@Jan *****************

Thank you Jan, I am going to Laos on and will try to establish if I will be allowed to re-enter Thailand shortly afterwards.

@Gregg ******

But the confusion seems to be about the definition of a year - is it a calendar year, or any 12 months period , as opinions vary ?

134 days was the total I stayed in Thailand, during 2025.

@Nahas ***********

Thank you, but being on a modest (pension) budget, I will probably be looking at more affordable options, such as Laos, Vietnam or the Philippines, for South Eastern Asia - or perhaps South America (Paraguay has been suggested!)?

@Pascal *******

If there is 'another problem ', then I was not informed of it by the Immigration Officer, who just said 'sorry, the rules changed after your arrival ' - the only explanation I was given for the seven days granted. So off to Laos, it is , on /2026, with fingers crossed that I will be allowed back into Thailand and given sufficient days of grace to cover my remaining stay, until , when I have a return ticket to Europe.

@John *******

Thanks for your words of support , John. Other posters seem to erroneously assume that I am an habitual overstayer or exploiter of the system - which I most certainly am not. As a pensioner who simply wants to escape the freezing weather in Europe, for a few weeks every winter, I shall certainly be looking for alternative destinations in the future. Enough of this hassle !

@Lynnette ******

I am retired - so is that relevant ?

@Ian *******

Yes, but in a following calendar year, which I believed was acceptable. The Immigration Police officer told me that rules had been changed, AFTER my arrival on /2025 - so how was I to know ??

@Pascal *******

Not so @! My previous visit in 2025 was for less than 80 days, so a combined total of 134 days last year - so why do you make such a false assumption ??

@Donald *********

I have typically only visited Thailand once per calendar year, but last year was the first time I arrived twice in the same year. But as I was due to depart in the following year, ie. , 2026, I believed that this was allowable and would not be 'red-flagged' as too frequent.