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03-05-21 01:53 #12745
Posts: 549Hell it willnot be open January 1
Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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03-04-21 19:09 #12744
Posts: 6315It's a video, HT.
Video does not reveal any new information. Thailand is already open for foreigners and it has been for some time. Most people just can't afford the time to spend 2 weeks in quarantine. The video does not say quarantine will be eliminated effective July 1.
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03-04-21 17:00 #12743
Posts: 1696Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
Apparently there are still steps to take place before the door to Thailand is opened wide. I do like Turgid's optimism, hope it really happens.
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03-04-21 15:18 #12742
Posts: 5661Thailand Opening up for Tourists on July 1.
Thailand will be opening up for poontang hungry warriors on July 1.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/thai...215603403.html
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03-04-21 06:07 #12741
Posts: 1222Originally Posted by GettingFedUp [View Original Post]
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03-04-21 02:15 #12740
Posts: 178Originally Posted by Franciscass [View Original Post]
Your observation is accurate for general health insurance but for the stand alone Covid cover I was talking about the premiums are not age age specific. Age 1 to 99 it's the same price. The only variables which affect the price seem to be country of origin and duration (I admit I haven't checked whether the "reason for visit" affects the premiums).
". rational thinking in immigration policy. " - hmmmm, may I remind you that This is Thailand?
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03-04-21 02:03 #12739
Posts: 3131Originally Posted by Tomasb [View Original Post]
As noted there is a lot of conversation going on about the fact that it is being brought up bright spot, in my opinion, hopefully, sooner than later he hears it enough will allow it to happen. When the time comes another major huddle aside from the 14-day quarantine is the insurance which has rarely been mentioned in the conversation maybe I miss something? Although I haven't checked in a while when I did look it wasn't as cheap as others have noted may be due to my age and my length of stay a 100,000 USD coverage for Covid, runs 140,000 baht at 30-1 ratio that equals $4600.00 for a one-year policy.
Yet for locals and even ex-pats they were selling policy within for 800-1500 baht coverage in general 100,000 baht if you go into a coma coverage 1-2 million baht includes death benefits. Then you got a recently passed to charge all passengers coming into the country another 300-600 baht buried in their ticket price to be used to promote tourism and cover tourist medical expenses if they have an accident and don't carry insurance. When it comes to insurance here they got the leaders deep in their pockets?
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03-03-21 17:36 #12738
Posts: 1264Etc.
Yea, I agree that the tourism authority continues to come up with schemes to speed things along, yet nothing seems to happen. What caught my eye on this proposal was the PM said the Thai government would take a look at relaxing the Covid standards due to the extreme hit on the the overall economy. Of course, he could just be posturing and has no intention on relaxing policy in this regard. Sometimes, I think the government would prefer not to allow farangs in the country to the degree of the past decades or so in order to rid themselves of our 'corrupt' influences.
Originally Posted by GettingFedUp [View Original Post]
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03-03-21 14:35 #12737
Posts: 15941Originally Posted by Tomasb [View Original Post]
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03-03-21 07:24 #12736
Posts: 1222Originally Posted by GettingFedUp [View Original Post]
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03-03-21 06:59 #12735
Posts: 178Originally Posted by HorseTrader [View Original Post]
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03-03-21 06:02 #12734
Posts: 178Industry Organizations and Kite Flying
Originally Posted by Tomasb [View Original Post]
This is another in a long line of proposals or recommendations from the tourism industry. They come up with a new one or rehashed previous one every month or so (remember the "Island Isolation" of Phuket, "Covid Corridors", bubbles and cuts in quarantine time.). So far the only ones that have gone through are Golf Quarantine which after months of debate has clocked up it's first visitors (about 30 of them) and a charter flight of assorted very wealthy people who rented an entire hotel at Cape Panwa, Phuket to serve their quarantine there rather than at an ASQ hotel.
Come 1st July less than half of the population will have had access to the vaccine even if the current timetable can be met. My view is the Government will continue with its hawkish view that the risk is not worth the rewards (and they and their cronies aren't big in tourism. They make their ill-gotten gains from other sectors such as infrastructure projects).
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03-03-21 05:58 #12733
Posts: 1696Not too much money
Originally Posted by GettingFedUp [View Original Post]
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03-03-21 05:44 #12732
Posts: 178Health Insurance
Originally Posted by GrapeMan [View Original Post]
One nasty little catch-22 with using blanket health insurance for the Covid cover is if someone tests positive but is asymptomatic. In Thailand if you test positive you are going to hospital even if asymptomatic. That's just the way it is. Where there is a hospital there is inevitably a hospital bill. There are reports of international insurers refusing claims with the thought process of "If you didn't have symptoms then you didn't need hospitalization" leaving the unfortunate policy holder out of pocket.
With regard to the Covid specific insurance the Thai General Insurance Association (TGIA) has a web-portal where you can obtain a quote for it. Premiums for 90 days cover currently vary from THB 3,840 for "low risk" (my term) countries such as Australia to THB 12,160 for "high risk" countries (USA, UK, France etc.). For other countries you can look it up for yourselves. Hopefully as infection rates come under control in the outside world then countries will be reclassified into the lower premium levels. No, I am not on commission from them.
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03-02-21 21:34 #12731
Posts: 351Originally Posted by Tomasb [View Original Post]
On international health insurance-- it depends what they'll accept for that in this case, there are a lot of travel insurance services out there that have some pretty damn cheap rates for travel health insurance (which is sometimes part of a bigger package of insurance), its actually a good pickup for many people doing travel since the cost is often pretty low especially compared to if anything happens to you. I generally buy an inexpensive travel health insurance when I go abroad for a longer period, just not worth the hassle of not having it.