IVF in Thailand: Baht Package Prices From 169,000, a 30-Day Entry Cap and an ART Law That Stops at Marriage (2026)

Is Thailand the Right Destination for You?

It fits if you check four boxes: you are legally married, you need standard procedures such as ICSI, PGT-A or embryo freezing, you want to compare package prices across clinics before you leave home, and you can live with a quote structure in which medication sits outside the package price. It does not fit families who need donor eggs, donor embryos or a surrogacy arrangement, and it does not fit anyone planning a pregnancy as a single person.

Almost every article about IVF in Thailand opens with the same two claims: good value, and good hospitals. Both are true. Both also let a family fall flat on its face in four specific places. First, Thailand confines assisted reproduction to legally married couples, and the amendment still being discussed in 2026 has not been enacted. Second, entry for mainland Chinese passport holders runs on a mutual visa exemption — 30 days on a single entry, and no more than 90 days cumulative in any 180-day window, not “as long as you like”.

Third, from 15 September 2026 Thailand scrapped the unilateral 60-day visa exemption it had granted to a long list of countries including China, which voids the “60 days” printed throughout guides written in 2024 and 2025. Fourth, Thailand’s medicine-entry controls shut the “bring your own stimulation injections” route tightly: categories that need a permit must be filed at least 15 days before departure.

Thailand’s real advantage sits somewhere else. Its clinics publish list prices, and they are the most transparent price lists of any Southeast Asian destination. On 27 October 2026 this site retrieved published tariffs from ten Thailand-based clinics, running from 169,000 baht (Siam Fertility’s SKYLIGHT ICSI) to 780,000 baht (Legend Fertility Center’s mild-stimulation worry-free plan).

That is a spread of more than four times — and it is a spread you can sort out from home, before anyone buys a ticket.

This chapter is about landing: entry, transport, lodging, climate, medication at the border, and the clinic bills. Medical totals across destinations are in the IVF cost guide 2026; cycle mechanics are in How IVF is done step by step; clinic selection is in How to choose an IVF clinic.

Still comparing Thailand with the United States? Our USA versus Thailand IVF comparison covers that head-on, and if the basics are new to you, start with What is IVF.

Where Thailand genuinely wins

• Prices are published, and they are comparable between clinics. This site has verified public tariffs at ten clinics (chapter eleven), from the 169,000-baht tier to the 780,000-baht tier. The same item — ICSI — can cost three times more at one clinic than at another. No other Southeast Asian destination gives you that. Most Malaysian clinics either quote a single package total or ask you to enquire.
• The medical-travel machinery is mature. Bangkok hospitals run international patient offices, and several clinics price directly in US dollars (SAFE Fertility Group does this in its own website articles), which cuts the back-and-forth.
• Entry rests on a bilateral treaty, not on a favour. Thailand and China operate a mutual visa exemption agreement (chapter two). Agreements are harder to unwind unilaterally than a one-sided policy — although, as 15 September 2026 showed, the other side of Thailand’s exemption menu can change overnight.
• Short flight, one-hour time difference. Thailand is one hour behind Beijing. When a trigger injection has to be given to the hour, that one hour is close to no risk at all.
• More than one city to choose from. Bangkok is the main stage, but Chonburi (Sriracha) and Chiang Mai also host clinics; this site already lists material in the Phyathai Sriracha direction.

Where Thailand closes doors — said plainly

• Single women and unmarried couples have no route through the regulated system. Two regulations from 2015 confine assisted reproduction to legally married couples, and the only permitted purpose for creating an embryo is infertility treatment of a lawfully married couple (chapter ten). As of 27 October 2026, the amendment that would widen eligibility has not been enacted.
• Buying and selling gametes or embryos is expressly prohibited, so donor-egg or donor-embryo programmes are not a menu item you can simply order in Thailand.
• Surrogacy is tightly restricted: lawful married couple only, commercial arrangements prohibited, and the gestational carrier may not use her own egg.
• Thailand has no public national ART outcome registry (this site’s search returned NOT FOUND), so every success rate you are quoted is a clinic’s own account of itself — chapter ten explains why that matters.
• The Suvarnabhumi airport rail fare, BTS SkyTrain fares and Chiang Mai public transport fares could not be retrieved from official pages on this pass (chapters three and four). These are the few items in a Thailand itinerary you still confirm after you land.

If you need donor eggs, if you need surrogacy, or if you are planning as a single person, take Thailand off the list. Within this site, only the US destination offers a lawful route for those needs — see the IVF in New York guide.

When another destination answers better

Thailand is not the right tool for every job. Where a need falls outside what its clinics can lawfully do, the table says so and points elsewhere:

One honesty note about our own site: the Thailand row in IVF laws by country — specifically on single women — does not match what we verified from primary sources for this guide. This article is written against the verified legal text; the discrepancy has been escalated separately, and we have not quietly rewritten either version.

Do You Need a Visa for IVF in Thailand?

No — if you hold an ordinary mainland Chinese passport, you travel on a mutual visa exemption agreement between the two governments, so there is nothing to apply for. That sentence, however, needed rewriting in September 2026, and most of what is online about it is now out of date.

The three hard numbers in the agreement

Three figures decide whether a two-leg IVF itinerary fits inside Thai entry rules, and a fourth explains why guides written before September 2026 disagree with this one:

Sources: Chinese Embassy in Thailand advisory on entering Thailand on an ordinary passport (2 September 2026); Royal Thai Embassy in Beijing visa-requirements page (exemption of “no more than 30 days per entry, no more than 90 days cumulative in any 180 days”); signature notice on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs consular service portal (29 January 2024).

⚠ The Royal Gazette order and the Immigration Division (B.O.) announcement that Thailand used to cancel the 60-day exemption could not be retrieved from either source by this site — the ratchakitcha and PRD pages returned 403 or served nothing but stylesheet code. The date 15 September 2026 is therefore cited as relayed by the Chinese Embassy in Thailand. Re-check the live position with Thai Immigration before you fly.

Visa exemption is not a framework you can stretch on the spot

If you genuinely need a few more days, Thailand publishes the official fees, and that is more than most destinations give you:

Why this set of numbers matters for an IVF itinerary. If your second leg — the frozen embryo transfer — falls within three weeks of leaving after the first leg, keeping your status alive in Thailand with a re-entry permit plus an extension costs less travel effort than flying home and re-entering visa-exempt.

But do the 90-in-180 arithmetic first: a re-entry permit does not change how your cumulative stay is counted, and the exemption ceiling still governs you. ⚠ Where these applications are filed, what documents they require and how often they may be granted could not be retrieved from official sources on this pass — confirm in person with Immigration after arrival.

TDAC: every non-Thai arrival completes one

Thai guidance states plainly: “All non-Thai nationals entering the Kingdom of Thailand are required to complete the Thailand Digital Arrival Card” (official TDAC guide page). The official portal is tdac.immigration.go.th; its page title includes No Fees, but the body is rendered client-side and this site could not extract the terms verbatim.

The mandatory start date comes from Thai official missions: Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) required from 1 May 2025 — the wording of the Royal Thai Embassy in London’s own headline.

Counting backwards from your period

Anchor everything to the retrieval date rather than to a holiday window, and the deadlines fall into place:

How Do You Get From the Airport to the Clinic?

Bangkok has two airports, and they are two different problems: different distance from the city, different rail connection, and — this is the awkward part — different levels of verifiability for published fares. Pick the wrong one and your commute on retrieval morning can double.

Don Mueang (DMK): the bus fare is verified

The Airports of Thailand (AOT) official transport page for Don Mueang describes the BMTA buses in these words: “A1-A2 price 30 baht”, listing “1. BMTA A1 (destination Mo Chit 2) Time 05.45 - 24.00 hrs.” and “2. BMTA A2 (destination Victory Monument) Time 06.00 - 23.00 hrs.” — see the Don Mueang official transportation page (retrieved 27 October 2026).

What that buys you. A1 runs to Mo Chit (the Chatuchak district, and the interchange that shares its name with the BTS station); A2 runs to Victory Monument, where the BTS and a stack of bus routes meet. At 30 baht, getting in from Don Mueang is essentially free as a decision variable — the real question is time, and the timetable answers it: A1 starts at 05:45 and the last service runs past midnight.

Suvarnabhumi (BKK): the rail fare is not verified ⚠

Suvarnabhumi connects to the city by the Airport Rail Link (ARL) toward Phaya Thai. This site could not verify its fares:

• the operator SRTET’s official fare-and-timetable page (srtet.co.th/en/fare-timetable) covers only the Dark Red Line commuter railway and carries no ARL fare or first/last-service information anywhere on it;
• AOT’s Suvarnabhumi transport page returned 404 on this pass;
• the “15–45 baht, 05:30 to midnight” figures circulating online appear only on third-party pages, and this guide does not use them.

So this article prints no ARL fare and no ARL operating hours. If you fly into Suvarnabhumi and must return to the clinic every other day during stimulation, treat the airport-to-accommodation commute as a variable you measure on the ground — or route through Don Mueang instead, or stay somewhere with a clinic or airport transfer service.

Moving between the two airports

Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang sit roughly 30–40 kilometres apart, so a cross-airport move costs you half a day. If your plan involves two entries and two airports, do not bridge the post-retrieval return home with a same-day connection between them.

Airfares we could not verify

Neither the round-trip fares from Chinese cities to Bangkok or Chiang Mai nor the current list of non-stop routes produced a citable official or airline page on this pass. That is why this guide quotes no airfare and names no “cheapest month.” Search live.

What Does Getting Around the City Cost?

During stimulation you are back at the clinic every two to three days. Reliability of the commute beats comfort in it, and Bangkok’s rail network is split between several operators, so this section states only what this site could put its hands on. Three lines have official numbers.

Two station-to-station prices from the same SRTET page are worth knowing: Krung Thep Aphiwat (Central Station) ↔ Rangsit is 42 baht adult, and Krung Thep Aphiwat ↔ Taling Chan is 35 baht adult. The Red Line stops at Don Mueang airport station, which gives the Don Mueang–city corridor a rail alternative to the 30-baht bus.

What we could not verify — the most honest section in this guide

Three lines carry official numbers. Everything else a patient would want to budget for is on the list below, and the list is long enough to change how you plan:

Choosing your neighbourhood around the clinic, not around the sights

The Thai clinics listed on this site cluster in a handful of Bangkok directions. Book against the clinic’s direction, not against the tourist map.

• Sukhumvit / Thong Lo–Phrom Phong: many specialist clinics sit here, along the BTS line — but the BTS fare is unverified (above).
• Silom / Sathon: covered by the MRT Blue Line, whose fare is verified at 17–44 baht.
• Rama 9 / the new CBD: several Chinese-service-oriented clinics are in this band.
• Rangsit / Don Mueang: covered by the SRT Red Line, up to 42 baht adult — the right base if you fly Don Mueang and your clinic sits north.
• Chonburi (Sriracha) and Chiang Mai: outside the Bangkok rail system entirely. Ask the clinic directly how patients commute.

Location and booking details for each clinic are on its own profile page; the selection method is in How to choose an IVF clinic.

Can You Rent an Apartment Near the Clinic in Thailand?

You can rent a place to stay, but Thailand does not answer this the way New York or Tokyo do. There is no short-term-rental registration chapter in Thai law to point at; the structure is instead that operating outside the definition of a hotel is unlicensed operation.

What we can state with confidence

The instrument in force is the Hotel Act B.E. 2547 (2004) — note the year, because it is routinely mis-cited as B.E. 2558, which is the year of the ART regulations.

The official text of the Act (hosted in the Ministry of Interior’s infocenter.oic.go.th archive) and the relevant ministerial guidance documents were unreachable from this environment, so this guide does not quote its definitional or penalty provisions, and it does not print the “how many rooms makes a hotel” numbers that are so often repeated second-hand.

One conclusion is safe to use: in Thailand, the compliance test for a place to sleep is whether the operator holds a licence, not whether the unit is registered.

What we cannot state — which is the more important half

Three items belong in this column, and together they explain why lodging in Thailand has to be settled listing by listing rather than by citing a national rule:

So the lodging strategy for a Thailand cycle looks like this

1. Build around licensed hotels. Most fertility clinics’ international patient offices hand out a partner-hotel list, and in Thailand that advice is more actionable than elsewhere, because the medical-travel package already includes lodging.
2. If you want a long-stay unit with a kitchen to reheat food and a fridge for medication, book a serviced apartment on a monthly-rate room type — not an apartment unit on a short-let platform. The first is licensed operation; the second depends on that building’s by-laws and its management’s posture.
3. Get two things in writing before you sign: whether you can shift dates month to month, and what cancellation costs when an uncontrollable event such as a cancelled retrieval happens.
4. Make the booking long enough to absorb a protocol slip. Cycle shifts are routine, not exceptional — see How IVF is done step by step.

This chapter does not tell you whether an Airbnb is allowed in Thailand, because Thailand has no verifiable uniform rule on that point. That absence is itself the information: the compliance risk sits with the individual listing, so it has to be checked case by case.

When Is the Best Season to Travel to Thailand for IVF?

There is no month-by-month recommendation table in this chapter, and that is a deliberate finding rather than an omission. Thailand’s Meteorological Department (TMD) publishes a season division you can cite directly, but the official monthly temperature and rainfall normals could not be retrieved, so what follows gives ranges and refuses to invent a “best month”.

The official three seasons (TMD, as worded in Thai)

The Meteorological Department’s own wording is short enough to quote in full, and it is the only seasonal statement this site could verify at source:

Source: TMD’s “Seasons of Thailand” (ฤดูกาลของประเทศไทย) page (retrieved 27 October 2026).

TMD also issues an annual entry-into-season notice, for example Thailand enters the hot season, B.E. 2569 (ประเทศไทยเข้าสู่ฤดูร้อน พ.ศ. 2569), dated “๒๒ กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๙” (22 February 2026) and expecting the season to “สิ้นสุดประมาณกลางเดือนพฤษภาคม” (end around mid-May).

Northern haze: an official limit, but no official month window ⚠

The per-ambient-air-quality limit set by Thailand’s National Environment Committee, as republished by a Pollution Control Department regional office: “ค่าเฉลี่ยในเวลา 24 ชั่วโมง จะต้องไม่เกิน 50 ไมโครกรัมต่อลูกบาศก์เมตร ให้มีผลถึงวันที่ 31 พฤษภาคม 2566” — a 24-hour mean must not exceed 50 µg/m³, in effect to 31 May 2023.

That wording is followed by “ตั้งแต่วันที่ 1 มิถุนายน 2566 เป็นต้นไป”, tightening it from that date onward, i.e. the 24-hour mean limit moved from 50 µg/m³ to 37.5 µg/m³ (PCD Regional Environment Office 3 announcement).

Thailand’s Pollution Control Department does publish an annual wildfire, haze and dust response document for the north, titled “มาตรการรับมือสถานการณ์ไฟป่า หมอกควัน และฝุ่นละออง ปี 2569” (PCD Regional Environment Office 13 page).

That establishes the northern haze season as an official annual mechanism; the specific month window and the “no-burn calendar” appeared this pass only on social media and secondary pages, and air4thai.pcd.go.th was unreachable.

So this guide does not write sentences like “Chiang Mai is worst in March and April.” If your clinic is in the north and your protocol has you waiting there for weeks, put AQI on the pre-departure checklist, and tell the fertility centre immediately if you develop respiratory symptoms — how pollution exposure is handled during stimulation and pregnancy is your attending physician’s call, not a travel blog’s. Background: IVF risks.

Tropical cyclones: the official text describes damage, not Bangkok

TMD’s page on tropical cyclones affecting Thailand states, as worded: “เดือนตุลาคมเป็นเดือนที่พายุมีโอกาสเคลื่อนเข้าสู่ประเทศไทยมากที่สุด” (October is the month in which storms are most likely to move into Thailand) and “ความเสียหายส่วนใหญ่จะเกิดขึ้นเนื่องจากฝนตกหนักและอุทกภัยที่เกิดขึ้นตามมา” (most damage comes from heavy rain and the flooding that follows) — TMD tropical cyclone page.

That page does not mention Bangkok. So this guide makes no claim about whether a storm “hits Bangkok”. It prints only the damage mechanism the authorities actually describe: what breaks a cycle is not the wind, it is heavy rain and flooding interrupting your ability to reach the clinic.

Flooding: one non-Thai example

The Singaporean Embassy in Thailand’s travel notice of 25 November 2025 reads: “All 16 districts in Songkhla Province have been declared as disaster zones…should avoid travelling” (original page). Note this is Hat Yai / Songkhla in the south, not Bangkok or Chiang Mai. It is quoted only to show that flooding in Thailand reaches the level at which foreign missions issue travel advisories — not as a Bangkok risk rating.

Chapter six: what we could not verify

None of the following could be retrieved from an official Thai page on this pass, so none of it is asserted anywhere above:

Can You Bring Your Own Stimulation Medication Into Thailand?

Do not count on it. This is the chapter in a Thailand guide most likely to end a cycle: gonadotropin injections and hormone drugs are exactly the category that border controls scrutinise, and Thailand runs medicine entry on classification plus a permit obtained in advance.

The Thai FDA’s position, read category by category

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a dedicated guidance page for travellers under treatment who carry personal medication containing narcotic or psychotropic substances (official page). The operative sentences, verbatim:

• the quantity ceiling that avoids needing a permit, for the relevant category: “provided the quantity does not exceed a 30-day supply as prescribed.”
• when a permit is required: “required to obtain a permit from the Food and Drug Administration at least 15 days before traveling”
• for narcotics in Schedule II and III, the wording is: “does not exceed a 90-day supply as prescribed”

⚠ Three qualifications that must travel with those quotes:

1. “30-day supply” is not a universal rule for all medicines. It appears in the specific context of the permit exemption for drugs containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. Writing “Thailand allows 30 days of any medication” would be wrong.
2. Categories that need a permit must be filed with the Thai FDA at least 15 days before departure — not negotiated on arrival. The application portal is permitfortraveler.fda.moph.go.th; it is client-rendered and this site could not extract its terms.
3. The “IC-2 permit” label that appeared in earlier internal material at this site is not part of Thailand’s system and has been removed from this article. Please do not repeat it from older guides.

What this means for the itinerary, in practice. Gonadotropin preparations (FSH/LH injections) and GnRH antagonists prescribed by the Thai clinic to your own protocol, dispensed there and administered under its monitoring, is the only option that does not gamble with a customs officer.

Medicine cost that lands inside the medical bill is cheaper than medicine cost saved and a cycle interrupted. How the drugs work is covered in IVF medications explained.

Cannabis and hemp: import is prohibited

The title of the Royal Thai Customs announcement says it outright: “กัญชา กัญชง เป็นสินค้าห้ามนำาเข้าประเทศไทย!” — cannabis and hemp are goods prohibited from import into Thailand (official customs announcement PDF).

Bring nothing containing cannabis into Thailand — no edibles, no oils, no products — including items bought legally in a third country.

E-cigarettes: prohibited, and the penalty accounts differ between sources

The Royal Thai Embassy in London’s official statement page says a person carrying or using one “could be arrested and face jail time, or a fine several times the value of the illegal item(s)” (original page). That page states no specific number of years and no specific multiple.

The Thai government’s Anti-Fake News Center page gives a different formulation, “โทษหนักคุก 5 ปี ปรับเงิน 4 เท่า ของราคาสินค้า” — up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of four times the value of the goods (that page).

The set of numbers this site circulated earlier — “up to 10 years, five times the value, capped at 500,000 baht” — could not be traced back to an official page on this pass and has been deleted. One conclusion survives: do not bring a vape into Thailand. Actual penalties follow current law and current enforcement.

How Do Phones, Payment and Language Work on a Treatment Trip?

Buy a Thai tourist SIM at the published counter price, pay the clinic in baht or dollars by card, and treat any renminbi bundle quote as a brokerage document rather than a bill. Each of those three statements has an official page behind it, except one part of each — which is what this chapter marks.

Data: the tourist plans are published; the registration rule is not

True’s official tourist page (true.th tourist SIM / eSIM page) lists, verbatim, “Happy Tourist Infinite SIM 8 days 449 THB”, and on the same page offers Thailand Tourist INFINITE SIM in 8-day, 15-day and 30-day tiers. The page header shows a 499–1199 THB band that does not line up perfectly with the 449 figure — use the operator’s live page on the day you buy.

⚠ The NBTC’s official rule requiring real-name registration on a foreign passport could not be retrieved (the NBTC’s English announcement was unreachable; every match was a law-firm summary or press report). So this guide does not print limits such as “up to three SIMs per brand”, which are widely repeated. Follow whatever the counter actually requires, and keep the registration receipt.

Payment: one announcement you can quote directly

Ant International’s official press release of 8 February 2024 states: “All 14,500 7-Eleven Stores in Thailand now Accept 13 International E-wallets via Alipay+”, covering “all malls under Central Retail Corporation and The Mall Group” (Ant International newsroom). Central Retail’s own account is in its newsroom.

Two preconditions have to travel with that sentence:

1. It is February 2024 data; present-day coverage is what it is.
2. It describes retail merchants accepting Alipay+-connected wallets. It does not mean fertility clinics take Alipay. Confirm a clinic’s accepted payment methods separately and in writing — the Thai clinic pages this site verified quote baht or US dollars, and take card and cash (Bangkok Hospital’s package pages, SAFE’s dollar pricing).

Language: Chinese desks exist, and they carry one specific hazard

Several Thai clinics run Chinese-language service and Chinese websites. That creates a structural risk worth naming: quotes aimed at Chinese-speaking patients often arrive as a bundled renminbi price — for example the wording this site collected, “RMB 159,000 covering one stimulation cycle, one retrieval, PGT-A and two embryo transfers”. Numbers like that come from a brokerage service bundle, not from a clinic fee schedule. Chapter eleven lists the two kinds separately precisely so they are never compared in the same table.

When the decisions are retrieval count, IVF versus ICSI, blastocyst culture, whether to do PGT, or selective reduction, the duty to explain is not waived because a Chinese-speaking desk exists. Before signing, confirm you can obtain a written version you actually read. How a reproductive practice is built: What is a fertility clinic.

What Does the Treatment Timeline Look Like in Thailand?

The clinical sequence is the global standard: remote consultation → protocol agreed → stimulation and monitoring → retrieval → fertilisation and culture → transfer or freeze-all → pregnancy test. The medical detail lives in How IVF is done step by step; what follows is the itinerary around it.

Stage 0: remote consultation and data submission (no travel)

Send first: AMH, baseline hormones (FSH/LH/E2), transvaginal ultrasound AFC, semen analysis, infectious-disease screening, thyroid function. Thai clinics reply quickly to overseas enquiries, but the opening quote is usually a single package total. Demand two versions — with medication and without medication — and insist that PGT-A be priced per embryo.

Stage 1: protocol agreed

The GnRH antagonist protocol is the default. Mild-stimulation and natural-cycle protocols are offered at some clinics for older patients or low ovarian reserve (background in IVF at advanced maternal age and What happens during egg retrieval). The anchor of your itinerary is the first day of your period, not your holiday calendar.

Stage 2: the first leg (stimulation plus retrieval)

Usually 12–15 days, with clinic visits every two to three days. Retrieval day is executed by the hour — fasting window, anaesthesia scheduling. The commute from your accommodation to the clinic on that day is the one link in the trip you cannot afford to gamble on, which is exactly why chapters three and four verify fares and routes rather than hand-waving them.

Stage 3: fertilisation, culture and the decisions

ICSI or conventional IVF, blastocyst culture, whether to run PGT-A. Most Thai clinics price PGT-A per embryo screened (chapter eleven), which is what makes the difference between three embryos and eight embryos, and asking about the denominator beats asking about the total. Technical boundaries: Preimplantation genetic testing guide and Can you choose your baby’s sex with IVF.

Stage 4: the second leg (transfer plus pregnancy test)

Usually 5–8 days. Families who freeze all embryos typically return one or two cycles after the first leg; the timing logic is in How many days after egg retrieval is embryo transfer. Take the pregnancy test where you are, rather than at home, so that bleeding or ovarian hyperstimulation does not find you unable to get back to the clinic (OHSS background: Egg retrieval complications and OHSS prevention).

The full timeline, measured against the entry ceiling

Lay the clinical sequence against the immigration ceiling and the two pressures become visible at once — the 30-day entry is generous, the 90-in-180 cap is not:

What Does Thai Law Actually Permit?

Thailand shuts the door at “legally married”. Every judgement in this chapter is anchored to text someone can check. Our conclusion differs from the Thailand row in IVF laws by country; the discrepancy has been escalated under a report-only rule, and neither version was quietly rewritten.

The two boundaries set in B.E. 2558 (2015)

In B.E. 2558 (2015) Thailand passed two interlocking instruments — the Notification on Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Notification on the Protection of Children Born by Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Together they set the framework: access limited to legally married couples, and no commercial trade in gametes or embryos.

Primary text (Royal Gazette). The original Gazette PDF sits at ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2558/E/350/16.PDF — that page returned 403 to this site on 27 October 2026, so the full text was not retrieved.

A checkable transcript of the Gazette text (lawplayer transcript page) renders the surrogacy provision verbatim:

“ข้อ ๕.๒ “สามีและภริยาที่ชอบด้วยกฎหมายที่มีความประสงค์จะให้หญิงอื่นตั้งครรภ์แทน…"" (literal: “A lawful husband and wife who wish another woman to become pregnant on their behalf…”)

In other words, the party permitted to apply for surrogacy is expressly worded as a lawful husband and wife (สามีและภริยา).

”No one shall create an embryo other than for the purpose of infertility treatment for a legally married couple”

The peer-reviewed summary of this framework (Stasi 2017, PMC5753847) states, verbatim:

• “restricted access to ART exclusively to married heterosexual couples”
• “no one shall create an embryo other than for the purpose of infertility treatment for a legally married couple”
• “banning commercial surrogacy and trade in human sperm and eggs”
• “the surrogate mother cannot be a parent or descendant of the commissioning couple”

How to read that second line matters. It ties the very act of creating an embryo to the infertility treatment of a legally married couple. So for single women and unmarried couples, the obstacle inside Thailand’s regulated system is not that nobody wants to do it — it is that there is no legal basis to do it.

This is a secondary academic source summarising the statute (this site could not obtain an official English translation of the Thai text), but it runs in the same direction as the Gazette transcript above.

The ban on buying and selling gametes and embryos — Thai original as quoted by a clinic

The Thai-language announcement page of Bangkok’s SAFE Fertility Group (safefertilitygroup.com) quotes the regulatory wording:

• donation must be unpaid and trade is absolutely prohibited: “ต้องเป็นการบริจาคที่ไม่หวังผลตอบแทนและห้ามซื้อขายโดยเด็ดขาด”
• a gestational carrier may not use her own egg: “ห้าม ใช้เซลล์ไข่ของผู้อุ้มท้องโดยเด็ดขาด”
• commercial surrogacy is not yet permitted: “ยังไม่อนุญาตให้มีการจ้างตั้งครรภ์แทนเชิงพาณิชย์”

⚠ This is statutory text as quoted on a clinic’s page — a clinic-level relay, not the Gazette itself. This site could not retrieve the official permit conditions for donor sperm or donor egg programmes, so this guide does not write either “Thailand allows donor eggs” or “Thailand bans them outright.”

What it writes is narrower and defensible: commercial trade is prohibited, and the conditions under which unpaid donation is permitted must be confirmed in writing with the clinic and the regulator.

The amendment is still in progress, and not in force

A Thai legal-practice commentary dated 30 July 2026 (thelegal.co.th) notes that the proposed revision — gender-neutral wording, extended to married same-sex partners — “has not yet been enacted”, that the current text still uses “husband” and “wife”, and that it “omits guidance for single individuals”.

Therefore, as of 27 October 2026: Thailand’s marriage-equality law does not automatically open ART access. No claim that “Thailand now allows single women to do IVF” can be a basis for signing anything — whether it arrives from a travel guide, a broker, or an older comparison article on our own site.

Who licenses, and who polices

Regulation and professional oversight of assisted reproduction in Thailand sit with the Department of Health Support Services (DHSS) under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH); its handling of non-compliant clinics is described in secondary material (infertilityaide, 18 September 2026).

⚠ DHSS’s official English page and any licence-lookup entry point could not be retrieved on this pass, so this guide provides no clinic-licence verification path. Ask the clinic instead to produce its Ministry of Public Health approval document number.

Why this guide prints no success-rate numbers

Thailand has no public, national registry portal for ART outcomes of the kind run by SART/CDC in the United States, ANZART in Australia and New Zealand, or the JSOG ART online registration in Japan. What this site found on 27 October 2026: only a historical registry project of the Reproductive Technology Obstetrics and Gynecology Society of Thailand (RTCOG), which produced one retrospective paper covering 2008–2014 (Acta Biomedica 2019) — not a public, queryable statistics portal.

Whether a continuing public national ART report exists: NOT FOUND.

So this article lists no success-rate figures at all, and does not carry clinic-reported pregnancy rates either. Two reasons, and they are the point of this section: the denominators behind published rates are not interchangeable, and without a public registry there is nothing to cross-check a clinic’s claim against.

When you talk to a Thai clinic, make it state four things: whether the denominator is retrieval cycles, transfer cycles or treatment cycles; whether the endpoint is clinical pregnancy or live birth; how results are stratified by age; and whether the data has been peer-reviewed and published. No verbal success rate should ever be the basis on which you sign. Methodology: IVF success rate guide and How to read IVF success-rate data.

Storage limits and what happens after a divorce

This site could not find any Thai statutory provision on maximum storage duration for embryos or eggs, or on disposition after divorce (NOT FOUND). The binding constraints are the individual clinic’s agreements.

This is where cross-border families most often take a loss: the annual storage fee rising, the grace period on a late payment lapsing, and what happens to the embryos if one spouse withdraws consent. Obtain the written text of all three before you sign a freezing consent. Related: Egg freezing guide and How long can eggs be frozen.

How Much Does IVF in Thailand Really Cost?

Thailand is the most price-transparent destination in Southeast Asia — but its unit of quotation is the package, and most packages are priced on the assumption that stimulation medication is not included. Every clinic below is published on this site and has a public tariff; currencies are kept exactly as published (baht THB/฿, or US dollars), with no conversion.

Bangkok: the hospital systems

Two of the country’s big hospital names publish ART pricing, and each publishes it differently — one with a validity date, one with the medication exclusion in the package title.

① Bangkok Hospital (official package page, retrieved 27 October 2026)

② Bumrungrad International Hospital (Related Packages on its Fertility Center page; collected by this site on 12 August 2026)

⚠ A direct visit to that page on 27 October 2026 would not yield the price list (client-side rendering; official page), so the table above carries this site’s 12 August 2026 collection and must be re-checked against the live page before you sign. Note the half-sentence “Exclude OPU stimulating agents” — the 241,800 is a no-medication number.

③ Samitivej Hospital and BNH Hospital: no specific figures were captured at collection. Both are “international patient office present, no published tariff” — enquiry required.

Bangkok: the specialist clinics

This is where Thailand’s price transparency becomes useful, because the specialist clinics quote by named package rather than by department.

④ Superior A.R.T. (official FAQ / Promotions pages; dumped by this site on 14 September 2026; the FAQ page no longer carries prices in its body text)

⑤ Siam Fertility Clinic (official packages page, September 2026)

See an example package page. 169,000 baht is the lowest published ICSI package price this site verified in Thailand.

⑥ Gift Fertility Bangkok (IW Clinic) (official packages / pricing page, 8 October 2026)

This is one of the few Thai clinics this site verified that lists medication as its own line. Its 70,000–80,000 baht drug row is exactly what explains Bumrungrad writing “no stimulation injections” into a package title. Also note: the clinic states plainly that the drug cost moves with AMH, age and protocol, so it is not a fixed number to budget on.

⑦ Thonburi Bamrungmuang Hospital (official ICSI / IVF package page, verified by this site on 24 September 2026)

⚠ The hospital also used to price an ICSI Program 3 at 498,000 baht marked “Valid till 30 June 2026”. That quote has expired and is not used in this article.

⑧ Deep & Harmonicare IVF Center (DHC) (official ivf-price page, 21 August 2026)

⑨ Genea Thailand (official package-prices page, 16 July 2026)

⚠ Prices on that page are presented as images, so this site could not extract exact text values. The table is what was read at collection time — verify against the live page.

⑩ Legend Fertility Center (LRC) (official site, 21 July 2026): one stimulation plus retrieval plus transfer ฿498,000; a two-plan option ฿698,000; the mild-stimulation worry-free plan ฿780,000.

⑪ 101 Bangkok IVF (Worldwide Fertility Center) (official site): Premium ICSI Package 430,000 THB; IUI 32,500 THB.

⑫ SAFE Fertility Group (Amarin) — the only clinic here that prices directly in US dollars. Its official guide page (Getting IVF in Thailand as a Foreigner, 27 October 2026) states, verbatim:

• “IVF treatment costs can range between $USD 4,500 to $USD 16,000”
• “A standard IVF cycle typically ranges from $USD 7,500 to $USD 14,000.”
• “a combined IVF/ICSI package is priced around $USD 8,000 to $USD 15,000.”
• “The price of IVF with embryo screening roughly falls between $USD 10,000 to $USD 13,000.”
• “The additional cost for PGT-A is between $USD 200 to $USD 400 per screened embryo.”
• “For a standard IVF cycle, medications on their own cost between $USD 2,000 to $USD 7,000.”

The last two are the most useful numbers in this entire guide. They define PGT-A as US$200–400 per embryo screened and medication as US$2,000–7,000 — the two lines that create almost all of the elasticity in a package total.

⑬ Clinics with no published list price: Jetanin Institute (FAQ page, no price-list page on the site), BNH, Samitivej, Phyathai Sriracha (no IVF pricing on the English site), NIC, Chada IVF, Eki IVF Rama 9, iBaby, Millennium, VeJthani and others — all “specific figures not published” on this pass. Enquire.

Exchange rates: this guide does not convert

• Every amount keeps the clinic’s own currency (THB/฿ or USD).
• The official baht-to-dollar and baht-to-renminbi rates for October 2026 could not be verified, so no conversion is offered. Settle at your bank’s rate on the day and your card’s rate on the statement.
• One exception: a conversion published by the clinic itself may be kept, with attribution. Superior A.R.T. labels a line “THB 5,000–10,000 (USD 150–300)” on its own page — that is the clinic’s own conversion, cited as a page retrieved on 14 September 2026.
• The other category must be kept apart entirely: bundled renminbi prices. Statements this site collected such as “medical fees from ¥90,000–¥100,000” or “about 90,000–110,000 yuan” come from brokerage platforms, not from a clinic fee schedule, and are not placed in the same table as ①–⑬.

What this site publishes in dollars

The IVF cost guide 2026 gives Thailand these magnitudes: a basic IVF cycle $4,000–7,000, total treatment cost with medication $6,000–12,000, PGT-A $1,500–3,000, frozen embryo transfer $1,500–2,500.

Those numbers do not contradict the baht tables above. The first set is a whole-cycle magnitude in dollars; the second is a clinic’s own package sticker in baht. Put SAFE’s dollar range for a standard cycle (7,500–14,000) next to our with-medication range (6,000–12,000) and the two overlap precisely at the “medication included” layer — which is the reverse proof that a package price excluding medication is not a cycle total.

Non-medical costs

Travel costs in Thailand divide cleanly into rows with an official page behind them and rows we could not put a number on:

Four budget scenarios (original currency, no conversion)

Stack the verified pieces into the shapes families actually book:

Scenario D versus scenario A is a gap of more than four times, and that gap is the true spread of Thai list prices. The same requirement — ICSI plus PGT-A plus one frozen transfer — can produce bills that differ by more than half, purely because clinics structure packages differently. You can sort that out from home, on the clinics’ own websites. The budgeting rule has not changed: take the ceiling at the medication-included level, and never treat a single package sticker as your total. For the aggregate view and how to read a line item, see How much does IVF cost and How to read an IVF cost breakdown.

What Should Your Pre-Departure Checklist Look Like?

Work backwards from retrieval day, and each item below lands in its own window. The first window is legal and documentary, because Thai law — not the clinic calendar — is what disqualifies a plan late.

Three to two months out

• Marriage documentation ready (marriage certificate plus the translated or notarised form your clinic accepts) — Thailand’s framework is limited to legally married couples, and which form each clinic accepts varies; confirm in writing in advance
• Remote consultation with every value submitted: AMH, FSH/LH/E2, antral follicle count on transvaginal ultrasound, semen analysis, infectious-disease screening, thyroid function
• Ask for two written quotes — with medication and without medication — and PGT-A priced per embryo
• Require the clinic’s Ministry of Public Health approval document number, and confirm its embryology laboratory and scope of practice
• Ask explicitly: donor gametes, surrogacy and non-medical sex selection are not options in Thailand. If your plan quietly assumes any of them, change destination now, not later

Six to four weeks out

• If you genuinely must carry prescription drugs containing narcotic or psychotropic substances: file with the Thai FDA at least 15 days before departure (chapter seven)
• Check your passport validity and confirm 30 days per entry is enough
• Put the 90-days-in-any-180 tally into your calendar; decide whether the second leg uses an extension or a re-entry permit
• Book a licensed hotel with date changes allowed, keep the confirmations, and get the cancellation rules for a cancelled retrieval in writing
• Buy travel medical insurance that covers assisted reproduction and complications including OHSS; check whether “fertility tourism” appears in the exclusions

Two weeks out

• Confirm with the clinic the trigger time, the fasting requirement on retrieval day, and the exact address to report to
• Time the accommodation-to-clinic commute for real and record a backup route. If you fly into Suvarnabhumi, the airport rail fare and service intervals still need separate confirmation
• Confirm accepted payment methods (baht or dollars, card, cash) — do not assume Alipay works at a clinic
• If you are being treated in the north between March and May: put AQI on the pre-departure checklist

Carry-on bag on travel day (nothing here in checked luggage)

• Original prescriptions and medicines in their original packaging, plus a printed copy of any Thai FDA permit you obtained
• Paper copies of every test report, plus a cloud backup
• Accommodation confirmation and address
• Your TDAC submission receipt
• Return tickets for both legs
• The clinic’s emergency number, including out-of-hours contact

Thai fertility clinics we profile

The Thailand clinics published on this site are listed below. Click any card for the full profile — physicians, services, cost notes, address and booking:

To compare clinics systematically, read How to choose an IVF clinic and What is a fertility clinic. Every Thailand listing is in the Thailand clinic directory; this site also runs a Thailand IVF centre roundup and a USA versus Thailand comparison.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do Chinese passport holders need a visa for IVF in Thailand?

No. You enter on the China–Thailand mutual visa exemption agreement for ordinary passport holders (effective 1 March 2024): no more than 30 days per entry, and no more than 90 days cumulative in any 180 days.

One 2026 change matters. Thailand cancelled its unilateral 60-day visa exemption for 93 countries and territories, including China, from 15 September 2026, after which visa-exempt entry remains available but at 30 days per entry. The “60 days” in guides written in 2024 and 2025 no longer applies. Sources are the Chinese Embassy in Thailand’s advisory of 2 September 2026 and the Royal Thai Embassy in Beijing’s wording; the Royal Gazette order behind Thailand’s cancellation could not be retrieved, so re-check with Immigration before departure. You must also file the TDAC digital arrival card — required of every non-Thai arrival.

Q: Thirty days is not enough. Can I extend where I am?

Yes, and Thailand prints the fees on an official page: extension of temporary stay 1,900 baht per application, single re-entry permit 1,000 baht, multiple re-entry within the remaining permitted period 3,800 baht (Samut Prakan Immigration fee schedule). Where these are filed, what documents they need, and how often they can be granted could not be retrieved from official sources, so confirm with Immigration after arrival — and note that none of this changes the 90-days-in-any-180 exemption ceiling.

Most protocols need no extension at all: the first leg runs 12–15 days and the second 5–8, both inside 30.

Q: Can a single woman have IVF in Thailand?

No — and as things stand there is no legal basis for it, rather than merely no willingness. Thailand’s B.E. 2558 (2015) ART framework describes eligibility in terms of a lawful married couple; the academic summary of it reads “restricted access to ART exclusively to married heterosexual couples” and “no one shall create an embryo other than for the purpose of infertility treatment for a legally married couple”, while the Gazette transcript words the surrogacy provision as “สามีและภริยาที่ชอบด้วยกฎหมาย” (a lawful husband and wife).

The amendment under discussion in 2026 — gender-neutral wording extended to married same-sex couples — had not been enacted as of 27 October 2026, and the draft “omits guidance for single individuals.” The “Thailand allows single women” line in our own IVF laws by country does not match this verification. Single patients and same-sex couples should look to US destinations — see the IVF in New York guide.

Q: Does Thailand allow donor eggs, donor sperm or surrogacy?

Commercial trade is expressly prohibited and the practical path is very narrow. The framework is summarised in the literature as “banning commercial surrogacy and trade in human sperm and eggs”; a Thai clinic’s own announcement page quotes the regulation as “ต้องเป็นการบริจาคที่ไม่หวังผลตอบแทนและห้ามซื้อขายโดยเด็ดขาด” (donation must be unpaid; buying and selling is absolutely prohibited).

On surrogacy: lawful married couple only, commercial arrangements not permitted (“ยังไม่อนุญาตให้มีการจ้างตั้งครรภ์แทนเชิงพาณิชย์”), and the carrier may not use her own egg (“ห้าม ใช้เซลล์ไข่ของผู้อุ้มท้องโดยเด็ดขาด”). This site could not retrieve the official permit conditions for unpaid donation programmes, so this guide says neither “Thailand allows donor eggs” nor “Thailand bans them” — families needing third-party gametes or surrogacy should rule Thailand out and see Countries where surrogacy is legal in 2026.

Q: What does one IVF attempt actually cost in Thailand?

The published spread is wide: ICSI packages run from 169,000 baht (Siam Fertility SKYLIGHT) to 274,500 baht, and worry-free or all-inclusive plans from 495,000 to 780,000 baht (Superior A.R.T., Legend). Bumrungrad’s fresh-IVF package is 241,800 baht but says in the title that stimulation injections are excluded. Clinics that break out medication quote 70,000–80,000 baht; SAFE’s dollar framing is US$2,000–7,000. PGT-A is charged per embryo at some clinics (25,000 baht each, or US$200–400 each) and as a lump at others (Bangkok Hospital: 96,000 baht).

Our dollar magnitudes are $4,000–7,000 basic and $6,000–12,000 with medication — see the IVF cost guide 2026. This guide converts nothing, because the October 2026 official baht rates could not be verified; settle at your bank’s rate.

Q: What is the difference between 169,000 baht and 495,000 baht?

How many steps and how many attempts the package covers — not “expensive clinic is better clinic”. 169,000 baht is the base tier of one ICSI package. The 495,000-baht worry-free plan covers one stimulation plus one frozen embryo transfer plus PGT-A. At 780,000 baht you are buying mild stimulation with multiple arrangements built in.

Compare correctly by splitting three questions: does it include stimulation medication; how many transfers does it cover; and is PGT-A priced per cycle or per embryo? Once you split them, a Thai bill is something you can assemble yourself — which is exactly the advantage Thailand has over other Southeast Asian destinations.

Q: Can I bring my own stimulation injections from home?

Do not rely on it. The Thai FDA’s traveller guidance writes a quantity ceiling only inside specific categories — “provided the quantity does not exceed a 30-day supply as prescribed” — and categories requiring authorisation must “obtain a permit from the Food and Drug Administration at least 15 days before traveling” (official page). “30 days” is not a blanket exemption for every medicine.

The more practical argument: stimulation doses get adjusted during monitoring, and only local dispensing puts each adjustment into your medical record.

Also note that the “IC-2 permit” label in older guides is not a Thai system reference; this site has removed it. Medication detail: IVF medications explained.

Q: Can I bring a vape or any cannabis product into Thailand?

Neither. Royal Thai Customs announces the cannabis position in its own title: “กัญชา กัญชง เป็นสินค้าห้ามนำาเข้าประเทศไทย!” (cannabis and hemp are prohibited imports). On e-cigarettes, the Royal Thai Embassy in London states that a person could be “arrested and face jail time, or a fine several times the value of the illegal item(s)”.

The government’s Anti-Fake News Center gives penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of four times the value of the goods; the widely shared “10 years / five times / capped at 500,000 baht” version could not be traced to an official page and is not used here.

Q: What does it cost to get into the city from Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang?

Don Mueang is settled: BMTA buses A1 and A2 cost 30 baht (AOT official transport page), A1 to Mo Chit and A2 to Victory Monument. In the city: MRT Blue Line 17–44 baht (from 3 July 2026, per BEM’s announcement) and SRT Red Line 12–42 baht (SRTET’s official fare table, 1.50 baht per kilometre).

The Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link fare and its first and last services could not be retrieved from official pages — SRTET’s page covers only the Red Line and AOT’s Suvarnabhumi transport page returned 404 — and BTS fares are likewise unverified. Treat those two as things you confirm from station notices after you land.

Q: Where should I stay?

Choose by clinic direction, not by sightseeing map. Sukhumvit / Thong Lo concentrates specialist clinics but leans on the BTS, whose fare is unverified; Silom / Sathon sits on the Blue Line (17–44 baht, verified); the Rangsit / Don Mueang corridor is covered by the Red Line (up to 42 baht); Rama 9 / the new CBD hosts many Chinese-service-oriented clinics.

For the room itself, prefer a licensed hotel or a monthly-rate serviced apartment (chapter five) — Thailand has no verifiable short-let registration regime, so the risk lands on the individual listing. During stimulation you attend every two to three days, so a dependable line beats a 500-metre walk.

Q: Which month is best for IVF in Thailand?

This guide gives no month-by-month recommendation table. What could be verified from primary sources is only the Meteorological Department’s three seasons — hot from about mid-February to mid-May, rainy from about mid-May when the south-west monsoon arrives, cool from about mid-October to mid-February — plus the national PM2.5 standard, whose 24-hour mean tightened to 37.5 µg/m³ from 1 June 2023 (previously 50).

Monthly temperature and rainfall normals for Bangkok and Chiang Mai, the official window of the northern haze season, and Thai flood advisories for Bangkok or Chiang Mai could not be verified (the list is in chapter six). Thailand’s temperature barely moves across the year, and season does not change the physiology of retrieval or transfer — your cycle and the clinic’s calendar set the dates. If you will wait in Chiang Mai for weeks, add AQI to the pre-departure checklist.

Q: Do Thai clinics offer Chinese-language service?

Several run Chinese desks and Chinese websites. That structure carries one specific hazard: quotes aimed at Chinese-speaking patients often arrive as a bundled renminbi price, and those numbers come from brokerage platforms rather than a clinic fee schedule — chapter eleven deliberately walls them off.

Where retrieval counts, IVF versus ICSI, blastocyst culture, PGT or selective reduction are concerned, the duty to explain is not waived by the existence of a Chinese-speaking desk.

Q: How should I question a Thai clinic about success rates?

This site does not publish success rates in destination or city guides, and for Thailand there is a direct reason: our search found no public national ART outcome registry or annual-report portal of the kind operated by SART/CDC in the US, ANZART, or JSOG’s ART registration in Japan — only a historical society registry that produced a single retrospective paper.

That means clinic-quoted pregnancy rates have no denominator you can cross-check. Make each clinic state: whether the denominator is retrieval, transfer or treatment cycles; whether the endpoint is clinical pregnancy or live birth; how results are stratified by age; and whether the data is peer-reviewed and published. Methodology: IVF success rate guide and How to read IVF success-rate data.

Q: Is Thailand cheap because the regulation is loose?

Thai regulation points the other way: the 2015 framework narrows ART to legally married couples and expressly prohibits commercial trade in gametes and embryos — tightening, not a free-for-all.

Its real weak points are two: there is no public national outcome registry, so success rates cannot be verified, and this site could not retrieve a public licence-lookup path for Thai clinics. Push the requirements onto paper: the clinic’s Ministry of Public Health approval number, the actual wording of consent forms, quotes both with and without medication, and the validity date on each quote. Some Thai package pages print “Valid till …” or “Expire Date …” — photograph every one of those lines.

Closing thoughts

What Thailand offers a family travelling for treatment is the easiest bill in Southeast Asia to assemble before you leave: ten clinics publish price lists, ICSI packages run 169,000 to 274,500 baht, all-inclusive plans run 495,000 to 780,000 baht, PGT-A can be priced per embryo, and stimulation medication gets its own line. Entry rests on a bilateral exemption rather than a unilateral courtesy, and the cost of extending your stay — 1,900 baht per application — is printed on an immigration office’s official page. Numbers like that are themselves evidence that the itinerary is controllable.

But three doors are shut tight. Eligibility runs to legally married couples, and the amendment had still not been enacted as of 27 October 2026. Commercial trade in gametes and embryos is prohibited. Surrogacy is limited to a lawful married couple with commercial arrangements barred. These are not constraints you solve by asking one more clinic or hiring one more broker — their source is the 2015 statutory framework, not clinic policy.

One more thing should be said plainly. Thailand has no public national ART outcome registry, and this site found no government ART statistics portal either. Every success rate you are shown in Thailand is a clinic’s account of itself. Put your decision on the three things that can be checked: the eligibility conditions in the law, the clinic’s Ministry of Public Health approval number, and written quotes with and without medication — together with their validity dates.

So the order of operations is: first chapter ten — do your marital status and your needs sit inside what Thai law permits; then chapter eleven — assemble the bill yourself from published baht prices; only after that do the airport (Don Mueang or Suvarnabhumi), the neighbourhood and the month matter.

If you are married, need standard procedures such as ICSI, PGT or embryo freezing, and insist on seeing every price before you fly, Thailand is a first-round consultation destination where cost and transparency both clear the bar. If you need donor eggs, surrogacy or treatment as a single person, cross Thailand off now.

Read next:

• IVF cost guide 2026 — the whole-cycle magnitudes behind the baht package prices above
• USA versus Thailand IVF comparison — the same need priced and legalled across two destinations
• Thailand IVF centre roundup — the clinics in one comparison view
• IVF in New York — the destination that keeps single patients and surrogacy lawful
• How to choose an IVF clinic — the questions every clinic should answer in writing
• How IVF is done step by step — from stimulation to the pregnancy test
• IVF laws by country — where eligibility rules differ, read with this guide’s verified Thai text
• Donor egg IVF guide — the route Thailand’s gamete-trade ban closes
• How to read IVF success-rate data — per retrieval, per transfer, per thaw
• Egg freezing guide — storage, renewal and disposition clauses
• Countries where surrogacy is legal in 2026 — where the doors Thailand shuts are still open
• What is a fertility clinic — how a reproductive practice is actually built
• IVF in Japan — the only destination in this series with finer item-level price lists

Last updated: 27 October 2026. Entry and visa positions follow the Chinese Embassy in Thailand’s advisory of 2 September 2026 (agreement effective 1 March 2024; 30 days per entry and 90 days cumulative in any 180; cancellation from 15 September 2026 of the unilateral 60-day exemption for 93 countries and territories), with the Royal Thai Embassy in Beijing’s visa-requirements page and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs consular service notice of 29 January 2024; extension and re-entry fees come from the Samut Prakan Immigration official fee schedule; TDAC rests on the Immigration Bureau’s official portal and its English guide page, supported by the Royal Thai Embassy in London’s “required from 1 May 2025” headline. Transport comes from Airports of Thailand’s Don Mueang official transportation page (“A1-A2 price 30 baht”, plus first and last services), BEM’s Blue Line fare-revision announcement (17–44 baht, B.E. 2569-07-03 to 2571-07-02) and SRTET’s official fare and timetable page (Red Line 12–42 baht, 1.50 baht per kilometre). Climate comes from the Meteorological Department’s season-division page, its B.E. 2569 entry-into-hot-season notice and its tropical-cyclone page; PM2.5 limits come from the Pollution Control Department’s Regional Environment Office 3 announcement (24-hour mean 50 µg/m³ to 31 May 2023, tightened from 1 June 2023), and the northern wildfire, haze and dust response document is the Pollution Control Department’s Regional Environment Office 13 page; the flood example is the Singaporean Embassy in Thailand’s notice of 25 November 2025 concerning Songkhla Province, not Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Medication comes from the Thai Food and Drug Administration’s traveller guidance page (the 30-day and 90-day wordings and the 15-day advance permit requirement) and its travel-permit portal; the cannabis and hemp import ban from the Royal Thai Customs announcement PDF; e-cigarettes from the Royal Thai Embassy in London statement page and the government Anti-Fake News Center’s account. Telephony and payment come from True’s official tourist SIM page (8 days at 449 THB) and the Ant International newsroom release of 8 February 2024 plus Central Retail’s own newsroom announcement. Legal section: the Royal Gazette original page (ratchakitcha.soc.go.th) returned 403 on this pass, so the Thai text of the surrogacy provision is taken from the Gazette transcript page (lawplayer); the eligibility and prohibition summary is taken from the peer-reviewed Stasi 2017 (PMC5753847); the Thai wording on unpaid donation and surrogacy restrictions is taken from a Thai clinic’s announcement page and is a clinic-level relay; the not-yet-enacted status of the amendment comes from a Thai legal-practice commentary dated 30 July 2026; descriptions of the regulatory history and enforcement mechanism are secondary sources. Fee tables come from the official price and package pages of eleven clinics — Bangkok Hospital, Bumrungrad International Hospital, Superior A.R.T., Siam Fertility, Gift Fertility Bangkok (IW Clinic), Thonburi Bamrungmuang Hospital, DHC, Genea Thailand, Legend Fertility Center, 101 Bangkok (Worldwide) and SAFE Fertility Group — with collection dates and statuses flagged item by item in the text, including “client-rendered, not retrieved”, “shown as images, not extractable” and “quote expired”; dollar magnitudes for the site are in the IVF cost guide 2026. The following could not be verified on this pass and are flagged wherever they appear: the Royal Gazette order and Immigration announcement behind Thailand’s cancellation of the 60-day exemption; where a stay extension may be filed and how often; the verbatim text and penalties of the Hotel Act B.E. 2547; any uniform apartment-level prohibition on lets under 30 days; the Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link fare and its first and last services; BTS SkyTrain fares and the one-day pass; the MRT Yellow Line fare; Chiang Mai bus and songthaew fares; Bangkok taxi and Grab meters; monthly climate normals for Bangkok and Chiang Mai; the official month window of the northern haze season; Thai-official flood advisories for Bangkok and Chiang Mai; the text of the US Embassy in Thailand’s heavy-rain warning of 26 September 2026; weather-related flight delay and cancellation statistics; the body text of the Thai FDA travel-permit portal; the NBTC’s official rule on real-name SIM registration with a foreign passport; a public licence-lookup path for Thai clinics; whether a national ART outcome registry exists; statutory provisions on embryo and egg storage duration and on disposition after divorce; the official October 2026 baht exchange rates; air and accommodation prices; and standalone interpreter and chaperone pricing. Where these gaps sit, the clinic’s written explanation and the live official page govern.

Medical disclaimer: this guide is reference material for planning care and travel. It is not medical advice, a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation, and it is not an endorsement or an assessment of any clinic. Stimulation protocols, medication, surgery and transfer strategy must be decided for you by a licensed reproductive medicine specialist working from your own case. The legal material here — on Thailand’s Notification on Assisted Reproductive Technology and Notification on the Protection of Children Born by Assisted Reproductive Technology (B.E. 2558), the Hotel Act B.E. 2547, the Thai FDA’s rules for travellers carrying medication, Royal Thai Customs’ positions on e-cigarettes and cannabis, the China–Thailand mutual visa exemption and the TDAC arrival requirement — is objective legal and regulatory information and is not legal advice. Some provisions are quoted from a Gazette transcript or an academic relay because the official originals could not be retrieved on this pass; eligibility and enforcement are decided by the competent authorities and by each clinic. Thai law limits assisted reproduction to legally married couples, prohibits commercial trade in gametes and embryos, and restricts surrogacy; the amendment that would widen access had not been enacted as of 27 October 2026, and commercial surrogacy is not lawful in Thailand. Cannabis and hemp may not be imported into Thailand. Neither mainland China nor Thailand recognises commercial surrogacy, and the legal description here is neutral information, not advice or encouragement. Entry, visa and customs questions are governed by the live official positions of the Thai Immigration Bureau, the Thai Food and Drug Administration, Royal Thai Customs and the Chinese Embassy in the Kingdom of Thailand.