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Home » News from Thailand » Pattaya wants to open in October without quarantine for vaccinated tourists
Pattaya wants to receive foreign tourists in the fourth quarter of this year without quarantine requirements, but 70 percent of the local must first be vaccinated.
Mayor Sontaya Kunplome announced this on Wednesday after a meeting about the 'Pattaya, Move on' plan. The city will open fully to vaccinated foreign tourists after more than two-thirds of local residents and workers in the local tourism and service industries have been vaccinated.
The condition is that tourists are not allowed to leave the Bang Lamung and Sattahip districts for the first seven days. Only then are they allowed to travel elsewhere in Thailand.
The Pattaya board is likely to look skeptically at Phuket where about 22 percent of residents have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, while 45 percent have received the first dose. There have been no new infections in Phuket since May 17 among individuals who received two doses, said Kiattiphum Wongrajit, permanent secretary of the health ministry.
Source: Bangkok Post
Finally some positive news, if from October it becomes possible for Pattaya to enter without quarantine obligation, for vaccinated foreigners, many will be satisfied.!!
It seems like yet another trial balloon.
Tourists are required to stay in designated hotels and
must report every 7 days via an app.
Many things are still uncertain. If all the conditions mentioned in the article below are actually necessary, it becomes less attractive to go:
https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattayas-no-quarantine-proposal-needs-more-detail-357213
Can one choose the Hotel itself or are these determined by the government?
The tourist has to choose from hotels that are approved by the authorities
comply with established health and safety rules.
Thailand is only now starting to buy vaccines and produce them itself. With all due respect, they are hopelessly behind. In addition, few Thai people are willing to get vaccinated.
It is very unlikely that 70% of the local population will be vaccinated by October.
We may not even be able to do that even in the wealthy west.
Wishful thinking, unless ... because ... reportedly 90% of the hotels, bars, restaurants and so on are closed, both in Pattaya and Phuket, not to mention the Samui, Samet, Chang islands and given that ghosts are not need to vaccinate, it could well be achievable with a few injections (Bangkok is another given but is not the subject here).
Let's hope they manage to vaccinate 70%, not so much to attract "tourists" but in the interest of the local "remaining" population.
It all sounds nice, but it is yet another trial balloon.
The fact is that places like Phuket and Pattaya have literally become ghost towns: almost everything is closed, bars are for rent/sale and no, I don't think Walking Street, Soi Buakhao, BeachRoad (with all the hussle and bussle) will be back in October . That is not possible, it will be a start and let others test/try it out after 1,5 years of standstill.
Tim Newton from the Thaiger, living in (the quiet part of) Phuket, made a recording not long ago while riding his scooter through Phuket. The images are not very cheerful. The Phuket plan will probably cost a lot, I expect that this will be no different with the Pattaya plan.
I don't recommend traveling to Phuket AND Pattaya, I certainly won't be among the first group... I'm far too unsure whether the money is worth the trip: which bars, hotels, restaurants are open? What if infections are detected (how does the Thai government respond?).
To get an impression of Phuket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbYJOGEgjAE
While I was busy on YouTube, I immediately looked up the following fragment. Of course I know it's just 1 person's guess. On the other hand: I didn't think I'd ever have to experience a curfew, in other words: I'm not putting my hand in the fire that 2021, 2022... will again somewhat resemble my (many) previous travels through Asia.
The video should already start at the right time, if not scroll to 4 min. 05 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNlZgKWflY&t=245s
As for Pattaya, I agree that it is far from what it was before the crisis. But to call it a ghosttown I think is grossly exaggerated. There are still a lot of people walking through the streets here and in the center and the large shops it is even relatively busy. The dark side even has almost the same crowds as before. Don't forget that it is very likely that Pattaya is the city where most long-stayers and expats stay. I can imagine that it is a bit different in Samui and Phuket where people have to rely much more on the real tourists and or hibernators.
As for holidays, I say no. I would certainly not recommend anyone to come to Thailand on holiday, not even to Phuket in July.
Another thinker! Why do the residents and staff of Pattaya and Phuket have to be vaccinated, if the expected foreign tourists must already be vaccinated, and can therefore no longer infect?
No, that's not the case. Even if you are fully vaccinated, you are still contagious to others for a certain period of time. We will only know more and more precisely about the effects of the vaccines next year. https://www.rivm.nl/covid-19-vaccinatie/vaccins/werking
It is deeply sad for the foreign entrepreneurs there. Has anything been arranged for that at all? After all, the Thai government is very committed to its foreign investors. They won't see me again until I can travel again without that fuss. The rules they set are absurd. I hope for Thailand that the Thai variant does not throw a spanner in the works.