Wise offers you both ways. You can send money directly to your Thai bank account (e.g. from a credit card). But you can also „top up“ wise in USD or EUR first, then convert it into THB and then send THB to Bangkok bank. The first way is a bit more convenient. The latter way is a bit cheaper (and you could make use of automatically converting when the exchange rate is good / meets a chosen threshold). I usually do the latter.

Three reasons: 1) Y'all have been returning after COVID much too quickly and in much higher numbers than anticipated. 2) Omnipresent lack of procedural efficiency throughout the country. 3) A visa system that requires far too many and frequent touch-points with immigration. Non-exclusive list of reasons.

I would assume that was NOT a visa run. A visa run is traveling to a nearby country to obtain a new visa to return. It was rather a border run / or border bounce. And it would seem to particularly not have involved any visa, but having happened on visa EXEMPT. And thus, visa exemptions are limited to two entries per calendar year (on land borders).

Phetchaburi is rather far away from any open (as in not Myanmar) and good (as in not Poipet / Cambodia) land borders. May grabbing a cheap flight from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur or something would be easier.

@Tea **********

Yes. I am not. Cause I am fully vaccinated and have good, global health insurance. So free to travel. Others will have more time at home browsing esoteric social media content again. So, win-win, I guess. 😂

No problem. Just show the vaccination certificates that every sane person possesses 3 years into / after a pandemic already anyways. And having a travel-health insurance for a few bucks should be a no-brainer for everybody (of going to one of the few PCR requiring counties after, or not. The only thing I hope for is that they don't resort to implementing some pre-screening, upload all your crap and get a separate confirmation document again (Thailand Pass).

There is the option of a yearly (multiple) re-entry permit. Probably much cheaper than wasting money on Elite. You can combine the former with your regular yearly extension of Non-Immigrant visa based on Thai child. 5,000 baht vs. 600,000 baht.

@Alison ******************

What discrimination? What are the current requirements of entering China again, right now? If possible for common passport holders at all, it requires PCR tests and whole shebang! And that coming from far more "healthy" countries. Oh well. Thailand and their big brother.

@Steve *******

Perfectly fine by me if that becomes true. Show vaccination and be done with it + temporarily testing for those coming from China. 👍

@William ******

Agreed on one hand. On the other hand, precise, definite information is relatively hard to come by in the country, thus rumors is at times all we can work with. Either way, might have been more helpful to make your case under that respective last post (I assume you meant the one suggesting Thai borders may be closed again) than in a separate unrelated post. Either way: cheers.