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The updated measures for entering the Kingdom of Thailand have been announced and made official in the Royal Gazette, Thailand’s legal bulletin, starting on April 1st.

 

Travelers are no longer required to provide a negative RT-PCR test within 72 hours of departure. However, the RT-PCR test requirement for the on-arrival date remains unchanged. Travelers must have a fully paid hotel reservation confirmation for the arrival date which must include an RT-PCR test, ATK test kit, and airport pick-up. Thailand Pass must still be completed and approved prior to arrival in Thailand.

 

It is noted that some airlines may still require an RT-PCR test or extra documentation before boarding. Travelers must check with the airline on specific requirements prior to boarding.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/03/31/updated-measures-for-entering-the-kingdom-of-thailand-announced-starting-april-1st/

 

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Should be the opposite.  Testprior to flying if vaccinated and boosted and then no testing on arrival.  It isthe locales who pass on the infections.  I returned from the US 30 days ago and 16 days in I was infected with Covid.  Just now cleared it,

So, nothing has changed.

 

I said it before. Thailand is utterly confusing it's hopeful tourist base to the point that the only sane thing to do is just wait a year or two unless you have family or are a desperate sex-pest.

 

This tells me that the people controlling the covid money machine simply can't let go. The nation be damned.

It's far too much compared to plenty of other places.

 

Nobody will come and the rules will change, the only unknown is how long it will take for them to catch on.

Will they ever learn? Apparently not.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...the Thai government is insane. 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Should be the opposite.  Testprior to flying if vaccinated and boosted and then no testing on arrival.  It isthe locales who pass on the infections.  I returned from the US 30 days ago and 16 days in I was infected with Covid.  Just now cleared it,

And you apparently have not died so the question is why even bother to test and all this <deleted> around it.

Another revision that takes us nowhere.

Hmmm....

27 minutes ago, falang07 said:

And you apparently have not died so the question is why even bother to test and all this <deleted> around it.

I was pretty sick for 10 days.  Just before I cleared covid with a negative test I ended up with a sinus infection and now have an eye infection above the same impacted sinus.....worse than the nastiest flu I ever had, laid me up in bed for several days, had the breathing gotten worse then I would have taken myself to the hospital.  So you say I should not have tested and then just gone about my business and walked around infecting others, is that your plan.....

Aaah.  The meaningless update that no one has been waiting for...

The only thing that's changed is the day April fools ????

And even with the government not doing anything commonsensical to bring tourists in and give some hope for the future, construction projects in Bangkok are still going great guns. Of course it's possible that those in government just don't care about the suffering and debt, or just like it this way for some reason (racial purity? fire sales anyone?). But then there's this cognitive dissonance between what the government is doing and the hope that some apparently have that those projects will have some purpose when finished. Or there's just more money that has to be laundered than we can even imagine. (Or there's just an unreal amount of simple liquidity, but that seems more of a Western problem.)

3 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

Will they ever learn? Apparently not.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...the Thai government is insane. 

Car salesman come to mind. they go talk to the manager and change the way to screw you. Nothing will change here. Might as well write off Thailand.

Hard to believe the changes in the last few years. Times have changed for sure. Time to move on.

Maybe I'm just not evolved enough to appreciate the genius behind their decisions

Different day, same sh............

1 hour ago, Enzian said:

Of course it's possible that those in government just don't care about the suffering and debt, or just like it this way for some reason (racial purity? fire sales anyone?).

I think the handling of the pandemic and the vaccine debacle plays a big part in it.  They also need to maintain the antiforeigner feelings by making it difficult for foreigners to get into the kingdom.  If they opened up and Thai people started accepting foreigners and no longer see them as being singularly responsible for covid in Thailand, they would lose a major tool of distraction.

 

With only around 70% having had two doses of vaccine, around 30% at three and seemingly a reluctance to boosters, we have no idea how many Thais actually have/will have a decent level of protection against the latest variant.  Presumably anyone who has only had two doses of Sinovac, not very much.

 

Hoping for change thiough.

You still need RT-PCR if travelling through Hong Kong starting Apr 1. Needless to say, I won't be going through Hong Kong as long as they have silly requirements like that.

So what's the updated prediction from everybody's favourite tourist authority, two million tourists a month from tomorrow?

Malaysia - Singapore border open today at midnight, no covid test, no need insurance, but must be fully vaccinated.... vehicle can cross too .... 

Comparing Covid deaths in my home country (UK) to here, I would say that Thailand have done a far better job. They lag behind in vaccinations, especially boosters but so too did other countries in the region includung S Korea, Japan and Australia, all 1st World nations.

Thailand has announced a staged approach targetting changing the status of Covid from pandemic to endemic on 1st July.

Three more months and Thailand should be fully open for business. Fingers crossed that there are no serious bumps in the road.

The perfect trap!

No test before flight then get tested positive at arrival and end up financing hospitals owned by well connected groups.

The moaners will always moan. If they win the lottery they wil complain 555. It is far easier now to re enter than it was 2 years ago.

Maybe the moaners need a dog with their slippers and a newspaper in its mouth waiting for them <deleted>.

4 minutes ago, mlkik said:

The moaners will always moan. If they win the lottery they wil complain 555. It is far easier now to re enter than it was 2 years ago.

Maybe the moaners need a dog with their slippers and a newspaper in its mouth waiting for them <deleted>.

Perhaps you can explain the purpose of testing tourists on arrival in Thailand when the virus is already circulating across the country?

Arrival tests only have an impact when trying to contain a virus. That ship sailed long ago. Most sensible tourist reliant countries realised this already. 

10 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Perhaps you can explain the purpose of testing tourists on arrival in Thailand when the virus is already circulating across the country?

Arrival tests only have an impact when trying to contain a virus. That ship sailed long ago. Most sensible tourist reliant countries realised this already. 

Is that my responsibility? 

 

For 2 years now all we have heard is whinge ,whinge ,whinge!

 

Dont like it dont come.

 

Simple.

The farang have been wanting less restrictions and once one restriction is removed, the farang start complaining.

 

Can't make this up.

I'm finding this a little difficult to understand. Is this the official version of the changes made? I thought the second PCR test and quarantine were dropped some time ago, presumably this is official confirmation of what is already in place?

37 minutes ago, TooMuchTime said:

The farang have been wanting less restrictions and once one restriction is removed, the farang start complaining.

 

Can't make this up.

Maybe they complain because they removed a restriction that makes zero difference to a holidaymaker who wants to go to Thailand. 

You do realise that as long as they test arriving tourists, tourists won't come, and all those people who rely on tourism continue to suffer? Entire towns remain ghost towns.

That's why I complain. 

2 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Maybe they complain because they removed a restriction that makes zero difference to a holidaymaker who wants to go to Thailand. 

You do realise that as long as they test arriving tourists, tourists won't come, and all those people who rely on tourism continue to suffer? Entire towns remain ghost towns.

That's why I complain. 

If I may add further, the extent to which locals are complaining is much greater than foreigners, and perhaps rightly so!

Meanwhile in Vietnam..

 

https://travelyourway.net/travel-news-03-2022-vietnam-scraps-all-quarantine-requirements-for-international-travellers/

the rest of the world has moved on - Thailand needs to waken up 

 

you cannot milk this covid cash cow forever - comment directed at those who are filling their own pockets and in Thailand there are many 

 

Either open or don't - either lockdown or don't, time to move on and stop this stupid nonsence, tourism generates money for all Thais - but hey who is interested in that - this government certainly are not - personal gains No1 @@@ the rest of you

"New!"  "Improved"  "Shiny"!!!!