Do I need a visa to visit Thailand if I have a UK passport and am re-entering after Cambodia?

It’s not. Transit without collecting baggage and going through immigration requires one through ticket. In this instance the OP will officially enter Thailand and receive a 30 day stamp. Then collect baggage and check in for the flight to Cambodia and go through immigration again and get a departure stamp. If asked about the short time in the country the answer would be “I’m just changing planes”.

On return to Thailand she will get another 30 day visa exempt stamp which this time she will actually use while staying in the country.

I’m not sure I understand how it is possible to collect baggage without going through immigration as transit passenger. My memory may be faulty.

@Louise *********

Then you do not need a visa at all for Thailand, you will get a 30-day visa exempt stamp when you arrive.

You get 30 days stamp not a visa

Just to clarify, you will get a 30 day visa exempt stamp (not a visa on arrival), so just join the normal foreign immigration queue and NOT the visa on arrival queue!

agreed the problem is the luggage. It will come out on the arrivals carousel. If there is a way to pass back into intl departures with the bags. If it where carryon it would be a different story.

Sometimes they let you through-check in for all itinerary with different airlines even they are from different alliances, with separate tickets. try to ask at the first check in. Or try to check in advance..

You’ll get a 30day visa at Thai immigration collect your bags. Then being in Thai at passenger pick up. Then you’ll need to navigate the airport just like Any passenger departing. Intl departure check in, and up stairs to security, immigration. They might raise a brow here but since your leaving just stamp your exit from Thai. When you get to Cambodia they required me a US citizen to have a visa stamp. At entry double check your U.K. requirements. After your stay in Cambodia you’ll return to BKK and get a new 30 day upon arrival visa stamp. Have your past and forward travel proof to explain the quick in out of Thai to Cambodia and Thai immigration.

I went from Thai to Cambodia only staying in Cambodia the day a few hours. (Drove to boarder then walked across for the day. ) The return to Thai they held me for three hours trying to understand why I was only there a short time. Was I carrying something back? For me it was just a way to quickly visit ‘another’ country.

Better hope you have a long layover, immigration in and out to transfer could take a while.

Greg Lewis BKK and DMK

Greg Lewis BKK is the airport code!