What should I know about applying for a Thai visa at the Hong Kong consulate?

We chose Hong Kong a long time ago for our first VISA run coming up due to multiple people saying how easy it was there and that the turnaround time being a couple days. Also we have kids so we are going to Disney while there.

Come to find out a lot of people having issues there but due to their extensive time in Thailand beforehand.

I'm hoping since it'll be our first VISA run that they'll go easy on us but we have all the paperwork in order, etc. Thanks for the info!

I'm headed there next week to get my Non B. My company said HK or Singapore best for them. No idea why. Hoping its not a nightmare

As an extra idea, should the OP decide to give it another go, is separate from husband, pretend they don't know each other, and go to different counters. I believe 2 passports full of tourist visas may have played a role.

Tod Daniels Actually , I had visas several times from Hong Kong, with my passport full of other SETVs, and it was one of the easiest places to apply (up until summer of last year). It's just recently it appears they became nasty. Or maybe they prejudged based on looks who knows. I'd seriously try next day at a different counter.

There are other more recent reports of succesful applicants in HK.

Sorry that happened but what on gods green earth possessed you pick Hong Kong as the thai consulate in S/E Asia to apply for a tourist visa? :O The inter-web has many stories of people who had multiple tourist visas in their passports and who had problems there. :(

I would say go to Vientiane where there is no proof of funds, no proof of onward travel, no proof of hotel booking?

OR

seeing as you can meet those criteria try Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. BOTH of those seem to not look too closely at the number of tourist visas you have in your passport. There was a recent report of someone with 5 tourist visas in their passport and they got a tourist visa in Vietnam without a problem.

Keep in mind, IF you use the thai consulates in Vietnam they ONLY take US dollars and they do require proof of onward travel, proof of funds in a bank account and might require proof of a hotel booking :/

Confrontational before looking at your passports. I have learned in life that sometimes it IS what you look like what people think of you before they even know you.

Yangon is also supposedly easy last I heard.

What I noticed about Hong Kong when I went there was it was the only consulate that had a sign posted about too many tourist visas, but it was unknown as to how many they look for before they choose to deny applicants. And I thought they only count back-to-back consulate visits. In your case, just 3 previous visas from other consulates, with no warnings and denied for 4th visa. I always thought that it was back to back visas from the same consulate, but if you go to different countries and get a visa from different consulates, they wouldn't count that visa from other countries against you

Good post...forget Penang, forget Phnom Penh, forget Hong Kong.......and looking good, KL, Vientiane and Savannakhet.