Mae Sai for OA visa extention

[Duaned]

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

[BritManToo]

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, 2019 by BritManToo

[sanemax]

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 ????

[jmd8800]

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, 2019 by jmd8800

[Krupps]

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, 2019 by Krupps

[sanemax]

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