News Forum - Hospitels close the door on Covid and hotels reopen for business as usual

[Thaiger]

With Covid-19 projected to be labelled as endemic next month, hospitels and alternate quarantine sites have resumed normal operations. Hospitels are hotels that provided rooms for people who had mild Covid symptoms. They helped ease the strain on the kingdom’s hospitals during the peak period of the coronavirus pandemic. But now the service is consigned to history, according to the vice-president of the Thai Hotels Association, Thienprasit Chaiyapatranun. Hotels that used to rely on Chinese tourists as a source of revenue were the hardest hit. Staff shortages is another problem as the industry tries to get back on its feet, […]

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[AdvocatusDiaboli]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

With Covid-19 projected to be labelled as endemic next month, hospitels and alternate quarantine sites have resumed normal operations.

After massive cleaning and disinfecting …. One hopes.

[JJJ]

So long to one of the biggest covid-era scams. 

[palooka]

the number of people arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport that needed to stay at AQ accommodation, dropped to around 30 per day, compared to 600-700 per day in the second half of 2021.

One does wonder how many of that 600-700 per day were genuine and how many were declared covid just to prop up the "select" in the hotel industry.

Expensive really at 50,000 baht for foreigner, 20,000 baht if Thai. More if you wanted to upgrade.