PoorSucker

It's considered second week and I'm free to move around.

If you enter the Samui program first week you are stuck with the hotel. You can only do tourist excursions with the hotel. This is why I spent first week in Phuket.

I came on a single entry B-visa. Only had to show the 100K Covid insurance for 14 days. The embassy in Stockholm still demanded a ticket out for my COE. I bought a premium refundable ticket to Singapore after my initial 14 days.

Hi my fellow Samui Expats. I'm back in Thailand I'm in the Phuket sandbox 7+7 program right now. Flew Stockholm to Phuket via Doha with Qatar airways. When arriving in Phuket Airport they check all your paperwork. 1. COE 2. Proof of vaccination. 3. Negative PCR test 72h before departure. 4. SHABA hotel booking. 5. Insurance Here's a tip, pay extra for a seat closest to exit. There will be a long long wait. I got off first and was first served after first and Business class. After that you pass immigration. Pick up your luggage. At the exit of the airport you will take your first of three PCR tests. Took a taxi to my hotel in Patong for 640 baht. Waited for 4h and got an email confirming my negative test. Hotel staff called me to inform that I'm free to roam Phuket. Was not denied beer in Phuket, although beer was served in mugs... The Samui Extra Plus only have a few hotels for the first seven days starting at 30.000 baht for a week, second week there are more and cheaper hotels to choose from. My hotel in Phuket is only 650 baht per night. Same as my hotel on Samui second week. Also in the Samui program you're stuck in your hotel for a week, it's just a stupid money grab by the participant hotels. In Samui Airport everybody was crammed into the same snake line to show my papers. Must have been the single moment that I could be infected during my stay so far. Now I'm in my Samui hotel. They informed me I can't ride my own motorcycle, must use taxi mafia. I'll rather walk. Comparing Phuket and Samui sandbox. Phuket wins by far, can't recommend the Samui variety. It seems Samui still goes for money grab in every situation.

There's not going to be a high season before charter flights are available. You can open up Thailand but if there's no easy way to travel nobody will come.

Fully vaccinated with Pfizer outside Thailand

Fly Singapore airlines or Qatar airways directly to Phuket. When you come to Phuket you take a PCR test at the airport. You get result within 6h and are then free to enjoy Phuket. Not like the Samui + program where you can't leave the hotel. Also Phuket sandbox hotels are a fraction of Samui + hotels. Stay 7 days in the sandbox program and then fly to Samui for another 7 days in sandbox program.

Traveling in to Samui via Phuket sandbox. Easy choice. 7 nights in Samui SHA plus+ hotel : 30.000 baht. Can not travel freely for a week. 7 nights in Phuket SHA Plus+ hotel : 4.500 baht. Free to have fun in Phuket.

That app does not work on my Samsung galaxy S7.

They counted after the picture was taken... Guess some items went "missing"

Actually yes.

OK, you win internet today. ????

Why be wealthy if you can't show off. I've seen people buy a new car to display outside their <deleted>ty house and can't afford gasoline to drive it.

Can recommend Ban Luck Fan in Bophut. She will do your implant if your bone structure allows it. She declined a friend of mine after taking x-rays (for free). That's some professional treatment, not a money grab.