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Augis Kaleinykas
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Algarve is a great choice for winter. I’ve spent some time in Portimão and really enjoyed it, planning to head back this October. It’s close to beautiful cities, has nice beaches, affordable rent prices, and nice surfing spots around. It can be a touristy place, but it's pretty quiet during the off-season in late autumn and winter.
Lagos is also a very nice place, and Sagres area is great if you’re into surfing
Thank you @augis for the tip! I finally booked an Airbnb, eventually settled on Portimao to. Will be there for Jan-Feb.
Yeah, it was confusing for me too. The 60-days visa includes the free 30 days, so yes, 60 days total as I understand.
You could ask for more days (there is a departure date input), but I didn't want to risk it, because I'm flying already next week.
European passport holders are allowed to stay in Thailand for 1 month (As I understand you'll get 1 month visa on arrival, but not sure).
I just got my visa for two months via: thaievisa.go.th/. Just fill in all the needed information and you will receive your visa in 10 days (it took me only a few days).
Thank you! Super helpful @augis! I had actually googled before but couldn't make sense of the information as there was conflicting information...
The way I understand it, as a European you don't need a visa for less than 30 days, but if staying more than 30 days you can get a 60 day visa. I didn't understand whether the 60-day visa includes the free 30 days, or excludes them and makes it a total of 90 days?
I'm sure extensive googling would have answered the question but given there are a few people here living in Thailand, I thought I might as well ask.
Maybe should've explained my process better in the initial question.
Either way, it seems the 60-day visa includes the free 30 days, so 60 days total.
Yeah, it was confusing for me too. The 60-days visa includes the free 30 days, so yes, 60 days total as I understand.
You could ask for more days (there is a departure date input), but I didn't want to risk it, because I'm flying already next week.
You have 2 options if you want to stay more than 30 days.
60 days via Visa on Arrival + 30 day extension
Get 30 days visa on arrival and before the 30th day get an extension for another 30 days (additional fee of like I think 30$ and plan 6-12h hours time for things to get things sorted out).
I've done that the process is super easy, but you have to keep in mind that you must do the extension before th 30th day, because even 1 day overstay can cause you trouble. And sometime you cant do it too early so like 1-3 days before your visa ends is good.90 days via 60 Day Visa + 30 day extension
Before you enter the kingdom get a 60 day visa and before the 60th day get a 30 day extension. Make sure to apply for the 60 day visa on time I know people for got a non approval on the day of their flight, so just plan some time in between.
I am not sure but I think you can do the 30 day extension 2 times.
If you want to then stay even longer you can enroll in a thai language course and get an ED visa which has some rules, but basically allows you to stay in the kingdom as long as the language program is running.
Someone should start a school for Thai studies where you never graduate... ;-)
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That's nice, glad I could help. You'll love this place!
Now I'm in Portimao until winter, it's nice to be back here