@Herve ********

, I guess it can serve to show others what NOT to do?

Define "too ill to travel". When I hopped in on a walker with my broken leg in Bangkok, the immigration officer told me and my gf, that if I was in any way mobile after my extension runs out, I should leave and re enter. You basically need to be stuck in a hospital bed or unconscious for a medical extension to be given. As a side note, wheelchairs are the BEST way to get through SE Asian airports. 😁

I would think most people would keep an address somewhere. A relative or something. You would need that if you have bank accounts etc for sure.

Where do you want to back them up to? If you are saying you want to copy them to your phone, but you don't have enough space, then you need to buy a bigger SD card. You could also save them to your PC/Mac.

The last thing you want to do is have a conversation with Immigration. Just my opinion. 😅

Note, you do a normal tourist visa as well, but you have to re apply each time. And for METV, you usually have to show some proof of your general travel plans.

@Dwan *******

, you cannot stay in Thailand that long on exemption and tourist visas. But with the multi entry tourist visa , you can leave and re enter as often as you want up to 2 months at a time (3 if you apply for an extension).

If you don't want to leave, you will have to look at other long term visas, like retirement.

6 Month mult entry tourist visa (METV). If you do it right, you can get almost 9 months. But you have to leave the country at least twice.

Depends on how late. Anytime before midnight, you can probably get one from the queue. After, I would definitely pre book.

Depends. Starting now to the end of next week in Pattaya. Gets busier every day. Pattaya I believe has beach concerts or something. They usually extend the water activity longer than everyone else.