Public Health plan for new type of Alternative State Quarantine
The Thai Ministry of Health is coming up with a plan for a new type of Alternative State Quarantine. Apparently people are not confident that tourists will embrace the current rules.
Despite a delay to welcome the first batch of foreign tourists with the Special Tourist Visa (STV), the Ministry of Tourism and Sports promises to bring in 1.200 long-stay travelers in the month of October.
Phuket wants to receive thousands of long-stay Scandinavians
Holiday island Phuket thinks they are an attractive alternative for thousands of Scandinavians who want to escape the harsh winter in their own country. Because southern Europe still suffers from regular virus outbreaks, Phuket is an interesting destination for this group of hibernators.
Reader question: Quarantine in the ASQ hotel in Bangkok
Anyone have experience with ASQ hotels in Bangkok? Will you be required to spend 14 days in your room, or will you be given more room to move?
Thailand will allow foreign 'long-stay' tourists
The Thai cabinet on Tuesday approved the plan to allow foreign tourists who want to stay in Thailand for a longer period of time, such as winter visitors. They receive a special visa for this, the Special Tourist Visa (STV), which is valid for 90 days and can be extended twice to a total of 270 days.
Vietnam's Civil Aviation Authority is working on a plan to resume some international flights from September 15. However, passengers must be quarantined for 14 days after arrival in the country.
The Thai government has plans to gradually allow tourists back to Phuket. This mainly concerns hibernators. According to the Bangkok Post, many Thais are not enthusiastic about the plan, they are afraid that new Covid-19 infections will arise and that the Thai healthcare system will be overloaded.
Reader question: Experience with quarantine period for Thai
My Thai girlfriend is currently here in the Netherlands until October 16. She is already very worried about the 2-week quarantine period that awaits her, and especially the things that are asked about the telephone, for example. She just sits and watches YouTube and doesn't get it.
Finally I can go home. As previously reported, I arrived in Bangkok on Saturday, August 8 and was transferred from the airport directly to my ASQ corona hotel Siam Mandarina in Samut Prakarn near the airport for my 16-day quarantine.
Quarantine hotels for foreigners rather pricey
For a stay of 14 days of quarantine in one of the 34 specially designated hotels, most of them in Bangkok, travelers have to pay a hefty amount.
Who has experience with the quarantine rules in Thailand? My question is, if I go in a prescribed hotel are you free
walk around, swim and exercise in the hotel?
In theory, my Thai girlfriend can come to the Netherlands with a valid Schengen visa. Of course with the necessary further documents such as guarantee, insurance, return ticket, etc. But the mandatory quarantine on return still applies. Now I heard that it is possible to go into quarantine in a hotel designated by the Thai government and then you do not pay accommodation costs?
Reader question: Should my wife be quarantined?
I have heard that THAI Airways will fly back to Belgium from September 1st. My wife had her ticket converted from May to September. My question, is there a chance that she will have to go into quarantine in Belgium and also when she returns to Thailand?
'Six groups of foreigners can return to Thailand'
Six groups of foreigners will be allowed back into Thailand. Some who wish to stay longer will have to self-quarantine at their own expense, said Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesperson for the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
IATA: Quarantine measure is deadly for tourism startups
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has a clear message for Thailand and other governments: "Tourists stay away if they have to quarantine!"
Various blogs talk about “persons with a family in Thailand” can now also travel to Thailand. Does it mean that it is a requirement that one must be married to a Thai?
From July 1, Thailand will relax the travel ban imposed during the corona crisis. That does not mean that tourists are allowed to travel en masse to the Land of Smiles again.