What are the best visa options for a long-term stay in Thailand for a Czech expat?

@Nigel *************

That is your opinion or you have magical statistical analysis?

I am sharing my experiences your are sharing your?? Opinions? Fantasies? Guesses?

@Gordon ******

there’s quite a few around and not too far from the centre.

@David *******

ok non avevo letto l' età .

@Carsten *********

there are only 60 day tourist visas. No such thing as 90 day TV.

You can also apply for METV which could provide up to 9 months in Thailand but requires you to leave and come back every 90 days.

@Carsten *********

it's 60 days.

If you don't know this, this is not your group to advise others in.

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

I was wrong with the 90 days, however it is 60 days plus one 30 days extension

@Todd ********

check out the following visa description: and let me know where I'm wrong.

I was wrong on the initial 90 days, it is 60 days

@Michal *******

well it is 60 days on the initial Tourist Visa (TR) followed by a 30 days extension, followed by one visa run and one more extension to get to the 5 months.

@GiGi ***********

wtf are you talking about.

@Nigel *************

they let you back in each time right? To be expected... Nothing new there.

Being grilled at immigration is also nothing new. If they think u are working illegally, you are going to draw some interest for sure. You have extensive history here. There is something (maybe now red flag) that has caught their attention. I would venture a guess that his 5 month per year plan is good for many, many years.

@Nigel *************

5 months of tourism isn’t possible? Cmon. It sure is. More to the story on your side

@Ni***

where specifically were you told this? This plan involves a flight in, extensions and a land border bounce. This land border bounce would want to be at a known good border, like the border with Laos, not somewhere like Poipet which is known to be difficult.

I haven't heard of the Laos border (or the Myanmar one when it was open) rejecting people. I also haven't heard of people being rejected for tourist extensions in most provinces. You presumably wouldn't have been told this on first arrival, so that leaves, you were told this at the airport when you came back, having been out of the country for at least 7 months?

It's true if you are using tourist visas a lot, you need to consider things like which land border and which airports are most difficult. But general impression I got was they are stopping mostly people who are staying OVER 6 months here on tourist visas, not 5 months over the winter. I know other people who do this and then leave and don't come back until the next year and no problems yet.

Any detailed feedback is useful as this stuff all varies by the specific border post, immigration office, etc.

retirement visa will give you 15 months