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Have you read his subsequent response to your post? The PLF is a piece of plsh as long as you have your passport, flight details, test reference number and know where you've been and where you're going. If you're still concerned have a dry run at it (with made up details if required) and see for yourself.

The 400K/40K insurance is not required by the Thai Embassy London. Is your knowledge from elsewhere?

I returned a few weeks ago so fairly recent experience. The airline will likely tell you that a PLF is required, and will check it at airport check-in, but the responsibility to fill it in accurately lies with the passenger. It's a simple enough form with the biggest limitation (IMO) being that it can't be done until <48 hours before you're arrival in the UK.

Indeed. I'm actually surprised at Americans making an issue of this when I believe health care is predominately privately sourced there, as opposed to the UK with its government taxpayer funded NHS. I don't believe the UK government should supply overseas health care, so it would make no sense (to me) that the US government would do so with it's totally different healthcare infrastructure.

Different budgets I would expect. The State Department Budget (for running Embassies and whatever else they do) could not be expected to be spent on vaccinating American expats overseas. Whatever budget is being allocated for vaccinations it has been decided they will be administered in a certain manner which excludes expats. It's the same for almost everyone and seems fair enough. Expats gave up access to medical treatment at home when they decided to move abroad. The pandemic was obviously unexpected, but so usually is a heart attack or whatever that you wouldn't expect any US goverment supplied health care to pay for.

The stance as a government should not be mixed up with the stance as an employer. Rightly or wrongly there is a distinct difference. Those of us from the UK are in a similar position where the embassy staff have been vaccinated courtesy of their employer, the FCDO, not by the NHS which is overseen by the Government's Department for Health and Social Care and who are the ones not giving out vaccines overseas.

They supplied it to employees overseas, irrespective of nationality. That many were US citizens was bound to be so, but irrelevant.

I've no idea where the OP is flying to, hence the qualification about the UK.

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All three dimensions on this bag would fail Thai Vietjet requirements, but only one would fail Thai Smile, so as stated you need to check with whatever airline you're flying with. If it falls outwith the limits, do the decent thing and don't take it on board.

It did a few week ago, although it wasn't a requirement for me flying to the UK.

Pattaya Memorial Hospital. 3,500 baht.

Maybe I'm missing something, but 6th to 13th August is 7 days, not 14, just as my previous post was intended to express surprise at 28th July to 13th August being claimed as 23 days, instead of the 16 shown by my calculator.

Agreed, but the calculation of # off days leaves a bit to be desired. ????

Stop digging. You're looking more foolish with every post.

And you have added to the misinformation. As posted many times above, the requirements for a non-Thai entering Thailand are for the test results to be issued within 72 hours of the departure of the traveller's first flight. The test itself can be taken before that. The safety conscious will do both within the 72 hours. I recall Thailand was reportedly enforcing a test on arrival for ASQ detainees if the 72 hour limit had beeen exceeded on arrival, but not heard this for a while.

That is not specified anywhere, it's the timing of the results being issued that will be checked.

The answer was given and clarified in the first three posts, but in your friend's case the test results must be issued within 72 hours of their departure from Boston. Here is the wording from IATA the airline will use to check:

Not my interpretation, but the government's in their advice to vaccinators which you have conveniently ignored. In your/their defence, it may have been issued after your experience in May. As an aside, the Compass Centre near Heathrow was even vaccinating people from red countries who were in nearby quarantine hotels but allowed out for the vaccination. Do you think that would happen if things were as you described? The NHS in the UK and the CDC in the USA disagree with your statement and a vaccine is most definitely classed as a medicine - a preventive medicine is the term I believe which I'm sure you'll have heard of. NHS: Like all medicines, the COVID-19 vaccines can cause side effects, but not everyone gets them. CDC: This is what makes vaccines such powerful medicine. Sources: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/safety-and-side-effects/ https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vpd-vac-basics.html That being the case, the rest of your post falls apart and the current guidance is as I posted. I think given the points made that's the best way and they now know what the isolation rules permit.

Is this Cpt. Steve aka forum member Hammerman, as you seem to know him from other threads? He's been on here a few hours ago and not updated his post from last weekend, which indicated a September opening as the latest information. Maybe you could suggest to him to give an update?

Published the day I posted here: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/08/10/pattaya-to-hua-hin-ferry-service-officially-ends-this-time-for-seemingly-good-as-contract-canceled-and-port-returned-to-pattaya-city/ Maybe you could link to what you read for clarification?

A regular prescription is known as a Patient Specific Direction in medical parlance, and if someone like a child who is outwith the vaccination groups was going to be vaccinated they would need this to allow it. The vaccine would be prescribed for that individual in this case, For mass vacination, such as the UK is undergoing, the Chief Medical Officer has issued what is known as a Patient Group Direction which allows the process to go ahead without naming individuals. It's not technically a prescription but an instruction, though to all intents and purposes is the same thing for a group of people. If you ask a vaccinator to show you the 30 page internal guidance for vaccinating those who are self isolating, the first page says something along the lines of getting a vaccine is legally and medically the same as collecting GP prescription medicines and therefore permitted. This guidance is only a few months old and before its issue there was a lot of disagreement about this point, so if you're information pre-dates this then it has now been clarified and what you were told is wrong. My information comes from a vaccinator. I had booked my trip to the UK to allow me to self isolate prior to getting the first jab before obtaining this information, so had time to do so if required. I would not have changed my plan if I wasn't comfortable what I was doing was legal.

You may have beeen reading about the Pattaya-Hua Hin passenger ferry which is a different service altogether, and were reported today to have given up their berth in Pattaya which effectively terminates their operation.

This does not reflect my experience. Went out on Day 2 of isolation as going out to get a prescribed medicine is allowed. I forget the technical term but vaccination counts as a countrywide prescription. Unable to book a second dose using the on-line system but instructed by the helpdesk just to attend a drop in centre again.

What price?