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And according to Richard Barrow's interview, there's no time limit for Thailand Pass which implies that you may apply as early as you want to ensure you have the pass document. By the way it's a great news for me to learn that only the result needs to be issued within 72 hours of departure, do you know if anyone did research on this rule? My flight will be on a Monday which I worry taking the test on the previous Friday won't be early enough since most of the testing locations don't work on Weekend. If only the result is needed to be within 72 hours then I may take the RT-PCR test earlier.

Never heard of any famous sauna in Pattaya, but there are R3、Mania、39 Underground、Chakan in bangkok. While R3, Chakan still making promotions and 39/Mania more for the locals. They are all not doing really great during pandemic. You can find R3 sauna from twitter. The owner makes up all kind of activities all the time

I've checked my line account during the whole year and all I saw were owners of massage shops promoting and getting new boys. I don't think they've yet closed once this year (as long as they pay the local police well) and these are all in bangkok

I think the risks for most of us who take precautions well are not getting covid while on plane, but more of sitting next to someone who's tested positive. Getting the Covid is something we can avoid by having proper precautions but sitting next to one in plane or transportation to hotel is unpredictable and pure luck.

If the official claims U.S as one of the "low risk" countries I think they'll adjust whatever rules possible to let tourists from U.S in.

For the people who are worried about passing vaccination certificate as I did. When I submitted my vaccination card I was prepared for it to get rejected and planning on having a signed international certificate to re-apply the Thailand Pass. My application went in for 5 days since Nov 1st with no updates. And today (interestingly enough on a Sunday midnight) I just got approved.

Appreciate the reply. But I’m aware of that, just wanted to check my application status in case if my application didn’t even go through so I shall submit again. but then they gave me no info so I don’t know if I’m waiting for my result or actually nothing right now.

Well there's no account page or anything, once "submitted" it goes to the Thailand Pass main page so you have 0 accessibility to the previous application you've just done. So I can't check status or even know if I've actually sent things through. It's like I just refreshed the page and everything goes back to the beginning expect they did say they will send email if you pass, but nothing else.

Does anyone know if you'd get a email notifying that you've successfully submitted your Thailand Pass application? For me, after I finished uploading all info, it told me that I will get a confirmation email if I got verified but I didn't get an auto email telling me that I've actually submitted everything successfully. It just feels odd that an official site doesn't send something to let you know or ensure that you've done your part.

Oh my flight is in late December. I shall see how the whole “quarantine free” scheme goes

My question is as stated in the title. I've booked a flight that will arrive in bangkok at 11:45pm at night. I assume I won't be able to pass all immigration stuff within an hour or so. And I'll have to check out my one night "quarantine free room" at noon the other day. I'm generally curious about how long does PCR tests take in general since I read online they could take hours if not a day to complete, and I'll have less than 10 hours after I actually arrive at my hotel and start my testing process.

thanks for that note.

At this point i'm just confused why don't I go with the second "sandbox" scheme since the provinces have expanded to include bangkok and such. Then I don't even need to stay in hotel room for the first night.

For the travelers coming from "low risks" countries. From : https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/full-details-on-the-3-ways-to-travel-to-thailand-from-november-1

This is the best offer since forever. Just need to wait and see how November really does and I shall book my ticket for December trip.