Improvements being made to Thailand Pass for convenience of travelers

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Improvements to Thailand Pass services are being made to improve the experience of users and provide travelers with more convenience.

It doesn't need improving, it needs deleting.

[NanaSomchai]

17 minutes ago, peter zwart said:

As more and more countries go ahead towards a more normal situation its just a matter of time before Thailand will. Governments have to get used to the fact again that this "beautiful" tool for repression is coming to its end.

Or not.

 

Thailand is a very unique case, in the sense that:

 

- 1) It is not a Republic, it is a Kingdom, whoever shall not be named on these forums possesses Godwill rights on every aspects of what goes on within his Kingdom including the right to make you "disappear" at any whim.

 

- 2) The Kingdom of Thailand is Worldwide is known for being the criminal hub of the World, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, child trafficking and so on, so on.

 

These new controlling tools they now freshly have acquired in their possession are the very unique opportunity they have been actively been seeking, wanting, needing for years and years to control and curtail it all.

 

Now that they have all that technology at their disposal, they are not even remotely close to letting it go.

 

Thailand Pass is nothing but a poor excuse to use, misuse and abuse the technology they now have at their disposal, afterall why do you think they haven't already lifted it off after seeing the damage done to their economy? They are not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing.

 

Welcome to Chailand 2.0 sponsored by the CCP.

 

[Misterwhisper]

The only real improvement would be to do away with this idiotic "Thailand Pass" altogether.

[NanaSomchai]

1 minute ago, Misterwhisper said:

The only real improvement would be to do away with this idiotic "Thailand Pass" altogether.

Dream on...

[bluejets]

Test and Go....too much expense, too much uncertainty, too much inconvienience.

Will be back after it goes.

[daveAustin]

13 hours ago, John Drake said:

Improve it by getting rid of it.

Wishful thinking. Apart from being the perfect form of control and keeping the minions off the streets, thai bureaucracy just cannot help itself but make things as utterly complex and awkward as possible. A classful of hysterical ADHD kindergarten brats could do a better job!

[vandeventer]

14 hours ago, SheikYabodyline said:

This should be fun.

Travel may be a thing of the past. Just stay at home enjoy the home deliveries  until all this nonsense passes

[PeachCH]

13 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

I believe there is no quarantine for even one day in Philippines and Cambodia for fully-vaccinated tourists.

 

Can somebody confirm this?

Fully vaccinated foreign tourists can now enter the Philippines starting February 10. Main requirements include: acceptable proof of vaccination, valid return tickets, passport valid for at least six months, and insurance with a minimum coverage of USD 35,000.00

 

[malibukid]

13 hours ago, EricTh said:

Just scrap that ridiculous so-called 'Test-and-go' which is a misleading term. The hotel quarantine and tests are ridiculously expensive.

 

I believe there is no quarantine for even one day in Philippines and Cambodia for fully-vaccinated tourists.

 

Can somebody confirm this?

no quarantine required if fully vaccinated on Sri Lanka and only 12USD for Covid insurance.  + Sri Lankans are friendlier 

Edited February 17, 2022 by malibukid

[ArtVandelay]

Maybe everyone needs to stop thinking of Covid as a disaster.   Actually, it's been pretty lucrative for some.   

 

The US - for example - had record bread lines at the same time as record profits on Wall Street.  This isn't a bad time to be in the travel insurance industry either apparently.     

 

And don't even get me started on price gouging . .  

Edited February 17, 2022 by ArtVandelay

[RichardColeman]

14 hours ago, Cherrytreeview said:

I have a horrible feeling that Thailand Pass may not be dismantled for a longtime to come.

I agree, the feeling of importance for the foolish government in imposing this nonsense - unlike nearly all other countries - is far outweighing the need of their own people's survival and well being !

[whaleboneman]

I'm off to Costa Rica for the second time this winter. Online health pass that takes two minutes to complete and if you are vaccinated, no requirement for insurance. Stamped in for 90 days-free. Can do border hop to Nicaragua or Panama if you want to stay longer. So civilized.

[thailand49]

I will continue to follow the programs title name " Thailand Pass " and continue to Pass!????

[cyril sneer]

the lengths they go to scrape every baht off tourists is worse than any other country i've been to (or read about)

[tlcwaterfall]

6 hours ago, arithai12 said:

ok it's excessively complicated, and should be scrapped. However some of your assumptions are wrong. The choice of hotel and price is yours, certainly there are options below 100$. You can have your day-5 test anywhere you want, not necessarily where you got the day-1 test. If you are asymptomatic and do not fall in a risk category, you can self-isolate at your hotel or your own accomodation if you have one.

Good post.

 

"If you are asymptomatic and do not fall in a risk category, you can self-isolate at your hotel or your own accomodation if you have one"

 

Could you please tell me if this is official policy or is it something that may or may not happen if you test positive and are asymptomatic? The threat of an expensive hospital stay not covered by insurance is potentially stopping many people from going to Thailand.

 

A link to the official policy would be appreciated.

[dadadede]

56 minutes ago, bluejets said:

Test and Go....too much expense, too much uncertainty, too much inconvienience.

Will be back after it goes.

It is Thailand , land of U-turns but there was an article on BKK post where the GOVT was seeking to

 

- Cap price of PCRs at 900THB (which is far less what I paid in Italy in January - 150e as there was high demand due to omicron).

- Cap price of medical treatment for no symptoms / mild symptoms to something like 4K for 6 days 8K for longer than 7 days treatment;  allowing to quarantine home.

 

It is still not extremely cheap but it is not as expensive as it is today.

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2264519/govt-sets-covid-treatment-payment-rates

 

 

 

[Mywayboy]

No Quarantine in Australia for international tourist or returning residents. Only need to be fully Vaccinated. 

Come on Thailand get with the program. 

[Derek B]

12 hours ago, Walker88 said:

If I ever go out from and come back to Thailand, I'm opting for the Super Special Bespoke Elite 'Quality Tourist' Thai Pass Plus^2. It wasn't so much that they sold me on the 5 days in the SHA+Plus Mandarin Oriental in the 432,000 baht/night penthouse suite, nor the chauffeur-driven Rolls Phantom with the extended wheelbase that will greet me at Suvarnabhumi for the ride back to my riverfront den. No, it was when they told me the PCR tests will be conducted using a probe that has---rather than having a simple cotton tip (not even Sea Island cotton, by the way)---a shahtoosh ball.

 

One simply cannot put a price on the softest natural fiber in existence.

What is shahtoosh made of?

 

 

 

 

Shahtoosh comes from the short, warm fleece of the rare Tibetan antelope, a species found almost exclusively in the Changtang area of Tibet, on the Tibetan Plateau. It takes four animals to provide enough wool for just one shahtoosh shawl or scarf.

[dadadede]

3 minutes ago, tlcwaterfall said:

Good post.

 

"If you are asymptomatic and do not fall in a risk category, you can self-isolate at your hotel or your own accomodation if you have one"

 

Could you please tell me if this is official policy or is it something that may or may not happen if you test positive and are asymptomatic? The threat of an expensive hospital stay not covered by insurance is potentially stopping many people from going to Thailand.

 

A link to the official policy would be appreciated.

I got messages from the Line Morph Prom about home isolation. All is in Thai.

It is up to the doctor to give green light to home isolation. I think, it is really about:

- you actually have a place to stay in isolation

- as usual in Thailand, insist that you know can do it. They always try to rip you off if you allow them. This is not covid related. I went to Phuket for sandbox and they asked me 300thb per day for an old broken 125 Honda click. I said too expensive. They said 'it is good price kap'. When I said I was a long term expat in the country and I know those are not prices and I would have looked somewhere else they gave me a brand new Honda click 155 at 200thb per day. 

[robert888d]

How they mess around all the time chopping and changing things.Just get rid of it.

[Caldera]

What's mind-boggling is that they didn't use the time when Test & Go was temporarily suspended to make these improvements.

 

Oh, and there seems to be another data leakage issue as well. With sensitive data such as passport and vaccination records, security should be taken seriously. 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, NanaSomchai said:

Dream on...

They will, in their own time. They do not need foreign busybodies to tell them when. 

[JackGats]

14 hours ago, ukrules said:

Yep, it's inevitable that it will one day go.

 

They're not attempting to keep covid out because it's already everywhere in Thailand so I have to wonder why they're bothering at all?

 

This entire farcial procedure which has destroyed the tourism industry is not in place to protect the country from covid so why are they doing it?

 

There must be a reaso

 

Very soon pretty much nobody from Europe will be regarded as 'fully vaccinated' due to the period of time that has passed, what will they do then? Will they start insisting on quarantine again?

Indeed, but that's the EU countries playing games and breaking their promises to provaxxers. It's not something you can blame Thailand for.

[Fairynuff]

With neighbouring countries planning for real quarantine free entry from April ….. do I need to go on?

[BKKBike09]

[renaissanc]

The Thailand Pass reflects the Thai buraucracy's love for documents and steps in a process. It's labour-intensive,  very slow, expensive, and doesn't fit the needs of tourists who are certainly staying away until the Thailand Pass system is removed. It may take until the end of the year before the elderly decision-makers realise that they have made a mistake yet again. I imagine them saying at a meeting with Prayuth: "We're shocked that torusits are not flooding into Thailand in view of the wonderful Thailand Pass system! Why are they staying away? We don't understand."

[Raphael54]

"...new entry pathway called TPHS ..."
" ...comply with Thailand Pass’s Service Level Agreement (SLA)..."
" ...now adding the Thailand Pass Hotel subsystem to facilitate automatic approvals..." 
" Servers are being expanded for this new approach...."
"....a live chat function is being added..."
"... The Thailand Pass Hotel & Swab System (TPHS) needs just 10-15 minutes..."

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[potless]

15 minutes ago, BKKBike09 said:

Does anyone on this forum understand what they are talking about? B******d if I do.

[Excel]

If they really wanted to improve anything they would abandon the whole ridiculous, but money making, process.

[Guderian]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered relevant agencies to mend outstanding issues with the Thailand Pass system and to continue making improvements.

And the relevant agencies are already hard at work on it...