60 days in Thailand, 3 weeks in Phillipines

[gk10002000]

I love the china eastern business class flight, LAX to BKK.  Looking at booking October.  Good friends going to the Philippines in December.  So I am looking to go there from Thailand.

 

Oct 10-Dec 10 Thailand.  Dec 10-Dec 28 Philippines.  Then Philippines back to Thailand for one or two months.  I was thinking of getting the 60 day SET for Thailand for the first 60 day leg, then wondering if I can or could get a reentry permit for later when I return to Thailand and can get that extra 30 days extension for the SETV?  Or is that out of whack, and I maybe should just do the visa exempt entry to Thailand, Oct 10-Nov 10, pay for the 30 day extension until Dec 10(no need to leave Thailand for that), then fly to Philippines on Dec 10, then return to Thailand and get another Visa exempt entry for 30 days and possibly be able to then extend that another 30 days if I feel like lounging around?  I don't want to use up the easy visa exempts.  I have not been in country in the last two years and usually only had one visa exempt a year going back years with only one or two border run extensions in there somewhere.  Upon reflection, it looks like doing the visa exempts is doable and easy and cheap, but getting one 60 day SETV then upon return do the visa exempt with an extension might bother the Thai authorities the least?

[ubonjoe]

My math says October 10th to to Dec 10th is 61 days in the country. That means you would have nothing to get a re-entry permit for unless you applied for a 30 day extension of it.

Best to get a 30 day visa exempt entry (plus 30 day extension) for your return from the Philippines or another tourist visa in Manila.

[gk10002000]

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

My math says October 10th to to Dec 10th is 61 days in the country. That means you would have nothing to get a re-entry permit for unless you applied for a 30 day extension of it.

Best to get a 30 a day visa exempt entry (plus 30 day extension) for your return from the Philippines or another tourist visa in Manila.

The exact dates are flexible and I would easily make them , <60 days

[ubonjoe]

20 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

The exact dates are flexible and I would easily make them , <60 days

Even at 60 days there would be no permit to stay to get a re-entry permit for. A re-entry permit only keeps the remainder of the 60 days valid when you enter the country.

For example if you entered the country and got a 60 day entry valid until December 10th that would be the date you would be stamped in until.  if you had a re-entry permit December 10th that would be the day the the re-entry permit expires.

[gk10002000]

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Even at 60 days there would be no permit to stay to get a re-entry permit for. A re-entry permit only keeps the remainder of the 60 days valid when you enter the country.

For example if you entered the country and got a 60 day entry valid until December 10th  that would be the date you would be stamped in until.  if you had a re-entry permit. December10th would be the day the the re-entry permit expires.

ok.  The SETV extension has to run concurrently from the start.  You can't have a break in time.

[ubonjoe]

2 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

ok.  The SETV extension has to run concurrently from the start.  You can't have a break in time.

You have to still be on the same 60 day entry to apply for the extension. If you got a re-entry permit you could enter on day 58 of it and apply for the 30 day extension. If you entered on day 61 you would only get a visa exempt entry.