The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration confirmed on Thursday that travelers arriving in Thailand will no longer require a negative Covid-1 test statement when entering Thailand from tomorrow, April 19. It is now also in the Royal Gazette.
Sumanee Wacharasint, says the requirement for a PCR test no longer applies to visitors arriving on April 1 under Test & Go, Sandbox and the quarantine programs.
Foreign travelers entering the country through one of the programs will receive an RT-PCR test upon arrival at the hotel. They will have to perform an antigen self-test on day 5 of arrival. Sandbox visitors must remain in their designated area for five days.
The CCSA also reduced the number of color-coded orange counties from 44 to 20, while increasing the number of yellow counties from 25 to 47.
The number of provinces designated as blue zones and promoted for tourism has been increased from eight to ten. New are the provinces of Chiang Mai and Phetchaburi.
Want to know more about the entry rules for Thailand as of April 1, 2022? Read this article from the TAT: https://www.tatnews.org/2022/03/thailand-reopening-exemption-from-quarantine-test-go/
Source: Bangkok Post
I prefer to know before departure whether I might be positive so that I can still cancel, so it is mandatory or not: as long as you have to test on arrival, I will also test in advance.
Shana, you are right. You can do that with a self-test. I'm also flying to Bangkok soon and have decided to wear a face mask as much as possible on the plane.
All nice for the show, but if you take out covid insurance you just have to do a pre-departure pcr test otherwise you are not insured. It's in the small print. Will cost you 4000 euros 10 days in the hospital. Have had experience with it so pay close attention.
Richard I have taken out AXA insurance. I've gone through the conditions again, but I don't see anywhere that you are obliged to have a PCR test carried out before departure. Can you tell me where exactly that is stated.
The policy cannot be canceled unless following causes:
1. Disapproval of Visa from the embassy or disapproval of Certificate of Entry
2. The Insured changes departure date and/or arrival date.
*For no. 1. and 2. the Insured must inform to the Company prior to departure date the insured declared to the company unless the Insured can show that there was a reason in the case of delay.
3. The Insured does not have COVID – 19 Medical Certificate with laboratory result within 72 hours prior to departure from origin country or the Insured has the result of COVID – 19 Medical Certificate from laboratory is positive within 72 hours prior to departure from origin country.
*For no. 3. the Insured must inform the Company prior to the period of cover of the policy unless the Insured can show that there was a reason in the case of delay.
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Axa I don't know. Would inquire just to be sure. When I was allowed to leave the hospital, I first had to send in a negative pre-departure PCR test, otherwise nothing would be reimbursed. 60 euros for a pcr test saves you a lot of hassle if something happens. I'm going in 2 weeks and doing it too. And if you have to stay in a quarantine hotel for 10 days, they don't pay those costs either. Only hospital costs.
Thanks for the info Richard. But wouldn't that relate to the period before 1/4/2022? That of those hotel costs is correct, but the quarantine period has been reduced to 5 days. I had an NL pcr test carried out by the GGD and fortunately it was negative. Until arrival in BKK I will be very careful
Me too
Rather do a test in the Netherlands than here.
And why?
If I have done a test in the Netherlands and it is positive, then in home quarantine, possibly change flight.
Take a test here, if it's positive, probably to hospital, or an indicated stay.
For me personally, they may do away with the latter.
Hans van Mourik.
Sensible Sjana, I'm leaving next Monday, PCR test done this afternoon. Now just hope for a negative test result.
If they think that by not making this PCR test mandatory, suddenly more tourists are coming, then I have my doubts.
The biggest stumbling block remains applying for this Thai Pass, and the fact that, apart from the further procedure, you have to take out insurance, which only takes effect if you test positive on arrival, if you have actual symptoms.
With almost all European insurance policies, the costs of a mandatory quarantine in the absence of further symptoms remain at the expense of the traveller/tourist.
Now that the PCR test before the flight is no longer mandatory, you increase the chance that you are already positive yourself, or that you will be seated next to a positive fellow passenger.
If they were to abolish the test on arrival with a mandatory PCR test before the flight, this would be more of an improvement for many.
Who can invent it, or even think that this is an improvement for the missing tourism.555
Those self-tests are all nice, but I have now experienced, among other things, myself and 5 others in my environment that the self-test indicated negative and positive at the GGD, so I don't do a self-test just to be sure and just take the effort to go to the GGD to go
Covid test in Bangkok is a deal breaker for me.
Suspicious rather than naive: when you arrive in Bangkok, you are completely left to the Thai. If things go wrong, you don't know if you REALLY test positive. They can push everything under your nose (result test). A positively tested foreigner generates money.
If you *must* travel then I recommend that you have a PCR test taken here in the Netherlands as soon as legally possible and from that moment on (of course also before the results are known) to avoid people and take a put on a good face mask and try to keep as much distance as possible from everything and everyone.
Richard writes: “All nice for the show, but if you take out covid insurance you just have to do a pre-departure pcr test otherwise you are not insured. It's in the fine print."
Excellent advice: another reason to spend those 100-130 euros in NL.
Soon plan: avoid people as much as possible and keep as much distance as possible.
I just wonder how exactly you do that at embarkation/disembarkation
and customs and security checks at one (or more in case of a transit stop) airport and in between also in the narrow space of an aircraft…
To want is to be able, unless what you want is de facto impossible.
Color
We are faced with enormous costs, due to the lack of tourists.
No PCR test obligation will not change this.
The insurance and the test on arrival will have to be done away with, but that will certainly take some time.
Some jangwats like Chonburi and Korat are elevated from the infestations.
Songkran will definitely not benefit from this.
We are at our wits' end.
There is another solution. Just wait until July 1, then all entry restrictions will expire. Simple right?
Who the hell goes on holiday with all that hassle of fake tests back and forth and pointless insurances and then walk around with such a completely idiotic mask? Well, what a nice holiday! So relaxed. Those who HAVE to go somewhere, yes, ok those are the cigar, they have no choice. But to voluntarily submit to these morbidly tyrannical humiliating restrictions for which there is no medical necessity at all?? Most who apparently don't find this a problem are also 'fully' vaccinated. Well, that makes me happy then.
Isn't that a bit exaggerated? We have been to Thailand in December and January (both family visits and holidays) and it was wonderfully relaxed and a great place everywhere. The face masks are certainly not ideal, but everything was handled quite relaxed, no problem further. If I compare that with how tyrannical it really was in Spain/Italy, among others, and still in China, then Thailand comes into its own as far as I'm concerned.
Dear Jahris,
I agree with Peter. We went to Thailand in December. This was due to the birth of our grandson. We wouldn't have gone without him.
Why do I agree with Peter?
You pay your blue to a Sha+ hotel.
The mandatory Covid insurance does not pay out if you are not sick, and if you test positive it will cost you € 3.000 in hotel costs and you will be locked up for the rest of the holiday.
With all the rules it took us 3 days to get from Amsterdam to Koh Samui.
Thailand is still beautiful, but I find it incredibly annoying to have to wear a face mask in the open air. We really want to go back, but will not go to Thailand again until the Thailand Pass has been abolished. In the current situation with Omicron, those restrictions have become unnecessary. The whole world has now abolished the rules, Thailand wants to reinvent the wheel itself.
Actually, airlines should demand a test. This reduces the chance that you will be infected by a fellow passenger on the plane.
I myself got infected on the return flight to the Netherlands, which fortunately is less bad than on arrival in Thailand.
Indeed Bram that would be a good idea to have a test done by the airline before checking in. That is not only a safe feeling for yourself, but also for your fellow passenger and when transferring at another airport. (E.g. Amstrdam – Dubai – BKK) the same. You must have something to spare for your holiday.
I myself hope to go to Thailand again at the end of December, but have already postponed that 2 times - and otherwise just wait another year Thailand will still be in the same place - Be careful everyone
What does it all matter anyway.
I am leaving tomorrow as a tourist to Thailand for a 6 week holiday.
Nothing else to do there just chill.
3 weeks ago I had corona, so I'm glad that PCR test is no longer mandatory.
Upon arrival in Thailand, I will probably also be tested positive.
Have proof of recovery + vaccinated 3x.
So what !! Quarantine for 5 days and then enjoy my holiday.
Now I still have a holiday (despite those 5 days) otherwise I would have had to cancel my entire holiday.
And those face masks are probably only in the busy areas.
If you go somewhere with a longtail boat to swim then ……….. really not.