Relationship repair was well under way with yesterday's meetings between Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung and the Thai royal family, prime minister and foreign minister.
But the price paid by the Thai nation is considered too high by analysts and rights activists in Thailand.
'We look as if we [Thailand] are supplicating them [Myanmar], which is in a way true. It is an unbearable situation,' said Dr Wittaya, Asian studies expert attached to Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.
Ties between the two nations have been more than usually tense since Yangon closed the border on May 20 after accusing Thailand of helping Shan United Army rebels. Government-controlled media reports from Yangon at the time went so far as to include criticism of the Thai royal family.
Bilateral diplomacy has focused since on the need to reopen border posts to allow legal trade and movement of people to resume.
The two-day visit just concluded by the Myanmar foreign minister to Bangkok is helping put the seal on warmer bilateral ties, not least through the audience granted by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, thought to include an invitation for her to visit Yangon.
Diplomatic sources say such moves add up to a growing likelihood that the border will be reopened soon.