Friends have done it. Quite often in the past when local Immigration insisted on a new TM30 every time you returned from out of province travel.
Thais tend to avoid any confrontation and I don't think many hotels would turn you away.. I always check in with my Thai DL (never passport).
Give it a try - and remember the passport renewal as a back-up excuse.
PS - I hope the limp gets better soon ????????
I know of a few friends who get their wives to make bookings.
One could always say that your passport is with VfS Global/an agent for renewal..... if the hotel wants your business they will not confront you.
So....you stayed at home for fear of having to do a TM30.
Do you realise how limp that sounds?
Let your family do the booking and simply share a room with your wife. Keep out of the way while they check in.
Yes, I certainly accept that.
However, it is not wrong to mention what the 'official dates' are. People will have different reasons for asking about Songkran - some want to avoid it, others are looking for where/when to enjoy it.
Pattaya is not Thailand.
The official dates are as quoted by @IvorBiggun2
Up country the celebrations will finish on the 15th.
The Pattaya area is a circus in it's own right - Naklua 18th, Pattaya 19th (which usually means 24 hours non-stop) and Bang Saray 20th.
Got a reminder this morning.
By rights I should have ignored as I entered on 23 February.
I thought "what the heck?" and submitted anyway (partly because I wanted to put on the new address that was reported by TM30 by my landlord).
It should have been rejected.
It wasn't and I received an approval within the hour.