@Todd ********

If you have a 10 year Thai Visa. You have nothing to worry about. You didn't bring that up in your comments. Which is unfair for normal tourists that think they can do the same thing you do. You should refrain from giving Border bounce advice if you have a 10 year Thai Visa.

I said Gook luck to end the conversation. So, Good luck to you.

@Todd ********

It wasn't an overstay. It was 11 days over their informal 180 limit (191) in 12 months.

Ok, you do what you want. You think you know everything and everybody else is amateurs. You have been doing this since COVID? That explains your attitude. They were lenient after COVID.

But do it how you want. Good luck!

@Todd ********

It is an informal Internal thing for Thai Immigration. They don't need written rules or policies. You think this is the West?

How long have you been doing it? They didn't enforce it for about a year after COVID. But if you read this forum much, you know they have recently started doing it again.

It is good you have a plan B. Does it include airfare back to where you came from when they turn you back in the terminal?

You may have better luck if you don't arrive at Bangkok or Phuket. The smaller provinces need your money more.

I was 1 step away from being booted. They noted in my Passport that I was trying to live in Thailand. They gave me 30 days to settle business and it could not be extended.

Have not been back since because then COVID happened.

Btw, it is 180 not 160

@Todd ********

No, that will be a problem. You can only do 160 days in any 12 month period.

No, it is not a law but it is something Immigration does. I have gotten in trouble for that. And believe me, it was much more minor of an infraction than what you are planning. I visited 7 countries in 12 months. And they almost sent me back when I came back from Hong Kong just for inadvertently being 11 days over from March 2018 to March 2019.

Try it at your own risk.

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

You are right but Thailand Immigration, being what it is, will find a way to make it difficult.

But, you are right. I have done this and never had a problem. However one time I bought a REAL bus ticket into Laos and they found that suspicious.

Maybe they will see a pattern in the airlines or something. Or think they see a pattern.

I remember some things that we used to openly talk about on these forums that are no more.

However, using a real ticket may not be a problem but using your real name announcing that you are going to do this might be a problem.

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

It helps Immigration greatly when they read our forums.

They, may, in fact, post these questions expecting someone to post a "Travel Hack" so they can look for it so to make it hard for people when the suspect they are doing this (whether they are or not)

Why are you not planning on leaving Thailand?

@Graham *****

Yes, that is how they see it.

@Ayman **********

This isn't like the West. It is not a Nation of Written laws. It is a nation of people. How they do things is how they do things.

I am as annoyed as you but that is the way it is in Thailand. Even in a Thai Court, the law is more of a guideline. The Judge will do what they think is correct.

Immigration, has nearly complete discretion. That is funny because people think they have a lot of discretion to give tourists a break (maybe that was once the case) but these days Immigration IOs act as if they only have discretion how much to hassle you.

@Ayman **********

You are right about that. It isn't a law and it isn't fair that they just spring it on people. If you read all the rules, you did nothing wrong. But it is what it is. Immigration does not allow it.

You cannot do that. Now you know.