Hello everyone :-)

Thank you for welcoming me in this group. Its my first trip to Asia yuupeee.

Myself and 13yrs old daughter will be landing in Bangkok on the 25th of July from UK. We have return tickets for 3rd of September. total of 41 days. Up to 30 days we don't need visa if I am right. We are planning to leave Thailand on the 29th to Singapore for few days and then come back to Thailand, not sure if that will be via Cambodia or stright into Phuket or Bangkok. If we will be out of Thailand for 5 days (tickets booked already for Singapore trip) can we return to Thailand and stay up to 30days from date of arrival untill we will be back to UK. Or do we need to apply for travel visa? Is it child on the same rules as adult? Thank you in advance. Sorry if that sounds silly, I just don't know what is the best option for us.

We are traveling in October and I plan to get a multi entry tourist Visum. We are 2 adults and 2 children.

Can I get just a tourist Visa for my husband and myself? Then the kids will have the visa exempt, but overstay every time without consequence?

Jen Jen posted in another thread

we are looking to leave NZ for around 12months, traveling on our savings. probably spend most of our time in Thailand then maybe spend the last few months in laos or vietnam or something like that.... completley unsure atm, depends on how long we can stay in Thailand as to how we spend our money lol :)

I had read about the 20000bht - each time we bounce does that mean we need to have 20,000baht each (2adults,3children) - or is there a family rate? - and does that apply each time we bounce wihtin the metv 6month period, or only afterwards?

Just to confirm --

(1) even though I got our SETVs for the entire family by myself, in order to do 30 day extension at Chiang Mai immigration, the entire family needs to go, correct?

(1a) My understanding is that the 30 day SETV extension is a short wait at immigration - so short that I could take the kids in at 3:30 on a Friday and potentially still be seen that afternoon?

(2) regarding overstays for children, after the expiry of our SETV, we have a few trips planned where we'll return on exemption stamps and, if we decide to stay longer, will look at an ED visa. Am I reading correctly here that many people let their children overstay, and I would neither need to ensure that we all left for runs to get new exemption stamps nor would I need to worry about finding an ED visa that would also process O visas for the kids? I'd obviously rather do it proper, but if I could justify a few kid-free vacations to get fresh stamps, I'd rather do that :p

Thanks!

Question: we're going to apply for the METV and try to stretch it out to 9 mo. But after that, if we wanted to continue to tour in Thailand to make it a year away from home or longer, could we just leave and return for extra 60 days or? Advice greatly appreciated 😊

I know that to apply for another METV we'd have to do this from our home country and this would be quite expensive. Its my hubby and I and our two kids.