Yurek Hunt. Almost right. From OA to O , you cannot do that in Thailand. You have to break the OA chain so to say. You have to leave Thailand and then you can get a non imm O in e.g Laos, Cambodia etc. at a Thai Embassy, OR come back to Thailand on visa exempt and buy a non imm. O in Thailand.

Nope if your home country nor Malaysia have no covid entry rules, you don't need insurance

@Jon ****

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In my opinion it also depends a bit if you want to come every year and how your timing is. I adviced an Canadian friend to come in on a non imm O and then get the year extension with re-entry, which he did. Every year he comes with more or less fixed timing. Leaves to Canada in March and comes back in october/november. So every year he can take a new year extension with re-entry permit. He can still use the affidavit which is alas not possible for you 🙄. So this possibility to think about, is also a 'money thing'. Banked money in Thailand or 12 times international transfer in your Thai bank account. Good luck !

Sorry but not understand what you want

@Tom *******

. Suppose you have a Tourist visa for 60 days in Thailand. After 20 days you have to leave because there is an emergency for e.g. a week in the Netherlands. When you have a re-entry permit, there are still 60-20-7= 33 days left on your tourist visa. 1 extension possible of 30 days so you can still stay 63 days. Suppose you have the same situation without a tourist visa, then you have visa exempt 45 days + 1 extension of 30 days = 75 days. So really not understand 🤷‍♂️

"The clock" of 60 days does not stop when you leave with a re-entry permit !!

So indeed what

@Graham *****

says

@Tom *******

. That costs nothing and you even can extend your stay for 30 days for 1,900 ฿. Think it's of no use to take a re-entry permit.

I think y'r right Bobby, but I read some time ago, that Thai Embassies in some countries, don't give so much Non imm. O-A's to the same person. Again, maybe Thai Embassy dependent 🤷‍♂️

Nope. Officially it has to be category "A".

@Linz ***********

:

Car ISUZU Highlander;

Year costs:

Nmbr 1 insurance 17,000฿

Tax 4,000฿

Service 2x 2,000฿ average

So about 25,000฿ a year = about 2,100฿ a month.

Petrol B7 about 36฿ a litre.

With 20.000km a year and 12km a litre = 60,000฿

So 5,000฿ a month.

So a total of 7,100฿ a month.

Ofcourse a smaller car would cost a bit less.

A daytrip with a taxi w'll be around 2,000-2,500฿

Maybe rent a car ? 1,000-1,500฿ without fuel ?

So if you want that e.g. once a week it seems to me (also notice this only now with writing this) that there is not SO much difference in DRIVINGcosts in owning a car comparing to the above (renting a car/taxi)

Maybe renting a car/taxi first and see where it leads ?

But...you have to buy a car first. Mine (new) was about

900,000฿. Second hand maybe you can get one for about 300,000฿ which also will be at least 10 years old.

I live in a village where for almost everything you need a car. Should I live in e.g. Bangkok, Phuket tourist area, Pattaya, I think I would not have bought a car. Even if you then need a taxi for some occasions, they are rather cheap comparing to European countries.

So I think it's also a bit depending for your situation and what you are willing to pay for your freedom.

At least you have an idea I guess. Good luck with you decision.

I think what

@Steve *******

says is the way to do it

@Michael ******

(Go Savannakhet) I don't know if you also need the money for a non imm O MULTI entry ? You can almost get 15 months out of this one with only border hops every 90 days.

Nope

@Didrik ********

. You also get 45 days visa exempt by landborder. Only restriction is that you may do that only twice per calender year.