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Actually now that you mention this showing closer on Gmaps , I do remember seeing an Immigration office near the fishing boats area in the harbor area of town , but I am not sure if it is still functional or serving the migrant fishing workers located in that area , I would still go to Maptaphut though.

There certainly wasn't an immigration office in Ban Phe in late 2011 according to an old thread on the Eastern Thailand forum at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/504136-ban-phe-immigration-location/ and I have never seen any inkling of one there since. Pity for me since I only live some 10km away towards Klaeng

But who mentioned that there was one in BanPhe anyway, I didn't. I was replying to the fact that AngThong said there was one showing closer to Rayong than the one in Maptaphut, I was therefore referring to the Fishing boat area in Rayong Harbour Area.

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Actually now that you mention this showing closer on Gmaps , I do remember seeing an Immigration office near the fishing boats area in the harbor area of town , but I am not sure if it is still functional or serving the migrant fishing workers located in that area , I would still go to Maptaphut though.

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Riding a motorbike in Maptaphut industrial estate is easy. I have done it a zillion times. Ko Samui on the other hand is quite scary.

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I used to work next to the immigration office. I guess I've been there 300 or 400 times. It is not in an insustrial estate and there is no traffic. You should not mislead people if you have never been to a place that you are giving instructions to.

Indeed it is not. The industrial estate lies to the east of Maptaput Town, whereas the immigration office is located on the western side.

Actually Mr pedantic it lies both SSE and SSW of maptaphut as it so bleeding big, and the immi office is also located SSW of Huai Pong , not that I am being pedantic , but I also worked very near the Immi office , JEEEZ some people have nothing better to do than split hairs . To get there just follow sukhumvit road to Soi 20 take a left go down Soi 20 until you get to a T junction with the Tessaban Municipality building in front of you , take a left and immi is about 75 mtrs on the right or was it 76 mtrs , Ohh I cannot sleep tonight now , I will nip down there now and measure it for OJASS's satisfaction and I will be back here in 20 minutes OK ?

I am told that Maptahput immi is reasonably quiet Tuesday to Thursday so that would be good for you , I guess

If you can cope with riding a scooter from Ban Phe to Rayong , I would imagine you could also cope with riding a scooter from Rayong to Maptaphut, did many time myself before I got a car. The turning for immigration is a left turn at a place called Huai Pong after Mapthaput it is clearly signposted and easy to find if you know where it is . Actually if you take the turn off Sukhumvit and follow for about 1.5 -2kms , you will come to what look like Government offices on a T junction , take a left and about 100 mtrs on the right H S is the immi office.

Actually I thought that a new rail link was being built from Mapthaput to Nong Kai for international industrial links, why cannot freight and passenger trains use the same lines as they do in many other countries, or would only building and using one line cut down on the number of opportunities to further fleece the taxpayer??

mmmm Apparently I cannot edited my own post on my own OP topic . So, here goes again.

Here is a link to the Cambo tourist website , which is dated everyday so I presume the info on it is also up to date , and it states the cost of a visa into Cambo is $30 , there is also no mention of departure fees either.

So , go to Cambo borders if you like , in the knowledge now that this is likely to happen to you and many others.

http://www.tourismcambodia.com/faqs/#how much shall

9.00am - 4.30pm

Very nice people to deal with , truly

::I was allowed to do it in Bangkok and one of them

made a phone call (I don't know who she called) and answered me I'd need at least 20 days

left in my stamp. This is what happened to me then..

I was told by Thai immigration both locally and in Chaengwattana, that you have to have minimum of 15 days left on a 30 day entry permit to change to Non Imm B.

My adventure at Ban Phak Kat today.

Arrived got hounded by the passport touts as soon as I arrived . Ignored their offers of doing it all for me at 1500THB, in the knowledge that I could probably do this cheaper myself.

They kept telling me the Cambo Gov't had increased the entry fee to 1200 THB , ah ok still will be cheaper to do alone I thought.

Got stamped out of Thailand and arrived at the Cambo border control, who charged me 1200THB to enter.

Ok I thought fair enough, then went to leave and pick up my passport, to be told that I had to pay 300 THB to leave, as I was not staying overnight and was leaving same day, to which I indignantly replied no country charges people to leave a country and that I had not paid this before , a long time ago admittedly, at which point my passport was kept behind the desk making it obvious that if I wanted it back I would have to pay or stay until the next day, which I had no intention of doing as I had to get back.

So all in all I saved nothing money wise, but it is obvious that false fees of 300 and 200 THB are being applied to you if you are on your own by the Cambodian Border personnel , or if you use a passport tout they are making the 300 THB and possibly the 200THB visa entry extra fee, as I saw none of them paying when they were putting through multiple passports from the Thai side at the Cambo border windows.

Obviously if they were paying these fees they would be offering the service for free, and that is highly unlikely isn't it ????

The only thing I would have saved on, by using the PP touts was about 10 - 15 minutes probably, and the knowledge that my passport was safer in my hands than theirs, but then again it did not feel like that when border control withdrew it until I paid 300 THB .

Ok enough bitching about spelling, distances etc.

If you go down soi rajbamrung the street behing Rayong city hotel and go to Y33 bar opposite a family mart shop , there are always a good few farangs there, myself included, you could also try Wizards bar behind the market behind Tesco lotus on sukhumvit , a bit hit and miss to whether anyone will be there though.

What age group are you in? Y33 has many youngsters using it and old farts like me .

I presume both controls are within walking distance of each other then Joe? Thanks for the info by the way.

What is the service like at Ban Laem? Is the Cambodian immigration border point within walking distance of the Thai crossing point , as it is at Poipet?

You will get a visa exempt entry at a border crossing not a tourist visa. You will only get a 15 day entry unless you are from a G7 country that would allow a 30 day entry.

From the the Pattaya/Rayong area the Ban Laem crossing is the nearest one.

The visa for Cambodia costs $30 which should be the only cost. There are no costs for entry to Thailand.

It is possible to do a conversion to a 90 day non immigrant visa entry at Bangkok immigration. It will take 2 trips to get it done and the requirements are higher than than that needed to get an extension of stay based upon working. You would need at least 15 days remaining on your entry to apply.

If you only get a 15 day entry you can extend it for 30 days at an immigration office ( same for a 30 day entry).

It will be the Non Imm B that I will apply for when I get back from Cambodia.

Been speaking with a friend who is currently working in Foreign affairs dept at Chaengwattana teaching English there who has asked the question of staff there.

I can come back with 30 day entry permit ( G7 country Passport Holder , UK ) and as long as my employer has all paperwork in order to apply for a non B , within 15 days of arrival back here from Cambodia, the immigration in chaengwattana will give me a non imm B there.

My employer has also called Chaengwattana to confirm this too.

Not too sure if they will apply immediately for the Extn visa based on work, rather than a non B? I was always under the impression that a non B had to be gained first, before the "extension of stay visa based on working" could be gained, but by the time of application within 15 days of return with entry permit, I will already have a work permit in hand, as we had already started this process before today's / yesterday's balls up at Jomtien was realised, which ended up with me having a 7 day notice to leave Thailand put in my passport. Rather than them trying to listen to what we were trying to do, and giving totally unfriendly unhelpful advice, they told my Thai friend that I needed a 7 day permit, so off we went to the desk to do this, only to find out when I went to Rayong Immi today, that..... 1, we could have gone there to cancel and they knew what we were doing and why,..... and 2 there was absolutely no need to cancel visa in Jomtien , only my work permit at Chonburi, which was info nobody had informed me of.

I must have missed the Ban Laem turning for the border previously and ended up at Aranyaphet / Poipet previously. So thanks for that info , should be ok this time , I have SatNav now

I have to do an urgent border crossing in order to obtain a tourist visa to then transfer it to a non imm B visa in the future.

What is the current situation with land crossing tourist visas at Aranyaphet - Poipet? is it just a 15 day tourist visa that is available there to come back into Thailand?

What are the cost involved in making this crossing/ re entry?

Can that tourist visa then be transferred into a Non imm B at Chanwattana, rather than going out of country , which is what I am being told by my local immigration office in Rayong .

In a bit of a mess now due to incompetence and a lack of communication by some grumpy arsed official at Jomtien immigration, and thus finding myself having to leave the country sharpish, which was exactly what I had been trying to avoid and could have been done had this &lt;deleted&gt; been a bit more communicative .

walking over hot coals , broken glass, suspended in a glass box for weeks no food or water, there is always an element of trickery involved unless you are gullible to believe in hocus pocus . much of religion and events documented in history associated with such frivolities only serve to further maintain a gullible congregation. Do magic shows by the likes of David Copperfield , David Biane , et al, stop us watching their exploits or do we carry on watching. Carry on I say, if it entertains without harming, let it be .

Sent by bus to Bangkok. Now Thailand can deal with them.

What has a an act of criminality , if one wants to call it that , committed in a different country , got to do with Thai officialdom ?. It was not done in Thailand, so is irrelevant , unless Thai authorities still see this ancient site as part of Thailand? But, I thought that was now on the backburner for the time being at least (whilst Thailand's Junta grovels for new friends in the region) , after the UN ruling that it is Cambodian and not Thai soil???

WOW !!! The English skills of Thai kids in schools has improved so much lately , thank you Gen Prayuth .

Who da &lt;deleted&gt; published this cr*p ?? it is so unbelievable , unless of course the kid is a Thai/ Farang kid , maybe .

But of course we all know it isn't , don't we Guys?

June 2015 isn't here yet???????????

What is more worrying is that it is seen as good that corruption has dropped and that is OK???

It is as if it were related to the RetailPrice index and rates of inflation , which is obviously evident in the way this report is presented????

Don't know what all this is about, its known what caused the failure the flexible ie PTT off loading hose, it was within service life of these hose types and failed prematurely

Presactly.

well apparently it was a leak from a PTT sea to shore pipeline, at the time anyway? So i suppose now that the authourities are looking to pin the blame on someone, and just like in Koh Tao, PTT have declined to provide evidence to support their innocence or admit their guilt, but by just saying it was not us, go away, their culpability is lost !!!!

Additionally, I do nlt remember at the time any mention of bitumous or asphalt ype oil being mentioned, it was bilge oil or crude they were talking about at the time. So where as this sudden line of enquiry come from???

Obviously the money is talking again in this case, but only as long as the blame can be pinned on another, which is probably a ship registered in another country .

What would be the opinion of the police and other authorities, and what sort of penalties would be dished out if it had been a gang of insurgent southern rebels doing this sort of thing I wonder?????

Jing Jing Lohr. and this is news????

What better country to form ties with than a country to which you admire its control over its people?

Surely this is an excercise in what Thailand does best, Copying.

But trying to copy what N Kores does would take the art of copying to a whole new extreme.

Stronger ties with China and now N.Korea???? BEWARE ya all!!!!!

And Thailand complains when Singapore wants to copy Son Kran , Get real !!