Confirmed. Only one out-n- in at Chong Chom. This was on a 30 day visa exempt.

I think that is fair enough.

It allows someone (from a G7 country) to visit Thailand for up to 60 days without the need to get a visa.

Beyond that you are not a tourist - or even a visitor - so being asked to get the appropriate visa is not unreasonable.

Kwaibah - was this your first Out/In and it was OK or was it your second and the officials didn't seem to be enforcing the same rules as they are down south?

Or were you just informed of the new rules as you passed through immigration?

Kwaibah - was this your first Out/In and it was OK or was it your second and the officials didn't seem to be enforcing the same rules as they are down south?

Or were you just informed of the new rules as you passed through immigration?

Just in case Kwaibah is having an afternoon nap, I should tell you that he lives close to the border and Kap Choeng immigration - where most of the IO call into his wife's coffee shop. Horse's mouth situation.