CCSA Has Back-up Plans for Phuket Reopening

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, June 22 (TNA) – The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) is going ahead with the Phuket Sandbox reopening plan, saying the tourism scheme can be adjusted or cancelled, depending on the Covid-19 situation.

 

Taweesin Visanuyothin, CCSA spokesman said the reopening will proceed although the daily Covid-19 case tally in Thailand today reached 4,059 cases. The disease management is being carried out in the outbreak areas.

 

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[Justgrazing]

3 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

BANGKOK, June 22 (TNA) – The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) is going ahead with the Phuket Sandbox reopening plan, saying the tourism scheme can be adjusted or cancelled, depending on the Covid-19 situation.

 

Bit like saying can it be fixed at the roadside or shall I call the AA recovery truck .. and this is before you even started off .. 

[KhunBENQ]

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[damascase]

8 days to go and still communicating that the scheme can be adjusted or cancelled - now that is the way to establish trust among potential travellers and relevant businesses……

[Caldera]

That will do wonders to reassure those "tourists" that haven't canceled yet.

[sammieuk1]

Looking at a lot of the hotel prices and seeing a large number of "price not calculated" to fit right into the sandbox debacle ???? 

[connda]

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

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[RichardColeman]

The back up plan according to the link appears to be locking up your hotel in a quarantine.

 

Basically, they are going to have a right to enforce a quarantine on your hotel - not so good if you are forced to quarantine on day 13 or whatever for a month. pretty much reads as come at your own risk, get locked in your hotel at our wishes and your expense.

 

Hotels on to a winner. I can forsee a back-up hotel policy 

[stevenl]

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

 

1 hour ago, damascase said:

8 days to go and still communicating that the scheme can be adjusted or cancelled - now that is the way to establish trust among potential travellers and relevant businesses……

 

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

That will do wonders to reassure those "tourists" that haven't canceled yet.

Of course this can be adjusted, same as entry requirements to the UK and others can be adjusted.

[Peabody]

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

20 year expat here, left Thailand in January 2020 planning to return 2 months later (hahaha), but now returning middle of July. Currently working outside of Thailand, so this is a holiday, mostly to visit my possessions! Will do 2 weeks at a nice hotel in Phuket, normally my room is almost $200/night, got it for under $30 USD/night. Flight from New York only $850 USD. Booked everything cancellable/full refundable in case of tits-up scenario.

Just got my COE for Phuket Sandbox today from Thai Embassy in NYC. Process took less than 24 hours from start to getting the COE. Clunky website, but it guides you gently through the process. Very easy: have your hotel res, your flight res, your vaccine proof, and proof of insurance and good to go. Drag-n-drop to upload documents. They tell you almost right away if something needs to be fixed. Used links from ThaiVisa to book both SHA Plus+ hotel and insurance through Tune (30 days, about 3K THB).

[smedly]

jesus christ 

 

 

that is all I could come up with

[Albert Zweistein]

3 hours ago, connda said:

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More like a Mistery Tour.

[drenddy]

Back up plan : extend quarantine from 14 to 2 years, 3 PCR tests daily.

 

There is no back up plan, as there was no scientific based discussion.They expect less than 90 cases per week, after opening the island to tourists.Let them offer free testing, all week around, until 1st of July and let's see how many cases they find.

 

They are clueless, even after 16 months with coronavirus among us.They know only one thing : close the land to visitors and quarantine.

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by drenddy

[Captain Monday]

2 hours ago, Peabody said:

20 year expat here, left Thailand in January 2020 planning to return 2 months later (hahaha), but now returning middle of July. Currently working outside of Thailand, so this is a holiday, mostly to visit my possessions! Will do 2 weeks at a nice hotel in Phuket, normally my room is almost $200/night, got it for under $30 USD/night. Flight from New York only $850 USD. Booked everything cancellable/full refundable in case of tits-up scenario.

Just got my COE for Phuket Sandbox today from Thai Embassy in NYC. Process took less than 24 hours from start to getting the COE. Clunky website, but it guides you gently through the process. Very easy: have your hotel res, your flight res, your vaccine proof, and proof of insurance and good to go. Drag-n-drop to upload documents. They tell you almost right away if something needs to be fixed. Used links from ThaiVisa to book both SHA Plus+ hotel and insurance through Tune (30 days, about 3K THB).

How did you do that? There is no drop down menu yet on the COE request web application "coethailand.mfa" to select Sandbox SHA+ hotels?

 

Use Organizational quarantine dropdown and fill in the free text??

Edited June 22, 2021 by Captain Monday

[Peabody]

"Use Organizational quarantine and fill in the free text??"

 

Exactly. I just listed the name of the hotel and wrote "SHA Plus+ certified" next to it. Yeah, that one stymied me for a minute!

 

Took fewer than 16 hours from first visit to their site to CoE in hand!  ????

Edited June 22, 2021 by Peabody

[scorecard]

9 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

As already stated, how many 'sand box tourists' want to go through this situation.

 

I'm lost, do these 'sand box tourists':

 

- Have to present some type of COE at the departure airport and on arrival?

- Have to show negative PCR swab test report no older than 72 hrs at check-in at departure airport and at arrival airport?

- Have to pass a Covid 19 rapid test conducted at arrival airport? (And perhaps at departure airport?)

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by scorecard

[ukrules]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

saying the tourism scheme can be adjusted or cancelled, depending on the Covid-19 situation

 

Yes, this is exactly what will happen, the only unknown is when.

 

[inThailand]

Does any of this fiasco really surprise anyone? For over a year they could have been getting prepared for a new outbreak, procuring vaccines, planning for mass opening up, etc, etc. In typical fashion they didn't do anything, and when the sh.. hits the fan, they run around like headless chickens. Just another day here. 

Edited June 23, 2021 by inThailand

[DFPhuket]

10 hours ago, Peabody said:

Just got my COE for Phuket Sandbox today from Thai Embassy in NYC. Process took less than 24 hours from start to getting the COE. Clunky website, but it guides you gently through the process. Very easy: have your hotel res, your flight res, your vaccine proof, and proof of insurance and good to go. Drag-n-drop to upload documents. They tell you almost right away if something needs to be fixed. Used links from ThaiVisa to book both SHA Plus+ hotel and insurance through Tune (30 days, about 3K THB).

 

What does your actual certificate (the printed document that you show upon arrival) say in the final paragraph? Previously, when getting an ASQ COE it said, "...the above named person has presented the Royal Thai Consulate [location] with a confirmed booking at [hotel name], which has been designated as an ASQ facility..."  Have they edited the text to say something about a confirmed SHA+ booking? 

[Eric Loh]

So it is down to yes, maybe, maybe no, maybe sometime etc etc or just watch this space for more maybes.  

[trainman34014]

The 'Back Up Plan' is be the quickest to blame every one else before they blame you for this shambles !

[unblocktheplanet]

16 hours ago, Caldera said:

That will do wonders to reassure those "tourists" that haven't canceled yet.

All five of them, down from seven...

[kimamey]

20 hours ago, Peabody said:

20 year expat here, left Thailand in January 2020 planning to return 2 months later (hahaha), but now returning middle of July. Currently working outside of Thailand, so this is a holiday, mostly to visit my possessions! Will do 2 weeks at a nice hotel in Phuket, normally my room is almost $200/night, got it for under $30 USD/night. Flight from New York only $850 USD. Booked everything cancellable/full refundable in case of tits-up scenario.

Just got my COE for Phuket Sandbox today from Thai Embassy in NYC. Process took less than 24 hours from start to getting the COE. Clunky website, but it guides you gently through the process. Very easy: have your hotel res, your flight res, your vaccine proof, and proof of insurance and good to go. Drag-n-drop to upload documents. They tell you almost right away if something needs to be fixed. Used links from ThaiVisa to book both SHA Plus+ hotel and insurance through Tune (30 days, about 3K THB).

Don't forget your PCR test before you leave. That's a bit time sensitive and is a bit of a worry if it doesn't come back in time and I've heard of a few problems regarding that.

 

Glad you've got things sorted though. Have fun.

[kimamey]

23 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

How does this sound to the "handful" of "tourists" planning to undergo the arduous procedure?

Be prepared for your flight doing a U-turn?

 

I can understand that the plans would need to change if the circumstances  do and that may not be a problem for those of us who might be thinking of using this as a way back home but I'm not sure that would be the case for the tourists this was planned for. You might have insurance to cover any costs but that can't cover the days taken off work that could be lost.

[inThailand]

In order to have a back up plan, don't you need a plan to start with?

 

Planning is a foreign concept here, and anything foreign is unacceptable here, it must be the Thai way or the highway.