Breaking news for Brits who want to return home from Thailand. From 4am on Monday 30 August 2021, you will have to book a quarantine hotel package in the UK on your return if you are arriving from Thailand.
This will even apply to tourists who stayed in the "Phuket Sandbox" program apparently. This is unconfirmed, but the UK government Red List quarantine rules do not mention any dispensations.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-a ... ng-england

That's not going to help any of their tourism recovery schemes in the short term, being one of their bigger markets for independent tourists.. Costly hotel quarantine on the way into the Phuket Sandbox or wherever, and then another £2,000+ of hotel fees on your return to the UK. Mega expensive holiday.

It's a bit bloody rich of the UK.

Some Daily numbers:

UK.
Cases...38281 (of which 100% are Delta)
Deaths...140

Thailand
Cases 18,501 ( +84 )
Deaths 229 ( -68 )

It's a bit like making people have a shower before working in the sewer.

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:12 am I think the new UK quarantine will apply to all travellers from Thailand - no exemption for the Phuket sandbox tourists.

It's interesting that the reasons given by the UK include the high rate of infections in Thailand and also the low rates of sequencing tests on those infected. The UK quite likes to know how many have Delta, even if Thailand doesn't!

UK tourists with time on their hands can no doubt go home via a third country, staying there ten days. Turkey?

Turkey is on the Red List too.

Realistically, I doubt there are that many British tourists in Thailand right now anyhow. This will almost exclusively affect expats who live there and plan to return to the UK for whatever reason.

Great idea about quarantining in a cheaper green list country on the way back. I may well be going back to the UK in the next month or so and if Cambodia were to be put on the red list in the meantime, this is certainly something I'd do.

I cannot see any justification for most of the UK's restrictions. It is 18 months too late.

The UK have high infection rates, high vaccination rates and relatively low hospitalisation and death rates. It's in pretty good shape, all things considered. Delta is doing it's thing and it is generally accepted that two shots of vaccine plus a mild infection afterwards to give you naturally occurring antibodies puts you in about as good a position as possible. It's time to start getting on with life.

The UK is 100% Delta now, all the other ones have been eradicated, and unless there is a new variant that is worse than Delta, then what is the point of any of this testing on arrival, isolation and over priced 10 day hotel quarantine?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... /thailand/