Quarantine in Bangkok, Phuket or Samui ?

[Robs5ct]

Starting 15th you can come to Thailand on 3 routes. 3 different ways to cope with quarantine.

 

Bangkok:
2 weeks quaratine in a hotel room. Book a nice room in a good hotel. Not that bad.
Straight, no surprises, not affected by others.
After 14 days you are free to go. The problem could be that you are in the darkest
red zone and traveling to somewhere else could be difficult or not possible at all.

 

Phuket:
No quarantine. Free to travel around in Phuket. It could be that you came in close
contact to someone else and that means you get quarantined in a maybe not so nice hotel.
You are free to travel but apart from daytime activities there's not much to do.
Have a meal without alcohol in a restaurant and go sleep after. No bars or clubs are open.

 

Samui:
3 days qurantine in the hotel room. You have to stay 4 more days in the hotel and
just allowed on sealed daytime tours and activities.
After 7 days you are free to move around on Samui, Phangan and Koh Tao.
Restaurants, bars, clubs and massage parlors are all open. You can get alcohol everywhere
and party all night if you know where to go.
There's no social distancing. Nobody is wearing a mask. I fear that Samui is on the 
best way to get the new Thonglor superspreader place. So maybe you just arrive there
and the whole place is going into lockdown.

 

What is the best way ? I personally don't know.
Any thoughts ?
 

[steve187]

I would go for a full 14 quarantine, somewhere other than Bangkok,

with the alternatives there are too many unknowns. maybe free to roam the streets, or if unlucky locked in a room

[OneMoreFarang]

I think one big question is: How bad of an hotel are you prepared to accept for the quarantine?

 

I read on Twitter about this story:

https://www.facebook.com/WheelsAndWork

To make it short: She is in Phuket, hoped for holiday and now she just paid over 50k for a <deleted>ty quarantine hotel with cold food out of Styrofoam boxes. 

 

Personally I hate bad food and I very much hate bad coffee. And two weeks of that? No, I wouldn't want to even think about that.

 

A nice hotel in Bangkok is obviously not as good as a nice hotel on the beach. But if the food and coffee is right then it's a lot better than a quarantine hotel in Phuket (or Samui).

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I don't want to highjack this thread but I guess others are also interested in this.

 

What are guests allowed to bring to the room and/or what are outsiders allowed to bring?

I.e. if I go leave Thailand and return and have to stay in a ASQ hotel: Would it be allowed if my gf would bring me a Nespresso Machine and lots of Espresso capsules? Or is that up to the individual hotel?

 

 

[Robs5ct]

I think you can take everything in your baggage into your room. Nobody will check.

But as far as I know are no deliveries allowed from outside. No Foodpanda, no machines, no gf.

But maybe it's possible that your gf delivers the coffee machine to the hotel and they put it in your

room just before you arrive.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

20 minutes ago, Robs5ct said:

But as far as I know are no deliveries allowed from outside.

My gf delivered lots of food and snacks to a Thai girl in (Thai state sponsored) quarantine a few months ago. She left the bags at the counter and someone gave them to the girl in quarantine, no problem. 

[internationalism]

I think you answered yourself and chosen bangkok.

I would rather go for phuket

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, Robs5ct said:

Samui:
3 days qurantine in the hotel room. You have to stay 4 more days in the hotel and
just allowed on sealed daytime tours and activities.
After 7 days you are free to move around on Samui, Phangan and Koh Tao.
Restaurants, bars, clubs and massage parlors are all open. You can get alcohol everywhere
and party all night if you know where to go.
There's no social distancing. Nobody is wearing a mask. I fear that Samui is on the 
best way to get the new Thonglor superspreader place. So maybe you just arrive there
and the whole place is going into lockdown

Really....

[DFPhuket]

I'm in the sandbox in Phuket now. One correction - while bars in Phuket are closed, restaurants are open and serve alcohol. Many of those restaurants "feel" like a bar to me. I've had "restaurant" drinks both in Patong and Kamala. 

 

I had originally planned to do ASQ in Bangkok but changed to Phuket and arrived on July 2. My hotel (DoubleTree Hilton Patong) cost 21,000 THB net including breakfast for 14 days plus 8,000 for the required PCR tests. That was a lot cheaper than a similar quality hotel in BKK - although ASQ hotels do provide lunch and dinner in a box. Phuket did just have four straight days of rain, but now we've had two straight days of sunshine. 

[mtls2005]

Depends on individual circumstances.

 

Right now, I plan to use ASQ in Bangkok. I live in Bangkok so would proceed home after ASQ.

 

Fewer flights, can choose the flights I want (return/ no open jaw), no excess baggage issues (I'd be returning heavily laden), guaranteed to get home in a timely fashion.

 

Can go to the beach anytime, well sometime in the future.

 

Samui +? Nah. Would suck to arrive in Bangkok then have to shunt off to USM, and back on an ATR-72 with excess bags.

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, DFPhuket said:

I'm in the sandbox in Phuket now. One correction - while bars in Phuket are closed, restaurants are open and serve alcohol. Many of those restaurants "feel" like a bar to me. I've had "restaurant" drinks both in Patong and Kamala. 

 

I had originally planned to do ASQ in Bangkok but changed to Phuket and arrived on July 2. My hotel (DoubleTree Hilton Patong) cost 21,000 THB net including breakfast for 14 days plus 8,000 for the required PCR tests. That was a lot cheaper than a similar quality hotel in BKK - although ASQ hotels do provide lunch and dinner in a box. Phuket did just have four straight days of rain, but now we've had two straight days of sunshine. 

"8,000 for the required PCR tests." Just what is the profit margin here? Is this another of the many ways certain people are using this pandemic for making huge profits? Is there no end to this shameful behaviour? Karma, do your stuff on these dreadful forms of human life.

[Salerno]

17 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

What are guests allowed to bring to the room and/or what are outsiders allowed to bring?

I.e. if I go leave Thailand and return and have to stay in a ASQ hotel: Would it be allowed if my gf would bring me a Nespresso Machine and lots of Espresso capsules? Or is that up to the individual hotel?

In your luggage. whatever you want/normally bring.

 

Outsiders, no issue with your coffee, issue with booze, plenty of hotels allow food/Lazada deliveries.

[Baht Man]

I'm going to Phuket on a direct flight after the jabs in ths US.

Can't do a 2 week lockup in BKK and there are no direct flights to Samui available to me.

[Robs5ct]

 2 days till Samui opening.

Let's give them a week and see how it goes.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I am sure it's wonderful to be in Phuket or Samui on the beach.

The problem is if anybody on the same flight tests Covid positive then the holiday for many if not all people on that flight is over - see link above.

That is the problem, especially if there are only few options for quarantine hotels on those islands.

[Robs5ct]

so the safest way: Quarantine in BKK and afterwards rent a car and drive down to Phuket or Samui.