@Dick *******
well that is if you want to get there quickly it'll cost you about the same price if not more even when you consider in a hotel price to get there over the Border if you were to have gone to Cambodia or maybe in some case if you were to go to a country maybe further down south usually in my experience it was around 4 to 6000 baht possibly maybe more due to the fact that when you get there you also got to have to eat so it is what it is personally I would settle and Cambodia or Vietnam where maybe visa laws are a little more relaxed I heard Cambodia is going to be the most lacks but definitely stay away from the borders plus I've spent time on the Cambodian border before very scary place until you go a little ways down the road