Thailand to resume registration for quarantine-free ‘Test and Go’ program on Feb 1

[jollyhangmon]

1 hour ago, Crisu said:

What sense does it make to keep the Sandbox program in Phuket ect?

 

Now that test and go started for all countries also with 2 PCT Tests in Thailand, same as the Sandbox, but only with 2 needed hotel bookings, why should someone want to book 7 days in the Phuket sandbox instead of only 2 days with Test and Go in Phuket?

 

Well, that 2nd test after 4 days or more out & about unfortunately presents more than viable opportunity to test positive, omicron is doing it's rounds, the reported numbahs here are bull as there is no adequate testing ... now, officially getting tested positive means minimum 10 days in hospital or hospitel, whateverz ...

 

So perhaps a matter of personal choice or rather readiness to assume risk, I've read a couple posts already where folks say they'd prefer to do the 7 days from start.

[Will B Good]

15 minutes ago, jollyhangmon said:

 

Well, that 2nd test after 4 days or more out & about unfortunately presents more than viable opportunity to test positive, omicron is doing it's rounds, the reported numbahs here are bull as there is no adequate testing ... now, officially getting tested positive means minimum 10 days in hospital or hospitel, whateverz ...

 

So perhaps a matter of personal choice or rather readiness to assume risk, I've read a couple posts already where folks say they'd prefer to do the 7 days from start.

Having spent more or less the whole of the covid pandemic at its epicenter.....Khlong Toei.....I bet I know pick it up in quarantine and end being whisked off to a ßloody field hospital.

[Soyboy]

57 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Has it ever occurred to you that the posters are NOT actually hating Thailand or the majority of the Thai people, but disliking intensely the people who are actually "supposedly" running the country. Those are the people who make the rules and change them willy nilly, they are the ones who are making all the outlandish and stupid claims about how many tourists will come in any month.

 

They are the ones who have put millions of people out of a job, sometimes leaving those people without money, food, somewhere to live and in many cases without hope.

 

The fat cats, the HiSos, the rich, the military who are the cause of it all.

 

NOT the millions of Thais who are trying to make a living the best way that they can.

You could sit down and argue that every country has handled this poorly. I mean if you really wanted to, you could sit and get angry about alot of things that go on on this planet but you just don't. You get on with it, moaning will do absolutely nothing about these problems and you're defending a group of toxic people on the internet that have nothing better to do

[nattaya09]

Wonder if the lads over at CCSA slap each other on the back and do high fives when they put together these byzantine "solutions"

[internationalism]

3 hours ago, Crisu said:

What sense does it make to keep the Sandbox program in Phuket ect?

 

Now that test and go started for all countries also with 2 PCT Tests in Thailand, same as the Sandbox, but only with 2 needed hotel bookings, why should someone want to book 7 days in the Phuket sandbox instead of only 2 days with Test and Go in Phuket?

sandbox hotels in phuket are from 550b double and close to the beach.

The T&G are from 1100b (that figure is from bangkok).

So if you are after 7 days of holiday on the beach at budget and without moving around (checking out before 12pm and checking in after 2pm, packing and unpacking, taking taxi/driving to another hotel), you chose sandbox, which is a very steady, well established option sine 1st July, during turbulent times of delta and omicron.

T&G was suspended for 38 days (initially only for 12 days). So who knows when it will be suspended again and what version 3 will look like 

Edited January 23, 2022 by internationalism

[tomacht8]

4 hours ago, Soyboy said:

You could sit down and argue that every country has handled this poorly. I mean if you really wanted to, you could sit and get angry about alot of things that go on on this planet but you just don't. You get on with it, moaning will do absolutely nothing about these problems and you're defending a group of toxic people on the internet that have nothing better to do

I have also your mind set. 

Just get on with it.

But If u have family here and see what some rules or " not doings from the goverment"  do/did to your family then u will also  complain. That has nothing to do 

with " hate thailand". It.is rather the opposite. 

[Bohemianfish]

On 1/20/2022 at 6:55 AM, overherebc said:

Some do have reasons to return to uk etc, work or family reasons. They are unfortunately caught up in the situation.

True, yes, was thinking of the tourists.

[paul1804]

On 1/21/2022 at 7:47 AM, wensiensheng said:

Singapore….stringent, but not crazy.

 

Japan. S Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia….all seem sensible enough with varying levels of restriction.

 

I haven’t checked every country in Asia because I can’t be bothered.

Indonesia, 14 days quarantine in Jakarta only !!!!!!! The last time I looked Singapore was also a similar quarantine so Thailand is the one with less restrictions! Yes a 2nd PCR test on day 5 is a nuisance but not that bad really. Book your hotel for 5 days or longer right from the start then its not really an inconvenience is it! The only problem I see is many people already residing in Thailand including citizens that are not being tested may be carrying covid and not know it, they pass it on to visitors and the the visitors on day 5 test positive, not negotiable quarantine even if they also have no symptoms!! 

[billd766]

On 1/23/2022 at 8:22 PM, Soyboy said:

You could sit down and argue that every country has handled this poorly. I mean if you really wanted to, you could sit and get angry about alot of things that go on on this planet but you just don't. You get on with it, moaning will do absolutely nothing about these problems and you're defending a group of toxic people on the internet that have nothing better to do

But this topic is all about thailand-to-resume-registration-for-quarantine-free-‘test-and-go’-program-on-feb-1 and not abut any other country. Of course I could go on about other countries and how they do things but that would be in a different  thread and a different topic.

 

quote from you "You get on with it, moaning will do absolutely nothing about these problems and you're defending a group of toxic people on the internet that have nothing better to do".

 

Please quote my post in full and then show me where I am defending a group of toxic people on the internet?

 

 

[Cult of the Sun]

I wouldn't have 'relations' of any sort with the jabbed, so there is less and less reason to go anywhere.. and even less than that if I need a law degree to decipher all the rules.

[meechai]

Meanwhile in civilized world..........border testing for vaccinated travellers has outlived its usefulness
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/england-drop-covid-travel-test-demand-pm-johnson-says-2022-01-24/

 

Quote

 

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Britain will no longer have to take a COVID-19 test, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Monday, as the government sets out plans to move beyond restrictions and live with the virus.

 

"We promised we wouldn't keep these measures in place a day longer than necessary and it is obvious to me now that border testing for vaccinated travellers has outlived its usefulness," Shapps told parliament.

 

 

Edited January 27, 2022 by meechai

[royboy44]

I'm planning to spend 2-3 weeks in Pattaya after flying into BKK from the UK. Can anyone tell me if I'm allowed to travel onward to Pattaya for my PCR test on the first night, or does it have to be at at a BKK hotel?

[delerium]

Many European travellers have already got this omicron variant, with different symptoms. I was actually due to travel tomorrow to BKK under original T&G circumstances but wifeys pre-travel PCR test turned up positive, which was a total surprise because virtually she had no symptoms at all. Better to have a positive test here than in BKK though.

 

We were able to rebook those flights to a later date, but now need to apply for a new Thailand Pass. It was a little bit disturbing to read about the Day 5 test, which to the information published so far, do not take into account if you have recovered from Omicron. To us it's only a money grab, nothing else. Here's hoping that they'd account for those scenarios also, but I'm not holding my breath seeing their track record so far.