Govt unveils ‘business class’ quarantine option

[ThailandRyan]

32 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

That sound nice, how much, 2000 baht ok?

 1500 I think

[Silent Number]

4 hours ago, tomauasia said:

LOL no

Ok Einstein you tell me what continent missed out. LOL

[Silent Number]

2 minutes ago, Silent Number said:

Ok Einstein you tell me what continent missed out. LOL

I’ll help you out I think you need help Antarctica maybe.

[Expat Tom]

I am glad that I am here for now but, having said that, my next flight out might be one way. I have been here for many years. I remember when the famous Thai smile wasn't plastic, farang were generally looked down upon and the country wasn't over-run with Chinese people from Wuhan....I long for the old Thailand. I am thankful that I got to experience it before it went down the tubes.

[uksmdh]

Won't be any need.  20 minute on the spot Covid test near.  Seems this little earner will be superfluous.

[SVC Porter]

2 minutes ago, uksmdh said:

Won't be any need.  20 minute on the spot Covid test near.  Seems this little earner will be superfluous.

Either this or test track and trace....self isolate if necessary with regular check ins from Medical workers or the police.

[impulse]

23 minutes ago, Expat Tom said:

I long for the old Thailand. I am thankful that I got to experience it before it went down the tubes.

 

In 20 years, another expat will post exactly the same, referring to today's Thailand.  

 

Anyone contemplating a return to their home country after an extended absence may be in for a rude awakening.  Thailand's not the only place on a slippery slope regarding living conditions and personal freedoms.  The USA I returned to a year ago isn't even close to the one I left 20 years ago.

 

[RotBenz8888]

On 5/21/2020 at 3:11 PM, JohnBZ said:

We do not like this quarantine more than anyone else, but it does provide people who really need to come back to Thailand urgently an option to do so.  This is still the right step in the right direction.

With more hotels joining, they'll probably let anyone in who's ready to pay. Wouldn't surprise me if we'll see travel companies offering packages with complete logistics, including application, flight, transport, hotel, insurance etc. Since there's alot of money to be made here, this will probably become a big business.

[richard_smith237]

26 minutes ago, uksmdh said:

Won't be any need.  20 minute on the spot Covid test near.  Seems this little earner will be superfluous.

I hope you are right about this...  I think pretty much everyone in the world hopes you are right about this.

[scorecard]

8 hours ago, scorecard said:

I just remembered this. One of my Thai staff had a male buddy who was a clerical worker at TG HQ on the road to DM airport. 

 

He had no car or m/cycle (couldn't afford same). To get to work he took an old red rattler bus but got off the bus about 1 km before the TG office, then used a taxi to travel the last 1 km to get to work and same to go home. Every day. 

Why? So that he wouldn't be seem getting off an old bus (any bus) outside the office and lose face.

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, Silent Number said:

I’ll help you out I think you need help Antarctica maybe.

I think the poor penguins have Covid also...

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

Why? So that he wouldn't be seem getting off an old bus (any bus) outside the office and lose face.

zactly

[impulse]

2 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

With more hotels joining, they'll probably let anyone in who's ready to pay. Wouldn't surprise me if we'll see travel companies offering packages with complete logistics, including application, flight, transport, hotel, insurance etc. Since there's alot of money to be made here, this will probably become a big business.

 

I don't see it going mainstream.  Aside from special cases like family reunions and working, very few travelers are going to tolerate being stuck in a hotel for the first 14 days of their stay.

 

[White Christmas13]

17 hours ago, vinny41 said:

 

it clear from the op the person coming into the country pays

However, a third option is available for people who are willing to pay more for a luxury, high-end service. The government calls it “alternate state quarantine”, and is collaborating with luxury hotel operators and hospitals to provide the special privilege.

So 2 star is luxury in Thailand?

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

So 2 star is luxury in Thailand?

Squat toilet, rice cooker, and boiled fish are your luxury items....ok yes being a little bit of an adam henry...figure it out its the land of scraps....

[guzzi850m2]

Well I hope this will further open up for us here with a family in Thailand.

 

My company will pay for the 2 weeks in a hotel if needed but okay not 5 star, 3 or 4 which is fine by me and my holidays will not start officially before I am united with my family.

 

Stuck here off-shore UAE for now.

 

Fingers crossed that they will open up for more groups in July.

 

I don't understand why some posters are <deleted> off that the government offers this option? 

 

When you book a hotel somewhere you have all the options: from 5 star all the way down to 1.

 

So I guess the posters <deleted> off about it are not looking at 5 star hotels when booking but backpacker places (with fan as an extra luxury)????

 

 

[dense dumbpling sepo]

good that they are segregating these poison mind business sickos. wouldn't want to be stuck in their company for 2 weeks, surely a fate worse than death itself

[RotBenz8888]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

I don't see it going mainstream.  Aside from special cases like family reunions and working, very few travelers are going to tolerate being stuck in a hotel for the first 14 days of their stay.

 

No, but there'll be plenty of rooms available for those who want to go back as the stuggeling hotel business need every single Bath they can get. They have to do something while waiting for the vaccin.......? But to attract mainstream tourists, Thailand need to rely on tests on arrival, or their tourist business is screwed for the rest of this year. Maybe Vietnam, Cambodia or Indonesia will be faster and "steal" the tourists from Thailand?

[whaleboneman]

There should be a third option - 14 day quarantine in a soapie - 100,000 baht all inclusive.

[Soikhaonoiken]

It's all about the money, money, money, wealthy returnees can upgrade if you have the money... 

Amazing Thailand.. 

[vinny41]

10 minutes ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

It's all about the money, money, money, wealthy returnees can upgrade if you have the money... 

Amazing Thailand.. 

Its not its about getting people back to Thailand

recently the limit of people coming back has been 300 each day mainly due to limitations on quarantine facilites

Here is one example of a Goverment quarantine facility

https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3080722/scenes-thai-government-covid-19-quarantine-facility-barracks-living-great

Now if you stick with the 300 each day and some 40,000 Thai nationals have expressed an interest to return back to Thailand through the repatriation flights scheme then it will be a few more months before Thailand will be in a position to allow anyone else in such as long term visa holders, families etc etc.

For reasons unknown to us this news site tends to go for sensationalist articles - who knows maybe is drives more traffic

Here is the same article from a different source without the Sensationalism aspect

Hotels and hospitals to offer an alternative to state quarantine

https://www.thaienquirer.com/13367/hotels-and-hospitals-to-offer-an-alternative-to-state-quarantine/

Now as far as I know Thai Nationals have a choice they can either stay in the Goverment quarantine facility or upgrade and stay in a hotel.  There  may be a different options available when Thailand has completed the repatriation flights of their Nationals, they may decided before they fully open up their airports to Tourists that they want to allow Longterm visa holders to return first with their families or to renuite with their familes and at that time maybe the only option will be approved hospitals and hotels. 

The bottom line is more quarantine facilites means they can increase the 300 limit on Thai nationals returning each day which hopefully will mean longterm visa holders and their familes can come back sooner

[DrPhibes]

18 hours ago, dutchweller said:

I have been stuck away from my wife and 3 year old since February.

I doubt I will be returning.

Told the wife to sell everything.

I can gave them both repatriated to my home no problems was give special exemptions.

just waiting for flights from Bangkok 

I completely feel for you.  Have the wife, my 16, 18, and 2 yr old (all by the same love of my life) sitting in our house in Chiang Mai while I am locked out sitting here in California.  Have been in the US since 1/12/20 and was finished with work on 4/15.  Have had to cancel my flight back and face the possibility of not being with my family for 16 months if this stretches into later 2020 when my next work cycle begins.  I would have had them pull up stakes and come to the US weeks ago if it were not for my teens entering the last of their High School years.  They are doing VERY well with school and outside activities and I can not bring myself to upset their development at a time when it really counts for their college prospects (in the US).  Saving grace is living at a time when video conferencing (2x per day) is available.  I have imprinted on my teens over the years that you don't get to pick the times you live in and that you just have to adapt and persevere.

Edited May 22, 2020 by DrPhibes
Grammer

[akampa]

BREAKING NEWS!!

 

"From 8 June, almost everyone arriving at ports and airports, including UK citizens, will be required to travel directly to an address they provide to the authorities, where they must then self-isolate for a fortnight." 

 

quote from the Guardian newspaper

Edited May 22, 2020 by akampa

[akampa]

1 hour ago, akampa said:

BREAKING NEWS!!

 

"From 8 June, almost everyone arriving at ports and airports, including UK citizens, will be required to travel directly to an address they provide to the authorities, where they must then self-isolate for a fortnight." 

arriving         TO THE UK.

 

quote from the Guardian newspaper

 

[StevieAus]

On 5/22/2020 at 8:14 AM, dougiemac52 said:

Such strange attitudes. First there wad the removing of China from the Thailand hotspot of countries list. So lets open our arms to them because they bring money. The country where the pandemic started.

Now because they know they won't have enough quarantine areas they are asking hotels to take on the risk. You really couldn't make this up. Why not allow people who have family in Isaan like I have go back to there for quarantine and is it still 14 days even although you have a medical certificate ?

Or is it like most rules in Thailand, never adhered to. Just hope my wife gets a visa for the US so she can join me here ????????????????

We’ll it’s not only Thailand with your so called “ strange attitudes” Australia was doing exactly the same.

Anybody entering the country was taken under escort by Police, Border Security or the Army to a hotel where they couldn’t leave the room for two weeks.

The idea if you hadn’t worked it out was to stop persons with Covid infecting others

[StevieAus]

1 hour ago, akampa said:

BREAKING NEWS!!

 

"From 8 June, almost everyone arriving at ports and airports, including UK citizens, will be required to travel directly to an address they provide to the authorities, where they must then self-isolate for a fortnight." 

 

quote from the Guardian newspaper

I have a couple of friends in the UK both of whom are in their early eighties one of whom has a couple of “ chronic” health issues including COPD he received a letter from the government directing him not to leave the house for twelve weeks and not to receive visitors.

[tomauasia]

19 hours ago, sambum said:

No money to be made with that one - and you are expecting plod to do something that is not within his "work" schedule!

There is no need to do home checks. Just wear mask at all times go out only 2 times a week for groceries or face a 100k Baht fine. They entered negative and after 2 weeks should be free.

Like Thaksin said it's a mistake. But these army imposters don't like visitors. They want to starve the poor. There finished no hope of election win ever.

Edited May 23, 2020 by tomauasia

[tomauasia]

2 hours ago, StevieAus said:

I have a couple of friends in the UK both of whom are in their early eighties one of whom has a couple of “ chronic” health issues including COPD he received a letter from the government directing him not to leave the house for twelve weeks and not to receive visitors.

What's that to do with this situation 

Edited May 23, 2020 by tomauasia

[tomauasia]

9 hours ago, vinny41 said:

Its not its about getting people back to Thailand

recently the limit of people coming back has been 300 each day mainly due to limitations on quarantine facilites

Here is one example of a Goverment quarantine facility

https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3080722/scenes-thai-government-covid-19-quarantine-facility-barracks-living-great

Now if you stick with the 300 each day and some 40,000 Thai nationals have expressed an interest to return back to Thailand through the repatriation flights scheme then it will be a few more months before Thailand will be in a position to allow anyone else in such as long term visa holders, families etc etc.

For reasons unknown to us this news site tends to go for sensationalist articles - who knows maybe is drives more traffic

Here is the same article from a different source without the Sensationalism aspect

Hotels and hospitals to offer an alternative to state quarantine

https://www.thaienquirer.com/13367/hotels-and-hospitals-to-offer-an-alternative-to-state-quarantine/

Now as far as I know Thai Nationals have a choice they can either stay in the Goverment quarantine facility or upgrade and stay in a hotel.  There  may be a different options available when Thailand has completed the repatriation flights of their Nationals, they may decided before they fully open up their airports to Tourists that they want to allow Longterm visa holders to return first with their families or to renuite with their familes and at that time maybe the only option will be approved hospitals and hotels. 

The bottom line is more quarantine facilites means they can increase the 300 limit on Thai nationals returning each day which hopefully will mean longterm visa holders and their familes can come back sooner

Rubbish lol. Thailand have said October tourists. These poor Thais entering won't be permitted to cost the country money. Laughable 

[vinny41]

2 minutes ago, tomauasia said:

Rubbish lol. Thailand have said October tourists. These poor Thais entering won't be permitted to cost the country money. Laughable 

Can you support your claim that all the Thai nationals returning are poor, they have been working overseas