Do I need a visa for a three-week stay in southern Thailand after multiple entries?

@Shakoor ****

you keep misleading, and that is harmful. It would be great if you could stop.

You write that you are not the IO and that hence you cannot answer the topic starter's question. Now, that is entirely fair. We cannot all know everything and so if you don't know that the limit of two land entries is no longer applicable then that is fine.

Although I agree that flying is often better than driving, I must also say that the two of us stand pretty much alone in that regard and the rest of the (senior) group members are all saying that driving is better. My thought is that they're mislead by the numbers: there are just many more people who fly and therefore it looks like also a larger portion of the flyers are stopped, but I think land borders, where the abusers go, are looking much more thoroughly to entrants than air borders where normally regular holidayers go. So we agree, but your statement that the rest of the group supports you is just false. Pretty much nobody agrees with us.

Further; if there was a limit of two entries per calendar year and the Thai authorities scrap that, then I think it goes a little too far to say that not much is certain and that land border IO's can still deny entry based on a no longer existing rule. The limit is scrapped, and we should assume that entering is now possible. That is the answer to the topic starter's question. Not that flying is the way to go, that's not the answer the TS needed.

@Bart *************

I’m not the IO Who may or may not allow him to get in so I can’t give a 100% answer on which way is best. And as far as I know neither are you. With the recent shake up with Visa exception.

Non of the past visa gurus can say anything with 100% because there isn’t enough empirical data to support their answer.

But one thing that still stands true is flying in is still better then driving in, so I provided the best possible advice. Which isn’t misleading, isn’t demeaning and still carries the support of vast majority of members of this group, flying in is better than driving in.

@Shakoor ****

no, you are only misleading. The question is whether entering by car is okay and it is, it yields the exact same resistance as flying.