They are going to open 3 land borders. Two with Laos and one with Malaysia but I think it's only for nationals of those neighboring countries. With the new variant spreading fast in Southeast Asia hopefully this will go the same way as it has in the Uk

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:54 am why 35 tests, were you feeling sick? otherwise whats the point??
Curiosity??
did ya also test for HIV, Syphilis and dengue?

Maybe he should also consider a mental health test. Paranoia?

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:55 am

Alex wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:57 pm Now with the day-5 nonsense gone, they should extend Test & Go to the land borders. It's ridiculous that they have remained closed for almost two years.

not enough sha+ approved hotels or hospital facilities ( in case of positive test) on land borders to open them to anyone but local merchants/truck drivers which have been open for a long time .

Surely they could work that out, at some borders (with larger cities nearby) easier than at others.

Especially for Durex

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:06 pm thats a hell of a lot lost income

Comparing international arrivals
Nov 2019: 3,358,592
Dec 2019: 3,930,800
Jan 2020: 3,810,155
Feb 2020: 2,061,990
= 13,161,537 arrivals

Nov 2021: 133,061
Dec 2021: 290,617
Jan 2022: 189,193
Feb 2022: 203,970
= 816,841 arrivals

If they dropped the daft entry requirements for the fully vaccinated Tourists, it would have tempted far more arrivals.
The Omicron variant is much milder than Delta, and this has been known for a while now.

Whatever. They've relaxed the rules, but I doubt it's enough. The PCR tests are expensive, as is insurance and booking special hotels. And the second test results a worry to put people off going there. Meanwhile Thailand requires mask wearing and is currently a shadow of its former self, further making Tourists question.if it's even worth visiting anyway.

Just needs the hotel and the hospital doing the test to fix your test positive and once they've got you in the hospital they can charge you what they like. They won't let you stay in the hotel to quarantine and even if they did it's $150 a day just for the room. The insurance companies make it extremely difficult to know for sure what they will cover and with the number of false positives and the financial incentive for a positive result it's like sending a tourist into a den of lions. I will put off my trip until they scrap all this bullshit . With the new variant it's not even necessary.