Nowhere near as frequent as you but I used to do the same, especially when my father was living there on some LT visa. The 30-day(?) stay that was supposedly a new requirement a few years ago was a worry as our booked stayed in Thailand was over that limit, but we only had a stay in Thailand of ~2 nts at each end of the trip, and one of those was an O/N on a train to Malaysia. No one (including airline staff) asked about onward tickets.

One would suppose the new pre-arrival registration will start screening travel patterns and alert authorities to who may be trying to circumvent stay limits.

Lots of people I know go to Bangkok for the weekends or long holidays. They definitely go around once a month or so. Either to do some shopping or just a good time.
Is there any thing official that says you cannot go into Thailand more than twice a year?
I know they ask for a ticket out of Thailand and a hotel booking. Fair enough. I have a trip next month and then off to Vietnam but at this moment in time I don�t know where I will go after Vietnam. Either back to Thailand or Malaysia or even The Philippines.
I know it�s their country and their rules but for sure they are going to lose money on this if they start banning people in coming to Thailand more than 2 times per year.

There is no such rule - it is all a storm in a tea cup cooked up by anxious abusers of the visa-free system. Legitimate tourists would have nothing to worry about.

They aren't after legitimate tourists. They are after people using visa exemptions with border runs to live in Thailand.

Legitimate tourists arrive by air (some by land, sure) have hotel reservations and return flights and they don't make extensive use of border runs and extensions where they end up staying in Thailand more than their home country.

-David

With Thailand it�s asking a lot to be that sensible.

well it's all a matter of numbers...
if you enter Thailand more than 5-6 times a year on visa exemption, immigration might ask you some questions or even tell you to get a visa next time, even you enter through an airport, have hotel reservations, a booked return flight and did not use the full 60 days for each stay...

It will be interesting to hear of any reliable reports of what we would consider thru Tourism visits prompting additional questioning and / or warnings about getting a Visa.

Staying 2 weeks at a time, with months between visits, is not at all the activity that they are supposedly targeting.

There are lots of opinions being expressed based primarily on supposition. Then you have the reddit thread where someone posts every day about how they just cleared Thai immigration with no problem so there obviously is not any issue here ;-)

I'll be making entry #3 this year on tourist exemption on Saturday. Stays 1 and 2 were about a week each. Not expecting any issues but guess we'll see . . . .

I am making entry #5 on Monday, all on tourist exemption. Previous stays were 2 weeks each, with an average of ~2months between visits. I am not expecting any different arrival experience but will of course post if there is.

interesting indeed to hear your experience! good luck!

What prompted you to came up with this statement? I thought it was a well-established consensus that they do not outrightban people using visa exemptions more than twice a year.

I don't know how many times it has to be said – that legitimate tourists have nothing to worry about.
You could be using 20 or 30 visa exemptions and you will most likely be allowed in provided that the I.O. is satisfied, based on balance of probabilities, that you are not living here.

I really do think it is that simple guys. You either live here or you don't, and immigration will make that determination not only from the number of entries but your overall personal circumstances. I think this whole immigration drama is getting out of control and has received way more air-time that it deserves. I don't know if it is just me but I'm still seeing posts regarding this matter on my IG/Facebook months later, it's crazy. They're making it sound like coming here is now a roulette spin with double zeros, "will I be let in or out?", when it clearly is not the case.

100,000,000% this!

20-30 entries under visa exemptions within ONE year? not really normal tourist pattern...

Legitimate tourists shouldn't have any problems or anything to worry about, and the vast majority won't have any issues.

However, the communication of the policies and rules means that it isn't always simple or clear. When official(-ish) signs appear at one border saying "2 visa-free entries per year" with no mention of this policy elsewhere, it's hard to know whether to believe it or not. Perfectly legitimate tourists could be entering Thailand for the 3rd time in one year, but if the 3rd entry happens to be at Nong Khai, the sign would suggest that they would be turned away.