Thailand hopes to welcome tourists to Bangkok, top cities next month

[aussiexpat]

Fantastic news as now I can go back to Pattaya only needing:

(1) Covid insurance 

(2) pre-paid 14 nights hotel

(3) pre-paid 3 PCR tests 

(4) COE

(5) to stay 7 nights restricted to hotel

(6) to only go out of hotel on covid controlled tour groups for 7 days

 

Sounds like a fantastic holiday, so much for the PM saying Thailand will be fully open for vaccinated tourists from 1 Oct ????

 

 

[rabang]

16 hours ago, Will B Good said:

And these tourists are all then prepared to quarantine back in their own countries because Thailand is red listed???????

What countries require that from vaccinated people? UK, China and a few more? My country will let anyone in without a quarantine and tests (provided they have a valid visa if that applies) if a person is fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine.

 

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Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya and Chiang Mai will be added to a programme in which fully vaccinated visitors who commit to a series of tests can enter

I stopped reading here. They just don't understand that genuine tourists won't be jumping over all their hurdles.

[garygooner]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Bangkok's reopening would be partial, however, starting with areas popular with visitors,

Does that mean tracking bracelets. "Sorry Sir, but you can't cross the road. You can only stay between Mbk and Central World"

[aussiexpat]

10 minutes ago, garygooner said:

Does that mean tracking bracelets. "Sorry Sir, but you can't cross the road. You can only stay between Mbk and Central World"

Collars I heard ????

[Ireland32]

15 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

I wonder sometimes if Thailand thinks it's the only country struggling with COVID-19.

 

Its a great time to visit if you are vaccinated and you don't have to quarantine when you get back home.

 

5 star hotels are cheap as they have ever been.

 

No crowds on the beaches.

 

 

 

 

I have been Air b in Pattaya by the month incredible deals and no deposits , so no worry about that , I would stay about 4 months in each place 

[Will B Good]

18 minutes ago, rabang said:

What countries require that from vaccinated people? UK, China and a few more? My country will let anyone in without a quarantine and tests (provided they have a valid visa if that applies) if a person is fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine.

Which country?

[DrJack54]

4 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

I have been Air b in Pattaya by the month incredible deals and no deposits , so no worry about that , I would stay about 4 months in each place 

What would you do in Pattaya? Surely not go for a swim.

[Genix]

Damn I'm in a dilemma... go back to Bangkok Oct 1 or go to Istanbul instead and then do Bangkok around Nov 1?

 

Have to choose one.

[Millcx]

17 hours ago, ukrules said:

This will fail miserably and absolutely.

No mention that this is for 2023 start because it won’t be for threadbare BKK

[Millcx]

13 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What would you do in Pattaya? Surely not go for a swim.

Surely no go to a closed bar

[club]

3 hours ago, EricTh said:

I wonder whether there will be a flip flop and plan change again.

 

Thailand should only open the country when herd immunity has been reached.

I agree 100% but you know they wont wait that long

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

For the second phase of the “sandbox” scheme, he said that preparations have been made in the five provinces, such as mass vaccinations of people and promotional campaigns to attract tourists

Only last week Hua Hin were crying out for vaccinations and this week business leaders said they weren't ready to open.

Someone trying to steam-roller through the  opening?

 

[wensiensheng]

16 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

The OP had heading "Welcome FOREIGN TOURISTS....."

Nothing was stoping you from inter province travel previously.

Take your family to Koh Samet from Issan. 

Your not a tourist.

Try going in and out of Phuket. That particular inter provincial travel is a nightmare.

 

and, sigh, if things are going so swimmingly, when will it be ok for schools to open? If they put 10% of the effort into school Covid safety, as they put into tourists, their kids would be being educated as we speak.

[DaiHard]

7 hours ago, haga said:

They can do it even today .

Simply order medic companies to produce ivermectin and give it to the people.

haha 

im not a horse anyway.

In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases for six decades, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world's most devastating tropical diseases.

[TechnikaIII]

" ... certain criteria."

????

[DrJack54]

24 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Try going in and out of Phuket. That particular inter provincial travel is a nightmare.

 

and, sigh, if things are going so swimmingly, when will it be ok for schools to open? If they put 10% of the effort into school Covid safety, as they put into tourists, their kids would be being educated as we speak.

Don't follow one bit of your post. 

I never said things were going 'swimmingly'. I stated that it has been easy to travel inter province. The guy I quoted lives Issan and I suggested Samet for travel. Nothing required.

 

As for Phuket ....anyone that forgot what happened with restrictions in April + 2020 has a short memory. That joint locked the bridge and airports. I wouldn't go near the joint. 

 

I don't concern myself with kids and the school thing. I leave that to those that have kids. 

Yes your right about Sandbox thing. Complete rubbish. BTW 70%+ vaccinated. Yeah sure. 

Almost as good as the 950k that they claim to jab most Fridays.

[TechnikaIII]

11 minutes ago, DaiHard said:

In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases for six decades, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world's most devastating tropical diseases.

Yep, and on the subject of the Nobel Committee, no Thai has even been nominated for anything, ever. 

[sungod]

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

No alcohol and a curfew, going to be a great holiday.

If those conditions stay in place........

[gejohesch]

17 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

They have no clue what the rest of the world think of Thailand in handling the Covid crisis, it seems. A lot of paperwork, tests required on own costs, danger of if someone in the airplane has Covid everyone has to stay in quarantaine, changing rules almost day by day, travellers coming back in home country in quarantaine or negative  travel advices to Thailand... and so on and so on, but the country will open and millions of tourists spending billions are coming........How blind can you be

"They have no clue" ... "changing rules almost day by day" .... "How blind can you be" : welcome to Thailand!

[TechnikaIII]

Vaccinated travelers arriving with Covid-19 Negative result  should be allowed to go their way, without being subjected to the so-called Sandbox scam.

Vaccinated travellers should not have to pay the full rate of insurance requested. 

In the civilised world, insurance premiums are calculated on the basis of risk. I see no mention of this anywhere in the Thai government's criteria. 

[ukrules]

2 minutes ago, TechnikaIII said:

Vaccinated travelers arriving with Covid-19 Negative result  should be allowed to go their way, without being subjected to the so-called Sandbox scam.

Vaccinated travellers should not have to pay the full rate of insurance requested. 

In the civilised world, insurance premiums are calculated on the basis of risk. I see no mention of this anywhere in the Thai government's criteria. 

What we're seeing is a symptom of governments not believing that the vaccines work effectively.

 

It's kind of hard to tell until we look back on the numbers in a few years time so I guess almost every government in the world is proceeding with draconian restrictions which devastate their economies just in case, Thailand is no exception here. They started dreaming  up these quarantine schemes very early on in the process.

[sungod]

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

What would you do in Pattaya? Surely not go for a swim.

Why not, water at Wongamat beach has never been clearer. Surprised you wouldnt know that from your condo in Bangkok.

[DrJack54]

11 minutes ago, sungod said:

Why not, water at Wongamat beach has never been clearer. Surprised you wouldnt know that from your condo in Bangkok.

I wouldn't bother with Wongamat. 

Yes Bangkok 6 months and pic below 6. 

That's me in the Red T. 

Very crowded place.

[henry213]

7 hours ago, bkk_bwana said:

Man up. It's no big deal and over in about 5 seconds. I've had many tests.

Man up to what? I've had antigen tests no problem but PCR test done by stupid people no thanks, Thai's from what i see do it wrong and when your fully vaxed why so many PCR tests?

 

[rabang]

2 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Which country?

https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/entry-restrictions

 

This seems to be the norm now among the Nordic countries although I haven't studied every case in detail.

[AMFWolfie]

20 hours ago, samtam said:

Plans and hopes. Thoughts and prayers.

Maybe I missed it but with very little open to support these tourists, what would be the point of coming!! Can sit on a beach in any hot country like Antigua which I believe is fully open. Much the same for returning ex-pats like myself. Fortunate to have a home in the UK with the wife who would dearly love to come home to Thailand but what would we do when we get there with nothing open. Need to sort the country and resident population out first without worrying to much about tourists...

[Will B Good]

8 minutes ago, rabang said:

https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/entry-restrictions

 

This seems to be the norm now among the Nordic countries although I haven't studied every case in detail.

Mmmmmm...and fully vaccinated means two identical vaccines administered in the EU.

[DrJack54]

12 minutes ago, AMFWolfie said:

Maybe I missed it but with very little open to support these tourists, what would be the point of coming!! Can sit on a beach in any hot country like Antigua which I believe is fully open. Much the same for returning ex-pats like myself. Fortunate to have a home in the UK with the wife who would dearly love to come home to Thailand but what would we do when we get there with nothing open. Need to sort the country and resident population out first without worrying to much about tourists...

You should have been post #1.

Then the thread could have been closed.

You summed it up perfectly. 

[3NUMBAS]

folks are so brain damaged to even think of a long haul flight

[kotsak]

 

4 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

10 hours ago, webfact said:

high capacity visitors

what means high capacity visitor?

Fat wallets.. ????