My tourist visa expired yesterday so I drove down to the border in Malaysia to do a border run, first drove to Padang Besar where I asked if it was possible to get back into Thailand if I pulled out the answer from the lady in the office was that I did not get it, then I asked if I was staying one night in Malaysia and come back the next day I will then get the answer from her was that she did not know because she was not working tomorrow ....
I then decided to drive to Sadao and try there, there were so many people that it was impossible to ask a supervisor, so I decided to check out, at check-out, there were problems because my extension was not registered in the computer system, I was therefore shown to a supervisor who cleaned up that problem, when she was done I asked her if it was possible to enter Thailand again today the answer was that I could not and I should at least be out 3-4 days if I should have a chance to come in again. Since she had checked me out now, I had to go to Malaysia, got a taxi to drive me to the nearest hotel where I checked in. After relaxing a bit, I took a walk around the city where I found a bus station where I found that there was a bus to Kuala Lumpur every half hour, then went back to the hotel to check if there was a flight to Surat Thani on Monday it did, I decided then to book this then went up to the room to relax for a few hours. Took the last bus to Kuala Lumpur which departed at 22:30. after a damn cold night, I arrived at TBS at 0500. I took the bus from there to the airport at 0800, at 12:45 I landed in Surat Thani and went through immigration without any problems.
I will never try a border run in Malaysia again ....
