Is it a good idea to do a border run from Phuket to Vietnam and back?

@Todd ********

i only enter with a passport and that’s fine

@Jo *********

me too lol. But that’s useless information for many. Don’t hesitate to learn and expand your understanding

@Todd ********

true

@Edwin *******

So to learn from you, what arguments did you put forward towards the immigration staff?

@Alex Harms, it probably also helped that I had activated Suvarnabhumi's internet on my cell phone and so was able to call my first (Thai) host on the phone, and the immigration officer was willing to talk with him, and in the course of the conversation he decided to "guarantee" me (probably financially), despite knowing me mostly from our internet interactions. It is possible that that is what saved me, and if I am right about that, then I am *extremely* lucky to have been in Thailand these past three weeks :-) .

@Alex ******

I forget at the moment, but will see if I can remember overnight and then may post something "long" tomorrow, as I ran through everything I could think of (and it may also have helped that I did not yet realize that she was correct.)