Get a retirement visa and yearly extension. Easiest option.

Ah ok. Yes Penang is known for wanting those.

Is there any reason you flew all the way to Penang and didn't bother getting a 60 day tourist visa for Thailand?

How would anyone know that one person in the group was the 'manager'? If it were just a large family on holiday the 'father' would typically be in charge, but he wouldn't have any special visa.

Except he had to leave Thailand.

@Robert ***********

My solution to that (after 9 years here mostly on Tourist visas) is to set up a Thai company and launch a business here.

It took a couple of years to identify the right business and its taken longer than I planned to raise funding to get it off the ground, but I'm closer to the finish line (starting line?) with planned launch now in Q1 2018.

@Robert ***********

Yes, I bet they do.

@Robert ***********

Yes, that is a good visa to have acquired.

@Parmentier *****

I don't use motorbikes. Only BTS or cars.

@Robert ***********

Presumably you don't have just the 5 year version.