My wife and I have the same multi entry E visas. We are Canadian as well and arrived October 18th. We are flying from Krabi to Kuala Lumpur at a cost of $83 Canadian per person each way. We are staying in Malaysia for 2 days. We are repeating the same trip after our 2nd 60 days. For this trip we booked a hotel in Krabi for a few days before and after our flight. So we get 2 birds with 1 stone, so to speak.
we are from Canada and my application was done online through the Thai embassy in Ottawa. So I can only speak to that.
When I submitted my application they asked flights because it is a multiple entry. I submitted the flights except for the end of the 6 months. I also submitted a travel plan along with an explanation of why we did not get the last flights. I told them that at this time we are not sure where we are going, either Canada or leave a month earlier and go to Cuba.
I was concerned that they wouldn't accept that, but they did.
We are going to Thailand Oct 18 and plan to stay for 6 months minus a few days. I chose the MEV because I wanted no entry hassles. It was a easy online application process and I had to show flights leaving Thailand every 60 days. I didn't provide a flight leaving at the end of the 6 months, just an explanation that we have 2 choices of where we want to go, and would make that decision later. To tell the truth, I thought that might have been a problem, but it was approved.