Hello, I'm trying to decide my options. At this point I would like to try and get a tourist visa before heading to Bangkok. From what I understand this would give me a 2 month stay plus an additional renewal. I will try to get the visa in the Philippines.

Can anyone tell me what would be my options after that. Where could I head that's nearby and that would allow me to get another tourist visa so I could stay another three months?

You will be getting a single entry tourist visa that will allow a 60 day entry that can extended for 30 days at an immigration office. Visas cannot be renewed.

When that 90 days ends you could go to Vientiane or Savannakhet or Penang to get a new single entry tourist visa.

or go to Yangon or Phnom Pehn ( both closer to Bangkok) for a single tourist visa and see somewhere different.

If the OP isn't a Filipino/Filipina, getting a TR visa in the Philippines can be more challenging than getting one in some other SE Asian countries.

Edited December 19, 201510 yr by NanLaew

If the OP isn't a Filipino/Filipina, getting a TR visa in the Philippines can be more challenging than getting one in some other SE Asian countries.

I think if you were to look at some recent posts you would find the opposite to be true for a Philippine citizen verses a foreigner to get a tourist visa.

It certainly would not be worth the trouble to make a special trip to the Philippines to get a tourist visa but if there already it is certainly a good option.