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There’s no 90-day tourist visa. Tourist visas are for 60 days and can be extended by 30 days in Thailand at an immigration office. Generally you need to upload scans of your passport data page, the pages showing stamps from travel in the past year, a passport photo, a selfie of you holding your passport, your flight and hotel bookings, a recent bank statement, and employment and residence documentation. The Thai embassy in Ottawa may have some particular requirements. I’ve found it’s helpful if you have everything collected in one folder on your computer. Pdf files are now accepted, except for the photos which are obviously jpgs. That means that uploading multiple page documents is now easier.

Take the 45-day visa exemption. If the METV arrives (they send a pdf via email) while you’re in Thailand, just do a border bounce to activate it.

Bangkok taxis are not bound to use their meters for destinations outside the city limits. So a fixed fare is applicable, which is negotiable. I thought it was now 1500 baht from Suvarnabhumi to Ayutthaya, but I could be wrong. Normally, the driver would ask for more and you would try to get it for less.

Apply now for the eVisa. You still have 10 days. I got mine in 8 hours last February. If you don’t receive the visa in time, visa exempt entry is your fallback as others have said, but it’s got problems. The main one is the requirement for proof of onward travel. Strictly speaking, you must have a flight out within 30 days and you could be denied boarding if you don’t. MAYBE the check-in agent will accept your plans to apply for an extension in Thailand, but your fate is in his or her hands. Check-in agents cannot be expected to know the visa regulations of every country, so they follow the rules that come up on their screens.

The author of the article is confusing the 30-day visa exemption with the 60-day tourist visa. There is no 30-day tourist visa. So I’m guessing the Thai government is considering lengthening the visa exempt entry to 45 days. I wish there were an article written by someone who knows what he or she is talking about.

Tourist visas are really the answer for the trip you’ve outlined. I don’t understand <<surprised by the level of supporting documents at the end of the application>>. What documents are those exactly? All you need to send are data page of passport, a passport picture and one of the child holding the passport, flight bookings, and a declaration which you can sign on behalf of the child. (I’m trying to remember, I think I had to send scans of my passport showing no stamps for international travel in the past two years.) Obviously employment is moot. Sponsorship is moot in most cases anyway, I don’t know why they have it in there for a tourist visa.

What I was reacting to is the idea that the British jargon is “universal,” “international standard.” It’s not. Far from it. Of course we understand (or can figure out) that a zebra crossing is a crosswalk, a lorry is a truck, a jumper is a sweater (and not a little girl’s sleeveless dress), but a good chunk of the world does not use those terms. Oh and by the way, reacting to another posting, Canadian English tends to be straight-out North American Standard, not British, despite a few variant spellings that follow the British style.

In fact they’re only called that in the UK and a few former colonies. Definitely in the United States and Canada they’re universally called “crosswalks.” As a Canadian, when I first heard British people refer to “zebra crossings” I had to figure out what they were talking about. I think Singapore and India do call them zebra crossings. Australians say “pedestrian crossings.” This is a prime example of British people assuming their home-grown jargon is universal. (Another is VAT, for example. In many other countries that have value-added tax it’s called GST — Goods and Services Tax.)

Incredibly poor journalism not to explain the meaning and significance of this bit of jargon that was just thrown in. Usually, if you press them, scientists will explain in terms the general public can understand.

OZ457, OP, I’m having a similar issue here in Berlin. I’m trying to get a visa for a trip beginning early February. The embassy website first said appointments were required 6 to 8 weeks in advance. So I emailed for an appointment in December and got an auto-reply “All booked out in December.” So I emailed again for a date in January and this time got a reply “Appointments all booked out,” period. But meanwhile, the embassy has posted that it would launch a new online e-visa process on November 22nd which would not require in-person attendance. They posted a link to the manual for this new process and it looks fairly straightforward. So I’m going to wait until mid-December so supposedly the kinks are ironed out, and try that. Still lots of time until my flight. And that’s what you should do too. Your fallback is still entering visa-exempt for 30-day with a throwaway flight out of the country as others have advised, and getting an extension at Immigration while in Thailand.

In Central Embassy basement is “Eathai” a huge food court focused on Thai street food and regional cuisine. https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2015/07/03/bangkok-food-court-eathai-central-embassy/

I like it because it puts pressure on the vaccine-hesitant to do their part and get their jabs.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01359-3 ”The Pfizer–BioNTech booster seemed to jolt the immune systems of the Oxford–AstraZeneca-dosed participants, reported Magdalena Campins, an investigator on the CombivacS study at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. After this second dose, participants began to produce much higher levels of antibodies than they did before.”