On a tourist visa: how best to re-enter Thailand?

[Pr0f]

Hi.

Wondering if somebody might offer some advice as to how best go about best dealing with my tourist visa situation:

My current passport has one tourist visa-exempt and one 60-day tourist visa. I have in the past also had a Non-Imm B visa but this was in my now expired old passport.

I will be returning to the UK for a month or so in August but before I go in July I would like to fly to Hong Kong.

Would I likely encounter any difficulties and what would be better with any of the following:

1) Fly to Hong Kong on the day my 60-day visa expires then on return get a 30-day visa exempt which will take me up to my flight home.

2) Extend my 60-day visa for 30 more days at immigration then fly out later in July and return for the remaining few days on a visa-exempt before my flight home on return.

3) Extend my 60-day visa for 30 more days at immigration and also ask for a re-entry permit (is this possible?) so I can continue to use my tourist visa up to my flight home and not pick up another visa exempt stamp?

I will be returning to Thailand later in the year to study Thai on an education visa.

Thanks in advance.

[PoorSucker]

Any of your scenarios will work, seems #1 is the free one.

[ubonjoe]

I would not be overly concerned about just one additional visa exempt entry by air. That would save you the cost of the extension and a re-entry permit.