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    Thailand will open soon

    I saw this pop up on a face travel page;

    [QUOTE]Thailand will allow fully-vaccinated travellers into Bangkok and nine other key regions without undergoing any quarantine period from November in a dramatic move to help revive its tourism-dependent economy.

    Unvaccinated visitors will face a ten-day quarantine, slightly reduced from the current 14-day arrangement.

    In addition to Bangkok, other areas which will welcome double-jabbed jetstetters as of November 1 include popular tourist destinations Chiang Mai, Cha-am, Hua Hin, Krabi, Pattaya and Phangnga.

    Thailand reopened resort islands Phuket and Samui to vaccinated travellers in pilot schemes from July, after a high number of vaccine doses were delivered and administered.

    The country has previously delayed and adjusted its tourism-reopening program several times due to low vaccination rates and concerns that the easing of rules would enable infections and hospitalisations to surge again.

    This latest decision by the virus panel, chaired by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, are part of its "living with Covid" strategy to restart the economy, while maintaining infections at a level that doesn’t overwhelm Thailand’s health-care system.

    The moves come after the pace of inoculations have been ramped up to major population and economic centres, with as many as 1 million doses administered daily in the past week.
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    Hopefully some good news for the Thai's and once our Govt allows us to travel good for us punters.

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    this would have to be excellent news. Put this along with a 7 day home quarantine period back in Australia and things almost become bearable.

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    yeah once the return home quarantine is gone i'm sure there will be more travel

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    Quote Originally Posted by limbi8888 View Post
    yeah once the return home quarantine is gone i'm sure there will be more travel
    Yes Aust will have to give up this idea, If your Vaccinated and pass a test then forget the quarantine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by halfway View Post
    Yes Aust will have to give up this idea, If your Vaccinated and pass a test then forget the quarantine.
    It will be 7 day home quarantine

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    Thailand has already started a Sandbox scheme where travellers who are fully vaccinated can fly into Phuket. Only catch is you have to spend 7 days in the hotel on their list. Then you are free to travel within Thailand depending on the local council regulations. You won’t have to quarantine. This has been in place for over a month. I only got this information from other forums and don’t know anyone on the ground to share their experience. But yes once Australia opens the border at some
    stage they will allow people to go to Indonesia and Thailand.

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    Had a look on Flight Centre's website yesterday. Planning to fly to Thailand soon. Going over December and returning March via Thai Airways. Cost - $6,500 each way. Much cheaper if you go via multi stop flight eg Singapore. Aus Gov is saying Thailand is a no go destination at present.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Massaddict View Post
    Had a look on Flight Centre's website yesterday. Planning to fly to Thailand soon. Going over December and returning March via Thai Airways. Cost - $6,500 each way. Much cheaper if you go via multi stop flight eg Singapore. Aus Gov is saying Thailand is a no go destination at present.
    M.A.
    Please do not use Flight Centre. you will remember they were the company charging covid cancellation fees.

    I did a quick Skyscanner search and if you are flexible with travel days $1,600 economy return or $6,600 business return via Singapore. Book direct with Singapore airlines.

    7 day home quarantine will be with us for a year, so please plan for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrisbanePunter View Post
    Please do not use Flight Centre. you will remember they were the company charging covid cancellation fees.

    I did a quick Skyscanner search and if you are flexible with travel days $1,600 economy return or $6,600 business return via Singapore. Book direct with Singapore airlines.

    7 day home quarantine will be with us for a year, so please plan for it.

    Thanks, am very flexible.

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    its what happens in AU that's gona be the issue, 7 days quarantine is still a long period

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThaiGoodTimes View Post
    Sadly, IMHO...
    Thailand will be fully open, with the landing points fully open, airports, hotels, and girl legs, long long before any Aussies manage to easily get there.

    The other countries, US, Europe, Russia, even India will be there before Aussies can. And I’d expect even the UK will have Thailand off its RED list of mandatory quarantine on return before Aussies can get easily offshore...
    Define what you mean by easily? On what basis are you making this assertion?

    Just go online and book your ticket after 1 November.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThaiGoodTimes View Post
    Maybe you can correct me @brisbanepunter
    But as I understand it, booking a ticket is the easy part, although it will be quite expensive for you.
    And easily to me means that you can return with the 7 day home isolation option.


    To travel...
    Don’t you also have to be in a state that has achieved 80% vaccination rates, and has open borders to the rest of Australia?
    Which Queensland and Western Australia are a long way away from achieving.
    Then you also have to have Thailand assessed by the Australian government as an acceptable destination.
    Which at this point it’s not showing signs of doing such, tho with the UK dropping Thailand from it’s RED list, maybe that’s imminent.
    You ask a good series of questions.

    ScoMo and Fan Tehan have said the borders will be opened without a traffic light system. Aussies will be able to travel to which ever country they can afford.

    The 7 day quarantine process is gaining momentum.

    Qld is approaching the targets albeit a month after the other states. Public pressure will drive some compromise on the strict borders.

    From my observation of life in the UK once the numbers get up 90% things look good.

    My ‘belief’ based on United Airlines, Qld Police mandatory immunization the achieved immunization rates are closer to 98%.

    My personal plan is more likely to travel in Feb or March at the earliest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Massaddict View Post
    Had a look on Flight Centre's website yesterday. Planning to fly to Thailand soon. Going over December and returning March via Thai Airways. Cost - $6,500 each way. Much cheaper if you go via multi stop flight eg Singapore. Aus Gov is saying Thailand is a no go destination at present.

    M.A.
    Where abouts in Thailand are you going to, im curious to hear how busy it is etc,

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    Those tourists who are currently in Thailand might be lucky because the Thai government is worried about the new variant and increased numbers. It will be limiting numbers of tourists arriving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cuteguy View Post
    Those tourists who are currently in Thailand might be lucky because the Thai government is worried about the new variant and increased numbers. It will be limiting numbers of tourists arriving.
    Got a message from Thailand today and the Thai Government announced yesterday no incomming tourists until 2nd week of January. Thats for now. Fingers crossed that things do not escalate.

    M.A.

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    What's happening with Walking Street in Pattaya? Still dead despite reopening. Are the authorities planning to rezone this whole area for apartments and hotel/resorts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThaiGoodTimes View Post
    Yes, they want to shed Pattaya of it's high profile of sleaze...
    It appears to be the case. However Patong may have taken over Pattaya as the place to have fun. The latest YouTube clips show bars open and many girls in Bangla Road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThaiGoodTimes View Post
    Yes, Phuket has been in the lead for fun for well over 6 months now.
    And it will likely stay that way for a while yet.
    But it is never likely to get as sleazy, cheap and dirty as Pattaya was...
    Prices in Patong were always more expensive and you had more variety in Pattaya. At this stage, Pattaya is still dead in comparison to its famous days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThaiGoodTimes View Post
    Yes, Phuket has been in the lead for fun for well over 6 months now.
    And it will likely stay that way for a while yet.
    But it is never likely to get as sleazy, cheap and dirty as Pattaya was...
    There has been a recent crackdown of some venues in Patong which appears to be the only place in Thailand that is reminiscent of the good old days. Pattaya and Bangkok are still dead with venues closing at 9pm.

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    Mate was in Bangkok the other night ..said there is 100s of girls hanging on the street looking for blokes …picked up a gorgeous hottie who he took for drinks then back to his joint…
    Said she went off …the girls are screaming out for it and there is no blokes in sight …
    He has seen her 3 nights in a row …

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