If your passport is from Brazil, Argentina, Chile or Peru, you get 90 days visa-free in Thailand. Not 30 — 90. That is a bilateral treaty, not the new 30-day exemption that covers sixty countries since 15 September 2026 [^1^]. France, Germany and the UK sit in the thirty-
Temples & Culture
Paper umbrellas made from tree bark, wood carvings, silk — all within half an hour of the old city. Which craft village is worth the trip and which is now a shopping strip.
Temples & Culture
Twelve illuminated boats launch from 18:00 on 26 October 2026, longboat races run 22 to 25 October, and the country goes dry for Ok Phansa.
A friend landed at Suvarnabhumi on 20 September, looked up at the screen above immigration, and found out the thing he had planned three months around no longer existed.
There are 226 countries and territories whose nationals can hold a passport and travel to Thailand, and as of 15 September 2026 they fall into six groups.
Every cost-of-Thailand article quotes the same four numbers, and none of them come from anyone who paid rent. Here is a month I actually spent, broken down.
The most common DTV refusal is not a criminal record or a weak employment letter. It is someone opening a savings account in August and applying in November.
Bangkok's Chinatown is best before nine, the stalls are a hundred metres long, and the thing to eat is a bowl of noodles standing up at a plastic table for thirty baht.
Clear, current guides to travelling and living in Thailand — visa rules, real costs and the places worth the journey. Verified monthly.
Security can open a flagged checked bag without you present from 16 October 2026. What triggers it, what a TSA lock saves you, and what never comes back.
How the overnight trains actually work in 2026, the booking window that changed in April, what first class really gives you, and which trains have women-only carriages.
Talat, rot fai, talat nam, wholesale and retail. The system behind every market in the country, and how to read one before you walk into it.
The narrowest point of the Malay peninsula, a border town nobody visits, a cashew island offshore and the gate to liveaboard diving. Why I went and what I found.
Koh Samui in November is the Gulf coast's wettest month. What the rain really does, which ferries stop, and what the island is still good for.
Giant kites in Pathum Thani, kite contests in Satun and Pattaya, wax castles in Phayao, and rockets filled with gunpowder in Isan. The festival circuit, with dates.
A legal state lottery, a criminal ban on everything else, and a year-long crackdown that took down hundreds of thousands of URLs. What it means if you are in the room.
One charge is already inside your ticket, two more are being written into law, and none of the three works the way people assume. Thailand's 2026 tax stack, and who is fighting it.
Every Thai over a certain age does the annual blood test. Foreigners should know the packages, the real prices, and what they are actually paying for before they click book.
Three hundred millimetres of rain in two days, a disaster declared across all 50 districts, and not one flight cancelled. What a Bangkok flood does to a trip, and which six districts are still wet.
Six beaches, a national park fee, and a fire ban on half the island. How to get there, what it costs, and why the day-trippers all leave at four and you should not.
Bangkok has a world-class silks merchant's house, a free history museum, and an art centre in a railway station. Here is which to actually spend a morning in.
