Thailand loves to force you to burn money. When I showed up for quarantine suddenly my ten day quarantine booking wasn't enough, they wanted to see a post quarantine hotel booking even though I did even know if I'd get in to do the quarantine to begin with

@Johnny ******

You guys are the clowns - 90 day reporting is the SECOND thing to waste your life after the TM30 that has 0 consequences whatsoever for not doing. So you #1 are wrong - you can take a 1 night stay TM30 to do a 90 day report, and #2 are wrong - you can just skip the damned 90 day reporting it is utterly pointless.

™30 is a bureaucratic NIGHTMARE, it's one of the many ways the government tortures foreigners by doing things 1970s style. But the real question is: why are you getting TM30s? You'll waste a half day of your life and several hundred baht in transport costs. You may even be refused, because you'll have to have documents only the landlord has. Yet the consequences? AFAIK the only thing you need a TM30 for is to get a tourist stamp extension. And that can even be "cheated" by staying 1 night in a hotel and using the TM30 they get for you. Just one night.

No.

How would they know what specific room numbers in what specific buildings out of 100,000s of buildings are Airbnb?

I was about to email my original issuing embassy and asking if I can use visa free entry and not lose the DTV as I don't want to risk being arrested entering via DTV. And I expect within two years they'll stop brutalizing tourists to the same degree as the hate march going on right now

Mark Son Softpower has no income anything involved in the application

@John *********

Officially it is so you can't find written official statements it can be demanded as a condition of entry for anyone else. Now are they making arbitrary demands of people? I dunno

Carrying money is a requirement for visa exempt tourists, never a requirement specified for the DTV. But then again, the country doesn't seem to have any sort of fixed laws like the rest of the world who knows what kinda crap they'll try to pull next!

Anonymous participant 982 hah. Actually retirement visa = 0% chance of arrest and deportation. If it was available to me I'd definitely take it over a DTV, but I'm a few years shy unfortunately.