@Richard ************

bare in mind the 60 day tourist visa is $300 in NZ. Everyone robbing us!

@Flukie *****

retirement/marriage/work/educational/business

Book a short flight to KL and book a rental next to an eatery/mall where you can re-cooperate . Inquire with your airline for wheelchair assistance onto the plane.

@Joseph ******

if you use the recommended Thai Visa service, make sure you check your documentation before going back in through the checkpoint to make sure the people filling in your forms for you took note of you METV. I saw they had written down 30 days instead of 60 days re-entry request for me so asked one of the guys from the company to fix up. Otherwise it was an efficient half day trip.

@Graham *****

google the visa run service in your area and see what it says on their web page as to whether they require any nightly stays at their border checkpoint that they use

@Horea ****

for the previous 12 months. Don’t think you will be able to wing a last 6 months in a year and then first 6 months with visa exempts and tourist visas. Though timing your 2 land border bounces per calendar with a border run company could get you close

If you are from a country that has visa exempt then at the end of your extension go do a border run with a border run company. Google for them in your area. They will take you by van to the border and help facilitate re-entry with a new 30 day stamp which you can then extend a further 30 days at immigration. That would get you a total of 5 months . If you want an additional month total then you could use them to facilitate another 60 day visa. Usually a half day trip. More information will be on the border/visa run company’s website page

@Horea ****

I had recently maxed out my METV to almost 9 months, went away for 6 weeks then tried to go in at DMK airport. They questioned me and told me as a “regular tourist” they can’t let me in for spending more than 180 days in the past year. So I needed to speak to his supervisor with a genuine reason to let me back in visa exempt.

@Horea ****

it will be more to do with your recent history in the country. If you haven’t been in Thailand over the past year then no problem at all. The main airports in particular have been looking at total time in country over past 12 months and pulling people aside who have spent more than half a year here over that time. If you are well under that then you should breeze through.

@Dave ********

technically yes until they count up the total number of days you’ve spent in the country in the past 12 months is over 180 days then they seem to begin asking questions