Not sure that is right. Thought you can enter anytime within 3 months of visa issue, and then your six month starts at the point of entry. May well be wrong though.

@Patrick *****

We got 1 year multi-entry visas in London based on money in UK bank accounts, and then only needed the money in a Thai account (for my wife) for future extensions.

My wife (German passport) and I (British Passport) both have 1 year extensions, based on a visa originally issued in London. Mine is based on income, and wife's is based on the 800K in a Thai bank account.

No. We have retirement visas and travel a lot; never staying more than 60 days at a time, so we never have to do a 90 day report.

Phuket took us less than 30 mins with British IDP, medical certificate (200 Baht from local doctor), residence certificate from immigration (300 THB). Braking reaction test, and colour test and that was it. Photo and driving license printed out there and then.

January 2019

If you over 50 go the retirement route; it makes life so much easier. Come and go as much as you want, no questions at the border/airport. Just have to be here once a year to get an extension after the first 2 years (or just under).

Won't help you today, but for future reference Qatar Airways now fly to CM, without the Bangkok change.

When flying internationally, we have gone through immigration at the regional airport many times. Probably will not work if flying a low cost, but should be OK with Thai or Bangkok Airways. Then you would get yr stamp in CM.

Normally a current account is the account that a cheque book and debit cards are issued against, your salary/pension or whatever income you might have will be paid into, and any direct debits/standing orders will be set up against. In the "old days", a current account paid no interest and a savings account paid interest, although these days that distinction has blurred a bit.