Laurence Sydenham

You said you entered Thailand 3 times by air.

There is no official limit on Visa Exempt entries if you come by air.

And you been 2 times to Mae Sai for a back to back visa exempt.

No problem either. Officially, you're allowed 2 visa exempt

entries per calendar year, just as Tod said.

Now, what's about your 3rd land crossing within the same calender year? How did that one work out?

First they stapled my bank book to my passport,

Later they stapled my blue WP book to my passport

Tax receipts followed. Arrival/departure card was next.

And just to keep it all together, .....

I stapled the green book for my bike on it too ;-)

Penang Embassy loves me <3

No more worry - chicken curry ;-)

It is very common that tourists overstay for a day. Mostly because people think 1 month equals 31 days.

If it's just a day you overstayed it's mostly down to the custom officer in front of you. They are more lenient at the international airports then the land borders If it's more than that, you pay. Simple.

The red stamp you get just says you paid your overstay fine. Absolute no problems. I got several of them.

@Tod ********

- Yeah, 1900 but in Samui they like to have their "Service Charge" ;-)

John Justus - Best answer so far.

No worries, Just go direct to the over payment counter and pay before you go through customs. Although it will be 500 THB per day. There are no endless lectures as Thomas Lindegaard Jensen suggests.

Easy, peasy, straight forwards.

But be aware, as somebody already mentioned, should you get in to a silly police check, you might get problems.

I'd recommend to go for an extension before you legal time runs out. Extension costs 1920 THB (+ 500 thb a day if you're already overstaying)

Peneng Hill with a bottle of wine :-)

Downtown it's too hot

Should not be a problem with plenty of time to spare - if you don't have loads of people in front of you picking up passports.

Of course you can - but why would one want to spend half the day bringing the PP to the embassy, baking away in a bus or taxi, then do the same the next day again?

At the same time, you could sit on top of Penang Hill (where it's nice and COOL) with a bottle of wine and enjoy the view?

Or go to the beach? Or, or, or .....

There must be a 1000 things better to do in Penang than melting away like ice cream.

Only one extension possible on a SETV !