Thailand’s Tourism Ministry Reduces Mandatory Stay under Phuket “Sandbox” to 7 Days

[Dialemco]

Most of the comments are criticisms  without any realistic alternative ideas. Making Phuket a hub for International tourist arrivals and reducing compulsory stay to 7 days is a good way to enter Samui afterwards provided all restrictions lifted in Samui

[Pracha Duang]

2 hours ago, inThailand said:

You don't live here or were here last year when they locked us down with no booze sales? History will repeat its self. 

Lmao about no booze sales. The question is, do you actually live here? Duty free Booze has been readily available via third party sellers on Facebook that smuggle it in and via Wishbeer throughout the entirety of covid. I literally was ordering full pallets of wine and kegs of beer off Facebook and Wish and having them delivered to my house in Phuket from Bangkok ( free delivery too ). Whenever they “ban alcohol” in Thailand, you can also just order Grab food delivery and have the Grab guy go buy wine at Central or beer at 711. You just pay him cash outside of Grab + a little tip. And tbh, most restaurants in Phuket never stopped serving alcohol. You just need to know how to ask. They serve it to you in foam cups.

 

I swear a lot of people on here don’t actually live in Thailand. If you think it’s difficult to get alcohol in Thailand…yikes. 
 

Honestly, covid has upped Thailand’s online delivery game in a big way. I literally just do everything online now and have it delivered for a few baht. It’s also great because all the farms and fisherman have moved to Facebook too. So you can order fresh produce and ocean catch directly from the source at like an 80% discount. I now have this local fisherman, he just goes out in the ocean every morning and catches me Jumbo Tiger Prawn and sea bass daily. 500 baht for 1kg of Tiger Prawn. Would cost 2500 baht at Central and 4000 baht at a Phuket eatery. 
 

And I’m ordering fresh organic produce online directly from the farmers in Krabi and they deliver it to me every two days. It’s so insanely cheap compared to buying organic from Central or Villa. I’m like buying 10kg organic veggies a week for 2000 baht or something. It’s pennies compared to store bought ( prob 20,000 baht for 10kg ). And the store bought isn’t even fresh.

 

Seems like those that aren’t tech savvy and don’t understand how to use online shopping are missing out in a big way. But I mean…alcohol has never been difficult to get here. Never. 

[hotandsticky]

1 hour ago, dougiemac52 said:

Why would have to be pretty stupid to think that. It would seem that conditions that are decided get changed as the days go on. When will they realise that the number of cases in a week will continue to rise unless they do something about it !!

 

 

With vaccination  the number of cases is largely irrelevant. Deaths are the important measure.

 

The sooner we learn to live with Covid the sooner we get back to something resembling normality. The Phuket Sandbox is in experiment for that.

[Mickmouse1]

Here in Brunei the last local case was reported on 7th May 2020. 

March 27th Last year all borders and airport were closed.

Till now we are 100% safe and fully vaccinated .Yet no one is allowed in or out without a special exit permit from PMO.

DRIVING ME INSANE BUT SAFE.

GOOD LUCK U GUYS IN THE LOS????????

[Caldera]

Spreading the thin harvest of tourists even thinner...

 

[kennw]

17 hours ago, CALSinCM said:

Cases go up; mandatory stay goes down.

Is there anyone manning the bridge?  Honestly.
 

Exactly, logic in reverse.

[raccos21]

[Boedog]

5 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Hotdoggy,  the lunatics are running the asylum! 

 

They are not running it they have escaped 

[PETERTHEEATER]

5 hours ago, sezze said:

"Mr. Phlipat added that Hua Hin district, in Prachuap Khiri Khan, and Cha-am in Phetchaburi province are expected to welcome foreign tourists from October 1st. Bangkok and Pattaya, which are still "dark red" zones, will remain closed until the fourth quarter. Buri Ram province will also remain closed, with the cancellation of the Thailand Motorcycle Grand Prix. "

Can somebody inform me when October 1st some zones will open , and Bangkok and Pattaya will remain closed until FOURTH QUARTER ? Now forgive me for being stupid but 4th q in my book starts October 1st .

 

5 hours ago, sezze said:

"Mr. Phlipat added that Hua Hin district, in Prachuap Khiri Khan, and Cha-am in Phetchaburi province are expected to welcome foreign tourists from October 1st. Bangkok and Pattaya, which are still "dark red" zones, will remain closed until the fourth quarter. Buri Ram province will also remain closed, with the cancellation of the Thailand Motorcycle Grand Prix. "

Can somebody inform me when October 1st some zones will open , and Bangkok and Pattaya will remain closed until FOURTH QUARTER ? Now forgive me for being stupid but 4th q in my book starts October 1st .

Their calendar comes from the same printer as the TAT forecasts.

[gejohesch]

5 hours ago, Surasak said:

One would be better off in the Ark! Remember, the Ark was built by ametures. The Titanic was built by professionals.

"ametures"??? Let me go to Google Translate ....

[Espanol]

6 hours ago, sezze said:

"Mr. Phlipat added that Hua Hin district, in Prachuap Khiri Khan, and Cha-am in Phetchaburi province are expected to welcome foreign tourists from October 1st. Bangkok and Pattaya, which are still "dark red" zones, will remain closed until the fourth quarter. Buri Ram province will also remain closed, with the cancellation of the Thailand Motorcycle Grand Prix. "

Can somebody inform me when October 1st some zones will open , and Bangkok and Pattaya will remain closed until FOURTH QUARTER ? Now forgive me for being stupid but 4th q in my book starts October 1st .

 

He probably means "sometime in the fourth quarter". For instance, December 31st.  ????

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by Espanol

[Espanol]

5 hours ago, inThailand said:

Nope.

The Captain abandoned the sinking ship a long time ago. 

 

 

Actually, he lives in Europe now.

 

 

[Espanol]

3 hours ago, Pracha Duang said:

So you can order fresh produce and ocean catch directly from the source at like an 80% discount. I now have this local fisherman, he just goes out in the ocean every morning and catches me Jumbo Tiger Prawn and sea bass daily. 500 baht for 1kg of Tiger Prawn. Would cost 2500 baht at Central and 4000 baht at a Phuket eatery. 
 

And I’m ordering fresh organic produce online directly from the farmers in Krabi and they deliver it to me every two days. It’s so insanely cheap compared to buying organic from Central or Villa. I’m like buying 10kg organic veggies a week for 2000 baht or something. It’s pennies compared to store bought ( prob 20,000 baht for 10kg ). And the store bought isn’t even fresh.

 

Tanks for the advice.

 

Having links to those retailers would be great.

 

 

[DBath]

17 hours ago, Espanol said:

Since tourists are not the source of Covid-19, but local transmission, may be they want to take them out from Phuket to a safer place before they get infected. ????

Whatever TAT’s reasoning is, you can bet it’s half-baked and not well thought through. 

[Gottfrid]

7 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

You would have to be pretty stupid to think that.

But, then everything is as normal as it can be here, right?

[chalawaan]

My preferred mandatory stay for a vaccinated law abiding and negative person is no days nowhere. Seems sane and reasonable to me.

[ChC1]

Thailand really needs look at its competitors:

1, Mexico (for Americans): one test before departure, simple online health questionnaire, no vaccine certificate required, no health insurance requirement, no quarantine, no check on arrival, no hotel requirement, no need to download tracking app.

2, Maldives (for wealth diaspora from Europe and Middle East) : One test before departure, simple online registration, no vaccine certificate required, no health insurance requirement, no quarantine, no check on arrival, required hotel booking but no check, no need to download tracking app.

3, Spain/Portugal/Greece (for middle and lower chunk of European tourists) : Most cases only vaccine certificate required if from non-EU country. Most cases online registration if from non-EU country without the need to upload hotel booking, vaccine certificate, no insurance requirement, no quarantine in most cases, no check on arrival for Covid, no need to download tracking app.

4, UAE (for some middle and upper class European tourists) : Online form needed but no need to upload evidence. PCR required before departure, no arrival tests unless you are from countries of concern, tracking app needed for Dubai, no physical checks on which hotel you booked and move freely once in Dubai.

 

So no, I am still not coming. Maldives is closer and nicer.

[Robs5ct]

Proposal

 

Open up the whole country for tourists. No quarantine, no mandatory vaccination.

Why ?

17000 cases daily. Raising. Next week probably 25000. Before it gets better in 4 weeks - according to the 

PM - I think it's likely to reach 50000. Neither Phuket nor Samui couldn't stop new infections.

 

The few imported cases from the tourists do not really count anymore. Do they ?

 

 

[riclag]

Petri Phuket is one the safest places to be in Thailand !

I remember back in April Issan was, until they started letting people come back to their villages from the red zones !

Why doesn't the govt start sending some of the sick out to Petri Phuket  and share the gift that keeps on giving !

[Espanol]

"The plan for tourists to island-hop after a seven-day stay in Phuket, only recently approved, has already been put off due to the recent spread of the virus, TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said."

 

PUBLISHED : 29 JUL 2021 AT 17:54

 

????????????????????

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by Espanol

[FarangJon]

I only smell one thing and that is incompetence and despair.

[Espanol]

5 hours ago, FarangJon said:

I only smell one thing and that is incompetence and despair.

Those are 2 things ????

[Captain Monday]

On 7/29/2021 at 10:50 AM, Pracha Duang said:

Lmao about no booze sales. The question is, do you actually live here? Duty free Booze has been readily available via third party sellers on Facebook that smuggle it in and via Wishbeer throughout the entirety of covid. I literally was ordering full pallets of wine and kegs of beer off Facebook and Wish and having them delivered to my house in Phuket from Bangkok ( free delivery too ). Whenever they “ban alcohol” in Thailand, you can also just order Grab food delivery and have the Grab guy go buy wine at Central or beer at 711. You just pay him cash outside of Grab + a little tip. And tbh, most restaurants in Phuket never stopped serving alcohol. You just need to know how to ask. They serve it to you in foam cups.

 

I swear a lot of people on here don’t actually live in Thailand. If you think it’s difficult to get alcohol in Thailand…yikes. 
 

Honestly, covid has upped Thailand’s online delivery game in a big way. I literally just do everything online now and have it delivered for a few baht. It’s also great because all the farms and fisherman have moved to Facebook too. So you can order fresh produce and ocean catch directly from the source at like an 80% discount. I now have this local fisherman, he just goes out in the ocean every morning and catches me Jumbo Tiger Prawn and sea bass daily. 500 baht for 1kg of Tiger Prawn. Would cost 2500 baht at Central and 4000 baht at a Phuket eatery. 
 

And I’m ordering fresh organic produce online directly from the farmers in Krabi and they deliver it to me every two days. It’s so insanely cheap compared to buying organic from Central or Villa. I’m like buying 10kg organic veggies a week for 2000 baht or something. It’s pennies compared to store bought ( prob 20,000 baht for 10kg ). And the store bought isn’t even fresh.

 

Seems like those that aren’t tech savvy and don’t understand how to use online shopping are missing out in a big way. But I mean…alcohol has never been difficult to get here. Never. 

Nothing wrong with patronizing local farms and fisherman but buying contraband alcohol from known smugglers is beyond the pale of decency, probably a chargeable crime.

[Stargeezr]

I will not be going to Thailand via the Phuket sand trap or otherwise

until the rules and other factors are way different. Same for the USA

or anywhere that the COVID virus is still spiking. My guess is maybe

November 2022, conditions will be better.

Geezer