My son 😜

Secondly, you don't have to spend the money required to obtain a visa, just have proof of those funds. So no point in including that in your daily visa cost calculations.

If you look for the most cost efficient option, well the right visa for the purpose of your stay, is probably the cheapest.

If you want to stay 60 days, a Single Entry Tourist Visa is cheaper then a free Visa Exempt & extension.

If you want to stay longer then 90 days, a Multiple Entry Tourist Visa is cheaper then 1 Single Entry Visa & extension.

If you want to stay a year, a NON-Immigrant Visa is more economical then several Tourist Visas and extensions.

@Frank-Steven **********

Yeah sorry 240 days. + 30

First of all the Visa and the Extension of stay are two different things.

Visas are the responsibility of the Foreign Ministry whilst Extension of stay are Ministry of the interior.

So ...

Visa Exempt only gives you 30 days.. ( with extension up to 60 days)

Single Entry Tourist Visa gives you 60 days (with extension up to 90 days)

METV gives you up to 180 days. (With extension 210 days)

Extension of stay is always 1'900THB ( I believe it just increased to 2"000THB but not sure) nevermind if it's a 14, 30 or 360 days extension.

@Paul ********

For peace of mind, you can go at any time to a local immigration office and get an extension of stay for 1'900THB

@Paul ********

So you pay 1"000THB on exit. If you're just a regular tourist, that isn't a big problem.

Yeah it's well known that foreigners get problems for overstaying but they are mostly people with a long history in Thailand.

If you arrive on the 1. December and fly out on the 1. January at 2am, you will go through immigration on the 31st December, so absolute no problem. At worst, you'll pay 500THB.

I think, we didn't have a military coup for a while 😜

Under the current constitution it doesn't really matter who won, overall, the army still stays in power.

@Graham *****

Only if you made the first 90 day reporting at an Immigration Office.

After that it's very easy to do on-line and only takes a couple of minutes. Then it takes between a few hours and several days to get the approval notification.

@Anne ******

For immigration, a six months statement with the accompanying bank letter should be enough.