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After, or during, your first 30 days you can leave the country and return with a new visa exemption. If returning by land you'll only get another 15 days, 30 if by air. You can do this 3 times within six months.

If you need more than 15 days to visit the islands on your second swing through Thailand, then I'd definitely look into flying from Phnom Penh to Bangkok like the others have suggested. Air Asia has some really cheap fares for that route, and you'll get stamped in for 30 days arriving by air instead of the 15 you'd get arriving by land.

I just got a no-cost 60-day tourist visa for Thailand from their consulate in Los Angeles. Bummer is that it is a single-entry visa. If the Thai Embassies in either Vientiane or Phnom Penh are offering these free 60-day tourist visas, they aren't advertising it on their websites.

DLuek, do you remember what the cost is for that 90-day Thai visa in Phnom Penh? Cheers.

Thanks for the information guys. I suppose I'm just going to have to way up the cost of the 60-day visa v. flights back into Bangkok; I definitely don't think 15 days will be enough to do the islands - we're open on spending about a month making our way from Bangkok back down south (eventually onto Singapore).

the 60-day free visas should be available until at least april 2010. i love mine. but the problem is that it is a single-entry visa. i guess geo could get the free 60-day visa before flying to bangkok, and try to get stamped in with the 30-day visa waiver on arrival and save the free 60-day visa for the second entry. but if thai immigration uses the free 60-day visa on the first trip through, then geo will still need to find a way to get at least 30 days for the second swing through thailand. from their websites, it didn't look like the thai embassies in vientiane or phnom penh were offering them, at least not for free. cheers.