3 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:

No indication yet what countries will be included in the 10 day quarantine. I can’t see a 7 day quarantine for vaccinated people as no one has decided how a Vaccination Passport would work.

According to what I read today the 10 days is happening, the vaccine passport is shelfed, and ther will be discussion (read delay) about status of people who have been vaccinated.  But 11 days is still better than 16 . Go Thailand! 

2 hours ago, DJBenz said:

Correct. The UK has, apparently, world-leading genome sequencing facilities which means we were much more likely to discover a new variant, regardless of where it originated. Sadly, that variant is now forever tagged with 'Kent' and the UK with ownership (even if it's not our fault). Europe currently has far more of the "UK" variant than we do. Still, we've have to improve exports now that Brexit has happened. lol

Probably the same with Wuhan then ????????????

10 minutes ago, bolt said:

Where can we find the current COVID variants list the Thai Embassies are speaking about ???

 

I asked my local embassy and they said contact the hotel, so the embassy don’t know about the list.

Thai Government hasn't  even made up their mind yet. I'd wait till April . I did read today that probably the 10 days will happen the rest is all bs no mention of the variant countries.

3 hours ago, VBF said:

Incorrect!!!!!

They are known by those names as it is where they were originally discovered not necessarily originated.

There is no certainty that the "UK variant" was or wasn't already in Europe, USA, SA, et al, but the UK is better at isolating the variants than some other places.

Not so good in reducing cases or saving lives but potentially better at isolating individual strains. Congrats ???? Pretty sure that's what the Chinese are saying.

 A reasonable person would think by some of the responses that some people are overly defensive about it being called the UK variant. 

14 hours ago, Scofield said:

Confirmed UK can’t leave the room at all during the 12 days.

can you tell us how you found out about the UK 

On 3/22/2021 at 6:34 PM, billd766 said:

Try looking at Thailand's Covid response if you want to see  what didn't do well looked like.

 

Despite all the reassurance given by the government, they are reactive and not proactive, they don't do mass testing unlike the UK (who got off to a terrible start last year).

 

OTOH the UK seems to have turned itself around and is getting far better now.

 

 

 

Please is that what you got? Thailand doesn't need to be overly proactive. They should but let's toss up some numbers keeping in mind that the UK is an island that did a wonderful job and Thailnd allegedly is a <deleted>hole next door to China and had virtually an open door

 UK cases 4.3 million deaths 126 k

Thailand cases 27k deaths 91...

Now tell me it's all a conspiracy and there are actually millions of Thais wandering around with covid hundreds of thousands dying .

 F F S. 

Some offensive and off topic posts have been removed.

 

Posts with content that was copy and pasted from some sites without any supporting links have been removed. 

12 hours ago, hioctane said:

On 3/22/2021 at 8:06 AM, impulse said:

 That's true.  But money spread over months and months isn't going to fuel an economic recovery in the tourism arena.  That's going to take 2 week holidaymakers.  Millions of them.  And none of them are coming if they have to spend even a week of that in quarantine. 

At this point, they should take money any way they can get it.

 

No doubt.  But the purpose of the program is to proactively seek more tourists.  Above and beyond the few (in statistical terms) who have families and property in Thailand.  The 2 week holiday makers who come in, stay in hotels, dump a bunch of money and hop on a flight back home.

 

It will fail miserably as long as there's any quarantine requirement that cuts into precious vacation days. 

 

Edit:  And for the guys who do have families and property, will reducing the quarantine from 14 days to 10 days really increase their numbers?  Sure, it's nice to be cooped up 3 or 4 days less, but is that really going to be the factor that tips the numbers?  Doubt it.

1 hour ago, bolt said:

can you tell us how you found out about the UK 

Meridien hotel. If you read the wording it was obvious as well. ‘Every country with a variant’. Plus the allowed outside the room seems to have swiftly disappeared.

9 minutes ago, Scofield said:

Meridien hotel...

 

It seems that this particular hotel is your "all-purpose weapon" regarding this news.
Please, either serious links, or your posts are not to be taken seriously

25 minutes ago, Turkleton said:

 

It seems that this particular hotel is your "all-purpose weapon" regarding this news.
Please, either serious links, or your posts are not to be taken seriously

Weapon? It’s the hotel of choice that I was planning on using. If you want more advice email all the hotels you want.

 

Odd little man. 

21 minutes ago, Scofield said:

If you want more advice email all the hotels you want.

 

Why should I waste my time?

As long as there is no "really official" government statement with all the necessary details, (especially a country white/blacklist), I think it is pointless to email Noi, Joy or Nok in some random hotels...

But everyone as he prefers ????.

1 hour ago, Scofield said:

Meridien hotel...

 

Years ago when I used to travel to Pattaya for 'business' Le Meridien was my hotel of choice. I have to say that's it's went significantly downhill now though. It's very popular with our friends from the Indian subcontinent. The reception staff were also hopeless and spent all day on their phones. Great buffet though.

 

Sincerely 

 

Morris 

1 hour ago, KhunMorris said:

 

Years ago when I used to travel to Pattaya for 'business' Le Meridien was my hotel of choice. I have to say that's it's went significantly downhill now though. It's very popular with our friends from the Indian subcontinent. The reception staff were also hopeless and spent all day on their phones. Great buffet though.

 

Sincerely 

 

Morris 

Is that not pretty much the case across the board? I was using it for the Bonvoy points.

 

Fear not though, Turkeyton above will grace us all with some official correspondence. Truth hurts for some seems. 

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On 3/21/2021 at 12:33 AM, rooster59 said:

He said the 14-day quarantine period would remain in places for arrivals from countries where the Covid-19 virus has mutated, which is a global concern.

Well that may be good news for Bikini Atoll or Ascension Island but as far as I know, there have been literally thousands of mutations of Covid 19 and they are in almost every country.

 

It will be interesting to learn which variants of the virus Thailand considers to be a threat - if that's what he actually means.

13 hours ago, Scofield said:

Meridien hotel. If you read the wording it was obvious as well. ‘Every country with a variant’. Plus the allowed outside the room seems to have swiftly disappeared.

Did the hotel confirm this about the UK, or did you take it from the wording ???

The High Risk Low risk 10 or 14 days is a bit sticky, I think they will publish a list similar to the golf quarantine as seen below.

 

For example the Golf Quarantine country list has been published and is updated every 2 weeks

Wording from website. March 16^th Last update

Golf Quarantine has been introduced where golfers from eligible countries are allowed to quarantine at one of 6 approved golf resorts and play golf every day after the 4^th day.  Thailand currently only accepts golfers traveling from (not nationality) the following counties. The Department of Disease control will update this list every month:
(update as of Mar 16, 2021)

Algeria Angola Andorra Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Barbados Belize Brunei Canada Cape Verde China Costa Rica Croatia

Cyprus Dominican Republic Ecuador Fiji Georgia Grenada Guatamala Guyana Hong Kong Iceland Ivory Coast Japan Kyrgyzstan

Laos Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Mongolia Morocco Namibia Nepal New Zealand Panama Oman Rwanda Saint Kits and Nevis

Saint Lucia Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Taiwan Tajikistan Trinidad and Tobago Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam

If you are vaccinated and want a vacation why would you waste all the time and money on Thailand when there is Costa Rica, Mexico, DR etc ?

 

Still they are only appealing to the long time, good timers but of course the visa system is still prohibitive. 45 days on arrival is not enough.

 

Then charge $100 a night for a hotel only worth 20-30$