Phuket ready to accept 500 tourists a day, says media

[webfact]

Phuket ready to accept 500 tourists a day, says media

 

Picture: Ejan

 

Thailand tourism media Ejan said that the country was completely ready to accept 500 tourists EVERY day. 

 

Unfortunately no one appears to have told them that all the plans are now on hold for perhaps three more weeks because of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket.

 

Thailand's head of security has put the brakes on the STV scheme until at least the last week of October. 

 

Nevertheless Ejan followed a group of doctors led by deputy at the infectious disease department Dr Jorasak Kaewjarat to inspect facilities at Phuket airport before declaring in their banner headline that "PHUKET IS READY".

 

The medics saw all the facilities. These included temperature checking, history checking of each tourist, registration and Covid-19 testing facilities that could handle 96 at a time. 

 

It would only take three hours to complete. Then it would be off in a hotel bus to 14 day Alternative Local Quarantine. 

 

Complete that and do some more tests then you're free to visit elsewhere in Phuket.

 

Capacity would see 500 be able to enter through Phuket every day. 

 

Picture: Ejan

 

Also on hand are three "Biosafety Mobile Units" - vehicles graciously donated by HM the King. 

 

These state of the art facilities will be able to house samples and fulfil a variety of functions, said the media. They are ready at Phuket airport too.

 

Thaivisa notes that the only question now is: Will the tourists actually come?

 

After the Vegetarian Festival, that is. 

 

Source: Ejan

 

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[steven100]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

It would only take three hours to complete. Then it would be off in a hotel bus to 14 day Alternative Local Quarantine. 

3 hours to enter ... then 14 days stuck in the hotel room.   no one wants that  !!

thai people just don't get it  !!   

 

good luck with that one. 

 

 

 

 

[Paul2121]

One minute it’s on for tourist then it’s off then it’s on again now it’s on hold again ???? who actually knows when it will happen 

[Somtamnication]

500 a day, when? After vegetarian festival 2023?

[finnsk]

Phuket is ready to accept....

 

Is tourists ready to accept Thalands requirements for stv ?

[pagallim]

Surely the limiting factor would be the capacity of those hotels with ASQ status.   I believe that presently there are only 3 (or some press reports, 9) that have been assessed as suitable.   Do these 3/9 have 7000 rooms?

[GeorgeCross]

yep, any day now

 

no more delays

 

this time for sure..

 

lols

 

 

[petermik]

Thailand and tourists,its getting like a pair of whores knickers...first they are on then they are off,on off, on off who comes up with these barmpot ideas

[2 is 1]

Wait, wait, wait, wait.......... No....

 

You can accept even one million , if somebody want come. Your coverment not let them come!

They want eat salad!

[ChipButty]

18 minutes ago, pagallim said:

Surely the limiting factor would be the capacity of those hotels with ASQ status.   I believe that presently there are only 3 (or some press reports, 9) that have been assessed as suitable.   Do these 3/9 have 7000 rooms?

Interesting information for some people there is only 87 Hotels in Thailand can do ASQ, as far as I can see only 4 in Phuket

 

To make reservation of ASQ package, contact hotels directly! Online booking systems such as Booking.com or Agoda.com do not offer an option of booking the quarantine package! SAVE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME.

 

“Many of them did not fully understand the extent of changes needed in order to meet the requirements,” he explained.

“We now have about 70 hotels still applying for ASQ approval,” he added.

If approved, Phuket would have 5,000 rooms ready to serve foreign arrivals, Mr Thanit noted.

 

 

[ChipButty]

Mr Thanit named the two hotels as the Metadee Phuket in Kata and the Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa in Patong.

The two hotels bring the total number of guest accommodation venues in Phuket officially approved to serve as ASQs to only four.

They join the Anantara Mai Khao Phuket and Trisara Phuket Villas and Residences, altogether offering just 469 guest rooms – despite at least 14 hotels in Phuket applying for the privilege

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that the only question now is: Will the tourists actually come?

Wrong question.The question is will they be allowed to come?

[CraigInBangkok]

40 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

“Many of them did not fully understand the extent of changes needed in order to meet the requirements,” he explained.

I guess they didn't understand how many prawns would be needed in the freezer

[LeungKen]

Yet the majority of Thais say no to tourists according to this poll. ????

 

 

 

[Deli]

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Mr Thanit named the two hotels as the Metadee Phuket in Kata and the Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa in Patong.

The two hotels bring the total number of guest accommodation venues in Phuket officially approved to serve as ASQs to only four.

They join the Anantara Mai Khao Phuket and Trisara Phuket Villas and Residences, altogether offering just 469 guest rooms – despite at least 14 hotels in Phuket applying for the privilege

There is now a total of 7 hotels on Phuket for ASQ, 6 of them at crazy prices.

[charmonman]

4 hours ago, LeungKen said:

Yet the majority of Thais say no to tourists according to this poll. ????

 

 

 

Since when has the government cared what a majority of Thais want? I have a feeling a good portion of those who lost jobs in the tourism sector might feel differently.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Capacity would see 500 be able to enter through Phuket every day.

 

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, Deli said:

There is now a total of 7 hotels on Phuket for ASQ, 6 of them at crazy prices.

crazy from whose stand point ? Anybody who is so desperate to come despite a 14 day quarantine will pay the elevated prices, the hotel owners will have already figured that out.

[khunPer]

So far 500 tourists a day doesn't seem like what the population of Phuket want, even 150 STVs planned for today was too many, and the majority, almost 57 percent, are against turist inflow in a national poll published today...

[farang51]

16 minutes ago, khunPer said:

So far 500 tourists a day doesn't seem like what the population of Phuket want, even 150 STVs planned for today was too many, and the majority, almost 57 percent, are against turist inflow in a national poll published today...

I am contemplating to apply for the new visa (STV) even though it is expensive and with a mandatory quarantine; however, the sentiment of the locals is my biggest concern. It will be less fun if the locals are afraid of foreigners and, in my case, the badminton court will not allow foreigners.

 

It doesn't seem to be a big problem at the moment judging from the posts in here; but what happens if a foreigner breaks the quarantine and later test positive?

[Peterphuket]

Bring them immediately to Sri Patana hotel on Surannaree Road in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima!

[Albert Zweistein]

10 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

Wait, wait, wait, wait.......... No....

 

You can accept even one million , if somebody want come. Your coverment not let them come!

They want eat salad!

And the jobless Thai people grass.

[sammieuk1]

There is even better news it won't be me save all your poking prodding and fleecing for the Chinese they deserve it ????

[Thechook]

20 hours ago, steven100 said:

3 hours to enter ... then 14 days stuck in the hotel room.   no one wants that  !!

thai people just don't get it  !!   

 

good luck with that one. 

 

 

 

 

But TAT said they were going to make quarantine a fun time so tourists enjoy their stay.

[steven100]

3 minutes ago, Thechook said:

But TAT said they were going to make quarantine a fun time so tourists enjoy their stay.

right ... but my idea of a fun time is free booze and 6 naked romping in my room ...

TAT's  idea may not be the same ....   what does their fun time mean  ??

[Is this real]

On 10/8/2020 at 9:32 AM, steven100 said:

3 hours to enter ... then 14 days stuck in the hotel room.   no one wants that  !!

thai people just don't get it  !!   

 

good luck with that one. 

 

 

 

 

It's not the "Thai people" who don't get it.  It's those that hold these numerous tourist spokesperson jobs who feel they'll lose them if they don's say something.  No matter how ridiculous that something may be. 

As a result, knowledgeable individuals are a very rare commodity.

[London Lowf]

22 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

And the jobless Thai people grass.

 

Rice is a variety of grass so you are spot-on there Albert!

 

(Great name by the way!)

[ChouDoufu]

On 10/8/2020 at 10:32 AM, steven100 said:

3 hours to enter ... then 14 days stuck in the hotel room.   no one wants that  !!

thai people just don't get it  !!   

 

good luck with that one.

 

 

but they won't be locked in the hotel rooms under "14 day Alternative Local Quarantine."

 

don't they have a number of hotels along a strip of beach, and the inmates are allowed to use the beach and wander from hotel to hotel in that zone?

 

 

[steven100]

2 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

 

but they won't be locked in the hotel rooms under "14 day Alternative Local Quarantine."

 

don't they have a number of hotels along a strip of beach, and the inmates are allowed to use the beach and wander from hotel to hotel in that zone?

 

 

well I believe your correct that there's some form of leeway with ALQ as opposed to ASQ but i'm not fully conversant with what they can do.

But all the same,  folks just don't want any restrictions imo.  none at all.  just saying ...

[kingofthemountain]

On 10/8/2020 at 7:07 PM, khunPer said:

So far 500 tourists a day doesn't seem like what the population of Phuket want, even 150 STVs planned for today was too many, and the majority, almost 57 percent, are against turist inflow in a national poll published today...

maybe 500 tourists a day is the minimum they want

that's why they have refused the 150 chinese

 

''No you can not come, sorry, try again when you have found 350 more people''