Can one obtain the USD$100,000 health insurance REQUIRED in order to enter Thailand, at the TH airport before passport control?? Very difficult to obtain such a policy for me from the USA...I am curious..Thanks...By the way, NO other country that I know of requires any insurance at all to enter....
Patanawet (October 5th, 2021)
This company sells this coverage: https://www.aainsure.net/index.html
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
With the covid rules, some airlines check documents before you board.Originally Posted by Blueskytoday
Last time I looked, you need a COE to enter Thailand and that is one of the documents they check.
To get the COE, you need the covid insurance.
Therefore, without the insurance, there is a very good chance you cannot even board the plane to Thailand, never mind get through Thai immigration.
AXA Thailand sell the insurance online. Very efficient.
christianpfc (October 5th, 2021)
My normal travel insurance covers me for much more than is required so I can't see any point in buying more .
Well I see the insurance purchase is easy...but I will not travel there until they cease requirement for the COE...I am not going thru all this crap..
Will just wait until not required...THANKS for the info...
I don't think the Thai government has any real understanding of the tourist sector. For years they've pretended it didn't matter. Now (I think..) they realise it does, but I don't think they've yet clocked that to get tourists back they now need to throw out the red carpet and make a real effort to show that it's business as usual again.
They may well have deluded themselves that the drop in ASQ from 14 to 7 days is all that is needed to get volume tourism back, but I predict that the impact on airfare bookings will be minimal.
I doubt they'll realise the extent of what is needed to restore tourism in time for Nov 1st, but I suspect that come November, a lot of Caribbean nations will be spending heavily to get tourists back, and that that will not go unnoticed in the LoS..
Blueskytoday (October 5th, 2021), Dodger (October 5th, 2021), goji (October 5th, 2021), splinter1949 (October 6th, 2021)
Are you completely senile?!
You posted these exact same comments/question on:
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And again now.
Multiple people have answered your question, as others have again here. How long before you ask the question again! Do you never read the answers that people provide you with? It has also been pointed out both that the cost of a policy is miniscule compared to the cost of your ticket, and that Thailand is far from the only country that requires this. You were even provided with a list of other countries that required similar policies. Yet still you moan on about it...............
My position is similar. The conditions of Phuket Sandbox are acceptable for me, but I loathe the COE and will wait for the next round of easing of entry requirements, which hopefully abolish the COE. Another point is awful flight connections from Phnom Penh (where I am now) to Thailand, 300 USD and > 5 h including change of airplane in Singapore.
Practically, the COE isn't a big problem. Last year, I applied online and got it less than half a day.
The bigger problem was all the other requirements -quarantine (at the time), covid scam insurance & PCR testing before travel.
So if they abolished the COE and kept everything else, it wouldn't make much difference for me.
If they abolished all the other restrictions, that would be improvement.
Practically, only the die hard semi ex-pats will contemplate jumping through any hoops at all - regular tourists looking for winter sun will go wherever full normality has been restored.
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