wanderingengine

Do you need to send the original paper or does the recipient simply need to receive it in the mail? If the latter, you can use docsmit.com to send USPS mail via internet.

I think that the question intends to reference "official" tests performed by a third party because you need to, for instance, fly somewhere.

If I were you, I would rethink this idea unless there was some unfixable reason that I couldn't do sandbox. With AQ, you are restricted to a room and cannot leave. If you test positive, you restart with a hospital/hospitel quarantine at your expense. With sandbox, you can go out for the day once your first negative test has come back. (The risk of a positive test and quarantine is still there.) With regard to the pre-departure test: regardless of what you do, you need travel insurance. Your travel insurance should cover you if you miss a flight because of a positive test (check with them first, though).

Actually, the airlines do know the covid rules (and entry rules generally) of every country. There is a database called TIMATIC that has all of the information. Airlines access this to decide whether to let you board, as they get fined if immigration refuses to let you enter the country. Airlines sometimes set rules that are more restrictive than those in TIMATIC if they are concerned about the risk.of getting fined. You can access the database here: https://airfrance.traveldoc.aero/ I don't know if its 100% up to date vs the professional one. At any rate, its better for you to be positive on the pre-boarding test than on the arrival test. If you are at home, you can isolate there for the required number of days. Once you enter Thailand, you must pay for your isolation at a location not of your choosing.

Patong hospital is now giving out up to 50 pfizer boosters on Wednesday and 50 astrazenica boosters on Tuesday. Their poster says that first doses are available Monday through Friday. Today, at least 200 people showed up. Various enterprising folks (not wearing hospital uniforms), both Thai and farang, appointed themselves as the organizers of this crowd and created competing queues. Eventually, the police came to the scene.

I got my first two shots (mRNA) back in the states but they're getting a bit old. With Omicron coming, I'd like to get a booster. Where can this be done in/near Phuket? Make an appointment online or just show up? Bangkok seems to be thick with mRNA vaccines, but I haven't heard much about availability in Phuket. I'd like to stay on mRNA but will take what I can get if required.

Just take a picture of the card and save it on your phone. The US vaccination card may be "basic", but it is used by over 300 million people and therefore likely to be accepted everywhere that wants customers. It is superior to the various online approaches because it does not require an internet connection.

Any recommendations for Halloween night out for a young-ish couple? Dancing and drinking, in that order. Rawai or Patong?

The outgoing flight that you show at check-in does not have to be to your own country. It can be to anywhere that you can legally go (the airline might not allow it if the rules in place when you show the ticket don't allow you to go there).

Its a political decision, so one can only speculate. On one hand, it makes sense to stop covid-specific accommodations when the country is reopening for air travel without quarantine and some of its neighbors are doing the same. On the other hand, evicting the existing long-term tourists before the promised hordes of short-term tourists arrive would cause a huge shock to that portion of the tourism industry that currently has customers.

You can (always could) get an additional 30 days at the immigration office after arriving. However, the outgoing flight that you present at airport checkin will probably need to be less than 30 days from your arrival in Thailand.

Its true. 40k would get you a mansion with a staff at covid prices.

Same problem here: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236602-online-tm30-entry-error/

Everyone is having this problem. They guy who we are short-term renting a place from spent 3 days trying to get the website, android app, and iphone app to work. Unless someone knows some magical secret, there is nothing you can do to make these work right now. For renewal, Phuket immigration required that the owner either gives the tourist the documents to register the TM30 or comes to register it themselves.

Yes, the OP is asking about domestic entry. Anyway, the rest of the details are here: https://www.gophuget.com/inout You can use google's image translator and your sense of imagination to read them. You are allowed to bring your own antigen test kit and test at the border, but I wouldn't do this if taking the bus as you'll have the whole bus waiting for you.