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

just tell them your going to do 30 day extension. No issues.

@Graham ******

credit card, that I want to hear about. This will be an adventure worth waiting for!

I'm on a 49baht "tourist Sim" , 19 months later and 200 baht per month topped up via Lazada . The tourist thing is a label for prepaid.

I could to up at as well but Lazada is easier

Honestly with the cost of sea freight exponentially high over the last few years I would seriously hesitate. Place like Geneva if it is only 2 years then rent furniture. Plenty of bikes to buy the second hand.

It's a huge cost. I have moved a container all around Asia, this is it's final resting place, never again.

Mots Namnuch is great agent

@Steve *******

exactly, in Thai wife's name! This is very important.

@Jo *********

Was checked 3 months ago when we applied for COE. I wouldn't risk in current light

No wise don't do out of Thailand... They only do inbound. Normal banks or DeeMoney do outbound or if you know of another please add below.

@Chris ********

I have applied for a COE to get to Pattaya, but same process. your COE is just the permit to be allow to arrive and enter Thailand, it does not specify a length of time, your Visa does this. You can apply for a COE specifying to the embassy you wish to use the visa free 45 day entry. Once you arrive you can start the 30 day extension.

flights... technically you must have a flight in and out of Thailand. some embassies look for both, as mine did in Jakarta, others didn't. some people use non-genuine flights tickets ($5 online) to get the exit flight, but I am not advocating that, i am using a one way in the Bangkok and an exit flight fully flexed with Emirates to Dubai that I can extend for a year at no change.

So.. 1. start the COE, get the first stage approval.

2. get a flight out

3. Get your vaccinations sorted (both for sandbox)

4. Get your SHA+ hotel Sorted

5. Add all of this to your COE record, and get final approval.

the only part I cannot confirm is how you get permission to leave Australia, but as previously stated if your leaving for > 90 days you just tell them that...

Singapore airlines says one flight s day leaving just after midnight from Manila to BKK via Singapore