forget your name, but you replied to a problem I had with my Toyota CH-R wiring and at the same time said batteries were not covered by the car warrantee.  (My problem was mice)

Same friend just took his car for a service last week (5or6000 km only) and sat back to back with a Thai lady customer in reception.  The service guy came out and spoke to her and my friend heard 'battery' whereupon the lady jumped up and said NO, NO! I do not have any problems with my battery.  My friends GF translated the exchange and it was about the need to change the battery and how the garage would not help her if she was broken down by the side of the road.  The lady basically told this guy to FO (politely) and that was that.

Later, same day, his car was ready, oil change etc. and the service mngr said he had changed the tires front to back for 'winter'.  (He had already said the rust problem was a matter for his car insurance)  He then started on about how the tires were looking worn and he should consider replacing them as they may be dangerous.  That was too much and my friend left (containing his anger).  

This does not sound like an honest garage.  First question is about paint warrantee and second is how to report them to Honda if they are a dishonest service centre?    (There was also some other 'funny stuff' about paying 1/2 for the next service and it would be free , or something but I don't remember all the details)  Any comments/solutions please?  Thank you.

21 hours ago, Taxi said:

Leaving your car at the airport multi story is very convenient and not expensive by world standards. 

 

Did you consider contacting the hotel and see if you can leave it there?  That way as soon as your out of Q you can just jump in your car.  

Great idea.  Have done this b4 but the pressure of coordinating air tickets, insurance, hotel, reentry visa, vaccinations, int'l proof of same not to mention the legal issues that are my reason for going to France and the covid compliant entry to that country have left me a quivering mass of exposed nerve endings.  Thanks for the great reminder.  Take care.  

9 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

Put it in the covered multi story, easy and cheap. Last time for me, 200 Baht per day 

Thanks, will do that, 

8 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

 

8 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

 

Thanks.  Yes, tried that.  Bob told me b4.  They would not issue the orange vaccination visa thing because my first 2 shots were in Ban Mai Chaiyapot and the 3rd in the Buriram Govt hospital.  I had to go to the Regional Health Authority in town because they have records of all vaccinations in the province.  It was they who said they were blocked from accessing the edit function.  Sometimes the local people are switched on and sometimes not, just like everywhere.  

Thanks,  I was coming around to that way of thinking myself.  I spent hours searching for my car there last time and thought it had been stolen.  I had taken a photo of it beside the column with an orange circle painted on it with 'B1' (or something) written in the middle.  I finally figured out that its sister building next door has exactly the same location numbers and colours.  A friend suggested marking the location on google map but have never tried it.  Thanks again.

13 10 2021

First, thank you very much for comments and useful information helping me to get to France and back home here in Thailand.

I have now had 1 Sinovac and 2 Astra Zenica vaccinations and have the little orange certificate of vaccination 'passport'.  I also have the Mor Chana app on my phone.  Here is the rub.  My Thai pink card number is on it but not my UK passport number.  My first 2 vaccinations were in our small village and the 3rd (AZ) was in Buriram Govt hospital.  They have tried to add my passport number at the Buriram hospital and at the Regional Health Authority, who issued the orange book.  They said they are blocked and cannot add it.  

On the COE, thanks for helping about how long to get it and also for pointing out that each document had to be 'uploaded' following drag and drop.  That took some hours of attempting to register and having it refused and it was re reading comments that a kind person had noted that each item had to be 'uploaded'.  I know it was written on the application but it didn't ring a bell until it was pointed out.  Thanks.

Shortly after I booked my quarantine hotel in BKK (25-10 to 01-11) there was the wide spread announcement that all quarantine was ending on the 1st Nov..  I have a flexible return ticket so I could just stay on in France for the week but the 21,000+THB hotel is non refundable.  

So, the question is, how to add my passport number to Mor Channa app please?  I will try at my local village hospital but they have, so far, said that most everything to do with vaccination management had to be done at the big govt hospital in Buriram (who have said they cannot).

For insurance I bought 1 year covid cover for 15,000 baht from 'Tune Protect'.  It starts immediately but I had put my arrival date to Thailand as the 25th so it kicks in then.  On their site it says there is a 2 week delay.  Apparently there is not.

I cannot understand how those 'in charge' think that the COE will not deter tourists coming to Thailand.  I would have thought that it is more likely to catch covid here than to bring it in as a fully vaccinated traveler.  If they put some effort into controlling the spread of infection in the south and feeding people who are suffering there it would be time well spent. 

Thank you again for your help.

I need to go to France for 1 week and quarantine for 1.  I go on the 18th oct.  I have googled the title and get little actual information.  The parking location map on one site is simply a map with temples and other things marked on it.  Not a 'P' anywhere.  Any comments including just leaving it at the AP multi story carpark please?  Thanks.  I think the hotel picks me up and drops me off from and to the AP. 

On 10/8/2021 at 12:28 PM, internationalism said:

this one from 1500b.

not age related.

covers up to 99 yo for the same rate

https://www.tipinsure.com/CovidRegional/step_1

 

the one for 15k per year is a flat rate for all countries and age

 

cannot find 15K THB / year from that link.  Comes to 42,000 THB for ret visa persons

14 minutes ago, sandyf said:

I was in the UK when I applied for COE. 

I think your assumption is right, my COE was initially rejected by the London Embassy.

I am in Thailand.  Making a short trip to France and back again.  I live here.

PS, The delay is all of this was because I was told no more AZ and only just managed to recently get 2nd AZ shot.

I have been hoping for a relaxation of CoE rules but they don't seem to be coming.  Bite the bullet and am applying for a COE.  I may have made a big mistake.  On a page that I just found it states that I must apply 15 working days before I need a CoE.  Is that fixed?  Can I get one in 10 days applying from Thailand? 

For insurance I know Unbonjoe provided some names but cannot find them.  I have been led to 2 insurance sites sites during my flight booking and Thai CoE info. I need about 90 days. 

TUNE Ins (https://www.tuneprotect.co.th/en/product/coronavirus-covid-19-insurance) offers 1 yr for 15,000 THB and AXA offers 90 days for 7630 THB.  AXA is 28,500 THB for a year.  For 15k I am inclined to be insured for a year, why not? Any comments re the TUNE company?  Any other  comments please? 

(BTW.  Booking flights on skyscanner I can get a flexible economy return ticket BKK to Lyon, France for about 550 Euros with Lufthansa.)  

I see that because I have a re entry visa (valid retirement visa) I apply to   https://coethailand.mfa.go.th

Is this correct?

It also states that reservations from bookings.com are not accepted.  Is that true?  Any suggestions for alternate, acceptable sites?  I will quarantine in BKK for 7 days b4 coming back home.

This is all a bit rushed as I have just learned that I cannot change my appointment date in France and so am making travel plans etc. in a bit of a  panic.

Thanks for any comments.

Thai immigration authorities know everything about me and 10's of thousands of other legally registered long term visa holders.  Others who hold such visas know exactly what I am referring to.  When the TM30(?) was in effect a friend went to BKK to a conference on behalf of the company he worked for.  He stayed in a hotel for 2 nights.  He came home went to bed and got up and went to work the following morning.  He got a panic call from his wife that afternoon from his wife.  The police were at his door in his small village (several cars) demanding his whereabouts and threatening his arrest if he did not go to the closest immigration office and report immediately.  This is the most extreme example I know of but, believe me, when we went out of province for a short trip last year we took a hotel in Buriram (90km from home) to be able to report the first thing the following morning.  This friend 'Bob' is a long time Thai resident, work permit, married (Thai), kids, house etc..  If they can create and enforce the nonsense that was the TM30 and then quickly cancel it, I find it hard to believe that they are short on imagination. 

There could easily be a simple form to fill in with name, address, passport# and visa details for residents returning home (there already is the TM6).  With all the supporting vaccination & test results too, of course.  Promising to visit the local hospital for tests and submitting results via the mor chana app is something that the police are equipped to enforce its compliance. Or, as with the TM30, we could make that trip and submit the results to the immigration office. 

All this 'sandbox' effort is to get tourists back into expensive resorts owned by influential individuals and companies.  We read the the Govt is being pressured by this 'Hotel Association' or that 'Tourism group' or 'The Confederation of Airline Companies' etc. and officials being told to loosen up the rules regarding visitors to 'sandbox' facilities.  The towns and villages in these areas are (it seems) still shut down and the many people are relying on food handouts to eat.

Covid is being allowed to spread in Thailand by ineffective Govt policies.  It is not the vaccinated tourists and Thai residents arriving from countries safer than Thailand who are bringing the pandemic here in greater numbers.  

Hard to get a fix on numbers but I googled the number of expats in Thailand and a 2018 study puts the number at well over 300,000 foreign nationals. Take that number, why not? If we all spend 1M THB annually (give or take) it comes to 300 billion THB total spent each and every year.  Much of this is spent in small towns and villages benefitting the local economy, not the billionaire hotel owners in the south.  That may be the real problem in creating a simplified entry system for registered residents, we don't further enrich the rich.