How Thai hotels adapted to survive and provide quarantine with comfort

[snoop1130]

The guest check-in counter at one of the ASQ hotels.

 

It used to be hard to imagine the word “quarantine” would come up in conversations about travel. That was until 2020, when “quarantine” and “isolation” became familiar to most people, if not by having to be in one, then with the concept at least.

 

Thailand has a program, whereby hotels can be part of the quarantine system. Though there are state quarantine facilities, provided for incoming Thais, some people want something a little more comfortable for their 14 days of confinement. This is where Alternative State Quarantine, or ASQ, comes in.

 

There are currently 137 hotels in Bangkok alone participating in the program. This does not include what is called “Alternative Local Quarantine”, or ALQ in popular tourist locations such as Pattaya, Phuket, or Samui. Bangkok has about 18,000 rooms available, and the occupancy rate now is only at 50-60 percent.

 

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[internationalism]

but hospitels should be created a year ago, at the beginning the first wave, instead of burdening hospitals and potientially infecting medics (yes, some of medics were infected at that time, and later blamed by Anutin for unprofessional conduct).

So hospitals had chance to allocate resources somewhere else, life saving equipment, respirators.

There would also would be not need for field hospitals, some of them of poor quality, degrading patients. Hospitels do offer more privacy, better conditions, including higher hygiene level. 

Those poor doing hotels had their better chance much earlier. Since then many of them closed down.

 

[Justgrazing]

For folk who had to return to Thailand for family and stuff it could be understand that the concept was a necessary trial to be endured but it is a non starter for folk just wanting a holiday .. no one is going to put up with flying 000's of KM's to then be banged up even if the time incarcerated has dropped from the original time span .. factor in some countries are imposing onerous conditions on their citizens returning from abroad and it does not make for an immediate cheerful outlook .. 

[ronaldo0]

What utter drivel !! Yesterday there was a stat posted that only 1% of hotels in the country are open . Ask all the hotels who weren’t in the hand picked gang owned by prominent people if they think ASQ is a booming success .

[nowhereman]

I am afraid the government will come up with the solution to get more clients and prevent hospitels go broke. ????

 

[WashingUpagain]

The French only require a PCR test within 72hrs and 7 days quarantine, but the ever so smart Thais have capitalised on this by insisting on a PCR test + 2 weeks quarantine  £$£$£$£$£$

[redneck]

Comfort ? A 4 star hotel and I almost starved the food sucked so bad

[herfiehandbag]

They paid the appropriate people to make sure they got on the list of approved quarantine facilities.

[lavender19]

And made a lot of cash out of it