Cambodia is about to open to tourists with this rather stringent COVID-19 plan:
All international visitors will pay $3,000 deposit on arrival, of which $1,500 is a deposit for cremation services.
Travelers will then be transported to a COVID-19 testing center at a cost of $5. They will be tested for $100, which might require a stay at a testing center or designated hotel for $30 per person, plus $30 for three meals while the traveler waits for results.
Travelers then must stay in their preferred hotel for a 14-day quarantine.
If any passenger tests positive, then all passengers must stay in a state-surveyed quarantine area for 14 days.
A traveler with a positive test is admitted to isolation in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh for treatment at a cost of $225 per day.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
