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[fluffy 0]

Hi guys

Just booked my ticket for March and fckd up on the dates, i set off on the 11th and return 11th April = 31 days now I know your allowed a 30 day entry but whats the score here, fine?

Its my 5th time now in two years and only stayed the max of 30, carnt remember if you have to show your departure card on arrival?

anyone know

[papillon 695]

Just pay a day overstay at the airport on your way home.

[fluffy 0]

Just pay a day overstay at the airport on your way home.

as easy as that and what would that be papillon?

[joekicker 53]

as easy as that and what would that be papillon?

 

It's as easy as that. It might be 500 baht, it probably would be nothing.

I have a feeling this thread is going to degenerate now, but it *is* as easy as that.

 

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[ttk 236]

I had a 31 day stay once. For ONE day, they just sent me to a small desk right after the passport checks. They just stamped the passport and initialed the stamps. For one day they did not charge but if you miss by two you will pay for both. When I leave (Delta to japan) there is never a line and it was very quick and painless.

[papillon 695]

 

I have a feeling this thread is going to degenerate now,

 

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Okay, I'll take a wild stab at it................. At precisely 00.01 on the morning of 11th April 2012, Immigration SWAT teams will be scrambled all over Thailand with the sole aim of hunting you down for having the temerity to overstay your welcome in the Kingdom. If you don't make it through the roadblocks at the airport perimeter you will be carted off to an Immigration Detention Centre somewhere in Nakon Nowhere and rot away there for at least 20 years but only if you survive being the bitch for the 72 Nigerian drug smugglers in your cell.

 

Up2U.

[Guest martinkelly]

What date do you arrive fluffy?

[Guest martinkelly]

Hi guys

Just booked my ticket for March and fckd up on the dates, i arrive bangkok on the 12th and return uk 11th April = 31 days now I know your allowed a 30 day entry but whats the score here, fine?

Its my 5th time now in two years and only stayed the max of 30, carnt remember if you have to show your departure card on arrival?

anyone know :thumbup0

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what date do you depart

[papillon 695]

What date do you arrive fluffy?

 

Very good point, well spotted.

[fluffy 0]

11th

[papillon 695]

11th

 

You depart Bangkok ot the 10th or 11th?

[fluffy 0]

Very good point, well spotted.

arrive in bangkok 12th and depart 11th

[fluffy 0]

You depart Bangkok ot the 10th or 11th?

sorry there are two posts here, my fault

 

arrive bangkok 12th and depart 11th

[pattaya_mad 208]

arrive in bangkok 12th and depart 11th

 

I make that 30 days

[shambley 109]

overstayed twice by a few days - 500 baht a day - if your lucky they wont even stamp you as overstay - and you get to jump the queue after passport checkin they count the day you arive and they day you leave so might be 2 days overstay - 1000 baht - either way isnt really an issue, had a £300 camera stolen from my suitcase after checkin so maybe that was the hidden cost

[LeoTex 29]

I make that 30 days

 

I believe they count the day you arrive as 1 day, so that would make it 31 days.

 

LeoTex

[davebowk 13]

IF you are on the early flight on the 11th you will have checked in on the 30th day 10th April, just a thought

[fluffy 0]

IF you are on the early flight on the 11th you will have checked in on the 30th day 10th April, just a thought

its a 9am flight so its a 6am checkin unfortunately

[nkped 1,208]

Its my 5th time now in two years and only stayed the max of 30, carnt remember if you have to show your departure card on arrival?

anyone know

I don't fill in the departure date or flight when I go through immigration on arrival and have never had a problem (there's always a first time). I have always had the reservation and it has always been within the allowed 30 days but things can happen and the departure card is one of those documents where I figure you probably don't want to be making corrections. When I get to the airport for departure, I fill in the date and flight and sign the departure card.

[tomcat76 327]

Yeah - I didn't think the departure card was actually for anybody but immigration on the way out. I used to fill it on along with the arrival card, but don't bother with it anymore (until getting ready for outbound immigration). I now think the ONLY folks that care about your having a return booking is the airline when checking in for the flight to Thailand (because they have some sort of responsibility for your backhaul - adequately addressed elsewhere here in the forums).

[papillon 695]

I now think the ONLY folks that care about your having a return booking is the airline when checking in for the flight to Thailand (because they have some sort of responsibility for your backhaul - adequately addressed elsewhere here in the forums).

 

I will fly one way from Phills to Thailand in the near future. I don't have a ticket yet. I also don't have a ticket from Thailand to England yet because the ticket I did have expired months ago.

 

I'm a bit concerned that the airline won't let me get on the plane to Thailand? Anybody know the score?

 

I've already binned two tickets from Phills to Thailand, don't want to make it three.

[joekicker 53]

I'm a bit concerned that the airline won't let me get on the plane to Thailand? Anybody know the score?

 

Never say "never" but in general, airlines won't let you fly to Thailand on a one-way ticket - unless you provide proof you live there of course.

 

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[Grandpollo 366]

I will fly one way from Phills to Thailand in the near future. I don't have a ticket yet. I also don't have a ticket from Thailand to England yet because the ticket I did have expired months ago.

 

I'm a bit concerned that the airline won't let me get on the plane to Thailand? Anybody know the score?

 

I've already binned two tickets from Phills to Thailand, don't want to make it three.

 

Find the cheapest one-way ticket to Cambodia or Malaysia or Singapore, or buy an open return ticket to England. You don't need a retrun ticket to where you started, you need a ticket to leave Thailand to somewhere else.

Edited December 19, 2011 by ricktoronto

[papillon 695]

Never say "never" but in general, airlines won't let you fly to Thailand on a one-way ticket - unless you provide proof you live there of course.

 

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I've done it from England to Thailand before with Jet Air. They did pull me up at the checkin desk but after I explained that I was travelling onwards to the Philippines they let me through (even though I didn't have a ticket for the Phills).

 

Another time, I bought a one way ticket to AC from Bangkok and Cebu Pacific wouldn't let me on the plane because I had no return/onward ticket.

 

That's why I'm asking because there seems to be no hard rule.

 

Thanks for your advice, I think it's probably best to try and buy some kind of cheap throwaway ticket.

 

Find the cheapest one-way ticket to Cambodia or Malaysia or Singapore, or buy an open return ticket to England. You don't need a retrun ticket to where you started, you need a ticket to leave Thailand to somewhere else.

 

I don't know how long I'm going to stay in Thailand, if I did I'd buy a ticket from Bangkok to London.

 

A cheap one way ticket to Cambodia sounds like the answer.

 

Do you think I could get away with an invoice for a visa run by bus to the Cambodian border?

[teelack 9,284]

Just as a side issue I applied for a visa for Cambodia on-line. I was refused because there was only 5 months left on my passport rather than the six required. I just wonder if anyone has been turned away at the border because of this?