@Paul ******

15 days for VoA, not extendable and costs money on arrival.

30 days for visa exemption (and nothing to pay when you arrive) and extendable for a further 30 days for 1,900 baht.

No.

@John ******

aah, diddums, feel upset because your ignorance has been exposed? 😃😃🙄🙄

@John ******

What a thin-skinned plonker! 😃

@John ******

The bus station near Pinklao is actually the SOUTHERN bus terminal - Sai Tai Mai.

The NORTHERN bus station is at Mo Chit.

No

@Bobby *******

Too much hassle. Just leave the 800k in the bank and consider it dead money. No worrying about transfers or scrutiny by dim IOs. I once had to dip into it for 6 weeks to get bck to the UK when my mother died, but what a load of hassle explaining that later - show death certificates and all that bollocks.

The money must be in the account for at least 2 months before and 3 months after the visa starts, so there’s a 6 month window where you could use some but if you did, the balance must be at 800,000 three months before the retirement visa ‘anniversary’.

Best thing to do is just to leave the 800k in there untouched and forget all about it until you leave the country or die.

I do wish people would stop calling a visa exemption a bloody ‘visa on arrival’. It’s NOT.

They are totally different things. A VoA is only for 15 days for a limited number of countries and has to be paid for and cannot be extended.

A Visa Exemption is for 30 days and is free for citizens of over 50 countries and can be extended ONCE for a further 30 days. Grrr! 😀

@Barry *******

it’s NOT a VOA, it’s a visa exemption. Try to get it right, it’s more important than you think to use the correct terminology