.......and 14 days @ £230/night stay in the UK on your return......book my ticket now.

14 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

Is there already the planned transfer option at Suvanabumi Airport? Many airlines only offer Bangkok as a destination and not e.g. Koh Samui. Same with Phuket. There is no long range airline which over Krabi as final destination. Can travelers book the connecting flight seperatly themselves?

To Samui it has to be all in the same booking, you can add the flight to Samui with Bangkok Airways if you fly with Qatar airways. Price when I checked was 2,300 baht, same as when booking with Bangkok Airways directly. Adding the flight to an already existing booking is possible.

 

To Phuket you will have to arrive with an international flight, Qatar Airways recommended. I had an existing booking to BKK that I changed to Phuket, free of charge. 

11 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Sandbox = quarantine no matter how you dress it up, no matter how many countries you invite in.

As I've done two weeks of hard quarantine in Bangkok earlier this year, I must say Sandbox is a much better alternative and as good as it gets at the moment!

10 hours ago, racinkc1 said:

Do you have to fly out of Phuket? Also could you tell me what the SHABA cert is? Do you get it if you book directly with the hotel or do you have to use some site?

After 7 days you will receive a release form, same as those that have undergone ASQ. After that you are free to travel under the same conditions as everyone else in Thailand.

 

If you book directly with a SHA+ certified hotel, they will issue the SHABA certificate for you. Which has a ID number that you use to book the PCR tests on https://www.thailandpsas.com/

11 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

It is confusing and it changes daily.

For Phuket - you must fly direct, Not via Bangkok.

For Samui there is a 'quarantined' transfer route for a transfer to one of the three daily special Samui Plus flights. (No domestic passengers allowed.)

There are also scheduled flights to Samui for domestic travellers. (No International passengers allowed unless they have quarantined in Bangkok first.) The passengers cannot mix and match.

 

There's several flights for this purpose to Samui everyday, not a problem.

7 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Clearly you haven't even looked.

Pics of

Saxaphone bar bkk, and Bebop Phuket town.

 

I could of posted hundreds of excellent music places

He's obviously just been to Bangla road... 

9 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Clearly you haven't even looked.

Pics of

Saxaphone bar bkk, and Bebop Phuket town.

 

I could of posted hundreds of excellent music places

Obviously I've been going to the wrong places!  

6 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

Obviously I've been going to the wrong places!  

Apotheka, Soi 11, Bangkok

Saxophone Bar, Victory Monument, Bangkok

Adhere the 13th, Koh San Road, Bangkok

Would be my go to places in Bangkok.

Saxophone Bar will have 3 artists/bands at the weekend.

Ped's blues band used to play Friday and Saturday nights.

Saxophone Bar will have a mix of mainly Thai's but some farangs.

They have a full food menu and is a great place to take a date.

There are pool tables and TV's upstairs as well.

I always go to see Cottonmouth play on a Wednesday night at Apotheka.

Keith Nolan has a great line up and Deni Hines sings with him as well.

Adhere the 13th is tiny, but the house band are very good.

 

 

10 hours ago, DaLa said:

This is a really important issue in the scheme and one that needs clarifying. The number of instruments is noted ...

 

 

 

but does anyone know what type of instruments are allowed. Guitars are obviously safe instruments , but all that thrashing around on drums can't be good for transmitting Covid-19 and the brass and woodwind section with all that spitting must surely be banned.

Only 5 instruments?  That's going to ruin my act.

9 hours ago, stubuzz said:

Do you need to leave by air or can go by car/boat?

I can go by car/bus and the answer is yes. I just had to look around the website. You don't need to leave by air or have a departure ticket to book swabs.

8 hours ago, Deli said:

no

????

17 hours ago, John Q said:

I'm in the phuket sandbox since September 26th. Will I be able to fly to BKK on October 3rd which is my 7th day? I asked for a certificate and fit to fly document from the testing center when I had my 2nd swab test done. 

It probably will depend who you talk to until the authorities themselves figure it out.  Would be better off to just wait until after the 7th imo.

Perhaps as we get through November and still no tourists, their desperation will cause a moment of clarity and they will drop the Q altogether by December 

5 hours ago, khunkarl said:

As I've done two weeks of hard quarantine in Bangkok earlier this year, I must say Sandbox is a much better alternative and as good as it gets at the moment!

Certainly if you have family/property/business in Thailand or your time is less constrained, it's a far superior alternative. For the actual "tourists" with limited vacation time available, not so much.

1 hour ago, nattaya09 said:

Certainly if you have family/property/business in Thailand or your time is less constrained, it's a far superior alternative. For the actual "tourists" with limited vacation time available, not so much.

But if they are planning to go to the places that are included by the sandbox most of them plan to stay minimum 7 nights anyway, therefore can't I really see the problem. It's moving in the right direction, I rather focus on what's positive but maybe that's just me.

14 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Clearly you haven't even looked.

Pics of

Saxaphone bar bkk, and Bebop Phuket town.

 

I could of posted hundreds of excellent music places

But also thousands of miserable music places.

19 hours ago, John Q said:

I'm in the phuket sandbox since September 26th. Will I be able to fly to BKK on October 3rd which is my 7th day? I asked for a certificate and fit to fly document from the testing center when I had my 2nd swab test done. 

The requirement is 7 nights so you should be good. They will issue a release form (hate the word, sounds like getting out prison) after the 2nd negative test. Fit to fly is not required as far as I'm concerned. Good luck!

Just now, khunkarl said:

The requirement is 7 nights so you should be good. They will issue a release form (hate the word, sounds like getting out prison) after the 2nd negative test. Fit to fly is not required as far as I'm concerned. Good luck!

Sorry just realized you arrived before the new requirements. You might be looking at a 3rd test and the full 14 nights. However at least you should be able to change location within the sandbox.