I've luckily managed to convince them to let me stay in the original hotel for a 3rd confirmatory test, and scheduled it on Friday afternoon - so results would be late enough that they couldn't ask me to go to hospital/hospitel until Saturday, and I feel rather confident I will manage to extend it further. I got the impression hospitels are pretty full.
The ultimate authority appears to be the doctor at the private hospital that was contracted by the hotel to do the day 1 & day 5 tests. Every process was a broken telephone of hotel calling a nurse who called the doctor, which had the excellent benefit of postponing any unfavorable decision. Everybody has been super nice and helpful along the way, and it does seem they are doing their best to bend the protocols only that much, while maintaining a firm grip on me isolating in my room and not presenting any symptoms or risk factors.
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NWplatinum
Sorry to hear about the positive test. As a result of the costs incurred, does the AXA insurance cover everything?
It seems they would cover it if I isolate at a hotel, but hospitel is gray area and I've gotten different answers whether it would be covered - at least in part. The costs are 100-200k THB (depending on the room type) for the 4 star hospitels for 10 days, assuming no medical care would be needed other than standard screening and painkillers.
Each extra confirmatory test cost 5000 THB, (2k each way for special car to hospital & 1k for test). I'll submit it for reimbursement later but doubt they'll cover it.