What are the consequences of overstaying in Thailand by 1 or 2 days?

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Overstay starts the day after your visa/exemption expires. 500 baht a day up to 20,000 baht. No affect if less than 90 days. However, if you wish to get a DTV or similar in the future the application asks if you have ever overstayed. This may result in a DTV rejection so try avoid overstaying if possible.

What ever happened to that bloke on the news that over stayed for 12 years,

Just talk been talking about it for 12 months

Dont overstay...

Why no relook at your business class flights and factor in for a 60 day stay rather than 61 or 62 days?

Luck of the Irish. You might pay a penalty or nothing at all.

NEVER!!!!overstay

Overstayed twice by 1 day got stamped out told make sure check date of expiry never got told to pay anything

If you book your flights now I would think you could be grandfathered in when you arrive?

never go into an overstay knowingly! Avoid it !

Why would you knowingly book to overstay?

If you overstay by a couple of days: 1. If you submit to Immigration and pay the designated fine, probably no further problem. 2. If you leave the country after this overstay, Immigration may put an overstay stamp in your passport which may cause you problems if you subsequently try and reenter Thailand. 3. If caught by police or Immigration (maybe even on your way into the departure airport), you would be subject to a prison stay, a big fine and excluded from reentry into Thailand for an extended time. It is never worth overstaying.

If you're stopped by police for any reason and are overstayed by even 1 day you will be put in jail until someone turns up with a ticket out of Thailand then escorted to the plane without a wash or change of clothes in handcuffs and banned from re entering for an unknown period. Do you think it's worth it?

Not exactly encouraged but 1-2 days is not frowned upon. Given the visa exemption is free, 1000bht is a nice little earner.

Highly unlikely it switches back to 30 days this year -

No details of if or when they may change it back to 30 days. Hasn’t happened yet. It may not.

Most don’t have any repercussions of a one or two day overstay and just pay the fine of 500 baht per day on their way out.

The keyword there is most. If you happened to be stopped by police and found on overstay then that opens up a whole can of worms, that could potentially lead to a ban from entering Thailand.

Never plan to overstay. It probably won’t happen to you but if it does you’ll live to regret those can of worms.

500 baht per day overstay, payable to the immigration officer who puts the exit stamp in your passport.

Why not just wait and see what the situation is when you land instead of assuming?