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Just now, Kadilo said:

Yes obviously everyone that has been successful is posting on AN. 

I don't care about the ratio of successful to unsuccessful when I see so many reports on AN and FB travel pages of people not being able to use the system. 

Just now, Danderman123 said:

I changed it with the hotel, they recognized the problem, and were very helpful.

Thanks. So, I am scheduled to arrive on 11/28 at 00:05. I was going to book 11/27-11/28 for the one night required. Sounds like if I do that then the system will give me the same problem you did. So, I need to negotiate with the hotel to actually book me for 11/28-11/29, right?

3 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Maybe some people don’t feel the one night in a hotel after a long journey is such an arduous task as they would do that anyway. 
 

Is that the latest summary of how well it’s working  or one that was headlined  for a daily many hours ago?

I am happy that the quarantine time was reduced as it is a factor in my choice to return to Thailand. It is less arduous. And, it is a quarantine. So, you can't call it not a quarantine with intellectual integrity. You can't.

If that article is too old for you, for real time reports of the status of the Thailand Pass system, you can see people responding in real time here:

https://aseannow.com/topic/1237582-thailand-pass-is-up-and-running/

22 minutes ago, Gustomucho said:

The Thai Canadian Embassy called back... they are saying it should work even without the passport number on the vaccination card... 

 

Her answer "Of course Sir, not all information will be on the vaccination document, if your name and date of birth is enough"

 

I will try to send it normally and hope for the best I guess... I do have a handwritten paper with vaccine information here, I could just write passport number on it as it is a pretty non-useful document for Quebec/Canada...

Should work and does work are not the same. I'm seeing many reports of that document being rejected for lack of passport number. Insane.

There's this...

https://bangkokherald.com/business/tech/thailand-pass-is-live-and-its-a-mess-as-expected/

9 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Wow does that mean they have to take a screenshot instead before downloading. 
 

How on earth will they cope. 

https://bangkokherald.com/business/tech/thailand-pass-is-live-and-its-a-mess-as-expected/

Looks like the Thailand Pass is sooooo much better than the COE! Tourists will be flooding in any minute!

9 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Concerning my issue with dates, the hotel suggested I change my November 11 - 12 booking to November 12 - 13, which I did.

Change it in the online form or change your booking with the hotel?

I'm seeing lots of reports online of troubles with the new ThailandPass. Apparently, when it asks for documents, you can only upload a .jpg. It won't accept .pdf. Also, in places, it asks for more than one piece of information but will only allow you to upload one file. So, you have to combine them yourself before uploading. Also, the file size is limited to 2 mb apparently. Many people reporting that at the end they get errors when uploading. 

Saw photos of the airport on the site that can't be named. Funny thing: the airport workers are wearing PPE suits (gown, hair cap, mask, gloves). One thing to know about wearing PPE is: unless you take it all off after you interact with each person and suit up again with new items, they are USELESS. I have worked in the medical field for two decades. You can get fired from a hospital for walking out of a patient's room without taking your items off correctly and walking into a second patient's room. If a person with a gloved hand asks for, and touches, my passport then touches another person's passport with the same glove, that's the same as all of that happening with no glove. 

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

It was a government poll?   Where did it sat that and where has there been a government reaction to the results?

Are you awake?

27 minutes ago, Rhacsyn said:

I am landing in a few hours at Phuket (around 12:30). Today the swab test are being done at the airport.  I will ask about future plans...

Thanks. But, I'm interested in Bangkok. I know on Phuket they do them at the airport. Completely different process for arrivals to Bangkok. 

1 hour ago, Heng said:

...it just makes everything look more official.          

Important when dealing with any governmental process in Thailand.

4 minutes ago, internationalism said:

high quality hotels will have medics from private hospitals swabbing guests on arrival. And 24h.

Cheaper ones - you will be driven from the airport to hospital.

If out of hours they might drive guests to hospital in the morning or medics come to hotel.

That's individual arrangements between hotel and hospital.

Only on phuket all tests on arrival are at the airport

 

I suppose before I make my booking I will contact the hotel to see what they are doing with late/early arrivals.

I am interested in hearing a report from someone arriving late at night or early in the morning to see if the hospitals doing the testing on the way to the hotel are operating 24/7. My flight is scheduled to arrive in Bangkok around midnight. If they follow the plan to stop off at the hospital on the way to my one- to two-day quarantine hotel, can they really perform the test at, say, 2:00 a.m.?

2 hours ago, vVDB said:

People with COE, because the Thailand Pass is not accessible. they would have come without the reopening!

The PCR test capacity is limited, it may be more than a day in SHA with a lot of tourists ... It is in SHA until test result, do not forget !!!

The PCR machine can also break down ;-)))

The data Thailand has reported throughout the pandemic suggest that the country has limited testing ability in regards to number of tests per day (for example strange plateaus in the curves of rising daily cases). Is there any discussion anywhere about Thailand adding additional labs or resources to handle the expected extra thousands of PCR tests required under this new program?

46 minutes ago, rumeaug said:

Marcel Duchamp would have loved this country where Dadaism and surrealism rule. Or to quote René Magritte : "This is not a pipe"

They are doing that now with: "This is not a quarantine."

2 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I know this has been raised in the past but do we know if arrival figures quoted include passengers in transit?

The figures probably include all the people dropping off and picking up passengers at the airport. I arrive in a plane. A man arrives in a taxi to take me to the hotel. That's two arrivals.