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Home » News from Thailand » Thailand will scrap mandatory quarantine for foreign tourists from November 1
Thailand will scrap mandatory quarantine for foreign tourists from November 1
Posted in News from Thailand
Tags: ASQ hotel, Thailand entry conditions, International tourists, Quarantine obligation
Reuters news agency reports that as of November 1, fully vaccinated foreign tourists are welcome again in Thailand and then without mandatory quarantine. However, a negative PCR test remains mandatory.
First, the quarantine period will be shortened for vaccinated tourists as of October 1. It goes from 14 to 7 days. As of November 1, there is no longer a quarantine obligation.
Tourists can visit the regions of Bangkok, Krabi, Phang Nga, Prachuap Khiri Khan (Hua Hin and Nong Kae), Phetchaburi (Cha-am), Chon Buri (Pattaya, Bang Lamung, Jomtien and Bang Sare), Ranong (Koh Phayam) without quarantine ), Chiang Mai (Mae Rim, Mae Taeng, Muang and Doi Tao), Loei (Chiang Khan) and Buri Ram (Muang).
It is not yet clear what the exact rules will be from November. For example, it is now mandatory to take out additional Covid insurance with a minimum cover of $ 100.000. Whether this obligation will lapse is therefore not yet known.
Well, let them first make it official that it will be 7 days instead of 14 days in the royal gazette and then we'll see. These kind of texts have been shouted since July this year (reopening etc) and it never happened. If it is indeed the case that they go back to 7 days for fully vaccinated tourists, I will fly to Thailand the following week and take those 7 days ASQ again. I thought that was good at the beginning of this year. I wonder what they will do with the prices now. It should now be possible to arrange something around 15.000 bhat. I am confident that I will be back on the plane to Thailand around October 7th. Away from the Netherlands, DELICIOUS!
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Finally light at the end of the tunnel. We are still waiting for an official confirmation, but we still hope that visiting Thailand without a quarantine obligation should be possible next year. Been postponing for two years now, enjoying double later.
So no Thailand for me this winter. I don't want to risk testing positive 2 days before departure. Even if I'm not sick, I can still test positive apparently (asymptomatic). Of course I understand Thailand's position in this matter, but fortunately I still decide for myself whether I want to comply. It remains to be seen how the nightlife will be then.
I wonder what the reopening will look like?
It sounds positive provided there are no snags such as staying somewhere for 7 days and the insurance and the mandatory tests!
As soon as this is gone I will immediately book my ticket 😉
What I don't understand now is that you no longer have to quarantine for the provinces where there are the most infections, and that this does not apply to the provinces with relatively low infections.
Because in those heavily affected provinces, most people (> 70%) have been vaccinated as of November 1. In the less severely affected provinces, that percentage is lower and 70% will be reached later, after which those provinces will also open.
That seems as if the hardest hit provinces are rewarded, but it is also the provinces that give the country the most economic impulse (both industrial and tourism).
Doesn't it apply to fully vaccinated tourists? What could go wrong?
I can still cancel my ticket from the beginning of November for 1 week, I would really like to see official confirmation before then, otherwise don't bet on it 🙂
A real map with all permitted areas would also be very nice, although I can make one myself 🙂 Then I know exactly where I can come from Bangkok by car and not cross a border that is not allowed.
Another negative story.
I recently traveled from Phuket sandbox via Bangkok to Udon by private car. You can travel freely in Thailand. If you stay in a small village like me, the population wants you to get tested first. But after a visit to the hospital nearby, they asked what I was doing. If you are vaccinated twice you can go anywhere.
Groet
Jan
Really doesn't make any sense. Sorry but this is really very old information. You can travel freely from Bangkok to Pattaya or Hua Hin and back. In fact, the provinces are already advertising local (domestic) tourism. If you go to Pattaya or Hua hin at the weekend, you will see a lot of license plates from Bangkok.
indeed, the shouting horns sound loud in government circles of Thailand, first see then believe.
I too have been waiting for this kind of good news for a long time, but you should definitely take into account the fact that it just won't happen, then the disappointment won't be too bad, I just don't feel like being quarantined as a fully vaccinated have to sit down, not for a week, not even a day when I go on vacation.
As long as I can get to suvarnaphum without all the trouble then I'm fine with it, I'll be traveling to different regions by car, and I'm sure you won't just be pulled over by officials who want to know if you're allowed to be there, of course you have to stick to the rules regarding face masks and other nonsensical things.
We're going to hear and see.
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Prayut already said in May/June that the country would open in 120 days. Maybe he still has influence?
It would be great then I can inform the covid hotel that the time is reduced and can recover some of our money. I'm still skeptical for now. Fortunately we still have some time because we don't fly until October 23.
Nope. Prices remain virtually unchanged. I checked this less than an hour ago at 5 different hotels. Sorry, but alas.
According to Richard Barrow, some hotels (he doesn't name names, unfortunately) have already started refunding overpaid days (if you have to quarantine for 7 days instead of 14 days). Then you must of course prove that you have been vaccinated and it will differ per hotel. Little good hotel just does it!
Well Fred that's bad luck. Now you will have to spend another week in quarantine, while the people who will land on Bkk Int the day after your “release” will no longer have any quarantine obligation at all!
Color
Those are good news, finally. You no longer have to be quarantined in the above areas from 1 November. If I understand it, if you go to Chiang Rai, for example, you have to be quarantined for 7 days. I think many of us still have many questions. It will become clearer in the coming days.
Tourists can visit the regions of Bangkok, Krabi, Phang Nga, Prachuap Khiri Khan (Hua Hin and Nong Kae), Phetchaburi (Cha-am), Chon Buri (Pattaya, Bang Lamung, Jomtien and Bang Sare), Ranong (Koh Phayam) without quarantine ), Chiang Mai (Mae Rim, Mae Taeng, Muang and Doi Tao), Loei (Chiang Khan) and Buri Ram (Muang)..
————-If I don't understand correctly, Khon Kean province is still a ,,prohibited,, area?
Greetz
Khon Kean is in phase 2 and that will be December at the earliest.
Udon thani phase 3 will not be opened to tourists until January.
This info was in today's Thaiger.
https://ibb.co/GJTvVWY
OK, I made a ticket
This report in the Thaiger is clearer than that of Reuters.
It only mentions the 7 days and that this was decided by the CCSA. Not about completely lifting the quarantine as of November 1.
The term “waive its mandatory quarantine requirement… in Bangkok and nine regions from Nov. 1 to vaccinated arrivals” was also used in the Phuket sandbox situation, ie an ASQ hotel stay is replaced by a SHA+ hotel.
Thaiger: https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/thailand-reduces-quarantine-to-7-days-for-fully-vaccinated-arrivals-from-october
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-further-ease-coronavirus-restrictions-2021-09-27/
Have already contacted a number of ASQ hotels in Thailand. The price remains almost unchanged haha. So you just pay the 14 day price, but now for 7 days. They just watch it. I'll wait another month. What a sadness.
And then the other measures and restrictions will have to relax. No European tourist will come if he/she is still obliged to wear a face mask, undergo expensive PCR tests, be followed with mandatory 'track & trace' Apps, have to take out unnecessary and expensive Corona insurance and then at 22:00 p.m. sitting in your hotel room with a much too expensive beer from the hotel mini-bar..☹
Dear Martin,
Well well, be a little inventive, eh!
I'm on Karon Beach for 4 days and there is entertainment but damn little.
But that's enough for me.
Find a bar with a “restaurant” look and have fun.
Enjoy touring on the motorbike during the day, and then the days fly by!
Welcome to Thailand
True, I have a hotel on Kalim Beach 2 km from Rayon and there is no question of quarantine, but SHA + paid 340 Euro for 2 weeks for a room with sea view, so the prices are not too bad and if you have booked for 14 days, you can easily change that in 7 days
On Kamala, most restaurants on the beach are open, although it takes some getting used to drinking Chang from a coffee cup
You can also buy that beer at a 7/11 and then take it to your room….you can even drown your sorrows with two beers…
I have already been given time off for the period from mid December to January.
At the moment I don't dare to book yet and will wait until the end of October. It would be really nice if I could go to CNX without having to stay in a hotel.
Tried to submit a visa application today at the Royal Thai Embassy in The Hague, Had to request an online appointment on their site. The FIRST possibility was only in 30 days on Oct 28, 21?
Holy moses that was very disappointing. It might be good to share this on your blog because now I had to
also canceling my ticket for oct 31 so that was a bummer. So if you still need to apply for a visa, apply for a date as soon as possible.
Same story in Belgium. Made an appointment online today at the Royal Thai Embassy in Brussels. FIRST opportunity was Oct 27, 21.
You know that you only need to apply for a visa if you are going for more than 30 days.
Try it a few more times first, sometimes appointments fall through and then you can suddenly go earlier.
We had made an appointment for the 19th and we were lucky that we could come earlier.
Now I'm going to cancel our appointment...
Shocked by your message, so quickly made an appointment for a retirement visa application. I was able to go on October 19. Let's just hope that the rest of the forms are on time. I also want to leave November 1. I only book a ticket when I have all the other paperwork in hand. But just before October 19, of course, the papers could arrive on time. By the way I'm going to sha plus on phuket for 2 weeks and then to cm for a longer period of time
Hi everybody
I'm currently in quarantine for the fourth day,
But here it is not known that you only have a week from October 1.
Is in hotel Amara well can say not pleasant, room 24 high, no balcony no opening window.
And can't get out just for a test to the sixth floor.
Is also not cleaned and no clean bedding, and that for 1200 euros !!
Hopefully that also counts for us here, actually has to be until October 9th.
Good luck to everyone going!!
You have really paid a lot, but really much too much. For 650 euros you already have an ASQ with its own balcony including the tests. 1200 euros… my god. That's why you're smiling in the Phuket Sanbox and then you still have money left over.
The message may indeed be correct.
But what about the condition that at least 70% of the population in the provinces concerned has had two shots?
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2186639/rules-on-travellers-to-ease
It probably still is, but that goal has already been met or reached by November 1. So the government is no longer concerned about that.
The covid insurance is included uncle insurance not that expensive at all. 20 euros for 3 weeks with 500 deductible. This has now been accepted for the 2nd time by the Thai embassy. So don't let that put you off.
@Dennis
I think you are really too optimistic. I would like to know the source on which you base your position!
From what I read from the newspaper, not a single province is yet at 70% and it will have to be worked hard to reach that 70%. There are also doubts about whether there are enough vaccines. We can only hope that it will indeed succeed.
From the previously mentioned message from the Bankok Post:
“Currently, only about 44% of Bangkok residents have received two jabs, he said, adding that vaccinations must be expedited from now until Oct 22 when 70% of Bangkok residents are expected to be fully vaccinated.”
And this situation certainly also applies to Hua Hin (I think it is now at 55%). And here's another post about a county with 56%.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2188739/call-for-concrete-reopening-plan.
According to this article in the Bangkok Post, 90% in Bangkok have had a 1st vaccination. That was on August 27. The 2nd injection is administered between 8 and 12 weeks, but that is based on a scarcity, so it can (and should) also be done faster, provided there are enough vaccines. So if Bangkok has enough vaccines, they can indeed be (well) above 1% before November 70.
But I also agree with you that everything depends on availability and that governments also like to “play” with the numbers.
The link was missing in my comment. Still here: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2171743/nearly-90-of-bangkok-residents-get-first-jab
I hear from my girlfriend that the Thai government has indeed announced this.
So there is no reason to distrust Reuters.
Sounds good for the Thai people because they will finally have income again when the mandatory quarantine ends on November 1 (that PCR test is fine) now waiting for the Thai government to abolish that $ 100.000 insurance.
The insurance policies of the Netherlands are just good, there is no need to add 100.000 dollars (since the costs in Thailand are many times lower than Europe)
Let's hope that like so many we can visit our Thai family again after 2 years.
For your information, the link to the relevant message on Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailand-further-ease-coronavirus-restrictions-2021-09-27/
Moderator: We have posted your question as a reader question.
You must be fully vaccinated. I do wonder how a 10-year-old child is treated. The eldest 2 have had a vaccination, but the youngest, of course, has not.
I do think it will continue. From America to Europe and vice versa it is also just fully vaccinated and 1 pcr test. And they would be wise to drop that insurance story as well. What is the chance that a fully vaccinated tourist will end up in a Thai hospital? And how many tourists would they lose by demanding that insurance? I also don't think they can afford to lose another high season. A number of smaller banking institutions are already on the verge of bankruptcy or have already gone bankrupt. Something has to happen.
Adriaan, which smaller banking institutions are already – or almost bankrupt – exactly?
And how exactly should that work so that the tourism revival will help the smaller banks?
By selling insurance to tourists it will not be according to your suggestions, but how?
Color
It is information I received from a Thai friend in Chiangmai who sees the local news in Thailand daily. But when many shops are closed, they don't pay rent. And then the owner of the store will also not pay his mortgage repayment and interest. That is just one example of why bank income is also stagnating.
I don't know any smaller banking institutions.
But I suspect that your friend will mean wealthy private financiers.
It is not really surprising that they are currently getting into trouble: they are usually figures who charge usurious interest to people who cannot get a loan through the regular channels such as banks.
Despite that increased risk, those lenders (let's say loansharks) have always generously earned money from their dubious lending before corona, often with particularly dramatic consequences for borrowers and their families.
The fact that these lenders themselves become victims of their own greed is only karma and as such need not generate pity in the least.
On the contrary, it is a socially and also economically good thing if these shadowy figures disappear from the scene.
Color
Moderator: Please stop chatting.
It is frustrating that official ONLY talk about lifting the quarantine obligation.
The COE and strict visa rules will be maintained.
So you can't really speak of a reopening of Thailand