I had mine 30 days extension last November in Patong. The officer was extremely helpful, he issued my visa extension immediately (I had a broken leg) and we took a picture together as well. Usually ask people to come later to pick up their passports. ฿1900.

UK. Cheaper, better choice and you can easily find it. In case something goes wrong, you can always return.

@NA'Ahulelua ********

obviously you don't know how the airline employee ticket work. Let me infirm you please. They're highly discounted tickets, usually employees and retirees pay a service charge if any and airport taxes. Are fully flexible, this means you can make changes with no fees or fare diferences as they're based on the fully economy or business class fare which is obviously fully flexible. You can also get a full refund on your ticket, or any unused part of your ticket. But, there is always a but these are stand by tickets. You fly onkr if there are seats available. The good thing is before we book a flight, we usually have a good knowledge of the loads of the flight as we can check then on a special website. Last August when I wanted to leave BKK, because the flights were very full I had 5 different OW tickets, one with Thai, one with EVA, KLM, Lufthansa and Finnair. Once back in London I refunded the unused ones.

I travel like this since 1998 2-3 times a year to Thailand only and of course many other places of this world, much more strict than Thailand and never had any problem. I travel with one way tickets usually I have a return ticket but not always use it. If for example I gave a round trip ticket with Thai and at the airport the check in desk advise me that the flight is very full I can quickly issue a OW ticket with EVA which departs 5 minutes earlier from London. The immigration never asked me to show a return ticket in all these 25.5 years, maybe because I never created any problem and always left within the 30 days. Only one time last November when I was flying from Da Nang to London via BKK an immigratoon officer asked me how long I was planning to stay stay in Thailand . When I answered only 5 hours as I had a flight to London, she stamped my passport giving me the usual 30 days, without asking to see my ticket to London.

They ask me more questions when I fly to the US and I used to travel at least 5 times a year as I was working for an American company and I have a visa.

Do what I do as I'm an airline retiree. Get a return ticket to show you have an exit flight and refund it after you go through immigration, if this is what you want to know.

Tihal Familio I totally agree, not only today but always. What I say is that the airlines need to follow the immigration rules.

@Darren *******

so it's not the airlines who enforce the return ticket but the rules of the country's immigration the traveler visits. The airlines just check the ticket and can deny boarding to comply with the rules of the country of destination.

@Brandon ***********

what makes you think the airlines enforce this? Airlines would be happy to sell ow tickets as they are much more expensive than the roundtrip ones, on the long haul flights.

@Jo *********

me too in 25 years 2-3 times a year and I always travel on ow stand by tickets as an airline employee then and retiree now.

@Luc *******

I'd like to know if you really feel comfortable with these all nonsense procedures. The point is not if you can afford it or not. The point is I cannot think how the whole procedure will benefit 1.me 2.the Thai population. I can easily afford to pay for the tests and the stay for a few nights in preselected by the government hotels, but from my point of view the only people who will benefit are some hoteliers and the companies they offer the tests. Nobody else. The whole world is open to vaccinated travelers, but Thailand. Philippines and Cambodia are open, Malaysia is opening, Vietnam follows. If I made a comment it's because I really love Thailand, as my own country, I visit it for the last 25 years 2-3 times a year. I have numerous friends and I'm well aware, first hand, what the situation is.

I don't know what your Thai history is and I really don't care. I think I can comment freely and add my opinion as you and anyone else. And please comments style "stay home" please keep them for yourself or friends of yours. I find them very immature and a grown man? like you would be more respectful to himself avoiding such comments.

@Ruth ******

everyone brings money in an economy, one or another way as far as they enter a country. One more one less, but everyone contributes. It is very racist and inhuman to exclude travelers on a low budget. Don't tell me all 44 million tourists of Thailand of the pre-covid era were all millionaires. What's happening now seems like some unpopular governments around the world started using COVID as an excuse to better control their population as well as the people entering their country.

Personally I started visiting Thailand since 1998 twice or thrice a year. I'm not a millionaire as probably you are, but even if it's not a problem to affront the extra expenses required, I refuse to travel, because of the uncertainty of the whole situation. I have many good reasons to go, many friends to visit, my late brother's grave, but I wait till things are clear enough. At the end who loses is the country's economy and the the low to middle class people.