What is it really like to stay in an Alternative State Quarantine in Thailand?

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What is it really like to stay in an Alternative State Quarantine in Thailand?

By Kristin Mariano

TD Editor

 

 

Everyone travelling to Thailand has to undergo mandatory quarantine in Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) and travellers must book the hotel for isolation prior to their travel.

 

Some tourists hesitate in visiting countries that implement quarantine rules. Being prepared and knowing what to expect during your stay can ease stress and frustration while in isolation.

 

While rules may vary on each property but they follow a similar timeline, according to Royal Vacation. Upon arrival at the airport, the hotel will provide a one-way transfer to their property. Travellers will have to stay in their rooms for three to four days until the first COVID test is conducted. If the result is negative, you may have limited access to some of the hotel facilities for around one hour daily.

 

A second COVID test will be conducted around Day 12. If any of the results is positive, the health department will be contacted. If the result is still negative, you are then allowed to go on to your planned itinerary and enjoy your trip.

 

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[ourmanflint 2,473]

Somebody should have a word with the picture editor, it's hardly relevant

[scorecard 21,113]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

What is it really like to stay in an Alternative State Quarantine in Thailand?

By Kristin Mariano

TD Editor

 

 

Everyone travelling to Thailand has to undergo mandatory quarantine in Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) and travellers must book the hotel for isolation prior to their travel.

 

Some tourists hesitate in visiting countries that implement quarantine rules. Being prepared and knowing what to expect during your stay can ease stress and frustration while in isolation.

 

While rules may vary on each property but they follow a similar timeline, according to Royal Vacation. Upon arrival at the airport, the hotel will provide a one-way transfer to their property. Travellers will have to stay in their rooms for three to four days until the first COVID test is conducted. If the result is negative, you may have limited access to some of the hotel facilities for around one hour daily.

 

A second COVID test will be conducted around Day 12. If any of the results is positive, the health department will be contacted. If the result is still negative, you are then allowed to go on to your planned itinerary and enjoy your trip.

 

Full story: https://www.traveldailymedia.com/what-is-it-really-like-to-stay-in-an-alternative-state-quarantine-in-thailand/

 

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"A second COVID test will be conducted around Day 12. If any of the results is positive, the health department will be contacted. If the result is still negative, you are then allowed to go on to your planned itinerary and enjoy your trip."

 

That paragraph just generates confusion rather than specific clear & correct detail.

 

The paragraph can be interpreted that test 2 is day 12, negative report then resume your trip. Not mentioned is whether the report is given on day 12 or day 13, but also could be day 14? But people would expect that given there are now many tests which give a result within hours even at 15 minutes, the report would be fast.

 

Many other reports say that if there are 2 negative reports then release from the hotel is on day 15.

Edited November 25, 2020 by scorecard

[Justgrazing 19,558]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Travellers will have to stay in their rooms for three to four days until the first COVID test is conducted. If the result is negative, you may have limited access to some of the hotel facilities for around one hour daily.

 

on a leash with a tracker necklace and being shadowed by a drone .. 

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

. If the result is still negative, you are then allowed to go on to your planned itinerary and enjoy your trip.

 

As above but a longer leash and probably with snitches all over the place to grass you up the moment you sneeze .. 

 

Pass the box of snakes I'd rather sit in that .. 

[Elkski 1,507]

ARE thai people required to take a covid test 72 hours to flights back to Thailand.     How are so many foriegnets testing positive in quarantine?   Getting it on the flight?

[Elkski 1,507]

And what of test negative?    Then tell us what happens.  Once again  a half  written article.    What is happening with journalism? 

[quake 1,129]

No beer

No Ladies.

Most people only get a few weeks holiday a year. spend it mostly in quarantine

Why bother coming here. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 2020 by quake

[Don Chance 910]

First of you can't leave your room. You won't be relaxing by the pool!

 

Personally I think quarantine will be terrible. After 25 or more hours on a plane, paranoid of getting sick, the last thing you want to do is stay in your room. Maybe a quick nap. But to be stuck inside for 14 more days! I think not.

I think there is significant risk traveling on a plane for 25 hours. I don't think i will be taking it until a vaccine is in my arm.

[night_rider 26]

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48 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

on a leash with a tracker necklace and being shadowed by a drone ..

 

To be clear the drone is there to document your holiday. At the conclusion you'll be offered several packages of video and photos of your holiday for purchase. If you don't wish to purchase, your spouse back at home may be offered the footage for a price.

 

[ChrisY1 11,847]

"Some tourists hesitate in visiting countries that implement quarantine rules"

Only some tourists???

 

[anchadian 1,920]

This is news?

[AmySeeker 298]

THE BIG DANGER and red herring in the room - if you test positive in quarantine (you could pick up the virus on the plane, the days after your last PCR test in your home country) you will be spending weeks in a miserable hospital ... isolated. 

 

This could go on for a further two weeks (or more) - till you post two negative tests 5 days apart. 

 

Theoretically you could be isolated for about a month. 

 

We read on here about daily cases of people getting positive during quarantine. Unless you have family in Thailand you must really be brave to risk this. 

[canuckamuck 30,512]

Yes the hospitalization of asymptomatic people is crazy and a big risk to the traveler. Instead of being safe in an ASQ , they are subjected to the Thai hospital system and have to pay through the teeth for it. What's the point of paying for quarantine when they won't let you use it for for quarantine?

[AmySeeker 298]

1 hour ago, Elkski said:

ARE thai people required to take a covid test 72 hours to flights back to Thailand.     How are so many foriegnets testing positive in quarantine?   Getting it on the flight?

 

What don't you understand ?

 

You took the test 72 hours before your flight. The PCR test may not pick up a new virus. Furthermore, this also means you have 72 hours to catch the virus. Unless you stay home for those 3 days you will be at different levels of risk. 

 

The big danger is the airport and flight. There is no social distancing at airport and getting on the plane. It's a disgrace some airports. At Dubai shockingly they loaded us all onto busses to get to the terminal!

 

Worst still, if you get seated next to a Thai you are at further risk - as they don't have to get tested to enter Thailand ! 

 

When you arrive at Suvurbhumi airport, some foreigners around you will have their masks down their face, and behaving like complete idiots. You could pick up the virus from them. You could pick up the virus from surfaces or anyone working at that airport. 

 

There is no guarentee whilst in quarantine you won't pick up anything at the hotel - be it surfaces, food containers, staff, anyone. 

 

Remember whilst Thailand definatley DOES NOT have a large scale covid problem (you can judge by lack of hospitalisations), there is still probably levels of covid in society - and even amongst the workers. The same workers who you may ecounter at the airport on arrival, or during your quarantine.

 

Everyday i  open the papers and you read about foreigners getting covid in quarantine. These souls are then herded to a hospital - and then that tasty insurance they make you get really works it's magic for the hospitals income. 

 

It's a huge risk. 

Edited November 26, 2020 by AmySeeker

[AmySeeker 298]

2 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Yes the hospitalization of asymptomatic people is crazy and a big risk to the traveler. Instead of being safe in an ASQ , they are subjected to the Thai hospital system and have to pay through the teeth for it. What's the point of paying for quarantine when they won't let you use it for for quarantine?

 

If you are asymptomatic - i would happily continue the quarantine in the hotel. But it's the fact the make you go to a bloody hospital. And some of these hospitals that are associated with the cheaper quarantine hotels aren't great shakes. To be stuck in one of those hospitals for a further 2 weeks minimum (could be longer if you develop symptoms) would be horrendous. 

 

I completely agree with Thailand taking these steps - it's a state if utopia to be in a society that has little Covid. 

 

But this one hoop is crazy. 

 

For me a small change they could make - if you have no symptoms and test positive, they could let you stay in the hotel. That few weeks in a hospital scares the craap out of me.