It’s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that can have their own pool and courtyard.

Yet more than three months after the resort and more than a hundred like it reopened to extended-stay travelers in an attempt to revive Thailand’s battered economy, foreign arrivals have failed to meet even rock-bottom expectations. Just 346 overseas visitors have entered the country on average each month on special visas since October, according to the Thailand Longstay Company, which helps facilitate the program. That’s well below the government’s target of about 1,200 and a tiny fraction of the more than 3 million who came before the pandemic.

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:13 pm

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:16 am I haven't heard a single person who has done quarantine say they have regretted it, they all seem very happy to be back in Thailand

I won't be returning to Thailand, until quarantine is removed, and flights are mask-free, whenever that will be. Hoping for Jan 2022 now

Understandable if you've been separated from your family or loved one or your permanent home. I suspect they are in the majority not tourists.

Khmu Nation wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:42 am Worst country in se asia.

In my humble opinion.