A simple question I hope. When does your quarantine time start? When you land in Bangkok or when you pass immigration? I am planning my trip and have to decide to arrive in the afternoon or just after 11pm.
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The quarantine period in Thailand begins on the day after your arrival, which is termed as 'Day 1'. The arrival day is considered 'Day 0'. Various comments indicate that regardless of the time you check into your ASQ (Alternative State Quarantine) hotel, the countdown for quarantine officially starts the next day, allowing for a total of 15 nights, with check-out on the 16th day. It is advisable to arrive in the afternoon rather than late at night to avoid complications.
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it starts the next day - the arrival day is called zero and as well the last day.
I arrived at about 11:15 PM in Bangkok. Because of a snafu I didn’t get to my hotel till about 1 AM. The day I landed, the previous day, counted as day zero. I don’t know if there’s any official policy that says the day zero begins the day you land on the airport, but that was my experience
The date is already set before you have departured as mention when you got the hotel you provide flight details and the hotel give you a date upon booking the hotel
Until you check in to your asq you are mingling with other people, ie; at the airport. So, you do not enter "quarantine" until you get to the hotel. As others have said, 15 nights, leave on 16th day.
it doesn't, it's as per the hotel confirmation, it shows check in and departure date. As stated above even if a flight is delayed they will go with the confirmation
A friend who arrived last month had his flight delayed for several hours, with the result that he arrived in Bangkok well after midnight and didn't arrive at his ASQ hotel until after 5am. They still counted his original scheduled arrival date as day zero, and his quarantine period was not extended by a day.
My plane arrived just after 11pm. I made it through immigration before midnight but was not at the hotel until after midnight. They still counted that as my day 0. I have seen other reports of this same timeline as well. Even with possible delays, the timelines are already set out for your quarantine days at the hotel ahead of time so I don't believe they would change it
I'm not sure what the relevancy of covid tests are, but I'm just saying when you give the hotel your arrival date, they will schedule your quarantine time based on that, even if you arrive late on that day as was the case for me
The Day you arrive is Day Zero and day 1 is the first full day.
So that makes it total of 16 days and 15 nights
Last day they let me out as soon as clearance paperwork arrived which was about 6 30 am.
Personally i would plan afternoon arrivals even small delay on 11 pm arrival could make you do an extra day.
Not exactly sure when they start counting the days, could be arrive Thailand could be arrival Hotel (quarantine facility ) Hopefully someone who has done a late arrival can clarify