Id like to share my story too. I did one exempt with extension, got 1 tourist visa in Laos and last month I went to Kuala Lumpur with my friend for 2 days. I wanted to get my second exempt stamp for last month that I plan to stay in Thailand. So meanwhile being in KL I read somewhere that DMK immigration is pretty strict, I didn't buy any return flight from BKK, I didn't think about it. I got indeed questioned if I have any flight, I said no and she was like ,how do I know you gonna leave Thailand then?' She got her colleague. Fortunetly he was really nice. He saw my history of entering Thailand and I did say that I plan to stay last month because I need to go back to Study in my country. I have my luggage left in Bangkok to make short trip with my friend and need to get it before i go further. And that I want to visit South Korea because my friend that was with me lives there. He told me to buy the flight to Korea right now. I didn't object, because I needed it anyways. When I asked for my passport back to write the information during the process of buying He asked me how much the ticket was. At that time one way ticket was almost €200. He looked at me and said "you don't really wanna buy this ticket right?" I said, well it's expensive but if I have to i will just do it. Then he smiled and me and told its okay, and stamped my passport. At this point just get that long term visa, I mean it would be easier for you and no need to hassle a lot. I should have done it too but back when I came exempt was 45 days + 30 days so I decided to make use of it before they change the rules.

Hi I got question too. I got Thai Tourist visa and I forgot its 60 days and that +30 days I need to extent at immigration. Now I overstayed basically those 60 days by 7 days. If I go tomorrow to immigration to extent those other 30 days will they have issues with it??

@Thomas *********

it’s not that bad about waiting anymore. I went there few weeks ago. It took me more time because I needed to print some papers, 2 times because they didn’t tell me at once what I missed, but if you have everything I think max. 30 minutes incl. filling in the form there (you can also find it online and fill in home to make it faster) , then pay and you done. I heard Mondays and Tuesdays are busiest, I was on Wednesday and it was really okay. Maybe max. 20 people were there, I got first time slot (I think it was 9;30 they open(?)) maybe that’s why. But with picking it up there were more people but it took me around 5 min because I was 3rd in the queue (they didn’t look at given numbers). When you make appointment you see your number and time slot for it,, everyone is gonna be served in the end. Nothing bad about waiting in my opinion.

Neighbourhoods country as everyone says. I plan to do that in few weeks so you may do that too. You can travel to Vientiane, Laos and get the tourist visa there the next day. Make appointment at Thai embassy in Vientiane online site, 12go you can book bus or trein. What you prefer travelling with. Just book Airbnb or hotel for 1 or 2 nights, is pretty cheap and even one’s close to embassy too. Or more if you want to see around. First day you apply for it and second day midday you can pick it up. That’s what I read everywhere and gonna do.

@Paul ******

no idea why the doing that tho hahaha I was just booking flight last minute and took the cheapest one that was available at this point it didn’t matter if I fly longer.

@Paul ******

it was the cheapest option back then! And I didn’t mind staying over in Taipei for only 3 hours. I heard that before for example China airlines I was flying with took a whole trip Amsterdam -> Bangkok -> Taipei but now they changed two last stops other way 😄

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

yes it’s visa exempt indeed! Tbh I thought it was the same, thanks for knowing it isn’t. And thank you for the info! I was getting stressed about it 🙂

I have heard from costumer service of Embassy that you cannot apply for Thai Visa if you’re located in Thailand itself. Well, it is indeed eVisa so I was wondering too if we cannot just try do it. If anyone did I’d like to know if that works!!

But I just found out you can go to Laos which isn’t really expensive from Bangkok, stay there for a day or two and apply there for the tourist visa. Thai embassy in Vientiane accepts all applies and what I have read from other people experience you will even got the visa the next day. On the site it states 2 working days (except on holidays) so I’m not sure. But spending 2 or 3 days in Vientiane doesn’t sound bad, can explore the city. I plan to expand my 45 days with +30 days and then do that and apply for just normal tourist visa to stay longer.