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Home » Reader question » Reader Question: How can I stay in Thailand for more than 15 days when traveling overland?
Reader Question: How can I stay in Thailand for more than 15 days when traveling overland?
Hello readers,
I plan to travel overland into Thailand this week or early next week.
I was planning to stay in Thailand for a little less than three weeks, but yesterday I found out that you only get a 15 day visa upon arrival by land!!
Flying from the country where I am now will cost me so much more money, I don't care to pay the fine for the exceeding days (max 7 days) but of course I don't feel like being dragged into a box as an illegal or criminal and to be cross-examined.
What's your advice? I have ruled out flying myself because of the costs.
Regards,
Emma
I would shorten the visit.
I do not recommend premeditated staying longer.
But everyone makes his/her choices.
You are then deliberately in the country illegally for a number of days.
You can make a visa run on the last day of your stay. Is also a nice trip to the border. See http://www.thaivisarun.com. Tel. 02-7132498.
You could also just get a tourist visa in the country where you are now 🙂
Then you can stay for 60 days, even if you enter by land.
As Dick says: You can also make a visa run.
Perhaps you can also extend the 15-day stamp at immigration by 7 days
against payment of 1900 baht.
Why not just apply for a visa before you leave?
And now I have to sell some blah-blah because my response is too short.
Hello, Emma,
It is certainly not smart to deliberately stay longer in Thailand.
This can cost you a lot of money, and you will get an entry in the black book.
I stayed 1 time 2 days too long, and that was not accepted.
1 day is not a problem, for the 2nd day I had to pay 1000 THB.
So apply for a visa, or indeed a visa run.
Depends on your nationality, from which country you are making the transition and to which country you go next and at which border post you cross, and also depends on the means of transport. For example, I was once in Laos illegally for 3 months, so to speak, and I had a stamp that I had entered Thailand, but no stamp that I had left Laos on that day (in a pick-up in the back): that stamp had didn't put them in my passport. As a result, after 3 months in Laos, I was not allowed to enter (because I was supposedly still there) and therefore did not receive a stamp for arrival in Laos, while I did receive a stamp that I had left Thailand, with the result that I was at my wits' end. had to enter Thailand (after crossing the bridge a few times) and I traveled to a border post with Cambodia to cross the border there with a 1-day overstay.
You plan to enter Thailand by land, so you are in one of the neighboring countries.
I don't really understand why you are willing to pay any fine for a 7-day overstay but not the plane ticket. I think you can fly from one of the neighboring countries (only) for the price of that fine - and you can immediately stay for 30 days
lou is right, that's why I also asked where you cross, probably you can ask for an extension for 1 week at immigration there or somewhere else on your journey ... You must then find out when you can do this and for how long takes.
In various cities you will find an immigration, where you can extend a visa against payment of 1900 THB.
Count on the fact that you often have to wait half a day in Bangkok before it is your turn.
You also think a flight ticket is too expensive, but take a look at Air Asia or Nok Air with incredibly low rates.
Happy Holidays
I would certainly not recommend an overstay, this will cost you a lot of money and a note in the black book. With one of the budget airlines you can fly to many places in Thailand for an apple and an egg, which is certainly cheaper than the fine that you "definitely" get for overstay. And you then have a residence permit for 30 days. Nok Air as mentioned above flies, outside Thailand, only from Penang (Malaysia) and Vientiane (Laos) Here you have a site with most Low-Budget airlines from South-East Asia: http://goedkopevliegtickets.jouwpagina.be/rubrieken/low-budget-azie.html
Good luck!!
Another tip: If you know well in advance when you are going to Thailand, book your ticket as soon as possible. With Air Asia, that certainly saves several euros compared to booking on the day you want to fly.
overstay is 500 baht per day…I know a story of someone who just thought “Oh well, then I will pay 500 baht per day”. That is wrong thinking. With overstay you break the law and he had to go to jail. A day overstay is possible… they don't really make it difficult, but you do break the law. In NL you can also go for a ride with a beer… doesn't really matter… but katjelam is trouble.
You could have applied for a double entry visa in NL at the Thai consulate in Amsterdam (http://www.thaiconsulate-amsterdam.org/). Then you can stay for 2 months… take a 1 month extension (for 1900 baht) at the local immigration office. Do you do a visa run to the nearest foreign country (Myanmar or Burma is popular) and go back with your second entry where you can get a moon entension again after 2 months.
If you don't have such a visa, you can go to Burma every week (I believe) and then you can stay for a week. It is better and more fun to go to Laos for such a double entry visa.
Jan,
It is all correct what you say about the Double Entry and that you can ultimately extend it to 6 months, but what is the use of that for Emma?
According to what I read, she is coming via one of the neighboring countries and she is only planning to stay in Thailand for three weeks, so what's the point of the double entry then.
If I am not mistaken it is 1000 Bath per day overstay with a maximum of 20000 Bath and/or imprisonment.
Your last paragraph is not entirely clear to me.
Weird..already answered...didn't do it....or I'm stupid again (it's possible)..just one more thing
You can do a visa run to Burma without a visa, but with a NL or EN passport (I know that…because more have done it) and then you get a week. Costs 2500 baht from hau hin with visa run service. If it doesn't drive then I know a taxi for 3500 baht from hua hin that you can drive. An extra week will cost you a day.
Jan
I'll leave that first sentence to yourself.
I write in my response that it was not clear to me, because I had never heard or read about access that week, not even on this blog, and I would like more information about that.
Of course I may have missed it.
I therefore do not want to say that it could not exist, I have been in Thailand too long to say that something cannot be done because you have not read or heard anything about it.
By the way, you just assume that she goes to Hua-Hin, I suppose.
Just wonder why you get a week in Burma and 15 days at the other border posts and what the reason is.
Perhaps several people have experience with this or have more information about it and then we might hear about it.
For 3500 Bath you can fly to Cambodia but by bus from Bangkok (visa run) Google for 2500 Bath incl. everything for that day, including visa costs, food and you will receive a 15-day visa upon return. (departure soi 27 hok sukomvit Road – 9.30am)
Made it myself last month for my own 90 day stay
Regards Cor Jansen
You get 15 days if you enter Thailand by land, but you can buy an extra 7 days if you go to a place-bound emigration before the end date, this may also be possible on every emigration.
I went to Cambodia, with a visa run bus, this bus is 30% full of traffic jams, they work black and make a run every 15 days, they all know each other, a kind of fun ride, the same every 15 days.
Regards Cor Jansen
: )
Yes…I am in HuaHin.
The difference with border posts is also vague to me. I cannot get a double entry visa in Burma, but I can in Laos. There has just been a new border post in Prachuap Khiri Khan, but only accessible to Thais and Burmese. Since this is against international treaties, this will soon be possible for everyone. I understand that they still have to arrange something for this, but they are busy working on it... It will be fantastic for me. 45 minutes of driving instead of a day lost. Then it may not even be necessary to arrange a visa. Just cross the border every time...but your passport is full of all those stamps. 🙂