Samui Plus (สมุยพลัส): The Rules for International and Domestic Travellers visiting Ko Samui, Ko Phangan and Ko Tao - Changed on 1st October

See the locations on Koh Samui เกาะสมุย SHA plus hotels Google Map.

Requirements for fully vaccinated foreign tourists from Friday Oktober 1 for visiting Koh Samui, Koh Pha-ngan and Koh Tao:
Surat Thani province has issued Covid-19 rules for foreign travellers visiting the three islands under the Samui+ Model.

Countries, from where travellers may enter Samui Plus: read.

You can fly to Samui on a direct international flight. Or you take an international flight via Bangkok and an approved sealed flight to Ko Samui. For the flight via Bangkok you have to book both flights together from Bangkok to Ko Samui. See airlines with code-sharing with Bangkok Airways. Any flight reservations booked separately will not be allowed. The sealed flights are operated by Bangkok Airways. Daily from Bangkok at 10.05, 14.35 and 17.10.


When you have arrived in Thailand you have to download Samui Health Pass or Mor Chana app on your smartphone and turn on.

After arriving at Ko Samui Airport you take the first RT-PCR test.

Afterwards you transfer to your SHA plus accommodation, only with transport company with Samui+ symbol.

You have to wait in the hotel room for the result of the first RT-PCR-Test.

If the result of the first test is negative, you can travel on Ko Samui, Ko Phangan and Ko Tao.
You can travel from the following piers only:
Ko Samui: Lom Phraya Na Phra Lan, Buri Rasa (hotel guests only) and Phu Yai Non.
Ko Phangan: Thong Sala
Ko Tao: Ban Mae Hat (Sala Vibvahadi)
Boats to Mu Ko Ang Thong: Na Thon Municipal pier

For 7 nights you can stay only in SHA plus accommodations. You can change the hotel no more than three times during these 7 days. List of SHA plus hotels on Ko Samui, Ko Phangan and Ko Tao. See also Koh Samui เกาะสมุย SHA plus Hotels Google Map


On day 6-7 you take the second RT-PCR-Test at Central Festival Ko Samui, Ko Phangan Hospital or Ko Tao Hospital.

On day 7, if the test is negative, you will be given a release form. From day 8 you then can travel freely around in Thailand.

This is an excerpt from the publication by Samui info by Nicha on Facebook.


Where international tourists can registrate for Samui Plus visits: COE Thailand. You need hotel bookings and payment confirmations for 7 nights to get the COE.

Read detailed Samui Plus FAQ.
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Entry regulations for domestic travellers for Ko Samui,
Ko Phangan and Ko Tao

For Ko Samui:
From Dark red zone (Bangkok): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From red zone (Chiang Mai): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old
From orange zone (Krabi, Phang Nga, Phuket): No test, no vaccination
From yellow zone (other districts of Surat Thani): No test, no vaccination

For Ko Phangan:
From Dark red zone (Bangkok): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From red zone (Chiang Mai): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From orange zone (Krabi, Phang Nga, Phuket): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From yellow zone (other districts of Surat Thani): No test, no vaccination

For Ko Tao:
From Dark red zone (Bangkok): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From red zone (Chiang Mai): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From orange zone (Krabi, Phang Nga, Phuket): RT-PCR-Test no longer than 72 hours old and be vaccinated
From yellow zone (other districts of Surat Thani): No test, no vaccination

Read which province belongs to which zone at tatnews.org


Read more:
Beaches, Hotels and Guesthouses on Koh Samui - see SHA Plus Hotels on Google Map
Ko Tao เกาะเต่า - a Hotspot for Diving - with SHA plus hotels Google Map
Ko Phangan เกาะพะงัน - beaches, resorts and your reviews - with SHA plus hotels Google Map

The Ko Samui Covid-19 Cluster and late Dancing at Black Club Samui

Thethaiger.com recently reported that some bars and clubs in Koh Samui continue to operate seemingly indifferent to Covid-19 restrictions in place without any masks or social distancing and during periods that nightlife was shut down nationally. Now 16 Covid-19 infections have been traced to the Black Bamboo Club in Chaweng. The Black” is an interior nightclub. “Black Bamboo” is its garden bar with a restaurant licence.

On Facebook the owner of the Black Bamboo restaurant gave the following declaration:

"I, Tinnakorn Poolsawad, owner of “The Black Bamboo Restaurant” at Chaweng Beach Koh Samui Surat Thani, want to explain to everyone that the restaurant was opened regularly to customers and has been filtering out Covid-19 by checking temperature, hand sanitisers, free masks for customers and ensure that all our staffs wear masks at all time. However, we received a notice that one of our customers from a couple of days ago got Covid-19. They had no symptoms or signs of Covid-19 so we offered them service as usual and were informed today that they have contracted Covid with no information of when or where they got it from. The Black Bamboo Restaurant will then be closed for 14 days from today onwards to filter out staff that are at risk, allow them to be quarantined, tested for Covid-19 and, in association with the government, we will undergo sanitary precautions required for Covid-19."

The statement does not say, that the guests weared masks all the time.

The authorities on Ko Samui urged people who have stayed at following places should contact Ko Samui Hospital for a Covid-Test:
The Black Bamboo on 16 July from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. On July 17, 2021, from 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and on July 23, 2021 at 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Speedy Lounge and Bar Lamai on 16 July from 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM.

The authorities on Ko Samui informed, that a 32 years old women working as cashier at a fitness center went to a birthday party and differenz places, before her infection has been discovered. She did not wear a mask. The authorities now prepare a place with up to 100 beds for infected people. Pol Col Yuttana Sirisombat, Superintendent of Bophut Police Station, was assigned with an investigation. Ultra bodies gym, where the women worked, announced closure until august 11 on Facebook.


Update on 29 July: 38 new Covid-19 cases detected from Black Bamboo cluster. Around 600 people went to covid-19 tests on Wednesday according to Samui Info by Nicha after the announcement by the authorities.

Update on 30 July: 40 new Covid-19 cases detected from Black Bamboo cluster. The governor of Surat Thani says the covid-19 cases on Ko Samui are not related to tourists arriving under the Samui Plus model or Phuket Sandbox model. Therefore the Samui Plus model can continue. But "Bangkok Post" writes: Samui Plus programme teeters on brink. Samui authorities informed, that by testing they found totally 99 COVID-19 infections so far, after Black Bamboo Cluster had been detected in Chaweng area.