Haven't been in Thailand since 2019, is it worth a visit atm? (un'vax'xed un'test'ed etc.)

[flyDelight]

How is the current requierement situation upon arrival at Swampie, domestic airtravel and Pattaya and Chiang Mai? Are there any restrictions?

 

If Thailand is still not the Land of the Free it used to be, I don't mind waiting another while.

 

Or are there any recommended, alternative destinations in SEA? 

 

Thanks!

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[flexomike]

Just arrived a couple of days ago, nothing was asked for on entry or departure. Thailand has no requirements, just make sure the airline that you fly on doesn't have any

[VinnieK]

I would give it a miss for now.

90% mask compliance in the streets ...little foot traffic outside.

Btw...are some hotels still asking for the vaxx?

Other forum members might want to chime in on this one.

Edited September 14, 2022 by onthedarkside
trolling comment removed

[KhunLA]

You might want to give TH a pass.  It would annoy you to no end.  Mask are now a fashion accessory, and never going to stop being so.

 

 

[Bert got kinky]

14 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

You might want to give TH a pass.  It would annoy you to no end.  Mask are now a fashion accessory, and never going to stop being so.

 

 

It's true, I'm currently double masked.

The base mask is a normal market bought mask but the covering mask is a Gucci original. ????

Coupled with my cream chiffon trousers, I'm viewed as 'quite the fashion hound' when shopping around the Pak Nam suburbs.

 

To be honest I haven't been to any tourist areas recently but for my own area (a main market town), I cannot recall seeing anyone outside without a mask on since the pandemic first kicked in.

The convenience stores and supermarkets here still have the temperature check at the doors and nothing has really changed from mid pandemic days.

 

[Sparktrader]

35 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

You might want to give TH a pass.  It would annoy you to no end.  Mask are now a fashion accessory, and never going to stop being so.

 

 

Dont need a mask at all in most places. Airport, train, bus only. 1 temple. Check in hotel.

 

Everywhere else no mask.

 

I dont know what the others are talking about.

 

They ask for vaccine proof in airports.

[Sparktrader]

1 hour ago, VinnieK said:

I would give it a miss for now.

90% mask compliance in the streets ...mass psychosis still in full swing...little foot traffic outside.

Btw...are some hotels still asking for the vaxx?

Other forum members might want to chime in on this one.

Not true. Where you get this from? Make it up?

 

No hotels ask about vaccines. Nobody cares anymore except the paranoid.

 

Hotels want u to wear a mask for check in and in lift. Take it off when walking around.

 

 

[Sparktrader]

2 hours ago, flexomike said:

Just arrived a couple of days ago, nothing was asked for on entry or departure. Thailand has no requirements, just make sure the airline that you fly on doesn't have any

Thailand asks for vaccine proof in airports. The airlines just follow the laws. 

Edited September 14, 2022 by Sparktrader

[Bert got kinky]

3 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Not true. Where you get this from? Make it up?

 

No hotels ask about vaccines. Nobody cares anymore except the paranoid.

 

Hotels want u to wear a mask for check in and in lift. Take it off when walking around.

 

 

 

Step away from the tourist areas and it's a completely different story.

I understand that in Pattaya, Phuket, certain areas of Bangkok, etc, masks are the rarity but this does not go for the vast majority of Thailand.

As mentioned in my post above, I have been in a busy non tourist area for the entirety of the pandemic and since the mask rules came into place, I haven't seen one person out in public without a mask on.

Even within Bangkok, it depends where you are whether everyone is in masks or not.

 

 

[flexomike]

12 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Thailand asks for vaccine proof in airports. The airlines just follow the laws. 

was not asked for certificate when I left Thailand on August 8th or on arrival September 9th

 

 

 

 

[KhunLA]

5 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Dont need a mask at all in most places. Airport, train, bus only. 1 temple. Check in hotel.

 

Everywhere else no mask.

 

I dont know what the others are talking about.

 

They ask for vaccine proof in airports.

Didn't state he needs to wear a mask, simply stated, 'it would annoy him'.  Judging from his OP, just seeing the sheep cowering & complying can affect some folks' 'happy thoughts' while among them.

 

I'm crossed between chuckling & feeling sorry for them.  Just another embarrassing human example of extreme ignorance ... IMHO  Have to laugh, since the reality of it is simply too sad.

 

Simply explains the state of the world, which I try not to participate in.  

 

No, you don't need to wear a mask 95% of the time.  I rarely do.  At the mall yesterday, and didn't bother; Swensen's (2 for 1 Tuesday), Lotus (as usual, no purchase, but next door).  Don't wear at 7-11 anymore, just at Makro (nose exposed).  Makro, being around fresh, unpackaged produce.  The reason I tell myself, though can't get in within a mask anyway.  No real enforcement once in.

 

I read tourist don't bother in most locations, but that doesn't mean the OP wouldn't be mentally distressed simply seeing the silliness of others.  Especially if visiting the metros, Krung Thep and malls, where still screening when entering ????

[VinnieK]

11 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Not true. Where you get this from? Make it up?

 

No hotels ask about vaccines. Nobody cares anymore except the paranoid.

 

Hotels want u to wear a mask for check in and in lift. Take it off when walking around.

 

 

Some hotels were demanding the vax a year ago.

Btw...have you checked into one in the past year and a half or just making stuff up?

Obviously,the more ppl give info on this issue the better.

 

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[Sparktrader]

11 hours ago, VinnieK said:

Some hotels were demanding the vax a year ago.

Btw...have you checked into one in the past year and a half or just making stuff up?

Obviously,the more ppl give info on this issue the better.

 

1 year ago 555

Whole world changed in 3 months

 

A year ago many people no vaccine at all now most have

 

I went to 6 towns, 3 flights, 1 bus, 2 trains, 8 hotels

 

Most places no mask

 

Even on planes leave around neck nobody cares

 

Keep mask in pocket, take vaccine proof for airport thats it

[Sparktrader]

9 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

Btw...have you checked into one in the past year and a half or just making stuff up?

In thailand now

Where r u? Obviously not here

[roo860]

2 hours ago, VinnieK said:

I would give it a miss for now.

90% mask compliance in the streets ...mass psychosis still in full swing...little foot traffic outside.

Btw...are some hotels still asking for the vaxx?

Other forum members might want to chime in on this one.

Arrived on 3rd Sept from Manchester via dubai, no vax certificate asked for, hotel in bkk, nothing asked for, sky train advise you wear a mask. 

[Sparktrader]

12 minutes ago, flexomike said:

was not asked for certificate when I left Thailand on August 8th or on arrival September 9th

 

 

 

 

Staff are pretty loose

They are supposed to

[Sparktrader]

19 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Step away from the tourist areas and it's a completely different story.

I understand that in Pattaya, Phuket, certain areas of Bangkok, etc, masks are the rarity but this does not go for the vast majority of Thailand.

As mentioned in my post above, I have been in a busy non tourist area for the entirety of the pandemic and since the mask rules came into place, I haven't seen one person out in public without a mask on.

Even within Bangkok, it depends where you are whether everyone is in masks or not.

 

 

Nonsense

I was Isaan 2 weeks

Never bothered with masks

 

Went to 4 towns nobody cares

 

Where does your info come from? Bkk only?

 

I never sent to bkk

 

Phuket no problem

Cm no problem

Isaan no problem

 

 

[roo860]

32 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Dont need a mask at all in most places. Airport, train, bus only. 1 temple. Check in hotel.

 

Everywhere else no mask.

 

I dont know what the others are talking about.

 

They ask for vaccine proof in airports.

Flew back to chiang mai on 5th Sept with Airasia, no vaccination certificate required on check in.

[Sparktrader]

4 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

rules came into place, I haven't seen one person out in public without a mask on.

Thats a personal choice. Nothing to do with laws. Most in Isaan no masks. Bkk population is high, lots of paranoid people there.

[Bert got kinky]

Just now, Sparktrader said:

Nonsense

I was Isaan 2 weeks

Never bothered with masks

 

Went to 4 towns nobody cares

 

Where does your info come from? Bkk only?

 

I never sent to bkk

 

Phuket no problem

Cm no problem

Isaan no problem

 

 

 

OK, I actually live here, away from the tourist areas and I'm just telling you what it is like here.

Why would I want to lie about the current local mask situation?

Have you been around or stayed in my area (a main market town in Samutprakarn)?

 

If I walk outside of my office now, out onto the main road running through the area, I can guarantee that just like yesterday and the previous 600 days, everyone (and I do mean everyone) will be wearing a mask.

How can what I see in front of me, with my own eyes, be nonsense?

Also, other posters who live here are posting the same story.

 

Please note that I did acknowledge that the tourist areas will be different, why don't you open your mind up to the fact that the places in Thailand that you haven't visited might not be the same as the places that you have actually visited?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sparktrader]

6 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

How can what I see in front of me, with my own eyes, be nonsense?

Also, other posters who live here

Because its 1 town

Because its not law but rather personal choice

 

Have u been in isaan this week? No

 

Phuket? No

Cm? No

 

Tourists need to care about laws not count the no of mask wearers

 

 

[Bert got kinky]

 

11 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Because its 1 town

Because its not law but rather personal choice

 

Have u been in isaan this week? No

 

Phuket? No

Cm? No

 

Tourists need to care about laws not count the no of mask wearers

 

 

 

You have very limited knowledge of Thailand, You don't even realize how big and busy Samutprakarn is.

You haven't been to the non tourist areas in Bangkok (the places where the locals live).

You are clueless about Thailand outside of a couple of back-water villages and tourist areas (Phuket, CM).

Just a clueless tourist who thinks that he knows Thailand than the ex-pats who live here.

 

[mnomad]

Thais are still pretending its the black plague, compliance in bangkok is higher than 95%, I would go a surrounding country instead for now heard Vietnam is pretty much back to normal, there's a very small hope it changes here on the 1st October if government downgrade causes the news presenters and influencers to demask but it's more probable Thailand remains a mask mecca into 2023

[KhunBENQ]

20 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

Also, other posters who live here are posting the same story.

True. Like it or not.

I stopped silly mask wearing on the bike but also have to accept grannys on bicycles with mask!

Lotus Makro all masked.

Of course mask in all government, banks etc 

 

And from the OP I suggest: find another country. Not only for the mask topic.

Land of the free?

Haha

8 years under the rule of a coup general.

 

 

Edited September 14, 2022 by KhunBENQ

[Sparktrader]

18 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

Please note that I did acknowledge that the tourist areas will be different, why don't you open your mind up to the fact that the places in Thailand that you haven't visited might not be the same as the places that you have actually visited?

 

Only Thai covid laws matter which are normally countrywide.

 

Whether 10% or 90% of locals where a mask is not important.

 

Why would a tourist care about stuff that isnt important?

[AsianAtHeart]

I'm in north-central Thailand, not a tourist area.  About half the people here go without masks outdoors.  No one expresses any negativity regarding the fact that I am not wearing one.  I walk into Makro and BigC without a mask, no problem--even though, in those places, it is very rare to go without.  It's not mandatory, and they don't attempt to enforce it.  Except when visiting a very sick friend in the hospital recently who is basically on life support, I haven't worn a mask in months (and I wore the mask there for my friend's comfort--not for my own protection).

 

I've never been asked anywhere about the vaccine, but I haven't stayed in hotels or gone to any airports.  I'm aware of unvaxxed friends who have traveled abroad and back, passing through quarantine upon their return, but that was before quarantines were lifted.  I don't know what requirements might be in place now for the unvaxxed.

 

Regarding covid--it's still spreading like the common flu around here.  Everyone will eventually be exposed, no doubt.  I've had it, but every time I'm around someone who's fresh with it, it seems that some of the sniffles recur (fortunately not much beyond that)--and it matters not whether one is wearing a mask or not, the contagion goes right through these paper masks. 

[Sparktrader]

2 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

You have very limited knowledge of Thailand, You don't even realize how big and busy Samutprakarn is.

You haven't been to the non tourist areas in Bangkok (the places where the locals live).

You are clueless about Thailand outside of a couple of back-water villages and tourist areas (Phuket, CM).

Just a clueless tourist who thinks that he knows Thailand than the ex-pats who live here.

 

Pointless in talking if you are not listening.

 

Wrong. Ive been to bkk 20 times. Spent heaps of time in non tourist areas.

 

Your info is based on "personal choice" not Thai laws

 

I speak Thai, married Thai over 15 years.

 

I care about Thai laws not whether Somchai likes masks or not.

 

1 which thai laws say tourists have to wear masks all the time, point out the legislation

 

2 which thai laws say tourists have to show vaccine proof in hotels or bars?

 

Dont tell me you saw 99/100 people wearing a mask in a street. Thats not important.

 

People sitting in airport no mask!

 

 

[Sparktrader]

9 minutes ago, mnomad said:

Thais are still pretending its the black plague, compliance in bangkok is higher than 95%, I would go a surrounding country instead for now heard Vietnam is pretty much back to normal, there's a very small hope it changes here on the 1st October if government downgrade causes the news presenters and influencers to demask but it's more probable Thailand remains a mask mecca into 2023

Outside bkk no issues

 

Nobody cares hardly

 

Avoid bkk perhaps

[Padthaigoong]

41 minutes ago, roo860 said:

Flew back to chiang mai on 5th Sept with Airasia, no vaccination certificate required on check in.

Was that a domestic flight ?

[Sparktrader]

4 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Just a clueless tourist who thinks that he knows Thailand than the ex-pats who live here.

Why would an expat in cm be an expert on trang?

 

A tourist who went there 3 times would know more than an expat who never went.

 

I wouldnt ask a Thai who lives in Phitsanulok to know much about Koh Chang unless they went there.

 

Don't know why farangs who live in Thailand think they know everything.