Mr Bin
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Jun 20, 2010, 2:17 AM
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Vietnam visa in Bangkok and Cambodia
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Get a taxi or Skytrain to Wireless Road (Soi Wittayu) in the centre of Bangkok. On the Skytrain you get off at the Phloen Chit stop. Walk out through the elevated skywalk and then down the stairs onto Wireless Road going towards All Seasons Place, which is a huge mall and office block. (There is a big map on a board in the BTS station – check it before you go out through the exits to ensure you know where you’re going).
At the bottom of the walkway stairs there is a cluster of shops that can provide you with passport photos if you do not have them already. You will need two for your Vietnam visa application. Get these before you go any further.
Walk along Wireless Road for about five minutes. The Vietnamese Embassy is just along here, but it’s easy to miss because you are so close to it. Look for this door, which is the entry to the Visa Application area.
Once inside, fill in one of the application forms and then submit it at the window along with the appropriate fee. It’s around 1000 Baht ($30 US) for a one entry visa – make sure you request a multiple entry visa if you intend to exit and re-enter Vietnam during your travels, otherwise you’ll have to apply for a second visa all over again. You need to submit the visa application between 8.30am to 11.30 am and 1.30pm to 4.30pm. You can collect it 3 days later or pay a little more and get express service to collect it the next day, but make sure you drop it early in the morning if you want to be sure of this.
Or getting visa online at http://www.vietnamvisaonline.net. The process is very simple. All you have to do is go to this website and fill out the online forms with your passport and personal information. Make sure you clarify if you want a single entry or multiple entry visa if you plan to explore nearby countries or return to Vietnam in the near future.
Once you complete the process they will send you a confirmation email with important information of the requirements. You will need to get 2 passport photos taken as well as print out an official letter declaring your arrival as well as an application form which are all required at the airport.
Get A Vietnam visa without waiting in Cambodia
If you are travelling to Cambodia and intending to go on to Vietnam afterwards, you can cleverly get a Vietnam visa without any wait at the Sihanoukville Vietnam Embassy. This trick is listed in the Lonely Planet Cambodia and I’ve done it myself (although it was 3 years ago so double check it’s still operational). You simply turn up at the Vietnam Embassy – preferably mid morning when someone will be there and also have time to deal with your request – and they issue the visa on the spot. The gentleman who issued mine and Louise’s visas was certainly a lot more friendly than the harried Bangkok visa staff.
The Vietnam Embassy in Sihanoukville is marked on most maps of the city, although it can take a bit of cruising up and down the road on the back of motorbike taxis to spot its entrance gates.
Note that this immediate issue only seems to happen in Sihanoukville and not any other Cambodian cities, including the capital Phnom Penh. You can still get a Vietnam visa in PP, but you’ll have to wait for it.
If you plan to travel into Cambodia by boat, then continue into Vietnam, get your VN visa in Sihanoukville. That is where the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia is located. It is very easy to find, near the top of the first hill heading from town toward Weather Station Hill. It only takes about twenty minutes to fill out the application and pay the fee. It cost US$35 for a 30-day stay, single entry. They will need visa-sized photographs. Like Cambodia, the visa is a full-page stick-on so be sure to have open pages! (I had to delay my entry into Vietnam to get extra pages added to my passport so that I would be able to get BACK into Cambodia.)
If you are in Phnom Penh, it will take at least 2-3 days to get the visa because they will have to send your passport to Sihanoukville. You might as well do it yourself and check out Sihanoukville (also known as Kompong Som). It is only a 4-5 hour bus ride from PP, so not too much of a back-track.
And if you haven't been there before, an excellent party stop with okay beaches!
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