Transcript of the above video:

As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing “is it possible to get 120 days Visa free in Thailand just under current standard sort of protocols that we are dealing with pretty much all the time”. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Visa Exemptions in Thailand don't result in a tourist boom. Quoting directly: "Longer stay tourists do not currently have to leave Thailand after the first 30 days but can extend for a further month at local Thai Immigration on payment of 1,900 Baht (US$57). Even after that, they can take a day trip to the border, usually Cambodian, and repeat the procedure of 30 days plus a repeat 30 days. So a total of four months or around 120 days is available visa-free under current rules, admittedly with some inconvenience and expense. But the Government seems wary of including all 60 countries in an extended visa free discretion." So again, admittedly with some inconvenience and expense.

So yeah look, it is possible as we have discussed in other videos on this channel, it is possible to be allowed into Thailand twice per calendar year without any great deal of scrutiny and on a 30-day stamp, just with most of the passports in sort of the Anglosphere, in Europe, these kinds of passports. 

That said, as we have discussed in videos we are making contemporaneously with this one, there appears to now be a possible 90-day scheme coming online at least through this high season so sort of stay tuned for that. But yeah, under just standard Thai Immigration procedure we have been dealing with, I don't know it is going on, I remember reporting on it so it has definitely been within the last 7 years but it hasn't been overly recently, it has been pre-Covid by quite a long shot, it has been possible to gain two trips into Thailand per calendar year without a great deal of question and then you can go ahead and extend by 30 days on each of those 30 day Visa Exemption stamps. So yeah basically 120 days is possible in Thailand although again it may require a Border Run; that may be not optimally convenient for most folks. 

Again retirees, you are probably going to be better off getting into a long-term visa from the outset but younger folks and people that are just kind of making their way in Thailand for the first time, yeah it is nice to know that you can get 120 days in the Kingdom without a great deal of extra hassle. It's just a matter of just sort of doing Border Runs and doing extensions here in the Kingdom of Thailand.