Do you have to book a hotel or is an Airbnb acceptable for a 90-day stay after ASQ in Thailand?

@Da***

Renting out a condo for less than 28 days is not a crime...

@Da***

Prostitution and gambling is a criminal offense, the "PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION ACT B.E. 2539 (1996)" and the Title 9 section 286 : "Section 286 Any person, being over sixteen years of age, subsists on the earning of a prostitute, even it is some part of her incomes, shall be punished with imprisonment of seven to twenty years and fined of fourteen thousand to forty thousand Baht, or imprisonment for life.

Any person has no other apparent or sufficient means of subsistence, and:

Is found residing or habitually associating with one or more prostitutes;

Takes board and lodging, or receives money or any other benefit arranged for by a prostitute; or

Take part in order to help any prostitute in her quarrel with her customer,

"

@Stuart ********

so you can do it without the hotel license and that is not illegal? Therefore what's the point in the law?

@Ray ****

you can do it without the hotel license, but that’s illegal. Doing it with a hotel license is legal. A blanket statement of Airbnb being illegal is wrong.

@R**

It's a housing regulation. It's the equivalent of being required to have smoke detectors in your house.

@Garrett **********

possibly however if permissions are not requested and granted by tge local authorities then laws would be broken

@R**

The hotel act of 2005 prohibits rentals of less than 28 days inside condo buildings of 4 or more units. It is NOT specific to airbnb. This does not apply to houses or townhouses.

Also, this is a housing regulation. The Hotel Act of 2005 is NOT part of any criminal code or statue. There for, it is not illegal, police don't enforce housing regulations period. As a renter there is nothing prohibiting you from renting a condo, and a juristic person or building management has 0 authority to tell an owner who he can and cannot let stay in the condo he owns.

@Ad**

What?

@David ********

it's not illegal.

@Da***

Airbnb isn't illegal...

@Johanna *******

pls, what about the +$700 bank statement? Do they check that?

@Leon *******

yes so the Embassy told me

@Johanna *******

when i applied lsst week in London just had to give an address. It could have been a condo or hotel. When i arrived yesterday just had to have an address they really weren't over interested.. i wasn't applying for a visa as i had a valid O visa.

@Ray ****

we are applying for a visa

@Tony *************

it is cant wait to get back would have been there for birth but sadly we couldnt .We were there in Jan too

@Tony *************

it is it's not easy