even tho you got a tourist visa, the airline might refuse you to board. You should consider to buy an onward ticket for 15bucks and save you some bad times
why do you need thai baht before arriving and lose a 30% in commission? Just bring some us$ with you and once u arrived at the airport you can exchance a couple of hundreds at the boots there. Never get thai baht out of thailand
I did 45+30 twice this year then I went to the states and got back 40 days later. The officer questioned me about my staying and he didn't look happy. Didn't get warned as I prove I was staying there just for a few days to pick my stuff and move to taiwan. He wanted to check my ticket and typed the data on his computer
there no need to prove here how special you are. I don't want to waste any more time on you, you are absolutely right. There's no list and you can enter anytime you want, as many times as you want without any sort of visa. The bad immigration officers like to scare people cuz they are bored but at the end they'll let anyone in.
OP wrote " I was taken to the side office when going through Thailand immigration. They were asking questions and basically said, get a ED visa or a Tourist visa OR ELSE. "
I can understand people on a short holiday (so that you try to stay there as long as possible) but I really don't understand the difference for people who are based here, that's something really stupid to me