Immigration Closures Next Week?

[DennyEagle]

My calender shows Thai holidays next week, any immigration closures?, thanks I am in Nong Khai

[Grumbles]

If it's a national holiday then immigration will be closed.

[Lite Beer]

I don't think May Day 1st is a public holiday.

7th May will be though.

[digitalchromakey]

1st of May is certainly a red day on my Thai calender, plus it's a Thai Bank Holiday and Thai Consulates are closed - so I wouldn't bet a great deal on Immigration being open myself.

[Maestro]

The ThaiVisa calendar does not have May 1 as a public holiday, the Government Public Relations Department does. Can anyone remember how it was last year?

[wayned]

May 1st is a bank holiday, but not a government holiday. Last year government schools were open, I don't know about immigration.

[Maestro]

Thanks. It is really confusing. I guess with "bank holiday" you mean that the banks and other financial institutions are closed. Thailand has some days of this kind in the year. (In the UK a "bank holiday" is a public holiday for everybody)

[Maestro]

I think I see more clearly now. Judging from http://phuket.thaivisa.com/, Thailand makes a distinction between "national holiday" and "public holiday". Wikipedia gives the website of the Secretariat of the Cabinet as its source for the public holidays and May 1 is not in the list. A national day, I gather, is a regular working day unless an individual employer chooses to give the staff that day off with pay. In the ThaiVisa calendar, public holidays are in red, national holidays in black.

Thai "bank holidays" are days for which the Bank of Thailand has ordered the banks and other financial institutions to be closed. Some of these coincide with public holidays.

[Mario2008]

I went wrong with the differences between the kinds of holidays last year. It is a bank holiday but not a government holiday.

[lopburi3]

May 1 is a public workers holiday as observed by most countries but it is not an official Government holiday (if you check Consulates in the US you will find they do not list May 1 as a holiday as the US does not observe it as such). Holdover/compromise of the cold war/Communist era.

[ThaidDown]

Government offices, as far as I can remember do open on May 1st, banks etc close.

(It is a workers holiday, so obviously civil servants have to go to their offices )

But to make up for their "lost" day off I always thought that "Royal Ploughing Ceremony day " , which this year is 9th May, (see Thaivisa calendar) was a government holiday (not a bank holiday) so immigration should be closed.

Also this year May 7th (a Monday) is a substitution for Coronation day, so expect Govt. and banks closed then too.

Am not trying to confuse the situation, honest.