My post seems to be within "Check Length" Limits, but it isn't working. Will post as a couple responses.
A bit of a brain-dump here, but I’ll do my best to keep it as complete as I can remember. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here and I’ll do my best to answer. I’ll be flying out of HK within the week, so responses may be a little delayed while I try and find some last minute high quality 60-90 minute WG’s squeeze in a few more visits here in HK before heading out (assuming I can find some)  .
I’ll still check in here though and after that I’ll be in quarantine, so have lots of free time. If this response is overkill, apologies … but I couldn’t find most of this info when I started so hopefully of some help.
Where do I stand? I am just about done with the up-front process. My last steps are to make the full payment on my ASQ hotel and get my COVID test and then I’m on my way. At this point I can speak to most of the process. Things are changing fast, so some of this might be quickly outdated but I suspect it will stay close to this for at least the next month or so.
A couple of quirks I went through that made this harder than it would have been that might come up as timelines evolve.
• When I was about ½ through the process, the Thai government ANNOUNCED that quarantine would change from 14 to 10 days.
• While they ANNOUNCED that change, they didn’t actually APPROVE it.
• Apparently ANNOUNCING is enough for everyone to move forward, but it isn’t really law until they APPROVE it.
• I was told APPROVING is largely a formality, but they delayed the meeting where they would APPROVE it multiple times, so who knows.
This has caused mass confusion – hotels are confused, airlines are confused, even the local HK Thai Embassy is confused. By extension, I was confused. Hopefully you don’t have to deal with anything like this, as it caused the most work by far.
A trickle-down impact is that none of the official documentation you will find has been updated. Neither have things like the Thai website you need to upload documents.
Thy are scheduled to APPROVE tomorrow (Mar 30), so hopefully things will (temporarily) clear up.
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