grandpollo

Bilateral agreement just means that Thailand and the other country have mutually agreed tit for tat on entries, e.g. yours 30 days to us and ours 30 days to you. 

Well, isn't that the same as say Canada or the USA then? It's 30 days visa exempt also, right? Nope.

There is no agreement back and forth. Thailand just decided that say Canadians or Americans are OK for VE entry despite no corresponding agreement back to Canada or the USA (as if...).

So VOA, here's a list of a few countries who pay and only for 15 days, VE with no bilateral agreement, here's a big whack of countries who won't do the same for Thais, and then bilateral, here are a few that will do the same for Thais.

I doubt Peru is chock full of Thais and vice versa but they are apparently allowed. This might be due to trade agreements between the bilateral nations. 

Everyone else not under one of the 3 categories has to apply for a visa, like most if not all Africans appear to have to do.

Note on the chart somehow they have Peruvians and a few others under both the typical 30 day VE scheme and the 90 day bilateral scheme so it's hard to say how they apply that logic. It would have helped to see what * and ** meant on the chart.  Maybe post the whole chart including the footnotes.

11 hours ago, Jackm93 said:

I read on a thailand travel essentials website that he was able to do it in the embassy but he doesn’t want to go there for them to turn him away.. he wanted to stay in Thailand so will he have to potentially leave the country and head back in ?

Thailand would not have an embassy in Thailand, no countries do. He better behave well to avoid the police then go to the airport and leave after paying the fine. 

Is there more than the one on Beach Road? South of Pattaya Klang a bit. Soi 9 or so.

I'm sure that one is geared towards understanding tourists as I ride by it a lot and there are quite a few farangs in and out the main doors. Not smiling, mostly. 

There are also the tourist police which has a website here: http://www.ftpapattaya.org/ which helpfully has this as their location (despite having a map on the same page showing it at 2nd Road/south of Soi 6/1) which is up the hill from 3rd/2nd Road (vs. from off Thappraya)

Tourist Police Station 4, Sub-Division 2, Tourist Police Division, is located at 609/1 Moo.10, Pratumnak Rd., Pattaya, Banglamung, Chonburi 20150. Tel. 038 429 371, 038 425 937, Fax. 038 410 044, having the responsibilities in the areas of Chonburi, Samutprakarn, and Chachoengsao Provinces

Their Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/PattayaTouristPolice/about/ sticks with the Pratumnak address and luckily the phone # is the same. 

There is a phone number a Thai speaker like your hotel could call and ask if they are better for this or the general police station on Beach Road. 

On 6/6/2019 at 3:29 PM, baansgr said:

Jomtien to Klang is 10 baht, after its 20.....isn't T21 right by Dolphin Roundabout?????

I have only paid 10 Baht from Jomtien/Chaiyapruek to Big C at Soi 2. That is if and a big if, the BB passes Pattaya Klang vs heading to the beach. I find if there are tourists usually Russians heading for terminal 21 before Klang, they keep going north. Otherwise I get dumped opposite the bowling alley.

But if not stopped it is still only the 10B. Honestly in a reasonably active BB it has to be pretty hard for the driver to remember who got on where.

I rode by there on Tuesday while they arrested the fly tippers nobody cleaned it up. The road from the three tower housing project looking condos at Jomtien 2nd road and the end of Thepprasit 9 that goes to the go-kart/bungee facility and to Thepprasit is just nothing but garbage on both sides, often on fire. 

Except for the anachronism of some new industrial building going up in the middle of nowhere. Their site is fairly clean.

Much ask about nothing.  Three in Fast Track,  I chose a male IO and it was the same as every other entry.  No flipping of pages no looking at me just type type stamp stamp.  I am not sure if they're using the camera at all.  I sort of stood there and looked at the Webcam on a stick for 5 seconds and then went to the fingerprint thing. 

I just arrived at Fast Track.  Small queue but everyone ahead of me could not comprehend the instructions despite being in their native language and an animation showing exactly what to do.  It for me added no great delay as the IO did his thing and I did mine at the same time.  However I can read,  understand right from left and I guess growing up with the Flintstones meant the animations were clear. 

Upon exiting luggage I'd say most non Caucasians were getting their luggage X-rayed. With a prominent sign as to limits on cigarettes and booze. I just looked around them all and left.  

Quiet airport but hordes of police types everywhere. 

On 5/1/2019 at 3:43 AM, Hal65 said:

Any good places for STD screenings? I see those little clinics around on Buakao but I went to one and they told me to go to a hospital (I had a little bump)

Yes 

Life care (might be Life Labs) just off 3rd road between the overpass but before the lights at Regional Land (the intersection that for some reason has a sign that says "Teeden". That goes into behind Tukcom.

So come from the overpass and turn left at the Chinese restaurant. They have an awful to read website on siam2web.

It is in half a block from 3rd road on the left. Used to be down the road from the Laundry Express sign. Now it's a block farther away from the overpass. So after Laundry Express but before the traffic lights.

Package 6 IIRC is 600Baht and tests for Hep B, HIV, syphilis using VDRL , Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. Same day results. Most individual tests are nearly 600B so may as well do them all.

History (by going through my passport) one VE entry October 2017, one October 2018, one March this year and planning on returning June 3.

Each visit was around 25 days. I can't leave my country for more than 31 days, because I have unlimited health cover (any amount, any reason, any age, any pre-existing conditions -and it's free) as long as I go back home every 31 days, and I spend 4-5 days in HK each trip. So no way to stay more than 31 days anywhere unless I go through hoops for medical cover. So for sure never been in Thailand even 30 days in a row, ever.

So trying to make sense of VE rules, e.g. X times in Y months totalling Z days, in my case it's not a lot, 25 days in the last 6 months to date (March) and 50 in the last year (October to April this year when I left), and want to add 25 more. So 75 days from October 2018 to July 2019. 

Not likely to go back until mid-November as I cycle in Thailand and it's getting close to being too wet daily until then anyway.

I enter at Fast Track via Cathay Pacific business class each time, exit the same way. 

I can get a single entry tourist visa in my city in one business day but is it necessary? I wonder if the consulate would ask me for a 25 day visit why I am even there asking for one.