Have a retirement multi OA visa expires June 3 can I go to Mae Sai just cross the border and come back in and get another year? This would be my first extention if so do I need anything other then my passport? will it cost anything

It'll cost you 500bht or $10 for your crossing to Burma.

Burmese side will ask you if you want to go shopping or return straight away.

 

If you want to go shopping, they give you a receipt for your passport, and you use the receipt to visit the Burmese side.

Worthwhile for a cheap 1 litre of booze and some 50bht packets of Viagra (Managra) from the touts (they ask for much more, but are easily beaten down to 50bht/packet of 4)

Not much else worth buying on the Burmese side.

Edited April 29, 20197 yr by BritManToo

Just now, BritManToo said:

It'll cost you 500bht or $10 for your crossing to Burma.

Burmese side will ask you if you want to go shopping or return straight away.

 

If you want to go shopping, they give you a receipt for your passport, and you use the receipt to visit the Burmese side.

Worthwhile for a cheap 1 litre of booze and some 50bht packets of Viagra from the touts (they ask for much more, but are easily beaten down to 50bht/packet of 4)

I did go there to get a visa exempt entry recently and I told the Burmese side that I would stay for the night and he asked me whether I had a hotel booking , I said that I didnt and that I would just walk around and find a place .

   LOL , he told me that without a hotel booking , he wouldnt let me in , so he stamped me in and out and sent me back to Thailand .

   I thanked him for allowing me a very enjoyable 2 minute stay in Myanmar ????

I did this in March of 2016. When asked if I wanted to go shopping I said yes. I got stamped in to Myanmar and then stamped out when I finished shopping. Thailand let me reenter with no problem. I had about 5 days left before my 'expire date' on the O-A. I was good for another 364 days.

 

 

Edited April 29, 20197 yr by jmd8800

2 hours ago, sanemax said:

I did go there to get a visa exempt entry recently and I told the Burmese side that I would stay for the night and he asked me whether I had a hotel booking , I said that I didnt and that I would just walk around and find a place .

   LOL , he told me that without a hotel booking , he wouldnt let me in , so he stamped me in and out and sent me back to Thailand .

   I thanked him for allowing me a very enjoyable 2 minute stay in Myanmar ????

Did not know a single officer can do this.

usually, you get stamped out on the other side of the road,by other personnel.

Edited April 29, 20197 yr by Krupps

18 minutes ago, Krupps said:

Did not know a single officer can do this.

usually, you get stamped out on the other side of the road,by other personnel.

Thats if you want to stay a while , they cn stamp you in and out at the same time , in the same office by the same person, if you are going straight back