Your local Thai embassy should update their website if and when retirement visa holders can apply for a certificate of entry. I doubt having a vaccine will have any relevance to this situation as no vaccine is 100% effective and Thailand is committed to being 100% covid free.

Anantara Mai Khao (near Phuket) has villas with private pools available for quarantine.

@Nick ******

you can check out sasin business school, which is the best but also the most expensive. chula uni (other departments separate from sasin), mahidol, nida, bangkok uni, thamassat, and a few others, also have masters open to international students, which would be a lot cheaper.

@Nick ******

not sure what stage of your career you are at but an MBA, part-time MBA, or EMBA, at one of the thai business schools, might make sense, especially sasin school in chula uni. that would get you a visa for a couple of years, a local network for your business, and i'm sure they could sort you out with some top class thai language lessons.

i think you will have to study thai at a university or do a masters in something else if you want to stay on studying here. thailand is getting tough on language centers helping westerners get visas (ironically over the last few years, many western countries have been cracking down on thais/others doing the same). are you really so rich that you wouldn't even consider getting a job? if no, that's another option. if yes, have you considered elite visa?

@Jim *******

yeah basically there is a limited quarantine capacity so they have to prioritise somehow, and those priorities can and will change

@Mike *******

it's just missing from this screenshot.

@Paul ******

need a covid test. it's just missing from this screenshot.

it's on the embassy website so you can apply for a certificate of entry, but no doubt more people will apply than they have spaces for. and there is no guarantee things won't change between now and when your flight takes off.

If you want to stay here longer and continue studying, it would probably be better to enroll in a masters degree at a university. Volunteer visas are for volunteers, which is something completely different.