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Ireland32

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  1. 7 hours ago, CelticTam said:

    As Ubonjoe says, catch the minibus service from the airport (220 Baht) to to the Friendship Bridge.

     

    You should arrive around 4.45. Exit at Thai immigration - finger print control in operation. Pass through and catch the bus over the bridge every 15 minutes or so, at 20 Baht. Apply for visa application and Lao Arrival/Departure form when you arrive in Laos. You need 1 x Photo and $35 + $1 overtime, or 1,500 Baht - obtain the forms and return at Window 1. You wait 10 minutes and receive your passport at Window 3 - check visa and stamp and proceed to exit gate and avoid the Lao immigration booths as you have already cleared Lao immigration.

     

    Proceed to exit point where you will be required to present your passport - 30 seconds later and you are on your way. There are a number of options to travel from the Friendship Bridge to Vieng Chan.  Option 1. Catch a taxi: usually 300 Baht or negotiate and try and share with others - this option is best if you don't know the geography and depends where you want to stay overnight; option 2. Catch the number 14 bus, based on the right as you exit, to the central Bus station next to Talat Sao = 8,000 Kip or 25 Baht or $1. You can walk to most central hotels/guest houses in 15 minutes. Option 3. You can also catch a sontaew to Talat Sao for 8,000 Kip, though they will try to charge you more. Try to book your room prior to arrival.

     

    Remember, you apply for your visa at the Thai Consulate not the Thai Embassy. Also, make sure you have all your docs including the page containing your exit stamp from Thailand/ entry stamp to Laos. Experience indicates that many people arrive early and queue up to submit their application - I recommend you aim to arrive around 11.00 a.m as the crowds should be gone.

     

    Last but not least, I assume you have received confirmation of your appointment.

     

    If you are in a hurry to get back to Thailand after you receive your passport and visa on the afternoon on day 2, try and share a mini bus taxi to the border. Alternatively, if you have time, catch the international bus from Vieng Chan to Udon and catch a tuk tuk to the airport (100 Baht).

     

    Best of luck

     

    Cheaper to pay in dollars , is what he’s saying

  2. On 1/7/2020 at 1:37 PM, VocalNeal said:

    No wonder the elite want the whingers out. All this complaining about driving.

    If one can get used to the food and bum squirters and  beer with ice in et al then one can get used to the driving. 

    It is called adapting.

    Get used to bum Squirt , best thing ever invented, how hard to master a hose <deleted>

  3. On 1/4/2020 at 6:48 PM, ukrules said:

    I did some shopping in Hua Hin today.

     

    Not only were there no free plastic bags available but they also had nothing else to sell me - no fabric bags, nothing at all.

     

    I told them to go and get me some bags or I'm leaving without the shopping.

     

    Miraculously and seemingly out of nowhere a supervisor managed to produce some plastic bags.

     

    They 100% need to make sure there are bags available to buy at the checkouts, not having even the more expensive fabric bags available is a major mistake on the part of the major national supermarket chain which will remain nameless

     

    Why would you not name... Ridiculous 

  4. Do it, and do it on your friends, I had one dutch guy turn me into police, so I not take him to court for a motorbike scam, thought I would get Blacklist, lol, my gf had a bf for the whole relationship 7 years, when I wasn’t there with him every minute of the day I heard from her friends, I would Di 4 months here 4 months home, DO IT... wish I had, Thx god no house, lost Fortuner , MSX and most of stuff in my condo

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