Is it proper to enter Thailand on a free 30-day visa and extend it for an extra 15 days?

The official cost of a 60-day single-entry tourist visa for Thailand is £30 or US$40.

extension will cost 1900 baht a person

Get a 60 days tourist visa. You say you're getting a 30 days extention? The extention has to be applied for and is only granted at the discretion of your local Immigration Office. Also you'll need onward travel within 30 days to satisfy your airline and Thai Immigration.

Single Entry Tourist Visa gives you 60 days - cost less than alternative. Apply for it mid-October.

Hi mate, if you plan to come often id get a tourist visa, its the proper way and keeps your record looking good. If its just a one off holiday, a free entry no visa needed and extend 30 days is easier and less hassel. Just put extended tourism for your reason for extension.

60 days visa u mean

Just get a tourist visa it’s not difficult.

Get a tr60 tourist visa. The queues at immigration to get the extra 15 days can be awful mid February. I got turned away from immigration saying I had 5 days left and to come back tomorrow. Next day same thing so turned up on day of expiration and was told why you not come earlier and officer called us last.minute brits. So...getting the visa in the first place may be annoying to mess about getting everything in pda format and resized. But I am a total computer dinosaur and I have muddled through this e visa a few times now and prefer it to standing in a queue for ever and a day in the hot sun wasting my holiday whilst being barked at by very busy immigration officials.

Yes. Your airline may request a ticket (bus, train anything) out of the country within 30 days. If you leave for Kuala Lumpur for a few days before the end of the first 30 days, you solve everything. Ticket, another 30 days visa exempt and get to see a great city.

Does your religion deny you to get a Tourist Visa ?

There's NO free open visa. You can apply for a tourist visa of 60 days or come without any visa for 30 days. Both can be extended by 30 days.

It's generally easier, faster, and cheaper, to apply for the tourist visa if you want between 30-60 days.

When you go to the airport for your flight to Thailand, the airline may require you to show proof of onward travel out of Thailand within 30 days, because that's what you will receive when you arrive. If they require this and you don't have it, they can deny boarding until you purchase a ticket to satisfy their requirement.

Also, you're going to potentially have to take an entire day out of your trip to go to the immigration office and apply for the extension, and worry about getting a TM30 from wherever you are staying as part of that extension application.

If you apply for the tourist visa online, you'll receive 60 days when you arrive. You can simply show the visa to the airline and they will be satisfied with that, and you never have to worry about visiting immigration at all during your trip. Most embassies also charge less for a tourist visa than what an extension costs inside of Thailand.