can you really make a hotel booking for 6 months? Most booking platforms I know will set a limit of two months. He could however split 6 months up between three different hotels, each fro 2 months
a guy on a DTV I know, asked for the requirements for the extension on Immigration Hua Hin. They listed about similar requirements than the ones you mentioned, but what was added to this was their requirement that the 500,000 THB must sit in a Thai bank account in his sole name. Since you cannot open a bank account on a DTV visa without greasing the palms of an agent, because it is a tourist visa type, this is the typical Catch22 situation. So he decided to just do the border bounce and get stamped the next 180 days, no questions asked