Hi everyone my Thai partner and our Daughter are travelling to the United Kingdom in the near future Do they need a Negative covid 19 test before travelling my partner has been double vaccinated...

Is 72 hr pcr or atk test compulsory while travelling to koh samet???

Had a bit of a sweat on checking in at Air France this morning for UK at Suvarnabhumi airport, I had all the correct information but I was asked if I had a recent test for COVID apart from the two when I arrived in December.

After looking through my documents numerous times, a supervisor told the lady at check in two vaccinations was enough, it was in Thai but that is what I interpreted when she put two fingers up.

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What are the chances of this happening, do you think?

So we've started our journey-bhd-edin-doha-bkk. Checking in in Belfast the ground staff(Swissport) insisted we needed 7day quarantine hotel booking.i explained that this is not the case for fully vaccinated from UK, 1 night being sufficient. She and her supervisor insisted saying that all airlines use info for travelling requirements from a site called traveldoc.aero and that it is updated every hour with current regulations. There was no way to convince them my hotel booking was correct. They were throwing out phrases such as£10,000fine to airlines who don't comply to the rules. As a result we had to book an Agoda hotel for 7 nights to get on the flight! I'm now sitting on plane from Edinburgh to Doha, no documents were checked in Edinburgh.

Why is it that covid insurance is required to enter Thailand if you are vaccinated, It is very expensive if you are over 76 , and you don't need it to renew a AO retirement visa if you are already in Thailand ??? Seems odd to me !

Why are double vaccinated (by supposedly among the world's highest standard vaccines - Pfizer) asymptomatic persons who *had a PCR test within 3 days* required to effectively pay a $400+ CAD tax for the privilege of entering Thailand?

PCR test Canada $173

hotel stay $150+

Insurance $105+

I am an old & healthy pensioner, a low-budget sojourner (not exactly a backpacker but not quite an expatriate, more of an eastern-oriented 'snowbird'). My habit is living on the cheap for four to six months at a time in ASEAN countries. I would not normally stay in such fancy hotels. But I am forced by circumstance to travel like a middle-class tourist. Maybe for persons who fit my profile, the time of easy and cheap travel has run out. IMHO, despite COVID being real, it is also being used as an excuse to weed out 'undesirables'. We are not welcome anymore. Certainly in Cambodia, charter flight of Chinese tourists (and not just from PRC) are the cash cows. And for other nefarious non-economic reasons that I won't go into here because this is not a political group.

The only good news I see is that versus Cambodia, Thailand is less troublesome and cheaper.

If I didn't have a business appointment in Thailand I would instead go to loosey-goosey Colombia or great value Argentina. I just cancelled a trip to Tanzania (wide open) in part because of very high-pricing. Until recently they had the ludicrous approach of 'pray COVID away' but at least the country was wide open.

Maybe SEA is finished so I am looking for a tourist-friendly country with sensible policies, based more on science and economics. As soon as India has reopened I will go there. Nepal is open but has such poor medical infrastructure I am wary.

I consider Thailand just a stepping-stone, getting 'my foot in the door' in Asia this winter.

Anyone know if you fly with emirates from Thailand to uk do u need rtpcr still even with the rule change ?

Hello Do I need a quarantine to travel from Tunisia to Phuket? Knowing that I vaccinated twice

Thank you so much

Will Thailand ever accept antibodies test instead of the vaccine.