Cash Limit

[lingling]

Is the $10000 cash limit per person or per family? Eg can a family of three (one minor) carry in as much as $30k or is it only $10k when travelling togehter?

[PeaceBlondie]

I think it's 20K travelling together, but it might be far higher. Anyway, it only matters if they ask you. I crossed over and back at Mae Sai-Burma in October with a Maori family of five - they weren't even asked to show cash, and I was asked.

[lingling]

I think it's 20K travelling together, but it might be far higher.  Anyway, it only matters if they ask you.  I crossed over and back at Mae Sai-Burma in October with a Maori family of five - they weren't even asked to show cash, and I was asked.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No, I mean the amount that can be legally carried into the country in cash.

[Axel]

There is a restriction of importing not more than Baht 50 K.

Foreign currency is not restricted to be brought in.

However, if over US$10K, so I believe, or equivalent in foreign currency, you have to declare

in order to take out the money again, up to the amount declared (and shown)

[opalhort]

There is a restriction of importing not more than Baht 50 K.

Foreign currency is not restricted to be brought in.

However, if over US$10K, so I believe, or equivalent in foreign currency, you have to declare

in order to take out the money again, up to the amount declared (and shown)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Axel is right.

You can take as much Foreign currency into Thailand as you like, but you can NOT take more than $10K (or equivalent) out of the country if it has not been declared upon entry!

But why would anybody want to carry that amount in cash/TC in the age of plastic and international ATMs??

opalhort